A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

BARRY O`MEARA: (d. 1836) British naval surgeon who attended Napoleon at St. Helena and supervised the exiled dictator's autopsy. Especially rare...

FRANCOIS de BARBE-MARBOIS: (1745-1837) French politician who served as Napoleon's Minister of Finance and negotiated the Louisiana Purchase (180...

JEAN JACQUES CAMBACERES: (1753-1824) Second consul under Napoleon and one of Napoleon's chief advisors, named Archchancellor of the Empire and D...

CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLYRAND: (1754 - 1838) French statesman who proposed the confiscation and sale of church lands, Napoleon's Minister of Fore...

CHARLES X: (1757 - 1836) King of France who regained the throne upon the Restoration (1824), his draconian rule brought about the July 27 Revolution w

(PHILIP IV): (1268 - 1314) King of France known as "The Fair", remembered for bringing the Templars down. Document from his reign, 1p. fol...

FRANZ VON PAPEN: (1879 - 1969) Chancellor of Germany and Vice Chancellor in Hitler's early years of power, von Papen was accused and later acqui...

(CHARLES VI OF FRANCE): (1368 - 1422) King of France, son and successor of King Charles V, said to have gone mad after stealing the arm of a death mar

(PHILIP VI OF FRANCE: (1328 - 1350) King of France, first King of the House of Valois. Document from his reign, 1p. folio, [n.p.], Dec. 17, 1342, a vi

(CHARLES V): (1337 - 1380) King of France strengthened by the failure of the Jacquerie, regained lands from the English which they had received in ran

ADOLF HITLER: (1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and N...

PAUL VON HINDENBURG: (1847 - 1934) German general and politician, crushed the Russians at Tannenburg and in Poland, forced to yield the Chancellor&#...

(JOSEF GOEBBELS): (1897 - 1945) Nazi Minister of Propaganda with Hitler from the earliest days, a master of manipulation of the masses who took his li

NAZI PROGRAMME BROADSIDE: A printed Nazi broadside measuring 16" x 24", with the Nazi party Swastika at top left, and outlining the Nazi P...

NAZI RUSSIAN ANTI-SEMITIC PROPAGANDA: A grouping of five illustrated Russian Nazi anti-Semitic broadsides, sm. 8vo. size, depicting various stereotype

FREDERICK II: (1712-1786) "The Great" King of Prussia who ruled form 1740-1786) who reformed Prussia granting universal religious freedom,...

WILHELM II: (1859 - 1941) "Kaiser Wilhelm", Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, a socially progressive ruler whose reign ended with Ge...

MARIA THERESA: (1717 - 1780) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary, lost Silesia and Austrian lands in Italy, allied herself with France bringin

GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI: (1807 - 1882) Italian military and nationalist leader whose capture of Sicily and Naples paved the way for the unification of Ital

BENITO MUSSOLINI: (1883 - 1945) Italian dictator whose fascist supporters marched on Rome, securing him power; allied with Hitler, after many military