Product Description
The first English edition of Georg von Langsdorff's fascinating account of Japan, Brazil and Hawaii, with engraved plates from original drawings.
First English edition.
Volume I only, as is more commonly found than two-volume copies.
Part II was published in 1814.
In a recent quarter calf binding, with matching cloth boards.
Renewed endpapers and blanks.
Lacking half titles.
Illustrated with a portait frontispiece and fifteen engraved plates, two of which show sheet music.
Collated, complete.
The absorbing travel accounts of Georg von Langsdorff (better known by his Russian name, Grigori Ivanovich Langsdorf), a German naturalist and explorer who was on the First Russian circumnavigation from 1803-1806.
He was later nominated consul general of Russia in Rio de Janeiro.
Dedicated to Alexander I, this work offers a comprehensive report of the voyages and sights of this round-the-world expedition led by Adam Johann von Krusenstern, notably Japan, Brazil and Hawaii.
This account includes some fascinating descriptions, including the Japanese manner in which their guns are fired, a visit to Megasaki, the exact measurements of a Marquesan individual (his striking height and strenght compared to that of a Greek sculpture), traditional tattoos of the inhabitants of Nukahiwa, and a Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Cabri, who had lived for many years there.
In a recent quarter calf binding, with matching cloth boards.
Externally, with rubbing to the spine, otherwise smart.
Reference bookplate of the City of York Public Library to the front paste down.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages with offsetting to plate facing pages, with a few scattered spots.
Short closed tear to the title page.
Very Good
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