
Lot Closed
July 15, 02:27 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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NAPOLEON I
LETTER SIGNED ("BONAPARTE"), AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN EGYPT, TO GENERAL D'ESTAING,
in French, remarking on the many complaints received from the local citizenry about harassment from the army ("...sur les vexations que l’on commet pour l'éclairage de la ville...") and asking him to send out an order to desist from posting notes on front doors, advising him of a decree that will be issued the next day, 1 page, folio (c.31.5 x 20.5cm), printed stationery ("Bonaparte, Général en Chef"), address-panel to verso, Cairo, 25 nivôse, an 7 [13 January 1799]
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