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).