Catalogue of Scandinavian Books in the British Library Printed Before 1801 Tapa dura - 2006

British Library, London, first edition, 2007. 3 vols, cloth, 4to,. xxi, 746 + 747-1522 + [1523]-2184 pp. From the introduction: "The Catalogue of Scandinavian Books provides a record of all the British Library's Scandinavian collections from the beginning of printing up to 1800. In addition to printed books in the main Humanities collections, it lists printed music, maps and atlases, and also Scandinavian books in the Oriental collections except for those that are wholly in an Eastern language. For the purpose of the present catalogue, Scandinavia is defined as the present-day countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, but books in Scandinavian languages produced elsewhere are also included. Books produced in other territories formerly under Swedish or Danish control, e.g. Estonia, Swedish Pomerania or the present German state of Schleswig-Holstein, are excluded (unless written at least partly in a Scandinavian language, or bearing an imprint that includes the name of a… Leer más