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Accession number

PML 38676

Creator

Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557.

Published

Romae : Apvd Jacobo Maria de Viotti, 1555.

Notes

First ed.

Description

[84], 815 p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Provenance

With the Huth exlibris (Huth sale, July 1916, V Portion, item 4629) and the engr. book-plate of G.F.G.R. Schwerdt (sale 11 March, 1946 item 1714).

Binding

Light brown morocco, gilt, by Bedford.

Classification

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