Lithografiska skizzer fran fregatten Norrkopings expedition till Amerika och Westindien 1861-1862 med text af Johan Govenius ... forfattere till novellerna: minnen fran skolan och akademien, ofversten och Hans Dolter samt: Fregatten Norrkopings expedition 1861-1862
Goteborg: C. F. Arwidsson; Stockholm: Typografiska Foreningens, 1862-3. First edition, 2 volumes, 16mo and oblong 4to; pp. [4], 476; [2], 40; atlas volume with tinted lithograph frontispiece and title page, 11 lithographic plates, 3 tinted, original blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover, gilt on purple leather-backed spine, hinges cracked, spine rubbed, pages slightly browned; good or better; text volume in original calf-backed marbled boards, blue sprinkled edges; extremities rubbed, lower spine frayed; good or better. Swedish novelist Johan Oskar Laurentius Govenius' detailed account of his voyage to the United States and West Indies, including a list of the ship's officers, poetry, theatre programs, and songs. The quarto atlas appeared a year later. The Negro in the West Indies was of special interest to Govenius and is the subject of several plates. Govenius stayed in Boston with Swedish Americans; he enjoyed the Boston theatre and described its actresses. Item #12209
Price: $1,250.00
