Antique & Collectors Sales
Lot 432
[MEDIEVAL ENGLAND] TESTA DE NEVILL SIVE LIBER FEODORUM IN CURIA SCACCARII. TEMP. HEN. III. & EDW. I.
[MEDIEVAL ENGLAND] TESTA DE NEVILL SIVE LIBER FEODORUM IN CURIA SCACCARII. TEMP. HEN. III. & EDW. I. [London], Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III, 1807. Large folio, preliminary leaves in English, main text in Latin, engraved plate with facsimile writing, an unusually good clean and fresh copy bound in contemporary 1/4 calf, lightly rubbed, cloth boards with some light spotting/soiling. This is the Liber Feodorum or 'Book of Fees', first compiled in c1302 but from even earlier records, for use by the English Exchequer. A handsome copy of a scarce book
Estimate: £20 - 40