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A Winter in Lapland and Sweden: With Various Observations Relating to Finmark and Its Inhabitants; Made During a Residence at Hammerfest, Near the North Cape
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A Winter in Lapland and Sweden With Various Observations Relating to Finmark and Its Inhabitants
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A Winter In Lapland And Sweden, With Various Observations Relating To Finmark And Its Inhabitants [...]
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A Winter In Lapland And Sweden, With Various Observations Relating To Finmark And Its Inhabitants [...]
by Arthur de Capell Brooke
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A Winter in Lapland and Sweden with Various Observations Relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants
by Brooke, Arthur De Capell
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London: John Murray. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1827. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Gilt-titled contemporary half leather with marbled boards, marbled endpages. Xvi, 612pp. 22 full page plates including frontis, 8 vignettes. Spine ends/points worn/frayed, edges exposed, boards rubbed. Scattered foxing. Bookplate. Edge stamped "Metro Pictures Corporation." ; quarto .
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A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with various observations relating to Finmark and its inhabitants; made during a residence at Hammerfest, near the North Cape.
by BROOKE, Arthur de Capell
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London: John Murray 1827, 1827. First edition. 4to (270x210mm). pp. xvi, 612. Frontispiece and twenty one lithographed plates and eight lithographed vignettes, folding map. Full calf, spine lavishly decorated in gilt, red morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Save for a few marks in near fine condition. Internally there is some foxing and spotting, heavy in places but overall a nice copy of a groundbreaking travel book. Arthur de Capell Brooke, from a land-owning family and the son of a baronet resigned his army commission after the Battle of Waterloo and embarked on a life of adventure and travel. In May 1820, he began his first serious journey. This was an overland trip through Sweden and Norway to the Northern Cape. He was almost certainly the first Englishman to make this trek, Northern Scandinavia being generally regarded as terra incognita. Brooke settled for a while in Fuglenaes and got to know the Laplanders, learning to speak Norwegian and some Lapp. On his return to England, he founded…
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A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, With Various Observations Relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants; Made During a Residence at Hammerfest, Near the North Cape
by Arthur de Capell Brooke
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London: John Murray, 1827. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 9". Various. A unique and likely pre-publication undated copy of this beautiful travel work by Arthur de Capell Brooke, in which he explores the wonders of Lapland and Sweden during the winter, complete with illustrations. Undated. There are no reprints so this is either a proof copy or pre publication copy. Illustrated with a lithograph frontispiece, one folding map, five lithographs, sixteen plates, one lithograph vignettes, and seven vignettes.One page of adverts to the rear.Collated, complete.'A Winter in Lapland and Sweden' beautifully describes the author's experiences travelling across the wintery landscapes of Lapland and Sweden. With vivid descriptions of the scenery and the people of the countries, with notes on how the author spent his time, and how the locals celebrate Christmas day.Including the author's observations made whilst residing in Hammerfest, a town in the Troms og Finmark county of Norway. Hammerfest is the northernmost…
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A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with Various Observations Relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants; made during a Residence at Hammerfest, near the North Cape.
by BROOKE, Arthur de Capell.
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London: John Murray, 1827.. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (28 x 22 cm). pp.xvi+[ii]+612 + [1, advertisement for related Murray publications0.. Uncut and unpressed in original pebbled cloth backed boards, paper label in manuscript to spine. Large folding map, 22 full page lithographed plates (including 4 of skiing interest) and 8 lithographed vignettes. Occasional light spotting, generally a very good unsophisticated copy. Includes detailed descriptions of skis and technique in use (pp.209-214) and the regiment of Skilöbere (pp.327-334). (Abbey Travel, 250).
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Travels Through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark & A Winter in Lapland
by Arthur de Capell Brooke
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London: J. Rodwell, 1823-27. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". Not Stated. Two expansive illustrated travel works on Scandinavia and Lapland by Arthur de Capell Brooke, containing the author's bookplate to 'A Winter in Lapland'. Two unique copies of these expansive travel works about Scandinavia and Lapland, likely undated pre-publication copies.Both written by Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke, a nineteenth-century English baronet and avid traveller. A Winter in Lapland contains the author's bookplate to the front pastedown, and his cancelled signature to the front free-endpaper.Travels Through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark, to The North Cape was published by J. Rodwell in 1823. It was written with the goal of introducing British travellers to the northern regions of Europe, and describes a journey from London to Stockholm, then onto the Christiania, Drontheim, Overgaard, the North Cape, and more. Including twenty-two engraved plates, two of which are in colour, and eleven in-text vignettes. Collated and…
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