Edition seized by the authorities, 1691

Johan Widekindi:

Then fordom stormächtigste/ högborne furstes och herres herr Gustaff Adolphs/ den andres och stores Sweriges/ Götes och Wändes etc. konungs historia, och lefwernes beskrifning. 1. (All published.)

Stockholm, Wankijfs tryckeri, 1691. Folio. (30 x 19 cms.) [4] + 460 pp. + engraved frontispiece.

Contemporary full calf, worn, slight damage to spine, some slight foxing and staining, mainly confined to margins, leaf 3H4 torn from top through 7 lines of text but without loss. Inscription neatly erased fom title, ownership inscription and number in ink by E. H. Pihl on front pastedown.

Collijn col. 1016. Warmholtz 3472. Almost the entire edition was seized by the authorities after protests hade been submitted by the Russian and Danish envoys.

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