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"ATLANTICAN". (2). RUDBECK, OLAUS. Atland eller Manheim dedan Japhetz afkomne, de förnämste keyserlige och kungelige slechter ut till hela werlden, henne att styra utgångne äro,... I-II (of 4). Uppsala (H. Curio) (1679)-1689.

Folio (see collation below).
Contemporary vellum, worn, both with cracks in upper joint, vol. I partly loose in upper hinge, spine some damages at head and foot, vol. II somewhat worn. 2 volumes.

Olaus Rudbeck´s Atlantica is the most remarkable manifestation of the ideas behind Sweden´s political aspirarations to be a great power in the 17th century. Rudbeck believed that Plato´s decription of the splendid island of Atlantis with its mighty and virtuos people referred to the temple at Old Uppsala and the Swedish people who where the grandchildren of Japhet and had settled in Sweden immediately after the fall of the town of Babel.
The Atlantica is one of the last attempts to reconcile the authority of the Ancients with the empirical observations of the Moderns. The text is an ingenious absurdity with fantastic etymologies mixed with new ideas. It aroused immense attention in the world of learning, and Rudbeck´s Gothic primitivism influenced many later writers, like Pierre Bayle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Edward Gibbon. Leibniz appreciated Rudbeck´s account of the early historry of Sweden and admitted that even false or debatable opinions may sometimes stimulate people to brilliant achievements. (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, p. 27-28.)
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Collation:

Vol. I (1699). Size about 305x200. (8), 1-891, (1, lacks errata leaf "Ad bibliopegos" as usual, and engraved frontispiece) pp. Woodcut on last leaf. P. 576-77 with inkspot in upper inner margin, some foxing or spotting, mostly in the margins. Signature om first endpaper, on inside of upper cover Johan Unonius.
Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 704A (1679), Collijn 784.

Vol. II (1689). Size about 305x200 mm. Engraved frontispiece (minor foxing, annotation in upper margin), (16), [1-43, 1 blank, testimonia], 1-672 (irregular pagination), 1-36 (Index), (8, emendanda to v. I-II) pp. Woodcuts. Some foxing, some marginal staining. Signature on first endpaper John Knott.
Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 737, Collijn 785. Testimonia Rudbeck 704:4 ( new edition) .

Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).

Auktionsnummer:

6138

Datum:

2016-06-21