AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
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Oct 30, 2019
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 394:
PARMENTIER ANTOINE AUGUSTIN: (1737-1813) French Agronomist well remembered for promoting the potato as a food ...
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Sold for: €280
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PARMENTIER ANTOINE AUGUSTIN: (1737-1813) French Agronomist well remembered for promoting the potato as a food source in France and Europe. Among his many other contributions to nutrition and health are the mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign under Napoleon. He also studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration. A good A.L.S., `Parmentier´, one page, 12mo, Paris, 11th August, n.y., to Georges Cuvier, in French. Parmentier politely requests a payment to his correspondent due for the last ten quarters, and further refer to other expenses stating `..in order to attend the necessities and expenses considering the approach of winter
the public affairs will not allow me to attend the sessions anymore.´, and concludes with the usual Republican greeting `Salut et Fraternité´. With blank integral leaf. Small overall, minor age wear, otherwise G £200-300 Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) French Naturalist. Often referred as the ''Father of the Paleontology'', his works with living animals and fossils established the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
