Europe / Scandinavia

PORTER, Robert Ker. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808.
London, for John Stockdale (back of title-page: Strahan and Preston), 1813. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 41 etched plates (12 sepia washed views, 1 uncoloured portrait, and 28 aquatint costume-plates) by J.C. Stadler after drawings by the author. Contemporary half cloth. XII, 303, [1 blank]; VIII, 296 pp. Full description

RAUNKIAER, Barclay. Gennem Wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg. Beretning om den af det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab planlagte og bekosterde forskningsrejse i Ost- og Centralarabien 1912.
Copenhagen, Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1913. 8vo. With a frontispiece showing the author in Arab garb, 88 illustrations in text, most of them reproductions of drawings and photographs by the author, and a folding map loosely inserted in a pocket at the end. Publisher's green cloth. [1], [1 blank], [2], 304 pp. Full description

REGENFUSS, Franz Michael, et al. Auserlesne Schnecken Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere auf allerhöchsten Befehl seiner Königlichen Majestät nach den Originalen gemalt, in Kupfer gestochen, und mit naturlichen Farben erleuchtet ...|Choix de Coquillages peints d'apres nature gravés en taille douce et illuminés de leurs vraïes couleurs ... Publié par ordre du Roi.
Copenhagen, (colophon: printed by Andreas Hartwig Godiche, printer to the Royal University), 1758. Double Elephant folio (63 x 47.5 cm). With 12 engraved numbered plates (plate size 42 x 28.5 cm) with 67 & 78 numbered figures at the original size, all coloured by hand as published, an engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved views. In this presentation copy the frontispiece and the 2 engraved views are printed in red. Contemporary armorial presentation binding in gold-tooled mottled calf, each board in a panel design with the crowned, supported and mantled coat of arms of King Frederik V. [16], XIV, 22, LXXXVII, [1] pp. plus engraved frontispiece & 12 engraved plates. Full description

ROSEN von ROSENSTEIN, Nils. Hus- och Rese-Apoteque, pä Hennes Kongl. Maj. Nädigste Befallning upsatt af Archiatern och Riddaren --.
Stockholm, Carl Gottlieb Ulfs, 1772. 8vo. Engraved title-page with calligraphic lettering and vignette: a coach driving through a Swedish landscape. Wrappers covered with marbled paper. (2), 104, (8) pp. Full description

SCHARSTRÖM, Theodoro and Jacob Georg AGARDH. Novitae florae Sveciae ex Algarum familia, quas in itineribus ad oras occidentales Sveciae annis 1832-35 collegit et cum observationibus diagnosticis et geographicis, ...
Lund, Berling, 1836. 4to. Disbound. [4], 16 pp. Full description

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ... Met noch een kort bericht van den toestand der Finnen.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1682. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 16 engraved plates by Jan Luyken, and 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary vellum. [6], 99; 146; 73, [7] pp. Full description

SCHMIDT, Johannes. Havundersøgelser [A collection of more than 60 papers on fishes].
"1902"[=1904]-1927. 64 papers bound in 1 volume (33.5 x 28 x 15 cm). 4to and 8vo. With a manuscript title-page, portrait of the author in grey washes, manuscript letter, and numerous illustrations in text, plates, tables and maps (many folding). Contemporary fish-skin, with the spine and front boards decorated with bands of eelskin. Approximately 1600 pp. Full description

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VÅGEN - VOC]. Zee-Journael, ofte autentijcq verhael, uyt d'annotatien vande heeren haer hooghmogende volmachtighde inde vloot, der doorluchtighste Geunieerde Republijcque, en andere schriften, aengaende al het gepasseerde, 't zedert 't vertreck vande vloot uyt Spanjaerts-Gat naer de Noort, tot het weder-keeren voor Goeree, met alle voorvallen in zee, ontmoetingen, gevecht in Noorwegen, tempeesten, en wat in 't generael, ende wat in 't particulier voorgevallen, en geschiet is van den 13. Juni tot den 6. Octob. 1665.
Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1665. 4to. Modern marbled boards. [2], 69 pp. Full description

SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik. Description des cataractes et du canal de Trollhätta en Suède; avec un précis historique.
Stockholm, Charles Delén, 1804. 4to. With an aquatint title-page and 12 aquatint plates, including 1 map, all drawn and engraved by the author. Contemporary grey-blue wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 47, [2] pp. Full description

SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik, Comte Erik Johansen DAHLBERG and Johann Philip LEMBKE. Batailles de Charles X Gustave Roi de Suède...
Stockholm, A.F. Skjöldebrand, 1806. Large oblong folio (52 x 68 cm). With an engraved title with aquatint vignette, engraved portrait by Sandrart after a painting by Ehrenstrahl, and 11 aquatint plates after drawings by Count Dahlberg and paintings by Lembke, engraved by Skjöldebrand, numbered I-XII, all in sepia. Contemporary half calf with marbled brown boards, gold-tooled spine. [13] ll. Full description