8vo. 1447pp, [13]. With an engraved frontispiece, nine further engraved plates, and six terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Inked inscription to verso of FFEP: 'Major Gaisford / with the translators / kind regards.'

The first edition in English, translated from the Danish by Liberal politician Humphry William Freeland (1814-1892), of poet Frederik Paludan-Müller's (1809-1876) juvenile historical adventure novel dramatizing the search for the Fountain of Youth by Spanish Conquistadors in the New World.