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Genredarstellungen - Schweden - "Bilder ur svenska...

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Genredarstellungen - Schweden - "Bilder ur svenska folklifvet" (Pictures from Swedish folk life); illustrated cardboard volume of the time (strong traces of age, damaged and glued) with 13 (of 13) sheets of text (in three languages: Swedish / English / German) and 12 (of 12) chromolithographic plates after B. Nordenberg, K. Zoll, J. Höckert, J. W. Wallander and Br. Wennerberg; published by Johann August Berg; Verlag D. F. Bonniers, Göteborg 1855 (first edition); printed by Arnz in Düsseldorf; contains large-format decorative depictions of Swedish folk life such as the readers sect, communion celebration, baptism, harvest festival, herring catch, bridal procession, horse market, smugglers etc.; each foxed / waterstained / browned; sheet edges partly creased / torn; sheet size approx. 39.5 x 51.5cm; total size approx. 40 x 52cm