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LITKE, Fedor Petrovich. Chetyrekratnoe puteshestvie v severnyi ledovityi okean [Four Voyages in the Arctic Ocean undertaken by order of Emperor Alexander I in the Warship Novaia Zemlia in 1821, 1822, 1823 and 1824]. St. Petersburg: Naval Press, 1828.
2 volumes in one, 4° (288 x 215mm.). 20 engraved maps, 12 folding, 14 engraved plates of coastal profiles. Final errata leaf in both vols., a few leaves slightly browned, two leaves with outer margin strenthened. Contemporary calf-backed cloth, rubbed, recased.
FIRST EDITION. An account of the four voyages from Arkhangel'sk to Novaia Zemlia mapping the coast, including the White Sea and the mouth of the Pechora River. Arctic Bibliography 10212; Mezhov 14194.
2 volumes in one, 4° (288 x 215mm.). 20 engraved maps, 12 folding, 14 engraved plates of coastal profiles. Final errata leaf in both vols., a few leaves slightly browned, two leaves with outer margin strenthened. Contemporary calf-backed cloth, rubbed, recased.
FIRST EDITION. An account of the four voyages from Arkhangel'sk to Novaia Zemlia mapping the coast, including the White Sea and the mouth of the Pechora River. Arctic Bibliography 10212; Mezhov 14194.