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OLAFSSON, JON The life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson traveller to India written by himself and completed about 1661 with a continuation, by another hand up to his death in 1679. Vol. I. Life and travels: Iceland, England, Denmark, White Sea, Faroes, Spitzbergan, Norway
London Hakluyt Society 1923 Hard Cover Very Good
Translated from the Icelandic edition of Sigfus Blondal, by Bertha S. Phillpotts. xxxvi,238,[1] pages, 6 plates (including map), cloth, very good. Volume I only. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; Second Series,no. 53. From the Preface: The Autobiography of Jon Olafsson, Traveler to the Indies, remained unprinted in Icelandic, save for a few excerpts, until 1908-9, when an edition by Mr. Sigfus Blondal, Librarian of the Royal Library, was published in Copenhagen by the Icelandic Heritage Society. The text of this edition, which was based on a scholarly collation of the extant MSS., has been implicitly followed in the English translation.
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