by Magdalena de Passe, or by Willem de Passe
Engraved by Berry
line engraving, published 1620
Size 27 x 20 cm
Price £18.00
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Sir John Cheke 1514-1557 Greek scholar
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John Bale 1495-1563 churchman, historian and controversialist
English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory.
Size 27 x 20 cm
Price £18.00
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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
Ref:3519xl
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
Ref:3519
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
Ref:833
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
Ref:3612
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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Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature
Artist/Engraver Henry Raeburn
Size 28 x 22 cm
Price £12.00
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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Printzen 1719-1773
Was a member of the Royal Prussian secret war council. He was designated commander of the Order of St. John in Lietzen.
Engraved by Johann Friedrich Bause 1738-1814
Size 24 x 19 cm
Price £28.00
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