The Discoveries of the Norsemen in America with Special Relation to their Early Cartographical Representation by Fischer, Joseph; (Translated by Basil H. Soulsby) - 1903

New York, NY: Lenox Hill, 1971. Cloth. Very Good/Published Without Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 358 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text free of markings.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated from the German by Basil H. Soulsby. Frontispiece, with ten plates. Facsimile of the 1903 edition. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A near fine copy.

NY:: Burt Franklin,. Near Fine. 1970. Hardcover. 0833711318 . Translated from the German by Basil H. Soulsby. A reprint of the 1903 edition. About fine in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering along the spine. No dust jacket. .

London: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, 1903. Undetermined. very good. [xxiv] 130 +16pp catalogue at rearpp. Ex-lib. Narrow quarto. Institutional green cloth; title and vignette in gilt to front board. Spine title in gilt; small dunt to crown, boards slightly rubbed at joints. Institutional bookplate to front paste-down, small library blindstamps throughout textblock, not intrusive. Pictoral frontis; 10 B/W plates from photographs at rear, folding map. Textblock edges show scattered foxing; otherwise a tight clean copy, particularly given library origin. very good Translation of Fischer's study of Norse discovery in America. Using early Norse and Germanic maps, the author attempted to reconstruct exactly how much of America the Norse sailors may have discovered on their journeys around Greenland and Iceland. A groundbreaking work in its time. 1903

London: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles., 1903. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Green Decorative Cloth, maps, fold out maps, plates and illustrations. Spine ends rubbed, corners slightly bumped. back cover small dampstained, a few light spots, bookplate on pastedown, pages shaken. 130pp, plus 10pp plates. 16pp publishers works, all in very good condition. Of all the alleged discoveries of America before the time of Columbus, only the bold voyages of exploration of the fearless Vikings to Greenland and the American mainland can be considered historically certain. Although there is an inherent probability for the fact of other pre-Columbian discoveries of America, all accounts of such discoveries (Phoenician, Irish, Welsh, Chinese) rest on testimony too vague or too unreliable to justify a serious defense of them. There lives a man on Greenland's stream, And Spiledebodh doth he be named; More has he of white herrings, Than he has of pork that is… Read More