[COLLEC. AD. THIERS] Rare Autograph Signed Ca 1840 Prof. Achille Valenciennes For Sale

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   Achille Valenciennes 1794-1865
Zoologist, herpetologist, parasitologist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, malacologist, university professor

National Museum of Natural HistoryMember of French Photography Society (1855)French Academy of Agriculture (1855)Geographic SocietyAcademy of Sciences (France)Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences

Achille Valenciennes, born August 9, 1794 in Paris and died in the same city on April 13, 1865, is a French zoologist specializing in fish and molluscs.
BiographyWhen he was born in 1794, his father worked at the Natural History Museum as a naturalist assistant. When his father died when he was eighteen, he was forced to abandon his studies while he was planning to attend the École Polytechnique to find a job as a bird taxidermist at the Jardin des Plantes. to support his mother and four sisters.
Having become a trainer for Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, he had him placed near Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck who begins writing his History of animals without vertebrae and who uses it to classify the zoophytes and molluscs of the Museum. He then worked as a naturalist assistant with Bernard-Germain de Lacépède to take care of reptiles and fish.
In 1815, it was under the direction of Georges Cuvier that he worked at the Museum to undertake his Natural History of Fish. Valenciennes' studies on worms parasitizing human beings are an important step in the history of parasitology.
After Cuvier's death in 1832, he continued his work alone and was appointed holder from the chair of annelids, molluscs and zoophytes at the National Museum of Natural History.
In his wanderings in Europe to collect drawings and notes in universities and collections, he met Alexandre de Humboldt, whose Observations he translated into French of zoology collected in his exploration of equinoctial America.
He became a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1844 to succeed Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. After this date, he obtained the chair of zoology at the Paris School of Pharmacy. In 1855, he became a full member of the Imperial and Central Agricultural Society of France.
He continued his activities at the National Museum of Natural History, where he became an authority on ichthyology but he remained little known compared to the many naturalists he worked with because of his brusque and gruff manners and lack of ease in speaking.
Partial list of publications1833: Natural history of molluscs, annelids and zoophytes1828-1848: Natural history of fish, co-author with Georges Cuvier1841: Aspidophoroide. Universal dictionary of natural history. C. d’Orbigny (dir.), vol. 2:237–238.1847: Natural history of herring1858: Description of a new species of Aspidophore fished in one of the coves of the port of Emperor Nicolas… CR Acad. Sci. Paris, c. 47:1040–1043. 
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A rare autograph letter signed by Achille Valenciennes, certainly addressed to Charles Mirbel
Valenciennes acts as an intermediary with the Collège de la Ville de Paris for a question of supplying shrubs... 
Undated (around 1840)

Double-sided letter 
"My dear colleague, I received from the Municipal College of the City of Paris this request for shrubs,with prayer to transmit it to you - I was already once the intermediary between you and the college, to ask you similar, and you were given thanks; this time there is a new acquisition and the prefect of studies of the small college very much desires to obtain results similar to those who succeeded so well in the middle school - Please accept the expression of my devoted and respectful friendship - (signature) A.Valenciennes "
Various inscriptions towards the top of the sheet on the leftTiny various pinholes 
 1 sheet 1 handwritten page Blank back
Rare
1 free sheet, size approximately 20x13 cm, 
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 Good general condition, barely yellowed, clean,small creases, dirt, small losses of paper on the edges of the sheets,  or usual minor friction, otherwise very sound paper
The page has obviously been detached (not by me, I found it that way) from the autograph book by Adolphe Thiers currently sold in my store 
cf. visuals...
 sold in as described condition, as found   Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck who begins writing his History of animals without vertebrae and who uses it to classify the zoophytes and molluscs of the Museum. He then worked as a naturalist assistant with Bernard-Germain de Lacépède to take care of reptiles and fish. He continued his activities at the National Museum of Natural History, where he became an authority on ichthyology but he remained little known compared to the many naturalists he worked with because of his brusque and gruff manners and lack of ease in speaking. with prayer to transmit it to you - I was already once the intermediary between you and the college, to ask you similar, and you were given thanks; this time there is a new acquisition and the prefect of studies of the small college very much desires to obtain results sim Recommended products Provided by [COLLEC AD. THIERS] RARE SIGNED AUTOGRAPH 1839 POULAIN Insurrection Poland 1830 View product [COLLEC. ADOLPHE THIERS] RARE AUTOGRAPHE SIGNE Ca 1839 CHARLES MIRBEL Botaniste View product [COLLEC AD. THIERS] RARE "LETTRE D'UN BERGER AUX RENTIERS" Ca 1830/1840 Pamphlet View product [COLLECTION ADOLPHE THIERS] Superb Signed Autograph Document Emile Babeuf 1840 View product Signed Autograph Berryer (Politician Lawyer) Circa 1860 Royalist Legitimist View product Signed Autographed Ticket Emile Baumann (Writer) Circa 1925 2pp. Léon Bloy View product Signed Autograph Binet-Valmer (Politics) 1920 Rare Header League Chiefs Section View product Souvenirs Madeleine Guitty Actrice Eugene Brieux Rare CDV Autographed Ca 1912 View product