Denmark.- Worm (Ole) Runer [runic] seu Danica literatura antiquissima..., second edition, lacking half-title, title in red & black with woodcut device, woodcut head & tail-pieces and initials, 1651; Specimen lexici runici..., 1650; De aureo serenissimi domini Christiani Quinti Daniae, Norvegiae &c. electi Principis Cornu, large folding engraved plate of hunting horn, 1641, together 3 works in 1 vol., woodcut ornaments and illustrations, some light browning, contemporary calf with central gilt lozenge, spine gilt in compartments, rubbed, spine ends worn, folio, Copenhagen, Melchior Martzan; and another relating to Denmark, folio (2)
⁂ The first is the first systematic work on the Runic alphabet, first published in 1636; the last includes a plate of a golden horn discovered in southern Jutland in 1639.
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