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Nürnberg, Christoph Riegel, 1729. Folio. (10) + 626 + 53 + (9) pp. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved vignette on title-page. 12 engraved portraits. 115 engraved plates (the funeral plate joined together). Engraved vignettes. Contemporary full calf with six raised bands. Spine richly gilt. Red label. Signatures on front endpaper (Carl Oxenstierna and U. Celsing). Second latin edition. Fine copy.. .

Lund, C. F. Berling,lh 1832-40. Folio. (37 x 26,5 cm). (148), (152) bl. 200 håndkolorerte litografier. Eleg. priv. håndb. helmaroquinbd. med 5 opphøyde bind. Ryggdekor og permbordyrer i gull. Permbordyre i blindpreg. Topp gullsnitt. Innvendige bordyrer i gull. Marmorert forsats. I marmorerte forede kassetter (Hedberg). Samtlige hefteomslag medbundet.. . Illuminerade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna ble utgitt i 20 hefter i to ulike størrelser. En i 4to og en i folio. Kun 50 eksemplarer ble utgitt i foliostørrelse. Dette eksemplaret er sammensatt av 13 hefter i 4to som er oppklebet til foliostørrelse og 7 hefter i folio. / Full morocco with 5 raised bands. Gilt spine and borders. Top edge gilt. In marbled slip-cases. (G. Hedberg). Bound with original wrappers. 200 plates, coloured by hand. Illuminerade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna was published in 20 wrappers in two different sizes (4to and folio). Our copy is put together by 13 wrappers in 4to re-margined to folio size and 7 wrappers in folio. Only 50 copies was published in folio size.

Kjøbenhavn, Carl Lunds Bogtrykkeri, 1883. Folio. 5 + (1) pp. 212 hand-coloured plates. Contemporary half calf. Gilt spine. Spine a little rubbed. Occasional light spotting. Scandinavian agricultural plants from Flora Danica.. .

København 1633. Folio. (380 x 250 mm). (1 blankt) bl. + (18) + 354 + 226 + (1 blank) + 158 + (3) s. + (1 blankt) bl. Kobberstukket portrett av Christian IV. 3 kobberstukne tittelblad. Illustrert med 64 tresnitt med røskenramme i teksten. Samtidig helskinnbind over trepermer. Ryggdekor i gull. Rik gulldekor på for- og bakperm. 2 spenner. Hjørnebeslag. Sisselert snitt. Ryggen fagmessig restaurert ved øvre og nedre kapitél. Spenner forsterket med nytt skinn. Mangler 2 blanke blad, ellers komplett. Portrettet, fortalen og første tittelblad fagmessig restaurert i ytre marg. Svakt brunplettet og noen spredte skjolder, ellers et fint eksemplar.. . Bibl. Danica 1,9.

Stockholm, Carl Delén, 1803- (1809). 4to (282 x 220) mm. 36 hand-colured and engraved plates. 36 pages with text to plates + 7 pp. text. Finely bound in later half calf. Spine richly gilt. Yellow edges (Signed Nord-Kompaniet, 1930). A fine copy. Rare to find in such a fine state. From the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven.. . This rare and beautiful Swedish work on flowers and fruit was published by August Pfeiffer who draw 27 of the 36 plates. Other artists that contributed was J. W. Palmstruck and J. G. Ruckman.

Amsterdam, Jacob de Meurs, 1680, (or: Paris, Antoine Cellier, paper pasted on title). Folio. (4) + 227 + (9); 146 + (6) pp. Additional engraved pictorial title, Title-page printed in red and black, 1 large engraved map, 25 engraved plates (of which 21 double-paged, and 4 large folding). Numerous engravings in text. Contemporary full calf with six raised bands. Spine richly gilt. Top of spine with minor loss. Covers a little watertained. Upper margin with minor waterstains, touching a few plates towards the end. An attractive and well preserved copy. Provenance: Valdemar’s Castle, Tåsinge. Carl Juel (1706-1767), bookplate to front pastedown.. . Important work on Japan. First French edition.

Trondheim & København 1776-72. Folio. (377 x 245 mm). (8) + 96 + (4), (4) + 148 + (60) + VIII + pp. 12 engraved plates. Recent brown half calf. Title with some foxing and soiling. Some marginal damp-staing. Occasional minor foxing and soiling. Complete copy with biography and preface.. . Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718-1773). Norwegian bishop and naturalist. Flora Norvegica is the first Norwegian flora, with description of 1118 species. The second volume was published after his death by his nephew Niels Dorph Gunnerus, who also added biographical information about his uncle.

Nürnberg, Christophorus Riegel Literis Knorzianis, 1696. Folio (362 x 235 mm). Engraved frontispiece. 12 engraved portraits. 114 double-page or folding engraved plates. The large funeral scene is bound as 12 separate plates. Bound in two contemporary full mottled calf. Red label. Gilt spine, gilt Royal Crowns on spine. Rebacked preserving original spine. Occasional brown spotting. Volume I. Name on fly-leaf. A minor waterstain in lower margin. Volume II. Upper joints starting, but still holding firm.. . The writing of this official history of the Swedish wars with Poland and Denmark from 1655 to 1660 was entrusted by king Charles XI to Samuel Pufendorf, a German historian and expert on international law, who held the first chair of history at the new university of Lund (1668-1676) and was the official Historiographer of the Realm from 1676 until 1689. (Sten G. Lindberg: Swedish Books 1280-1967, No 38). Warmholtz: 4840.

Copenhagen, Peter Haubold, 1673-1680. 4to. Vol. I (1671, 1672): (16) + 316 pp. (Numerous mispaginations). 16 engraved plates. Vol. II (1673): (20) + 376 pp. 24 engraved plates. Vol. III & IV (1674, 1675, 1676): (16) + 174 ( i. e. 176) pp (With a few mispaginations). (Vol. IV): 216 pp. With 15 engraved plates. Vol. V (1677, 1678, 1679): (8) + 352 pp (With mispaginations, pp. 329-342 mispaginated as pp. 319-342). 8 engraved plates. Four title-pages printed in red and black (vol. III & IV are bound together and only title-page for vol. III was printed). 63 engraved plates, of which two are folding. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemporary vellum with green leather labels. Name on front endpaper (John Fish) and bookplate on title-page verso (John Earl of Bute). Occasional brown spotting.. . A complete copy of one of the first medical journals, and the first medical and scientific periodical to be printed in Scandinavia. With significant contributions by Steno and the Copenhagen biologists. The Copenhagen biologists under the influence of Thomas Bartholin produced five volumes of transactions known as the Acta Medica et Philosopica Hafniensia. The leading authors besides Thomas Bartholin and Niels Steensen (Steno) were Holger Jacobsen (Jacobaeus), Caspar Bartholin, Ole Borch (Borrichius), Ole Worm, Simon Paulli, Johan Rodhe, Caspar Kölichen and others.

St. Petersburgh, 1828. Oblong-folio. (334 x 465 mm). Engraved title-page. 25 + (1) pp. 6 lithographic plates by Arnoud after Chislard. Paralell text in Russian, Swedish, German and French. Contemporary half calf.. .

First edition. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1907. VI + 147 pp. With two original etchings by Edvard Munch. Illustrated with plates and woodcuts in text.Original wrappers. No. 141 of 400 copies.. .

Coloniae Marchiaæ (Köln), Liebpert, 1696. Folio. A complete, large and well preserved copy. Bound in 3 contemporary full vellum bindings.. .

Nell´Haia, Appresso Isaco Vaillant, 1725. Large folio. (4) + 171 + (5) pp. Engraved title-vignette. 24 engraved plates after drawings by C. Fontana, of which 1 large folding. Contemporary three calf. Spine richly gilt in nine compartments. Top and bottom spine worn. Rubbed. Occasional minor foxing. Stamp to front enpaper verso (Fredriksborg library). Provenance: Adam Gottlob Moltke, gilt supralibros on covers. Extensive work on the Colusseum and the Roman amphitheater.. .

Francofurti, Apud Claudium Marnimum & Hæredes Joannis Aubrii, 1604. 4to (207 x 167 mm). (16) + 449 + (20) pp. Woodcut printer’s device on title. 1 engraved plate. 1 folding table. Lacks one folding table (Residum Parallactica). Illustrated with numerous woodcut diagrams in text. Contemporary vellum. Spine worn with loss of vellum. Lower margin of front endpaper and title neatly repaired with loss of a few letters. Lower margin of the first three leaves neatly repaired and the following three leaves with small tears. Page 231-324 with small hatch in lower outer corner. Last two leaves in index strengthened in upper margin. A few marginal annotations.. . First edition of Kepler’s important and highly significant book on optics, generally considered as the founding of modern optics.

Amsterdam, apud Joannem Janssonium, 1616. Oblong 4to. (12) + 732 + (2) pp. Engraved title, engraved coat of arms, 26 engraved maps (20 full-page). 101 engraved full-page town views. Contemporary vellum. Red edges with gilt decorations. Small crack in upper joint (4 cm). Old annotation to front endpaper. Stamp on title-page (Gräflich v. Landsberg`sche Bibliothek) and pp. 369 and 401. Views of: Strassburg, Amsterdam, Basel, Bonn, Bergen, Kiel, Köln, Dresden, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Nürnberg, Frankfurt am Main, Prag, Riga, Salzburg, Wien.. .

Christiania, Verlag von Johan dahl, 1838-50. Folio. (10) + 516 + (1) s. 3 håndkolorerte foldede kart og 4 håndkolorerte plansjer. Fellestittelblad og tittelblad til hvert hefte. Bundet i ett samtidig sort sjirtingbind med skinnrygg. Ryggdekor i gull og blindpreg. Dekor i blindpreg på for og bakdekkel. Titteltrykk i gull på fordekkel. Ryggen falmet ellers et fint og komplett eksemplar. Et hovedverk i norsk geologi.. .

Stockholm 1925-29. Folio. (375 x 265 mm). 364 handcoloured plates. Illustr. Finely bound in blue morocco (Bernh. Andersson, 1950), spines richly gilt with five raised bands, slightly sunned. Limited edition, No. 11 of 60 copies. A fine set.. .

First editions. Lund, Ex Officina Lundbergiana, 1842-60. XVI, 6609 pp. In 7 volumes. Contemporary half calf, Vols. 1-12 in red half calf. Vols. 13-14 in black half calf. Rubbed. A little foxing. One volume a little waterstained. Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785-1874). Swedish naturalist, professor in Lund and among the pioneers as an entomologist in the Nordic region. Zetterstedts works Insecta Lapponica and Diptera Skandinaviae, are fundamental to the systematics of Diptera. His collections of Scandinavian, Lapland and world Diptera and Orthoptera are in the Zoological Museum of the University of Lund.. .

London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1808. 4to (330 x 265 mm). 2 dedication leaves. 30 pp. Paralell text in English and French. 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates (Plate No 25 partially hand-coloured). From the library of the Duke of Sussex, with his stamp on the dedication leaf. Finely rebound by Riviere & Son in speckled calf, preserving the original morocco labels on spine with the arms of the Duke of Sussex. Gilt spine. All edges gilt. Without title-leaf. In cloth slipcase.. .

Roma 1555. Folio (264 x 187 mm). Finely bound in 19th century full calf. Gilt spine. Gilt borders on covers. All edges gilt. Woodcut map. 472 woodcuts in text. Woodcut vignettes. Woodcut printer’s device. Rebacked. Bookplate to front pastedown. 2 pages neatly repaired in lower margins. A fine copy.. .

Copenhagen, L`Imprimerie de la maison Royale des Orphelins, 1755. Folio. (473 x 316 mm). (40) + 288 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved portrait. 159 engraved maps and plates. Bound in one contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Green leather label. Spine richly gilt. Sides with gilt fillet border. Inner dentelles gilt. Some minor rubbing to extremities. Bookplate to front pastedown (C. W. H. Sotheby).. .

London, Printed for Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757. Stor folio. (12) + XXXIV + 124 + (4) + VIII + 155 + (1) pp. 2 engraved frontispieces. 159 engraved plates and maps, of which several folding. 15 engraved vignettes. 11 engraved initials. Contemporary full calf with 7 raised bands. Green labels. Spine gilt. Large folio. Tear in plate no LXVI. Bookplate on front pastedown. . .

I.: Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1907. : VI + 147 pp. With two original etchings by Edvard Munch, “Kvinnehode” (Woll 288b) and “Fra Åsgårdstrand” (Woll 289bII). Illustrated with plates and woodcuts in text. Bound with orig. wrappers. No. 297 of 370 copies on “Holzfreiem Papier”. II.: Berlin, Euphorion Verlag, 1927. (2) + 175 pp. Published in 600 numbered copies, this copy is unnumbered. First editions of Shiefler I (with both wrappers) and II (with front wrapper). Finely bound by Ole Olsen in brown morocco. Top edges gilt. Preserved in slipcase.. .

Havniæ (København), Augusti Friderici Steinii, 1777-1783. I. (4) + LII + 349 + (1 blank) s. Kobberstukket vignett på tittelbladet. Kobberstukket vignett på s. I: 2 foldede slektstavler. 1 stort foldet kobberstukket kart over Skandinavia. II: XII + 400 s. Kobberstukket vignett på tittelbladet. 2 foldede slektstavler. 1 stort foldet kobberstukket kart over Syd-Norge. III: XLIV + 494 s. Kobberstukket vignett på tittelbladet. 4 foldede slektstavler. 1 stort foldet kobberstukket kart over Europa. MEDFØLGER: Noregs Konunga Sögur. Norske Kongers Historie. Historia Regum Norvegicorum ... auctius et emendatius edendam post Gerhardum Schöning et Skulium Theodori Thorlacium curarunt Birgerus Thorlacius et Ericus Christianus Werlauff. Tomus IV-VI: Havniæ (København), Sebastiani Popp, 1813-26. IV: (8) + XXXIX + (1) + 438 s. Kobberstukket vignett på tittelblad. 1 foldet slektstavle. V: (4) + XXX + 394 + (2) s. Kobberstukket vignett påtittelbladet. 1 tosidet slektstavle. 1 kobberstukket grunntegning av Reins kloster. VI: VI + 417 + (1 blank) s. Folio. (405 x 270 mm). 6 uniforme samtidige helskinnbind (I-III) og skinnbind (IV-VI) med 7 opphøyde bind, rik ryggdekor i gull og tittel- og tome-felter i gult og grønt. Alle tittelblad med stempel på verso “Afhændet fra Bibliotheket”. Parallelltekst på oldnordisk, dansk og latin. Sjeldent å finne i helt komplett stand. Meget fint eksemplar på skrivepapir. Bibl. Norv. 4897 a-c, 4897 d, 4897 e, 4897 f. Gerhard Schøning ble i 1776 medlem av den Arnamagnæanske kommisjon, som besørget utgivelsen av de islandske håndskriftene, og fikk samtidig pålegg om å forestå en utgave av Snorres Heimskringla. Av denne utgaven, med latinsk oversettelse fikk han gitt ut to bind 1877-78, og en stor del av 3. bind var ferdigtrykt da han døde (Norsk biografisk leksikon).. .

Kjøbenhavn, Trykt hos Niels Hansen Møller, 1745. Imprimatur: C. Thestrup. Folio. (2) + 104 s. 25 tresnitt, hvorav 1 foldet kart. Samtidig skinnbind med 4 opphøyde bind. Ryggtittel litt avskrapet. Litt kantslitasje. Ex libris på forsats. Litt brunplettet. Kartet med små fagmessig reparerte rifter, og forsterket på verso. Navn på tittelbladet; Jon Thomassön Heftye, Kristiania 20 Sept. 1878. Originalutgaven. Sjelden.. . Prospekter av Dvelen (Værlebukta) ved Moss, Eidet (Manseidet ved Stadt) og kart over Lindesnes med omgivelser. De øvrige er gjengivelser av æresporter som ble reist til kongens ankomst i byene Christiania, Fredrikstad, Halden, Drammen, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Arendal og Larvik. Reisen i 1733 gikk over Fr. hald - Chria.-Kongsberg - Dovre-Trondhjem - Bergen-Sørlandet. Schiötz 213***.