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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
by Skelton, R. A., Thomas E. Marston & George D. Painter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300065205
- ISBN 13
- 9780300065206
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, black endpapers, lxvi, 291 pp, 25 ff plates not in pagination (including 4 oversized folding plates), footnotes, index. Light soil to fore-edge, else fine. DJ has two tears with creasing to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archvial cover. The Vinland map, believed to have been drawn in about 1440, shows the Old World, Iceland, Greenland, and the coastline of northeastern North America. It was discovered bound in a volume with a manuscript copy of the Tartar Relation, "an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247." This volume contains facsimiles of the map and the Relation, a transcription and translation of the Relation, history and description of the manuscript by Marston, a study of the map by Skelton, and an interpretation of both by Painter. The preliminaries include essays by Wilcomb E. Washburn on the controversy surrounding the map, Thomas A. Cahill & Bruce H. Cosko on forensic studies of both, and antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten II on his acquisition of the map in 1957. Shipping weight 6 lbs.. Revised Ed. . Fine/Fine. 30 X 23½ cm.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EXNW00005
- Title
- The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
- Author
- Skelton, R. A., Thomas E. Marston & George D. Painter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Revised Ed
- ISBN 10
- 0300065205
- ISBN 13
- 9780300065206
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven & London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Exploration Historic Voyages
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration;
- X weight
- 96 oz
- Size
- 30 X 23½ cm
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