An edition of Relation de l'Islande (1663)

Relation de l'Islande

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An edition of Relation de l'Islande (1663)

Relation de l'Islande

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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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Edition 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.

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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[40], 108, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates :
Number of pages
108

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OL25933625M
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relationdelislan00lape

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