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  A very rare and authoritative contemporary account of how the Spanish Royal Court publicly greeted the arrival of the news of the Christian victory at the Siege of Vienna (1683), including a detailed description of the elaborate cavalcade of King Carlos II to the Royal Convent of Our Lady of Atocha and the reception of the Austrian ambassador at…

Gu HONGMING (also Ku Hung-Ming, 辜鴻銘, 1857-1928). Beijing: The Peking Daily News, 1915. 8 º , [8 pp.] blank and titles in Chinese and English, 21 pp., [3 pp.] blank and index, X, 168 pp., original green binding (binding little water-stained and rubbed, internally clean with sporadic annotations in pen and pencil). The first edition of a collection of essays…

  A colossal composition that has the distinction of being the second ever official Japanese map of the world, with the present edition revised to epitomize the Japanese geographic conception of the globe near the beginning of the Meiji Era, when the country embarked upon a program of hyper-industrialization and international interaction; one of the iconic Japanese maps of the…

  [On Thursday, March 15th, 1832 in the Imperial Theater by the Actors of the Court. Der Graf von Burgund, Play in Four Acts, by August von Kotzebue].

[Theater in Düsseldorf, Today, Friday, April 19, 1831 the Imperial Russian court artist and professor of natural magic Carel Ivanovich von Mekold, who arrived here from St. Petersburg on his return journey from Paris. …War Goddess Minerva…] Düsseldorf: April 1831. Broadside, 35 x 21,5 cm (13.8 x 8.5 inches), (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition) (#70376). A playbill for…

  This is an ephemeral set of 4 theatre programs, made in 1919, by the British at the POW camp Bilbeis, Egypt.

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands.

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands.

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands.

  A rare playbill from the Theatre-Royal in Worcester presents The Celebrated Distin family, a famous family of musicians, who played a vital role in popularization of Saxhorns and brass music in England and the United States, with a major influence on the American Civil War bands.