NATHORST, ALFRED GABRIEL:

Kritiska anmärkningar om den grönländska vegetationens historia. (Critical remarks on the history of Greenland's vegetation). Stockholm 1890.

. Pp. 50. With one coloured map. Original wrappers. (Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. handlingar Band 16. Afd. III. No. 6).

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Book number: 100140

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, grönland, polar, arctic, travel, exploration, botanical, botany,

NATHORST, ALFRED GABRIEL:

Två somrar i Norra Ishafvet. Kung Karls land, Spetsbergens kringsegling spanande efter Andrée i nordöstra Grönland. Two volumes in one. Stockholm 1900.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xxxvi, 352; xiv, 414. With portrait frontispiece, 3 large folding maps in colour, numerous illustrations and some maps in the text. Publisher's blue cloth printed in gilt and silver. First edition. An account of Nathorst's scientific explorations to the Arctic Ocean in 1898 and 1899. The first expedition went to Bear Island, Svalbard and King Karl's Land. The second went to Greenland in search of Andrée's balloon expedition but without any success. However they made important geographical and geological investigations and they reached and mapped Kejsar Frans Josefs Fjord and King Oscars Fjord. Hulth 157 & 163.

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Book number: 100168

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, polar, greenland, arctic, polar, travel, travels, exploration, spitsbergen, voyage, europe, european, nordic,

NORCOPENSIS (NORDENHIELM), ANDREAS (Pres.) / WOLLIMHAUS (LEIJONSTEDT), ANDERS (Resp.):

De politica orbis asiatici conservatione dissertatio. Uppsala, Henricus Curio, (1676).

. Small 8vo. Pp. (viii), 125, (5). Dissertation date entered in ink (16 Febr.) on title. Last ten leaves with marginal stain, title page slightly dusty. Modern paper-covered boards, title label on front cover. The first Swedish thesis dealing with Asia titled "the political preservation of the Asian world". Deals with the Asian empires: the Ottoman, Tartary, Persia, Japan and China. The works cover topics such as religion, politics, war and peace, customs, the liberal arts, etc. Andreas Norcopensis (1633-94), professor in practical philosophy and later Swedish state secretary. Printed dedication to Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. At end a tribute to Wollimhaus by Johannes Schefferus. Very rare.

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Book number: 121491

Catalogue: Asia general

Keywords: Asia general, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, ottoman, levant, turkey, japan, china, persia, travel, exploration, sweden, swedish, dissertation

NORDENSKIÖLD, ADOLF ERIK:

Om bröderna Zenos resor och de äldsta kartor öfver Norden. Tal vid presidiets nedläggande i K. Vetenskaps-Akademin den 12 april 1882. Stockholm 1883.

. Pp. 53. With 6 tables, one double page map (Claudius Clavus) in colour and many maps in the text. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, hinges weak. Bookplate. A speech given at the Swedish Royal Academy of Science about the Zeno brothers' travels and the oldest maps of Northern Europe. Today the Zeno brothers are mainly famous for a map (Zeno map) and a set of letters written around the end of the 14th century describing their voyages of exploration throughout the North Atlantic. The letters and the map are controversial and regarded by many historians as a hoax.

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Book number: 43026

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, scandianvia, nordic, travel, explorartion, europe, european

NORDENSKJÖLD (NORDENSKJOLD), OTTO / HETTNER, ALFRED (Editor):

Einige Züge der physischen Geographie und der Entwicklungsgeschichte Süd-Grönlands. Leipzig 1914.

. Pp. 425 - 441; 505-524; 628- 641 (text complete). With one folding plate depicting 6 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Off-print from der Geographische Zetschrift. Band 20. Heft 8.

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Book number: 100139

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, grönland, arctic, arkisk, polar, travel, exploration, geography, geographical,

OLAN (OLçN), E.:

Ostindiska Compagniets saga. Historien om Sveriges maerkligaste handelsfoeretag. Goeteborg 1920.

. Pp. 192. With 120 illustrations. Sewn as issued in original printed wrappers, somewhat worn. First edition.

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Book number: 14167

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, far east, east india company, sweden, first edition, inde, Ferne Osten, Extreme-Orient, ferner osten

OUTHIER, REGINAUD:

Journal d'un voyage au Nord, en 1736. & 1737. Paris, Piget & Durand, 1744.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), 238, (2). With 16 engraved plates and maps and some woodcut vignettes. (The list of plates calls for 18 plates but 2 were never issued). Partly with some minor staining. Contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt and with title label, corners worn, hinges weak and partly cracked, spine ends nicely restored. Stamp (Museum d'Hist. Na.) on title. First edition of this wellknown account of the French scientific expedition headed by Maupertius to the north of Sweden in 1736-37. Reginaud Outhier (1694-1774), French priest, participated as the astronomer on the expedition. His account comprises a personal journal with descriptive details of the area and its inhabitants. The maps and plates are done after drawings by the author. Bring no. 142.

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Book number: 100075

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, nordic, norden, sweden, swedish, europe, european, travel, exploration, voyage,

PAIJKULL, C.W.:

Bidrag till kännedomen om Islands bergsbyggnad. Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1867.

. 4to. Pp. 50. With one coloured lithographed map. Half cloth, title lettered on spine, old ownership stamps. Deals with Iceland's bedrock geology. (Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 7:1).

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Book number: 121251

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, iceland, island, icelandic, europe, european, geology, scandinavia, bedrock,

PEARSON, HENRY & FEILDEN, H.W.:

"Beyond Petsora Eastward"; Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of the Barents Sea; with Appendices on the Botany and Geology. London, R.H. Porter, 1899.

. Pp. xiv, 335. With a chromolithographed frontispiece: "Eggs of Little Stint" by Henrik Grönvold, 8 maps (of which two bound in at rear) and 103 photographic plates on 88 leaves. Original green cloth, upper cover with gilt decoration, top edges gilt, first quiere loosening. First edition. A detailed account of the ornithology, and to some extent of botany and geology of this region, described here as "A Russian Province of the North"; a region situated north of Norway and the Russian part of Lapland. C.A. Wood p.514. Zimmer p. 484.

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Book number: 26073

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, lapland, norway, scandinavia, europe, travel, exploration, arctic, novaya zemlya

PORTER, ROBERT KER:

Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. Two volumes in one. London, R. Phillips, 1809.

. 4to. Pp. vi, 303; viii, 296. Contents to volume one (4 pages) missing. Half-title to volume two present. Last quire starting to loosen. With 28 hand-coloured aquatint costume plates, 12 sepia-tinted aquatint plates of views and one etching of Gustav Vasa. Some offsettting from plates as often. Contemporary half calf, spine rubbed and hinges cracked. Bookplate. First edition. Porter was an English diplomat and he became the historical painter to the czar of Russia in 1804. The beautiful plates are from drawings by the author made during his travels in Russia, Finland and Sweden, engraved by Stadler. A few pages at beginning and end with minor marginal stain o/w a great copy. Abbey Travel 13. Bring 381. Cat. Russica P1036. Colas 2407. Lipperheide 11346. Tooley 383.

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Book number: 14386

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europa, europe, russia, sweden, finland, travel, travels, exploration, exploring, european, russian, swedish, nordic, finnish, voyage, costumes,colour illustration

QVIGSTAD, JUST KNUD:

Beiträge zur Vergleichung des verwandten Wortvorrathes der lappischen und der finnischen Sprache. No place or date. (ca 1880-90 ).

. 4to. Pp. 113-240. Modern marbled boards, spine cloth, title label. An excerpt of a scientific linguistic collection.

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Book number: 31040

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, lapland, finland, europe, europa, linguistics, languages, finnish, linguistique, language, langue, sprachen, sprache, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, scandinavien, skandinavien, scandinavia

RAE, EDWARD:

The White Peninsula, A Journey in Russian Lapland and Karelia. London, John Murray, 1881.

. Pp. xviii, 347. With one folding coloured map in rear pocket and 15 woodcut illustrations and 12 lovely etchings by the author. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, front hinge weak. Ex. library copy. A clean and fresh copy. First edition of a charming and informative travelogue from the far north of Russia and Finland. The journey starts at North Cape (Norway) and continues around the Kola Peninsula and Karelia. Includes tables of birds and flowers found in the area and a vocabulary of Samoyede, Russian Lapp and Russian. Schiötz 838.

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Book number: 100090

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, russe, finland, finnish, karelia, lapland, lappland, europe, european, white sea, ishavet, travel, exploration,

RASK, RASMUS KRISTIAN:

Kortfattet vejledning til det oldnordiske eller gamle islandske sprog. Kobenhavn 1832.

. Pp. (iv), 76. Without endpapers. Contemporary or slightly later marbled boards, cloth spine. Old paper label on upper cover. Bookplate. A few spots on title page. First edition of this guide to the old Norwegian language or Icelandic language by the famous Danish linguist Rask. He issued a more comprehensive work on the Icelandic language already in 1811. Rask published this shorter version to be able to compare it with other lingustic works. Vater p. 185.

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Book number: 37007

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, iceland, icelandic, scandinavia, scandinavian, nordic, languages, langue, linguistic

RASK, RASMUS KRISTIAN:

[SAMI LANGUAGE] Raesonneret Lappisk sproglaere efter den sprogart, som bruges af fjaeldlapperene i Porsandger-fjorden i Finnmarken. (A methodical Lappish grammar based on the language used by the Lapps of the Porsanger Fjord in Finnmark). K¿benhavn, S.L. M¿ller, 1832.

. Pp. 16, 287, (1). Near contemporary half cloth, flat spine decorated and lettered in gilt, some light wear to spine, upper part of front hinge starting. Old ownership signature on front end paper and his private stamp on rear title page (Hermann Lotze 1852). Some staining. First edition based on Knud Leem's Lappish grammar (1748). Rasmus Rask, famous Danish linguist who was one of the founders of comparative linguistics. In this work, Rask established an orthography based on the principle of a single grapheme for each sound, that is, it should be a phonemic orthography. All the Northern Sami orthographies developed since 1832 trace their roots back to Rask's system. Porsanger is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It has been inhabited by Norwegians and Sami people since ancient times. In the 18th century people from Finland settled along the Porsanger river (Kven people). Vater p. 216.

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Book number: 121520

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, lappland, lapps, finnmarken, finnmark, sami, norway, language, linguistic, langue, språk, sprog, porsanger,

RINK, SIGNE:

Gr¿nlaendere. Kristiania (Oslo), Alb. Cammermeyer, 1886. AND: Gr¿nlaendere og Danske i Gr¿nland. Kristiania, Alb. Cammermeyer, 1887.

. Two works bound together in contemporary half calf, extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Pp. (viii), 155 + pp. (viii), 204. Text in Danish. First editions. Signe Rink (1836-1909) was born in Greenland where her father was the colonial administrator. At the age of 17 she married Hinrich Rink, a Danish geologist who became the colonial director of southern Greenland in Nuuk in 1858. She learned the language fluently and wrote novels and short stories about Inuit society and traditions, and translated Greenlandic folklore into Danish. Several of her books reflected on the colonial relationship between Inuits and Danes.

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Book number: 121359

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greenland, grönland, inuit, eskimo, europe, european, arctic, travel, exploration, greenlander, colonial, ladytraveller, lady traveller