Relation du Groenland

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Year:: 1663
Contributor:: La Peyrère, Isaac de, 1594-1676; La Mothe Le Vayer, François de, 1588-1672
Subject:: e-ic--- > n-gl---; Munk, Jens > 1579-1628; Northwest Passage > Discovery and exploration; Whaling > Iceland; Whaling > Greenland; Greenland > Description and travel; Iceland > Description and travel; America > Discovery and exploration > Norse; Imprint 1663.; France > Paris
Extent:: [16], 278, [4] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., map ; 17 cm. (8vo)

Notes:: Authorship from Cioranescu, Sabin and Alden and from later edition.; Dated on p. 278: de la Haye le 18. juin 1646.; Originally published: Paris, 1647.; "Priuilege du Roy": p. [1-4], 3rd group.; Composed in the form of a letter to Monsieur de la Mothe le Vayer.; Contains accounts of the Norse in North America, the search for a northwest passage, some mention of Iceland, the whaling industry, and an account of the 1619-1620 voyage of Jens Munk.; Consists of the same sheets, with a cancel title page, as the 1647 edition.; Signatures: a⁸ A-R⁸ S⁴ T²; Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials.; Errors in pagination: p. 174 misnumbered 194.; Errata: p. [15]

"Relation du Groenland" (1663). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:731425/

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