- 3187
[La Peyrère, Isaac de (1594-1676)]
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- Relation du Groenland. Paris: Augustin Courbé, 30 April 1647
8vo (165 x 108mm.), [14], 278, [4]pp., illustration: engraved device on title-page, one folding engraved map, one folding engraved plate, binding: contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, light damp-stain in lower outer corner of first few leaves, binding slightly rubbed
Literature
Sabin 38970; Fiske IcB51L311; Lauridsen 29
Catalogue Note
first edition. La Peyrère's account of Greenland, compiled during a stay in Denmark, includes details of the Norse in America and whaling. It also describes the attempts of Jens Munk in 1619 to find a passage from Greenland to the East Indies. After wintering in Hudson Bay, only Munk and two of his men survived scurvy.