CARADOC OF LLANCARFAN, Saint ]. The historie of Cambria, now called Wales...written in the Brytish language above two hundred yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd... Corrected, augmented, and continued out of records and best approoved Authors, by David Powel. London: Rafe Newberie and Henrie Dunham 1584. Small 4to, 192 x 142 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 5/8 in.), contemporary vellum, title neatly lettered in ink on flat spine, lacking ties, text block resewn on four leather thongs, small hole to upper cover, folding suede-lined fitted case, small rust holes, each catching a letter, to H3 and Dd2, lower fore-corner of Ee5 slightly torn . FIRST EDITION, mostly black letter, title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 160), numerous woodcut portraits and coats-of-arms in text, large woodcut printer's device at end (McKerrow 211), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, with the blank leaves B4 and Gg4. Alden & Landis 684.9; Sabin 40914; STC 4606. A FINE COPY. THE WELSH DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Caradoc (d. c. 1150) was "apparently one of the brilliant band of men of letters that gathered round Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I" (DNB). His chronicle, now lost in its original form, and probably actually written in Latin, not Welsh, was used as the source for several later Welsh chronicles, including the present compilation by Powel. The life of David ap Owen (pp. 228-229) includes an account of Madoc ap Owen's apocryphal voyage to Florida in 1170: "Sailing west, & leaving the coast of Ireland so far north, that he came to a land unknowen... This land must needs be some part of that countrie of which the Spaniardes affirme themselves to be the first finders sith Hanno's time... this land, to the which Madoc came, must needs be some part of Nova Hispania or Florida, where upon it is manifest, that that countrie was long before by Brytaines discovered, afore either Columbus or Americus Vesputius lead anie Spaniards thither...". Provenance : Ch. Maynard 1584, contemporary signature on title-leaf.
CARADOC OF LLANCARFAN, Saint ]. The historie of Cambria, now called Wales...written in the Brytish language above two hundred yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd... Corrected, augmented, and continued out of records and best approoved Authors, by David Powel. London: Rafe Newberie and Henrie Dunham 1584. Small 4to, 192 x 142 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 5/8 in.), contemporary vellum, title neatly lettered in ink on flat spine, lacking ties, text block resewn on four leather thongs, small hole to upper cover, folding suede-lined fitted case, small rust holes, each catching a letter, to H3 and Dd2, lower fore-corner of Ee5 slightly torn . FIRST EDITION, mostly black letter, title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 160), numerous woodcut portraits and coats-of-arms in text, large woodcut printer's device at end (McKerrow 211), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, with the blank leaves B4 and Gg4. Alden & Landis 684.9; Sabin 40914; STC 4606. A FINE COPY. THE WELSH DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Caradoc (d. c. 1150) was "apparently one of the brilliant band of men of letters that gathered round Earl Robert of Gloucester, the bastard son of Henry I" (DNB). His chronicle, now lost in its original form, and probably actually written in Latin, not Welsh, was used as the source for several later Welsh chronicles, including the present compilation by Powel. The life of David ap Owen (pp. 228-229) includes an account of Madoc ap Owen's apocryphal voyage to Florida in 1170: "Sailing west, & leaving the coast of Ireland so far north, that he came to a land unknowen... This land must needs be some part of that countrie of which the Spaniardes affirme themselves to be the first finders sith Hanno's time... this land, to the which Madoc came, must needs be some part of Nova Hispania or Florida, where upon it is manifest, that that countrie was long before by Brytaines discovered, afore either Columbus or Americus Vesputius lead anie Spaniards thither...". Provenance : Ch. Maynard 1584, contemporary signature on title-leaf.
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