Correspondance secrette du Chevalier Robert Cecil, avec Jacques VI, Roi d?Ecosse. Publiée aujourd?hui pour la premiére fois, á Edimbourg, imprimée par A. Millar, sur le Strand, à Londres 1766. Traduite de l?anglois littéralement & mot pour mot.

(DALRYMPLE, David. Ed.)

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No place, 1767. 12:o. xii,+ 452 pp. Slight foxing, a minor hole in inner margin to the end from page 445. Sewn as issued and uncut in contemporary yellow marbled paper wrapper, spine with handwritten label. From the library of L. F. Rääf, with its exlibris. Fine. First french edition, translated by N.-P. Besset de la Chapelle. The english original, ?The Secret Correspondence of Sir Robert Cecil with James VI, King of Scotland?, was published in 1766. Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, (1540-1614) conducted correspondence with James VI (later James I of England) on behalf of Sir Robert Cecil (1563?-1612), who secured the accession of James VI to the English throne 1603. The correspondence was published and edited by Sir David Dalrymple from the orig. MS. Forteen of the sixteen letters are signed by Howard and the other two by James VI.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Correspondance secrette du Chevalier Robert Cecil, avec Jacques VI, Roi d?Ecosse. Publiée aujourd?hui pour la premiére fois, á Edimbourg, imprimée par A. Millar, sur le Strand, à Londres 1766. Traduite de l?anglois littéralement & mot pour mot.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Softcover / Paperback