THAM, Pehr.

Göthiska Monumenter; samlade och beskrifne.

Stockholm, Langeska tryckeriet, 1794. 4to., pp. [8], 16, with 19 engraved plates, stain on the lower margin of the title, otherwise a large and fresh copy; drab front wrapper preserved with the signature of Nils G. Bruzelius (1826-1895), archaeologist and keeper of the historical museum at the University of Lund, dated Lund, 26 November 1855. Modern marbled boards. First edition of the first part (all published) of the archaeological researches in Bohuslän on the west coast of Sweden made by C.G.G.Hilfeling (1740-1823), the archaeologist and draughtsman employed by Peter Tham. Tham was a nobleman with an estate called Dagsnäs, in Västergötland, Southern Sweden. He was an improving landlord, poitical economist and friend of the sculptor Sergel and the artist Elias Martin. According to Jarl Nordbladh,'How to organize oneself within history: Pehr Tham and his relation to antiquity at the end of the eighteenth century', Antiquity, vol.76, no 291 (March 2002), Tham collected runic stones and set them up in his 'English' park and also built himself an 'old Norse suicide precipice', a somewhat Wertherian gesture of which no one is known to have taken advantage, Sergel also helped Tham to organise a museum of antiquities which included stone axes.

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