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

Title Variants

Uniform: Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis

By

Anderson, Johann, 1674-1743

Winckler, Johann Dietrich, 1711-1784

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Te Amsterdam, by Steven van Esveldt, boekverkoper in de Beurs-Steeg, 1750

Notes

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.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, | 3:920.

Sabin 1407.

Muller, F. Amer., | 3482.

Subjects

1674-1743 , Anderson, Johann, , Biography , Description and travel , Eskimo languages , Greenland , Iceland , Indian linguistics , Natural history

Language

Dutch

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.63052
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51446735