Sailing directions of Henry Hudson
Subtitle: prepared for his use in 1608, from the old Danish of Ivar Bardsen, with an introduction and notes : also a dissertation on the discovery of Hudson River
By: by B.F. De Costa
Contributors: Bárðarson, Ívarr, fl. 14th cent
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 9966-9967
Publisher: J. Munsell
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Hudson, Henry, -- d. 1611; America -- Discovery and exploration; Greenland; Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History
Notes: Two English versions of Bardsen's account of Greenland are included (p. [61]-96) The first, reprinted from Purchas his Pilgrimes, v. 3, has title: "A treatise of Iver Boty a Gronlander, translated out of the Norsh language into High Dutch, in the yeere 1560. And after out of High Dutch into Low Dutch, by William Barentson ... And this was translated out of Low Dutch by Master William Stere, marchent, in the yeere 1608, for the use of me Henrie Hudson" ... The second is a translation of the version given in Rafn's Antiquitates americanæ

Includes bibliographical references and index

Sabin 19198

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1992. 2 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 9966-9967)