Le Tartuffe eller den skenhelige. Comoedia uti fem acter, af den namnkunnige Molliere på den fransöska skådeplatzen aldraförst förestäld, och nu af fransöskan förswenskad åhr 1730.

(MOLIERE, J. B. P.)

Publication Date: 1731

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Stockholm, Historiogr. regni tryckerij, af H. Gercken, 1731. Small 8:o. 109,(1) pp. Disbound. Old sprinkled edges. Occasional foxing and minor spotting, faint dampstains on title and in upper corner on pp. 55-62. Small tear in lower margin on the first two leaves. Repair to lower corner on pp. 23-24. Klemming Sveriges dramatiska litteratur p. 69. Translated by Magnus Lagerström, who in the same year also published a translation of "L'avare eller den giruge". Magnus Lagerström (1691-1759) grew up in Stettin, which was then under Swedish rule, and studied in Rostock, Greifswald, Wittenberg and Jena, among other places. He came to Sweden in 1721 and ten years later he became secretary of the newly formed Swedish East India Company - from 1746 he was one of its directors. Lagerström became a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1748 and is known as generous patron of both the Academy and its most famous member, Linnaeus. In his younger days Lagerström made a living as a translator and also published the first English textbook in Sweden. Among his translations can be mentioned Bunyan's "Kristens resa" [The Pilgrim's progress] and a number of plays by Ludvig Holberg, among others. This is the first Swedish translation of "Tartuffe". Seller Inventory # 40268B

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Title: Le Tartuffe eller den skenhelige. Comoedia ...

Publication Date: 1731

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good