GAUTREK 1664 + SCHEFFERUS AND VERELIUS 1666 (2).

SCHEFFERUS, JOHANNES. Upsalia cujus occasione plurima in religione, sacris, festis, regum electionibus, creationibus... Uppsala, Henric Curio, 1666.
8th. 150 x 95 mm. (12), 192, 195-402 pp. (Missing 2 leaves at the end). Two woodcut illustrations in the text. Partly with jumping pagination order. Ensdtaka small stains, some marginal notes in ink.

Collijn, Swedish bibliography 17th century column 831. Warmholtz 348.

One of the first consistently carried out Swedish topographical-antiquarian surveys. However, Uppsala was a sensitive subject, not least in light of Rudbeck's soon-to-be-published Atlantica, and Schefferu's work on Uppsala is the starting point for the great feud between himself on the one hand and Olof Verelius (and in the background Olof Rudbeck) on the other about the age of Uppsala and location. The old pagan temple was located here, Schefferus claimed, and relied on i.a. Ericus Olai, not at Gamla Uppsala but within the present city of Uppsala, and particularly old as it is, not older than anything before the birth of Christ.

Associated with: VERELIUS, OLOF (trans.). Herraud and Bosa's saga. With a new interpretation, Gambla applied the götska. Made by Olao Verelio. Uppsala, Henric Curio, 1666.
8th. [Dimensions as above]. (6), 122 p. Faint damp streak throughout, some small stains. Minor ink scribbles on the title page.

Collijn, Swedish bibliography 17th century column 383.

Worn, dented and slightly sunken contemporary parchment binding with handwritten spine title. Upper capital cracked at spine. Handwritten table of contents on the front page. C. Vilh. Jacobowsky's ex-libris, older signatures.

Together with: Gothrici & Rolfi Westrogothiae regum history. Lingua antiqua gothica conscripta; quam e ms vetustissimo edidit, & versione notisq; illustravit Olaus Verelius... Accedunt...Joannis Schefferi argentoratensis notae politicae. Upsaliae (H. Curio) 1664.
8th. (8), 206, 229-238, 255-292, 80, 91-128, (43), 48 p. (The last 48 pp. runestone depictions in woodcuts). Note! Missing pp. 207-228, 239-254 and pp. 81-90 in the notes. Worn and stained contemporary parchment binding with handwritten spine title. Loose in rear inner fold. Title page sunny and with partly crossed out signatures. Spot in the margin tom 14 in the first pagination sequence. C. Vilhelm Jacobowsky's ex-libris and older signatures on the inside of the front cover.

Collijn, Sweden's bibliography 17th century column 300. Gautrek and Rolf Gautreksson's sagas from 1664 is the first edition of an Icelandic saga to be printed.

2 volumes in all.

From the library of Nils Fries.
Nils Fries (1912-94), professor of botany, especially physiology and anatomy, at Uppsala University. Studied the reproduction of fungi.