Voyage en Islande, fait par ordre de S. M. danoise, etc.
OLAVSEN (Eggert), POVELSEN (Bjarne)
Paris et Strasbourg - Frères Levrault - 1802
- Format : In-12 et 1 atlas in-4.
- Number of volumes : 5 tomes + 1 atlas.
- Binding : Related.
Binding from the full period rooted basane. Smooth spine decorated with gilded caissons and friezes, green title and tomaison pieces. Gilt frieze in the border of the covers. The atlas is bound in half basane.
FIRST FRENCH EDITION, TRANSLATED BY GAUTHIER DE LAPEYRONIE. It is accompanied by an atlas of 60 engraved plates; map of Iceland, costumes, birds, shell views.
In 1752, the Icelandic scientist Eggert Olavsen was commissioned by the Copenhagen Academy of Sciences to go, together with the Danish physician Bjarne Povelsen, to explore Iceland from the perspective of natural science and political economy.
Very nice set, very fresh boards.
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