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ICELAND -- Hálfdans EINSARSSONAR (1732-1785). Sciagraphia historiae literariae Islandicae autorum et scriptorum tum editorum tum ineditorum indicem exhibens. Copenhagen: Sander & Schröder, 1777.
8o (183 x 114mm). (Without blank **8, title spotted.) Contemporary speckled sheep, gilt arms of the Society of the Writers to the Signet added to covers, spine gilt (joints rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Society of Writers to the Signet (Edinburgh, binding, shelf-marks).
FIRST EDITION of the first bibliography of Icelandic literature. A second edition with slightly altered title was published in Copenhagen and Leigzig in 1786.
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MÖBIUS, Theodor. Catalogus librorum Islandicorum et Norwegicorum aetatis mediae, editorum versorum illustratorum Skáldatal sive poetarum recensius eddae Upsalensis. Leipzig: 1856. 8o (220 x 140mm). 20th-century green buckram, original upper wrapper bound-in.
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FIRST EDITION of the first bibliography of Icelandic literature. A second edition with slightly altered title was published in Copenhagen and Leigzig in 1786.
[With:]
MÖBIUS, Theodor. Catalogus librorum Islandicorum et Norwegicorum aetatis mediae, editorum versorum illustratorum Skáldatal sive poetarum recensius eddae Upsalensis. Leipzig: 1856. 8
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