Relation de l'Islande

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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; Iceland > Description and travel; Greenland > Description and travel; America > Discovery and explorarion > Norse; France > Paris
Extent:: [40], 108, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 17 cm. (8vo)

Notes:: Originally published: Paris, 1647.; Signed on p. 108: La Peyrere. Escrit la premiere fois, de Copenhague, le 18. decembre, 1644.; Relation 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, the whaling industry, and an account of the 1619-1620 voyage of Jens Munk; preface touches upon Greenland.; Signatures: ã⁸ ẽ⁸ ĩ⁴ (ĩ4 blank) A-G⁸ (-G8) (G7 verso blank); Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

"Relation de l'Islande" (1663). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:731426/

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