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[Norway - Sweden] CATTEAU-CALLEVILLE, Jean-Pierre Histoire des révolutions de Norwège, suivie du tableau de l'état actuel de ce pays avec la Suède [...]. Paris, Pillet, 2 vol., 8vo: [4]-vi-374-[1], [4]-pp.; 1 map (foxing, ms. ownerships cut out half titles). Contemp. three-quarter red morocco, green paper covers, flat spines entirely gilt orn. (sl. rubbed). First edition of this historical work on Norway, illustrated with a fold. map of Scandinavia. The French pastor and historian J-P. Catteau-Calleville (1759-was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Joined: [Arckenholtz, J.] - Mémoires concernant Christine reine de Suède [...]. Amsterdam ; Leipzig, P. @Mortier, 2 (of vol., 4to: [incl. front.]-xxviii-560-[2], [16]-348-202-144-34-[pp. (sl. browning, occ. foxing). Brown-olive morocco, covers ruled with a triple gilt fillet and corner pieces, gilt orn. spine with raised bands and two labels, edges a with double gilt fillet, a.e.g., gilt orn. inside dentelles (cover with a few scratches, upper and lower joints sl. rubbed). Two first volumes only of the original edition of this early biography of Christina of Sweden (1626-by Arckenholtz (1695-1777), librarian, political pamphletist and historian. Ill. with an engr. frontispiece and two engr. headpieces by P. Tanjé, engr. printer mark on title by R. Picart (1728), engr. in text (mainly numismatic) by F. de Backer and J. Schenk (1751), and a few woodcuts (initials or tailpieces). Ref. STCN - Opac BnF. - Not in Opac KBR. (4 vol.)