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A Description of the Northern Peoples (Historia Olai Magni Gothi archiepiscopi Upsalensis De gentium septentrionalium [...])

Author: Olaus Magnus (1490–1557)
Created:1567
Dimensions:32.50 × 22 cm

The book ‘A Description of the Northern Peoples’ by Olaus Magnus (14901557) was very popular, reprinted many times in large and small formats, and was translated into French (1561), Italian (1565), German (1567), and English (1658). Small-format editions were published in Antwerp (1558, 1562), Paris (1561), Basel (1567), Amsterdam (1586), Frankfurt (1618), and Leiden (1652). The Ellex Valiunas collection includes three different editions of this book.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album ARS LIBRI (2022). Compiler Algimantas Muzikevičius, text authors Algimantas Muzikevičius, Rolandas Gustaitis