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NAPLES. -- Descrizione delle feste celebrata dalla... citta di Napoli Per lo... ritorno... di Carlo di Borbone Re di Napoli, Sicilia. Naples: Felice Mosca, 1735.
2° (320 x 230mm). Title with large allegorical engraved vignette. Two large folding plates by Bartolomeo de Grado and Antonio Baldi after Nicolo Tagliacozzi, one headpiece and one initial. (Some light marginal soiling.) Contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt (corners neatly repaired, endpapers lightly wormed).
Charles (1716-1788) was placed on the throne of Naples by his father Philip V of Spain in 1734 and his position was recognised by the treaty of Vienna in 1735. He reigned in Naples (not without difficulties) until the death of his elder brother Ferdinand in 1759, when he returned to Spain as Charles III.
2° (320 x 230mm). Title with large allegorical engraved vignette. Two large folding plates by Bartolomeo de Grado and Antonio Baldi after Nicolo Tagliacozzi, one headpiece and one initial. (Some light marginal soiling.) Contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt (corners neatly repaired, endpapers lightly wormed).
Charles (1716-1788) was placed on the throne of Naples by his father Philip V of Spain in 1734 and his position was recognised by the treaty of Vienna in 1735. He reigned in Naples (not without difficulties) until the death of his elder brother Ferdinand in 1759, when he returned to Spain as Charles III.