HOMMAIRE DE HELL (Ignace). - Lot 482

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HOMMAIRE DE HELL (Ignace). - Lot 482
HOMMAIRE DE HELL (Ignace). Two autograph letters signed. Dated August 12, 1844, 1 p. in-8 and 1 half-page, and September 23, 1845, 4 pp. in-8. Ignace Hommaire de Hell (1812-1848), French geographer and geologist (who died in Persia during a scientific mission), addresses Mr. Denis, librarian at Sainte Geneviève. He mentions a trip to Italy, the publication of a book, a communication of Murchisson to the Geographical Society of London. He also transmits his translation of the passage of Murchisson's speech concerning his wife Adèle: "This traveler had the advantage of being accompanied by his wife, a young lady of higher merit who, while her husband was occupied with the laborious duties of his exploration, was studying the steppes and their Kalmyk inhabitants, whose customs she described with an elegance and a local color of the most remarkable in a splendid work, already half published and having for title The Steppes of the Caspian Sea ...".
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