Description
- Notes:
- übersetzet von D. Joh. Ge. Krünitz.
- Translation, by Johann Georg Krünitz, of: Description et histoire naturelle du Groenland, first printed in Copenhagen and Geneva, 1763, which is itself a translation, by Jean Baptiste Des Roches de Parthenay, of: Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration, eller, Naturel-historie, printed in Copenhagen, 1741, but which first appeared in a pirated edition in Copenhagen, 1729.
- A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, p. 173-180, is without music and gives a description of the performance.
- "Norwegische Wörter in der Grönländischen Sprache", p. 180-193, 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.
- Signatures: )( A-P ()(1 verso, P7 verso, P8 blank)
- Woodcut vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
Citation
"Herrn Hans Egede, Missionärs und Bischofes in Grönland, Beschreibung und Natur-Geschichte von Grönland"
(1763).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:576945/
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