Ho'p The Western Frontier of the Norsemen

Otto Hans Feiden

2023

First Edition

Hardcover. Condition: Used, like new. Dust Jacket Condition: Used, like new. 1st Edition. 205 pages folio, 108 photos most in color, fronties, 3 maps, grey cloth gilt, A new history book that changes the early history of America forever. English language. More than thousand years ago, Viking sailors from Greenland and Iceland discovered a new continent in the West--America. This is fact since the finding of Norse remains at L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland, Canada. Shortly after the discovery of that new land in the western sea, a settlement expedition started from Greenland, two old Norse sagas telling us so. But where on this new continent had they settled? And what has happened there? This is one of the few remaining questions open in human history! The author has spend years of research to answer this question. In his research he found the ancient Vinland, Vinland the Good and also Ho'p, the first European settlement on American soil ever. The Vikings settled in the lower St. Lawrence region in what is today Quebec, Canada. This fact is now proven beyond any shadow of doubt. The key to this conclusion lies in the Icelandic sagas and in the early literature Americas. A wonderful book! The book was privately printed in first edition in 2023 in 200 copies only and sold out within a week.

US$ 59.95

Ho'p The Western Frontier of the Norsemen

Otto Hans Feiden

2024

Second Edition

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 2nd Edition. 213 pages folio, 109 photos most in color, fronties, 3 maps, grey cloth gilt, A new history book that changes the early history of America forever. English language. More than thousand years ago, Viking sailors from Greenland and Iceland discovered a new continent in the West--America. This is fact since the finding of Norse remains at L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland, Canada. Shortly after the discovery of that new land in the western sea, a settlement expedition started from Greenland, two old Norse sagas telling us so. But where on this new continent had they settled? And what has happened there? This is one of the few remaining questions open in human history! The author has spend years of research to answer this question. In his research he found the ancient Vinland, Vinland the Good and also Ho'p, the first European settlement on American soil ever. The Vikings settled in the lower St. Lawrence region in what is today Quebec, Canada. This fact is now proven beyond any shadow of doubt. The key to this conclusion lies in the Icelandic sagas and in the early literature Americas. A wonderful book! The book was privately printed in first edition in 2023 in 200 copies only and sold out within a week. This is the second expanded edition.

US$ 59.95

Ho'p The Western Frontier of the Norsemen

Otto Hans Feiden

2023

First Edition, Signed & Inscribed

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 205 pages folio, 108 photos most in color, fronties, 3 maps, grey cloth gilt, A new history book that changes the early history of America forever. English language. More than thousand years ago, Viking sailors from Greenland and Iceland discovered a new continent in the West--America. This is fact since the finding of Norse remains at L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland, Canada. Shortly after the discovery of that new land in the western sea, a settlement expedition started from Greenland, two old Norse sagas telling us so. But where on this new continent had they settled? And what has happened there? This is one of the few remaining questions open in human history! The author has spend years of research to answer this question. In his research he found the ancient Vinland, Vinland the Good and also Ho'p, the first European settlement on American soil ever. The Vikings settled in the lower St. Lawrence region in what is today Quebec, Canada. This fact is now proven beyond any shadow of doubt. The key to this conclusion lies in the Icelandic sagas and in the early literature Americas. A wonderful book! The book was privately printed in first edition in 2023 in 200 copies only and sold out within a week.

Signed & Inscribed

US$ 465.00

The Quadrupeds of North America

Audubon, John James

Published by Audubon, V.G., New York, 1849

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: V.G.Audubon, 1849-1851-1854, 3 Volumes 10 x 6 4/8 inches, 155 fine hand colored lithographed and chromolithographed plates by W.E.Hitchcock and R.Trembly after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, all tissue guards present, the plates clean and crisp,2 half titles, new endpapers, 20th-century quarter blue morocco, raised bands, blue cloth minor rubbing in all a fine set. First octavo edition, bound from the original parts. The 'Quadrupeds' was first published in three folio volumes between 1845 and 1848 as "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America", with 150 color plates. The first octavo edition, issued in response to the success of a similar edition of the 'Birds of America', between 1851 and 1854, contains all of the original 150 plates, reduced by means of the camera lucida, with 5 of the 6 supplemental octavo plates that were issued separately with the text in 1854.Audubon's enthusiasm at the start of the project was unbridled. Around 1840 he wrote to his collaborator, the Rev. James Bachman," I am growing old, but what of this? My spirits are as enthusiastical as ever. My legs full able to carry my body for ten years to come and in about two of these I expect the illustrations out and ere the following twelve months have elapsed, their histories studied, their descriptions carefully prepared and the book printed! Only think of the quadrupeds of America being presented to the World of Science by Audubon and Bachman" (Streshinsky, Audubon, p.331). The artist managed to complete seventy-seven drawings before failing health kept him from his work. The remainder were completed by John Woodhouse Audubon. The dauntingly massive enterprise was a commercial success, owing chiefly to Victor's careful management. Before Audubon's death in 1851, his sons succeeded in soliciting some three hundred subscriptions for the work. Bennett 5; Nissen ZBI 163; Sabin 2638.

US$ 22,500.00

The captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family,1780-83

Severance, H. Frank

Published by The Burrows Brothers Company, 1904

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. 204 pages, fronties, map, Original publishers stamped gilt red cloth, fifth edition , limited to 267 copies, this copy the copyright copy of the library of congress , captivity story of the captivity and sufferings of the family of Benjamin Gilbert. One of the most important North American Indian captivities.

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A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery

Gass, Patrick

Published by J.Budd, London, 1808

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. London: J.Budd, 1808, octavo, 381 pages, 2 pages advertising present, 8 1/16 x 5 inches, full contemporary calf with covers fine bordered in blind, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt roll and flanked with a dark band, lettered with gilt in second compartment the others with repeat decoration in blind, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Sir Thomas Munro, 1th Baronet, General, Governor of Madras (armorial bookplate) The first English edition ( after the first American edition of 1807) with the first account of the Lewis and Clark expedition from St. Louis to the western (pacific) ocean. Because of the delay of the publication of the official account, Gass's journal was first to appear and as such was eagerly taken up by readers starved for information about Lewis and Clark's important expedition. Gass's London journal was printed on much better paper stock and larger format than the American edition, making this edition much more fine and durable. Patrick Gass was a rough but very reliable frontier and his account, although written in simple and true language, is one of the jewels of early Americana. The book was the first publicly available source of information of the western expand of the United States.

US$ 12,750.00

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles

John Smith, Captain

Published by Edward Blackmore, London, 1632

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Generall Historie. with the names of the Adventurers, Planters and Governours from the first beginning Anno 1584 to this present 1626. With the Proceedings of those Several Colonies and the Accidents which befell them in all their Journeyes and Discoveries. Also maps and descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, Customs, and Religion yet Known. Small folio [28 x 19 cm], engraved title signed John Barra, (6)ff., 1-96, 105-248, 4 plates, of which 2 are folding maps, 2 views, Note: copies are complete without the O signature, which was never printed (see Stevens apud Church 402, p.937). First edition, 1632 issue, Title in 6th state showing King Charles in mature years. Ould Virginia in 4th state with the addition of the name "Adams Sound" above " C. Henry". Virginia in 11th state with the cross-hatched hair on the Indian. New England in 9th state with the addition of the settlements along the Charles River and Boston appearing twice. The summer Isles in 3th state with the addition of the line "printed by James Reeve". The portrait of the Duchess of Richmond, not required by Church 422, is here in the later printing (see 402, p.938). Bound in early gilt -ruled calf, rebacked. Ownership inscription of John Frommen (?), Febr. 20 1653, Philadelphia, on front endleaf. Strong impression of maps; hairline short tear on map of New England and Virginia repaired without loss. The maps are in excellent condition, with margins. Excellent. A fine copy of one of the most important books in American history. It is the primary source for information about the first english settlements in the New World. Captain John Smith's eyewitness observations form the basis of the narrative; they were made during his stay in Virginia from 1606 to 1609, and during his exploration of the New England coast from 1610 to 1617. Smith, who played a key role in the founding of the new settlement of Jamestown, is remembered as a "tough, stout-hearted, honest explorer, surveyor and sometimes Governor of Virginia [who] still stands the unrivalled hero and benefactor of Virginia and friend of the estimable Pocahontas" (Stevens apud Church, p.988). He is credited with bestowing the name "New England" on the region previously known as "North Virginia". All of his numerous books and pamphlets were designed to encourage trade and colonization overseas. "His masterpiece is the Generall Historie, which was the first sizable work written in English about the newfound continent" PMM 124). Following a survey of voyages to America to 1605, Smith describes the physical features, natural products, and Indians on Chesapeake Bay. His historical account of the Virginia Colony covers the period from 1606 to 1624 and includes much knowledge acquired at first hand. Other sections in the book relate the histiries of the Summer Isles (Bermuda) and New England. As Church points out, given the multitude of variant states of the titles, plates and maps, coupled with the fact that "most copies lack one or more of these, it is not surprising that hardly any two copies of this work are identically alike" (p.986). This copy contains all required parts, with the maps updated to reflect the most current geographical knowledge. * Church 422; Burden,"The Mapping of North America", Virginia (state 11), Old Virginia (state 4), New England (state 9); Alden & Landis, "European America", 632/99; Sabin 82, 829 (and notes following 82823); STC 227god.

US$ 335,000.00