COMMISSION DU COMMERCE. P.S. by three administrators,... Lot 233

COMMISSION DU COMMERCE. P.S. by three administrators, Paris 25 fructidor IV (11september 1796); 1 page large in-fol. partly printed, letterhead of the Commission du Commerce et des Approvisionnemens de la République with large engraved vignette by Tilliard [Boppe & Bonnet no. 31], ink stamp. Superb revolutionary vignette of the Commission du Commerce engraved by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard: an allegorical figure holding a cornucopia hovers above several symbols of France's commercial wealth, including a rooster, agricultural implements, sheep, cows, the mast of a ship, etc. Citizen André Noël Boyer is appointed "agent de l'agence des subsistances militaires de terre et de mer section des vivres pain"...