Schering Rosenhane’s Book Collection at the Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities

Abstract

Part of the library of the civil servant, historian, and collector Schering Rosenhane the Younger (1754–1812) was in 1822 donated to the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities where it remains to this day. The donation to the Academy included 1,820 volumes, consisting chiefly of books on Swedish and Nordic history and topography. This chapter looks into Rosenhane’s collecting practices, provenance in the books and traces of reading.