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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation : New Edition (in shrinkwrap]
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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation : New Edition (in shrinkwrap] Hardcover - 1995

by Skelton, R. A.; & Thomas E. Marston; George D. Painter

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New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Univ Press, 1995. A gorgeous, pristine copy -- still in the publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap. Brand New condition in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO chips. NO tears. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square, and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Illustrated with 19 plates, including a few foldout maps. Updated and expanded edition of this classic of historical cartography. Among the additions are a new introduction by George Painter, who discusses the verification of the map's authenticity; a new essay by Wilcomb Washburn on the map's provenance and scientific testing; and a new discussion of the map's compositional and structural aspects by Thomas Cahill and Bruce Kusko. This edition also includes for the first time an account by rare-book dealer Laurence C. Witten of his acquisition of the map in 1957. The Vinland Map, dated to about 1440, more than 50 years before Columbus landed in America, "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 first published in 1965 and immediately generated an enormous amount of controversy. The debate led to repeated scientific investigations of the map's ink, paper, and other evidence. Along with the original text, this new edition adds accounts of conclusions from those studies. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold over a black panel on the spine. Includes dust jacket.. Updated and expanded edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/New. 357pp. + 19 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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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 discusses the verification of the map's authenticity; a new essay by Wilcomb E. Washburn, director of the Smithsonian's American Studies Program, on the map's provenance and scientific testing; and a new discussion of the map's compositional and structural aspects by Thomas A. Cahill and Bruce H. Kusko, of the Crocker Historical and Archaeological Projects at the University of California, Davis. There is also an account by the rare-book dealer Laurence C. Witten II, who died while this new edition was in preparation, of his acquisition of the map in 1957.

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The late R. A. Skelton was superintendent of the Map Room of the British Museum. The late Thomas E. Marston was curator of medieval and renaissance literature at the Yale University Library. George D. Painter is assistant keeper emeritus of printed books at the British Museum and the author of Marcel
Proust: A Biography.

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