LOT. 3 Printed documents 1828, 1844 and 1854: Guillaume-Balt - Lot 479

LOT. 3 Printed documents 1828, 1844 and 1854: Guillaume-Balthazar COUSIN DE GRAINVILLE (1745-1828) Canon, Vicar General and Chancellor of the University of Montpellier (before 1789) Bishop of CAHORS (1802-1828): "Essai funèbre sur la mort de Monseigneur G.B. COUSIN DE GRAINVILLE, delivered in the Cathedral Church of CAHORS, on March 8, 1828, the day of the Prelate's funeral, by M. l'Abbé CERTES, Lenten Preacher, Honorary Canon of Montauban." Impr. à Cahors, chez Combarieu, Imprimeur de la Préfecture, 1828; 9 pages in-8° + LOT. CAHORS November 20, 1844. "Petition des Cultivateurs de TABAC de Cahors et de sa banlieue, à la Chambre des Députés, drafted by M. J. Michel BERTON proprietor in Cahors, delegate of the Société d'agriculture du LOT to the central agricultural congress in Paris." Printed 16 pages in-8° + LOT. 1854. Creation of the CHEMIN DE FER line. "Note concernant le Tracé du GRAND CENTRAL dans le Département du LOT" Impr. à Paris, Typographie de Mme Ve DONDEY-DUPRÉ, January 10, 1854, 8 pages in-4° - "The Emperor, by his decree of April 21, 1853, established the network of railroads which are to serve the center of France... public opinion greeted his welcome with the name Grand-Central de France..." (Notes on the various possibilities for the line's route).