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Snorri Sturlason
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
Heims Kringla, eller ... Norlåndske konunga Sagor. Sive Historiae regum septentrionalium ... (ed. Johann Peringskiöld. Stockholm: Literis Wankiwianis, 1697 [–1700]
2 volumes, folio (12¼ x 8⅛ in.; 311 x 206 mm). Woodcut printer's device to title-page of first vol., wood engraved head- and tail-pieces; some light browning, scattered marginal staining. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt in six compartments, plain endpapers and edges; lightly rubbed.
2 volumes, folio (12¼ x 8⅛ in.; 311 x 206 mm). Woodcut printer's device to title-page of first vol., wood engraved head- and tail-pieces; some light browning, scattered marginal staining. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt in six compartments, plain endpapers and edges; lightly rubbed.
Literature
European Americana 697/170; Hermannsson 98; PMM 168; Sabin 85484
Catalogue Note
First edition of the Norse Sagas; the text is in Swedish, Latin, and Old Icelandic. "Snorri's contribution to the literature of Iceland is of inestimable importance. ... [His] work is the stem and source of the legend of the Norsemen: a legend which is till potent today" (PMM).