Recueil de voyages au nord

First edition, illustrated in Volume I of a frontispiece and 8 boards including 7 and 4 folding maps, 18 plates including 4 folding and a map to the second volume, 2 folding maps for the third volume, 29 boards. title page in red and black. Notable boards, note the map of Japan cut into provinces, the map of Iceland and Greenland, the different whales.
Binding open cardboard old speckled. Back Jansenist nerves. As an exhibit in red morocco. Volume number browned. Good copy.
Texts meeting on the lands of the Arctic Circle, containing a description of Iceland and Greenland, which are compilations of all that has been written on the subject; these two relations are addressed to La Mothe Le Vayer, it is unclear whether Jean-Frédéric Bernard is really the author. These two instruments are completed for the first volume of a method of navigation. The second volume is mainly occupied by Diary of a trip to Spitzbergen and Greenland by Frederick Martens of Hamburg; it is supplemented by a Speech passing northeast of Captain Woods and his newspaper; This journal is followed by that of Flawes captain in his journey of Novaya Zemlya in England. The third volume brings together various memories, some move away from the main theme, and one finds there the trip to Japan Caron, a Newfoundland relation by Witte, a navigation on the St. Lawrence, various parts touching the Mississippi and California. These three volumes were completed later, leading all 10 volumes in the edition of 1725-1738.