Lot 7
Gardiner (Stephen, Bishop of Winchester) De Vera Obedientia, 1553.
Hammer Price: £3,200
Description
Gardiner (Stephen, Bishop of Winchester) De Vera Obedientia, An Oration Made in Latine... Touching True Obedience. Printed at Hamburgh... Januario 1536. And Now Translated in to Englishe [?by John Bale, Michael Wood or William Turner], black letter, with initial but lacking final blank, ink notes in early and later hands to title and endpapers, bookplate, 18th century calf-backed boards, spine a little worn, [ESTC 11586], Roane [but London], [by John Day], November 1553.
⁂ "Princes ought to be obeyed by the commandment of God; yea, and to be obeyed without question."
Gardiner's celebrated treatise in support of the annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Katharine of Aragon, asserting the King's supremacy as head of the Church of England.
Provenance: Lord Amherst (bookplate).
Description
Gardiner (Stephen, Bishop of Winchester) De Vera Obedientia, An Oration Made in Latine... Touching True Obedience. Printed at Hamburgh... Januario 1536. And Now Translated in to Englishe [?by John Bale, Michael Wood or William Turner], black letter, with initial but lacking final blank, ink notes in early and later hands to title and endpapers, bookplate, 18th century calf-backed boards, spine a little worn, [ESTC 11586], Roane [but London], [by John Day], November 1553.
⁂ "Princes ought to be obeyed by the commandment of God; yea, and to be obeyed without question."
Gardiner's celebrated treatise in support of the annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Katharine of Aragon, asserting the King's supremacy as head of the Church of England.
Provenance: Lord Amherst (bookplate).
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