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Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
Added, engraved title page reads: Neüeste Beschreibüng von alt ünd neü Groen-Land.
Translation of: Nauwkeurige Beschrijvingh van Groenland, first printed Amsterdam, 1678, which is a translation of the French original first printed under title: Relation du Groenland, Paris, 1647, and enlarged by Simon de Vries (S. de V.)
"Kurtzer Begriff der merckwürdig- und wunderbaren Schiff-Reiss, und seltsamen Begegnungen des dänischen Capitays Johann. Münckens, zwischen Grönland und America einen Weg nach Ost-Indien suchend", p. 85-94, has separate caption title.
Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) )(² A-Q⁴ (E2 missigned F2) R²
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Fully engraved added title page is an illustration of Eskimos and westerners dressed in skins; maps of Greenland and Nova Zembla are bordered with illustrations of ships in harbor, local animals, and indigenous peoples of those regions.
Palmer, P.M. German works on America, 350.
Baginsky, P. German works relating to America, 202.
Tiele, P.A. Nederlandsche bib., 112n.
Muller, F. Books, maps, plates on America, 677.
JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700, p. 63.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 679/78.
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