Oratio In Funere Mariae Elisabethae Franciscae a Braganza Hispaniarum, Indiarumque Praeclarissimae Reginae Catholicae in Sua Aula Regia Matritensi e Vivis Summo Amnium Hispanorum Moerore Sublatae..

[Veracruz]: Typographia Veracruzensi, 1819. Very good.. 12pp. Small quarto. Removed from a sammelband, with small stab holes and light adhesive residue at gutter margin. Otherwise, scattered faint foxing. A rare and early Veracruz imprint, comprising a Latin funeral oration by Raymundo Otero for Maria Isabel of Braganza, the short-lived Queen of Spain. Maria Isabel suffered a brutal death at the age of twenty-one when, having had her fetus die in the womb, doctors performed a caesarian to remove it, thinking that she too had died while trying to give birth. She was in fact still alive, and the operation killed her. In life, she was avid art enthusiast, (truncated) so much so that despite her early death, her collection became the foundation of the museum that would become the Prado in Madrid. Printing in Veracruz was spotty in the first quarter of the 19th century -- Medina notes the present oration as only the twenty-fourth work produced there, even though printing began in the city in 1794. Not in OCLC; Medina notes a copy at the Bibliotheca Palafoxiana.
Medina, Veracruz 24. (Inventory #: 5271)