Relation de l'Islande
by Isaac de La Peyrère
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Relation de l'Islande
1663, Chez Louis Billaine, au second pillier de la grand'Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Cesar
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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.
Cioranescu, A. 17. s., 40042.
European Americana 663/80.
JCB Lib. cat. Pre-1675, III:88-89.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting folded map.
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