[Vikings In America] Antiquitates Americanae and similar items

Rafn, Caroli Christiani, ANTIQUITATES AMERICANAE. Copenhagen: Typis Officinae Schultzianae, 1845. 1st ed./2nd issue Rebound, OE leather/maroon cloth hardcover, folio (13.5x10.250?), very good/n.a., 24 (intro), xl, 479pp, 6 northmen genealogical tables, 8 facsimiles of early manuscripts, 10 engraved plates/maps (1 folding). Modern leather rebind, first title page(there are 3 altogether) is damp-stained along foredge, preliminaries are lightly chipped with a few small tears along foredge, text is lightly spotted/foxed sporadically throughout, not effecting text or plates. A linguist?s dream, the languages herein contain articles and documents in French, Danish, Latin and English! This second issue is indeed apparently the remainder of the 1st edition with the addition of a 24pp introduction in French. Sabin refers to it as a remainder issue, with the added introduction making it the, ?Fullest and most important work that has yet been published relating to the discovery of America by the Northmen.? It is comprised of a collection of original accounts in Icelandic, with Danish and Latin translations of those accounts, and ?learned notes by the editor.? [Sabin 67471] Splendidly illustrated, this book dared to challenge the ?Columbus s discovered America,? theme and is one of the first major works to put forth the concept that it had actually been discovered by the Northmen centuries before Columbus. Quite the notable and magnificent Capture of Tyme indeed!