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Personal books and manuscripts relating to or by the Bourbon-Parmas.
Description
- A collection of 17 volumes, including:
- Paper
Farnese, yacht. Giornale di bordo. [Italy, 1883-1884], 8vo, manuscript on paper, green cloth, with three photos of the yacht in Venice loosely inserted
Borrelli, Nicola. Versi. Rome: Salviucci, 1868, 8vo, purple velvet elaborately gilt with the arms of Bourbon-Parma on covers, gilt edges, silk endpapers
Borrelli, Nicola. Versi. Rome: Fratelli Monaldi, 1869, 8vo, red velvet elaborately gilt with the arms of Bourbon-Parma on covers, gilt edges, silk endpapers
Charles Louis de Bourbon. Quatre lettres de Charles Louis de Bourbon... au Baron de Virte de Rathsamhausen. Florence: Giunti, 1911, small 4to, 2 photographic plates, inscribed by the editor, limp vellum lettered in gilt manuscript on upper cover
Arisi, Francesco. Rime per le sacre stimate del S. Patriarca Francesco dedicate all' A.S. di Francesco I duca di Parma. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1713, small 4to, contemporary vellum
with 11 others, together 17 volumes
Provenance
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Henri de Bourbon-Parma. Streifzüge durch Island [edited by Paula von Barry]. Klagenfurt: the editor, 1906, 8vo, contemporary cloth with a view of Iceland painted on upper cover on a background of gilt painted fleurs-de-lys by the editor
Marie-Louise de Bourbon-Parma. La mort prématurée de... la princesse Marie-Louise... le 19-31 janvier 1899 à Sophia. Sophia, July/August 1899, small folio, manuscript on paper, signed at end by Pierre Kérimoff, navy cloth
Buchmüller, Fritz. Der Engel Bulgariens: ein Gedenkblatt... Fürstin Maria Louise von Bulgarien. Munich: the author, 1899, large 8vo, plates, blue cloth with silver decoration on upper cover
Rudolf, Alfred. Mariya Luiza, perva belgarska knyaginya. Plovdiv, 1900, 8vo, text in Bulgarian, illustrations, pictorial grey cloth, gilt edges
Dal Verme, Giuseppe. Voti nel capo d'anno. [Parma, 1900?], 3pp. of manuscript verses to Robert and Maria Antonia, duke and duchess of Parma, signed by Dal Verme, 8vo, red morocco gilt
Carosi, Giuseppe. I fasti della dinastia borbonica nel regno delle Due Sicilie. Rome: Tipographia Romana, 1870, 8vo, red cloth gilt
Two blank books with bindings lettered "S.A.R. la Duchessa di Parma" and "S.A.R. il Duca di Parma", both small folio, brown morocco gilt with paper dust-jackets, each in a card box, slightly foxed
Pety de Thozée, M.J. La Bulgarie en 1891. Brussels: P. Weissenbruch, 1892, 8vo, blue morocco gilt with crowned "R" monogram on upper cover and corner fleurs-de-lys, gilt edges, gilt fleurs-de-lys endpapers, original wrappers bound in
Beuzon, Joseph and Maurice Pascal. [Caveau des Bourbons à Saint-Denis]. [Paris, 1896], 4 plates, manuscript dedication by both authors to Robert, duke of Parma, blue morocco gilt by E. Hautecoeur of Paris with arms and lettering on upper cover
Eyriès, G. and P. Perret. Les chateaux historiques de la France. Tome II. Paris: Oudin Frères, 1879, large 4to, plates, red smooth morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover "A son altesse royale Madame la Duchesse de Parme, Hommage des habitants de Chambord Octobre 1890", red silk endpapers with crowned initials "M.A," on front endpaper, with a letter on vellum dated Chambord 1897 loosely inserted at front, slightly soiled