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- Books, Other, Others
MEXICO CITY IMPRINT: Apelación al buen criterio de los nacionales y estrangeros: informe que el Escmo. Sr. General de división, benemérito de la patria Antonio López de Santa-Ana, dió por acuerdo del gran jurado, sobre las acusaciones presentadas por el señor diputado Ramón Gamboa. / Acompañan á dicho informe diversos documentos de la mayor importancia para la historia, y de los cuales algunos no se habian publicado hasta hoy.
- 2,200.00€
- Highly important – the charismatic and controversial former (and future) Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s official and most detailed defense of his leadership when he oversaw the cession of Texas (1836) and the total defeat of this armies during the Mexican-American War (1846-8); the superficially persuasive but ‘creative with the truth’ narrative was written while Santa Anna was…
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- Bible, Books, Decorative Prints, History, Maps and Prints
MICROGRAPHY / PROTESTANT REFORMATION / MARTIN LUTHER: Gottlob nun sinds gleich hundert Jahr Das Lutherus hat offenbar. Gemacht des Bapsts falsche Lahr
- 8,500.00€
- [Thank God It Has Been a Hundred Years Now, Since Luther Promulgated the Pope’s False Teaching] An early 17th century German manuscript micrography in black and gold ink on parchment, made at the 100th anniversary of Martin Luther’s presentation of the Ninety-five Theses and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Black and gold ink on parchment, 22 x…
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- Balkans, Europe, Middle East, Others, Turkey
Ottoman Empire Telegraph Maps / Thematic Cartography
- 1,100.00€
- Very Rare - a matching pair of relatively early ‘flow maps’ of the telegraph systems in the both the European and Asian parts of the Ottoman Empire, published entirely in Ottoman Turkish text, fine examples of advanced thematic cartography detailing one of the world’s most important communications systems that was literally the nexus between the East and the West. …
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Decorative Prints, History, Maps and Prints, Portrait
Philippus Cratz a Scharpfenstein P.Positus Mogunt: …
- 180.00€
- Copper engraving, image: 14,5 x 11 cm; sheet: 26,5 x 18 cm (verso text with light traces of printing on the front, small tears in margins).
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- Books, Geography, History, Others
Por Macau!… Artigos e Discursos.
- 980.00€
- Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints
QUEEN VICTORIA / ETCHING / AUTOGRAPH: Ada
- 3,800.00€
- One of the first etchings made by Queen Victoria and representing her niece. With original signature of the Queen, possibly given by the author to her step-sister Feodora of Leiningen Etching on India laid paper, platemark: 12,5 x 8 cm (4.9 x 3.1 inches), sheet: 22 x 14 cm (8.7 x 5.5 inches), mounted on a 19th century…
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