Buch´s Travels through Norway and Lapland
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Beskrivning
BUCH, LEOPOLD VON. Travels through Norway and Lapland, during the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808. Translated from the original German by John Black. With notes and illustrations, chiefly mineralogical, and some account of the Author,... London (printed for Henry Colburn) 1813.
Large 4to (270x210 mm). (3), iv-xviii, 460, (6 =appendix) pp. 2 folding engraved maps (all, browning and foxing, text with spotting and offsetting).
Contemporary half leather binding, spine with title label, worn and rubbed, damages to spine, split joints.
Bring 361, Schiötz 158d (mentions an advertising leaf, which is not present, also probably lacking a half title as often).
The original German edition was published in Berlin in 1810. Buch´s popular travel account was translated to many languages.
Auktionsnummer:
6142
Datum:
2016-12-20