Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 688
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[ROWLANDS or VERSTEGAN, RICHARD.] A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In antiquities. Concerning the most noble, and renowmed English nation. 11 engraved illustrations, including full-page depiction of the author's coat of arms. [24], 338, [13] pages. 4to, 178x131 mm, early 19th-century russia, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents browned, blank upper margin of title restored. Antwerp: Robert Bruney for John Norton and John Bill in London, 1605

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first edition, "a seminal work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship" (ODNB). Pages 85-86 contain the first account in English of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hameln. STC 21361.