Author: PONTOPPIDAN Erich :
Title: The Natural History of Norway. containing a particular and accurate Account of the Temperature of the Air, the different soils, Waters...Customs, and manner of living of the Inhabitants...in Two Parts.
Description: .: London, Printed for A. Linde, 1755, in-folio, 36 x 23 cm, xxiii + (1) nn pp +folding map coloured in the outlines + 206 pp + 14 full page engravings h.t. ; vii + (1) nn pp + 291 pp + (12)(index) + 14 full page engravings h.t. (complete). Later half leather binding with dark marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt title and decorations on smooth back, apart from the usual sporadic small stains some slight browning at some pages and a small tear in the map a very nice copy. Pontoppidan was the bishop of Bergen in Norway. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen. Very handsome copy of this well illustrated standard work on Norway. .

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