COLLIN DE SUSSY (Jean-Baptiste). Piece signed... Lot 15

COLLIN DE SUSSY (Jean-Baptiste). Piece signed as minister of Manufactures and Commerce. Paris, May 19, 1812 10 pp. 1/2 large folio on 3 bifeuillets bound by a cordonet, printed header "Brevet d'invention" for the Ministry of the Interior (corrected by hand in the name of the Ministry of Manufactures and Commerce) with large copper engraved vignette, dry stamp of the Ministry on the last leaf. PATENT OF INVENTION delivered to Richard Wilcox and Jacques André Rouyer, domiciled in the department of Forests (prefecture in Luxembourg) for their process concerning the recovery and the economy of heat in the iron smelting under the action of the combustion of charcoal. The principles of the invention and its advantages are detailed, with a description of the forges for the refining of iron. It seems that the plans that were supposed to accompany the notice in the appendix are missing. Rare document with the large and beautiful header vignette to the patents of invention, engraved after Prudhon and by Roger (Boppe et Bonnet, n° 242, version with the Imperial Eagle shield, pp. 165-166). Son of a captain of the King's Farms, Jean-Baptiste Collin de Sussy (1750-1826) was one of the three régisseurs des douanes nationales in 1792. Prefect of the Drôme at the beginning of the Consulate in March 1800, then of Seine et Marne in December, he was chosen by Bonaparte for his qualities as an administrator at the head of the General Directorate of Customs and appointed State Counselor. In January 1812, the Count de Sussy also received the Ministry of Manufactures and Commerce, which he kept until April 1814. First President of the Cour des Comptes during the Hundred Days, he was elevated to the peerage under the Restoration in March 1819. One of his daughters married the second Duke of Otranto.