Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE. - Lot 23

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Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE. - Lot 23
Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE. Autograph letter signed to "His Royal Highness the Duke Paul de Wurtemberg" [the German naturalist and explorer Paul de Wurtemberg (1797-1860), who led several scientific expeditions to North America, Africa and Australia]. 3 pp. in-4, Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimatation letterhead. Paris, Sept. 29, 1856. Thanks Paul de Wurtemberg for the honor of encouraging his scientific work. "By doing us the same honor as S.M. l'Empereur des Français, S.A.R. le prince de Savoie-Carignan, L.A. Imp. les princes Napoléon et Charles Bonaparte et plusieurs autres princes de maisons souveraines, and as S.M. l'Empereur du Brésil is currently doing us, Your Royal Highness has already given us a token of sympathy and interest in our work, to which we attach the greatest value. Your Royal Highness now adds much to our gratitude, by kindly offering us the communication of some of the results of his memorable travels [...]". To thank him, he sends him the latest work he has just published...
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