Itinerarium Cambriae seu Laboriosae Baldvini Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi per Walliam Legatonis Accurata Descriptio; Cum Annotationibus Davidis Poweli

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VG, 1804, 4 pls, 1 map. In contemporary calf, blind & gilt edge tooling, corners worn & bumped. Spine, relaid, retaining old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi-xxiv), [xxiii*-xxiv*], [3], (xxviii-xxxii), [3], 4-237, [1], [5] index, 4 pls, 1 map (folding, coloured in outline - short gutter crease tear], text block watermarked 1803 & 4, plates by James Basire after John Carter, gilt tooling to board edges & turn-ins, red marbled boards & endpapers, small bookseller label to fpd, an edition limited to 200 copies. Giraldus de Barry's Itinerary of Arch Bishop Baldwin through Wales in 1188. (Anderson 334. Graesse 88. Brunet 1610). (290*224 mm). World Cat show just 3 copies of this edition in the UK & 1 in the US & Canada. Title continues: Seu Laboriosae Baldvini Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi per Walliam Legationis Accurata Descriptio Auctore Silv. Giraldo Cambrense. Cum Annotationibus Davidis Poweli, Sacre Theologiae Professoris. Typis Gulielmi Bulmer etcSchii, in Vico Cleveland-Row. Prostant Venales Apud Guilielmum Miller, in Vico Albemarle. Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald de Barry] c.1146-1220x23, author and ecclesiastic whose The Itinerarium Cambriae, is a rich and diverse picture of that half-conquered region, where groups of different languages and traditions lived side by side. See ODNB.