ORN (ÖRN, OERN), ADAM:

Den swenska infoedingens, Major Adam Oerns, faangenskap i Sibirien och oevriga utlaendska lidanden under nu warande Kejsarens, Alexander den foersta, regering, aaren 1812-13-14 och 15. Skara, Lewerentzska Boktryckeriet, 1820.

. 16mo. Pp. (32). Wrappers, front cover loose. A narrative of a Swedish Major's imprisonment in Siberia after 20 years of service in Russia.

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Book number: 13085

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, europa, sibiria, russia, russie, russland

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,

PALMA DI CESNOLA, LOUIS:

Cypern, seine alten Städte, Gräber und Tempel. Bericht über zehnjährige Forschungen und Ausgrabungen auf der Insel. Jena, Hermann Costenoble, 1879.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xxii, (ii), 442, adv (2). With two maps, 108 full page plates (of archaeologic interest) and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Original decorated cloth, richly gilt. Front hinge cracked, partly loose. Bookplate. First German edition translated by Ludwig Stern. Blackmer 1237.

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Book number: 27066

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, near east, middle east, asia, asie, orient, asiatica, arabic, travels, explore, exploring, voyage, europe, cyprus, cypern, greece, turkey, turkish, greek

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

PERIN, ABBÉ:

Sammandrag af Rysslands historia, från dess början till närvarande tid; med en föregående politisk och geografisk underrättelse om detta rike; och slutligen ett kort begrepp om dess natural-historia. Two volumes. Örebro, Nils Magnus Lindh, 1810.

. Pp. (ii), 244; 306. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine with title labels, rubbed. A Swedish edition translated by J.P. Wåhlin. Bibl. Russica P373.

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Book number: 35142

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian

POLAND.

Resa genom Paalen (Polen), aaren 1793 och 1794. Sammandrag. Stockhlom, Johan Pfeiffer, 1797.

. Pp. (iv), 330. Uncut copy in contemporary wrappers, worn. Some staining. A Swedish abridgment of "Reise eines Liefländers von Riga nach Warschau ... "(Berlin 1795-). Translated and published by Samuel Ödmann.

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Book number: 15114

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europa, europe, poland, polen, riga, voyages, travels, explore, exploring, viajes, viaggio, reisen

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

PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER / KONASHEVICH, VLADIMIR (Ill.):

Skazka o rybake i rybke (The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish). Moscow & Leningrad, Detizdat, 1936.

. 4to. Pp. 16. With colour illustrations. Publisher's pictorial boards, rubbed. Old inscriptions on front end paper and old library marking on title. Second edition (first 1922) of this famous Russian children book illustrated by Konashevich. It was written by Pushkin in 1833, and published multiple times.

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Book number: 120990

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, russe, children, barnbok, juvenalia, illustrated,

QUEEN VICTORIA / HELPS, ARTHUR (EDITOR):

Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions. London 1868. AND: More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882. London 1884.

. Pp. (xx), 316 with one engraved plate but frontispiece missing. Second edition. Second volume (More Leaves): Pp. xiv, 404 with 13 engraved plates (of which 8 portraits). Unopened copy. Both volumes in original green cloth, gilt. Top of back hinge splitting.

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Book number: 99132

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, england, scotland, ireland, lady travellers, woman travellers, europe, europa, travel, travels, voyage, voyages, reisen, explore, exploration, royaume umi, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen

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,

REICHARD, C.T.:

Orbis Terrarum Antiquus, cum Thesauro Topographico, continente Indices Tabularum Geographicarum Topographicos, eosdemque criticos. I. (all publ). Norimbergae 1824.

. Folio. Pp. (2), iv + lvs 128. Contemporary boards, worn, starting getting loose in binding. Uncut copy.

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Book number: 208

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, europa, geography, géographie