THE HISTORY OF GREENLAND: INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MISSION CARRIED ON BY THE UNITED BRETHREN IN THAT COUNTRY. FROM THE GERMAN OF DAVID CRANTZ. WITH A CONTINUATION TO THE PRESENT TIME; ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES; AND AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THE MISSION OF THE BRETHREN IN LABRADOR. 1820 TWO VOLUMES

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. SECOND EDITION Two Volumes 1820. Complete with all plates and maps. Two volumes bound in early leather spines and corners with marbled boards, marbled EPs. NOT Ex-library. Rubbed spine edges with loss of surface coating, spine joints cracked leather but holding, loss of upper spine leather volume one but stabilized with lacquer, foxing on pages mainly to the first half of volume I, browning to pages due to offsetting of printed text, solid bindings, illustration plates are mostly free of foxing, previous owner name penned to first preliminary blank page of each volume otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages. From the collection of William E. Davis with his signature and date 1960 on the first blank preliminary page of each volume . Copied from the internet: "William E. Davies (1917-1990) was a USGS (United States Geological Survey) geologist, polar explorer, and recipient of the Antarctic Medal from US Congress. His work took him to Greenland, the Appalachian Mountains of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, and in Antarctica - where the Davies Escarpment is named after him. He authored more than 200 scientific and research titles." Each volume measures 225mm tall x 143mm. Volume I has 359 pages, frontis illustration plate, 2 maps (one is folding), 5 plates of b/w illustrations. Volume II has 323 pages and a b/w frontis illustration. PHOTOS ARE OF THE BOOK BEING OFFERED.