Phillip Korber; Robert Montgomery Bird; Lars August Malmgren

Dampiers lefvernesbeskrifning och reseäfventyr i frammande lander, for ungdom bearbetad af Philip Korber

[BOUND WITH] Roland Forrester's och hans syster Edithas sallsamma afventyr bland Wildarne (Swedish adaptation of Robert Montgomery Bird's Nick of the woods; or, The Jibbenainosay)

Stockholm: L. G. Rylander, [1849] & [1847].
15cm x 12cm. 131, 228 pages, 4 hand coloured plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Half leather over pebbled cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Text is in Swedish.

Extremely rare Swedish edition for children of the life and adventures of William Dampier, translated by Lars Malmgren for Rylander from an obscure work by German writer Philip Korber. Korber is known to have written a number of stories on maritime adventure for young audiences which, with the exception of one work in German published in Nurnberg, were only published in Dutch language editions by Dutch publishing houses during the 1840s and 1850s. As we can locate no German or Dutch edition of the present work, it is not entirely clear whether the original language was German or Dutch, although the Lexicon of Swedish Translators suggests Malmgren's translation was from the German and that Rylander published Dampiers lefvernesbeskrifning in September, 1849. The narrative contains extremely detailed accounts of both Dampier's experiences in the Americas and of his circumnavigation in the Roebuck, including his visit to Australia's northwest coast in the second half of 1699. One of the charming hand coloured plates shows an encounter with an alligator, and another the meeting between Dampier's men and Will and Robin, the two Mosquito Indians who had been left on the island of Juan Fernandez by Watling.

Unrecorded in OCLC.

The second work in this volume is an adaptation of Robert Montgomery Bird's popular story, Nick of the woods (1837), set in Kentucky in the 1780s and describing a brutal conflict between Europeans and Shawnee Indians.

Three copies of this Swedish version of Bird's story are located in OCLC (University of Virginia; University of Minnesota; National Library of Sweden).

Some rubbing to board edges. Very minor tanning and foxing to interior. Near Fine Condition.