Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210
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Sale 2210 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ANDERSON, JOHANN. Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland en de Straat Davis. 5 engraved plates; folding map. [18], 286, [6]; [2], [8], 158 pages, including etched frontispiece. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints cracked at top; scattered foxing, light marginal dampstaining toward end; bookplates. Amsterdam: Jan van Dalen, 1756
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Second edition of a 1750 Dutch translation of Anderson's work on the geography, natural history, and inhabitants of Iceland and Greenland, including a Greenlandic glossary, conversation guide, and grammar, and enlarged with Niels Horrebow's account of his stay in Iceland. The German original of Anderson's book first appeared in 1746.