REVELATIONES BY BRIDGET OF SWEDEN, 1517.

BIRGITTA. Reuelationes celestes... (Ed. III.) Nürnberg, Fr. Peypus, impensis J. Koberger,1517.

Folio (302x205 mm., binding 304x210 mm). (1), II-CLXXXII, (52, last page blank) ll. Title within wide figurative woodcut border, 2 full page woodcut armorial plates, woodcut figurative initials.
Worn near contemporary brown half leather, faded spine, damaged at head and foot, faded spine title, index markers of wood. Leaf XVII-XVIII small damage lower outer corner, leaf CXXVIII large tear, leaf CLVIII and CLXV some damages in outer margin. Upper margin partly waterstained or foxed. Bookplate of Axel Jonsson jr. Old cuts from old antiquarian catalogues on inside of upper board.

Collijn I:257-260, Klemming 3.
3rd Latin edition of Birgitta's Revelationes.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 15th century to the late 18th century.
His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.

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