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ROYALTY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE
Collection of letters and documents signed by or on behalf of members of European royal families, several being claimants, participants or interested parties in the War of Spanish Succession, as well as the War of the Austrian Succession and later conflicts, 1706-1789

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ROYALTY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE

Collection of letters and documents signed by or on behalf of members of European royal families, several being claimants, participants or interested parties in the War of Spanish Succession, as well as the War of the Austrian Succession and later conflicts, including Louis le Petit Dauphin (1706); Louis Alexander de Bourbon, Grand Admiral of France (docket on a passport signed for his father Louis XIV plus a letter originally forwarding one by the King, 1711 and 1713); Louis XV of France ("Rolle des Sommes que le Roy en son conseil veut et ordonne être payées par les Employes aux traites et au Tabac de la Direction d'Auch", signed by members of the Council and with the King's secretarial signature, 7 pages, 9 February 1773); Emperor Charles VI (to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine); Emperor Leopold II; Charles II of Spain (two letters, one autograph, 1686 and 1699); Philip V of Spain (1736); Emperor Joseph I (1708); Emperor Francis I (1730); Emperor Charles VII (1743); Charles III of Spain (printed signature, 1789), the Charles VI, Joseph I and Charles VIII with address leaf; many letters with the original despatch-slits, guards, discoloured, the Leopold II trimmed at right edge on verso, the Joseph damp-worn at top edge, 1706-1789

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