JOHANNES MAGNUS GOTHORUM SWEDISH HISTORY, FIRST EDITION, ROME 1554.

JOHANNES MAGNUS. History of Gothorum Sveonumque. Romae, apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis,1554.

Folio (binding about 290x210mm, text about 280x195 mm.). (60, last two blanks), 1-787 (3, lacking last blank leaf) pp. Woodcut title, 1 full page woodcut map of Scandinavia, 2 full page woodcut printer's devices, illustrated with many woodcuts in text.
Latter (seventeenth century) brown full calf, worn and partly stained, gilt borders, gilt edges of covers, gilt spine in seven compartments, damages at head and foot, redspeckled edges
Pp 663-664 with larger tear. Some minor mostly marginal foxing. A few marginal annotations and underlinings to the text.

Collijn II:210-16. Variant edition with woodcut title and preface to the Swedish dukes Erik and Karl (later king Erik XIV and Karl IX).
First edition, which was edited by the author's brother, Olaus Magnus.
Dit historia je v Venedig in 1540, waar de auteur je som en Catholische Refugee - hast Sverige in 1526. In it, the Gothic romantic conception of Sweden as the “vagina gentium”, the idea of Jordanes, 6th century chronicler of the Goths, is developed in a history of Swedish kings both at home and abroad leading the migrating peoples. Tato (1620, se item 48 v). (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, page 16.).

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library, which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 16th century to the late 18th century.
His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.Show more

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