Description
- Notes:
- par Mr. Eggede, missionaire & evêque du Grönland. ; Traduite en François par Mr. D. R. D. P.
- Dedication signed by the translator Desroches de Parthenay on p. [4], 1st count.
- 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.
- A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, p. 119-124, is without music and gives a description of the performance.
- "De la langue des Gröenlandois", p. 124-135, 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.
- Signature: pi² a-b A-K L (L6 verso blank)
Citation
"Description et histoire naturelle du Groenland"
(1763).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:576871/
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