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BOLIVAR, SIMON Manuscript document with two Bolivar signatures. Angostura: November 1817 & December 1818. Four page document on one folded sheet, with ten lines of manuscript in Bolivar's hand and bearing two signatures as well as those of several other officials, the document regarding the allocation of funds in Caracas. 12 x 8 3/8 inches (30.5 x 22 cm). Spotting and light wear to extremities; Together with Bolivar's signature on an early legal document. Angostura: 19 September 1818. Manuscript document on recto and verso of one sheet, signed "Bolivar" on the recto. 12 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (32 x 20 cm). This document with substantial losses which have been professionally replaced but some text obscured or lost. Bolivar had liberated Angostura in July 1817, and the first document here, signed by Bolivar in 1817 and again in 1818, deals with the allocation of funds for supplies during the occupation of Caracas (this document sold Sotheby's New York 13 June 1991, ). The second is an early legal document, in which Bolivar seems to act on behalf of (and possibly provides a house for) a poor woman named Barbara Requena who has also signed. C