Research Catalog

Title

A Collection of documents on Spitzbergen & Greenland [electronic resource] : 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.

Publication

London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1855

Details

Additional Authors

• White, Adam, 1817-1879.
• Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699.
• La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676.
• Pellham, Edward, active 1630.

Description

4, xvi, 288 p., [4] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., fold. maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society

Alternative Title

Collection of documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland

Subjects

• Greenland > History > Early works to 1800
• Spitsbergen Island (Norway) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
• Natural history > Norway > Spitsbergen Island > Early works to 1800

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 733085795
• TGPSM10-B1499

Title

A Collection of documents on Spitzbergen & Greenland [electronic resource] : 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.

Imprint

London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1855 (I. Richards)

Series

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Local Note

Travel; Science.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

White, Adam, 1817-1879.

Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699. Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland.

La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676. Relation du Groenland. English.

Pellham, Edward, active 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.