Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author: "Sidney Godolphin A Shippard, from the author, William Desborough Cooley Esq." An off-print from The Foreign Quarterly Review, no. 91. The author, a founder of the Hakluyt Society, was a noted geographer, and herein reviews two Danish publications of 1837 relating to Vinland: American Antiquities or Accounts from Northern Writers Respecting America Before the Time of Columbus and Collection of the Evidence contained in Old Writings, respecting the Voyages of Discovery made to American by the Ancient Inhabitants of the North.