Lot 4423: [Dahlberg, Erik Jönsson (1625-1703)] , Suecia antiqua et hodierna. [Stockholm, c. 1693-1716]

3 volumes in one, oblong folio (320 x 403mm.), 13, [1]pp., illustration : 353 engraved plates (21 of which attached to another plate, to make a total of 332 sheets), including 3 title-pages, portraits, maps, armorial plates and over 300 fine views, by Le Pautre and others, several folding, binding : eighteenth-century mottled calf gilt, floral roll border with acorns and crowns,spine gilt in compartments, manuscript plate numbers added to printed index, light dampstaining in lower margins, small amount of worming at foot of inner margin of approximately 100 plates, penultimate plate inlaid, final plate laid down, binding rubbed

BL STC Scandinavian S842; Collijn (1600-Talet) 197; BAL RIBA 772; Berlin Catalogue 2256; Lipperheide 1037

Dahlberg, governor of Livonia and Chancellor of the University of Tartu in Estonia, obtained a commission from the Swedish government in 1661 to make drawings of the country's architectural treasures. Nearly all of the engravings were executed after his designs by Pierre Le Pautre, Jean Marot, Adam Perelle, Johann Jakob Sandrart, Willem Swidde, Jan van Vianen, Jan van den Aveele and eleven others. A small number were based on drawings by David Klocker-Ehrenstahl and Elias Brennter. The work was published for presentation purposes at the expense of the Swedish crown under Charles XI and XII. This copy has the fourteen-page index bound at the end but is, as often, without the rare accompanying text, written in Latin by Per Lagerlöf.