Mémoire sur la découverte de l'Amérique au dixième siècle.
Carl Christian Rafn (1795–1864)
Category
Books
Date
1843
Materials
Place of origin
Denmark
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3052867
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],3-52,[4]p., 9 plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Binding: Calf, gilt rules (nineteenth-century) Coronet & initial B [= Brownlow] at head of spine. Bound in at front: (a) Autograph letter to 1st earl Brownlow from C.C. Rafn, dated Copenhagen, Feb. 13 1850, notifying him of his election as Fellow and Founder of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries; (b) diploma of Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab, dated 8 Feb. 1850, admitting the 1st earl Brownlow as a founder member (dissected, mounted and folded).. Provenance: Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on flyleaf: r/8.
Makers and roles
Carl Christian Rafn (1795–1864) Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab