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Volume I (of II). viii, 599 pp. With engraved frontispiece and 18 engraved folded leaves of plates. Revised from the German edition into Latin. 25x20 cm. (10x8"), period brown calf, gilt decorated spine, raised bands. 

Title-page inscribed in Danish, in Old Germanic lettering: "Henric Christopher Glahn foræred disse Dr. Heisters Institutiones chirugicae til de Holsteinsborgske Missioner i Grønland og de til stedse skal være et Inventarium som stedets præster kan betjene sig af til egen og Folkets nÿtte. [H.C.G. presented these Dr. H's I. C. to the Holstensborg Missions in Greenland where they shall always be a piece of equipment which the ministers of the locality can make use of, to the benefit of themselves and the population.]. Glahn was a missionary and doctor of medicine in Holsteinsborg (Sisimiut) from 1763-69, therefore this copy could possibly have been one of the first manuals of medicine brought to Greenland, where it stayed until 1939.