Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 2,210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SAGA LITERATURE.) Gothrici & Rolfi Westrogothiae Regum historia lingua antiqua Gothica conscripta. Icelandic text with Swedish translation and Latin notes by Olaus Verelius. 48 woodcuts of runic inscriptions. [8], 240 [i. e., 292]; 128, [44]; 48 pages. 3 parts in one volume. bound with: Herrauds och Bosa Saga med en Ny Uttolkning iämpte Gambla Götskan; hoc est, Herravdi et Bosae Historia. Icelandic text with Swedish translation and Latin notes by Olaus Verelius. [6], 122 pages. and: Itt Stycke af Konung Olaf Tryggjasons Saga, hwilken Oddur Munck på Gammal Götska beskrifwit hafwer. Icelandic text, edited with Latin notes by Olaus Verelius. Full-page woodcut portrait of King Olaf on title verso. 16 pages. Together, 3 volumes in one. 8vo, 153x94 mm, 18th-century 1/2 sheep, surface of spine mostly worn away, joints cracked, cords intact; contents toned and soiled with occasional light dampstaining, margins trimmed affecting only imprint date on title of second work and some pagination in third work, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title of first work, accession number on next leaf, repairs on N6 affecting a few words on verso, T² possibly from another copy, corner off ²H3 affecting a few letters, blank corner of ²M2 restored, front free endpaper lacking. Uppsala: Henricus Curio, 1664; 1666; 1665

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first editions of medieval accounts of the legendary exploits of King Gautrek of West Gothland and his son Hrolf; Herraud and Bosi; and King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway.