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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation from Yale University. - Additional Information
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Product Name THE VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION Short Description DESCRIPTION
- Author: R. A. Skelton Thomas E. Marston
- Author: George D. Painter
- Year: 1965
- Pages: 291
- Binding: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1965 by Yale University
- Publisher: New Haven and London
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- County of Origin: United States of America
- SKU: R7988
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- The Paper, Parchment, and ink Two documents copied about 1440 shows firsthand account of Friar John of Plano Carpini’s mission to the Mongols in the 1245-47. The second is a world map, including the western ocean, with delineations of Iceland, Greenland, and a land mass named Vinland which represents the North American mainland as known to the medieval Norseman.
INCLUDES OLD MAPS
Price - Low to High $99.00 - Author: R. A. Skelton Thomas E. Marston
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