‎"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.‎

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‎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"".‎