Collection of French works and letters by and to Isaac de Pinto.
Collection of French works and letters by and to Isaac de Pinto, 18th century.
I: Copies of several letters.
a. Copy of a letter of Isaac de Pinto to the Duke de Richelieu, dated Paris, May 16th
1762.
b. Copy of the answer of the Duke de Richelieu to Isaac de Pinto, dated April 30th
1762.
c. Copy of a letter of the librarian of the Sorbonne to Isaac de Pinto, dated April
30th 1762.
d. Copy of a letter of Manuel Lopes Suasso to the king of Poland, and answer; the
answer dated Warsaw, November 7th 1764.
French / Paper / 19,9 x 16,6 cm. / 7 ff. / Variety of lines to a page / Current 18th century
writing.
II: Letter of François Barin to Aron de David de Pinto.
2 ff. of 20,6 x 17,4 cm. / Current 18th century writing (autograph) / No date / Variety of
lines to a page.
III: Letter of the Swedish ambassador in the Dutch Republic, signed The Hague, August
19th 1786.
2 ff. of 22,9 x 18,9 cm. / Current 18th century writing (autograph) / Variety of lines to a
page.
IV: Memorandum on the role which Isaac de Pinto played during the negociations for
peace at Fontainebleau (which resulted in the Peace of Paris, 1763).
12 ff. of 32,8 x 20,6 cm. / Current 18th century writing / Variety of lines to a page.
V. Memorandum on the activities of Isaac the Pinto during the last years of the reign of
William IV of Orange (ab. 1750).
6 ff. of 32,8 x 20,6 cm. / Current 18th century writing / Variety of lines to a page.
VI. Copies of two Dutch letters of H. Fagel to the Count of Wartensleben, dated January
8th and 12th 1777.
4 ff. of 30,4 x 20,2 cm. / Current 18th century writing / Variety of lines to a page.
VII. French letter of Isaac de Pinto to H. Fagel, dated The Hague, January 12th 1777.
2 ff. of 22,7 x 18,4 cm. / Current 18th century writing (autograph) / Variety of lines to a
page.
VIII. Dutch answer to the former letter by H. Fagel, dated The Hague, February 1st 1777.
1 f. of 22,4 x 17,8 cm. / Current Dutch writing (autograph).
IX. Abstracts from the Gazette des Deux Ponts, 1776, nr. 704 and 1777, nr. 7.
1 f. of 32,6 x 20,2 cm. / Current 18th century writing.
X. Historical anecdotes on William IV of Orange by Isaac de Pinto.
Anecdotes Historiques / sur / le Stadhouderat de Guillaume IV, Prince d’Orange etc. etc.
etc. / en 1748 et 1749.
French / Paper / 26,2 x 21,2 cm. / [60] ff. (paginated 7-137) / 14 lines to a page / Current
18th century writing / Catchwords at the end of each page.
XI. Philosophical discourse by Isaac de Pinto, 1742.
Discours / Académique sur l’abus / qu’on fait / de l’Etude et des Sciences / prononcé /
dans la Société amicale / par / M. Isac de Pinto / le 11 Janvier / 1742.
French / Paper / 20,2 x 15,6 cm. / 40 pp. / 21 lines to a page / Current 18th century
writing.
XII. Discourse by Isaac de Pinto, ab. 1750.
Paradoxe / Soutenu de plusieurs Examples / Pour prouver / que Vérité nous conduit
souvant / à l’Erreur et l’Erreur à la vérité / par / Mons. Isaac de Pinto.
French / Paper / 20,3 x 15,9 cm. / 58 + [2] pp. / 21-25 lines to a page / Current 18th
century writing.
On the athor cf.: L. Huehner, Isaac de Pinto. A noted European publicist and defender of
Great Britain’s policy during the American revolution. New York 1905 ; J.S. Wijler, Isaac de
Pinto, sa vie et ses oeuvres. Apeldoorn 1923 (Dissertation Amsterdam).
Belonged originally to the collection of David Montezinos.
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