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Bagge, Johan Fredric Nya jurnalisten eller Utvalda samlingar i blandade ämnen hämtade i synnerhet utur de nyaste och bästa engelska jurnaler. Till nytta och nöje för medborgare af bägge könen
Örebro [Sweden] tryckt hos Nils Magnus Lindh 1808 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ 8vo
320 pages; Third volume only -- [Tredje Delen]. Contemporary brown quarter calf over marbled boards, flat spine decoratively stamped in gilt and blind. An attractive binding. Frontispiece and three folding engraved plates. The frontispiece depicts a much admired masterpiece by the German sculptor Johann August Nahl (1710 – 1781), the monumental brass figure made in honour of Maria Magdalena Langhans, a clergyman's wife who died giving birth, in the floor of the church Hindelbank in the Bern Canton - this brass was one of the most noted works of sculpture in the 18th century; its admirers included Goethe. The other plates depict the Greenwich Hospital, Windsor Castle, and Windsor Great Park. Scattered light toning and minimal foxing. The plates are lovely, and the binding is handsome. To repeat, this is just the third volume of these travel essays by the Swedish writer John Fredric Bagge, who died in 1805. The author is best known for a work on which he spent 18 years: 'Beskrifning om upstaden Örebro' -- published by the Kongl. Tryckeriet i Stockholm, 1785. (OCLC Number: 186811971 mistakenly lists this work as written by the printer / publisher, Nils Magnus Lindh). As one might hope, the National Library of Sweden gets it right -- treating this as a serial (volumes 1-3 issued, 1807-8, and listing Bagge as author/editor -- [see NummerbeteckningarLIBRIS-ID:13427681]. Text entirely in Swedish.
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Ek, Karin UR SVENSKA DIKTEN - ANTOLOGI UTGIVEN AV ( Three volumes bound as one )
Stockholm Albert Bonniers 1921 Hardcover Very Good+
Complete three volumes bound as one in mottled half calf over marbled paper boards with matching marbled endpapers. Original front wrapper bound in. 328; 314; 416 pp. Original owner's charming bookplate and name on first blank Leather a bit crazed at spine, but still attractive. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Froding, Gustaf SKRIFTER AV GUSTAF FRODING - Six Volume Set in Leather Bindings
Stockholm Albert Bonniers Forlag 1954 Leather Bound Very Good
Six volumes bound in attractive full pebbled dark orange leather, gilt lettering at spines with facsimile of author's signature on front covers. Interior gilt dentelles bordering pastedowns. All edges gilt and marbled endpapers. All volumes clean and tight. Three volumes have minor wear at spine heads; one volume has small dark spot at base of spine. Froding was a celebrated Swedish poet, a pioneer of modern Swedish verse. Unconcerned with his public image, Fröding was very open about his alcoholism and bohemian life style. He spent many years as a patient in a hospital for mental illness in Uppsala. All volumes clean and tight. Three volumes have minor wear at spine heads; one volume has small dark spot at base of spine. Contents include: Prosa; Nya Dikter, Stank och Flikar; Efterskord, Reconvalescentia; Breva; Ungdomsdikter, Gitarr och Dragharmonika; Nytt och Gammalt, Gralstank, Oversattningar, Raggler a Paschaser. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Frosterus, Henric Inledning til swenska krigs-lagfarenheten Förste delen [& Andra delen]
Stockholm Peter Hesselberg 1765 [& 1770] First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Small 4to 9" - 11" tall
(34), 314, (4); (26), 315-662, (28) pages; Contemporary calf-backed pattern printed paper-covered boards, five raised bands on the spine, title and volume numbers stamped in gilt on red and black labels mounted to the second and third panels. Both parts are bound together, with continuous pagination. Binding shows only minor rubbing and wear, with a very small area of leather lost near the top of the front hinge. A former Library of Congress copy, with the (faint) surplus duplicate stamp on the title page, and a small square stamp on the blank verso of the title page. A card pocket may have been removed from the rear paste down (it has left almost no trace). Three old signatures (one crossed out, on the title page). No other marks of any sort. A clean and handsome copy, in excellent condition. First edition ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Huxley, Aldous BLIND I GAZA
Stockholm Wahlstrom and Widstrand 1936 Hardcover Very Good 8vo
Oversattning av Harald Jernstrom. Clean and tight in orange cloth binding (original front wrapper bound in). Former owner's name on half tile and charming bookplate on first blank. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Spengler, Oswald MANNISKAN OCH TEKNIKEN BIDRAG TILL EN LIVSFILOSOFI
Stockholm Hugo Gebers Forlag 1931 Paperback Very Good
95 pages; Remyndigad Oversattning av Kerstin Maas . Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Lightly toned at edges, former owner's name on half-title ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Ödmann, Samuel Geographiskt hand-lexicon öfver Nya Testamentets heliga skrifter med philologiska anmårkningar
Upsala Stenhammar och Palmblad 1812 Second Edition Hardcover Very Good Small 8vo
238 pages; Contemporary binding: brown half calf over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt stamped decoration and a gilt-lettered label in citron, text block edges decoratively stained blue-green. Two folding engraved maps at the end. A lovely copy of this geographical dictionary of the Holy Land in Swedish. The author, Samuel Ödmann [1750-1829], was a Swedish theologian , naturalist , goegrapher, cultural historian and hymn writer. He was a student a Upsala University, where he was part of the circle of the great natural scientist Linnaeus. After taking a degree in 1772, he settled as pastor at Värmdövägen in 1773 where he developed into a talented naturalist, hunter and fisherman. Based on his studies and experiences in the field, he wrote a number of articles between 1780-1793 in the Royal Academy of Sciences Journal concerning the Smew , Caspian tern , black level , osprey , long-tailed duck , grundmärglan , seals and shrews. Ödmann earned the honor of becomming member number 229 in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His active life changed after a bout with chills and fever in the early 1790's. This led him in 1792 to move from Värmdövägen to Uppsala, where he came to spend most of his time writing, eating and sleeping in a single room where he could control the ventilation. Just before the end of the eighteenth century, he became professor of Theology at Uppsala, and was noted as an author and translator of hymns. But, perhaps seeking to expand his mental horizons beyond the confines of his single room, Samuel Ödmann also became a translator of works concerning travel and geography, producing Swedish translations of James Cook , Pierre Sonnerat, Carsten Niebuhr. and others. This handsome geographical lexicon of the Holy Land nicely combined the author's interests and expertise. This 1812 edition is the second; the first version was published in 1799 [Uppsala: Edman, 208 pp.] A lovely copy, with the two folding engraved maps at the rear in perfect condition. A lovely copy; the binding shows just minor rubbing with a bit of cracking along the lower portion of the hinge to the front cover -- it remains sound and handsome. The text block is tight, clean and unmarked. Now scarce, see OCLC: 38192063 [2 locations -- Yale, and Emory University].
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