Klubbat för:

44000 SEK

Estimate

40 000-50 000 SEK

Description

WITH WOODCUT MAP OF SCANDINAVIA. OLAUS MAGNUS. Historia de gentium septentrionalium variis conditionibus statibusue, & de morum, rituum, superstitionum, exercitiorum, regiminis, disciplinae, uictusq, mirabili diversitate. Item de bellis, structuris, instrumentisq mirabilius. Item de mineris metallicis, & variis animalium generibus, in illis regionibus degentium. Opis, omnibus cuiuscunq conditionis hominibus magno usui futurum, rerum cognitione delectationeq refertum, expressis figuris pictis illustratum... Basileae (ex officina Henricpetrina) 1567.

Folio (305x196 mm.). (96), 1-854 (pp. 678-679 blank= lack text through printing error), (2) pp. Title and last leaf with woodcut printer´s device. Large folding woodcut map (384x515 mm, including margins, small tear in fold), about 485 woodcuts in text.
Interesting contemporary binding in full vellum attractively decorated in gilt, gauffered gilt edges, spine with manuscript title, partly erased, small part of label in lower part, new silk ties (partly worn and with some cracks in the parchment, gilt partly oxidized, front and part of rear cover stained in upper part). Contemporary note of the name of the author ("Olai Magni Hist.") on first free endpaper. Upper margin of preliminary leaves, including title and several index leaves dampstained in upper part, upper margin of title and the following 5 leaves repaired, title with loss of three or four letters, lower margins of several leaves slightly dampstained, minor foxing, some minor worming. Bookplate of the library of Skottorp (Skottorps boksamling), red noble seal on inside of upper cover.

Collijn II:363-366. Edition 9, first edition printed in Basel in Latin, reprint (literally) of the first Rome edition of 1555, but with some amendments. According to Collijn, the latin edition of Petri has supposedly been printed without the woodcut map, but the map has later been inserted in some copies.
The map with the monogram initials THW at the lower right corner = Thomas Weber, the woodcutter. Ginsburg 23.

Provenance: From the estate of Dr Peter Wallenberg (1926-2015).

Auktionsnummer:

6198

Date:

2016-12-20