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Paul Egede: Efterretninger om Grønland [...]. Cph [1788]. 4to. With engraved portrait, 3 engraved plates and engraved map of Greenland, map with 2 tears. One plate with brown spots. Library stamp and annotation on title page. Bound in cont. half calf, wear to upper and lower part of spine.

Paul Egede (I708–1789) was the son of the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede (1686–1758) and a missionary on Greenland himself. Besides this journal of his life in Greenland he completed among other things a translation of the New Testament for the use of the Eskimos.

Auction

Books and manuscripts, 10 December 2019

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Books & manuscripts

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