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Auction: 339 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC, Grand Hyatt
Lot: 2063

French signed documents, 1685-1850, lot comprising over 50 items, mainly signatures of politicians and military commanders, including Boulay de la Meurthe (the only person to ever have the title of Vice-President of France), Louis de Nouilles (Marshal of France), Anne Charles Sigismond de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Pierre Antoine Lebrun, 1st Duke of Berwick (Anglo-French Marshal, illegitimate son of King James II of England), Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Marshal Louis-François de Boufflers, Palissot de Montenoy, Le Tellier (Secretary of State of War durign reign of Louis XIV), Marshal Kellerman, Marquis de Pomponné (Minister of Foreign Affaires during Louis XIV), Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, Count of Lacépède, Cardinal Consalvi, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Royer-Collard, Boulay de la Meurthe, Baron Malouet, Marshall Perignon, Ambassador René de Paulmy, Marie Thérèse Rodin Geoffrin (leading female figure in the French Enlightment), etc., also including a signed letter sent from Paris to Meaux-sur-Marne by Dan Malthus, father of Thomas R. Malthus. Good to very fine. [50+]

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