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At Vangsgaards Antikvariat we have tens of thousands of books for sale in all categories

Below you see a small selection of our books. You can inspect the books and buy them, by clicking on the text or image. Then you will come to the antiquarian bookseller site of Scandinavian antiquariates. You can browse all titles from our antiquarian bookshop by following this link:

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Vangsgaard's Antiquariate

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You can buy the books directly through this webshop, and you can choose to pay online, via invoice order (where you pay on receipt of your books) or you can order as "pick-up in store", and then collect your order, and pay for your books, in our cozy shop in Fiolstræde 34 -36 in the medieval centre of Copenhagen.

Johannes Larsen, med indledning af Otto Gelsted

Johannes Larsen woodcut. With an introduction by Otto Gelsted.

Scripta, Copenhagen (1954). 4° (sheet size 28 x 20 cm). 20 original woodcuts, printed from the logs by Simon Gullander in Skjern and all signed by Johannes Larsen with monogram (joined JL). Text booklet on 20 pages with 6 original, but unsigned woodcuts in the text. Loose sheets inserted in orig. dark blue full shirting cassette (Jakob Badens Bookbinderi by Mogens Wille).
* Issued in 115 numbered copies, of which this is No. 9. Delightful set with original woodcuts that form a fine overall picture of Johannes Larsen's supreme mastery of this art form over a very long life. Here are unused bird pictures for Trækfuglene (1914), graceful depictions of animals, beautiful boy portraits of Larsen's two sons and a magnificent cluck bottle.
DKK 15,000  

HEGEL, STONE.

Peter and Marianne at school.
Branner og Korch, Copenhagen 1953. Drawings by Gerda Nystad. 36 pages. Orig. cardboard binding with canvas spine. The covers are slightly bent, otherwise in fine condition.
* About pregnancy and childbirth for children. Sequel to How, Mother?** With the rare enclosed, explanatory letter to 'Father and Mother' from Sten Hegeler, which explains about the communication about the difficult area of procreation. He received lots of death threats after the publication of these children's books.

DKK 150    

Peter og Marianne
Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie

NORDEN, FREDERIK LUDVIG.

Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie, par Mr. Frederic Louïs Norden, captaine des vaisseaux du roi. Ouvrage enrichie de Cartes & de Figures dessinées sur les lieux, par l'Auteur même.

2 volumes in 1. L'Imprimerie de la Maison Royale des Orphelins, Copenhagen 1755. Folio (42 x 30 cm.). Printed on thick paper. Engraved portrait of author (by Johann Martin Preisler) + engraved frontispiece (Marcus Tuscher). (40)+288 pages + and 159 engraved maps and views (drawn by the author and engraved/etched by Tuscher, partly in cooperation with the author). Bound in a recent brown half-morocco binding with richly gilt decorations in 18th style on spine (Bent Andrée/Hagel Olsen 1977). Old name (CG Tessin) on title page. Inscription (1942) and old ink stamp (Rosenørn Lehn) on subtitle page opening the paginated section.
* Attractive copy of this pioneering work, the cornerstone of Egyptology, published in 200 copies by the then newly founded Royal Danish Scientific Society. The Danish naval officer FL Norden (1708-42) traveled on the Nile 1737-38, reaching as far as today's Sudan. He was a skilled draughtsman, and his enormous material was the first documentation of many Egyptian monuments ever, also depicting everyday life in Egypt. ** Danish Book Art 20. One of the 50 most beautiful Danish books ever. Magnificently equipped Danish edition of this magnum opus, which was published in French in 1755. The Danish naval officer reached further down the Nile than any European had accomplished since ancient times and with his precise observations and drawings became the founder of Egyptology.

DKK 50,000 

SØNDERBY, KNUD.

Greenlandic summer.

Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1941. 85 pages. Drawings by Gitz-Johansen. Orig. half cloth binding.
* First edition.

DKK 200

Grønlandsk Sommer
Tretten dage af sne

JAC, FP

Thirteen days of a snow - almond gift poem.

Borgen, Valby 1981. 33 pages. Booklet with orig. cover. Very well maintained.

150 DKK 

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