ARCHEOLOGIST - Ambroise TARDIEU (1840-1912, archaeologist) / - Lot 437

ARCHEOLOGIST - Ambroise TARDIEU (1840-1912, archaeologist) / Autograph letter signed, 3 p in-4, headed "Mission Archéologique en Tunisie", Utique par Carthage, March 19, 1881, to historian and collector Alfred Bonnardot (1808-1884): they have been in Utique for 2 months, "we have found a marvellous statue representing Hercules as a child, mosaics with subjects such as Tritons, the Death of Adonis, we have collected 7 to 800 Roman vases, whose forms are elegant and varied, jewels, amulets, various objects", "we are lodged in the villa of an Arab general who has no less than 6,000 colonists"; Very interested in the forthcoming sale of the Collection des portraits gravés of the late Soliman Lieutaud, he asked his correspondent to provide him with the catalog drawn up by the bookseller Menu.