22 Nov 2011
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
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Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
Back to auction 18992
BARING-GOULD (SABINE)
Autograph manuscript headed "St Cuby of Duloe", being an investigation into the life and work of the sixth-century saint Cornish saint active in Wales; with a covering autograph letter signed, sending it to his fellow Cornish antiquary J.D. Enys, and another autograph letter signed, to Mr Collier, about the felling of the Brimpts Dartmoor oak wood, 9 pages, with extensions tipped onto another page, 8vo and small 4to, the letter to Collier 1893, the rest 1900
Sold for
£625
inc. premium
Footnotes
- St Cuby (otherwise known as Cybi, Kebi, or Mo Chop), was the patron saint of Caergybi, Holyhead, and founder of churches. Baring-Gould investigated him in his Lives of the Saints in 1872 and, again, in 1907-8, where he printed a 'new' life of him (Appendix, pp. 379-383).
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