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<title>A description of Greenland. : Shewing the natural history, situation, boundaries, and face of the country; the nature of the soil; the rise and progress of the old Norwegian colonies; the ancient and modern inhabitants; their genius and way of life, and produce of the soil; their plants, beasts, fishes, &c. With a new map of Greenland. And several copper plates representing different animals, birds and fishes, the Greenlanders way of hunting and fishing; their habitations, dress, sports and diversions, &c.</title>
<creator>Egede, Hans, 1686-1758</creator>
<subject>Lutheran Church</subject>
<subject>Lutheran Church</subject>
<subject>Eskimos</subject>
<subject>Eskimos</subject>
<subject>Natural history</subject>
<subject>Kalâtdlisut dialect</subject>
<subject>Kalâtdlisut dialect</subject>
<subject>Indian linguistics</subject>
<subject>Indian linguistics</subject>
<subject>Imprint 1745</subject>
<description>Translation of: Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration, eller Naturel-historie, og beskrivelse over det gamle Grønlands situation, luft, temperament og bestaffenhed, first printed in an enlarged edition Copenhagen, 1741, but which first appeared in a pirated edition in Copenhagen, 1729</description>
<description>A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, p. 155-162, is without music and gives a description of the performance</description>
<description>"Of their language", p. 163-[174], gives a small glossary of Kalâtdlisut dialect words as well as a discussion of grammar; the three articles of faith and the Lord's prayer are also translated into the Greenlandic language</description>
<description>Signatures: pi a² B-O P</description>
<description>Pritzel</description>
<description>Nissen. Zool</description>
<description>Pilling, J.C. Eskimo language</description>
<description>Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800</description>
<description>Alden, J.E. European Americana</description>
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<publisher>London : Printed for C. Hitch in Pater-Noster Row; S. Austen in Newgate-Street; and J. Jackson near St. James's Gate</publisher>
<date>1745</date>
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<physical_description>xvi, [4], 220 p., 12 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 21 cm. (8vo)</physical_description>
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<updatedate>2012-08-16 13:25:18</updatedate>
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