Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
MAGNUS, OLAUS, Archbishop of Upsala. A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes, & Vandals and other Northern Nations. [12], 342 [i. e., 238] pages. Folio, 263x176 mm, contemporary sheep, rebacked in the 19th-century, spine and cover edges quite worn, endpapers renewed; contents toned with occasional heavy browning or foxing, title soiled, hole in H3 affecting several words. Early signatures of J. Lloyd and Tho. Dawes on title; bookplates of J. H. Shorthouse and John Jay Paul. London: J. Streater for Humphrey Mosely et al., 1658

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first edition in english of a work on the peoples, customs, folklore, and natural history of Scandinavia, originally published in 1555 in Latin.