SCHEFFER, Johannes. The History of Lapland, Oxford: At the Theater, to be sold by George West and Amos Curtein, 1674, small 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, woodcut title vignette and illustrations (the frontispiece cut short at lower margin, map torn through at fold and repaired on verso, library marks, including stamps to verso of frontsipiece and map, and title perforation, margins heavily soiled, P1 with clean, partly repaired tear), contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached) [Cox I, p. 178: "long remained the main source of information on Lapland"; Wing S851] Provenance: JCL; and one other work (imperfect). (2)

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SCHEFFER, Johannes. The History of Lapland, Oxford: At the Theater, to be sold by George West and Amos Curtein, 1674, small 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, woodcut title vignette and illustrations (the frontispiece cut short at lower margin, map torn through at fold and repaired on verso, library marks, including stamps to verso of frontsipiece and map, and title perforation, margins heavily soiled, P1 with clean, partly repaired tear), contemporary calf (rebacked, upper cover detached) [Cox I, p. 178: "long remained the main source of information on Lapland"; Wing S851] Provenance: JCL; and one other work (imperfect). (2)

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