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Horsford, Eben Norton : Discovery of America by Northmen: Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of Leif Eriksen; Delivered in Faneuil Hall, Oct. 29, 1887

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA, 1888

Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. 10 1/2" x 12 1/4." 113 pages, complete. Twenty-four maps and illustrations (fifteen maps; nine illustrations), complete. Printing information on the recto of the title page: "The Riverside Press, Cambridge." Printing information on the verso of the title page: "University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight edge wear at the bottom. Corners slightly bumped. A few scratches to the covers. Top of the spine has a small dampstained spot which is very faint and does not affect any text or illustrations on the interior pages. A Near Fine copy. The following is the Preface: "The address delivered in Faneuil Hall on the occasion of the Unveiling of the Statue to Leif Eriksen has been revised, and there have been added to it, in interest to the reader, several maps and illustrations that may help to fulfill the object I had in view,--a justification of the monument to Leif in Boston. The matter omitted at the delivery, for want of time, has found its place in these pages. I have attempted to present in the address the essential story of the discovery of America by the Northmen, omitting only the matters which properly enough may appear in an account of the life and usages of the people, but which do not so immediately concern the strict history of the Discovery of America. In the Appendix I have printed some notes: and, that the reader might have the principal sources of the Saga lore before him, I have added the larger part of Joshua Toulmain Smith's version (1842) of the Saga of Eirek the Red, with occasional parallel passages from Beamish's translation, and extracts from Thorfinn's Saga, and also the three 'pieces' (Thattir) interpolated into the life of Olaf Tryggvason, which are embraced in the paper of J. Eliot Cabot. A subsequent paper will discuss the Landfall of the Northmen, and the site of the houses built by Leif and occupied by him, Thorwald, and Thorfinn, and where after additions by Thorfinn, the son Snorri was born. I find no evidence of there having been any building erected by the early Northmen on the south side of the peninsula of Cape Cod, or on the shores of Naragansett Bay." The following are the Contents: "Address," "Appendix A.--Dighton Rock," "Appendix B.--Latitude of Vinland," "Appendix C.--Andre Thevet," "Appendix D.--Wood's Holl," "Appendix E.--Indian Corn Found Growing in Vinland," "Saga of Eirek the Red," "Saga of Thorfinn," and "Thattir Eirek's Rauda and Graenlendinga Thatt" by Cabot.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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