A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

PHILIP IV: (1605 - 1665) King of Spain who saw his country ravaged by famine and ill-advised wars, lost Portugal, Roussillon and Holland. A.E.S. &qu...

LAZARO CARDENAS: (1895 - 1970) Mexican soldier and political leader, President of Mexico 1934-40. Partly-printed D.S. as President 1p. folio, Mexico C

(JOHN II): (1397 - 1479) King of Aragon and Navarre who arranged the marriage of his son Ferdinand to Isabella of Castille uniting Spain. A document f

MIGUEL CEGARRA: Venezuelan patriot and statesman who served under Simon Bolivar during the wars for independence. Also Governor of the province of Mer

25180.: (1879 - 1940) Russian Communist leader who with Lenin organized the Bolshevik October Revolution, defeated by Stalin in their struggle for con

NIKOLAI BULGANIN: (1895 - 1975) Commissar and Politburo member, an intimate of Stalin and Khrushchev, exiled from real power in 1960. Scarce I.S.P. 7

NIKOLAI BULGANIN: (1895 - 1975) Commissar and Politburo member, an intimate of Stalin and Khrushchev, exiled from real power in 1960. Scarce T.L.S. on

GEORGI CHICHERIN: (1872 - 1936) Russian Bolshevik and a leader of the 1905 Revolution, succeeded Trotsky as Commissar of Foreign Affairs. T.L.S. 1p. 8

MIKHAIL I. KALININ: (1875 - 1946) Russian politician, an early supporter of the Bolsheviks, formal head of the Soviet state (1919-1946) and chairman o

NIKITA KHRUSCHEV: (1894 - 1971) Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union who crushed the Hungarian Revolution and "blinked" when thr...