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Scandinavian pilgrimages and crusades to the Holy Land View picture(s) 1 BRING, Ebbe Samuel & Carl Fredrick WAHLGREN. Om de frän Skandinavien till Heliga Landet företagna Valfarter och Korstäg, samt de betydligaste Följderna deraf för Skandinaviska kulturen. En Historisk Undersökning. Lund, 1827. Contemporary boards. (2), 197 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Holy Land  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The fish of Scandinavia View picture(s) 2 FRIES, Bengt Fredrik, Carl Ulric EKSTRÖM & Carl Jakob SUNDEVALL. Skandinaviens Fiskar. Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt & Söners forlag, (1892-1895). 2 text vols. and one atlas vol. Large 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt. Many lithographed illustrations of fish and details of fish in 2 text vols. and 55 chromolithographed plates in atlas vol. with beatifully depicted fish, mostly 3 to one page. Drawn and lithographed by W. von Wright assisted by Erdman, Thornam and others. Plates are intrerleaved with the original blue tissues. (8), 566, (10); (6), 671 (pp. 568-1279), (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fishing  Ichthyology  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The abridged version of Olaus Magnus' history of the Northern People, probably printed by Plantin View picture(s) 3 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus. A Cornelio Scribonio Graphaeo ... sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Joann. Bellerus (= Christopher Plantin?), 1562. Small 8vo. Later vellum with title in ink on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 138 fine woodcut illustrations in text. (8), 192 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of an early Plantin edition of a valuable work on Scandinavian customs and folklore View picture(s) 4 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus. Sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1558. 8vo. Early 17th-century gold-tooled calf. With woodcut printer's device and 135 fine woodcut illustrations by Arnaud Nicolai in text. [8], 192 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Plantin  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of this most important early work on Lapland, illustrated by Jan Luyken View picture(s) 5 SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ofte een beschrijving van desselfs oorspronk, landschappen, geberchten, gewassen, gedierten, metalen, steenen, wateren, en voornaamste geschiedenissen. Benevens der inwoonderen zeden, regeering, godtsdiensten, oorlogen, drachten, koophandel, gebouwen, van tenten, schepen, sleden, etc. Als ook van hare tover-trommelen, en wind-koopery. Met noch een kort bericht van den toestand der Finnen. Nieuwelijks uit het Frans van den heer Scheffer vertaalt. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1682. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken, unsigned folding map of Lapland and 16 full-page engraved plates by Jan Luyken (2 not signed). (6), 99; 146; 73, (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Finland  Natural History  Religion  Scandinavia  Superstition  Travel & Voyages  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important early account of Lappish culture View picture(s) 6 SCHEFFER, John. The history of Lapland wherein are shewed the original, manners, habits, marriages, conjurations, &c. of that people. Oxford, At the Theater, sold by George West and Amos Curtein, 1674. Folio. Contemporary calf. With engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (one repeated on the title-page). [4], 147, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arctic  Ethnography  Lapland  Scandinavia  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Trollhätta falls depicted View picture(s) 7 SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik. Description des cataractes et du canal de Trollhätta en Suède avec un précis historique. Stockholm, Charles Delén, 1804. 8vo. Contemporary blue wrappers. Title, aquatint title, 12 numbered aquatint plates, of which one map titled: 'Carte du fleuve Götaelf aux environs des cataractes de Trollhätta', all in sepia and signed by Skjöldebrand, interleaved with tissueguards. (1), 47, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aquatints  Hydraulics  Mountaineering  Scandinavia  Sweden  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps of the famous prose Edda from the library of the son of Colbert View picture(s) 8 STURLUSON, Snorri. Edda Islandorum an. chr. MCCXV Islandice conscripta per Snorronem Sturlae Islandiae. nomophylacem nunc rimum Islandice Danice et Latine ex antiquis codicibus m. ss Bibliothecae regis et aliorum in lucem prodit opera et studio Petri Johannis Resenii I.V.D. Copenhagen, Henricus Gödianus, 1665. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf spine gilt in compartments with flower ornaments and crowned monograms, double fillet borders with gilt coat-of-arms in the centre of both covers. (4), 52, 138, 22, 14 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fable Books  Iceland  Literature  Middle Ages  Mythology  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Eyewitness to the death of James Cook View picture(s) 9 ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Dernier voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du monde, ou  se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort, publié en  allemand par un témoin oculaire, & traduit  avec un abrégé de la vie de ce navigateur célebre, & des  notes. Bern, Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1782. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title-label. XVI, 200 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Finland  Natural History  Religion  Scandinavia  Superstition  Travel & Voyages  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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