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Learned 17th-century books & Elzevirs with Scandinavian interest

Learned 17th-century books & Elzevirs with Scandinavian interest

Palaephatus, ed. by Martin Brunnerus:

[…] Palæphati De incredibilibus. Uppsala, H. Curio, 1663. 8vo. (15,5 x 10 cms.) [13] + 271 pp. Attractive old full leather, lightly worn, covers slightly warped, 17th-century ownership inscription on title. Text in Greek & Latin, printed dedication to Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie.

Collijn col. 682.

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Johannes Schefferus:

Memorabilium sueticae gentis exemplorum liber singularis. Hamburg & Stockholm 1687. 8vo. (16 x 10 cms.) [8] + 214 pp. Contemporary vellum, rubbed, long near-contemporary inscription on front pastedown, classification (”Sv. hist. Schefferus”) written in blue crayon. Oval library stamps (Göteborgs museum). Small burn-hole in one leaf affecting a few letters, a few short marginal tears, the word ”Finis” written below the same printed word on final page of text.

Collijn col. 830. Second edition.

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Henricus Soterus:

Svecia, sive de svecorum regis dominiis et opibus. Commentarius politicus. Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633. 16mo. (10, 7 x 5,5 cms.) [4] + 306 pp. + engraved title (incorporating portrait of King Gustav II Adolf (d. 1632) without a crown).

Berghman 1804. Willems 394. Second Elzevir edition. Later full vellum, manuscript title to spine, large old monastic library stamp on first prelininary leaf, final leaf with a few markings in ink remargined at head with loss of a few letters.

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Johannes Stephanius:

De Regno Daniae et Norvegiae insulisqve adjacentibus Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629. 12mo. (10,5 x 5,5 cms.) [14] + 512 pp. + engraved title. Contemporary vellum, worn and discoloured, endpapers very worn. Bookplate of J. O. Wedberg. Provenance: Ownership inscription of Swedish collector C. H. Braad, Uppsala 1744.
Willems 320. Includes sections about Scania and the island of Gotland.

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