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898 - [MEXICAN AND AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES]. SAINT-PRIEST, Alexis (1805–1851), minister to Brazil, Lisbon, and Copenhagen. Member of the Académie Française in 1849. Signed autograph letter addressed to the bookseller Henri Delloye. Paris, October 1, 1843. 1 p. ¼ in-4. Brown ink on a double sheet of letterhead paper printed “Mexican and American Antiquities.” Address and postmarks on the reverse of the second sheet. Small tears and marginal stains.
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[MEXICAN AND AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES]. SAINT-PRIEST, Alexis (1805–1851), minister to Brazil, Lisbon, and Copenhagen. Member of the Académie Française in 1849. Signed autograph letter addressed to the bookseller Henri Delloye. Paris, October 1, 1843. 1 p. ¼ in-4. Brown ink on a double sheet of letterhead paper printed “Mexican and American Antiquities.” Address and postmarks on the reverse of the second sheet. Small tears and marginal stains. Regarding the marketing of *Mexican Antiquities*. “I have just returned from London, where I spent a very long time. I have established a correspondent there—an active, intelligent, and very reliable man—to whom I have entrusted my *Antiquities* and my *Encyclopedia*. He writes to me that if you were to grant him exclusive rights for your new edition of *Les Mystères illustrés*, he hopes he could sell one or two thousand copies through *Les Libraires de la Grande Bretagne* […].”
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