SALPETRY. Eighteenth century manuscript.... - Lot 732 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

Lot 732
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SALPETRY. Eighteenth century manuscript.... - Lot 732 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
SALPETRY. Eighteenth century manuscript. 3 pp. ½ in-4. Fading. Prospectus for the founding of a company to exploit saltpeter. "Proposals from a private individual who has the secret of making saltpeter without searching cellars or stables []. He would like to find someone willing to advance one hundred thousand pounds in cash, with the following clauses and conditions". The conditions are detailed in 10 chapters. He concludes: "The lessor of funds sees by these offers that his money is safe by the established privilege that one will yield to him for his sum on the land where one will establish the work, and consequently the establishments that one will be on the same land will always increase his profit []. He will assure that the Regie of the powders and saltpeter, will take his saltpeter to ten sols the pound ".
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