STOCKFLETH, NILD VIBE:

Dagbok over mine missionsreiser i Finmarken. Christiania, Chr. Tonsbergs Forlag, 1860.

. Pp. (viii), xxxv,107, (2), 108-211, Anhang 212-311, (3). With one lithographed front portrait. Contemporary half cloth, rubbed and hinges cracked. First edition. Stockfleth, priest and missionary in Karasjokk, made four journeys to the northern parts of Norway and Finland between 1825 and 1852. This work comprises his travel diaries and the appendix contains information about the inhabitants, their conditions, customs, language etc. Not in Schiötz.

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Book number: 20046

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, lapland, sweden, finland, finnish, norway, norwegian, lapps, nordic, travel, exploration

STRUTT, JOSEPH & BOULARD, ANTOINE MARIE HENRI (translator):

Angleterre ancienne, ou tableau des mÏurs, usages, armes, habillemens, &c. des anciens habitans de l'Angleterre; c'est-à-dire, des anciens Bretons, des Anglo-Saxons, des Danois & des Normands. Two volumes. Paris, chez Maradan, 1789.

. Text volume in 4to and plate volume in folio. Pp. viii, 324; 23 + 68 engraved plates. Contemporary half green morocco on marbled covered boards, flat spines decorated in gilt and with title labels, lightly rubbed. Bookplate (Ericsberg). Small marginal loss to labels. Uncut copy. A beautiful copy of the first French edition of Strutt's work on the costumes, armour and social life of medieval inhabitants of the British Isles, first published 1774-76. Joseph Strutt (1749-76) was an author, artist, antiquary, and engraver. Brunet v, p. 585 (incorrectly calling for 77 plates).

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Book number: 99703

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, britain, great britain, british, england, medieval, costumes, illustrations,

SVEDENSTJERNA, ERIC THOMAS:

Resa, igenom en del af England and Skottland, åren 1802 och 1803. Stockholm, Carl Delén, 1804.

. Pp. (ii), 329, (1). Contemporary half calf, rubbed and spine faded, ruled in gilt and with title label, top of spine slightly chipped. Bookplate (Romare). Svedenstjerna (1765-1825) was a scientist of mining and member ot the Swedish Academy of Sciences. He made this journey to England and Scotland to study the conditions of the iron industry there. First edition.

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Book number: 32139

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, england, scotland

SWEDISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1901-03] / KOEHLER, R.:

[Astéries et ophiures. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedtion ... under the Direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld. / Astéries et ophiures recueillies par l'expédition antarctique suédoise (1901-03). Edited by T. Odhner. Vol. I, no. 1. Stockholm 1923.

. 4to. Pp. 145. With 15 fullpage plates after photographs by Koehler.

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Book number: 100143

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Keywords: Europe, sydpolen, south pole, antarktis, antarctic, polar, travel, exploration, swedish, zoology, zoological

TAGORE, RABINDRANATH:

[A collection of Hungarian translations of Tagore's poetical works]. Budapest, Vilâgirodalom (Otthon) 1921 & Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Globus) 1922.

. The collection comprises following works:1. A postahivatal. A letétemény. Szerencsét hozo pillanat. élö vagy halott? (The Post Office. The Trust Property. The Auspicious Vision. Living or Dead?). Translated by Zoltân Bartos and Mârton Sârmay. Budapest, Vilâgirodalom (Otthon) 1921. Pp. 190, (2). Uncut in original decorated wrappers, slightly worn. 2. Éhes Kövek (The Hungry Stone). Translated by Zoltân Bartos. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Globus), 1922. Pp. 243. Original decorated wrappers, spine slightly worn. 3. Szüret (Fruit-Gathering). Translated by Zoltân Bartos.Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet, 1922. Pp. 133. Original decorated wrappers.4. Mashi (Mashi). Translated by Mârton Sârmay. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Globus), 1922. Pp. 17, (3). Original decorated wrappers, slightly worn.5. Eltévedt madarak. (Stray Birds). Translated by Zoltân Bartos. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Global), 1922. Pp. 94, (2). Original decorated wrappers. 6. Szerelmi Ajândék. (Lover's Gift and Crossing). Translated by Zoltân Bartos. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Global), 1922. Pp. 90, (2). Original decorated wrappers.7. Növekvö Hold. (Sisu: The Crescent Moon). Translated by Ben› Zsoldos. Budapest, Pantheon Iradalmi Intézet, 1922. Pp. 112, (4). Original decorated wrappers, spine lightly worn.8. Hazatérés. (The Home-Coming). Translated by Mârton Sârmay. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Otthon), 1922. Pp. 125, (3). Original decorated wrappers, with light wear. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), renowned Bengali poet, novelist, educator and composer has been considered to be the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 as the first Asian recipient. A charming decorative set of Tagore's Bengali poetry, the first translations into Hungarian. The beautiful covers with Indian-style ornamentation are designed by çlmos Jaschik (1885-1950), a renowned Hungarian graphic artist and scenic designer. 

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Book number: 120687

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Keywords: Europe, indian, india, indien, hungary, hungarian, literature, poetry, bengali, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

TEFFI (LOKHVITSKAIA, NADEZHDA ALEXANDROVNA) / PARAIN, NATHALIE (Ill.):

Baba-Yaga [A Folk Tale]. Paris, YMCA Press, 1932.

. 4to. Pp. (24). Text in Russian. With lovely coloured illustrations. Original lithographed wrappers with some wear. Resewn, spine restored with cloth, loss of corners to front wrapper, last leaf with tear restored and some remains of old tape at inner margin. But still a likeable copy. First edition.Baba-Yaga is a folklore tale about a a frightening witch-like old woman living in the forest. There are many illustrated versions about her in Russian folklore. Teffi was a renowned humanist writer in pre-Revolutionary Russia and Nathalie Parain, Ukrainian-born artist who illustrated many popular children's books. Both settled in Paris in the 1920s.

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Book number: 120993

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, russe, children, juvenile, illustrated, avant-garde

THIERY:

Almanach du voyageur a Paris, contenant une description exacte & intéressante de tous les monumens, chefs-d'oeuvre des arts, ... Année 1784. Paris, no date.

. 12mo. Pp. 40, 632. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, rubbed, top and bottom of spine chipped. Bookplate (Bibl. Hammer). Grand-Carteret no.734.

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Book number: 17063

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europa, europe, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, france, paris, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen, frankreich

TORSELLINI, H., / SCHWARTZ, J.C. (editor):

Horatii Tursellini romani de particulis latinae orationis libellus utilissimus... Lpz, M.G. Weidmanni, 1719.

. (XXII), 1118, (72) Index pp. With engr. frontispiece and title printed in red and black. Cont. vellum. Second edition. De-Backer VIII, 148.

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Book number: 20008

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, europa

TRYBOM, FILIP:

Trollsländor (Odonater), insamlade under Svenska Expeditionen till Jensei 1876. [Odonator collected during the Swedish expedtiion to the Yenisei 1876]. Stockholm 1899.

. Pp. 21. With one plate. Original wrappers. (Bihang till K. Svenska Vet. Akad:s Handl. Bd 15, afd. iv, no. 4). Hulth 642.

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Book number: 100128

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, polar, arctic, travel, exploration, expedition, sweden, swedish, dragonfly, zoology, zoological,

TSCHUDI, FRÉDÉRIC DE:

Les Alpes. Description pittoresque de la nature et de la faune alpestres. Berne and Strasbourg 1859.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xiv, (2), 737. With 24 tinted lithographs with tissue guards. Light staining in a few places. Publisher's pictorial cloth, richly gilt, corners and edges worn, upper hinge cracking, g.e. First French edition. Wäber p.81.

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Book number: 20070

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, alp, alpine, france, french, italy, italian, switzerland, swiss, europe, european, travels, travel, exploration, explore

WAHLIN (WAAHLIN, WÅHLIN), C. LUD.:

Menniskans historia, ifraan begynnelsen intill waara tider. En hoegst nyttig och noejsam bok foer wettgirige gossar och flickor, ... Oerebro, Nils Magn. Lindh, 1813.

. 12mo. XII, 252 pp. With 50 engravings on 27 plates. Uncut copy in boards. A Swedish edition translated from the second German edition. Not in Bygdén. 

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Book number: 24035

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, history, ethnography, scandinavie, skandinavien, scandinavia

WARDEN, WILLIAM:

Napoelon Buonaparte på St. Helena; eller Bref skrifna om bord på engelska Linieskeppet Northumberland och från St. Helena. Stockholm, Elméns och Granberg tryckeri, 1818.

. Pp. (ii), 201. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers. Old ownership signatures on title, some marginal annotations in red. A Swedish edition translated from the German. Warden was a British surgeon on board the Northumberland which conveyed Napoleon to Saint Helena. His work which favours Napoleon became extremely popular as well as very criticized. First published in English in 1816, reprinted and translated many times.

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Book number: 100284

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, travels, voyage, exploration, explore, napoleon, st. helena, northumberland

WLISLOCKI, HEINRICH VON (Editor & Translator):

Märchen und Sagen der transsilvanischen Zigeuner. Berlin 1886.

. Pp. xviii, 139 pp. Cloth. Original printed front wrapper bound in. First edition. Black, Gyspy (1914), 4361.

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Book number: 16017

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, gypsies, gypsy, gipsy, roma, romany, zigenar, zigeunar

WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY:

Bref, skrifna under et kort wistande i Swerige, Norrige och Danmark. Stockholm, J.C. Holmberg, 1798.

. Pp. 243. As usual issued without the portrait. Rebound in modern paper covered boards. First few leaves with rough outer edge and partly with some stains. A Swedish edition of Wollstonecraft's Letters originally published in London in 1796. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was the acclaimed English feminist writer who spent a few months in 1795 travelling through Scandinavia. Her work consists of twenty-five letters to her then-husband Gilbert Imlay. They cover a wide range of topics including the breathtaking landscape, sociological reflections on people, philosophical questions of identity and more. Bring, Itineraria Svecana, 290. Schiötz 1195h. Robinson p. 251.

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Book number: 100907

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Keywords: Europe, scandinavia, sweden, norway, denmark, nordic, travel, exploration, literature, lady traveller

WREECH, CURT FRIEDRICH VON:

Wahrhaffte und umständliche Historie von denen schwedischen Gefangenen in Russland und Siberien, welchergestalt dieselbe nach dem A. 1709. bey Pultawa in der Ukraine mit denen Russen gehaltenen unglücklichen Treffen, in ihrer Gefangenschafft, zum Theil von Gott kräfftig zur Busse erwecket worden, ... Sorau, J.G. Rothe, 1725.

. Thick 8vo. Pp. (xl), 480, 471-861, (21). With title in red and black. Contemporary calf, spine blindstamped with four raised bands, rubbed, hinges weak. With old ownership signature on front endpaper. One leaf (p. 839) with small repair (no loss). First edition. Curt Friedrich von Wreech, born in Germany, served as dragon captain in the Swedish army at Poltava and was imprisoned by the Russians in 1709 together with several other Swedes. This is his account of the 12 years' imprisonment in Tobolsk, Siberia, and about his religious awakening. Wreech started to study the Bible and delivered the sermon among his revival fellow-prisoners. He was also the initiator of a school in Tobolsk for children based on a school ordinance of the Halle pattern. See Ward: "The Protestant Evangelical Awakening" pp. 83-85. A second edition was issued in 1728, enlarged with an appendix and one plate. Cat. Russica 907. Warmholtz 6076.

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Book number: 100074

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, siberia, russian, ryssland, europe, european , history, historical, exploration,