An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince MADOG ab Owen Gwynnedd, ABout the Year 1170
London: J. B. Brown, etc, 1791. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Item #23448 .
8vo. viii,82pp. followed by 3pp Appendix. Later bound to style with tan paper spine, printed paper label, drab gray paper over boards. Half title soiled else a fine copy.
The supposed voyage of Madoc, or Madog, was very popular in Elizabethan times as an assertion of prior discovery, and therefore legal possession, of America by England.
Price: $750.00
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