VALMONT DE BOMARE, Jacques-Christophe (1731-1807), French na - Lot 109

VALMONT DE BOMARE, Jacques-Christophe (1731-1807), French naturalist. Set of 3 documents: -L.A.S. Paris, April 12, 1777. 1/2 p. in-4. He acknowledges having received "the sum of five hundred livres for the last six months of the year 1776, from the pension granted to me by S.A.S. Mgr le Prince de Condé on the position of guard of the Archives of the King's House by patent [ ]". -P.A.S. Paris, 27 floréal an 4. 1 p. In-4. Valmont de Bomare thanks the "Citoyen Président" for his appointment "to the position of Professor of Natural History at the Ecoles Centrales de Paris". He adds "I shall not fail to attend the installation of the said schools on the first of next Prairial, at the Four Nations". -Letter addressed to him, unsigned, about a scientific reading advised by "Mgr le Chancelier", of a manuscript entitled "Laboratoire chymique de Jean Kunckely de Lowenstern dit Hermes troisième, ouvrage traduit de l'allemand par M. Liège". Permission to print "This work will particularly please those who love [ ]the metaphysical language of Chymie, i.e. alchymie [ ]".