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191 - Miscellaneous documents. Autograph letter [draft?] from C.
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Miscellaneous documents. Autograph letter [draft?] from C. de CASTELJAU, Besançon, 9 November 1990, to an editor of the RFA (Revue Française d’Apiculture). 4 pp. in-8°. He discusses the decline in the number of beekeeping journals, praises those of the past, assesses the current ones (advertising, technical content, etc.), and congratulates the editor on the content of issue no. 500, which he comments on. He then notes the rarity of old beekeeping books and their high cost. Finally, he offers his collaboration. Manina’s tale of the first beehive. 5 handwritten folios, in-4° (burnt with a tear in the lower corner). English philatelic folder (3 first-day covers, 1985). Letters, typescripts, advertisements, handwritten notes, invoices…
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About the sale ONLINE Collection of beekeeping postcards from Mr Christian de Casteljau. Books, lithographs & other specialities
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