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Description et histoire naturelle du Groenland, par Mr. Eggede, missionaire & evêque du Grönland. ; Traduite en François par Mr. D. R. D. P.
Copenhagen & Geneva: C. & A. Philibert, 1763
Physical Description: [4], xxviii, [4], 171, [1] p., [11] folded leaves of plates : ill., map. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Call number: G763 /E29d
Accession number: 03207
Notes: 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. 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.
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Languages: Inuit-Inupiaq / Eskimo / Kalâtdlisut
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Arctic
