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Auction No. 3 - A Rare and Important Collection of Autographs and Memorabilia: Science, Literature, Art, Music, and History
Lot 100:
SCIENCE - JOMARD Edme François (1777 - 1862) - Autograph letter signed
Description
Autograph letter signed, dated “Le 25 mai 1921” by the French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist. He took part in Napoleon’s commission to Egypt and edited the “Description de L’Égypte”. The publication of this outsized work was decreed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, and published between 1809 and 1892. This seminal publication on Egyptology was a collaboration effort of some 150 prominent French scientist and scholars and 2,000 technicians and artists, with Jomard as chief editor. Addressed to the director of the Revue Encyclopédique Marc-Antoine Jullien (1775 – 1848): “…Voici une lettre du Vice-Consul de France a Tanger, M, Delaporte. Comme elle contient une forte de réclamation contre un article de la Revue, j’ai cru de mon devoir et de l’intérêt de la Revue, de vous envoyer cette lettre pour que vous en fassiez l’usage plus convenable…”. 1 p. In-8.
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