[Rarebooks] FS: Well-Illustrated HISTORY OF LAPLAND, 1674, with First Depiction of a Person Skiing

[Charles Agvent]

SCHEFFER, John. THE HISTORY OF LAPLAND WHEREIN ARE SHEWED THE ORIGINAL 
MANNERS, HABITS, MARRIAGES, CONJURATIONS, &C. OF THAT PEOPLE. Oxford: 
Theater, 1674. First English Edition. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11") in worn 
contemporary calf leather with a modern leather spine; vi, 147, [1] 
pages. First edition in English of a study of the geography, natural 
history, and inhabitants of Lapland, originally published in Latin the 
previous year. Cox I, 178; Wing S851. Illustrated with an engraved title 
page, a folding map, and 26 large woodcut text engravings, including the 
FIRST DEPICTION IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK OF A PERSON SKIING. Both 
covers bear the arms of Henry Yelverton (1664-1704), 15th Baron Grey de 
Ruthyn and Viscount de Longueville. Occasional foxing or stain; short 
closed tear to one leaf with no loss. Leather cracked, dry, and peeling, 
but sound. Very Good.

Lapland is the least densely populated area of Finland. The Sami people, 
traditionally known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, are the 
northernmost indigenous people of Europe and are widely credited with 
being the inventors of the ski. (#017981) $1,750

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