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Two volumes bound in one. [2],xxii,[2],191,[1]; [2],177,[1],34pp., plus three folding maps. Engraved frontispieces. Contemporary vellum, spine gilt, gilt leather labels. Vellum a bit soiled and edgeworn. New endpapers. Lightly tanned, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. The first German edition, enlarged from the first publication in Russian of 1828. Kotzebue's second voyage to the Pacific, made eight years after his first, combined scientific exploration and discovery with conveying cargo to Kamchatka and the protection of the Russian American Fur Company from poachers. Kotzebue spent the winter of 1824 in California and Hawaii, and his narrative provides an extensive account of the Fort Ross settlement, as well as a description of the San Francisco area. He also visited Brazil, Chile, the Society Islands, Pitcairn, Micronesia, and Alaska. The original Russian edition contains different maps and does not include the zoological study found herein. BORBA DE MORAES, p.373. COWAN, p.335. HILL 946. HOWES K259. SABIN 38286. LADA-MOCARSKI 93 (ref). WICKERSHAM 6210. FORBES 758. KROEPELIEN 674. O'REILLY-REITMAN 843. Seller Inventory # WRCAM43997
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Title: NEUE REISE UM DIE WELT, IN DEN JAHREN 1823, ...
Publisher: Weimar
Publication Date: 1830
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