Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 391

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(PERU.) Alejo de Alvitez. Puntual descripcion, funebre lamento, y sumptuoso tumulo de . . . la Señora Doña Mariana Josepha de Austria, Reyna fidelisima de Portugal. Large folding plate of catafalque by Contreras. [4], 237, [8], [97] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, minor wear; repaired closed tears to plate; inked stamp on front free endpaper, private library bookplate on front pastedown. [Lima, 1757]
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Describes the ceremonies in honor of Maria Anna of Austria (1683-1754), widow of King John V of Portugal, including poems, sermons, and an "Oracion Funebre" by Francisco Ponze de León (with its own title page). A short poem in English is attempted on page 192, with double v's substituting for the w's, and two other poems are in Portuguese. Medina, Lima 1103; Palau 10118.