COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Egede, Hans, 1686-1758.
Author (contributor):
French Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Desroches de Parthenay, Jean-Baptiste, 1690-1766.
Title:
Description et histoire naturelle du Groenland, /
Publisher:
Chez les fréres C & A Philibert
Begin Publication Date:
1763
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991031713159706966
Permanent Call Number:
G763 .E29d
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 03207
Subjects:
Lutheran Church--Catechisms--Kalâtdlisut dialect.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--Kalâtdlisut dialect.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--Eskimo languages.
Subjects:
Imprint 1763.
Subjects:
Lutheran Church--Creeds.
Subjects:
Eskimos--Greenland.
Subjects:
Eskimos--Greenland--Social life and customs.
Subjects:
Natural history--Greenland.
Subjects:
Kalâtdlisut dialect--Grammar.
Subjects:
Kalâtdlisut dialect--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Subjects:
Greenland--History.
Subjects:
Greenland--Description and travel.
General Note:
Dedication signed by the translator Desroches de Parthenay on p. [4], 1st count.; 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.; A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, p. 119-124, is without music and gives a description of the performance.; "De la langue des Gröenlandois", p. 124-135, 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.; Signature: pi² a-b⁸ A-K⁸ L⁶ (L6 verso blank)