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 (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, 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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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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A son of Count Johann Wilhelm from his marriage to Maximiliana Countess Harrach . Count Friedrich Sigmund’s name is closely connected with the memory of Vienna’s rescue from the Turkish danger in 1683 . Count Friedrich Sigmund is one of those generals who left the island of Schütt with the corps of Count Leslie and rushed to the rescue of the afflicted Vienna . Later, in 1684, he witnessed the victories of Waitzen and Pesth and then the first unsuccessful siege of Ofen, where he was wounded. Before Neuhäusel he headed under Caprara1685 the storm and was sent with the news of the fall of the square to the imperial court camp
Size 18 x 15 cm
Price £14.00
Osman II, commonly known in Turkey as Genç Osman, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622.
Size 25 x 17 cm
Price £14.00
King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his cousin and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a son.
Size 9 x 8 cm
Price £14.00
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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought
Size 19 x 14 cm two prints
Price £14.00
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Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp was a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. He was the elder son of Duke Johann Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp and Princess Augusta of Denmark. His mother was a daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark. He had ambitious plans concerning the development of sea trade
size 40 x 30 cm
Price £95.00
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Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras (1708–1783) was an Austrian Field Marshal, and Ban of Croatia.
Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras was born on 30 September 1708 in Radkersburg, Austria into a Hungarian family of old nobility. He was the son of Graf Franz and Gräfin Rosa von Schrattenbach.
Engraver Johan Christian Leopold
Large engraving on paper size 50 x 35 cm
Price £95.00
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