[AUTOGRAPH]. RUGENDAS, Johann Moritz.

[Autograph letter signed ("Mor. Rugendas") to an unnamed recipient].Munich, 21 December 1852. 8vo (22 x 14 cm). In German. With: (2) [AUTOGRAPH]. REGNET, Carl Albert. [Manuscript note about Rugendas, signed ("Regnet")].Munich, 13 January 1869. In German.

[4]; [2], [2 blank] pp.A 4-page letter by the widely-travelled German painter Rugendas, famous for his sumptuously illustrated book Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil, which was the fruit of his travels in Brazil (1821-1825). Inspired by Von Humboldt, he sailed again for South America in 1831, travelling through Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. In 1846 he departed for Europe, spending his last years in Munich and Weilheim an der Teck. The King of Bavaria purchased his sketches in exchange for a life annuity of 1200 florins per year. Apparently, Rugendas was still in need of money, since he writes in the present letter that he wants to travel to Prussia to ask the King for a salary "von dem es sich's gut hier leben ließ - ungefähr wie Humboldt in Paris lebte ...". He further mentions the preparation of a "Künstlerball", for which the conductor and opera director Karl Perfall had composed the music. Rugendas refers to the famous "Künsterlfeste", theme parties that took place every year during carnival.The letter may have been addressed to Rugendas's friend Carl Albert Regnet, a District Officer in Munich. This is at least suggested by the added document, which is signed by Regnet and which opens with the remark "Zum Briefe meines lieben unvergeßlichen Freundes Moritz Rugendas möchten ein Paar Zeile am Platze sein", followed by details on Rugendas's life and works. Regnet would later honour Rugendas with an extensive entry in his 2-volume biographical dictionary Münchener Künstlerbilder (1871).In very good condition.l Cf. Borba de Moraes, p. 754; Regnet, Münchener Künstlerbilder II, pp. 132-141.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. LANGLÈS, Louis Mathieu.

[6 autograph letters, signed, mostly to Antoine-Jean de Saint-Martin]. [Paris], 7 April [1820?]-13 January 1824. 8vo & 4to. Signed autograph letters in brown ink on laid paper, the 1824 letter on a letterpress "Bibliothèque du Roi" letterhead with the royal arms.

7 letters, each written on 1 side of a single leaf.Six short letters written by Louis Mathieu Langlès (1763-1824), leading French orientalist and conservator of oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Royale, mostly to the leading orientalist and Armenologist Antoine-Jean de Saint-Martin (1791-1832), arranging for him to see certain Armenian and Arabic manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Royale. The letter of 17 April mentions both Saint-Martin and "Mr. [Jacques Chahan de] Cirbied", a leading Armenian scholar in Paris also known by his Armenian name, Hakob Sahan Jrpetean (1772-1834). In very good condition, with the foot of 1 letter slightly tattered (not approaching the text) and a couple very minor spots. Primary sources on the preparatory research of the leading Armenologist Saint-Martin and his relations with Langlès and Cirbied.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. STANLEY, Henry Morton.

[Autograph letter, signed].[London]. 1900 8vo. Signed autograph letter from the African explorer Henry Morton Stanley to the governor of Natal and Zululand Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, written on paper with an embossed address.

1, [1 blank] pp.To Sir Walter: "I hope you will kindly excuse me from coming tonight as I see no immediate end to my work - unless I put in a few hours extra. I hope to be free by about noon tomorrow ...". The Anglo-Irish diplomat and colonial administrator Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson (1849-1913) served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal and Zululand (1893 to 1901) and as Governor of the Cape Colony (1901 ff.).Reverse with traces of mounting.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. HUMBOLDT, Alexander von.

[Autograph letter to Le Chevalier de Rossel, director of the Dépôt des Cartes of the Paris Académie des Sciences]. [Paris, 1818?]. 4to (23 x 18.5 cm) Letter in black ink on laid paper, in Humboldt's somewhat cramped but still legible hand. Formerly folded for posting, with the address written on the otherwise blank final page and with traces of a paper seal.

[1], [3 blank] pp.An autograph letter, signed, from the great German naturalist and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) to Vice Admiral Elisabeth Paul Edouard Chevalier de Rossel (1765-1829), director of the Paris Académie des Science's Dépôt des Cartes and himself a distinguished cartographer. Humbolt asks his permission to borrow the new Spanish chart of the estuary of the Rio Magdalena, east of Carthagena in South America, because he was correcting proofs of his own map of the region, engraved for him by (Ambroise) Tardieu ("helas! pour 3000 francs"). This is map no. 24 in his Atlas géographique et physiques des régiones equinoxiales de Nouveau Continent, published in the years 1814 to 1834. He wished to keep the Dépôt's map for two or three days. Formerly folded for posting and with a few small marginal spots, but further in fine condition.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Jean le.

[Autograph letter in French, signed, to Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau.]Leiden, 10 December 1771. 25 x 20 cm (letter) & 23.5 x 18.5 cm (manuscript). Never bound.With: [MANUSCRIPT]. [FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Jean LE]. Memoires, pour servir a ce que l'illustre auteur de "L'histoire generale des poissons" Monsieur M. Du Hamel de Monceau, solicite a l'egard des morues.[Leiden, 1771].A letter and treatise in French, written in dark brown ink on paper in a neat and easily readable hand, the treatise with 9 tipped-in pen and ink illustrations drawn by the author (6.5 x 10.5 to 11.5 x 21.5 cm) and a few small illustrations in the text.

[4]; “29” [= 30], [1], [1 blank] pp. plus tipped in illustrations.An autograph letter, signed, written in French by the Dutch antiquarian, medical doctor, naturalist, poet and fiery Orangist pamphleteer Johan le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812) to the great French naturalist, man of letters and naval inspector, Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782), presenting his present unpublished, illustrated supplement to the first parts of Duhamel's four-volume account of fish and fishing, Traité général des pesches, et histoire des poissons,... (Paris 1769-1782). Le Francq's treatise is devoted to the Dutch fishes, fishing industry, fish markets and fishing vessels, with special emphasis on cod fishing. It gives a remarkably detailed picture of the Dutch fishing industry, covering not only various kinds of fish and the fishing methods, but also the organisation and economics of the trade. He discusses the various kinds of fishing boats, fishing techniques, the preservation of fish in barrels, the market, prices paid in both Holland and Flanders. In very good condition. A letter by the leading Dutch naturalist to the leading French naturalist, with the former's detailed and well-illustrated unpublished manuscript on the Dutch fishing industry.l For Francq van Berkhey: NNBW IV, cols. 614-618.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. MARUM, Martinus van.

[Autograph letter, signed, to Johann Friedrich John].Haarlem, 27 May 1816. 4to (22 x 18.5 cm). Letter in French, in brown ink on one side of a folded half sheet of wove paper, with the address on the back with a stamp ("Haarlem"). The letter was originally folded four times more, displaying only the address at the outside.

An autograph letter in French by the notable Dutch scientist and botanist Martinus van Marum, to the prolific Berlin chemist Johann Friedrich John, in which Van Marum declares John the winner of a competition of the Dutch Society of Sciences (Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) for his answer to the following question: "What is the origin of potash obtained from the ashes of plants; is it a product of the growth of vegetation and, hence, already present in those plants before burning them, or is it produced during the burning process?"The competition was opened in 1812 and his thorough answer was published in 1917 in volume 8 of the Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem, pp. 39-160. The article would be published separately in German as Ueber die Ernährung der Pflanzen (1819).Johann Friedrich John (1782-1847), a student of the outstanding chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, was invited to Moscow as Professor of Technical Chemistry at a projected Imperial Economic Institute in 1804. However, the plans for the Economic Institute did not move forward, and John had to return to Germany in 1806. Back home he started working as a private teacher and in 1811 he became Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Berlin.Martinus van Marum (1750-1837) was secretary of the Dutch Society of Sciences and director of Teyler's Cabinet of Physical and Natural Curiosities and Library. "Although Van Marum made no great scientific discoveries, he greatly influenced the dissemination of knowledge in those fields of science that made great progress during his lifetime" (DSB).In very good condition, with a small hole affecting two letters, some minor smudges, and a triangular piece of paper torn off on the address side from opening the letter.l Cf. T. Sourkes “Devitalising the elements: Johann Friedrich John (1782-1847) and the liberation of phosphorus and potassium from a vital force” in: AMBIX XLVII, Part 1, March 2000; for John: Partington III, pp. 601-603; for Van Marum: DSB IX, pp. 151-153.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. RÖNTGEN, Julius.

[Autograph letter, signed, to Max Seiffert(?)].Bilthoven (the house 'Gaudeamus'), 19 November 1926. Doubleleaf (21.5 x 13.5 cm). In German.

4 pp.Extensive personal letter by the composer Julius Engelbert Röntgen. The letter is written on all four pages of a double-leaf to a "Lieber Herr Professor" to thank him for sending the "Telemann'schen Duetten", a publication with a for- and afterword by the addressee's son. The letter is most likely addressed to the eminent German musicologist Max Seiffert who played a prominent role in the Vereniging voor Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis and the Dutch music scene of the interbellum. In very good condition.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. MARCEL, Jean-Joseph.

[Autograph letter, signed, of recommendation for Louis Bresnier].Paris, 9 September 1836. Folio (36 x 23 cm). Letter in brown ink on wove paper.

[2] pp.Signed autograph letter of recommendation by the Parisian nobleman, professor of oriental languages at the Collège Royale de France in Paris and director of Napolean's Imprimerie Imperiale from 1803 to 1815, Jean-Joseph Marcel (1776-1854), for his student Louis Bresnier (1814-1869), supporting his appointment to the chair of Arabic at the Collège in Algiers. The letter is dated 9 September 1836, the year that Silvestre de Sacy appointed Bresnier to that chair. France had taken Algiers from the Ottoman Empire in 1830 and established the chair in Arabic there in 1832. Bresnier held the chair to his death in 1869, and it was during his tenure that the Collège gained a high reputation for its Arabic scholarship. Marcel had accompanied Napoleon's troops on their Egyptian campaign and laid the groundwork that helped Champollion decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs of the Rosetta Stone, discovered during that campaign in 1799. He is perhaps best known for his 1805 Oratio Dominica in 150 languages, printed for Napoleon, who knighted him for his services.Formerly folded into eighths and showing some discolouration and minor wear along the folds, but otherwise in very good condition. An original document of the beginnings of a great Arabist's career.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. CAMPER, Petrus.

[Autograph letter, signed, to Reinier Arrenberg].Groningen, 2 February 1773. 4to. Brown ink on laid paper, addressed on the outside and with an armorial red wax seal.With: (2) [PORTRAIT]. [PUJOS, André]. P. Camper, …[Paris, André Pujos, 1786]. 4to. Mezzotint portrait on laid paper.

[1], [1 blank, except for the address]; [1] ll.Signed autograph letter from the well-known Dutch anatomist Petrus Camper (1722-1789), professor of medicine and anatomy at the University of Groningen, to the bookseller, publisher and newspaper editor Reinier Arrenberg (1733-1812), to let him know that circumstances had prevented him from completing his work for the first volume (1774) of the Verhandelingen van het Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelyke Wysbegeerte te Rotterdam in the vacation and that he would not be able to complete his contributions in the coming three months as intended.The portrait was drawn from life by André Pujos (1738-1788) and executed in mezzotint by Claude Dominique Vinsac (ca. 1749-ca. 1800). It has no imprint or artist's name, but the Mercure Français described it and filled in many of the details: "très bien dessiné d'après nature par M. Pujos, & très-bien gravé par M. Vinsac, se trouve à Paris, chez M. Pujos, quai Pelletier, près la Grève." The letter has a chip where the recipient opened it (the piece torn off is still attached to the seal) and a hole through the foot of both leaves where it was probably tied with a ribbon. The seal itself survives virtually complete, but has been squashed, so that one cannot see details of the arms. The portrait has been trimmed down to the border and mounted on a backing sheet with a manuscript heading. Both are otherwise in very good condition. A letter from a well-known Dutch scientist, noting the difficulties that were to lead him to relinquish his professorship.l For the portrait: Mercure Français, 1786, no. 10 (11 March 1786), p. 92; R. v. Eynden & A. v. d. Willigen IV, p. 176.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. CHAPSAL, Jean-Antoine.

[Autograph letter concerning the guard of his woods].Riom, 9 July 1803. 4to (21 x 33.5 cm). 2 pp. text, 1 blank and the final page with the recipient's address. Formerly folded three times for posting and with traces of a seal.

Autograph letter by the French lieutenant Jean-Antoine Chapsal (1753-1834), addressed to Urion Laguesse, "sous-inspecteur des forets nationales", concerning the appointment of a forester to oversee his woods. He tells Laguesse that, since a forest ranger is required by law, he can appoint someone he thinks appropriate without consulting Chapsal. Slightly creased, with a small hole, not affecting the text, and a small piece of paper torn off due to the seal, otherwise in good condition.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. BANKS, Joseph.

[Autograph letter to Johann Gottlieb Frederic Schmidt].London, 30 April [ca. 1800]. 8vo (19 x 11 cm). Autograph letter in ink on laid paper, written on the first page of a bifolium, with the address on the last page. Folded twice more for posting with the address on the outside.

Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was a major supporter of the internationalist nature of science, being actively involved both in keeping open the lines of communication with continental scientists during the Napoleonic Wars, and in introducing the British people to the wonders of the wider world. It is in that capacity, and as the president of the Royal Society, that the writes this letter, inviting the German scientist Johann Gottlieb Frederic Schmidt, to meet him and the physician and fellow scientist Sir Charles Brian Blagden, former secretary of the Society, on the following day (1 May) at 11 o'clock at Bank's house in Soho Square, to discuss "the subject of his [=your] letter of yesterday". Schmidt was living in Greek Street, Soho, so it was a very short walk to Bank's house.Johann Schmidt had sent a letter to Joseph Banks the day before (29 April) apparently announcing a new invention. This letter probably concerned the invention Schmidt was to submit for a patent in 1805 (Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture, p. 320): "methods of sustaining animal life and combustion for a great length of time, at considerable depth beneath the surface of the sea, or other bodies of water in such a manner as to enable a person making use of such means to exist, and to move from place to place, at the bottom of the sea, or at any required depth between the surface and the bottom, with much more facility and advantage than by any other apparatus and contrivance which has been hitherto invented for that purpose". So Schmidt apparently invented an improved kind of diving bell. Blagden had taken an interest in human activity in difficult environments.In an old portfolio with notes by a collector dated 1928. With traces of the seal.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. TRUGUET, Comte Laurent Jean François.

[Autograph letters, signed, to several recipients, mostly military colleagues and government officials].Paris, 1815-1839. 8vo (mostly ca. 19 x 13 cm). 10 signed autograph letters in French, plus a draft for another, written in ink on laid and wove paper, 3 with their red wax seals or parts of seals (2 more with traces of former seals), and 6 with recipients' addresses.

[24] ll. incl. 2 blanks.Interesting collection of autograph signed letters containing notes on personal, political and maritime matters, written by the French Grand Admiral Comte Laurent Jean François Truguet (10 January 1752-26 December 1839), knight of the Grand-Cross of the Legion d'Honneur. In 1765 he entered the Navy and took part in numerous battles in the service of the Ancien Regime. Major de Vaisseau from 1784, he cooperated on the tasks assigned to M. Choiseuil-Gouffier, ambassador to Constantinople, and was charged with instructing the Ottomans in the arts of fortification, artillery, naval architecture, etc. As an enthusiastic Republican, he supported the Revolution and was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in 1792. He bombarded Nice, Villefranche and Oneglia. Visiting Corsica, he was received by the Bonaparte family and began a romance with Elisa, sister of the future emperor. In 1804 he took a public stand against the establishment of the Empire in a letter that became historic. This consigned him to five years of severe disgrace. In 1809, however, the Emperor recalled him and gave him the command of the Kingdom of Holland's navy. After the fall of the Empire Truguet returned to Paris where Louis XVIII brought him back into the navy at the head of the naval corps. On the second restoration he was given overall command of the Brest fleet. At the end of the July monarchy, Truguet was elevated to the post of Grand Admiral, the highest naval honour.Important collection in good condition.l NBG XXXXV, cols. 680-682.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. MOOR, Edward.

[Autograph letter to Louis Langlès, signed].London, 18 March 1823. 4to. Folded.

[4] pp.Autograph letter written in English by the British soldier and Indologist Edward Moor (1771-1848) to Louis Langlès (1763-1824), a leading orientalist (especially for languages of India and the East Indies) and conservator of oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Royale in Paris, now known as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Langlès translated and annotated Persian texts about India and wrote or translated many later books on Indian and oriental history and literature. Moor was soldier for the East India Company, but is particularly known for his pioneering work on the Hindu religion, The Hindu pantheon (1810). The present letter served in part as a cover letter accompanying a few books Moor sent to Langlès, both for his own interest and as donations to the Bibliothèque Royale. Most were written by his relatives and friends. Moor was establishing an Oriental Society in London and asks Langlès if he would consent to be made an honorary member of this society. Moor also asks to whether he himself could be accepted as an honorary member of the Asian Society in Paris and asked whether this Society would be willing to help him publish a new work. At the end Moor mentions that he has also included a gift for Vivant Denon, the director of the Louvre, and mentions that he might publish a new edition of his The Hindu pantheon. The letter contains a manuscript note, maybe from Langlès himself, that it was received on 7 April 1823.Upper right corner very slightly frayed, but otherwise in very good condition.

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[AUTOGRAPH LETTERS]. BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Pottentien, baron de.

[Autograph letters by Hyacinthe de Bougainville].[France], 18[35?], 1837, 18[38], and 1845. (1) 17.7 x 12 cm; (2) 17.7 x 12 cm; (3) 15.6 x 10 cm; (4) 20.4 x 13.2 cm. All four letters written in French, in an early 19th century cursive in brown ink. With the blind-stamped initials "H.B" in the top right corner of each letter. Including:(1) [Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Gaspar, baron Gourgaud].[France], Saturday 26 September 18[35?].(2) [Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Madame Delpeche].[France], 25 March 1837.(3) [Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher Ami"].[France], 13 April 18[38?].(4) [Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher Ami" and his best "Comrade"].[France], 16 December 1845.Folded.

[1], [1 blank]; [2], [1 blank] [1]; [3], [1 blank]; [2], [2 blank] pp.Hyacinthe Bougainville (1781-1846) was a French naval officer, son of the famous French Admiral and explorer Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) who had circumnavigated the world in 1766-1779. Hyacinthe sailed around the world from 1824-1826 on board of the Thétis and the Espérance, sent by the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, the Duc de Clermont-Tonnerre. It was virtually a diplomatic mission to Réunion, Cochin-China, Pondicherry in the Indian Ocean, Manila and Macao. Hyacinthe returned across the Pacific and after anchoring at Port Jackson for three months he returned to France via Rio de Janeiro. Hyacinthe de Bougainville became Rear-Admiral in 1838.Ad 1: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Gaspar, baron Gourgaud. Hyacinthe complained that he had heard nothing from him since their last "réunion gastronomique" 16 days earlier.Ad 2: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Madame Delpeche. She was the widow of François Delpeche, an engraver who made a portrait of Hyacinthe's father Louis-Antoine de Bougainville in 1837.Ad 3: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher ami". He wrote that he had been presented by the Minister, with some others that he didn't know, to the King as an option for being made a c[ontre] admiral (= Rear Admiral). "I am at the head of the list and if I stick to my titles I will be without worry …". He invokes his deeds since 1830 and says that he wants to retire "if I am not done justice; the name I bear does not allow me to serve any longer as a stepping stone for others". Three days before, he was told that "le travail" was presented to the King, and indeed his appointment followed the same year.Ad 4: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher ami" and his best "comrade". De Bougainville asks him a favour regarding the son-in-law of his "second" on the Thétis during his voyage around the globe (in 1824-1826).All four letters with faint folding lines and pencil annotations; ads 2 and 4 with glue residue on the last leaf, ad 2 with the remnants of a seal and a slight defect to the top corner of the last leaf, where the letter was sealed and reopened. Overall in very good condition.l Howgego, Encyclopaedia of Exploration, 1800 to 1850 (vol 2), B50.

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[AUTOGRAPH]. HARLOFF, Anton Johan Wouter.

[Autograph letter, signed ("A. Harloff"), to Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff].The Hague, 6 May, 1933. Folded double leaf (21.6 x 14). In Dutch.

3 pp text.A letter by Anton Harloff, a conservative politician and member of the Raad van Nederlandsch Indië, on a discharged soldier named "Holland", who had apparently written the Verbond van Nationaal Herstel to help him find his son a job in state's service. The soldier, living in a Kampong with his Indonesian wife, claims to be related to the House of Orange. Harloff, though, strongly advises his addressee not to comply with the request. Gybland van Oosterhoff was a strong adherent of the House of Orange and one of the founders of the fascist Verbond van Nationaal Herstel.Perforated, with slight loss of text. Ruststain of a paper clip on first 2 pages. Secretarial stamp on first page. Otherwise in good condition.l For Gybland Oosterhoff: Bosmans, "Oosterhoff, Horace Hugo Alexander (1887-1937)", in BWN (online ed.).

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Book number: 1907

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