Swedenborg Daedalus hyperboreus V, 1717
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DAEDALUS HYPERBOREUS. SWEDBERG (SWEDENBORG), EM. Daedalus V. För januarii, februarii, martii månader åhr 1717. Utan ort o. år (april 1717).
8:o. (1), 100-138 pp. 1 folding engraved plate (all).
Later (20th century) marbled boards. Title and first 4 leaves mended in inner margin, partly some worming in inner margin, partly some dampstaining in upper outer corner, some foxing.
Hyde 62.
From the library of Carl Sahlin.
Carl Sahlin (1861-1943), industrialist, writer on the science of mining and metallurgy.
He started his collecting as early as 1897 as a student of mining. Later he became head of the Ironworks part of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB (1893-1900), and then manager at Laxå Bruk. President of the Swedish Iron and Steel Works´ Association 1904-1928, delegate of the Swedish Ironmasters´ Association. He wrote extensively about mining and foundry history (also numismatics) and founded Bergslagets library and museum. He was also one of the founders of the Technical museum in Stockholm, to which museum he also donated his vast collections on mining and related history, including part of his library in 1933.
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