Magnus, Olaus
HISTORIEN DER MITTERNACHTIGEN LANDER. BASEL: HENRICPETRI, (1567)
small folio (297 x 198mm.), woodcut folding map of Scandinavia, numerous woodcut vignettes, full-page printer's device on verso of final leaf, bound in a large manuscript vellum leaf, c. 450 x 300mm., of an very elegantly written troped Sanctus from the Kyriale of a Gradual, with music in square notation on five-line staves for the Sanctus trope, "Adonay athanatos" [France (or England?), 13th century], map trimmed to neatline at foot, scattered small wormholes, lacking ties, spine slightly worn
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Friedrich August, Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Oels (1740-1805), armorial bookplate; "Kgl. öffentl. bibliothek zu Dresden", and "Doublette", ink stamps to title; Per Hierta (1864-1924), Swedish book collector, inscription and signature (Hierta owned a large collection of about 300 incunabula, which in 1911 were given to the Swedish Royal Library), sale, Björn and Börjesson, Stockholm, item 550, 100 kroner, 26 October-30 November 1932; bought by K.A. Jacobsen, bookplate; his son Ole Lars Jacobsen, bookplate
VD16 M227