RINK, H.

Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo. With a Sketch of their Habits, Religion, Language and other Pecularities. Translated from the Danish by the Author. Edited by Robert Brown. With numerous Illustrations, Drawn and engraved by Eskimo.

Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and Sons, 1875. Orig. full pictorial cloth, gilt spine and illustration on frontcover. Spine very lightly faded. XII,(1),472 pp., 6 engraved wood-cut plates ( 2 folded) and many wood-cut-illustrations in the text (some full page). A small stamp on foot of halftitle. Internally fine and clean.

First English edition of "The first monumental work about eskimoe's fairy tales and legends", translated from the authors "Eskimoiske Eventyr og Sagn 1-2. Copenhagen, 1866-71". The fine wood-cuts by native artists are taken from the original blocks as used in the Danish edition. "Starting from the tales, he identified the inland dwellers that occur in a number of Greenland tales with the American Indians, implying that the two people at one time were neighbours, and usually not on friendly terms".

Order-nr.: 44318