Beschreibung:

Berry, Marie-Caroline-Ferdinande-Louise de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchesse de. IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF LETTERS, HER BOUND RETAINED COPIES, BOTH AUTOGRAPH AND SECRETARIAL, OF HER CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE YEARS C.1814 TO 1865, TOGETHER WITH HER POCKET WRITING WALLET, CONTAINING HER MONOGRAMMED PEN-KNIFE AND CATALOGUES OF HER PAINTINGS including autograph copies of her letters in Italian and French during the years c.1814 to c.1825, including 1) "Lettere da me scritte à Vavone", ["...a Nonno sino alla sua morte nel 1814"; "...a zio Leopoldo"; "...Al Re ed alla Regina di Spagna", etc], over 100 pages, 4to, green morocco gilt, pink silk doublures, 1814-1816; 2) autograph copies of letters in French, 8vo, red roan glt, 1816-1827; 3) autograph copies of letters in Italian, 1821-1824; 4) secretarial copies of "Lettres...pour ses affairesparticulières1830-1837", 8vo, green roan-backed boards; 5) Important series of 12 volumes, retained secretarial copies of the Duchesse's letters, 4to, dark blue or green half roan, 1830-1855; 6) secretarial copies of letters 1864-1865 and 1866-1869, 2 volumes, 4to, cloth and half roan, with later items; together with 7) 2 volumes of tables and indexes of the letters; 8) 2 volumes of her autograph summaries of letters received and destroyed ("Lettres Brûlées"), arranged alphabetically by sender, 2 volumes, cloth-backed boards; 9) lists of letters received, 3 volumes, large 8vo, green half calf, together with 10) Caroline's pocket writing wallet, containing her autograph note book enumerating letters written, 16mo, 1834-1848, with a pen-knife ("M.C."), scissors, lead pencil etc, dark green roan wrappers, together with six manuscript volumes containing accounts and catalogues of her collection of paintings over 30 volumes in all, 4to and 8vo, and including the 16mo notebook, 1814-c.1870