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- 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
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- Title
- Gamle Grønlands nye perlustration. English
- Name:
Personal
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- 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
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Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- kal
- Language
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- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- dan
- Physical Description
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Egede, Hans
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Date
- 1686-1758
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- Lutheran Church
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- Catechisms
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- Kalâtdlisut dialect
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Corporate
- Name Part
- Lutheran Church
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- 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
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- Eskimo languages
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- Geographic
- Greenland
- Topic
- History
- Subject (LCSH)
- Geographic
- Greenland
- Topic
- Description and travel
- Subject
- Topic
- Imprint 1818.
- Subject
- hierarchicalGeographic
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- England
- city
- London
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- Sabin
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- 22029
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- a 18001247
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- 720382382
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- Harvard Univ. Library
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- 110505
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- 20111213133844.0
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