Lot 219

[Travel & Exploration]. Munk, Jens (1579-1628). An Account of a most Dangerous Voyage Perform'd by the Famous Capt. John Monck, in the Years 1619, and 1620...to Hudson's Straits, in order to discover a Passage to that side, betwixt Greenland and America to the West-Indies... Translated from Dutch into English. Extract from: Awnsham and John Churchill. A Collection of Voyages and Travels. [London, 1732].

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Estimate$600 – $800

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[Travel & Exploration]. Munk, Jens (1579-1628). An Account of a most Dangerous Voyage Perform'd by the Famous Capt. John Monck, in the Years 1619, and 1620...to Hudson's Straits, in order to discover a Passage to that side, betwixt Greenland and America to the West-Indies... Translated from Dutch into English. Extract from: Awnsham and John Churchill. A Collection of Voyages and Travels. [London, 1732].

Folio (311 x 203 mm). 4 engraved plates, full-page engraved map of Greenland in text. (Very light dampstain in corner margin to first few leaves.) Modern half cloth, marbled boards.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. In 1609, Munk undertook an expedition sponsored by King Christian IV in search of a northeast passage. After its failure, Munk went on two other voyages, including the present of 1619-20, at the time when the King had turned his attention to Greenland and the search for a Northwest Passage. Munk includes information on whales and other wildlife, as well as on whaling techniques, written only ten years after the inception of the Spitsbergen whale fishery. One of the plates depicts a whaling scene off Jan Mayen Land, while another shows a whale brought ashore by a windlass and being flensed. Howgego M180; Sabin 13015 (for Churchill's complete work) and 51336 (for the Dutch original).

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