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Lot 186
GOVENIUS, JOHAN Lithografiska Skizzer fran Fregatten Norrkopings Expedition till Amerika och Westindien 1861-1862.
[Stockholm: Foreningens Boktryckeri, 1863]. First edition. Finely bound in modern straight grained greenish blue morocco, the cover with a gilt border and lettering, the original pictorial wrapper bound-in. 9 1/4 x 12 inches (23.5 x 30.5 cm); with printed wrapper, 12 tinted lithographed plates, some in color, 40 pp. text. Well restored and attractive copy, a few scratches to the leather, repair to a corner of the frontis, the third plate backed, marginal strengthening to the final text leaf, occasional spotting or small stains, with the travel-themed bookplate of Aaron J. Matalon.
A scarce work with interesting plates, the Swedish novelist and traveller Johan Govenius here provides (in translation) Lithographic Sketches of the Frigate Norrkopings to the United States and West Indies. Of note among the plates is a view of the then Swedish held harbor at Gustavia, St. Barthelemy, a Catholic missionary preaching to West Indian natives, and a view of a plantation in Cuba. Govenius also took great interest in the arts scene in Boston and two plates depict actresses. This atlas accompanied a larger text issued in 1861-62, not present here. Not in Sabin.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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