Louis Palander af Vega's copy

Engeström, Lars (Wawrzyniec) Stanislaus Bonaventura Benzelstierna von:

Wjazd Uroczysty i Przyecie Profesora Nordenskjölda w Sztokholmie.
[=Return Ceremony and Reception of Professor Nordenskjöld in Stockholm.]

Poznan, Drukiem J. I. Kraszewskiego (Dr. W. Lebinski), 1880. 8vo. 76 pp. Engraved vignette on title-page.

Contemporary full red morocco gilt, gilt lettering on upper cover with gilt monogram of Louis Palander af Vega.

Spine torn at head. Inscribed by the author on free front endpaper.

Only edition of Benzelstierna von Engeström's account of the triumphal
return and reception of the Vega and the member's of the Vega expedition
1878-80, in Stockholm beneath the Royal Palace, on April 24, 1880.

Louis Palander (1842-1920), lieutenant in the Swedish Navy, commander of the Vega during her voyage along the North-East Passage and round Eurasia, was ennobled with the name Palander af Vega.

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