THE LAST BOURBONS OF NAPLES (1825-1861).
Pp. xxiv+560, frontispiece portrait, plus 15 plates, half-title page decoration, genealogical table, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; navy boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; top edges purple; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the flaps and back panel slightly browned, the back panel faintly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1961. First edition. *'The first impartial account in English of Ferdinand II, the grossly maligned "King Bomba" and of his long autocratic reign' [wrapper blurb]. Item #185755
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