RAFN C. Christian.

ANTIQUITATES AMERICANAE edidit Societas Regia Antiquariorum septentrionalium. Studio et opera…

Hafniae [Copenhagen], Typis Officinae Schultzianae, 1837 "gr. vol. in folio, pp. XLII, 479, (6), leg. carta color. coeva con dorso con tit. a stampa. Con 19 tavv. raff. pagine di antichi codici, vedute, tra cui una gr. mappa su due fogli dell'Islanda, altra ripiegata delle regioni artiche americane. Testo in lingua latina e danese. Il secondo frontespizio recita: "Antiquitates Americanae, sive Scriptores septentrionales rerum Ante-Columbianarum in America". Ediz. orig. Scopo della corposa pubblicazione era di dimostrare come negli incunaboli e documenti scandinavi ci fossero tracce della conoscenza del Nuovo Continente da parte delle popolazioni nordiche, in epoca di gran lunga antecedente la scoperta di Colombo. Bruniture nel testo e fioriture marginali alle tavv. protette da veline, dovute alla qualità della carta. [126]"

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Book number: CAT24-398

Catalogue: AMERICANA

Rafn, Carl Christian [1795-1864]

Bemaerkninger om en steenöxe med Runeindskrift tilhörende H.M. Kongen af Danmark

Kjöbenhavn, Thielles Bogtrykkeri, 1854. orig. wrappers. 24x14cm, 11 pp. Offprint from 'Antiqvarisk Tidsskrift'.. Cover soiled. Some wear. Good.
¶ Text entirely in Danish. "Remarks on a stone axe with runic inscriptions belonging to the King of Denmark". Includes textual illustrations.

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Book number: BOOKS029606I

Keywords: Scandinavian Archaeology, Denmark, Antiquities, Stone Age, Runes, Runic Inscriptions, , ,

RAFN, Charles Christian.

Extracts from Remarks by Charles Christian Rafn, On a Danish Runic Stone, From the Eleventh Century, Found in the Central Part of London.

Clapham: Printed by G.P. Meaden, High Street, 1867. Hardcover. Pamphlet bound into simple brown hardcovers, with gilt lettering to spine. Foxed. B/W illus. 24pp.

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Book number: 53216

Keywords: history historical archaeological archaeology britain british runes runic stone danish danes 11th eleventh century

Charles Christian RAFN

Mémoire sur la découverte de l'amérique au dixième siècle

Imprimerie Qvist | Copenhague 1843 | 14.50 x 24 cm | broché Imprimerie Qvist | Copenhague 1843 | 14.50 x 24 cm | broché | Second tirage. Deux cartes et sept gravures à pleine page in-fine. Rare exemplaire sous couverture muette. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] *

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Book number: "7864

Catalogue: Histoire - Moyen Âge

RAFN, Carl Christian. Ed. Montanus Hettema

Narichten betreffende de ontdekking van Amerika in de tiende euw. Naar het deensche van Carel Cristiaan Rafn door Montanus Hettema.

Leeuwarden: L. Schierbeek, 1838. 8vo. 35, [1], 4p. Edges untrimmed. Hbk. Original pink printed wrappers (water stain at top corner) mounted on new pale brown buckram boards; new endpapers. **** First and only edition of this Dutch extract by Montanus de Haan Hettema (1795-1873) of Carl Christian Rafn's (1795 - 1864) famous Antiquitates Americanae, the fullest and most important work relating to the discovery of America by the Northmen, which originally had appeared in Copenhagen in 1837. In this work Rafn stated that America was discovered by Northmen already in the 10th century, that from the 11th to the 14th century the North American coast had been partially colonised as far as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and that the Vikings had been as far south as Florida. The book contained some Icelandic saga's which were, according to Rafn, directly relating to Northmen activities in America. As this work proved to be very influential, Hettema choose to compile a relatively cheap and compendious extract of it, containing only those parts of Rafn's work which he considered were likely to be the most interesting to Dutch readers. On the two leaves at the end is a prospectus issued by the Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord à Copenhague, for the Antiquitates Americanae extensively quoting Alexandre von Humbold on this book.Haan Hettema was a judge in Leeuwarden and an expert in the field of the Frisian language and history. In the context of the reviving Germanic studies, he had published a Dutch translation of another work by Rafn under the title Beknopte handleiding om de oude Friesche taal te lezen en te verstaan in 1830. De Haan Hettema had translated more of Rafn's Antiquitates Americanae, but most stayed unpublished. Sabin 67485.

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Book number: GA0008

Catalogue: Antiquarian miscellaneous

Keywords: America, exploration, Greenland, Vikings