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STEFANI, Federico.

The Antiquities of the Bonapartes, with a historical study of the Trivigiana region

Venice, Co’tipi di Gio. Cecchini, 1857.

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The Antiquities of the Bonapartes, with a historical study of the Trivigiana region

Venice, Co’tipi di Gio. Cecchini, 1857.

2 parts in 1 volume in-4, frontispiece, 160–170 pp. and 166 pp. Contemporary red Russian leather, plain spine with decoration, gilt title, covers decorated with a large gilt plate bearing the imperial coat of arms in the centre of the upper cover, gilt edges (very slight foxing to the text, small scuffs, rubbed edges, slightly split joints).

First edition.

Limited edition of 100 copies, this being no. 9.

A heraldic work from the Second Empire on the origins of the Bonapartes, comprising a historical study on the Marca Trevigiana (an ancient historical region of Italy) and an introduction by Luciano Beretta. The second part contains the "Documenti".

Only one copy in the CCFr (BnF).

In a binding illustrated with the grand imperial arms and adorned with a colour frontispiece.

From the library of Count Biadelli, bearing his coat-of-arms ex libris (Corsica).