A spread from William Lambarde’s Archaimonia… of 1568, sold for £6000 by Mallams.
A rare work by William Lambarde, the antiquarian, writer on legal subjects and author of the first county history, A Perambulation of Kent of 1576, was another highlight from the library of the late Eric Stanley, professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford (see reports in previous ATGs).
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…