Yale University Press, Date: 1965. Hardcover. New. Yale University Press ISBN 0300065205 9780300065206 [IN]

ISBN10: 0300065205, ISBN13: 9780300065206, [publisher: Yale University Press, Connecticut] Hardcover First Edition Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light foxing on top edge of text block. ; 11.7 X 9.0 X 1.6 inches; 368 pages.
[Pomona, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press, Date: 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. 1995. Yale University Press ISBN 0300065205 9780300065206 [US]

ISBN10: 0300065205, ISBN13: 9780300065206, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT] Hardcover Ex-Libris; B & W ; 9 1/2 x 11 1/2"; xxxvii. 291 pages; Hard cover has gold lettering on the spine, slight bumping. DJ has slight rubbing, sunning; in a mylar cover. Black end papers. Blind stamped on bottom corner of front end paper and first blank page. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. 19 plates, 3 of them gatefolds. 'The Vinland Map, dated to about A. D. 1440 - at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas - is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in about 1000 by Leif Eiriksson, the Norseman from Greenland. The map was published by Yale University Press in 1965 and generated an enormous amount of debate. Chemical analysis of the ink later suggested that the map might be a forgery, but recent appraisals of both scientific and humanist evidence argue that it is indeed authentic. Now, on the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication, here is this classic of historical cartography in a new edition. It reprints unaltered the original text on the Vinland Map and an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols from 1245 to 1247 (the Tartar Relation) , with which the map had at some stage been bound. To this have been added a new introduction by George D. Painter, sole survivor of the original team of editors, who ...

New Haven: Yale University Press, Date: 1995. Hardcover. lxvi, 291p., very good hardcover in dustjacket. Revised version of the treatise on the map which is now confirmed to have been a forgery. 1995. Yale University Press ISBN 0300065205 US

Yale University Press, Date: 1996. Heavy book: NO international or priority orders. Tight and unmarked hardcover in full cloth binding. lxvi, facsimile pages, 291pp. Fold-out maps. Slightly rubbed dust jacket now in a new mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. 1996. Yale University Press ISBN 0300065205 9780300065206 [US]

ISBN10: 0300065205, ISBN13: 9780300065206, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover Heavy book: NO international or priority orders. Tight and unmarked hardcover in full cloth binding. lxvi, facsimile pages, 291pp. Fold-out maps. Slightly rubbed dust jacket now in a new mylar cover. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall
[Skyway, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0300065205, ISBN13: 9780300065206, [publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN, CT] Hardcover new revised edition, overseas orders will ,require additional postage.
[albany, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0300065205, ISBN13: 9780300065206, [publisher: Yale University Press January 1996] Hardcover used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
[Seattle, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0300065205, ISBN13: 9780300065206, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Hardcover
[Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

Yale University Press, January Date: 1996. Oversized Hardcover . Very Good/No Jacket. 1996. Yale University Press ISBN 0300065205 9780300065206 [US]