STURLUSON, Snorri (1179-1241). Heims Kringla, Stockholm, 1697, 2 vols. bound in one, folio, parallel text in Old Norse, Swedish and Latin, modern old-style panelled calf. FIRST EDITION. With Peter Murbeck's Christeliga Bredikningar (Kalmar, 1785). (2)

STURLUSON, Snorri (1179-1241).  Heims Kringla eller Snorre Sturlusons Nordlänske Konunga Sagor. Sive Historiæ Regum Septentrionalium, ê Snorrone Sturlonide, Ante secula quinque, patrio sermone antiquo Conscriptæ, Quas Ex Manuscriptis Codicibus edidit, Versione gemina, notisque brevioribus, Indici Poëtico vel Rerum, sparsim insertis, Illustravit Johann: Peringskiöld. Stockholm: Literis Wankiwianis, 1697. 2 volumes bound in one, folio (315 x 200mm). Engraved printer's device on title, parallel text in Old Norse [Icelandic], Swedish and Latin, headpiece and ornaments (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Modern old-style panelled calf, spine with green morocco lettering-piece, new endpapers. Provenance: illegible old signature on title. FIRST EDITION. Brunet IV, 301-2: "Cette édit. renferme le texte islandais de l' Heims-Kringla, mais imprim. d'après des manuscrits fautifs"; PMM 168: "Snorri [Sturluson]'s contribution to the literature of Iceland is of inestimable importance ... Snorri's own [contributions were] the great collections of the Sagas of the Norse Kings called Heims Kringla, first published in full in 1697 in the original Icelandic, with translations into Latin and Swedish, edited by Johann Peringskiöld ... [T]here are early accounts of the western voyages of Erik the Red and Leif the Lucky and the early settlements in 'Vinland', as the Norsemen called the north-eastern coast of the American continent ... Snorri's work is the stem and source of the legend of the Norsemen: a legend which is still present today"; Sabin 85484. With Peter Murbeck's Christeliga Bredikningar, hållne af Framledne kyrko-herden (Kalmar, 1785, contemporary calf, metal bosses, lacks clasp). (2)