Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November-December 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/662
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1627 1628 SsavaRy (A. J. M. R.) Duc de Rovigo, A. L.s. 1 p. 4to, a bord du Bellerophon, 2 August, 1815 : Asking his correspondent to send two enclosures to their destination, and concludes : et ce seroit la combler que de me faire obtenir de venir & Londres ot jai le projet de me revenire avec ma famille jusqu’a la fin de nos troubles poli- tiques, ete. On paper with the Imperial watermark Savary (A. J. M. R.) Duce de Rovigo, A. L.s. $p. 4to, @ bord du Bellerophon, 2 August, 1815, asking that enclosed letter may be forwarded Mepicat, including A. Boyer, J. N. Corvisart, physician to Napoleon, Dupuch-Lapointe, J. J. Gall, 8. Guillié, Labroussa, and a page of MS. concerning vaccination, various dates (7) STATESMEN, and Miscellaneous, Dambray (C. H.) Chancellor of France, Three A. L.s. 1815-21, to Talleyrand and others, Boissy D’Anglais, President of the National Convention, Five Letters and Documents, 1819-26, J. Lainé, Minister of the Interior, Clarke, Due de Feltre, Corretto, and others (31) ST. HELENA. Napoueon I. Auto. Memorandum, 5 lines on 1p. small 8vo [ Longwood, 1816] : Mai 95. Au mois de mai 1795 Napoleon quitta le Commandemt de l’Armée d’Italie et se rendit a pares il avait été placé sur la liste des genereaux destines a servir de ’ Armée de la Vendée et on lui donne le commandemt. d’une Brigade d’infanterie il refusa cette distinction et reclama, Below is written : Ecrit par Napoléon a Longwood 1816, Passy 1 Juin 1824. Le Cte. de las Cases. With A.L.s. from Las Cases, 1p. 8vo, to Mons. Lebigue, enclosing the above example of Napoleon’s writing (2) Napoteon I. Three words in his hand, “ Ville des Morts,” with note on same sheet : Je certifie que les trois mots ‘‘ Ville des Morts” ont été ecrits par l Empereur Napoléon a Ste. Héléne Le Gal Gourgaud. On a narrow 12mo page, circa 1821 Napoteon I. Corrections and Additions written in pencil by Napoleon, 2 pp. folio, half margin, on a MS. in the hand of Count de Montholon, “ Notes sur le manuscript venu de Sainte Héléne,” circa 1821 Naponzon I. Essai Historique sur Napoléon Bonaparte, A MS. of 203 pp. 4to, a sketch of his career, with details of the exhumation at St. Helena in another hand, boards R
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