84 - [Denmark]. PONTANUS, Johann Isaak.

[Denmark]. PONTANUS, Johann Isaak. Rerum Danicarum historia, in one volume; brought up to the Oldenburg house; with an appendix containing a chorography of the Kingdom of Denmark and its entire northern region, including its cities Amsterdam, published by Johannes Jansson, in the year 1631 [in the colophon]: Hardervici Gelrorum / Printed by Nicolaus à Wieringen / in the year 1631. Folio (37 x 23 cm), (8) folios including an engraved frontispiece title page, 812 pp., (26) folios, 3 maps (out of 5). 18th-century speckled fawn sheepskin, spine with 6 raised bands, gilt title, compartments richly decorated with small ironwork and gilt fillets, double gilt fillet framing the covers, speckled edges (defects on the binding, including missing cap bands, scuffing, and a small wormhole on the upper cover, short map margins, browning, small wormholes; the map of Iceland and Denmark is missing). First edition. History of Denmark in ten books compiled into a single volume by Johann Isaak Pontanus, tracing the kingdom’s development up to the House of Oldenburg. The work is supplemented by a chorographic description of the territory, its northern regions, and its cities. It consists of an engraved title page, three black-engraved copperplate fold-out maps, 812 pages of text, and 26 unnumbered leaves containing very detailed indexes, an addendum, and errata.