North Atlantic archipelago organized as an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark

Pilot Whale Campaign.

xiv, 426 pages, 2 plates (1 folded) : plates (1 folded), frontispiece (folded map) ; (8vo)

A description of the Feroe Islands, containing an account of their situation, climate and productions; together with the manners, and customs, of the inhabitants, their trade, &c / By G. Landt. Translated from the Danish.

xxxvii, 111 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm

Observations made during the epidemic of measles on the Faroe Islands in the year 1846 / by Peter Ludwig Panum ; with a biographical memoir by Julius Jacob Petersen.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 4A.

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A description of the Feroe Islands, containing an account of their situation, climate and productions; together with the manners, and customs, of the inhabitants, their trade, &c / By G. Landt. Translated from the Danish.

Observations made during the epidemic of measles on the Faroe Islands in the year 1846 / by Peter Ludwig Panum ; with a biographical memoir by Julius Jacob Petersen.

Pilot Whale Campaign.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 4A.