Heimskringla, or, The Lives of the Kings

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd. Cambridge.

BINDING
Blue cloth boards with gilt design.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are generally worn and faded, especially spine. Some scuffing and marking and a couple of splits to cloth by spine. Hinges a little weak but binding remains secure. Printed pages and images remain clear and little marked. Fold out maps are intact and seem to have been little handled, with just a few creases and slight browning to edges. 

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
1932 edition.

DESCRIPTION
This history of the ancient Norse Kings of Iceland was first written C.1230 and is here edited and annotated by Erling Monsen. English translation assisted by A.H. Smith. Illustrated throughout with eight monochrome photographs / facsimiles and many further images within the text including woodcuts and diagrams. Four large fold out maps, and an early map of Iceland on endpapers. 770 pp. Octavo.