Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1st September 1883
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/34
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    15086 SNORRE STURLESON’S HEIMSKRINGLA; Historia Regum Norvegicoroum, nova editio aucta, Islandice, Danice et Latine, opera G. Schoning, 6 vols. folio, maps, etc. bds. wneut, £5. | Havnie, 1777-1826 15087 —— another copy, 6 vols. in 3, folio, leather backs, uneut, £3. 10s : 1777-1826 15089 STEPHENS’S (George) Otp Nortaoern RUNIC MONUMENTS of Scanpinavia and ENGLAND, now first collected and deciphered, 2 vols. folio, many hundred woodcuts of Sculptured Crosses and Pillars, Weapons, Ornaments, etc. and numerous large plates of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Art relics,executed in gold and silver (pub. at £5.), sewed £4. 10s Cheapinghaven | Copenhagen |, 1866-68 Vol. 3 is expected soon. The best and finest work upon a most interesting subject. The archzxo- logist will prize it no less than the ethnologist, for it concerns both equally, notwithstanding some uncouth spelling reforms and some fanciful theories, The linguistic portion of the volume, which the author calls ‘‘Old Northern Word-Row and Scandinavian Runic Word-List,” occupies pp. 895-1019 in double columns. 15090 SrizrnHédK (J. O.) de Jure Sueonum et Gothorum vetusto liber, sm. 4to. calf, 5s Holmice, 1672 15091 Verext (O.) Manuductio ad Runographiam Scandicam antiquam intelligendam, Danish and Latin, folio, nwmerous woodcuts of Runic Monuments, with translations of their inscriptions, hf. bd. 15s Upsale, 1675 15092 Wormu Literatura Runica, et append.; Additamenta ad Monumenta Danica; Lexicon; de aureo Christiani V Cornu, 2 large plates of the Golden Horn, 1641—in 1 vol. small folio, LARGE PAPER, woodcuts of Antiquities, calf, 20s 1641-51 Danicorum Monumentorum lib. vi. e spissis antiquitatum tenebris et in Dania ac Norvegia extantibus ruderibus eruti ;— Reegum Danie series duplex, etc. 1642—2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, Fine Paper, engraved title, folding plate and woodcuts, old calf (broken), from the Sunderland library, 7s 6d Hafnie, 1643 ad eum doctorum Epistole, Argumenti, 2 vols. 12mo. brilliant portratt, fine copy i old calf, gilt back, gilt edges, las _Havnie, 1751 Specially illustrating Northern Languages and Antiquities. 15098 15094: 2. Denmark. 15095 AnpurseNn (C.) Rosenborg, Mindeblade fra die Danske Kongers Kronologiske Samling, 4to. 52 fine woodcuts of articles of Vertu, sd. 2s Kjobenhavn, 1867 15096 Barrnorini Antiquitates Danice de causis contempte a Danis adhuc gentilibus Mortis, sm. 4to. engravings, vellum, 5s Hafniw, 1689 15097 Berinat (Viti) Florus Danicus, sive Danicarum rerum a primordio Regni ad tempora usque Christiani I breviarium, folio, fine copperplate initial letters, calf, 24s Hawinie, 1709 This rare work begins with King Dan, 1038 years before Christ, and comes down to King Christopher in the middle of our fifteenth century,