PARIS. More than 150 documents, including a few prints, 17th - Lot 403

PARIS. More than 150 documents, including a few prints, 17th-18th centuries. Numerous extracts of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials from the parish registers of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie and Saint-Sulpice; death certificates from the Hôtel-Dieu and Hospice de la Charité, received from the Royal Abbey of Saint-Germain des Prés; certificate of reception, at the Maison de la Pitié, of a destitute "daughter of service to Jesus"; address to Louis XVI by the parish priest of Passy; patent of hospital order, etc. Marriage contracts, constitutions of annuities, consents, debts, obligations, seizures and oppositions, sale of a house by auction, memoranda of expenses for a matter of succession, legal consultations, etc. Various receipts; circulars, printed matter from the Royal Lottery (1783); receipt for duties due on drinks entering Paris... Letters of appointment of jurors of the gold beaters (1730); memoirs or receipts of the procurators-union of the Master coopers, of the Ventillateur (emptying of the pits), of the Pavé of Paris; receipts of the Fair Saint-Germain des Prés; poster of announcement of the funeral of Clair Thomas, "master founder-cizeleur, & bourgeois of Paris" (1779); commercial correspondence... Diplomas of bachelor in law; certificate of a "priest doctor of the house and society of Sorbonne" relating to the 32 gentlemen students of the Mazarin college; patent of the College of Pharmacy of Paris. Plus various family and friendly letters, etc.