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"ATLANTICAN". (3). 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 (of 4 + Atlas). Uppsala (H. Curio) (1679)-1689, Stockholm 1863 (d. IV).

Folio (see collation below).
Later (late 19th century) brown calf, worn, some worming of the boards, faded gilt spines in six compartments, some damages at head and foot, greenspeckled edges. (N. Bernh. Andersson bindery, Stockholm).
Bookplate of Gösta Nobel and one other. 3 volumes.
Not complete.

Collation:

Vol. I (1679?). Size about 315x198. (6, lacks printed title), 1-891, (1, lacks errata leaf "Ad bibliopegos" as usual) pp. Engraved frontispiece (marginal damages, laid down on new paper). Woodcut on last leaf (mended marginal damages). Pp. 159-60, 817-31, 853-61 o. 889-90 mended in the margins. Partly dampstained, mostly marginal, foxed and browned. Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 704A (1679), Collijn 784.

Vol. II (1689). Size about 315x200 mm. Engraved frontispiece (minor foxing, annotation in upper margin), (16), [1-38, testimonia], 1-672 (irregular pagination), (8, emendanda to v. I-II), 1-36 (Index), (8, emendanda to v. I-II, another copy with narrower margins) pp. Woodcuts. Old signature on title. Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 737, Collijn 785. Testimonia Rudbeck 704:4 ( new edition).

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. Some worming in upper margin of title and first two leaves.
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.

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.)

Bibliotheca Rudbeckiana 802.

Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revolution.

Auktionsnummer:

6106

Datum:

2017-06-20