PIUS XI: (1857-1939)

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PIUS XI: (1857-1939) Pope of the Catholic Church 1922-39 and the first sovereign of Vatican City from 1929. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of the future Pope, unsigned, featuring his printed name (‘Il Cardinale Achille Ratti’) as Archbishop of Milan to the centre and with four lines to text in his hand in Italian, sending thanks for some ‘contested senses’ contained in a letter, apologising that due to a delay in the correspondence he was unable to satisfy a wish, and sending his wholehearted blessings. A couple of very light, minor stains, VG

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PIUS XI: (1857-1939)

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BORROMEO CHARLES: (1538-1584) Borromeo on the Roman Inquisition, the suppression of Heresy, and the: BORROMEO CHARLES: (1538-1584) Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Milan 1564-84 and was a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation. Borromeo was canonized as a saint

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FOUCAULD CHARLES DE: (1858-1916): FOUCAULD CHARLES DE: (1858-1916) Foucauld was a former cavalry Officer in the French army, he would later become an Explorer, and finally a Catholic Priest. Foucauld lived as a hermit, among the

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CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) ´ I said to the foreman "this, without doubt, is the entrance to: CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. An interesting Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, eighteen pages (mostly written to the

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[BURTON HARRY]: (1879-1940) LAMPSON MILES: (1880-1964): [BURTON HARRY]: (1879-1940) English archaeological photographer and Egyptologist, most famous for the more than 3,000 photographs he took documenting Howard Carter´s excavation of

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