Olaus Magnus, Basel 1567

Olaus Magnus:

Historia Olai Magni Gothi archiepiscopi Upsalensis, de gentium septentrionalium variis conditionibus statibusúe, & de morum, rituum superstitionum, exercitiorum, regiminis, disciplinæ, victusq. mirabili diversitate.

Basel, ex offcina Henricpetrina, 1567. Folio. (31 x 20 cms.) [96] + 854 + [2] pp. With 485 woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut device on final page. No woodcut map present in this copy.

Full vellum, morocco letterpiece to spine, red edges. Provenance: Gustaf Bernström, later with Kurt Winberg (bookplate). Some slight spotting and discoloration, slight marginal corner loss to one leaf, paper flaw to lower margin of one leaf, text unaffected in both cases. Pp. 433-44 misbound after p. 648.

Collijn 2:363. Warmholtz 1414. Second Latin folio edition, a reprint of the 1555 edition with some additions. The map is assumed to have been offered separately for this edition, and is present in some copies but not here.

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