LOTTERIES: A fine collection of approximately 28 documents, - Lot 196

LOTTERIES: A fine collection of approximately 28 documents, including: Royal Edict revoking the tontine-style lottery, 1715. Decision of the King’s Council of State regarding the lottery previously granted to the Princess of England, 8 pages, 1716. A parchment deed from 1731. Receipt for 48 livres in lottery tickets on semi-printed parchment, 1777. Royal edict establishing a lottery for life annuities and perpetual annuities, 1777. Notarized deed from 1776, loan for the purchase of the office of administrator of the royal lottery. Prospectus for the second national lottery for houses, buildings, and furnishings, 37 pages, Year III. Decree of the Directory in Year VI reestablishing and organizing the national lottery. Document dated April 14, 1803, from the administration of the Tuscan lottery. Imperial Lottery of France, Bordeaux drawing, sheet with a pair of winning numbers, 1809. Royal Lottery of France reestablished by the law of Year 6. Four-page notice from 1815. Flyer for the *Figaro* lottery in July 1835. 8 tickets from the 19th century. Newspaper from 1809 including a long article on a trial in Douai concerning a lottery scam. Circular, law of 1792, letters patent, etc.