BIB_ID
294980
Accession number
MA 739.12
Display Date
[ca. 1789 Jan. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 34.9 cm
Notes
Localization inferred from MA 739.13-16, which are also dated 2 January 1789 by Gibbon, and which were certainly receipted in Lausanne.
Part of a collection of 18 letters, bills, and documents of the English historian Edward Gibbon. Items are cataloged individually in 18 records (MA 739.1-18); see collection record for more information.
The second of 6 bills endorsed and signed by Gibbon on 2 January 1789.
Part of a collection of 18 letters, bills, and documents of the English historian Edward Gibbon. Items are cataloged individually in 18 records (MA 739.1-18); see collection record for more information.
The second of 6 bills endorsed and signed by Gibbon on 2 January 1789.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Manuscript bill for £92.9, issued to the English historian Edward Gibbon by Monsieur Dybon. Endorsed, signed and dated by Gibbon, and with an autograph note by Jean Weibel acknowledging of receipt of payment on 2 January 1789.
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