Lot 4787
  • 4787

Tracts on antiquities--Waser, Kaspar (1565-1625).

Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description

  • De antiquis numis Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum et Syrorum: quorum S. Biblia & Rabbinorum scripta meminerunt, libri II. Zurich: Officina Wolphiana, 1605, ff. [12], 108, illustration: woodcut device on title-page, engraved illustrations pasted in (cut out from folding plate)
Grönwall, Anders (1671-1758). Dissertatio geographica de Ostrobotnia... ad publicum... examen... defert Petrus Nicolaus Mathesius... 17 Junii anni MDCCXXXIV. Uppsala: Werner, [1734], [2], 117, [1 (corrigenda)] pp., illustration: 2 folding engraved plates by J. Silfverling, one woodcut diagram



2 works in one volume, 4to (185 x 140mm.), binding: eighteenth-century speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, upper joint cracking

Literature

VD17 1:071474G; BL STC Scandinavian G312

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Ostrobothnia is a region of central Finland, so-called because it lies on the eastern side of the Gulf of Bothnia. In the eighteenth century it was part of the kingdom of Sweden.