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218 - (Alberti family) – NIZZA / NICE – Several documents in Itali…
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Estimate €200 - €250
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(Alberti family) – NIZZA / NICE – Several documents in Italian, including two on decorated parchment. Document bearing the printed letterhead of Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, Cyprus and Jerusalem, Duke of Savoy and Genoa, Prince of Piedmont, etc., etc. Folio-sized document dated 2 August 1833, bearing a heraldic seal on white paper, protected by folded paper. Handwritten folio-sized document bearing the signatures of Barbaroux (for C. Alberto), Traggia, and Ciartora, dated 2 August 1833. Letter of dismissal of the Nice-based lawyer Francesco Albert on health grounds, with a pension (shows signs of folding; document preserved folded into quarters). Enclosed are two manuscripts on parchment, in coloured inks, with interlacing patterns, ornamentation and drawings, each bearing a red wax seal preserved in a repoussé metal box, bound with cord. The first manuscript is a notebook of 6 ff. in-4 (24 x 17 cm), in green and gold ink, a certificate of nobility granted to Octavius Franciscus Alberti, in the name of Pope Innocent XII by Alexander Sfortia, Archbishop of Neocaesarea, dated 4 May 1698. Decorated with a Maltese cross in gold, silver and green ink occupying the second page and a beautiful letter adorned with three such crosses. The second manuscript, dated 1737, comprising 6 ff. in-4 (27 x 21 cm), of which 4 folios are used, is a deed of appointment by Francesco Arborio Gattinara (1858–1743), Archdiocese of Turin, Grand Chaplain to the King, concerning Marcellus Hyacinthus and Maria Alberti. Written in red and green ink, with a drawing of putti on the first page, and a coat of arms on the reverse of the last folio in red, blue, green and sepia. Yellowed, stained parchment (due to damp) with a 5 cm² loss on the third leaf (unwritten). Attached are handwritten documents in quarto format: *Regestro Primo della Patenti dell’avvocato Francesco de Albert i negli anni 1784, 1786, 1787 e 1788* (a quarto-format notebook comprising 10 documents, approx. 27 pp.).
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About the sale Nice and the French Riviera: Over 200 lots – Mr X’s Collection – Antique books, pamphlets, documents, manuscripts and collectable historical papers, photographs and tourist posters
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Auction time 07/01/2026 at 2:15 PM
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