Hedendaagsche historie; of, Tegenwoordige staat van Groenland, en Straat Davids
Subtitle: met betrekking tot derzelver ligging, bewooners, gebouwen, zeden, gewoonten, godsdienst, regeering koophandel, landbouw, landziekten, planten, dieren, en andere zaaken tot de natuurlyke historie dier landen behoorende
By: benevens, eene uitvoerige beschryving, van de walvisch- en robben-vangst; met plaanten en kaarten
Contributors: Cranz, David, 1723-1777
Publisher: by W. Vermandel en J.W. Smit.
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Te Amsteldam
Language: dut
Subjects: Glossaries, vocabularies; Texts; Whaling; Sealing; Kalâtdlisut dialect; Indian linguistics; Description and travel
Other titles: Hedendaagsche historie.; Tegenwoordige staat van Groenland, en Straat Davids.
Notes: Can be attributed to Thomas Salmon from other titles published in the Hedendaagsche historie in Amsterdam from 1745 to 1769.

Incorrectly attributed to David Crantz by the University of Amsterdam online cat.

Translation of the part relating to Greenland of: Modern history: or, the present state of all nations, describing their respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners, laws and customs, religion and policy, arts and sciences, trades, manufactures and husbandry, plants, animals and minerals, of which the third edition can first be traced, printed in 9 volumes, Dublin, 1724-1728.

Includes a small list of vocabulary, a discussion of grammar and the Credo in Latin and in the Kalâtdlisut dialect in vol. 1, p. 246-256; also includes a selection of phrases in the Kalâtdlisut dialect and Dutch in vol. 3, p. 236-238, and texts in the Kalâtdlisut dialect and Dutch in vol. 3, p. 352-357.

Pagination: v. 1: xxxiv, 356 p., [9] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 282 p.; v. 3: [2], 382, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates.

Signatures: v. 1: *** (*1, *2 versos blank) *** (-***4) A-Y (X4 missigned Y4); v. 2: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-R S T² (-T2); v. 3: pi 1 (pi1 verso blank) A-2A

Errata: v. 3, p. [2], 3rd count.

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:3101.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary speckled calf with paper covered boards.