ANCIENT AND MODERN; BEING A HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY: COMPREHENDING A DESCRIPTION OF THESE COUNTRIES; AN ACCOUNT OF THE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR NATURAL HISTORY. BY ANDREW CRICHTON, LL.D., " AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF ARABIA, & C.; AND HENRY WHEATON, LL. D., Author of the History of the Northmen, &c., Honorary Member of the Scandinavian and WITH A MAP, AND TWELVE ENGRAVINGS. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. NEW-YORK: HARPER AND BROTHERS, CLIFF-STREET. 387.1 HARVARD Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ADVERTISEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PUBLISHER S. THE Family Library being intended to embrace every branch of useful literature, and, consequently, to form of itself a complete library, a well-writ. ten, judicious, and comprehensive popular history of all the most interesting and important countries has been deemed by the publishers, from the commencement of the enterprise, as indispensably necessary; and as they have been able to procure works of such a character, either original or se. lected, they have incorporated them into the series. They are happy to have it in their power to present to the public, in these volumes, a history of the kingdoms of Northern Europe, no less distinguished by erudite research than by the charms of style, and the general ability with which it is written. It is the joint production of two of the ripest scholars of the present day, who have made the subject of Runic literature and antiquities, as well as of Northern history generally, their particular study. Doctor Crichton is already known to the readers of the Family Library by his History of Arabia, and our accomplished and learned countryman, who has contributed some of the most important chap. ters, has acquired for himself no common reputa. tion as an elegant writer and profound antiquarian. Mr. Wheaton was for many years minister of the United States at the Court of Copenhagen, and his residence at that capital afforded him the greatest advantages for prosecuting his favourite inquiries. The subject of Scandinavian history has much in it that is deeply interesting to the American reader, particularly in its connexion with that of our Father-land, which was for centuries ravaged, and finally subjected, by the "Sea Kings" of the North. These volumes, with the one on Iceland, Greenland, and Faroe, recently published in the Family Library, complete the historical view of Sweden,. Denmark, and Norway. HARPER & Brothers. New-York, Oct., 1841. |