Rudbecks Atland eller Manheim, I-II, IV + atlas
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"ATLANTICAN". (4). 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, IV + Atlas
Uppsala (H. Curio) (1679)-1689, 1863. (see collation below).
Folio, atlas large folio.
Vol. I-II, IV later (late 19th century) full brown mottled calf, somewhat worn, gilt inner borders, slightly faded richly gilt spines in six compartments, marbled edges. (Bound by Hedberg). Bookplate "Pro Finlandia", in vol. IV also Elof Förberg. Atlas later (mid 19th century) brown mottled half calf, gilt spine in six comparrtments. No bookplates.
Olaus Rudbeck´s Atlantica is the most remarkable manifestation of the ideas behind Sweden´s political aspirations to be a great power in the 17th century. Rudbeck believed that Plato´s description of the splendid island of Atlantis with its mighty and virtuous people referred to the temple at Old Uppsala and the Swedish people who were the grandchildren of Japhet and had settled in Sweden immediately after the fall of the city 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.).
Collation:
Vol. I (1679). (Lacks engraved frontispiece), (8), 1-891, (1, lacks errata leaf "Ad bibliopegos" as usual) pp. 1 woodcut on last leaf. Title with traces of removed signatures, last leaf with minor repairs in inner margin. Minor foxing. Edition printed on thicker watermarked paper.
Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 704, Collijn 784.
Vol. II (1689). Engraved frontispiece (new outer margin, some foxing), (16), 1-38, ( testimonia), 1-672 (irregular pagination), 1-36 (Index), (8, emendanda to v. I-II) pp. Woodcuts. Some minor dampstaining, some foxing. A few marginal annotations.
Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 737, Collijn 785. With Testiomonia... Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 704:4.
Vol. IV (1863). (2), 1-210 (p. 105-106 omitted at printing), (1-20, Anteckningar om Rudbecks Atland by G. E. Klemming) pp. 1 folding map.
Facsimile edition in photolithography of Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana number 766 (known in six copies), edited by the royal librarian G. E. Klemming, and published in 100 copies. With the separately
published facsimile engraving "Upsla Iovis..." and Klemmings annotations on Atland.
Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 802.
Atlas (1679). (Lacks engraved title), (60, of 80 pp, lacks pp. 25-28, 62-69, 73-80), consisting of maps. and plates, engraved or in woodcut. Engraved map p. 2-3 mended in the margins and laid down, not affecting map, dampstained, engraved map pp. 6-7 mended in lower corners, engraved map p. 70-71 mended, partly laid down, some pictorial loss, otherwise marginal mendings, mended tears, some foxing, some dampstaining. All engravings, except title, most probably made by Ph. J. Thelott
Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 705, Collijn 785.
For vol I-II, IV, see Björck & Börjesson, Catalogue 250 (1930), item 310, later as a gift from Björck & Börjesson to the Pro Finlandia auction 1940, item 631.
From the library of Sven Höglind.
Auktionsnummer:
6130
Datum:
2016-12-20