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One of the rare 18th-c. works on Iceland [Iceland] TROIL, Uno von Lettres sur l'Islande. Traduites du suédois. Par M. Lindblom, secrétaire-interprète du roi au département des Affaires étrangères. Avec figures. Paris, de l'imprimerie de Monsieur, 8vo: xlviii-pp.; 5 pl. and 1 table (pp. 115-missing; sm. marg. or sl. (damp)staining, soiling to some pp., some ff. or pl. sl. age-toned). Contemp. calf, triple gilt fillet on covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (sl. traces of use). First edition of a work on Iceland (1st in Swedish 1777), dealing with the Norwegian occupation of the island, the costumes, food and houses of Icelanders, the diseases, Staffa island, the volcanoes, etc. Illustrated with 5 fold. plates fig. a map of Iceland, the "péninsule de Boo-Shala", Geysir, its surroundings and Fingal's Cave. With a fold. table of the Icelandic cadastre. Bibliographical list of works on Iceland at the beginning of the work. By the Swedish theologian von Troil (1746-1803), Archbishop of Uppsala. Ref. Cp. Cox I:(other ed.).