Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
CARADOC of Llancarfan, attributed to. The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine. English translation by Humphrey Llwyd; edited by David Powel. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; numerous woodcut portraits, escutcheons, and initials. [16], 22, [2], 401, [13] (of [15]) pages, including blank B4; lacks final blank. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 183x133 mm, modern calf; intermittent soiling, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, minor worming in blank lower margins in first half of volume, stamps of University College, London on title and last page (duplicate, released). Armorial bookplate of William Charles De Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam. (London: Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1584)

Additional Details

first edition of an early history of Wales and its rulers. Pages 228-29 describe the supposed discovery of the New World by Prince Madoc in 1170. Alden 584/9; Sarton II, 257; STC/Luborsky & Ingram 4606; ESTC S121940.