[MARIA ALEXANDROVNA
(Grand Duchess, 1824-1880, wife of Alexander II of Russia, daughter of Ludwig II of Hesse)]
Unsigned carte-de-visite photograph by Levitsky,
showing her half-length, in a dark silk shawl and white bonnet with broad ribbons, 4" x 2½", (St. Petersburg), no date, c.
top corners of card trimmed round just touching blank portion of photo
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
50877
£125
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MARIA AMALIA
(Teresa of Naples and Sicily, 1782-1866, 6th daughter of Ferdinand IV and I of Naples, Queen of Louis Philippe I of France)
Autograph letter signed to “dear Baroness”
in Italian with translation, saying that she has “received your two letters... from which I noted with pain your current position, and this pain is even greater for me because I am unable to assist you as you wish. I didn’t answer you before because it was repugnant to my heart to tell you, but the fear that you might interpret my silence differently has given me courage and I ask you to be persuaded that if I cannot fulfil your wishes, my feelings for you have not changed because of this...”, 2 sides 8vo., St. Cloud, 15th September
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
42422
£275
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MARIA AMELIA
(1864-1951, Queen of Carlos I (1863-1909) from 1889 King of Portugal)
Letter in Portuguese with translation, signed 'The Queen',
to Lucien, Cardinal BONAPARTE, (1828-1895, grandson of Napoleon I's brother Lucien, and 4th Prince of Canino), lithographed with the Cardinal's surname and the place and date completed by hand, beginning with her titles "Dona Maria Amelia d'Orleans, By the Grace of God, Queen of Portugal and of the Algarves, of the Nearer and Further Sea, in Africa Lady of Guinea, and of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India etc.", and thanking him for "Your Eminence's Letter ... on the occasion of the festival of the Most Holy Nativity, and greatly obliged by your expressions of devotion, I beg Your Eminence to be assured of my lively thanks and of my sincere desire to be able to do you favour ... May Our Lord keep your person in His Holy Care", 1 side folio, address on conjugate leaf, Palace of Belem, 23rd January
tear in right margin touching two letters without loss, traces of papered seal on address side
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
14406
£245
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MARIA CAROLINA
(1752-1814, Queen of Ferdinand IV and I of Naples and Sicily, Daughter of Empress Maria Theresia)
Fine Document in Italian with translation signed ‘Maria Carolina’ to Archduchess Amalia
saying that “Since we cannot receive the Royal Child, whom we expect to be born happily, from the sacred Fountain of Regeneration, since we are unable to receive him in our absence, we therefore trust that the Most Serene Royal Princess Archduchess of Austria Maria Amalia will give herself this task without any difficulty, and we decree and appoint our Prosecutor to this present one, so that she may take our place, and in our name lift and hold the newborn Royal Child to the Sacred Fountain of Baptism, and may promise and perform all those things which are to be promised and performed, so that the institutions and rites of the Holy Roman Catholic Church may be satisfied. Which indeed we promise to hold to be ratified, valid and firm, as if We ourselves had intervened beforehand, and all things had been expedited and carried out by Us...”, 1 side folio with seal, together with a separate cove addressed to Archduchess Amalia, Naples, December
Item Date:
1796
Stock No:
43622
£1275
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MARIA CRISTINA
(1858-1929, née Archduchess of Austria, second wife of Alfonso XII and mother of Alfonso XIII, Queen Regent 1885-1902)
Finely penned Document signed, in Spanish with translation, to the President of Peru,
(Andrés Avelino Cáceres, 1836-1923, President 1886-1890 & 1894-1895), saying she has appointed Don Luis del Castillo y Frigueros as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru, recommending his "distinguished qualities", signed also by Foreign Minister Alejandro Groizard, blind embossed armorial paper seal with fleur-de-lis tabs, 2 sides folio and conjugate blank, Madrid, 15th November
Item Date:
1894
Stock No:
52559
£375
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