A prince among potboilers: 366-year-old book found in a box of 20th century paperbacks

A 366-year-old book on the virtues of Charles I is to go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers after it was discovered in a box among 20th-century paperbacks.

Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae was published in 1650, the year after the execution of Charles I (1600-16…

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