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Sweden, historical and statistical handbook, by order of the Swedish government / edited by J. Guinchard.
LIBRA 311.485 G94 v.1-v.2
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guinchard, Axel Johan Josef, 1873- editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industries.
- Sweden.
- Sweden--Industries.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits, maps) plates, diagrams ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition English issue ...
- Place of Publication:
- Stockholm : Government printing office, 1914.
- Contents:
- I. Land and people.
- II. Industries.
- Notes:
- The 1st edition was issued in Swedish, English, and French, during the years 1898-1904, in view of the Paris exposition of 1900 and the St. Louis exposition of 1904, under the direction of the Swedish central bureau of statistics, Gustav Sundbärg, editor. By a royal command of October 6, 1912, A. J. J. Guinchard, the director of the Municipal bureau of statistics of Stockholm, was commissioned as editor-in-chief of a new edition, under the direction of the minister of finance, to be issued in Swedish, English, and German. The German edition was ready for distribution in May 1914 for the Baltic exhibition at Malmö, and the English edition was given precedence of the Swedish in view of the Panama-Pacific international exposition in San Francisco. cf. Pref.
- OCLC:
- 2949151
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