‎"LUND, MICHEL CASPER.‎
‎Om Verden og de siunlige Tings Betragtning i Verden (...) Den Første, handlende om Verden, Himmelen og Jorden (...) Den Anden, om Jorden i Almindelighed (...) Den Tredie, om Jordens særdeelis Deeling ...‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Martini, 1718. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear to extremities, holes and scratches to boards, spine-ends chipped. Ex-libris (Juel of Valdemar's Castle) pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Lower margin of title-page with minor loss of paper, slightly touching the ""8"" in the printing year. With occassional light brownspotting, but generally nice and clean. (16), 438, (42) pp. With woodcuts included in the pagination.‎

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‎Uncommon interesting geographical work which according Norwegian historian and author Ludvig Daae is the first presentation of general geography written by a Norwegian. In 1698 Lund embarked on a voyage to the Far East aboard a Dutch ship,making several stops along the way. Notably, he recounts an encounter with the Hottentots in South Africa. He spent two years in Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia), where he engaged in trade with the Chinese. His writings also document a significant earthquake that struck Batavia in 1699. The broader region of Asia is explored on pages 282–356.Biblioteca Danica II, 392.‎