Regardless of your background, anyone can step into the book-filled rooms at Crafoord Auktioner Lund and soon walk out with the perfect volume tucked under their arm. Here are three examples:
For the gardener: “Then rätta Swenska Trägårds-Praxis, eller kort underrättelse huru Köks- Trä- Örte- och lustgårdar, Tillika med Orangerier samt Humlegårdar, böra anläggas, skötas och conserveras” (The Proper Swedish Garden Practice – a concise guide on how kitchen, tree, herb and pleasure gardens, along with orangeries and hop gardens, should be laid out, maintained and preserved).
For the seafarer: “Navigation och Nautikal Astronomi” (Navigation and Nautical Astronomy).
For the circus director: “Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine” (The Games of the Circus and Fairground Life).
In total, the auction boasts 180 carefully selected lots with titles covering a wide range of subjects—from ornithology and theology to, quite literally, everything under the sun.
Among the highlights is Archbishop Johannes Magnus’ “Gothorum Sueonumque”—a truly prime slice of 16th-century historical literature.
