The problem of the northmen: a letter to Judge Daly, the president of the American Geographical Society…
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890. Second edition (first trade edition), 4to, pp. 23; photographic frontispiece, 2 photographic illus. on 1 plate, and 6 maps (5 folding); very good in original pebble-grained green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover, light wear to extremities. A professor of chemistry at Harvard (and the formulator of Rumford Baking Powder--still on grocery shelves today!) Horsford (1818-1893) turned to archaeology in his retirement. Believing he had found evidence for Viking settlements in Cambridge, MA, he here refutes "the opinion of Justin Winsor, that 'though Scandinavians may have reached the shores of Labrador, the soil of the United States has not one vestige of their presence.'" Item #22465
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