Histoire naturelle de l'islande, du Groenland, du détroit de Davis, et d'autres pays situés sous le nord

Title Variants

Uniform: Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis

By

Anderson, Johann, 1674-1743

Winckler, Johann Dietrich, 1711-1784
Sellius, Gottfried, 1767

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

A Paris, chez Sebastien Jorry, Imprimeur-Libraire, Quai des Augustins, près le Pont S. Michel, aux Cigognes, M.Dcc.L. [1750]

Notes

Translation, by Gottfried Sellius, of: Herrn Johann Anderson, ..., Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis. Hamburg, 1746; translation wrongly attributed by Sabin to J.P. Rousselot de Surgy.

"...Abbrégé de sa vie ..." (v. 1: p.vii-xxj); translated extract from the original account in German by Johann Dietrich Winckler.

Signatures: v.1: a-c/ A-2C/ 2D² (-2D; a1 verso blank); v.2: pi1 a² A-2I/ 2[K] (missigned "2B"; pi1 verso, 2[K]4 verso blank)

Only 2 of the 9 plates are numbered: v.1, pl.I-II; the rest of the plates (except for the frontispiece in v.1) are assigned volume and page numbers for correct placing.

Colophon: De l'imprimerie de Sebastien Jorry (v.2)

Errata (v.1: p. xl; v.2: p.386)

Includes: "Supplément contenant un petit dictionnaire & quelques principes de la grammaire groenlandoise." (v.2: p.295-386), in French and the Eskimo language.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, | 3:919.

Sabin | 1408a.

Subjects

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

Call Number

QL288 .A6

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.63423
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51488532