The Norse discovery of America
a compilation in extensio of all the sagas, manuscripts, and inscriptive memorials relating to the finding and settlement of the New world in the eleventh century, with presentations of freshly discovered proofs, in the form of church records supplied by the Vatican of Rome, never before published
by Arthur Middleton Reeves, North Ludlow Beamish, Rasmus Björn Anderson, and James W. Buel
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Norse, Discovery and explorationPlaces
America, Norumbega (Argentina)
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"Of the Memorial edition there are but three hundred and fifty complete sets made for the world ..."
Added color series t.p.
In 3 parts: pt. 1 is a reprint of chapters 1-6 of A.M. Reeves' "The finding of Wineland the good, London, 1895; pt II ("book II") is a reprint of the greater portion of N.L. Beamish's "The discovery of America by the Northmen," London, 1841; pt. 3, by R.B. Anderson, has title: Norumbega in America.
Some plates accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
McCormick Theological Seminary Gift 2008
Bookplate: The Virginia Library, McCormick Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, Chicago.
Forms part of the McCormick Theological Seminary Collection at the Newberry Library.
Bound in green cloth; gold-stamped pictorial design on cover and spine; gilt top edge.
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