First edition of Johannes Magnus' Historia, 1554

Johannes Magnus:

Historia [...] De omnibus gothorum sveonumque regibus.

Roma, apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis Permensem in Aedibus S. Birgittae, 1554 (colophon). Folio. (29 x 21 cms.) 60 + 790 pp., first blank (but not the final one) preserved. Full-page woodcut printer's device on f. E5v and final page, full-page woodcut map of Scandinavia on page 14, woodcut papal arms on title and numerous wooduts in text.

Worn Contemporary vellum, front edge of upper cover repaired, endpapers renewed, initial and final leaves a little edgeworn and finger-soiled, approx. 60 pp. with worming in lower margin, some slight occasional foxing and spotting and faint dampstain toward end, slightly musty odor. Occasional near-contemporary or old annotations and underlinings in ink. With some 16 heraldic arms drawn in the margin in ink toward the end of the book, in some cases coloured. Woodcut map very fine with margins.

Lindberg, Swedish Books, 17. Collijn 2, pp. 210-16. Adams M 657. First edition.

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