May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ANDERSON, RASMUS. Norroena: Anglo-Saxon Classics, Embracing the History and Romance of Northern Europe. 15 volumes. Numerous photogravure plates with lettered tissue guards Thick 8vo, crushed red morocco pictorially stamped with turquoise morocco onlay; gilt inner dentelles, white watered silk endpapers and doublures in red, cobalt, and brown leather with gilt crest and monogram, uncut and mostly unopened, top edges gilt; scattered mild foxing mostly to later volumes. London: Norroena Society, 1905-07

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letter a of only 26 sets of the snorre edition. A handsome set of the great legends including Saxo Grammaticus, Teutonic Mythology, The Volsung Saga, The Heimskringla, Story of Burnt Njal, The Elder and Younger Edda, Romances and Epics, Popular Tales, Arthurian Tales, and Norse Discovery of America.