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July 20, 2018 12:00 PMCalender
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Wentworth, Peter (c. 1530-1596) A Pithie Exhortation to her Maiestie for Establishing Her Successor to the Crowne.

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3117BLocation: BostonDate / Time: July 20, 2018 12:00PM

Description:

Wentworth, Peter (c. 1530-1596) A Pithie Exhortation to her Maiestie for Establishing Her Successor to the Crowne. [Edinburgh]: Imprinted [by Robert Waldegrave], 1598. First edition, octavo, bound in full red morocco by Riviere, gilt-tooled spine, a.e.g., 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.

"Two years before his death, Peter Wentworth wrote in the Tower [of London, where he was imprisoned and eventually died] his famous book, A Pithie Exhortation to Her Majesty. [...] [It was] written in answer to Dolman's treatise advocating the claims of the Infanta Isabella to the succession [see Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610]. [The work is] constitutionally excellent and biblically learned. Wentworth says himself of the other tract that the lord treasurer 'affirmed at the counsell table that he had three severall times perused' the book and found nothing but what he thought to be true, and stood assured would at last come to pass, as indeed it did by the accession of James I." (DNB)

[A]3 (lacking first blank [A]1),B-O8 (I6 blank & present),P7 (lacking final blank P8).
http://estc.bl.uk/S119716
Estimate $8,000-10,000


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Keywords

Robert Waldegrave, Exhortation, London