MAGNUS, HISTORIA OLAI MAGNI GOTHI ARCHIEPISCOPI UPSALENSIS, (1567)

Folio (304 x 202mm.), woodcut device on title and at end, large folding woodcut map, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, old laced limp vellum, title in ink on spine, a few small repairs to map, occasional dampstaining or browning, vellum slightly soiled and creased

Collegium Maius, Krakow, inscription on title; "C.D.", purple ink stamps; Per Hierta (1864-1924), Swedish book collector, signature. Hierta owned a large collection of about 300 incunabula, which in 1911 was given to the Swedish Royal Library; Per Hierta sale, Björn and Börjesson, Stockholm, item number 551, 90 kroner, 26 October-30 November 1932; bought by K.A. Jacobsen, bookplate; his son Ole Lars Jacobsen; thence by family descent 

VD16 M225

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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The large folding map is a simplified version of the famous "Carta Marina" of 1539. Formerly attributed to J.B. Fickler but subsequently identified as the work of Thomas Weber in 1567, it shows the whole of northern Europe (Grenacher, in: Imago Mundi XIII, 1956, p. 171).