VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD, DURING THE YEARS 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, AND 1807.
Amsterdam and New York: N. Israel and Da Capo Press, 1968. Hardcover. Facsimile of the 1813-14 first edition in English. "Langsdorff was a German physician with a passion for natural history. Together with Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, chamberlain of Czar Alexander I and Russian ambassador to Japan, Langsdorff accompanied the round-the-world expedition led by Kruzenshtern until it reached Kamchatka in 1805 [...] At Kamchatka, Rezanov and Langsdorff left the expedition and proceeded to the Aleutian Islands and to Alaska, to study the Russian-American Company for the Czar. The following year Rezanov, with Langsdorff and Davydov, sailed from Sitka to San Francisco to obtain food supplies for the Russian colony. Langsdorff relates his travels along the northwest coast and his journey back across Siberia to St. Petersburg" (Hill 968). Volumes 40 and 41 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Quarto, two volumes, with 21 plates, including the frontispiece portrait, and a folding map. Original faux vellum bindings, with blue and gilt titles. Light bumping to the corners; else a fine set in the original acetate dust wrappers. Near fine. Item #76784
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