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189141675Bourges France: Imprimerie Tardy-Pigelet 1891. Offprint. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good unopened uncut copy with book dealer's stamp on front wrapper with a few small chips. 14 pp. Illus. with 1 color folding map. 8vo. Imprimerie Tardy-Pigelet, unknown books
183627344Copenhaque 1836-44. Uncut. Wrappers stamped. Many plates and fold. engraved maps. unknown
1839elala1891Copenhagen: Au Secrétariat de la Société. 1839-48. 1839. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 385 3 8 28 3 folding engraved maps & 8 engraved plates 1 folding; 439 1 1 lithographed & 10 engraved plates 14p. fo script on 7 plates; 438 2 1 engraved map & 4 engraved plates. text illus contemporary half calf not quite uniform rubbed spines worn institutional stamps on titles some foxing throughout clean tear in 1 leaf no loss 1 plate scraped with loss of a few letters of legend but otherwise sound. The first three volumes of the memoirs of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries at Copenhagen founded in 1825 and devoted to the study of the ancient history and literature of the Scandinavian countries. One of the founders and the driving force behind the Society was Danish archaeologist Carl Christian Rafn 1795-1864 whose Antiquitates Americanae published by the Society in 1837 was the major pioneering work on the pre-Columbian discovery of America by Northmen. Included here are numerous articles and reports of American interest among them Rafns Mémoire Sur La Découverte de LAmérique Auy 10e Siècle Vol. I pp. 27-55 Account of an Ancient Structure in Newport Rhode-Island The Vinland of the Scandinavians Communicated by Thomas H.Webb. I pp. 361-68 Supplement to the Antiquitates Americanae by Charles Rafn I pp. 369-85 Accounts of a Discovery of Antiquities Made at Fall River Massachusetts Communicated by Thomas H.Webb. II pp. 104-19 Brief Notices of a Runic Inscription Found in North America Communicated by Henry R.Schoolcraft. II pp. 119-27 Astronomical Evidence for the Site of the Chief Settlement of the Ancient Scandinavians in America by Charles C.Rafn II pp. 128-31 Vases Antiques Du Pérou par C.T.Falbe II pp. 131-38 &c. Winsor I p. 94. Not in Sabin. See Sabin 67480 for the first separate edition of the first article listed in the description. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Copenhagen: Au Secrétariat de la Société., [1839-48]. unknown