[VARIA AUTOGRAPHES PYRÉNÉES] Collection of 18th and early 19th century documents and printed matter from personalities or about the Pyrenees. Letter signed RAMOND (dated 1806 - to M. Larrey inspector general of the health service), with an engraved portrait, printed document announcing Ramond's death and an announcement to attend the death ceremony; a letter signed SAINT AMAND (dated 1819); a letter signed DARCET (dated 1797); a letter signed LAPEIROUSE (dated 1779); 3 deeds and printed documents including 2 from the town of Monein. We enclose 3 printed deeds, including one signed by FROIDOUR (1667), a decree from the Conseil d'état du Roy committing sieur DARCET to the Académie des Sciences to exercise the functions assigned to him (1785), a medical deliberation in Latin to sieur Simone-Antonio BRINGAUD (1785).

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