[Georges CUVIER (1769-1832), naturalist]. 17 letters address - Lot 11

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[Georges CUVIER (1769-1832), naturalist]. 17 letters address - Lot 11
[Georges CUVIER (1769-1832), naturalist]. 17 letters addressed to or about Cuvier. - Letters addressed to Georges Cuvier: botanist and ornithologist Guillaume-Michel Jérôme MEIFFREN LAUGIER (about the coal concession for the Compagnie des fonderies et forges de la Loire), Charles-André POZZO DI BORGO (recommending a Russian doctor), Trophime-Gérard marquis de LALLY-TOLENDAL (invitation with other academicians), Emmanuel de PASTORET, baron PORTAL, chemist Edme-Jean-Baptiste BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Emmerich-Joseph de DALBERG, François SAUVO (about the eulogy given to Lacépède). - Letters concerning him: English portrait painter Henry William PICKERSGILL (to Baroness Cuvier, with envelope, 1834, recalling exquisite moments spent at the Jardin des Plantes), Mme CUVIER to Rayer (Sept. 1832, after the death of her husband which left her "weak, old and ill", on mourning paper), Charles-Frédéric CUVIER (3 letters to Rayer on the founding of the Société de Biologie), Comte d'ARGOUT to Frédéric Cuvier (announcing his nomination as Officer of the Legion of Honor, 1831), the navigator Louis de FREYCINET (to Richard Yates, on the dispatch of a letter from Cuvier, 1833), Jean-Alexandre BUCHON (to Sophie Duvaucel, Cuvier's sister-in-law, on an approach to the illustrious naturalist), Charles-Dominique NICOLLE (to Mme Cuvier). - Admission card to the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, bearing Georges Cuvier's autograph signature (laminated). Several engravings and iconographic documents are included.
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