ARCHAEOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS, NUMISMATISTS, SCHOLARS.... Lot 6

ARCHAEOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS, NUMISMATISTS, SCHOLARS. Set of 33 letters. - Alfred-LouiTRs DELATTRE (1850-1932), White Fathers missionary and archaeologist, spent more than fifty years of his life exploring the archaeological site of Carthage. 5 L.A.S. to the president of an archaeological society. Carthage and Saint-Louis-de-Carthage, February - May 1898. 14 pp. in-8. Headings. Exchanges about the printing of a notice on the Carthage excavations: sending proofs, offprints, invitation to a meeting, correction of errors in plates [In 1898, he published several notices on the Carthage excavations]. - Marcel BOUTERON (1877-1962), librarian and literary historian, specialist in Balzac. 13 L.A.S. to Boutillier du Retail, archivist in Troyes. 1904-1941. 17 pp. in-8. A draft reply and a letter from Louis Barthou, to the same, are enclosed. - 15 letters from 19th-century historians, orientalists, numismatists and scholars: Émile EGGER, Benjamin GÉRARD (2, including an interesting one to Jules Desnoyers), François Just Marie RAYNOUARD (2, on Academy letterhead), MARCOTTE (on letterhead of the Commission des Monnaies et médailles, 1852, on the manufacture and distribution of trial coins), Joseph NAUDET (2, on Royal Library letterhead), Armenology pioneer Jean SAINT-MARTIN (to Prince de Polignac), Aubin Louis MILLIN (3 including 2 to Michaux for writing articles for the Biographie universelle), Philippe LE BAS, Jean-Héliodore GARCIN DE TASSY (to Stanislas Julien), Edmond LE BLANC.