Note 592 — INDEX. (continued 2)

This book is now rare. Dufossé prices it at 50 francs; F. S. Ellis,—London. 1884, at £5.5.0. Before Torfæus, probably the best known book was Isaac de la Peyrère’s Relation du Groenland (Paris, 1647). It is one of the earliest books to give an account of the Eskimos. It was again printed in 1674 in Recueil de Voyages du Nord. A Dutch edition at Amsterdam in 1678 (Nauwkenrige Beschrijvingh van Groenland) was considerably enlarged with other matter, and this edition was the basis of the German version published at Nuremberg, 1679. Peyrère’s description will be found in English in a volume published by the Hakluyt Society in 1855, where it is accompanied by two maps of the early part of the seventeenth century. Cf. Carter-Brown, ii., no. 1192, note; Sabin, x. p. 70.