Jean-Louis Giraud SOULAVIE (1752-1813), geologist, volcanolo - Lot 61

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Jean-Louis Giraud SOULAVIE (1752-1813), geologist, volcanolo - Lot 61
Jean-Louis Giraud SOULAVIE (1752-1813), geologist, volcanologist and historian; one of the very first to outline a transformist theory of flora and fauna in his Histoire naturelle de la France méridionale. Autograph letter signed [to the Académie Stanislas in Nancy]. 1 p. in-4. Paris, February 28, 1786. On his desire to enter the Académie de Nancy. "It has been about a year and a half since I had the honor of expressing to the Académie de Nancy my desire to belong to it; charged with writing the natural & political history of the Kingdom, I recognize my inadequacy for this undertaking; but I am looking for ways to benefit from the good advice of the Academies & people of letters: would you please, sir, let me know if the Academy has read my request agreeably & communicate to it my plan which is not public. M. de Sausseret receives in his envelope my letters concerning the sciences [...]". Rare.
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