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FS: Letters of Letronne, Mentelle & Bory St-Vincent
- Subject: FS: Letters of Letronne, Mentelle & Bory St-Vincent
- From: "David G Anderson" <anderson@glen-net.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:05:39 -0400
OFFERING: Mss. letters of 3 French cartographers
[0397] Bory de St-Vincent, Baron [1778-1846] naturalist, cartographer..
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Paris 16 Mai 1834 to the Minister of
the Marine.. Fine 8vo entire letter folded and postmarked, on the
notepaper of the War Ministry (Ministère de la Guerre). Requests that
His Excellency, the Admiral Count ____, gives permission for him to
borrow some maps for his forthcoming work on the oceans of the world.
He appends a list of fourteen maps including: 'Mare de Marmora, Mare
Noire, Côte de Brésil par Roussin et celles de Barol, etc, etc.' [signed:
Le Colonel Bory de St Vincent] Bory de St-Vincent naturalist,
cartographer, phytologist, geographer, author, geologist and volcanist
was mentioned by Darwin in the preface to the third edition of 'The
Origin of the Species.' $400.00
[0516] Letronne, Jean-Antoine [1787-1848] Egyptologist, geographer,
papyrologist.. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Paris, 23 fév 1843, to
Mme. J-B Biot.. Fine Octavo lettersheet folded and addressed on
obverse to 'Mme Biot au Collège de France' on a matter of retaining an
architect to repair Mme. Biot's quarters. [signed: Letronne]. Letronne
was a savant known for his erudition in the geography and paleography
of the ancient world. He collaborated with Jean-Baptiste BIOT on
'Mémoire sur le Zodiaque circulaire de Denderah,' annotated ROLLIN's
complete works and published several tomes on Egyptology. In the
cartographic world, Letronne is implicated with Washington Irving in
having helped to popularize the historically incorrect notion that
medieval savants held the world to be flat -- a now wide-spread belief of
our time but that has no scholarly foundation. $95.00
[0508] Mentelle, Edme [1730-1815] cartographer, geographer..
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, to a gentleman, 24 avril 1811.. Fine
Letter written on folded quarto sheet to a gentlemen requesting that
they meet at Monsieur Merklein's to continue work on an ancient
terrestrial globe destined for the education of the King in Rome. If
Mentelle has 24 hours notice he will confer also with one 'Poisson' who
has already worked with the globe and has executed the details. He
goes on to discuss the need to change the 'morceaux' covering the
geography of America and other details for which he awaits the
intentions of 'S.M.' [Sa Majesté]. [signed: 'Mentelle, memb. de l'Inst.']
Mentelle is known for his 'Atlas nationale de France' which he
published from 1790 to 1811. $450.00
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