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Basel 1567. Folio (297 x 197). (56), (2 blank) pp. 623, (1) pp. Contemporary vellum. 334 woodcut illustrations. 1 folding map. Later endpapers. Title-page with one minor hole (no loss of text). Old writing on title-page verso. Some minor worming and foxing. One pp. with tear in lower margin. Inner strengthened at the end. Folding map in good condition, minor split in lower centerfold. In 1567 two editions of “Historia” were published in Basel, one in Latin with 485 woodcut illustrations, and one in German with 334 woodcut illustrations. Both with a large folding map of Scandinavia. The German edition is considerably rarer than the Latin. Provenance. Jonas Skougaard, with his pencil notes on front pastedown