DUPONT-WHITE (John-Théodore). The League in Beauvais. Paris, - Lot 241

DUPONT-WHITE (John-Théodore). The League in Beauvais. Paris, Dumoulin, 1846. In-8°, cvj pp. 1 bl. f., 272 pp. Half violet calf, long spine decorated with two gilt boxes, gilt title (contemporary binding). Signed letter from the author "to Monsieur Madame A Gréban [?], their affectionate brother. M. Dupont White". Enriched with 8 letters, including 5 addressed to him concerning his work, including: ● Abel François VILLEMAIN (1790-1870), writer, academician, professor at the Sorbonne and the Ecole normale supérieure, Minister of Public Instruction from 1839 to 1845. Paris, November 27, 1846. Letterhead of the Académie française (of which he was perpetual secretary). He offers the work to the Académie on his behalf. ● Nicolas MARTIN, comte Martin du Nord (1790-1847), Garde des sceaux, ministre de la Justice et des Cultes. Paris, October 31 [1846]. Ministry letterhead. "I thank you for this dispatch, and congratulate you on the useful use you have made of your leisure time". ● Michel HEBERT (1799-1887), Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice and Cults (he had just succeeded MARTIN). Paris, July 7, 1847. Ministry letterhead. "It is with satisfaction that I see magistrates devoting their leisure time to the work of literature, and seeking serious and useful relaxation in the memories of our history, in the antiquities of the towns they inhabit. You continue with honor these studious traditions [...] it is good that magistrates revive them, and thus unite by a fruitful alliance, with the fulfillment of their duties, this cult of science and letters that their predecessors never separated from them." ● Alfred-Auguste CUVILLIER-FLEURY (1802-1887), French journalist and literary critic, Secretary des Commandemants to the Duc d'Aumale, whose tutor he had been. Palais-Royal, November 28, 1846. Header from the duc's secretariat. "The Prince thanks you, Monsieur, for the thought you have had of destining this interesting book for the Chantilly Library, where no other could be better placed and where His Royal Highness will see it appear with pleasure." ● Alexis de VALON, vicomte Marie Charles Ferdinand, dit. (1818-1851), French archaeologist, traveler and writer. Saint-Priest, Saturday morning. to his dear uncle. Long and interesting letter. He would like an article by Dupont-White on his work Une Année dans le Levant (A Year in the Levant), and evokes in passing his vacation days in Saint-Priest, where he dreams of "agriculture, irrigation, liquid fertilizer and praline", and where "we have Benjamin Delessert and are waiting for MM. Mérimée and Viollet-le-Duc". Finally, he asserts himself to be "a devilish Bonapartist and [he] loves this President who speaks so sensibly and so well in such a difficult situation". ● Auguste NICOLAS (1807-1888), Catholic writer and magistrate. Bordeaux, February 13, 1848. With envelope. Long and interesting letter on his Etudes philosophiques sur le Christianisme. Binding rubbed, small accident to head cap, interior fresh.