MAGNUS, Olaus (1490-1558, Archbishop of Upsala). Historia de gentium septentrionalium variis conditionibus statibusúe. Basle: ex officina Henricpetrina, March 1567. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, folding woodcut map (small tear at fold), approximately 450 FINE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS (neat repairs to margins of f2 and I1). Adams M-141; cf.Mortimer Italian 270; cf.Nissen ZBI 2648. - Bound with: PANTALEON, Henricus (1522-1595). Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium... Historia nova. Basle: [Thomas Guarinus], 1581. Woodcut printer's device on title, aproximately 59 woodcut maps, views and portraits (a few full-page). FIRST EDITION. Adams P-178. 2 works in 1 volume, 2° (320 x 207mm.). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, covers with wide border composed from various rolls surrounding a central blocked panel, of Justice on the upper cover and Lucretia on the lower, metal clasps (short slight in leather on lower cover). Provenance : Jacobus Reütlinger of Überlingen, Württemberg (inscriptions, marginalia and armorial ownership stamp dated 1581 in manuscript); Joa. Guilielmus Reütlinger (inscription); Mattheus Kofer, Canon. Überlingen (inscription); Joannes Baptista, priest (inscription).
MAGNUS, Olaus (1490-1558, Archbishop of Upsala). Historia de gentium septentrionalium variis conditionibus statibusúe. Basle: ex officina Henricpetrina, March 1567. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, folding woodcut map (small tear at fold), approximately 450 FINE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS (neat repairs to margins of f2 and I1). Adams M-141; cf.Mortimer Italian 270; cf.Nissen ZBI 2648. - Bound with: PANTALEON, Henricus (1522-1595). Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium... Historia nova. Basle: [Thomas Guarinus], 1581. Woodcut printer's device on title, aproximately 59 woodcut maps, views and portraits (a few full-page). FIRST EDITION. Adams P-178. 2 works in 1 volume, 2° (320 x 207mm.). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, covers with wide border composed from various rolls surrounding a central blocked panel, of Justice on the upper cover and Lucretia on the lower, metal clasps (short slight in leather on lower cover). Provenance : Jacobus Reütlinger of Überlingen, Württemberg (inscriptions, marginalia and armorial ownership stamp dated 1581 in manuscript); Joa. Guilielmus Reütlinger (inscription); Mattheus Kofer, Canon. Überlingen (inscription); Joannes Baptista, priest (inscription).
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