First edition. One of the Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography. Contains a bibliography of Skelton's writings. Jacket chipped. xvii, 138 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..

Maps: A Historical Survey of Their Study and Collecting (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography)

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Skelton, R. A.

Atlases & Maps

University of Chicago Press

<p>The Vinland Map, dated to about AD1440 - at least 50 years before Columbus landed in the Americas - is a 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 much debate. Chemical analysis of the ink later suggested the map might be a forgery, but recent appraisals of both scientific and humanist evidence argue that it is indeed authentic. Now this classic of historical cartography is available 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, with which the map had at some stage been bound. To this have been added a new introduction by George D. Painter who discusses the verification of the map's authenticity; a new essay by Wilcomb E. Washburn, Director of the Smithsonian's American Studies Programme, on the map's provenance and the tests that have been performed on it; 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, USA. There is also an account by Laurence C. Witten II, the rare-book dealer who sold the map to the benefactor who donated it anonymously to the Yale University Library.</p>

The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation: New Edition

Marston, Thomas E.

Painter, Mr. George D.

Yale University Press

County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850: A bibliography

Dawson

County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850: A bibliography;

Carta Press

The voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot and their English contemporaries  were made, for the most part, in search of a westward passage to Asia, and they resulted in the revelation of North America. The evidences are printed here, with an indication of their origins. Some are obscure in meaning, incomplete in statement, or mutually contradictory; and we are left with the certainty that important documents have existed or may now exist, which are still unknown. Dr Williamson interprets the evidence we have. Parts of his undertaking are in the nature of detective work and he does not claim that his solutions are final, which would be impossible in the face of new evidence that may at any time occur. Cabot study is a continuing mental adventure. The maps are an important category of the evidence. Mr R.A. Skelton of the British Museum has contributed a treatment of them, authoritative in its explanations, and a valuable admonition on what can and cannot be expected of the material.   This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1962.

The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII (Hakluyt Society, Second Series)

History

Americas

Routledge

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