Author: [COLBY, James Waldo]
Title: The Lost City, Norumbega, and the New Found Forts on the Charles
Description: Waltham, MA, John Adams, 1886. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff green printed wrappers. 11pp (one side only). Maps. Very good. First edition. Published on cheap, acidic paper, this pamphlet is invariably found in poor, inferior condition -- but this copy is exceptionally tight and clean, with only mild age toning to the text block and a refreshing lack of edge tears. Colby (1841-1909) wrote a study on early Indian languages on the Atlantic coast, but here champions the then-popular theory that a circa 1000 A.D. Viking town once existed on the Massachusetts coast, north of Cambridge. .

Keywords: Colonial Americana


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