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Johann Andersen: Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis. Frankfurt und Leipzig 1747. With engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates and one engraved map. [16], 368. [4]. Browning and foxing throughout, most to plates. At the end a short German, Danish, Greenlandic vocabulary. Bound in later full calf.

Johann Anderson, German lawyer and geographer, became syndic and then first burgomaster (in 1732) of his native city, Hamburg, and assisted at many important international negotiations, including the Treaty of Utrecht. This is his most important work, published after his death. The appendix contains a brief grammar and vocabulary of the Icelandic language explained in German and Danish.

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Books and manuscripts, 21 June 2022

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