PYRÉNÉES-ATLANTIQUES. 12 items: 10 letters in-4°, 1 scroll a - Lot 74

PYRÉNÉES-ATLANTIQUES. 12 items: 10 letters in-4°, 1 scroll and 1 engraving: BAYONNE, August 17, 1748, business letter to Claude RAVACHIOL in LYON + BAYONNE (64), Thermidor 6, Year 9 (July 25, 1801). Letter signed “D. DABEDEILHE LINARD,” shipowner, addressed to Mr. Germain LAFAUSSE & Co., Merchants in LYON (69). 1p ¼ quarto - “We were honored… to receive the price list for the goods from your factory; it is true that the nature of your business is particularly geared toward shipping vessels to the French colonies, but such voyages are now so rare due to the threat of enemies near our ports, and due to so many other circumstances that absorb all the profits from such ventures, that all shipowners are disheartened and no longer dare to take any risks in this regard. However, we are taking careful note of your generous offers for a more opportune time… We plan to dispatch a schooner to Guadeloupe sometime in September… ” + BAYONNE 1803, Business letter to Messrs. CLOSSMANN & Co. in Bordeaux + BAYONNE (64), July 9, 1814. Business letter signed BROQUEDIS, addressed to HOLOGRAY, merchant in BORDEAUX. 1 page in-4°, with the watermark “Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy.”: “… I have received your entire remittance. We are awaiting the Duke of Angoulême; the Guard, of which I am a member, is preparing to welcome him. Let us hope that in a couple of years, the wounds will have healed and that we will see the good old days again… ” + TARDETS SORHOLUS (64) 1813, Business letter to Messrs. CASTEL Brothers in Carcassonne + BAYONNE, June 8, 1815, Business letter to Messrs. Bernard DOMENGER & Co. in MUGRON + OLORON (64) 1818, Business letter to Messrs. MOULOU & Co. in Bayonne + OLORON (64) 1816. Business letter to Mr. Fonds LAMOTTES in Limoux, wool trade + PAU 1827. Letter signed by DUCLOS, attorney, to Étienne LAROQUE in Bordeaux, regarding a debt owed by emigrants and settlers in Saint-Domingue + Bayonne, 1829. Letter from a soldier to his parents in Javron, Mayenne, via the Bayonne freight service, January 6, 1820: “Merillou, Penin, and Bernadou, Freight Forwarders for the Interior of France in Bayonne ” Transport of cod packages + Engraving “Port of Bayonne” from *La France illustrée*, 1837 (18 x 27.5 cm)