Klubbat för:

44000 SEK

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30 000-40 000 SEK

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FIRST EDITION OF OLAUS MAGNUS HISTORY OF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE NORTHERN PEOPLE. OLAUS MAGNUS. Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus,... Ed. I. Romae (apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis Parmesanem) 1555.

Folio (280x198). (84), 815, (1 blank) pp. Lacking last blank leaf. 1 full page woodengraved map, 2 full page wood engraved printer's devices. About 460 woodcuts in the text, of which 10 larger.
Contemporary brown full calf, worn and renovated, gilt decorations on covers in the corners and on the middle, rebacked spine in six compartmets, new inner doublure and last endpaper. Title with small hole in upper part, partly some soiling, last leaf in index with rapture in outer margin. Pp. 73-74 and 155-156 with tear in outer margin. Pp. 177-178 with mended tears in lower margin. Pp. 237-238, 555-556, 657-658,701-702 and 767-768 with some paperloss in lower outer corner. Partly brownspotted in upper margin, harder pp. 77-100. Partly dampstained in upper margin pp. 779 to the end. Otherwise some marginal staining or spotting, minor foxing. Old signatures on title and first endpaper. Bookplate of Carl Sahlin.

First edition. Collijn II: 221-227.
During the 16th century about 14 different editions in Latin, French, Italian, Dutch, and German were published. This book is still one of the most important sources of Northern customs and daily life of the time.
Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) was the last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden, which he left in 1524.
From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.
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Auktionsnummer:

6041

Date:

2015-12-15