ANNE OF AUSTRIA: (1601-1666) Infanta of Spain and Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France 1615-43 as the wife of King Louis XIII. A.L.S., Anne, on...

COLBERT JEAN BAPTISTE: (1619-1683) French Politician. Known as ''Le Grand Colbert'' (''The Great Colbert'') For more than twenty years Minister of...

WLADYSLAW IV VASA: (1595-1648) King of Poland 1632-48. A renowned Patron of the Arts. Wladyslaw gained fame when he defeated the Ottoman Empire an...

GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. D.S., George R, as King of Hanover, at the foot, one page, folio, Carlton House, 2nd Ju...

MIKLAS WILHELM: (1872-1956) Austrian politician who served as President of Austria 1928-38. D.S., Miklas, two pages, folio, Vienna, 6th September ...

DERBY EARL OF: (1799-1869) British Prime Minister 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68. A.L.S., Derby, one page, 4to, St. James's Square, 13th February 1863, to...

ROSEBERY EARL OF: (1847-1929) British Prime Minister 1894-95. L.S., Rosebery, one page, 8vo, Berkeley Square, London, 11th November 1907, to a gen...

SOUBLETTE CARLOS: (1789-1870) President of Venezuela 1837-39, 1843-47, a hero of the Venezuelan War of Independence. D.S., Carlos Soublette, one p...

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTS: Prudente Jose de Morais e Barros (1841-1902) Third President of Brazil 1894-98 and the first civilian President to be electe...

SOMOZA ANASTASIO: (1896-1956) Nicaraguan dictator who served as President of Nicaragua 1937-47, 1950-56. Assassinated. An official diplomatic L.S....

‘your dear Papa was his worse and only enemy’ GRANT JULIA: (1826-1902) American First Lady of the United States 1869-77, wife of President Ulysses...

HUSSEIN SADDAM: (1937-2006) President of Iraq 1979-2003. A.L.S., in Arabic, one page, 8vo, n.p. (Republican Palace, Baghdad?), 2nd March 1986, to ...