MALLET (Paul-Henri).

Northern Antiquities: or A Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws of the Ancient Danes,

including those of our own Saxon Ancestors. With a translation of the Edda, or system of runic mythology, and other pieces, from the ancient Icelandic tongue. Translated from “L’Introduction a l’Histoire de Dannemare, &c. Par Mons. Mallet.” With additional notes by the English translator, and Goranson’s Latin version of the Edda.

2 vols. 8vo. Half calf, rubbed and worn. Bookplate to upper pastedown, both volumes. Last pages of volume II browned. v, ii, xl, 346; xxxiv, 328 [=338]pp. Edinburgh, C. Stewart, 1809.

£150.00

Although it was printed later, the Edinburgh edition of the English translation is rarer.

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