The Vinland map and the Tartar relation

Hbk, xii, 291 pages, 19 pages of plates (some folded), 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps (some folded) ; 30 cm. A clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Dust-wrapper also in pretty good condition. "The manuscript map and text were copied about 1440 by an unknown scribe from lost earlier originals. The first is a world map, including the Western Ocean, with representations of Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland; the second is an account, written in 1247 by an unidentified friar who called himself C. de Bridia, of Carpini's mission to the Mongols in 1245-47." [Cartography History - Mongols History. - Vikings - Northmen Exploring expeditions - Early maps - North America Historical geography - America Norse Discoveries in geography] p1847 / m16270.