Product Description
The scarce complete first English edition of Georg von Langsdorff's extensive travel account, including descriptions of Brazil and Japan.
With engraved plates.
First English edition.
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, from which he organised expeditions to Minas Gerais and the Langsdorff Expedition to the Amazon rainforest (1825-1829).
Complete in two volumes, bound into one.
With separate title page and pagination to Volume II.
No half titles, as issued.
Rarely found complete in two volumes.
In a modern cloth binding.
Renewed endpapers.
Volume I illustrated with twelve engraved plates, two of which are sheet music.
Volume II illustrated with a folding map frontispiece and four engraved plates.
Showing Alaskan household utensils, views of Russian settlements, dancing Kaluschians of Sitka, a Japanese fortress, interior of a house in Brazil, and more.
Collated, lacking portrait frontispiece and three plates to Volume I.
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.
With a vocabulary list of the language of Nukahiwa and specimens of the languages spoken among different tribes of the Ainu to the end of Vol I.
An important record of Russian America.
In a modern cloth binding.
Externally, fine.
Internally, firmly bound.
Bath Reference Library bookplate to the front paste down.
Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional toning and spotting, and offsetting to pages facing plates.
With occasional reference ink impressions, mostly to the reverse of the plates.
Very Good
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