Recueil De Voyages Au Nord

Contenant diversMémoires très utiles au Commerce & à la Navigation. [Travel Accounts to the

North, of great value to Commerce & Navigation]

By Jean Frédéric Bernard

Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1731. New Edition. Small Octavo. clxxxvii, 272pp. With six engraved plates and maps — some folding. Handsome period brown gilt tooled full mottled calf. Extremities rubbed, otherwise a Very Good copy — interior is complete and in Very Good condition with foxing only to preliminaries and prior ownership stamp on title page — a clean copy.

This is volume one of the collection of voyages to the North, and the most important volume relative to Arctic interests as it contains the account of La Mothe Le Vayer of Iceland, La Peyrere’s account of Greenland, and Martin

Frobisher’s Three Voyages. Included are a large folding map of the Arctic, a map of Iceland, and a map of Greenland along with the engraving showing Eskimo kayak, Greenland natives and illustrations of the Narwal.