Feb 25, 2021 - Sale 2559

Sale 2559 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEDICINE.) CORVISART, JEAN-NICOLAS. Two Autograph Letters Signed, in French. The first, "Corvisart," to watchmaker Janvier, requesting service for his regulator [pendulum clock?]. The second, "J. Corvisart," to an unnamed recipient (lacking salutation), explaining that the chair occupied by Mr. [Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse] de Villeloison at the Collège de France had been abolished and that Mr. [Charles Maurice] de Talleyrand has already spoken to the Emperor [Napoléon] on his behalf, and requesting that he convey regards to Mr. and Mrs. Horeau. Together 2 pages, 8vo, each with integral blank or address leaf; folds. Np, [9 November 1804; Milan, 27 May 1905]