Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MAGNUS, OLAUS, Archbishop of Upsala. A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes, & Vandals, and other Northern Nations. [12], 342 [i. e., 238] pages. Folio, 275x174 mm, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with morocco, free endpapers renewed; contents browned with scattered rust spots, blank upper outer corner off 2A3. Bridgewater Library bookplate; signature of Charles Singer dated 1951. 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. Wing M257.