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 | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1855 (I. Richards) |
| Description | 4, xvi, 288 p., [4] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., fold. maps ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | White, Adam, 1817-1879. |
| Included Work | Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699. Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland. |
| Included Work | La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676. Relation du Groenland. English. |
| Included Work | 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. |
| Variant title | Collection of documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Works issued by the Hakluyt Society Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. |
| Local note | Travel; Science. |
| Local note | 2010A972000. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | "Report for 1855 [Hakluyt Society]"--4 p., 1st count. |
| General note | "Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland."--P. [3]-174. |
| General note | "Relation du Groenland. Paris : Chez Thomas Jolly, 1663."--P. [183]-249. |
| General note | "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. |
| General note | Includes English translation from the French language of "Relation du Groenland" and English translation (1694) from the German language of "Spitzbergische oder groenlandische Reise ... ." |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 14374. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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