Apr 19, 2004 - Sale 2003

Sale 2003 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART, Prince of Wales.) A Full Answer to the Depositions; and to all the other Pretences and Arguments whatsoever, Concerning the Birth of the Prince of Wales. The Intreague thereof detected, the whole design being set forth, with the way and manner of doing it. Folding engraved floor plan of St. James's Palace. [4], 21 pages. Folio, disbound; scattered minor stains, paragraph on page 8 censored with type ornaments, some text loss on last leaf resulting from cropping of outer margin and tear at top. London: Simon Burgis, 1689

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Anonymous tract purporting to expose a plot to provide a spurious heir for James II to further his ambition of re-establishing Catholicism in England. The floor plan is included to show how the infant might have been conveyed to the Queen's chamber after the natural mother had given birth elsewhere in the palace. Wing F2342.