Parentacion solemne, que al nombre augusto, y real memoria de la catholica reyna de las Españas, y emperatriz de las Indias, la serenissima señora doña Maria Amalia de Saxonia, mandò hacer en esta santa iglesia Cathedral de Los Reyes, Lima, corte del Perù, el dia 27. de junio de 1761

[6], 434, [22], 43, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : 20 cm (4to) Date of publication supplied from approbations and licences for the funeral oration, pages [3-21], 3rd count, dated August 7-17, 1761 Pages 185-434 contain eulogies and commemorative verse by members of Lima's religious orders (Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, Mercedarians), schools (the Jesuits of the Colegio Máximo de San Pablo, the Colegio Real y Mayor de San Felipe, the Colegio Real de San Martín, the Colegio Seminario de Santo Toribo) and individual contributors; for a complete list, see Medina "Oracion funebre, que en las reales exequias que se hicieron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Lima a la serenissima señora doña Maria Amalia de Saxonia, reyna de España, y de las Yndias, el dia 27. de junio de 1761, dixo el Doct. D. Augustin dé Gorrichateguí, rector del Colegio Real, y Seminario de Santo Thoribio, examinador synodal de este arzobispado", [22], 43 pages, 3d and 4th counts, has divisional title page Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) [A]⁴ ([A]1 verso blank) B-3H⁴ 3I² chi1 (chi1 verso blank) [par.]1-[par.]5², ²A-L² (̉L2 verso blank) Errata: page [5], 1st count Title printed within ornamental woodcut border; text printed within double rules; head and tail pieces; initials The illustration is an engraving on a folded leaf representing the ceremonial catafalque erected in the Cathedral of Lima; plate mark approximately 50 x 35 cm. Medina reports that it is signed "Bexarano me fecit. Camacho deline. et esculp., 1760, Lima" but is unsigned in Yale, New York Public Library and Biblioteca Nacional de España, and John Carter Brown Library copies. The architect Antonio Bejarano Loayza also designed monuments for memorial ceremonies for Queen María Bárbara, consort of Fernando VI, King of Spain (1759) and King Fernando VI (1760), and the engraver Camacho engraved the plates in the commemorative volumes; see "Túmulos of colonial Peru," by Lorene Pouncey, in Art bulletin, v. 67 (1985), pages 28-29 Purchase; 20-026