May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CHARLES V; EMPEROR. Letter Signed, "Your good brother / Charles," to his sister Mary of Hungary ("Madam my good sister"), in French, requesting that she comply with the enclosed note [not present] from their nephew Frederick, Duke of Palatine. 1/2 page, 4to; few small holes repaired with tissue verso (with minor loss to text), moderate scattered staining and foxing. Toledo, 21 March 1538
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"Our nephew Frederick, the Duke of Palatine, and the princess his consort have caused to be put into my hands the enclosed note, begging me and making earnest entreaties that I will write you very plainly in conformity with that note and as from the said note you will know everything . . . . I beg you very affectionately to give it the attention that pleases you and to see to it in such fashion that our said nephew and niece be reasonably content and satisfied. . . ."