Box 1
Contains 26 Results:
Letter from Barbié du Bocage to MM. Treuttel and Würtz, 2 March 1815, on arrangements for his contributions to the Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et du rive de Bosphore by Melling.
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Note, dated 23 October, written by Barbié du Bocage to J.J. Blaise, publisher of volume 2 of Choiseul-Gouffier’s Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce (1822-4).
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Pencil sketch map, by Barbié du Bocage, of an unknown promontory.
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Watercolored map of an unknown promontory.
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Piece of paper with mathematical calculations.
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Letter, dated 2 June 1808, from engineer and scientific instrument maker, Dumoutier, rue du Jardinet, 2, Paris, informing Barbié du Bocage that he had packaged instruments for shipping to Jean Bals (de Balsche), a grand écuyer to the Hispodar in the Moldavian town of Iaşi (Bals distributed such instruments to a network of scholars in Ottoman Eastern Europe).After receiving this letter, Barbié du Bocage used the blank spaces to jot down page references in various ancient Greek and Roman texts (Pliny, Pindar, etc.).
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Note from Charles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu, member of the Conseil d’État in charge of its naval section, former (and future interim) Minister of the Marine, to Barbié du Bocage, 11 germinal an VIII (1 April 1800). Letter acknowledges receipt and thanks Barbié du Bocage for the gift of a copy of his “Carte réduite de la mer des Indes” (this map was published in Labillardière’s Rélation du voyage à la recherché de la Pérouse (1799)).
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Portrait of Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage, by Henri Garnier, number 76 of the “Galerie Universelle” series of portraits published in Paris by Blaisot in the 1820s.
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Jean Denis Barbié du Bocage Papers, 1800-1815
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.
Jean Guillaume Barbie du Bocage Papers, 1827-1837
Correspondence, contract drafts, notes, sketches, and an engraving.