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Herrn Johann Anderson, I.V.D. und weyland ersten Bürgermeisters der Freyen Kayserlichen Reichsstadt Hamburg, Nachrichten von island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis.
Hamburg: Georg Christian Grund, 1746
Physical Description: [32], 328, [10] p., [5] folded leaves of plates: ill., map; 20 cm. (8vo)
Call number: J746/ A547h
Accession number: 09706
Notes: Includes "Anhang" (p. 285-328) comprising vocabulary, grammar and Christian texts in Danish, German, and the (Inuit?) language of Greenland Eskimos. The “Dictionariolum” (p. 285-299) lists terms by topic or part of speech: nouns (religious terms, fire, air, water, weather, geology, flora, animals, birds and insects, fish, body parts, tools and clothing, household terms, travel by sea and land, writing, kinship, trade items); adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, numbers 1-21, and over 100 conversational phrases. Grammar section (p. 304-314), in German with Inuit (?) examples, covers verb forms, nouns and possessives, and comparative adjectives. Followed by the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and other religous texts in Danish, German, and Inuit (?); and Genesis ch. 1, v.1-31 and the Annunciation from Luke 1.26ff in Inuit(?) only (p. 314-328).
JCB copy imperfect.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Inuit-Inupiaq
Genre: Bible selections / Catechisms and creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Arctic
