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live December 8 | 02:00 PM
Richard Maison de ventes

120 - [AEROSTATION / GAMBETTA] Set of 12 documents on aerostation:

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€60 - 100

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25%

[AEROSTATION / GAMBETTA] Set of 12 documents on aerostation: Gambetta’s escape aboard the Armand-Barbès during the Siege of Paris in 1870: unpublished 6-page handwritten account, letter from the Épineuse town hall, chromolithograph, engraving. - Landing of the Neptune in Évreux: postcard. Landing of the George Sand in Crémery: letter from the mayor (1938). Letter to the Parisians, patriots of faith, heart, and action, by Bernis, an aerostatic engineer: 4 pages, printed (1870). Engraving, newspaper clipping, letter from Alexandre Jarente to Mr. Daujat des Molures, a man of letters, recommending Mr. Chomel, a physician from Annonay and friend of the Montgolfier brothers (18 Germinal, Year XIII). Included is a letter from Henri Lefort to Gambetta regarding the appointment of the prefect of Calvados and two portraits of Léon Gambetta.

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Auction details

Sale of antique and modern books
Tuesday, December 8
02:00 PM
16, rue Régemortes
03000 Moulins, France

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Richard Maison de ventes +33 4 28 39 00 20 moulins@richardmdv.com
On Drouot for 10 years avec More than 100,000 lots published

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