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BROOKE, ARTHUR DE CAPELL. A winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its inhabitants, made during a residence at Hamerfest, near the North Cape. London (J. Murray, printed by Thomas Davison) 1827.

4:o. (270x205 mm). (3), iv-xvi, (1)-612 (last unpaginated leaf, announcement for Brookes other works, lacking as often) pp. With 1 folding lithograph map (Map of Sweden, Norway, and Lapland, size 1000x670 mm), 22 lithographed plates, of which 8 tinted lithographs, 8 lithographed vignettes, of which 6 mounted (complete, the plates with some minor foxing, some offsetting, some margins more foxed, the map with repaired tear, shorter tear to centrefold, minor tear to folds, some spotting and browning).
Contemporary half leather, partly worn, blindtooled and gilt spine with dark red gilt label, joints split, speckled edges. Some foxing and marginal staining. Engraved bookplate.

Bring 449, Schiötz 144b. 2nd edition, only the title in new printing.

Provenance: Sten Ringselle (1949-2017), Swedish antiquarian bookdealer who in 1992 opened his shop Antiquaria in Gothenburg.

Auktionsnummer:

6381

Datum:

2017-11-21