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32 pages. Features: The C.N.R. gambles on passenger service - article with photos; Rita Tushingham - article and colour photos - filming of "The Trap"; Blair Richardson - The Hard-Punching Bible-Belter - article with photos of Canada's middleweight boxing champion; First Came the Vikings; When Our Parliament Buildings Burned - on a winter night fifty years ago a dreadful fire broke out - article with photos; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Book has slight soiling to textblock. Dustjacket is price-clipped. DJ has small tears to corner and chipping to spine ends. Light soiling to DJ. ; Evidence concerning the Viking discovery of North America in the tenth and eleventh centuries is so incomplete, investigation of this area of history will be substantially aided by the discovery of new documents. Such is the claim made for the previously unknown manuscripts here published for the first time. They are two documents copied about 1440 from much earlier originals, now lost. The first is an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols in 1245-47. The second is a world map, including the western ocean, with delineations of Iceland, Greenland, and a land mass named Vinland which represents the North American mainland as known to the medieval Norsemen. This map is the earliest known and indisputable cartographic representation of any part of the Americas. As the editors show, the Tartar Relation provides information on Mongol history and legend not to be found in any known source, and a portion of the Map represents the only surviving medieval example based on Norse cartography - a conclusion with far-reaching implications for the history of cartography and of the Viking navigations. OVERSIZED. ; 291 pages
320p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Paris, à la revue, mars-avril 1996, N°16. Une revue brochée de 146 pp.; nombreuses reproductions en noir ou en couleurs de documents, cartes... Bel état. Peu courant.
The world of the Vikings explained by a distinguished Danish archaeologist at the University of Aarhus and delightfully illustrated by Ehren Svenolov. Translated inti Swedish by Gunnar Rydstro?m. 240p. illus.col. NOTE: Large oversized heavy volume Book
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 10 maps (double-page and full-page) in the text; original black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely set of Severin's acclaimed Viking trilogy.
8vo., First Edition; with 2 maps (one double-page; one full-page) in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Lovely copy of the final volume of the 'Viking' trilogy.
64pp. illus.(some col.). 21cm Hardcover Very good condition good
A young man, struck by lightning, is believed to be a keeper of the Norse religion's greatest secret. When war breaks out against the rising tide of Christianity, he must embark on a journey where he must confront his own gods, but the gods of a people yet more savage. 321p.Looks unread - still has publishers band Book
Folio 291p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
313 pages. Index. "Brings to life the vital, expanding Norse civilization that dominated the western world between 800 and 1100 A.D." - from dust jacket. Heavily worn with usual library markings. Reading copy only. Book
Minor shelfwear. ; 10.9 X 8.4 X 0.6 inches; 220 pages
8vo. pp. (17), 414, 10. Illustrated DJ. Archeological study of life in Northern Europe, from 15,000 B.C. to the Time of the Vikings. Enormously useful for a better understanding of the "Barbarian" tri bes. W120
493p. frontis. Hardcover Very good condition Spine faded and spine ends worn
96 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Editor's signature and inscription atop front blank flyleaf which is loose but present. Originally published in 1973. "A sourcebook of materials and suggestions for their use by high school students in learning something of the experiences of Scandinavian immigrants in Canada, and of the cultural heritage of which Scandinavian and other Canadians are the heirs." - from preliminary page. Chapters include: Evidence of early Vikings in North America - the Viking sagas; Early Scandinavian immigrants in Canada and the U.S.A.; Gimli, Manitoba - a case study of a successful struggle for survival; Where have all the Danes gone? - the pros and cons of assimilation; Three attempts at Scandinavian colonization on the West Coast; How did we survive?; The Scandinavian touch in Canada; Scandinavia today. Sticker removal marks to upper corner of front cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding tender. An uncommon and excellent resource. Book
Folio 248p., illus. Hardcover Good condition! some underlining in fair d.j. fair
8vo., First Edition, with 15 fine full-page illustrations in the text and endpaper maps, two small anmnotations on front free endpaper map, small personal book-label on half-title; original orange cloth, upper board and backstrip with paper labels (backstrip label browned), a bright, fresh, clean copy. One of the most elusive of all Morton's works. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Fields & Devenish 10.
A panoramic novel ranging from the wild world of the Vikings to the equally dangerous sophistications of Byzantium.460.maps on end papers.460p. maps on end papers. Book
Numbered pages run from 501 to 540. Lots of photographs and nice advertisements, covering wraps in colour. Staple bound. Page 515 loose. Mark on top edge of front cover. Slight wear to edges.
143 pages plus 276 black and white photographic plates. Index. Contents include: Saint Patrick and the Pagans; Columcille; The Great Missionaries; The Fall of the Celtic Church; The Vikings of Ireland. Average wear. Usual library markings. Sturdy green buckram library binding. A sound working copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and full-page illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, orange top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Two volume set. Full gray cloth boards. Previous owner's inscription inside. Small tears on dust jacket. Each book is 6 3/4"w x 8 3/4"h. Each volume approx. 400 pages. Many b&w photos and illustrations throughout.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with double- and full-page maps in the text; black cloth, backstrips lettered in colours (red/green/silver respectively), coloured endpapers (white/green/red respectively), a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES (NOS. 33 AND 43 RESPECTIVELY) WITH BLIND LIMITATION STAMP AND AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE ON TITLES. The trilogy comprises: Raven Blood Eye (2009); Sons of Thunder (2010); Odin's Wolves (2011). COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
176 p. Illustrated with (lithographed) facsimiles of early Icelandic and Latin manuscripts. 4to. 31 cm. Very handsome original full cloth binding, decorated in silver and black. Edges uncut. Mildly XLib. Though it abounds in contradictions, 'The Flatey Book' (along with 'Hauk's Book' - also included in part here) is the chief repository of facts concerning the North American Vinland voyages of the Norsemen. Completed around 1380, the actual manuscript of this collection of Icelandic sagas was presented to the Danish King in 1662. According to this version, Biarni Heriulfsson, on a voyage from Iceland to Greenland around 985, was blown off course and sighted new lands to the south-west. Fifteen years later Leif Ericsson set out from Greenland in search of the lands that Biarni had seen, and found them. These he named: Helluland (Flat-stone-land); Markland (Forestland); and Vinland (Wineland). After his return, successive expeditions visited the new lands. In all probability, the Vinland they discove red now belongs to some part of southern Nova Scotia (though some claim it for Rhode Island). This collection of manuscripts and translations into English and Danish is edited by Rasmus Bjorn Anderson (1846-1936). It is augmented and supported by several very interesting texts from the Vatican, about the Catholic Church in America Greenland and before the time of Columbus. These were discovered in 1902, and first exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904). Reading the Flatey sagas, we find that the grapes of Vinland were discovered in Winter; by Leif's foster-father, Tyrker the German; who got drunk from eating the fruit; which grew on trees large enough for building timber. One wonders why they did not stay? A fine copy of this important text about the Discovery of America by Norsemen. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150
Features: Foot-loose and Fancy Free - Kenneth Oliver; Runestones and Tombstones - were Vikings in Oklahoma? Their calling cards exist; Early-day rodeo circuits; Lost ingots from the Ajo Mine; Queen Ann of Brown's Hole - the rustler was a lady!; Silver Lake, Oregon's most tragic Christmas; Ghosts of the men from Spain; Last days of the Park Reinsmen; So the doctor took a trip; Some men ain't sociable; Bronc Peelin'; Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas 1864 and 1869. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
