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ANDERSON, Johan

Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland ende Straat van Davis tot nut der wetenschappen en den koophandel

Amsterdam
Jan van Dalen
1756

€1.200 - €1.800

"4to, [XVI]+ 286+ [6] pp ; [8]+ 158 pp, engraved title, folding engraved map. Title printed in red and black. With 5 copper plates (2 folding depicting whales). Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt (upper front hinge sl. splitting)"

"Second and best edition. It gives detailed descriptions of Iceland and Greenland/Davis Strait, with sections on whaling and a Danish-Dutch-Greenlandic dictionary as appendix. A nice copy with the bookplates of F.C. Koch and Isaac Meulman. Ref. Tiele 39; Cat. NHSM I, p.301 (German ed. only); Muller, America, p.69; Sabin 1407; Jenkins p.75; Allen 233."

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