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  <title>A description of Greenland.</title>
  <creator>Egede, Hans, 1686-1758</creator>
  <subject>Egede, Hans, 1686-1758</subject>
  <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 1818</subject>
  <description>Colophon reads: Charles Wood, printer, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street, London</description>
  <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 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</description>
  <description>"Sketch of the life of Hans Egede": p. [xciii]-ciii</description>
  <description>"A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, a native", p. 158-164, is without music and gives a description of the performance</description>
  <description>"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</description>
  <description>Signatures: pi (pi2 verso blank) a (-a8) (gathering a missigned h) (a1 verso blank) b-g (g2, g8 versos blank) B-P chi1</description>
  <description>Engraved vignette on a ship in the ice on title page; head pieces</description>
  <description>Sabin</description>
  <description>John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [i-ii], a possible half-title</description>
  <description>John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary green morocco with marbled boards</description>
  <publisher>London : Printed for T. &amp; J. Allman, Princes Street, Hanover Square : W.M. Reid, Charing Cross : and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row.</publisher>
  <date>1818</date>
  <language>eng</language>
  <language>kal</language>
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  <physical_description>viii, [3], cviii-cxviii, [1], x-ciii, [1], 225, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map. ; 24 cm</physical_description>
  <jcb_call>G818 E29d</jcb_call>
  <repub_state>4</repub_state>
  <updatedate>2012-10-16 19:01:51</updatedate>
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