1888 Chromolithograph Poland Military Uniform Janissary Army Cavalryman LCH5 XGQC2 Governor of the Spanish Netherlands

Governor of the Spanish Netherlands

This is an original World War I 1917 black and white print ad for Quaker Oats

English Painter and Philosopher of the Victorian Age

This is an original 1924 photogravure of mountains on the archipelago of Lofoten

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1888 Chromolithograph Poland Military Uniform Janissary Army Cavalryman LCH5 XGQC2 Governor of the Spanish NetherlandsThis is a rare original 1888 color chromolithograph which depicts some of the military uniforms of the Janissary muskeeters who made up the Polish Royal Guard during the reign of John III Sobieski in the 17th century. The Janissaries were a powerful force. Originally trained to fight for the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, they became too politically powerful for their own good and actually lost momentum as a fighting army. This oversight allowed John