Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/78
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    635 ALEXANDER VII. (1599-1667). Pope. Met ReSIGNED, FO. VO; DIEHARDO [RABIO, VESCOVO Dig kDO)- AND SUBSCRIBED BY POPE ALEXANDER VII WHEN BISHOP OF HARDO. ADDRESSED TO AN ECCLE- Sle eematLe DIGNITARY. 4 page, folio. Munster, 25th August, 1645. £2 10s The Pope acknowledges the receipt of a letter from his correspondent which should have reached him eight days previously. (Trans.) :—‘‘ But I lack the despatches of the 5th, of this month which should have been here with the others by now, if it had not been for the obstruction caused by the French and Bavarian troops, which have delayed this post. JI thank Your Illustrious -Reverence for any favour you may confer in respect of the attached document, and reverently kiss your hands.’’ 635 [ALFONSO (1453-1468).| Infante of Castile. CERTIFIED NOTARIAL CONTEMPORARY TRANSCRIPT OF ROYAL DECREE GIVEN BY THE INFANTE ALFONSO OF CASTILE AS KING, ADDRESSED TO DON JUAN PONCE DE Peen. CONDE DE ARCOS, ON! 2sth JULY, 1465. 24 pp., folio. Valladolid, 29th July, 1465. £5 5s Having usurped the throne of Castile from his brother, Henry IV., Alfonso styles himself King, and confirms various grants and privileges accorded to the Conde de Arcos by his predecessors, in consideration of the services rendered by the Count and his retainers of Seville ‘‘ in the wars against the Moors, and on other occasions.”’ SURRENDER OF WARSAW TO THE RUSSIANS AND THE CAPTURE OF PRAGUE BY SOUVAROFF. 637 ALOPAEUS (MAXIMILIAN, 1748-1821). Russian Diplomatist. Pee LOGRAPH LETIER SIGNED. I page, 4to. Berlin, #%th November, 1794. £5 5s A historically important letter announcing the surrender of Warsaw ’ to the Russians on the 9th of November. Together with a detailed account (dated Warsaw, 10th November, 1794) of the capture of Prague by General Souvaroff, when 16,000 to (Continued over)
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