Description
- Notes:
- By Hans Egede, who was a missionary in that country for twenty-five years.
- Colophon reads: Charles Wood, printer, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street, London.
- 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 facsimile of the London, 1745 title page, without imprint, appears on p. [ix] and reads: A description of Greenland: showing 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, etc. By Hans Egede, missionary in that country for twenty-five years. Translated from the Danish.
- "Sketch of the life of Hans Egede": p. [xciii]-ciii.
- "A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, a native", p. 158-164, is without music and gives a description of the performance.
- "Of their language", p. 165-178, 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: pi (pi2 verso blank) a (-a8) (gathering a missigned h) (a1 verso blank) b-g (g2, g8 versos blank) B-P chi1.
- Engraved vignette on a ship in the ice on title page; head pieces.
Citation
"A description of Greenland"
(1818).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:576947/
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