(EXPLORATION) Williams John An Enquiry into the Discovery

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(EXPLORATION.) Williams, John. An Enquiry into . . . the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170 bound with Farther Observations on the Discovery of America. viii, 82, [5]; [2], ix, 51, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; lacking front free endpaper, some pencil notes in margins; with half-titles; early Welsh library bookplate on front pastedown. London, 1791-92

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Discusses a tradition that Welshmen had settled west of the Mississippi centuries before Columbus crossed the ocean. The possibility of a Jewish origin is also discussed briefly on pages 53-54. "The propositions of the learned author . . . are so well sustained by veritable evidence, and yet so positively known to be untrue"--Field 1664-5. Howes W462-3 ("aa"); Sabin 104276-7.