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[HISTOIRE NATURELLE, SAVANTS & divers].

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[HISTOIRE NATURELLE, SAVANTS & divers].
Important set of about 28 letters from naturalists, scientists, etc.



Leo FROBENIUS (1873-1938), German ethnologist and archaeologist (5 L.A.S., 1 C.P.A.S. and 3 photographic portraits, one of which with autograph signed, 14 pp.)| George GREY (1812-1898), British explorer (L.A.S. + cut-out signature, 3 pp. in-8)| Thaddaüs Eduard GUMPRECHT (1801-1856), German geologist specialized in Africa and Australia (2 L.A.S. or 5 pp. large in-4)| Juan Ignacio MOLINA (1740-1829), Chilean naturalist and Jesuit (M.A. entitled "Essay on the civil history of Paraguay" 1 p. in-8)| Pietro ARDUINO (1728-1805), Italian botanist (L.A.S. of 3 pp. in-4)| Wilhelm von BODE (1845-1929), German art historian and important curator and founder of museums (2 L.A.S. and envelopes preserved, one on the letterhead of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 8 pp. in-4)| Paul BROCA ( 1824-1880), French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (L.A.S. 1 p. in-8, on the letterhead of the Society of Anthropology of Paris. About George Folsom of the American Ethnological society)| Francesco Giroooolamo CANCELLIERI (1751-1826) Italian historian, scholar and bibliophile (2 L.A.S. 2 pp. in-4)| Walter Robert CORTI (1910-1990), Swiss writer and philosopher (L.D.S. 1 p. in-8)| Friedrich Alfred KRUPP (1854-1902), powerful German industrialist, manager of the eponymous brand (L.S. 1 p. in-8) + 8 L.A.S., P.S. and miscellaneous, including an album amicorum signed by Baron Taylor, P.J. Proudhon (with 3 autographed lines) and a nice drawing representing a woman, then, signed by Alexandre Robert (1817-1890).