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Isaac de La Peyrère (1594-1676)] Relation du Groenland. Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1663. With final blank T2. Woodcut title vignette, 2 folding engraved maps and plates. (Some browning, neat repair to lower margin of map and ã2.). Bibl.Danica II. 638; Lauridsen II, 29; Sabin 38971. [ Bound with :] [I.de La Peyrère]. Relation de l'Islande . Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1663. Woodcut title vignette, folding engraved map by Pierre du Val. (Map with some offsetting, some browning.) First edition. Cf. Bibl. Danica III.616. 2 works in one volume, 8° (173 x 112mm). Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt (rubbed, neat repairs to joints). Provenance : Charles Ford (armorial bookplate, pencilled note 'From Berkeley Castle', sale: Sotheby's, 8 May 1986. A rare work. [ With :] Lucas Jacobson DEBES (1623-1675). Faeroae & Faeroa reserata Det er: Faeroernis Oc Faeroenske Indbyggeris Beskrivelse. Copenhagen: Matthias Jorgensen, 1673. 8° (155 x 92mm). 2 folding woodcut plates and maps. (Plate and map mounted on modern guards and with neatly repaired tears.) Contemporary vellum (lightly soiled, small repair to front free endpaper). Provenance : M.V.S. (manuscript initials); M.U.H.(early ink stamp on title); 'Mineralogisk Museums Bibliothek' (cancelled library stamp). Debes was the curate and later vicar of Thorshavn. In 1670 he was made archdeacon, and took the opportunity to complain about the Royal Faroese commissioners. Debes went to Copenhagen to plead the cause of the Faeroese, where he also completed his doctorate and published the present work. He describes not only the natural world but also the supernatural, including details of the ghosts and satanic spirits of the Faroes. Fiske I:97. (2)