Lapland Johann Gerhard SCHELLERN. Reise-Beschreibung von Lapland und Gothien. Jena: Heinrich Christoph Cröker, 1727. Small 8° (165 x 102mm). Title in red and black with wood-cut vignette, wood-cut illustrations. 18th-century half sheep. [ With :] James David FORBES (1809-1868). Norway and its glaciers visited in 1851. Ediunburgh: Adam & James Black 1853. 8° (255 x 170mm). 2 maps (1 lithographed and printed in two colours, 1 folding, engraved and hand-coloured in outline), 10 lithographic plates, printed in colours with occasional touches of hand-colouring, 1 wood-engraved plate, illustrations, largely unopened. Original brown cloth, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt (light darkening to spine). Provenance : Frances Mary Richardson Currer (armorial bookplate). A fine copy of the first edition from the library of Great Britain's grteatest 19th-century female book collector. Abbey Travel I,257 Carolus LINNAEUS (1707-1778). Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of... Linnaeus; by James Edward Smith. london: White & Cochrane, 1811. 2 volumes, 8° (225 x 138mm). Numerous wood-cut illustrations. Modern half vellum, uncut. First edition in English. Sophus TROMHOLT. Under the rays of Aurora Borealis: in the land of the Lapps and Kvaens... Original edition,... edited by Carl Siewers. Boston: 1885. 2 volumes, 8° (220 x 140mm). 2 coloured lithographic frontispieces, 1 folding lithographic map, printed in three colours, numerous illustrations. Original pictorial cloth (lightly scuffed, corners and head and foot of spines bumped). Provenance : Francis H.Lea (inscription, dated 1885); together with 11 other works in 12 volumes (Joannes SCHEFFERUS. Lapland Das ist: Neue und wahrhassrige Beschreibung von Lapland und dessen Einwohnern, Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1675. 4°; Jons SVANBERG [editor] Exposition des opérations faites en Lapponie pour la détermination d'un arc du méridien, en 1801, 1802 et 1803, Stockholm, 1805, 8°; Edward RAE. The White Sea Peninsula , London, 1881, 8°; Paul DU CHAILLU. Un hiver en Laponie , Paris, 1884, 4°; Paul DU CHAILLU. The Land of the Midnight Sun , New York, 1882, 2 vols., 8°; Paul DU CHAILLU. Im Lande der Mitternachts-Sonne, Leipzig, 1886, 8°; Alexander BAUMGARTNER. Durch Skandinavien nach St.Petersburg, Freiburg, 1901, 8°; Maturin M.BALLOU. Due North or glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia, Boston & New York, 1891, 8°; Georg HARTWIG. Der hohe Norden , Wiesbaden, 1858, 8°; Samuel LAING Reisen in Schweden und Norwegen, Dresden & Leipzig, vol.II only, 8°; Frederick George JACKSON The Great Frozen Land , London, 1895, 8°). (18)
Lapland Johann Gerhard SCHELLERN. Reise-Beschreibung von Lapland und Gothien. Jena: Heinrich Christoph Cröker, 1727. Small 8° (165 x 102mm). Title in red and black with wood-cut vignette, wood-cut illustrations. 18th-century half sheep. [ With :] James David FORBES (1809-1868). Norway and its glaciers visited in 1851. Ediunburgh: Adam & James Black 1853. 8° (255 x 170mm). 2 maps (1 lithographed and printed in two colours, 1 folding, engraved and hand-coloured in outline), 10 lithographic plates, printed in colours with occasional touches of hand-colouring, 1 wood-engraved plate, illustrations, largely unopened. Original brown cloth, blocked in blind, lettered in gilt (light darkening to spine). Provenance : Frances Mary Richardson Currer (armorial bookplate). A fine copy of the first edition from the library of Great Britain's grteatest 19th-century female book collector. Abbey Travel I,257 Carolus LINNAEUS (1707-1778). Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of... Linnaeus; by James Edward Smith. london: White & Cochrane, 1811. 2 volumes, 8° (225 x 138mm). Numerous wood-cut illustrations. Modern half vellum, uncut. First edition in English. Sophus TROMHOLT. Under the rays of Aurora Borealis: in the land of the Lapps and Kvaens... Original edition,... edited by Carl Siewers. Boston: 1885. 2 volumes, 8° (220 x 140mm). 2 coloured lithographic frontispieces, 1 folding lithographic map, printed in three colours, numerous illustrations. Original pictorial cloth (lightly scuffed, corners and head and foot of spines bumped). Provenance : Francis H.Lea (inscription, dated 1885); together with 11 other works in 12 volumes (Joannes SCHEFFERUS. Lapland Das ist: Neue und wahrhassrige Beschreibung von Lapland und dessen Einwohnern, Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1675. 4°; Jons SVANBERG [editor] Exposition des opérations faites en Lapponie pour la détermination d'un arc du méridien, en 1801, 1802 et 1803, Stockholm, 1805, 8°; Edward RAE. The White Sea Peninsula , London, 1881, 8°; Paul DU CHAILLU. Un hiver en Laponie , Paris, 1884, 4°; Paul DU CHAILLU. The Land of the Midnight Sun , New York, 1882, 2 vols., 8°; Paul DU CHAILLU. Im Lande der Mitternachts-Sonne, Leipzig, 1886, 8°; Alexander BAUMGARTNER. Durch Skandinavien nach St.Petersburg, Freiburg, 1901, 8°; Maturin M.BALLOU. Due North or glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia, Boston & New York, 1891, 8°; Georg HARTWIG. Der hohe Norden , Wiesbaden, 1858, 8°; Samuel LAING Reisen in Schweden und Norwegen, Dresden & Leipzig, vol.II only, 8°; Frederick George JACKSON The Great Frozen Land , London, 1895, 8°). (18)
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