Histoire de la Laponie, sa description, l'origine, les moeurs, la maniere de vivre des ses habitans. Traduites du Latin par L. P. A. L(ubin).

Paris (chez la veuve Olivier de Varennes) 1678. Small 4to (237 x 176 mm.). (14), 3-4 (variant of leaf signed A2), 1-408 pp. Engraved extra title, folding engraved map (Carte novuelle de la Laponie… par R. P. Aug. Lubin), 21 engraved plates , engravings in text Contemporary full vellum, Morocco title-piece. A very attractive copy.

Early and important work on the Laplanders, their history and culture. First edition published in Latin in 1673. This was the first authoritative account of the Lapps since Olaus Magnus. The description is based on reports prepared by clergymen in the North of Sweden at the request of the chancellor Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-1680), a great patron of learning, to whom the first edition is dedicated. The author Schefferus (or Scheffer) was a professor at Uppsala University, where he had been invited in 1647 from Strassbourg. (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, p. 23.).

Collijn 828-29; Marklund 2611.