Alcinius Abraham (1 results)

Condition: Good. Stockholm, N. Wankijff, (1678). 4:o. 44 pp. Disbound and with later grey paper backstrip. Closely cut in upper margin, touching the first words in the title and a some of the captures. A few soilstains. Some leaves with wormhole in inner margin, pp. 35-38 loose from stitching. Old pencilled duplicate note. Melander Personskrifter hänförande sig till Finland 708. Warmholtz Bibliotheca historica Sueo-Gothica 7697. A new edition was printed in Åbo by the widow who remarried with Johannes Gezelius the Elder. The work is concluded with an interesting section containing biographical data on pp. 31-43, in which the travels and military achievements of the deceased are described. Admiral Johan Bergenstierna, who died on the ship Victoria prior to the naval battle at Rügen in 1676, travelled to East India, among other places, an visited, for example, Java, Siam and Japan. Bergenstierna is usually counted as the first Swede to visit Japan, an event which took place in 1647. This is the only presentation of his travels made in older times, and the preacher at the Admirality, Alcinius, obviously had access to Bergenstierna's travel journals. These are now lost, which makes this work the main source of his travels. Bergenstierna owned Hadnäs on Åland and is buried in the church of Lemland.