[LLOYD, Llewellyn]. Scandinavian Adventures, During a Residence of Upwards of Twenty Years. Representing Sporting Incidents, and Subjects of Natural History, and Devices for Entraping Wild Animals. With Some Account of the Northern Fauna. Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1854.
Second edition. Complete in two volumes. Hardcover. Leather-bound. Octavo (255 x 160 mm.), pp. [xxi], 512; [xi], 546. Bound in contemporary full polished calf. Spines gilt with title plates in second and third compartments. Boards with twin gilt ruled frames with corner-pieces. Marbled page edges and endpapers. 12 lithographed plates, 102 wood engravings, coloured map. Printed by R. Clay, London. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure the hinges intact. Covers with some marking but generally well preserved. Contents showing some light scattered foxing, mostly to endpapers. Nice armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. A scarce set. Note: Rare second edition of this very important account of bear hunting, trapping, natural history, and salmon fishing in the area north of Goteborg around Bohus. Published in the same year as the first edition. [Abbey Travel 252; Schwerdt I, page 319].
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