Bref under resor i Sverige [Letters during travels in Sweden]. + Bref under nya resor i Sverige [Letters during new travels in Sweden]. + Bref under senare resor i Sverige [Letters during later travels in Sweden].

(LINNERHIELM, JONAS CARL)

Publication Date: 1797

About this Item

Stockholm, Kumblinska tryckeriet, 1797. 4:o. XIV,220,(4) pp. & 10 engraved plates. With engraved vignette on title and 24 engravings in the text. + Stockholm, C. Delén, 1806. 4:o. (2),XIV,150,(4) pp. & 26 engraved plates. With engraved vignette on title. + Stockholm, A. Gadelius, 1816. 4:o. XIII,(1),155,(5) pp. & 16 engraved plates. With engraved vignette on title. Three volumes uncut in partly restored contemporary grey paper wrappers with modern dustjackets made in a similar style. In a neat burgundy half morocco slipcase with green label on spine (Leonard Gustafsson). Spine with minor spotting. Plates in volume I with dampstain in inner top corner and an unskillfully repaired tear in the text on pp. 125-26. Some old repairs in volume II, a few pages unopened. Last volume dampstained from p. 151 to the end. A nice copy. Bring Itineraria svecana 251, 347 and 373, respectively. Setterwall Svensk historisk bibliografi 6431, 6432 and 6433, respectively. Both wrongly states the number of plates in the second volume as 25. The businessman, heraldist and artist Jonas Carl Linnerhielm (1758-1829) can be seen as a Swedish representative of the genre of the picturesque travel book, "la voyage pittoresque". The first volume contains 34 line etchings, the second 27 aquatints and the third 17 crayon engravings. The Swedish landscape painter and author Gunnar Brusewitz has written the following about Linnerhielm: "During his travels around the country he was constantly occupied with a critic evaluation of the aesthetic value of the landscape. He literally 'reviewed' the nature of the south and middle parts of Sweden, as if it had been created by someone who could be reprimanded and called upon to make improvements." (Our translation). Brusewitz decribes the content of these three volumes as "some of our most beautiful book art from the decades around 1800.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bref under resor i Sverige [Letters during travels in Sweden]. + Bref under nya resor i Sverige [Letters during new travels in Sweden]. + Bref under senare resor i Sverige [Letters during later travels in Sweden].
• Publication Date: 1797
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good