The Mohawk Valley: Its Legends and Its History by Reid, W. Max - 1901

MP3 Audio CD. The Mohawk Valley Chapter I The Mythical City of Norumbega IT may seem strange to readers of a book that purports to be a history of the Mohawk Valley, that the author should go so wide afield as to connect it with a mysteri- ous country a thousand miles away and whose exact locality is unknown to this day. Undoubtedly the mythical city of Norumbega, together with the equally mythical Northwest Passage to India, was an incentive to early navigators, to visit the shores of the New World and to explore its eastern coast. Mystery and the marvellous is even now, at the beginning of the twentieth century, attractive to the majority of mankind, but how much more so in the sixteenth century, with the imagination quickened by the discoveries of the Spaniards under Cortez and Pizarro and the wonderful treas- ures secured in Mexico and Peru. That the northeast coast of America was visited by Breton (1504) and Basque fishermen, in search of fish for the Catholic countries of Europe, before the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Mohawk Valley Chapter I The Mythical City of Norumbega IT may seem strange to readers of a book that purports to be a history of the Mohawk Valley, that the author should go so wide afield as to connect it with a mysteri- ous country a thousand miles away and whose exact locality is unknown to this day. Undoubtedly the mythical city of Norumbega, together with the equally mythical Northwest Passage to India, was an incentive to early navigators, to visit the shores of the New World and to explore its eastern coast. Mystery and the marvellous is even now, at the beginning of the twentieth century, attractive to the majority of mankind, but how much more so in the sixteenth century, with the imagination quickened by the discoveries of the Spaniards under Cortez and Pizarro and the wonderful treas- ures secured in Mexico and Peru. That the northeast coast of America was visited by Breton (1504) and Basque fishermen, in search of fish for the Catholic countries of Europe, before the… Read More

Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 455 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. Published in gray cloth with gilt type face on the spine. This copy is the 1988, third printing, of the 1979 reprint edition. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1904. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Red pebbled cloth, gilt titles, black and white photo inlay on front. Illustrated with photos. Light edgewear; spine slightly darkened. .

Harbor Hill Books, 1984-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding and crisp pages, no marks or notations found. Jacket is unevenly faded and has one light stain on back cover, minor edgewear. Dust jacket is wrapped, jacket price not clipped. HB HS

Hardback. New.

Harbor Hill Books, 1984-06. Hardcover. Good.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1901. Book. Illus. by Maney, J. Arthur. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition / Later Printing. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xii (ii), 455 (8) pp, illus. Seventh Printing, 1901. Inked inscription (NY city, 1922) on ffep. 21 chapters, list of more than 80 illustrations, index. Light external wear with age-toning text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.75" x 9.6". Dark-blue cloth with tipped-in photograph, and gilt lettering to front board and spine. In Mylar glassine protector..