Author: MALLING (Ove):
Title: Recueil de Traits Memorables, tires de l'histoire de Danemark, de Norwege & de Holstein; Traduit du danois part seu Frederik-Moise Mourier. Orne de Six Estampes.
Description: Copenhague, chez Pierre Steinmann..., 1794. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 518 [519 - 520 errata], 6 engraved plates, uncut, original wrappers, contemporary paper label on spine; edges and top and base of spine slightly worn, spine worn over cords, but generally a good copy. Malling's book, a compendium for children of "les traits memorables de patriotisme & de vertu, qu'offre l'histoire de ces royames" (to quote the Preface) in Danish history, was first published in Danish in 1783. In the preface, the publisher notes that the translator died in 1786. OCLC locates copies in Yale, Boston Athaneum, Göttingen, Linkoping, National Library of Sweden.

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