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[LØVENØRNS (POUL)] Beskrivelse over den Iislandske Kyst og alle Havne fra Fugle-Skiærene og til Stikkelsholm i Brede-Bugten med Forklaring over deres Indseiling, additional engraved title within ornamental border, 10 engraved maps and plates (5 folding, 3 of which sectional), 4 engraved vignettes (one a map), plate list bound at end, original stiff marbled wrappers, spine worn, 4to, Copenhagen, Frid. Wilh. Thiele, 1788
|Very rare description of the Icelandic coast, its harbours and their approaches. The 10 maps and sections are lettered B, C, D, E, F, G, K, M, N and O, and a note on the plate list mentions that 4 of the 14 maps were too large to bind in and would follow separately - these additional maps are extremely scarce, and our copy collates as do most others, including the one shown on Bækur.is (the National and University Library of Iceland catalogue), and that held in the Bibliotheek Nederlandse Defensie Academie (cited by Louis Sloos in Warfare and the Age of Printing. Catalogue of Early Printed Books from before 1801 in Dutch Military Collections, 2008, p.95, no. 09155).