Histoire de la Laponie, 1678, with a map and 20 plates

Johannes Schefferus:
Histoire de la Laponie, sa description, l’origine, les moeurs, la maniere de vivre de ses habitans, leur religion, leur magie, & les choses rares du païs. Avec plusieurs additions & augmentations fort curieuses, qui jusques-icy n’ont pas esté imprimées.
Paris, chez la veuve O. de Varennes, 1678. 24,5 x 18,5 cms. [14] + 408 pp. + engraved title + 20 engraved plates + folding engraved map. Engraved illustrations in text on pages 108, 118, 178, 226, 242, 271 and 328.

Recent full leather gilt, red edges. Occasional short tears, scattered small spots and stains, a few insignificant corner losses (text unaffected), final leaves with worn and frayed outer margin. Old ownership inscription on an old preserved front flyleaf: ”ex libris Meynet canonicus st: agricoli avenion” (¨Canon Meynet at the Church of St. Agricola in Avignon”).