A collection of Holberg literature: 'Peder Paars', privately printed, 'Livs og Levnetsbeskrivelse..', 1741 and three booklets (5)
Description
Automatic translation from Danish.
Ludvig Holberg: 'An honest Late Wiise about Peder Who made a journey from Kalundborg to Aars....sounds well for all kinds of instruments, especially for the chopping board or lyre. printed in this year'. Year not stated, later marked on the inside of the cover '2- Edition (Private print). In front of the title page copper engraving depicting 'Dorothea Statsmøe..'. Including the 4th book and with 14 illustrations at the back of the book.
Full leather binding with gold printed title on spine. General wear, paper yellowed. The illustration pages are worn at the edges.
Ludvig Holberg: 'Life and Lefnet's description of himself, in an epistle to a great man written in Latin, and now to the pleasure of many by another in the Danish language translated and published'. Bergen 1741. 1st Danish edition of the original Latin from 1728. Half-leather binding, heavily worn, spine partially missing. Complete, but title page loose at bottom, paper yellowed.
Additionally 3 booklets: Just Justesen 'The resurrected Paars', 1863, '23 pictures for L. Holberg's Peder Paars stuck in copper' by J.F. Clemens, Den Gyldendalske Boghandling 1863 and Karl Madsen 'Illustrations to Holbergs Peder Paars from Holbergs tid til vor', V. Pio's bookstore 1919.
All booklets with worn covers, Justesen completely loosened at spine, Clemens with folds on some corners and some pages with light brown stains. (5)
All five with ex-libris Ditlev Duckert.