European History--Kings and Statesmen

LOUIS XIV. Document signed ("Louis"), renewing the powers of the governor of the city and château of Brest, 1 page, oblong folio, on vellum, Versailles, 6 August 1691, excision with some loss of vellum, not apparently affecting the text, some staining; LE PRESTRE DE VAUBAN, Sébastien. Autograph letter signed, 4 pages, 4to, with a nineteenth-century engraved portrait of Vauban by W. T. Fry, 20 September 1701; MARIA THERESIA. Document signed ("Maria Theresia"), concerning the Court Council of War, 1 page, folio, Vienna, 4 September 1767, some light spotting, tiny tear, splitting to vertical fold; SÉGUR, Louis Philippe, comte de. Two autograph letters signed, 2 pages, folio, Versailles, 22 October and 5 December 1781; JOSEPH II. Document signed ("Joseph"), also signed by Karl von Zinzendorf and Joseph von Lischka, 3 pages, folio, papered seal, Vienna, 6 July 1787; document signed ("Joseph[paraph]"), 1 page, c.43 x 62cm, papered seal, also signed by Rudolph Joseph Reichsfürst von Colloredo, Semlin, 22 May 1788; WILHELM II. Portrait postcard inscribed and signed, 1 page, 10 February 1921; POINCARÉ, Raymond. Two autograph letters, 2 pages, 8vo, with an autograph envelope, one letter dated 8 April 1926; together with a warrant signed in a secretarial hand ("Louis") for Louis XVI, 1 page, folio, 1 October 1790

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