Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
LAMBARD, WILLIAM. Arkhaionomia; sive, De priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone Anglico. Anglo-Saxon text and Latin translation on facing pages. Full-page woodcut map of England on D4v. [19], 140, [3] leaves. Early 19th-century wood-engraved portrait bound facing title. 4to, 179x136 mm, old limp vellum, soiled, lacking ties; front endpapers and portrait loose, title soiled, marginal dampstaining on opening leaves and on 2G4, scattered marginal spotting, map cropped in outer margin. London: John Day, 1568

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first edition of the first published collection of Anglo-Saxon laws. STC 15142; Beale T379.