Letters : Rue des Petits-Augustins [Paris], 1798 Apr. 23, 1798 May 15, 1798 July 18.

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Letters : Rue des Petits-Augustins [Paris], 1798 Apr. 23, 1798 May 15, 1798 July 18.

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The letters are three handwritten single sheets to unknown correspondents whom La Cépède addresses as Citoyen. The dates are in the French Revolutionary calendar, and all are from the sixth year of the republic, which began at the autumnal equinox of 1797. In the first letter, dated 4 floréal (April 23, 1798), La Cépède is replying to the recipient's letter of 22 germinal (April 11), thanks him for sending money and says he is sending a collection of works on weights and measures. In the second letter, dated 26 floréal (May 15), La Cépède acknowledges a box received containing a knife, locks, a portfolio, fabrics and lace, and family letters, and offers to send works on weights and measures. The third letter, dated 30 messidor (July 18), contains an acknowledgment of money received.

3 items ; 24-19 cm.

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La Cépède, M. le comte de (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon), 1756-1825.

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La Cépède was a French zoologist, the protegé of Buffon, who chose him to continue work on Buffon's Histoire naturelle, on the natural history of the vertebrates. La Cépède produced the first volume of the continuation in 1788 and the second in 1789, after Buffon's death, eventually completing Buffon's entire planned work by 1804. La Cépède helped constitute the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, and in 1794 he was given a chair of zoology specializing in reptiles and fishes. His lect...