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Peleas de Gallos y Jacas. El día 30 de Mayo de 1918, se celebrarán Grandes Peleas en Desafío entre D. Facundo Benítez de Rota, y D. Eduardo Serrano Antúnes, de Sanlúcar. Puerto de Sta. María.

Album en folio mayor (370 x 300 m., encuadernado en hol., puntas chagrín.
Con 174 fotografías sobre papel en diferentes formatos: 150 x 110 mm (49 fotos) ; 210x280 mm (5 fotos) 70 x 80 mm (120 fotos), pegadas sobre cartón, con leyenda de ubicación, Three photos signed by Lékégian and A. Beato.
Important artistic and documentary evidence in Egypt, conducted in 1905 by the great banker Jean Paul Mirabaud and Boissonnas, plenipotentiary minister and Louis Charles Emile Lortet, physician, botanist, Paleontologist, Egyptologist and anthropologist who studies animal mummification in Upper Egypt 1900 to 1909 appears also photographed Georges Legrain, French Egyptologist, chief inspector of antiquities of Luxor.
Very beautiful views of the Nile, Piramide, Deir and Bahari, Colossi of Memnon, the head of Queen Taia Medinet-Abous, street vendors, great views of the Statue of Sekker by Beato, workers digging in discovering a large bust, etc.

Photograph of the memorable Inauguration of the COMPAÑIA INDUSTRIAL DE CEMENTO PRIVILEGIADO, Founded in 1895 in Mexico, by shareholders of Basque origin. Fotografía española - 2a de Plateros núm 5.

Prematica y Nueva Orden de los Vestidos y trajes, assi de hombres como de mujeres. En Madrid. En casa de Pedro Madrigal. Año M.DC. Vendese en casa de Francisco de Robles librero del Rey nuestro señor. Exlibris L. Cervera Vera.
The text provides a rich record of the enormous variety of clothes and ornaments that the upper classes and their servants both wore and were not allowed to wear at the end of the reign of Philip II and at the start of that of his son Philip III. The decree was prompted by what the king termed as the 'excess' in the clothes that people were able purchase as a result of the arrival of vast amounts gold and silver from America.
It begins by admitting that previous decrees, from the first of 1563, had remained unheeded. The bans, which applied to all except the royal family, ranged from the use of gold and silver in many clothes, to ornamentations. For example, an idea of the ornate richness of the clothing of the period is indicated by the ban on the use of 'entonchado, ni… Read More