french diplomat (47 risultati)

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. very good condition article,several pages approximately 6x9; article,several pages approximately 6x9; NOVI004738; 4738; hardback, library binding.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original royal navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xii] 290 printed pages of text with 6 full-page monochrome illustrations. A little foxing to the fore edges. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tear to the bottom of the spine, rubs to corners and spine ends, not price clipped 18/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History).

Lithograph, from "Iconographie des Contemporains depuis 1789 Jusqu'a 1829", slight spotting on surround,

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Original b/w photograph. (18x13 cm). Descriptive text at back side in French. "Wein. Consstantinople. 300403. 40J. La commission de la dette publique Turque: Notre photo montre le represant de la France, Monsieur de Clausier s'entretenant avec l'ambassadeur Monsieur de Chambrun. (The Turkish Public Debt Committee: Our picture shows the representative of France, Monsieur de Clausier speaking with Ambassador de Chambrun).". Rare.

One page, 18 x 11cm, fold marks, minor damage, spike-hole. "[Sir?] J. Blaquiere sends the bearer for the Port folio, and desires this favor that his little drawing may be rolld and sent likewise.".

One page, 12mo, bifolium, pin=holes at top and some marking, mainly good condition. "I hear that you are in town on your way back from Brussels. Should you have any time to spare, I should be happy to see you. You would find me at home tomorrow [.]".

One page, 12mo, unsigned, bifolium, good condition. Note by another hand in top left corner, "lettre de Masclet". Text (unsigned): "J'envoye a Monsieur Mollard la copie du memoire sur la place du chemin de fer entre Liverpool et Manchester. | On pourra annoncer a l'institute un autre memoire plus developpe sur l'etat actuel du chemin de fer entre Darlington et Stockto: j'en enverrais une copie si on la desire. | Je [?] de me rendre [la france jeudi?] a 2 h 1/2: serait il [possible?] a Mondieur Moll;ard de m'envoyer un second billet pour mon support, car j'ai besoin d'en avoir [un?]. Ce serait pour [?]". See image for full text. Note: Masclet refers to the following articel: "Avis important aux constructeurs de routes par M. le Chevalier Maclet", Journal des Genie Civil des Sciences et des Arts, vol.3, p.207 (1829).

8vo. Together 3 pp. Both to a clergyman and fellow member of the Académie Française, very likely to be Henri Bremond. In the earlier letter, Hanotaux thanks the recipient for a brochure and talks about the relevance of old research, mentioning a "Rue Royale" and that "Sicily is an invention of professors", comparing it to speculations about the pyramids. In the second part of the letter, he mentions mutual friends including the journalist and critic André Hallays and the journalist and novelist Louis d'Illiers. - In the letter from October, Hantaux announces his return to Paris and promises that he will forward a letter by the recipient concerning a Louis Chaminade from Pons (Charente-Maritime) to the secretariat of both the Institut de France and the Académie Française and recommend Chaminade.

8vo. 2½ pp. on bifolium To the director of the "Journal de la Nièvre", probably Isidore Martin Faÿ, originally accompanying a brochure of the newly-founded forester society of the Nièvre department, asking him to comment on the brochure and to announce the formation of the society in his journal: "Comme propriétaire de bois dans la Nièvre et au nom de la société forestière dont je fais partie, j'ai l'honneur de vous remettre (à mon passage à Nevers que je ne fais que traverser) deux exemplaires d'une brochure contenant le compte rendu de nos premiers travaux. Vous jugerez d'il ne sera pas à propos de publier la liste des personnes du département qui font déjà partie de la société, d'accompagner cette liste d'une analyse du compte rendu et d'engager les propriétaires forestières de la Nièvre à se rallier aux propriétaires qui ont pris l'initiative de la défense de leurs intérêts. Si vous voulez bien nous prêter votre honorable et utile concours, la société forestière recevra avec grand plaisir vos communications et celles dont vous pourriez être l'intermédiaire. Dans le cas où vous feriez connaitre son institution à vos abonnés vous êtes priés d'envoyer à Mr. Michel. Directeur des annales forestières rue Garancière No 10 à Paris le numéro du journal où vous en ferez mention". - On stationery with blindstamped monogram. Well preserved.

Strip of paper (130 x 40 mm). Clipped signature of Emmanuel-Henri-Victurnien, marquis de Noailles, who was the second son of Paul de Noailles, 6th duke of the house of Noailles, and ambassador in Washington D.C. (1872), Rome (1873), and Constantinople (1882-86). In 1902 he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Aside from Noailles' duties as a diplomat, he wrote several historical works on Poland, including "La Pologne et ses frontières" (1863), "La Poésie polonaise" (1866), and "Henri de Valois et la Pologne en 1572" (1867). - Irregularly torn at the top.

Oblong 8vo. 2 pp. The wife of Maurice Carlier, French Consul in Armenia, invites the recipient's daughter, who is welcome to join some other young girls: "Nous ne pouvons nous souvenir si mon mari a mis Mlle Chatoney. J'ai quelques jeunes filles, et votre fille sera la bienvenue [.]".

Diplomat. Three pages, 4to, poor condition but most of the text legible. "Private". Rumbold discusses the reception of a petition he sent to "Mr Fen[?]" saying that he is to get "immediate indemnification for the losses & expenses occasioned by the seizure of my Person, my imprisonment &c". Vincent is giving him support. He encloses his account, anticipates delay by the Treasury in paying but enlists his correspondent's help. His case was a cause celebre of the time, described in DNB as follows: "On the night of 25 Oct. 1804 a detachment of two hundred and fifty French troops landed in boats on the Hamburg Berg, proceeded to the Grindel, Rumbold's country residence, forced the door, and compelled him to deliver up his papers. He was then carried to Hanover in a guarded coach, and thence to Paris. After a day's confinement in the Temple, he was conveyed to Cherbourg, and put on board a French cutter sailing under flag of truce. By this vessel he was delivered to the English frigate Niobe, in which he arrived at Portsmouth.The order for Rumbold's arrest came direct from Fouché in Paris, and was addressed to Marshal Bernadotte. Fouché's despatch charged Rumbold with having avowed a plan of conspiracy, and directed that he should be treated as any other Englishman 'who should adopt criminal practices.' In Berlin great indignation was expressed, and the Prussian minister at Paris was ordered, in demanding Rumbold's release, to apply for his own passports in case of delay or evasion. An autograph letter of Napoleon promised compliance with the demand. Rumbold was replaced at Hamburg in 1806. He died of fever at Memel on 15 Dec. 1807." See Image.

Calling card format. 1 page. In French. To an acquaintance about a diplomatic affair that is about to be brought to a successful conclusion with the help of the Emperor, his administrative council, and the orders given to the Minister of the Exterior, pointing out that he had an excellent day, and asking for instructions: "Par l'Empereur de Ferdinand et de son Conseil d'adm[inistrati]on assurances d'appui et d'ordres donnés au M[inis]tre des aff[aires] Etr[angèr]es pour mener l'entreprise à bonne fin. La journée a donc été excellente - j'ai voulu que comme à moi vous en fassiez des 1ers instruits [.]". - Slightly soiled and faded.

8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. Interesting letter to a fellow member of the Institut de France, concerning the costs of the Hôtel Spoelberch de Lovenjoul in Chantilly that housed the library of the Institut between 1910 and 1987, following the legacy of the important library of the Belgian collector Charles de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul (1836-1907). There are two likely recipients of the letter: Eugène Gilbert, the executor of Lovenjoul's last will and Georges Vicaire, the custodian of the new library who had been appointed based on Hanotaux's suggestion. In any case, Hanontaux agreed to the suggested "cost allocation for the building". The letter in full: "Votre lettre me parvient avec quelque retard, en raison de la distance. La combinaison que vous me proposez me parait très équitable et je m'y rallée bien volontiers, au sujet du partage de la dépense des couts dans l'immeuble Lavenjoul. - Je suis heureux de saisir cette occasion de vous exprimer mes vux les plus cordiaux et de vous prier d'agréer [.]". - Well preserved.

12mo. 8 lines. With autograph address. To the Parisian publishing house and bookshop Émile-Paul Frères, ordering a copy of the latest edition of a therapeutic handbook: "Prière d'envoyer un formulaire thérapeutique de Gilbert y Michel, 1926. (Doin, éd?) à Mme la baronne de Berckheim, Villa Polynesia Giens, près Hyères (Var). Prière de mettre cet ouvrage à mon compte [.]". - On a picture postcard showing a coastal landscape and buildings in the environment of Hyères. Traces of former mounting. Well preserved.

8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. To a fellow member of the Académie Française or another learned society, probably Alfred de Foville, communicating his decision not to stand for election for an unspecified position, despite the flattering insistence of the recipient, due to his many obligations: "Excusez-moi d'avoir tardé à vous répondre ; votre lettre est venue me trouver loin de Paris : J'ai dû, à la suite d'une crise de colique hépathique [!], venir chercher ici un changement d'air et du repos. Je rentrerai à Paris le plus tôt possible ; mais je ne suis pas tout à fait maître à l'heure. - Réflexion faite, puisque la perspective reste ouverte d'une autre candidature, présentée également en première ligne par la section, je préfère ne pas être candidate. Ainsi que je vous ai indiqué à diverses reprises, j'ai déjà quelque peine à remplir tous mes devoirs académiques et ce serait véritablement manquer aux règles de la mesure que d'en rechercher d'autres. - Permettez-moi de vous remercier de grand cur de votre aimable insistance. Je n'ai jamais eu qu'à me louer de votre parfaite confraternité et je ne puis vous dire à quel point j'y suis sensible [.]". - Well preserved. - Provenance: Foville collection.

4to. 1 p. With typed envelope. To Guillaume de Blégiers, Belgian consul in Marseille, thanking him for a positive reaction to a conference on the Suez Canal that had been organized by Charles-Roux in his function as president of the Suez Canal Company. He also thanks Blegiers for sending him an article on the controversy surrounding a potential pioneering role of the Austrian engineer Alois Negrelli in conceptualizing the Suez Canal and gives his opinion: "Je suis très sensible à l'attention que vous avez eue de m'adresser vos félicitations pour ma conférence sur le Canal de Suez et je vous remercie très vivement. J'ai lu par ailleurs la note sur Negrelli, que vous avez bien voulu m'adresser joint à votre lettre. Je connais bien la controverse à laquelle il y est fait allusion. Cette controverse d'ailleurs a été surtout exploitée pendant de nombreuses années par les Italiens, qui ont toujours revendiqué Négrelli comme un des leurs, ce qui est évidemment entièrement erroné". - Together with a carbon copy of Blégier's original letter. On stationery of the "Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez".

See image. One page, 12mo, crumpled and lined but text clear, but part nearly illegible, as follows: "Je vous envoie mes plus affectueux remerciements pour l'envoi de votre telegramme dont lequel vous m'adressez vos felicitations pour l'anniversaire. | subscription and signature followed by four lines in a sloping rather than nearly upright (as the quoted text) hand initialled with a squiggle, presumably him but mainly illegible except for the phrase "l'angleterre". Note: " [I]n 1884 the British government nominated [ Hartley] a member of the international technical commission for widening the Suez Canal.".

1p, 12mo. On bifolium, addressed on the reverse of the second leaf, with the cardinal's seal in red wax to one corner, 'A Monsieur Payne'. In good condition, lightly aged, with stub from mount adhering to inner edge. Folded twice. In a close, neat hand, the letter reads: 'Le Cardinal Fesch fait ces compliments à Monsieur et à Madame Payne et les Félicites de leurs heureux Retour a Rome. | Le Cardinal est tourjours visible vers midi mais il tachera de visiter les aimables voyageurs, à leurs auberge avant leur depart. | Ce 7 aoust [sic] 1833.' The Oxford DNB entry of the bookseller Thomas Payne (1752-1831) of the London firm Payne and Foss states that he 'retired in 1825 and was succeeded by his nephew John Payne, but Payne and Foss continued until 1850. John Payne and his wife, Sarah Burney, then retired to Rome, where they spent their remaining years in the company of such distinguished figures as Cardinal Antonelli'. See Image.

The two items are on variations of the revolutionary letterhead of the Prefect of the Drôme Department, with oval medallion illustration of a seated liberty with a phrygian cap on a stick, forearm leaning on the fasces and the words 'Libérté' and 'Égalité'. The printed decree is in good condition, lightly aged, with slight foxing and discoloration. The secretarial letter is in fair condition, with darker patches of discoloration. ONE: Eighteen-line official communication, in a secretarial hand, from ' Préfet du Département de la Drome, / Au maire de la Commune de propiac', 'sur les points limitatifs du territoire et sur l'étendue du secrétaire'. Addressing the mayor as 'Citoyen' and signed 'Marie D'escorches' (note the apostrophe). 2pp, 4to. TWO: Printed decree from 'LE PRÉFET du Département de la Drome/ Aux Ecclésiastiques et aux ci-devant Religieuses du Département'. 2pp, 4to, on first leaf of bifolium. Signed in type 'MARIE DESCORCHES'. Begins: 'CITOYENS, / Je vous préviens que le gouvernement a, par son arrêté du 7 thermidor dernier, dont extrait m'est parvenu aujourd'hui, donné un extension au terme fixé, pour que ceux d'entre vous qui n'ont pas encore présenté leurs titres puissent le faire.' See Image (heading of one, text of the other).

8vo (135 x 180 mm). 2 pp. on bifolium. A letter from the Romanian diplomat and woman of letters, at the time her country's permanent delegate to the League of Nations, to a friend, apparently a diplomatic colleague. Signed under the francisised form of her name. - V c rescu states that she is saddened by the news her correspondent has given her, but advises him that "Aristide sera á Paris le 1er Février - c'est á lui que vous présenterez votre démission". This presumably refers to Aristide Briand (1862-1932), at that point the French foreign minister. - The daughter of Wallachian nobility, Elena V c rescu lived in France after being exiled from Romania due to an impermissible romantic relationship with the future king, Ferdinand I (r. 1914-27), in 1889. Nonetheless, she spent most of her life in the diplomatic service of her native country. Before her exile, Queen Elizabeth of Romania (r. 1881-1914) was impressed by the young woman's literary achievements and took her under her wing. It was at court that she met Ferdinand, but as the Romanian Constitution of 1866 forbade the heir to the throne to marry a Romanian, the two were forcibly separated. - V c rescu represented Romania at the League of Nations from 1921 to 1938, the only woman to have served as a Permanent Delegate in the history of the institution. Her literary output, mainly in French and comprising plays, poetry and novels, twice made her a laureate of the Académie française. - A glimpse into the international world of the interwar period from one of the few prominent women on the diplomatic stage. - Creased from folding, light even browning. Surfaces clean and neat.

1 p. Gr.-8vo. Asking the unnamed adressee whether he still plans to be nominated for the tribunals at the court's jurisdiction, as M. Moine has told Bignon, because M. Moine has so far not received an official nomination. Bignon informs the adressee that there has to be a presentation of three candidats to the minister for the justice of peace: "Le jour même j'ai recu votre lettre, je venais d'avoir la visite de M. Moine qui m'avait parlé de vous le premier et m'avait assumé qu'il avait à coeur votre nomination, mais qu'il n'y avait en aucune - nommément dans les tribunaux de ressort de la cour. Si j'avais auparavant comme votre désir, Monsieur, je l'en aurais entretien, car vous savez que, pour la justice de paix, il faut aussi une présentation de trois candidats. Le Ministre ne nomme jamais sans cette présentation. Si vous persistez dans la même intention, ayez la bonté de me le faire savoir. Dans ce cas, j'en écrivais à M. Moine. Il m'a promis, en me quittant, toute sa bonne volonté [.]". - Traces of old folding.

4to (184 x 234 mm). 2 pp. Autograph letter signed, dated 13 Fructidor XII on the official letterhead of the Sénat Conservateur, to Claude Ambroise Régnier (1746-1814), Chief Judge and Minister of Justice. Barthélemy requests Régnier to turn his attention to the case of a Monsieur Vallin, from Dormans in the Département de la Marne, who had been nominated to be a justice of the peace, but not yet installed in office due to a series of events. The senator encloses a letter from Vallin explaining the error, and assures the minister that "mon intérêt pour lui est fondé sur ma liaison intime avec lui depuis notre jeunesse et sur la connoissance que j'ai vu toutes ses excellentes qualités". - François Barthélemy was a career politician par excellence, whose trajectory spanned the ancien régime through the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods to the restoration of the Monarchy. He was a member of the Directorate in 1797, but due to his conservative sympathies he found himself exiled to Cayenne, which he escaped by fleeing to Suriname and thence to England. After Napoleon's coup d'état of 18 Brumaire in 1799, he returned to France and was made a member of the Sénat Conservateur, one of the chief governing bodies of the Napoleonic regime. From 1808 he was a Count of the Empire. Following the fall of Napoleon, he was among the commissaires charged by Louis XVIII with drafting a new monarchical constitution for France, and was subsequently granted the title of Marquis. - Régnier similarly made his political career under Napoleon, serving as Chief Judge and Minister of Justice from 1802 to 1813, during which period he was one of the main editors of the Napoleonic Code. - Barely three months before this letter was written (28 Floréal XII, 18 May 1804), the Sénat Conservateur had granted Napoleon the title of Emperor, ushering in the transition from the Consulate to the Empire. This letter of recommendation between two major political figures gives us an insight into the internal workings of French government in the era of Napoleonic ascendancy. - Some prickings, light creasing and browning, ink has bled through somewhat from writing on reverse, edges largely neat, writing and signature clear and legible, overall a handsome letter.

4to. 3 lines. To Simone Belin, daughter of the inventor Édouard Belin: "A Mademoiselle Simone Belin dont le père voit avec l'éclair et écrit avec le foudre". - Claudel was posted in Tokyo from 1921 to 1927. - With collector's note in pencil.

8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium. To Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Polignac: "[] que vous avez obéi à de très sérieux motifs en cotisant la généreuse donation que vous nous avez offerte par l'entremise de votre notaire, le 13. décembre, et que notre Conseil d'administration s'est empressé d'accepter avec tant de gratitude. Dans cette importante libéralité, je voyais surtout une favorable occasion de parer dès maintenant aux incertitudes, aux équivoques, aux obscurités qui planent sur l'avenir de la fondation et qui menacent de la compromettre irréparablement. [] Aujourd'hui, le retrait brusque de la donation, m'enlèvera toute qualité pour apparaître à mes collègues comme le fidèle interprète de vos pensées et le sûr garant de vos intentions. Je ne vois pas d'ailleurs par quels arguments je pourrais justifier à leurs yeux que les propositions catégoriques et précises de votre notaire [] soient désormais nulles et non avoués [!]. Dans ces conditions que je déplore, il me serait plus possible, quoi qu'il me coûtât, de continuer à m'occuper de la fondation. Je garderais néanmoins le consolant espoir que, bientôt, de vous-même, par vos libres inspirations, vous trouverez le moyen de résoudre au mieux les délicats problèmes dont je m'inquiète pour le succès futur et le plein développement de votre belle entreprise [.]".

8vo. 3½ pp. on bifolium. To Monsieur Daudet, probably the French Novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), thanking him for his letter and reflecting on the political situation in Constantinople and Paris: "Vous êtes bien aimable et je suis très sensible à vos félicitations, mais je trouve qu'on parle un peu trop de l'ambassade de France à Constantinople en ce moment [] Ne nous déciderons-nous jamais en France à regarder au dehors et sommes-nous condamnés éternellement à ne voir le danger que la maison brûle? [] On s'en prend beaucoup trop au Gouvernement, il me semble, et l'opinion Française devait s'en prendre un peu à elle-même d'avoir ignoré des choses dans les autres Gouvernements". - On stationery with printed letterhead; slightly browned due to paper.

4to. 1 page on bifolium. With autograph address verso. In French. To the civil servant and scientist Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852) in Paris with a recommendation of Marrand, a refugee from St. Domingue (Haiti) seeking employment in a casino in order to support his family. Pineux points out that his request was already presented to the official Gaspard de Chabrol (1773-1843): "Ma famille m'a prié de vous recommander avec instances, la demande que fait M. Marrand refugié de St. Domingue, d'un emploi de commissaire de Surveillance dans une maison de Jeu. Cette demande a été remise à M. le Conte de Chabrol, par M. Baron Directeur, général du Mont. de piété, qui s'intéresse au pétitionaire. J'ai eu dernièrement occasion de voir M. Marrand. Sa Situation m'a touché. Il est obligé de Subvenir aux besoins d'un père octogénaire, d'une femme et de trois enfants, et les circonstances l'ont privé de toutes les ressources, dont Naguères il Jouissait. D'après cela, Je n'hésite point à appeller toute votre bienveillance sur cet homme aussi honnête que malheureux [.]". - Slightly spotty.

8vo. 1 page. Nice letter to a doctor. - Endlosed are letters by his brother Théodore and a letter by his son Victor.

1 p. (205 x 300 mm). A letter signed by Talleyrand, who served several French kings, revolutionary governments and Napoleon in the course of his long career as a diplomat, here signing for the Minister of the Navy and Colonies. - Talleyrand, at the time Foreign Minister of the revolutionary French Republic, authorises an order of nationalisation of mines in the district of Isère: "au Pou de Gaucelin, à Domaine, à Ebey, et á la grande Chartreuse, une quantité assez considérable de mines, devenues propriété nationale". One Citizen Dulac is to hand these over to the control of Captain Loiseleau, unless they are otherwise employed in the public service. Talleyrand signs the letter in the absence of the Minister of the Navy and Colonies. Dated in the Revolutionary calendar "le 26 Germinal, an 7 de la République une et indivisible". The striking letterhead shows Marianne, the personification of the Republic, standing on a ship and holding a trident under the words "Liberté des Mers". - An attractive document showing the workings of the French Revolutionary government in the last months of the Directorate, before Napoleon's coup d'état later the same year, in which Talleyrand was instrumental. - Folded, some minor soiling in accordance with age, a clear and attractive piece.

Couverture rigide. Condizione: Très bon. Edition originale. Rare large scale map of the South American Highlands of Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Peru, compiled by Victor Huot as part of a comprehensive study of the region by the Scientific Mission of G. de Créqui-Montfort and E. Sénéchal de la Grange. The map was drawn from a series of scientific expeditions in South America, mainly in to the Andes, made at the beginning of this century, on various subjects, including cartography, orography, physical anthropology, linguistics, fauna, paleontology, etc. South American Highlands Regions (Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Peru) Traveled by the French Mission - Map Prepared by V. Huot from the Works of the Members of the Mission, the The following quote appeared in the Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris (Nouvelle Series, Volume II, 1903, at page 346). A French scientific map of South America. - So far, the cartography of the Bolivian region of the Andes is quite poor. For Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Chile, the general maps are still incomplete, even embryonic, but on the whole, quite satisfactory. For the Bolivian territory, no serious cartographic work exists to our knowledge. The maps of Ondarza, Reck, Muchin, Moreno, Idiaquez, Pando are more or less official publications, but all their documentation is based on information communicated by the local administrators. And, unless we are mistaken, very few of the cartographers knew first-hand the terrain represented. The recently published map of the Créqui Montfort-E. Sénéchal de la Grange Mission fills a signifiicant gap, it is more than simply and improvement, it is a foundational map, it will be a solid starting point and will serve as a basis for all future studies. Thanks to this map, for the first time, we can grasp, in outline, the topographic anatomy of these high Bolivian plateaus which constitute a region so original and so distinct. The map of the French Mission, besides the high plateau of Bolivia, that is to say all the Republic of Bolivia (minus the plains of Beni and Chaco), also offers us the Peruvian departments of Arequipa, Puno and Moquegua, the Chilean provinces of Tacna, Tarapaca and Antofagasta. It includes, in addition, the territory of Argentina, the province of Jujuy, part of that of Salta and the Argentine national territory of the Andes. In short, it shows all the high plateau of South America from 15 ° to 26 ° lat. S., in a developed format (1m 70> <1m 30). The Bolivian provinces of Lipez, Chichas, and Porco, left almost blank by the old maps, appear here in all the reality of their relief, delineated with the greatest care. For the departments of Arequipa and Moquegua, for the provinces of Jujuy and Salta, the French map also introduces important new detail . This is a beautiful work that honors its creators and authors, well served, the rest, for the translation of their observations and statements, by the talent of the draftsman, Mr. Victor Huot. It is a masterful preface to the great publications of archeology and ethnography promised by the Count de Créqui Montfort and eagerly awaited by all the Americanists. Ministry of Public Instruction. Mission G. de Créqui Montfort-E. Seneschal of the Barn, 1903. Regions of the high plateaus of South America (Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Peru), visited by the French Mission. Map drawn up by V. Huot, based on the work of the members of the Mission, the original unpublished sources and the most recent documents, on a scale of 1: 750,000. Paris, Ehrard Brothers, 1905. We note 3 examples in North American institutional collections, 1 example in the National Library of Chile and several examples in French libraries.