Origines Islandicae. A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other Native Writings Relating to the Settlement and Early History of Iceland

by Gudbrand Vigfusson, F. York Powell

$250 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905. Icelandic literature FIRST THUS. In two volumes. Octavo 23 x 16 x 11cm , pp.xvi; 728, pp.vii 1 787 1 . Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, boards blind-ruled, gilt titles to spines. Lightly toned internally, the odd mark/patch of spotting here and there. A few light pencil annotations, as well as two small inscriptions in black ink to vol. 1 rear pastedown. Cloth gently rubbed and marked with mild edgewear. Very good.

• Binding: Hardcover

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