Johannes Magnus Historia 1554 first edition
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JOHANNES MAGNUS. Historia... de omnibus Gothorvm Sveonumqve regibus... Romae (apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis) 1554.
Folio (292x199 mms). (62, last two blank), 1-787 (3) pp. Lacking last blank leaf. 2 titles (one with woodcut papal armour, the second full woodcut variant), 1 full page woodcut map of Scandinavia, 2 full page woodcut printer´s devices, illustrated with many woodcuts in text.
Near contemporary brown full calf, worn, cracks in the joints, slightly faded richly gilt spine in seven compartments, small damages at head and foot, redspeckled edges, later inner doublure, endpapers missing. The woodcut variant title with annotations in upper and lower margin, old stamps in red (faded), on verso stamped in blue "Bibl. Bernhard Vrat.", the other title with mended hole after cut out stamp, and some older annotations. 2 leaves with marginal tears. Some foxing and dampstaining. Annotation on the book by Per Hierta on inside of upper cover.
Collijn II:210-16.
Provenance: Per Hierta (1864-1924), famous Swedish bookcollector. He owned amongst others a large collection of about 300 incunabulas, which in 1911 were given to the Swedish Royal Library, and many interesting book bindings which today are housed in the Röhsska Museum of Arts and Crafts in Gothenburg.
The present book was sold at auction of part of his library in 1932, under number 537.
First edition which was edited by the author´s brother, Olaus Magnus.
This famous history was written in Venice in 1540, where the author was then living as a Catholic refugee - he had left Sweden in 1526. In it, the Gothic romantic conception of Sweden as the "vagina gentium", the idea of Jordanes, 6th century chronicler of the Goths, is developed in a history of Swedish kings both at home and abroad leading the migrating peoples. This conception was the leading ideology of Swedish patriotism in the 17th century, when the text was translated into Swedish (1620). (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, page 16.).
Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).
Auktionsnummer:
6045
Date:
2016-06-21