leopold emperor (8 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Baker (illustrator). A fine original copper engraving, ca. 1790. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait of this famous personage.

4to. 42 SS. Later wrappers. Rare justification of the confiscation of the Duchy of Milan by Leopold I, after King Charles II, who in his charge as the Duke of Milan, had been a vassal of the Empire, had died in 1700. - Very closely trimmed (some loss to text).

xviii + 328pp. + frontispiece (portrait of Marco d'Aviano), original 1888-edition, 40x30cm., contemporary hardcover binding (marbled boards, leather spine with gilt title), marbled endpapers, title in red and black, some occasional foxing (mainly at first and last pages), small stamp on first blanco endpaper and on last page, good condition, weight: 2.5kg., G103999.

Zustand: Very Good. Budae [Buda, Hungary]: Typis Regiae Universitets, 1791. First Edition. Folio (35.5cm.); full contemporary roan, spine in six compartments with printed paper spine label, all edges stained red; xxiv,393,[3]pp.; woodcut illus. as well as initials, head- and tail-pieces. Leather rather scuffed and worn along spine ends and corners, old paper shelf label to upper cover, textblock unevenly toned and lightly foxed, very occasional contemporary marginalia to earlier leaves, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Detailed account of the first year in the reign of Leopold II, who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1790. He died suddenly just eighteen months later, in March, 1792, at the age of forty-four.

Oblong folio (ca. 425 x 560 mm). 1 p. With papered seal. The Emperor lifts duties and tolls illegally introduced during the Thirty Years' War, aiming to "galvanise trade into its former prosperity": "Wir [sind] durch Unsern [.] Reichs Convent Gevollmächtigten Kayserlichen Principal Commissarium dem hochwürdig Guidobaldum Ertzbischofen zu Salzburg [.] underthänigst ersucht worden, daß wir allergnädigste Verordnung zu thun geruheten, damit die [.] hin und wider im Reich ermelte Commercien und gemeinen Nuzen zu Nachtheil mit gelegenheith des Kriegs wider die Rechten, Freyheit, und ohne Bewilligung eines Römischen Kaysers und der Churfürsten newerlich aigenes gewaltes eingeführte und erhöherte Zöll, Mauthen, auch alle andere ungewöhnliche Auflagen, beschwerten und Hindernussen, wie die auch nahmen haben mögen, durch welche die Treibung mehrgedachter Commercien und der Schifffarth deteriorirt worden, gänzlich aufgehöbt, abgethan, cassirt und respective reducirt und solchem nach denen Landtschaften, anländung und allen Strömen Ihre vorige Sicherheit, Jurisdiction und Gebrauch, wie dieselbe vor dem lezten Teutschen Krieg viel iahr zuvor gewest, wiederumb gegeben [.]". - Several similar mandates (though not this very one) are quoted by the jurist Franz von Schrötter in his "Patriotische Bemerkungen" (1770). - Counter-signed by the civil servant Wilhelm Schröder and by the cleric Wilderich Baron Walderdorff (1617-80, later bishop of Vienna). Slight edge flaw.

15. Gand (Gent) , Chez Adrien Colier, rue de Bruges N° 95, Imprimeur des Etats de Flandre, 1792, in-folio, 46 x 28 cm, 47 pp ( title printed in two colours with a wood engraved coat of arms) + (1)nn pp (blank). Complete. Landwehr N° 287. Only edition of this book, bound in contemporary full calf, with large gilt supra libro on both covers - arms of the county of Flanders , raised gilt spine, binding a bit worn at extremities, upper joint split but still holding. Interior fine. This book is the very last publication in a long series, spanning 275 years. It relates the splendid ceremony which was organised upon the investiture of the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Leopold II of Habsburg-Lotheringen as count of Flanders in Ghendt. Barely 7 months after this inauguration the emperor was death and the French revolutionary armies were to invade the country at the end of the year ( November 1792). It marks the end of a series of publications on these ceremonies which started in 1515. Landwehr, in his bibliography '' Splendid Ceremonies.'' lists 288 similar publications.

Folio (208 x 308 mm). 4 pp. on bifolium. To an unnamed "dear cousin", regarding Baron Adam Boreck (Boreg) of Rostropitz and Tworkau, and about the marching route of the militia: "Wir haben auß Eurer Liebden undt Euerm an Unnß unterm dritten Currentis abgelassenen Unterthänigsten Schreiben, gnädigist vernohmen, waß massen bey Unnß dieselbe undt Ihr auff bewegliches anhalten, deß Wohlgebohrnen, Unsers Lieben Getreuen, Adam Borckh Freyherrns von Rostropitz und Twarkow, Landtmarschallen in Unserm Erbfürstenthumn Teschen etc. alldortige Standes unndt Landes Innwohner dahin gehorsambist verbitten wollen, Wir geruhten einen gueten Theyl Unserer, auß Unserm Herzogthumb Schlesien in Hungarn zu dem Randevous abzumarchiren beordreten Miliz, angesehen dieselbe sonsten, undt wann die gantze route über Teschen gehen solte, nothleiden würde, durch Unser Erb Marggraffthumb Mähren führen zu lassen [.]". - Counter-signed by Karl Maximilian von Thurn-Valsassina (1643-1716) and the civil servant J. von Tam. - Somewhat browned and with slight edge damage.

With a large, finely illuminated coat of arms in vivid colours and burnished gold, framed by green palm fronds and flanked by angels, incorporating distinctive Moor's head motifs. (illustrator). With a large, finely illuminated coat of arms in vivid colours and burnished gold, framed by green palm fronds and flanked by angels, incorporating distinctive Moor's head motifs. Manuscript on vellum, folio (c.?240 × 300 mm). Sewn in contemporary limp vellum. [8] leaves. Imperial ennoblement diploma featuring depictions of Black African figures-an unusual and well-documented example of African representation in early modern European aristocratic identity. This lavishly illuminated imperial diploma, issued by Emperor Leopold I on 6 May 1668, confirms the noble status of Georg, Adam, Christoph, and Jakob Moren as members of the knightly nobility (rittermäßiger Reichs- und erbländischer Adel) of the Holy Roman Empire and its Hereditary Lands. It reaffirms earlier ennoblements of the family in 1514 and 1557 and grants the recipients revised arms and the right to use the territorial predicates von oder zu Sunnegg und Morberg, following the extinction of the line of their cousin Hieronymus Moren. The present manuscript is an authenticated official copy, certified on 4 April 1669. Of particular interest is the large full-page coat of arms, likely painted by a professional court illuminator. Richly coloured and heightened with gold, the quartered shield includes two fields with black imperial eagles and two with bust-length portraits of dark-skinned men in three-quarter profile, adorned with gold earrings and chain necklaces. Above the shield rises a bare-chested, crowned Black man, holding a red orb in each hand and emerging from a coronet. The rendering is highly individualized and unambiguously emphasizes African phenotypic features. The composition is framed by a laurel cartouche flanked by angels and fruit. The surname (Moren or Mor) and the heraldic iconography leave little doubt that the family was of Moorish origin-or at least claimed such ancestry as part of its noble identity. While Moor's heads appear elsewhere in European heraldry, they are typically stylized emblems representing conquest, exoticism, or religious symbolism. The Moren arms are distinct: they include multiple, prominently placed depictions of Black African men-not as abstract symbols but as individualized and repeated figures in both crest and escutcheon. Their dignified and central presence-together with the family name-suggests an intentional genealogical claim, rather than a purely symbolic motif. The route by which the Moren ancestor entered Habsburg service is uncertain, but likely occurred via Spain or Italy in the late 15th or early 16th century. The Moren family retained noble status over successive generations, with branches in Tyrol, Styria, Carinthia, and Upper Austria, and remained listed in official registers of the Austrian nobility into the 20th century. Among their later descendants was Therese von Mor zu Sunnegg und Morberg (1871-1945), a painter trained in Vienna, Munich, and Paris, and active in several artists' associations. The family's heraldic identity-with its explicit visual reference to African ancestry-remained remarkably consistent, making this diploma not only a legal instrument of nobility, but a rare and compelling record of Black lineage within the early modern European aristocracy. Reference: Genealogisches Taschenbuch der adeligen Häuser Österreichs. (1907). Zweiter Jahrgang, 1906/07 (pp.?278-310). Wien: Otto Maass' Söhne. . Final leaf with contemporary notarial certification, signature, stamp, and remnant of wax seal. Some wear and light soiling, but a well-preserved and striking copy. Sewn in contemporary limp vellum Manuscript on vellum, folio (c.?240 × 300 mm).