Alexandre PARENT-DUCHATELET (1790-1836), medical hygienist. - Lot 47

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Alexandre PARENT-DUCHATELET (1790-1836), medical hygienist. - Lot 47
Alexandre PARENT-DUCHATELET (1790-1836), medical hygienist. Autograph letter signed, addressed to his cousin, the Brazilian botanist Auguste de SAINT-HILAIRE. S.l., April 1, 1828. 3 pp. in-4. Address on verso of second leaf. Interesting letter about Saint-Hilaire's attempts to publish the manuscript of Voyage dans les provinces de Rio de Janeiro. He has obtained an offer from the publisher Dondey Dupré to print Auguste Saint-Hilaire's "manuscript", i.e. 1,000 francs per volume for an edition of 1,000 copies, and 1,200 francs for 1,200 copies with a map and plates. He was not satisfied with this offer. Parent-Duchatelet mentions the help he received from the director of Journal des Voyages, a fervent admirer of Saint-Hilaire's Brazilian sojourn. "Continue writing about your interesting voyage, you must not lose the fruits of all the trouble you have taken [...]". He evokes the "abominable" events of 1793, the entomologist Pierre-André LATREILLE (1762-1833) and his help in obtaining birdies, and predicts the imminent death of the naturalist Louis Augustin Guillaume BOSC D'ANTIC (1759-1828), which will actually occur four months later: "the one who supplanted you for the position of agriculture at the Muséum [...] is not well, and that his place will probably be vacant before a few months [...] I have heard that he is undermined by an organic disease of the bladder [...]". He had just completed the publication of Plantes usuelles des Brésiliens with Adrien de Jussieu & Jacques Cambessèdes, had Conspectus Polygalaearum Brasiliae meridionalis published (1828) and was seeking to have Voyage dans les provinces de Rio de Janeiro et de Minas Geraes published (Paris, Grimbert et Dorez, 1830).
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