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. By the special Command of Christian IV, King of Denmark, Norway, &c. to Hudson's Straits, in order to discover a Passage to that side, betwixt Greenland and America to the West-Indies. With a Description of the Old and New Greenland, for the Elucidation of said Treatise . Translated from Dutch into English. Extract from: Awnsham and John CHURCHILL. A Collection of Voyages and Travels . [London, 1732].
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. By the special Command of Christian IV, King of Denmark, Norway, &c. to Hudson's Straits, in order to discover a Passage to that side, betwixt Greenland and America to the West-Indies. With a Description of the Old and New Greenland, for the Elucidation of said Treatise . Translated from Dutch into English. Extract from: Awnsham and John CHURCHILL. A Collection of Voyages and Travels . [London, 1732]. 2 o (314 x 198 mm). 4 engraved plates, full-page engraved map of Greenland in text. (Small marginal stains on 4C4v.) Modern blue patterned 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, and on techniques of whaling, written only ten years after the inception of the Spitsbergen whale fishery. One of the plates is of a whaling scene off Jan Mayen Land, while another shows a whale brought ashore by a windlass, being flensed. Howgego M180; Sabin 13015 (for Churchill's complete work) and 51336 (for the Dutch original).
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. By the special Command of Christian IV, King of Denmark, Norway, &c. to Hudson's Straits, in order to discover a Passage to that side, betwixt Greenland and America to the West-Indies. With a Description of the Old and New Greenland, for the Elucidation of said Treatise . Translated from Dutch into English. Extract from: Awnsham and John CHURCHILL. A Collection of Voyages and Travels . [London, 1732].
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. By the special Command of Christian IV, King of Denmark, Norway, &c. to Hudson's Straits, in order to discover a Passage to that side, betwixt Greenland and America to the West-Indies. With a Description of the Old and New Greenland, for the Elucidation of said Treatise . Translated from Dutch into English. Extract from: Awnsham and John CHURCHILL. A Collection of Voyages and Travels . [London, 1732]. 2 o (314 x 198 mm). 4 engraved plates, full-page engraved map of Greenland in text. (Small marginal stains on 4C4v.) Modern blue patterned 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, and on techniques of whaling, written only ten years after the inception of the Spitsbergen whale fishery. One of the plates is of a whaling scene off Jan Mayen Land, while another shows a whale brought ashore by a windlass, being flensed. Howgego M180; Sabin 13015 (for Churchill's complete work) and 51336 (for the Dutch original).
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