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SCHEFFER (SCHEFFERUS), JOHANNES. Histoire de la Laponie, sa description, l´origine, les moeurs, la maniere de vivre de ses habitans, leur religion, leur magie, & les choses rares du païs. Paris (chez la veuve Olivier de Varennes) 1678.

Small 4:o (about 237x176 mm.). (14), 3-4 (variant of leaf signed A2), 1-408 pp. Engraved extra title (minor dampstaining in upper margin), 1 folding engraved map (Carte novuelle de la Laponie... par R. P. Aug. Lubin), 21 engraved plates (all, crease on plate 9 with some printloss, partly some minor foxing), engravings in text
Contemporary full leather, worn, mended corners, crack and mending in upper joint, mended lower joint, partly mended richly gilt spine in five compartments, redspeckled edges. Some worming in upper outer corner (pp. 161-408), in lower outer pp. 243-408, and some other minor worming.

Collijn 828-29, Marklund 2611. Early and important work on the laplanders, their history and culture. First edition published in Latin in 1673.
This was the first authoritative account of the Lapps since Olaus Magnus. The description is based on reports prepared by clergymen in the North of Sweden at the request of the chancellor Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-1680), a great patron of learning, to whom the first edition is dedicated. The author Schefferus (or Scheffer) was a professor at Uppsala University, where he had been invited in 1647 from Strassbourg. (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, p. 23.).

Auktionsnummer:

6131

Datum:

2019-06-14