SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

Lives of missionaries. Greenland. Hans Egede. Matthew Stach, and his associates. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1860s].

12mo, pp. 224; with 13 engraved illustrations; very good in original purple cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt vignette to upper cover; a little wear to extremities, light marks to boards; pencil inscription of ‘E. Harden’ to p. [1].

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A nicely illustrated account of the travels to Greenland undertaken by the Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary Hans Egede (1686-1758) and by the Moravian missionary Matthäus Stach (1711-1787).

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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

Lives of missionaries. Greenland. Hans Egede. Matthew Stach, and his associates. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1860s].