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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. first edition book, includes the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Texas Swedish Cultural Foundation January 1990 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4; xiv, 156 pages; Hard cover is black with silver lettering on spine; faint rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. DJ has some rubbing, scuffing, sunning, bumping, 1/2" closed tear at top of front; in a mylar cover. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 'Jaensson, Swen [Swante Palm] (18151899). Swen Jaensson, known as Swante Palm, noted book collector and promoter of Swedish immigration to Central Texas, was born in Sweden in 1815. In 1866 the Swedish government named Palm vice consul for Norway and Sweden, a position he held the rest of his life. As vice consul and as agent of the American Emigrant Company in the 1870s, he encouraged Swedish immigration to Central Texas and helped immigrants once they had arrived. In 1883 on one of Palm's two trips to Sweden, King Oscar II awarded him the Order of Wasa in appreciation of his service as vice consul.Palm is best known for his library of about 12,000 volumes, collected over a lifetime from all over the United States and Europe. His collection included Scandinavian works, books about Texas, classics, literature, and scientific books. He knew English, French, Latin, German, and various Scandinavian languages and dialects, and copious marginalia indicate that he read much of what he collected. He donated most of his books to the University of Texas in 1897, a gift that increased the size of the university library by more than 60 percent'.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Light rub to the jacket, else a fine copy in an archival protective sleeve. 156 ages with References, Appendixes, and Index. Several illustrations, including the frontispiece of Palm. The life of Swedish immigrant Svante Palm, who played important roles in Texas in civic, commercial, cultural, and political life. His true passion, though, was for book collecting. He donated his private library to the University of Texas in 1897, the Swedish portion of which remains as a unique document that contains many rare and valuable volumes from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Provided in this book are a bibliography of the 17th and 18th century items and a bilingual edition of Palm's own account of his emigration to America.…

Cloth. Condizione: Fine Condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 156 pp., B&W illustrations throughout. Edition of 1,000 copies. Early Swedish pioneer in Texas (1815-1899), he left his considerable library to the University of Texas in 1897. Slight shelf wear to the bottom edge of the dustjacket cover, otherwise fine. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover.…

Swante Palm and His Swedish Library at the University of Texas at Austin. Illustr. Houston 1990. 156 pages. Hardcover in dustjacket.[#161674].