Lőrinc Orczy 1718-1789 Hungarian Lord lieutenant, general and poet.

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His articles, speeches, letters and poems appeared in the Magyar Hirmondo (1782. 95. Speech at the inauguration of Count József Teleki, Archbishop of Ugocsa County), in Magyar Musa (1788. III. Letter: Pest, Szent András hava 20. ), in Orpheus (II. 1790. Bucsuzása from the county of Abauj. Oct. 14, 1784.); in the Magyar Museum (from the last book of Agathon I. Wieland, translated by Lőrincz of Bold. baron Orczy, from the law book of Empress Katharina of Russia, which was printed in Petersburg, Russia in 1776, and his letters to Kazinczy: Tarna-Eörs Nov. 5, 1785, Nov. 1786 l.); In the Uj Magyar Muzeum (1853. I. Letters to Ferenc Kazinczy, Oct. 5, 1785, Nov. 1, 1786).

Artist Ehrenreich Sándor Ádám (1784-1852) after Sdunder

Size 30 x 25 cm

Price £28.00

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Papal Procession Rome Saint John Lateran by Picart 1723

“ Le pape va en cérémonie prendre possesion du Pontificat dans l’Eglise St Jean de Latran qui est la capitale de toute celles qui relevent de la juridiction du Pape dans la Chrétieneté ”

from Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde.
by Bernard Picart 1673-1733

Large antique copper plate engraving on paper 43 x 54 cm
Full margins original centre fold.

Price £68.00

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Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg 1655-1720

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg was a Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia as the third and last wife of Leopold I. She was the paternal grandmother of Empress Maria Theresa.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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Prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky 1776-1852 Пётр Миха́йлович Волко́нский,

Pyotr Volkonsky was born in St. Petersburg . Volkonsky participated in the plot to remove Paul I from the throne and became one of the closest advisors to Alexander I. He commanded the Russian troops in the Battle of Austerlitz. He was Chief of Staff of the Acting Army from December 1812 and Chief of General Staff (1815-1823). Resigned after a conflict with the War Minister Count Aleksey Arakcheyev. He was an Ambassador to the coronation of Charles X of France in 1824. Afterwards, he was Minister of Imperial Court and Properties.

Antique engraving 35 x 23 cm

Price £24.00

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Claude de Mesmes, comte d’Avaux

Claude de Mesmes, comte d’Avaux 1595–165) was a 17th-century French diplomat and public administrator, one of France’s leading diplomats in the first half of the century. He was Superintendent of Finances of France from 1649 to 1650.

Subject gender: Male
Artist: after Paulus Pontius

Size 17 x 12.5 cms

Price £28.00

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Ralph Thoresby 1658 -1725

Ralph Thoresby was an antiquarian, who was born in Leeds and is widely credited with being the first historian of that city. Besides being a merchant, he was a nonconformist, fellow of the Royal Society, diarist, author, common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds, and museum keeper.

Artist/Engraver George Vertue 1712
Size 19 x 16 cms
Price £14.00

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Prince Karl of Liechtenstein 1730-1789

Prince Karl (Karl Borromäus) Michael Joseph of Liechtenstein was the second son of Emanuel, Prince of Liechtenstein and wife Maria Anna Antonia, Countess of Dietrichstein-Weichselstädt, Baroness of Hollenburg and Finkenstein, and younger brother of Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein.
He was the 805th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Austria in 1772.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Joseph Marianus of Augsburg (1738-after 1788)

Size 22 x 17 cms

Price £65.00

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