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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation Hardcover - 1995

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

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Yale Univ Pr, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oversize. clean, unmarked copy. light stain top edge. owner name front endpaper.
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  • Title The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
  • Author Skelton, R. A.;Marston, Thomas E.;Painter, George D
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale Univ Pr, New Haven
  • Date 1995
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 362588
  • ISBN 9780300065206 / 0300065205
  • Weight 4.38 lbs (1.99 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.85 x 9.55 x 1.64 in (30.10 x 24.26 x 4.17 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Early maps, C. de Bridia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95021114
  • Dewey Decimal Code 912.7

From the rear cover

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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About the author

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
.