Sale: 328 / Rare Books, Nov. 19./20. 2007 in Hamburg Lot 561

 
Schweden - Reise über den Sund. 1803.


561
Schweden
Reise über den Sund. 1803.
Estimate:
€ 300 / $ 321
Sold:
€ 240 / $ 256
(incl. surcharge)
[Kerner, Joh. G.], Reise über den Sund. With 1 folded chart. Tübingen, J. G. Cotta 1803. Contemp. cardboards with label on spine. Small 8vo. 1 l., 334 pp.
Fischer 410. - Bruun II, 590. - Schröder 1911, 5. - Engelmann I, 403 (registers erroneously 1800). - First edition, rare. - One of the few works by Johann Georg Kerner (1770-1812; brother of Justinus Kerner), who was staying in Paris at the time of the French Revolution, and who later went on journeys to Switzerland, Italy and Sweden, before he settled in Hamburg, to become a physician in 1803. "Ein mehrmonatlicher Aufenthalt im südlichen Schweden gewährte ihm die Anregung zu seinem gewandt geschriebenen und mit zahlreichen historisch-politischen Excursen ausgestatteten Buch Reise über den Sund" (ADB XV, 642). - The chart contains an overview of Swedish property taxes, indexed by provinces. - binding waterstained and somewhat bumped, edges scraped.



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561
Schweden
Reise über den Sund. 1803.
Estimate:
€ 300 / $ 321
Sold:
€ 240 / $ 256
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