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Vol. IV (of 4) only. [6], 123 pp. Text in Eskimo and Danish, on facing pages. With 9 woodcut illustrations from drawings by natives of Greenland, including the vignette on the Eskimo title-page, a few full-page. 8¼x5¼, original printed stiff wrappers. First Edition.

Rare compilation of Eskimo folk tales of Greenland, with text in both the Kalatdlisut dialect of the Greenland Eskimo language and in Danish. Oldenow, "Printing in Grenland," pp.24-26, remarks "There is no doubt that the four small volumes of legends represent the main literary and bibliographical achievement of the time. These ancient Greenlandic texts are the earliest expression of the Esquimo soul and take place in a remote and inaccessible sphere of myth..." The present copy is in rare original state, with the contents unopened. Sabin 36978; Pilling: Eskimo language, p. 49.