Herrn Johann Anderson, I.V.D. und weiland ersten Bürgermeisters der Freyen Kayserl. Reichsstadt Hamburg, Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis
zum wahren Nutzen der Wissenschaften und der Handlung. Mit Kupfern, und einer nach den neuesten und in diesem Werke angegebenen Entdeckungen, genau eingerichteten Landcharte. Nebst einem Vorberichte von den Lebensumständen des Herrn Verfassers
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Originally published Hamburg, 1746.
"Vorbericht, von dem Leben des Herrn Bürgermeisters Anderson." (p. [10-30], first count), signed Z* [i.e. Johann Dietrich Winckler]
Title vignette.
Signatures: a-b A-Z 2A (a1 verso, a8 recto, b8 verso, 2A4 verso blank). Leaf a8 folded backwards, resulting in being the first leaf of the gathering and serving as frontispiece.
Includes "Anhang." (p.321-368) which consists of a brief vocabulary, a grammar and some statements of Christian faith and prayers, all in Danish, German and the Eskimo language, except for the grammar which is restricted to German and the Eskimo language.
Includes bibliographical references.
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:844.
Sabin 1405.
Palmer, P.M. German works on Amer., 283.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: lacks plate depicting Greenlandic boats.
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