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KELLER, Gerard. Bergen en dalen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (1878).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),215 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on cities in the mountains of Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Norway and Switzerland. Gerard Keller (1829 - 1899) was editor of the Arnhemsche Courant, contributed to many different magazines and magazines, wrote books and plays and worked as a translator. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32908 ]

€ 65,00

KELLER, Gerard. Wouden, kusten en rotsen. Rotterdam, Jacs.G. Robbers, (ca. 1880).Folio. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. With 8 steelengravings (some foxing) and numerous woodengravings. (8),216 pp. Europa in al zijn heerlijkheid geschetst. - Fine illustrated book on North-Italy, France, Norway, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Gibraltar. - Gerard Keller (1829 - 1899) was editor of the Arnhemsche Courant, contributed to many different magazines and magazines, wrote books and plays and worked as a translatorA nice copy. [Boeknr.: 32910 ]

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LOVBETT, Richard. Norwegian pictures drawn with pen and pencil. Containing also a glance at Sweden and the Gotha Canal. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1885.8vo. Original pictorial gilt cloth (spine sl. discoloured), a.e.g. With folding map, coloured in outline and 127 woodengraved illustrations by E. Whymper, R. & E. Taylor, Pearson, a.o. 224 pp. This book on Norway and Sweden gives detailed glimpses into the history, topography, trade & commerce as well as the character of the people towards the end of the 19th century. With many illustrations of varying sizes interspersed with the text. [Boeknr.: 37163 ]

€ 65,00

PFEIFFER, IDA. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian north. Translated from the German. 2nd edition. London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853.Original embossed brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With tinted wood-engraved title-page with vignette, frontispiece and 6 tinted wood-engraved plates. 353 pp. First published in 1846 Reise nach dem Scandinavischen Norden und der Insel Island. - On her second trip Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) set out from Reykjavik for the Geiser and Mount Hecla, travelling alone and on a tight budget, and making her way on pony carts and living like the Icelanders. Having visited every part of Iceland of interest, she embarked for Copenhagen, and after travelling through parts of Norway and Sweden returned to Vienna after an absence of about six months (Howgego II, p. 475). Including An essay on Icelandic poetry, from the French of M. Bergmann; A translation of the Icelandic poem the Voluspa; and a brief sketch of Icelandic history. Ida Pfeiffer was �the first full-time woman traveller of all, and one of the very few who never felt the need to qualify her impulse: she travelled because she wanted to see the world, and saw no reason why she shouln�t� (Robinson, Wayward women, p.25).Abbey, Travel, 161; Theakstone, Vicorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.214. [Boeknr.: 37304 ]

€ 175,00

RUSSIA. ZEE-TRACTAAT, tusschen haar Rusch keyzerlyke majesteit en zyne koninglyke majesteit van Denemarken en Noorwegen, tot standhouding der vryheid van de neutrale koopvaardy-scheepvaart, geslooten tot Coppenhagen .. 1780. En waarin zyn koningl. majesteit van Zweeden, nevens .. de heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden, deel genomen hebben en toegetreeden zyn, respectivelyk geteekend te St. Petersburg .. 1781. Amsterdam, H.W. & C. Dronsberg, (1781).Folio. 4 pp. Sea-treaty between Russia, Denmark and Norway, concluded in Kopenhagen in 1780. Sweden and the Netherlands became a party to the treaty in St. Petersburg. - (Some staining). - Rare.Knuttel 19490. [Boeknr.: 33546 ]

€ 175,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van Rusland, Zweden, Denemarken en Noorwegen: als mede van de landen onder de Noord Pool gelegen, en van de Groenlandsche visschery. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door Matthias van Goch. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1735.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 engraved plates depicting whales, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps. (8),317-976,(8) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - This volume VII contains a description of Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, including chapters on English and Dutch whaling round Greenland and the Davis Strait. With fine plan of St. Petersburg and maps of Russia, the Arctic and others.Tiele 1033; Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe, 311. [Boeknr.: 21656 ]

€ 475,00

TEGNÉR, Esaias. Frithiofs saga. Uit het Zweedsch vertaald door P.L.F.C. von Eichstorff. Nieuwe uitgave, bewerkt door J.J.L. ten Kate. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1861.Sm.8vo. Original embossed red cloth, with gilt decoration on front. VIII,176 pp. Frithiof's Saga is a legendary saga from Iceland which in its present form is from ca. 1300. It is a continuation from The Saga of Thorstein Víkingsson. It takes place principally in Norway during the 8th century. [Boeknr.: 37239 ]

€ 45,00

VEA, Erik, Johan SCHREINER, Johan SELAND. Den Norske Amerikalinje 1910-1960. Oslo, Grøndahl & Son, 1960. 8vo. Half blue leather. With many photographic illustrations. 444 pp. [Boeknr.: 36516 ]

€ 45,00

VIBE, A. Küsten und Meer Norwegens. Gotha, J. Perthes, 1860.4to. Wrappers. With coloured lithographed frontispiece and folding map. 24 pp. Supplementary publication for Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen, one of the oldest German-language specialist journals for geography. [Boeknr.: 10793 ]

€ 30,00

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