Title Information
Non Sort
A
Title
description of Greenland
Title Information: Alternative
Title
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
Title Information: uniform (nameTitleGroup="1")
Title
Gamle Grønlands nye perlustration. English
Name: Personal (usage="primary", nameTitleGroup="1")
Name Part
Egede, Hans
Name Part: Date
1686-1758
Type of Resource
text
Genre (marcgt)
biography
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)
enk
Place
Place Term: Text
London
Publisher
Printed for T. & J. Allman, Princes Street, Hanover Square
Publisher
W.M. Reid, Charing Cross
Publisher
and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row.
Date Issued
1818
edition
A New edition /
Issuance
monographic
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
kal
Language (objectPart="translation")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
dan
Physical Description
Form (marcform)
print
Extent
viii, [3], cviii-cxviii, [1], x-ciii, [1], 225, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map. ; 24 cm.
Note: Statement of Responsibility (altRepGroup="00")
By Hans Egede, who was a missionary in that country for twenty-five years.
Note
Colophon reads: Charles Wood, printer, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street, London.
Note
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.
Note
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.
Note
"Sketch of the life of Hans Egede": p. [xciii]-ciii.
Note
"A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, a native", p. 158-164, is without music and gives a description of the performance.
Note
"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.
Note
Signatures: pi (pi2 verso blank) a (-a8) (gathering a missigned h) (a1 verso blank) b-g (g2, g8 versos blank) B-P chi1.
Note
Engraved vignette on a ship in the ice on title page; head pieces.
Subject
Geographic Code (MARC Geographic Area Code)
n-gl---
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Egede, Hans
Name Part: Date
1686-1758
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Lutheran Church
Genre
Catechisms
Topic
Kalâtdlisut dialect
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Lutheran Church
Genre
Creeds
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Eskimos
Geographic
Greenland
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Eskimos
Geographic
Greenland
Topic
Social life and customs
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Natural history
Geographic
Greenland
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Kalâtdlisut dialect
Topic
Grammar
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Kalâtdlisut dialect
Genre
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Subject
Topic
Indian linguistics
Topic
Kalâtdlisut dialect
Subject
Topic
Indian linguistics
Topic
Eskimo languages
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Greenland
Topic
History
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Greenland
Topic
Description and travel
Subject
Topic
Imprint 1818.
Subject
hierarchicalGeographic
country
England
city
London
Related Item: Is Referenced By
Title Information
Title
Sabin
Part
Part Detail: Part
Part Number
22029
Identifier: LCCN
a 18001247
Identifier: oclc
720382382
Record Information
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Record Content Source (marcorg)
Harvard Univ. Library
Record Creation Date (encoding="marc")
110505
Record Change Date (encoding="iso8601")
20111213133844.0
Record Identifier (source="OCoLC")
ocn720382382
Origin of Record
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languageOfCataloging
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Identifier: InternetArchive
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