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[NORWAY]. LAING, Samuel (1780-1868). The Heimskringla; or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson… London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. 8vos. viii, [486], [2, ads]; [iv], [400]; [iv], [394],[2, ads] pp. Publisher’s full brown cloth, boards decoratively paneled in blind, spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, yellow coated endleaves (bindings worn, spines torn, some hinges starting, previous owner’s signature on ffeps (“Charles W. Noble 1856”), a few leaves roughly opened with some marginal chips). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF LAING’S FINE TRANSLATION OF STURLESON’S HISTORY OF NORWEGIAN KINGS.