A spread from William Lambarde’s Archaimonia… of 1568, sold for £6000 by Mallams.
Sold on thesaleroom.com for a record £6000 in Oxford as part of a Mallams (22.5% buyer’s premium) sale of September 25-26 was a 1568 first of his Archaimonia, sive de Priscis Anglorum Legibus…
This copy of his work on Anglo-Saxon laws was in a later binding, but a number of corrections found on its pages, it was suggested, may be in the author’s hand.
It came complete with a folding map of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that is attributed to Lawrence Nowell, with whom Lambarde had studied law.
A second part of the Eric Stanley library will be sold by Mallams on January 30.
