. Dated on March 15, 1515. 1 page, signed letter on paper, in Portuguese. Manuel I King of Portugal’s signed letter, to the Female Monastery of Santa Maria de Tarouquela. In his letter Manuel I, advising the monastery of Santa Maria of Tarouquela to obey better the Benedictine the..... More
Bogota: August 24, 1828. 4 pages, handwritten letter in brown ink. Interesting signed letter by Simon Bolívar, El Libertador, in which he announces Álamo, his friend that in three days he will proclaim himself dictator. Written three days prior to the declaration of Bolívar’s dictatorship, and the..... More
Spain: Early 19th century. An important 18th-century manuscript text of historical and legal interest, related to the privileges and grants of the House of Moctezuma. Manuscript text, in brown ink by a neat hand. Text from the second half of the 18th century, a somewhat later copy. On early 19th-century..... More
Weilheim: 1948 dec. 20. Folded. 1 p. Document of Miklós Horthy, Hungarian statesman, regent of Hungary (1920-1944) and his family signing out from the address in Weilheim (Bavaria, Germany), where they were kept first by the Gestapo, then by the U.S. military police at the end of WWII The..... More
Magyar Posta, 1919. First edition. 2 p. An extremely rare and important item from the short time of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Any signature by Bela Kun is very rare. The Hungarian Communist Béla Kun (1886-1938) led the brutal and short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, oversaw the massacre of..... More
Venice, Parma, Madrid (etc.). Late 18th, early 19th century. More than 100 handwritten, some partly printed documents. Written in ink by different hands. Housed in a contemporary folder with a title vignette. Interesting collection of more than one hundred documents related to Francesco Sabatini’s estate (among them paintings by Goya..... More
Budapest: 1939. In this letter Szerb giving the permission of the rights of his book: Journey by Moonlight to the publisher to sell it in the US. and France. More