Hippolyte ROYER-COLLARD (1802-1850), French physician and an - Lot 448

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Hippolyte ROYER-COLLARD (1802-1850), French physician and an - Lot 448
Hippolyte ROYER-COLLARD (1802-1850), French physician and anatomist. L.S. addressed to Charles TEXIER (1802-1871), French explorer, archaeologist and architect. Paris, May 25, 1833. 1 p. in-4. Royer Collard announces to Charles Texier that "an allocation of 3,000 fr, chargeable to the fund for the encouragement of science and letters" will be granted to him "to help you undertake your voyage to the Levant, and particularly to Constantinople, with the aim of visiting the archeological monumens and the principal libraries of the Orient", in exchange for reports, documentation, works and research on the said Orient. Texier's "Description de l'Asie Mineure faite par ordre du gouvernement français en 1833- 1837" was the result of this expedition.
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