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Description of Greenland by the founder of its capital View picture(s) 1 EGEDE, Hans Poulsen. Description et Histoire Naturelle du Groenland. Copenhagen and Geneva, Brothers C. and A. Philibert, 1763. 8vo. Modern wrappers. With loosely inserted engraved folding map of Greenland and 10 engraved folding plates. [4], XXVIII, [4], 171, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Greenland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventurous life of a black abolitionist View picture(s) 2 EQUIANO, Olaudah. Merkwaardige levensgevallen van Olaudah Equiano of Gustavus Vassa, den Afrikaan. Door hem zelven beschreeven. Amsterdam, Pieter Holsteyn, 1790. 8vo. 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards. With hand-coloured aquatint portrait. [16], 365, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  Arctic  Enlightenment  Greenland  Slavery  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Well-illustrated work on the Dutch whale- and herring-fishery in the Northern Seas and Greenland View picture(s) 3 RESTE, Bernard de. Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord: ouvrage traduit du Hollandois par les soins du Gouvernement, enrichi de notes & orné de cartes & de figures. Paris, Nyon the Elder & Sons, Widow of Nyon, 1791-1800. 3 volumes. 8vo. 19th-century green half shagreen, gold-tooled spine, sides with crowned gilt initials 'C.L.' With 28 engraved plates and maps (21 folding and 7 full-page). XXXVI, 432; 464; [4], 378 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Fishing  Greenland  Ichthyology  Natural History  Netherlands  Whaling  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Adaptation for children of the account of the second voyage of captain John Ross View picture(s) 4 ROSS, John. De reizen en lotgevallen van kapitein John Ross, op zijne ontdekkings togten naar de Noordpools gewesten. Voor jonge lieden. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Amsterdam, Ten Brink & De Vries, 1837. 8vo. Later half cloth. With title, 6 plates (including frontispiece), folding map of the Arctic region, all lithographed. VIII, 247, [1 blank], pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arctic  Children's Books  Eskimo  Greenland  Northern Passage  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two extremely rare lists of the Dutch and German whaling ships put to sea in 1774 View picture(s) 5 [WHALING - GREENLAND]. Lyst van de Hollandse, Hamburger EN Breemer Groenlandsvaarders, anno 1774. Uitgevaaren. Amsterdam, Heirs Jacob Michiel Brouwer, (1775). 2 works in one vol. 8vo. Loose in contemporary overlapping vellum wrappers. Woodcut printer's device with whaling scene on both titles. 24, 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Greenland  Maritime History  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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