Monarchy
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[Maria Theresa of Austria]. Fraganeschi, Ignazio-Maria. Descrizione de Solenni Funerali…di Ma- ria-Teresa Imperatrice…colla Orazione Funebre recitata dal Sig. Ab. D. Antonio Torregiani… Cremona: Lorenzo Manini, [1780].
![[Maria Theresa of Austria]. Fraganeschi, Ignazio-Maria. Descrizione de Solenni Funerali…di Ma- ria-Teresa Imperatrice…colla Orazione Funebre recitata dal Sig. Ab. D. Antonio Torregiani… Cremona: Lorenzo Manini, [1780].](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5275.jpg)
4to in 6s. 34, [2] pp., thick paper printed in decorative woodcut borders except final blank. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, footnotes. Bound in contemporary cat’s paw calf with gilt roll boarder and small fleuron at each inner corner, spine ruled in gilt, black endpapers and edges (extremities very lightly rubbed, small stain to front cover). …
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Handsome set of the dozen volumes that comprise an important, influential early addition to English women’s history, to English politics and the monarchy, to Great Britain’s Court and courtiers, and to its Kings and rulers, Queens and fortunes.
The O.D.N.B. entry for her notes that the work evidences the author’s turn in the 1830s (and that of her sister, the co-author, Elizabeth) towards biography, history and the original manuscripts that she and her sister were shown in the British Museum Library. This is the New Edition, with Corrections and Additions, published by Henry…