BAGGE, FRITZE & (ED.) HJELTE GALLERI : SKILDRING AF STORA MÄN FRÅN OLIKA FOLKSLAG OCH TIDER. Stockholm, Fritze & Bagge, 1838. 22 by 17,5 cm. [4], 202 pp. + engraved title + 6 hand-coloured engraved plates after Johann Christian Albert Schule. ¶ First edition in Swedish, abridged and adapted. Biographical sketches of "great men" and military "heroes" from ancient Greece and Rome up to the Bonaparte era, such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Richard Lionheart, Bayard, the Good Knight without fear and without reproach, Wallenstein, Gustaf II Adolf, Karl XII, Friedrich der Grosse, and others. Translated from the German and adapted to a Swedish audience by Ture [or, Thure] Wensjoe [1801-65].
Johann Christian Albert Schule [1801-75], engraver active in Leipzig.
The plates are: Karl XII of Sweden; Alexander the Great; Joseph II [1741-90]; Andreas Hofer [1767-1810], Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot; Napoleon I; and Gebhard von Blücher [1742-1819], Field Marshal of Prussia.Contemporary cloth, floral decorated in blind, gilt lettering on spine, lower joint weak.
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