2 vols. xi, [1], 359; vi, 323 pp. With 7 plates (6 are aquatints, the other a copper-engraving) & 2 copper-engraved maps, one of them folding. 8¾x5¼, later half blue calf & marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.

Crantz's noteworthy examination of Greenland and the Christian mission there, with aquatint plates of the mission settlements, natives kayaking, native dwellings, implements used by the in whaling, etc. Describing the first English edition of 1767, Cox notes that "Dr. Johnson declared that very few books had ever affected him so deeply, and that the man who did not relish the first part was no philosopher, and he who did not enjoy the second part, no Christian... There is a section devoted to whaling, consisting of a description of the Greenland black whale and an account of its habits; the Jupiter whale, the humpback whale, the knotted whale, whales of Bermuda, the cachelot and its store of spermaceti, the white whale, and the whaling industry in general." First published in German in 1765.