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[Curland - Jakob Kettler] Jacobus, Dux Curlandiæ, Livoniæ, Semigalliæ etc.
[Curland - Jakob Kettler] Jacobus, Dux Curlandiæ, Livoniæ, Semigalliæ etc.
[Ulm: Wagner, 1691.]
Engraving. 310 x 180mm (12¼ x 7"), very large margins.
Jacob Kettler (1610-82), Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. Under him, the duchy became de facto independent, increased overseas trade and became a colonial nation, building Fort Jacob on Kunta Kinteh Island in the Gambia River in 1651 and capturing Tobago in 1654. From 'Historia Moderna Europae, oder eine Historische Beschreibung des heutigen Europae' by Everhardus Guernerus Happelius.
[Ref: 57751]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Livonians and Kreevins] Lives d'Jrben Krevingues de Neuraden (Costume de fete.)
[Livonians and Kreevins] Lives d'Jrben Krevingues de Neuraden (Costume de fete.)
Dessiné par C. Huhn d'après les originaux de la Société géographique Impériale de Russie par Petzhold. Lith. par Winckelmann et fils à Berlin.
[St. Petersburg: F. Bellizard, 1862.]
Fine & scarce coloured chromolithograph. Printed area 360 x 220mm (14¼ x 8¾"), with very large margins.
The costumes of Livonians and Kreevins (a small tribe of Latvia), from Theodore de Pauly's 'Description Ethnographique des Peuples de la Russie'.
[Ref: 60244]   £320.00  
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