Description
- Notes:
- Portato nuouamente dalla lingua alemana nell' italiana dal sig. Iacopo Rautenfens [sic] gentilhuomo curlandese. Consecrato all'illustriss. & eccellentiss. Sig. Antonio da' Canal nobile Veneto.
- Roman numeral date printed following place of publication on title page.
- Translation, by Jacopo Rautenfels, of the author's: Spitzbergishche oder groenlandische Reise Bescrhreibung, first printed Hamburg, 1675.
- Another edition printed in Bologna in the same year.
- Reprinted, without 2 folded plates or in text illustrations, from the Bologna edition of the same year.
- Despite the title, this work concerns Spitzbergen only, mentioning its geographical relationship to Greenland and Jan Mayen Island; also includes a long description of whaling.
- Signatures: A-L¹² (A1 verso blank)
- Engraved printer's ornament on title page; tail pieces; initials.
Citation
"Viaggio di Spizberga o' Grolanda [sic] fatto da Federico Martens amburghese l'anno 1671:
Que si descriuono que' remotissimi paesi del settentrione sotto gli 81. gradi, ne' quali soggiorna il sole per lo spazio di tre mesi intieri. Con vna copiosa relatione di quell' aggiacciato clima, e de gli vccelli, quadrupedi, pesci, e piante rare, che vi nascono, colla descritione delle balene, e lor pesca
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(1680).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:581042/
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