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EGEDE, PAUL (POUL HANSEN): - Efterretninger om Gr¿nland, utdragne af en Journal holden fra 1721 til 1788. Ki¿benhavn, Hans Christopher Schr¿der, 1788.

. Pp. (xii), 284. Text in Danish. With engraved front portrait, one folding engraved map (tear along fold) and three engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine with title label (chipped), binding rubbed. Old ownership signature. First edition based on Paul Egede's journal. He was a Danish-Norwegian missionary and scholar who at a young age moved to Greenland with his family. His father Hans Poulsen Egede, known as the Apostle of Greenland, started the missionary work in Greenland in 1721. Paul continued his father's work as a missionary among the Kalaallit people (Inuits). Bibliographia Groenlandica p. 38, no. 70.
EUR 850.00 [Appr.: US$ 911.72 | £UK 727.25 | JP¥ 142982] Booknumber: 100363

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