£1,500 - £2,000
William Hals (1654-1737). 'The Complete History of Cornwall, General & Parochial'. First edition, modern half calf, generally a good copy, with the signature of Henry Penberthy on the Wendron page, bound in at the back are 2 unrelated political pamphlets dated 1740, 14 and 13 pages respectively published by T. Cooper, at the globe in Paternoster Row, London, with the bookplate of Charles Thomas, slipcase, published by Andrew Brice of Exeter, 1750. An important copy of a very rare work. William Hals was the perfect master of the Cornish language and was versed in British and Saxon. Part ii (all published) pages 5 to 158 present with pages 1-4 in typescript, 1 leaf page 55/6) torn at bottom outer corner with small loss of text, the body of work with a spike hole mostly throughout, the publishers began with the second part of this work, parochial history taken directly from the manuscript, it is believed that there were only ‘’about 21 (mostly deficient) copies altogether are known to exist’’.
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