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Hans Erasmus Graf von Tattenbach 1631-1671

Count von Tattenbach, was governor of Styria, owned several dominions in what is now Slovenia, which was then called Lower Styria , and also owned properties in Silesia. He is described as weak in character, naive and complacent. Speculating on personal gain, he conspired with the anti-Habsburg Croatian and Hungarian magnates from 1667 in the magnate conspiracy. Betrayed by his own valet, he was arrested in the course of crushing the uprising and found guilty of high treason. As a result, a large part of his possessions was confiscated and on December 1, 1671 he was executed in front of the Graz town hall . The County of Reinstein, a fiefdom that also belonged to Tattenbach, then reverted to the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg .

Engraver Sigmund Gabriel Hipschmann 1639-1679
size 27 x 19 cms
Rare early engraving

Price £38.00

Ref:3527

Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.

Artist/Engraver: Weigel
Size 24 x 18 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3643

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

István Illésházy 1762-1838 Hungarian soldier, chairman, politician

Count Illésházi István Illésházy (Bratislava, April 30, 1762 – Baden bei Wien, Austria, July 30, 1838) was a nobleman, politician, and military officer. He was a colonel in the noble uprising against Napoleon, then hereditary lord, and a politician sympathetic to the opposition to the reform from the early 1800s. He was a director of the Hungarian Society of Scholars from 1830. He was the last scion of the large landowning nobleman Illésházy family.

Size 30 x 25 cm
Price £28.00

Ref:3523

Sir John Cheke 1514-1557 Greek scholar

John Bale 1495-1563 churchman, historian and controversialist

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

Ref:919

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