Author: VEDUNG, SIV
Title: A Book Collector on the Texas Frontier
Description: Houston, TX: Texas Swedish Cultural Foundation, 1990. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4; xiv, 156 pages; Hard cover is black with silver lettering on spine; faint rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. DJ has some rubbing, scuffing, sunning, bumping, 1/2" closed tear at top of front; in a mylar cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 'Jaensson, Swen [Swante Palm] (1815–1899). Swen Jaensson, known as Swante Palm, noted book collector and promoter of Swedish immigration to Central Texas, was born in Sweden in 1815... In 1866 the Swedish government named Palm vice consul for Norway and Sweden, a position he held the rest of his life. As vice consul and as agent of the American Emigrant Company in the 1870s, he encouraged Swedish immigration to Central Texas and helped immigrants once they had arrived. In 1883 on one of Palm's two trips to Sweden, King Oscar II awarded him the Order of Wasa in appreciation of his service as vice consul.....Palm is best known for his library of about 12,000 volumes, collected over a lifetime from all over the United States and Europe. His collection included Scandinavian works, books about Texas, classics, literature, and scientific books. He knew English, French, Latin, German, and various Scandinavian languages and dialects, and copious marginalia indicate that he read much of what he collected. He donated most of his books to the University of Texas in 1897, a gift that increased the size of the university library by more than 60 percent'.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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