Miscellany: French, 18th century

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Comprises:

MS.7321/1: Martinet, Charles (fl.1760-1792), engraver. 1 manuscript invoice. 1792.

MS.7321/2-5: Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau (1698-1759), astronomer, mathematician and botanist. 4 autograph letters, signed. 1749-1753.

MS.7321/6: Mechain, Pierre François André (1744-1804), astronomer. 1 autograph letter, signed. 1792.

MS.7321/7: de Meissas, P.A.A.G. Nicolas (1765?-1840), military surgeon. 1 autograph letter, signed, with note describing Meissas. 1799.

MS.7321/8-32: Mentelle, Édme (1730-1815), geographer. 17 autograph letters and notes, signed, 1782-1814 and n.d. (nos.8-26); notes on an almanac of commerce for Paris, n.d. (no. 27) and on a mechanical globe, 1788 (no.28); survey of the département of Hérault, n.d. (no.29); 3 manuscript receipts, 1789-1795 (nos.30-32). 1782-1814.

MS.7321/33: Mery, Jean (1645-1722), surgeon and anatomist. 1 manuscript receipt on vellum, signed by Mery and others, plus folder containing it. 1707.

MS.7321/34: Mesny, B. (fl.1769), physician. 1 autograph letter, signed, to Gandoger de Foigni, physician to the King of Poland at Nancy, on inoculation. 1769.

1707-1814

1 item

Purchased from Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700) and January 1930 (acc.67373), from Desgranges, Paris, February 1930 (acc.55165), Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56483) and September 1932 (acc.65659), and either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69293). Provenance details of one accession (acc.13341) not known.

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.