Relation du Groenland
Contributors: La Mothe Le Vayer, François de, 1588-1672
Publisher: Chez Thomas Iolly, dans la petite salle des merciers, au palais, à la Palme, & aux armes de Hollande
Published: 1663
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Northwest Passage; Discovery and exploration; Norse; Whaling; Description and travel
Other titles: Relation dv Groenland.
Notes: Authorship from Cioranescu, Sabin and Alden and from later edition.

Dated on p. 278: de la Haye le 18. juin 1646.

Originally published: Paris, 1647.

"Priuilege du Roy": p. [1-4], 3rd group.

Composed in the form of a letter to Monsieur de la Mothe le Vayer.

Contains accounts of the Norse in North America, the search for a northwest passage, some mention of Iceland, the whaling industry, and an account of the 1619-1620 voyage of Jens Munk.

Consists of the same sheets, with a cancel title page, as the 1647 edition.

Signatures: a⁸ A-R⁸ S⁴ T²

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials.

Errors in pagination: p. 174 misnumbered 194.

Errata: p. [15]

European Americana 663/82.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, III:89.

Cioranescu, A.  17. s., 40031.