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A Collection of documents on Spitzbergen & Greenland : comprising a translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen, a translation from Isaac de La Peyrère's Histoire du Groenland, and God's power and providence in the preservation of eight men in Greenland nine moneths and twelve dayes / edited by Adam White.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Norway--Spitsbergen Island--Early works to 1800.
- Natural history.
- Spitsbergen Island (Norway)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Spitsbergen Island (Norway).
- Greenland--History--Early works to 1800.
- Greenland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4, xvi, 288 p., [4] leaves of plates (some fold.) ) ill., fold. maps ;
- Other Title:
- Collection of documents on Spitzbergen & Greenland
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1855 (I. Richards)
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- "Report for 1855 [Hakluyt Society]"--4 p., 1st count.
- "Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland."--P. [3]-174.
- "Relation du Groenland. Paris : Chez Thomas Jolly, 1663."--P. [183]-249.
- "God's power and providence shewed in the miraculous preservation and deliverance of eight Englishmen, left by mischance in Green-land, anno 1630, nine moneths and twelve dayes : with a true relation of all their miseries, their shifts and hardship they were put to, their food, &c. such as neigher heathen nor Christian men ever before endured : with a description of the chiefe places and rarities of that barren and cold country / faithfully reported by Edward Pellham. London : Printed by R.Y. for J. Partridge, 1631."--P. [257]-283.
- Includes English translation from the French language of "Relation du Groenland" and English translation (1694) from the German language of "Spitzbergische oder groenlandische Reise ... ."
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 14374.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699. Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland.
- La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676. Relation du Groenland. English.
- Pellham, Edward, fl. 1630. Gods power and providence shewed in the miraculous preservation and deliverance of eight Englishmen, left by mischance in Green-land, anno 1630, nine moneths and twelve dayes.
- OCLC:
- 10
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