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Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland en de Straat Davis. : Tot nut der wetenschappen en den koophandel.

by: Anderson, Johann, 1674-1743; Winckler, Johann Dietrich, 1711-1784

Publication date: 1750

Topics: Anderson, Johann, 1674-1743, Natural history, Natural history, Eskimo languages, Indian linguistics

Publisher: Te Amsterdam, : by Steven van Esveldt, boekverkoper in de Beurs-Steeg

Collection: jcbgerman; jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Dutch

Volume: Copy 1

Translation of: Herrn Johann Anderson, ..., Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis. Hamburg, 1746

Title vignette: landscape

"Voorbericht, vervattende het leven van den Heer Burgermeester Anderson." (p. [5-16], first count), signed Z*** [i.e. Johann Dietrich Winckler]

Signatures: *-2* A-2N 20² (*1 verso, A1 verso, Q1 verso blank)

Includes "Aanhangzel" (p.244-286) which consists of a brief vocabulary, a grammar and some statements of Christian faith and prayers, all in Danish, Dutch and the Eskimo language, except for the grammar which is restricted to Dutch and the Eskimo language

Includes bibliographical references and index

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800

Sabin 1407

Muller, F. Amer.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary vellum, Includes handwritten index on rear flyleaf and initialed note that the book was read in 1762

John Cater Brown Library copy 2 bound in half calf, with speckled paper boards. Has bookplate of bookseller Frederik Muller on inside front board and represents the copy cited by Muller