Lot n° 331
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DE LUC, Jean André (1727-1817), Swiss physicist, geologist a - Lot 331
DE LUC, Jean André (1727-1817), Swiss physicist, geologist and philosopher. Set of 6 letters: 2 L.A.S. and 4 L.A., all addressed to Jakob-Franz de Tavel, known as de Monbijou, in Bern. Geneva and s.l., 1769 and 1770. 12 pp. in-4.
Interesting letters on watchmaking and the watch trade; on trade between the Swiss cantons and Geneva's situation; on Paoli "the brave Paoli defends himself with a handful of faithful people, on the Vivario side", "the French had attacked Paoli, that after a bloody fight the horse of this brave man having been killed under him & himself being wounded, he had been taken & made prisoner", Paoli's "glorious" arrival in Livorno " ; he predicts a revolution, the bankruptcy of France; Salicetti and the situation in Corsica "ten years in the galley for anyone found with weapons"; their common business, M. d'Ivernois, etc.
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