[ESKIMO LANGUAGE].

Imgerutsit nôtiggit 100. Hundert eskimoische Lieder, freie übersetzungen und nachbildungen deutscher Volksgesänge. [Leipzig] 1872.

. Pp. (vi), 90. Printed in Eskimo language. With some light water staining. Original purple silk binding, somewhat rubbed and spine faded. Old ownership signature on front paste down. Scarce work containing one hundred folk songs and musical notes translated from German by Freitag, Erdmann, Elsner, Kretschner, etc. Scarce. Pilling p. 45.

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DUSÉN, PER KARL HJALMAR:

Om kartläggningen af Kejsar Frans Josefs fjord och Konung Oscars fjord. [On the mapping of Kaiser Frans Joseph Fjord and King Oscar Fjord]. Stockholm 1900.

. Pp. 229-236. Wrappers, Title in manuscript on front cover together with dedication to Prof. G. De Geer by the author. Offprint form Ymer (1900, H. 2). Hulth 228.

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Book number: 100155

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Keywords: Europe, grönland, greenland, nordic, norden, polar, arctic, travel, exploration,

EGEDE, HANS POULSEN:

Description et histoire naturelle du Groenland. Copenhague et Geneve, Chez les Frères C. & A. Philibert, 1763.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), xxviii, (iv), 171. Without the map and 10 plates. Old boards, spine faded. Bookplate (Carl Jedvard Bonde, Ericsberg). First French edition, translated by Jean-Baptiste Des Roches de Parthenay. An early account of Greenland, about its natural history and life and manners of the inhabitants. Bibl. Dan. iii, 641. Lauridsen viii, 197. Nuuk 149.

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Book number: 99924

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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.

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EGEDE SAABYE, HANS:

Fragmenter af en dagbok, hållen i Grönland af pastor Hans Egede Saabye under dess åtta-åriga vistande der i landet. Stockholm, Elméns och Granbergs Tryckeri, 1817.

. Pp. 151, (1). Later half cloth. Small wormhole running through first three lvs. Some browning. Bookplate (Gustaf Berndtsson). A Swedish edition, translated from the original Danish, of a missionary's diary notes about customs, religion, witchcraft, climate, etc. of the Eskimos. Hans Egede Saabye was the grandson of Hans Egede, who also was a missionary in Greenland in the early 18th century. Cf Sabin 74643 (Odense 1816).

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ELGSTRÖM, OSSIAN:

Moderna eskimåer. Skildringar från en resa i Västgrönland sommaren 1915. Stockholm 1916.

. Pp.(viii), 433. With one folding map, 27 plates of which 12 colour and many more illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Bookplate and ownership-stamp. First edition of this narrative of a journey to West Greenland in 1915.

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FABRICIUS, OTHO:

Fors¿g til en forbedret Gronlandskt Grammatica. Andet Oplag. Kiobenhavn, C.F. Schubart, 1801.

. Pp. viii, 9-388. Including four folding tables (pp.209-12). Rear endpaper missing. Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, worn, top of spine chipped. Occasionally some light browning to the paper. Second edition of this scarce Greenland grammar. Otho Fabricius was a Danish missionary who lived in the colony of Fredrikshaab in Greenland between 1768 and 1773. He was a student of another renowned missionary Paul Egede. Fabricius' grammar was first published in 1791 but due to a fire in Copenhagen in 1795 most copies of that edition were lost. Lauridsen, Bibl. Groenlandica 202:25. Pilling, Bibl. of the Eskimo language, p. 32. Vater p. 114.

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Book number: 121164

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NATHORST, ALFRED GABRIEL:

Kritiska anmärkningar om den grönländska vegetationens historia. (Critical remarks on the history of Greenland's vegetation). Stockholm 1890.

. Pp. 50. With one coloured map. Original wrappers. (Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. handlingar Band 16. Afd. III. No. 6).

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Book number: 100140

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NATHORST, ALFRED GABRIEL:

Två somrar i Norra Ishafvet. Kung Karls land, Spetsbergens kringsegling spanande efter Andrée i nordöstra Grönland. Two volumes in one. Stockholm 1900.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xxxvi, 352; xiv, 414. With portrait frontispiece, 3 large folding maps in colour, numerous illustrations and some maps in the text. Publisher's blue cloth printed in gilt and silver. First edition. An account of Nathorst's scientific explorations to the Arctic Ocean in 1898 and 1899. The first expedition went to Bear Island, Svalbard and King Karl's Land. The second went to Greenland in search of Andrée's balloon expedition but without any success. However they made important geographical and geological investigations and they reached and mapped Kejsar Frans Josefs Fjord and King Oscars Fjord. Hulth 157 & 163.

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Book number: 100168

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NORDENSKJÖLD (NORDENSKJOLD), OTTO / HETTNER, ALFRED (Editor):

Einige Züge der physischen Geographie und der Entwicklungsgeschichte Süd-Grönlands. Leipzig 1914.

. Pp. 425 - 441; 505-524; 628- 641 (text complete). With one folding plate depicting 6 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Off-print from der Geographische Zetschrift. Band 20. Heft 8.

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Book number: 100139

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RINK, SIGNE:

Gr¿nlaendere. Kristiania (Oslo), Alb. Cammermeyer, 1886. AND: Gr¿nlaendere og Danske i Gr¿nland. Kristiania, Alb. Cammermeyer, 1887.

. Two works bound together in contemporary half calf, extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Pp. (viii), 155 + pp. (viii), 204. Text in Danish. First editions. Signe Rink (1836-1909) was born in Greenland where her father was the colonial administrator. At the age of 17 she married Hinrich Rink, a Danish geologist who became the colonial director of southern Greenland in Nuuk in 1858. She learned the language fluently and wrote novels and short stories about Inuit society and traditions, and translated Greenlandic folklore into Danish. Several of her books reflected on the colonial relationship between Inuits and Danes.

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Book number: 121359

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