MONNAYING of CLOCHE METAL. - Lot 43

MONNAYING of CLOCHE METAL. (see also lot 234.01) Rare and important dossier on bell casting for the monetary use of their bronze under the French Revolution. 1/ "Aperçu présenté au comité des Monnoies de l'Assemblée Nationale des avantages qui may result from the conversion of bell metal metal into molded money to facilitate the exchange the exchange of small assignats" by M. l'Abbé Rochon (24 p. uncropped, uncut fascicle brown stains on paper). 2/ Law concerning the manufacture of monnoie from bell metal (6 p. dated April 22, 1792). 3/ "Instruction sur l'art de séparer le cuivre du metal published by order of the Comité de Salut de Salut Public". Very rare 32 p. unbound (à Paris, de l'Imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, year 2 of the République Française) and 3 folding plates printed in intaglio (the largest 30 x 38 cm at the coup de planche). 4/ "Monnayage du métal de cloche - Artistes Réunis de Lyon. 1792 ". Bound factice collection 18+42 p., from the library of the engraver engraver J.J. Barre: it includes a "Précis historique sur la découverte des artistes réunis de Lyon" dated October 13, 1792, the report made to the Ass. Nat. by citoyen Reboul on the discovery of the artistes réunis de Lyon (August 25, 1792). Two laws concerning the manufacture of bronze and the "Réponse des artistes réunis de Lyon aux three memoirs presented by the Minister of Contritions Nationales pour faire révoquer the two laws ordering the manufacture of monnoies with pure bell material". 5/ "Observation by Mr. Souton, director of the Monnaie de Paris, on the report of the Comité des Monnaies et sur les avantages qu'on peut from bells. Paris, Palais Royal, 1790. The set,