![STELLER, Georg Wilhelm (1709-1746). Reise von Kamtschatka nach Amerika mit dem Commandeur-Captän Bering. St. Petersburg: Johann Zacharias Logan, 1793. [Bound with:] – SIEVERS, Johann (1762-1795). Briefe aus Sibirien an seine Lehrer. St. Petersburg: Johann Logan, 1796.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_15724_0044_000(steller_georg_wilhelm_reise_von_kamtschatka_nach_amerika_mit_dem_comma052416).jpg?w=1)
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STELLER, Georg Wilhelm (1709-1746). Reise von Kamtschatka nach Amerika mit dem Commandeur-Captän Bering. St. Petersburg: Johann Zacharias Logan, 1793. [Bound with:] – SIEVERS, Johann (1762-1795). Briefe aus Sibirien an seine Lehrer. St. Petersburg: Johann Logan, 1796.
The rare “offprint” issue of two works collected by Pallas in his essential Neue nordische Beytrage (1781-1796). Steller’s record of his journey from Kamchatka to Alaska is “the most important contemporary account of Bering’s second voyage” (Howes). RBH and ABPC do not record any copies of either title having been offered at auction. The two works appear in volumes 5-7 of Pallas. Remarking on the Steller, Lada-Mocarski notes that the title page differs but the typeface and the number of pages are the same; the same can be said of the Sievers. Other differences can be observed (the page numbering; the running heads; the setting of leaves G6-I4 in Steller) but “the priority of issue cannot be definitely established [and] one can safely consider this separate edition as one of the earliest ‘offprints’ from a scholarly journal, published probably simultaneously with corresponding pieces in the journal itself” (Lada-Mocarski). Hill 1635; Howes S-935; Lada-Mocarski 51; Sabin 91218; Tourville 4333; Wickersham 6120.
Two works in one volume, octavo (199 x 120mm). Folding engraved plate in the second work (small printed bibliographical notice mounted in the margin of the first title; occasional faint marginal dampstain; occasional light scattered spotting). 19th-century boards with a tree-calf effect, the spine flat and with red and green title pieces lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Natureverein zu Riga (cancelled title stamp) – traces of two deleted title stamps – William Lorch, bookseller.
The rare “offprint” issue of two works collected by Pallas in his essential Neue nordische Beytrage (1781-1796). Steller’s record of his journey from Kamchatka to Alaska is “the most important contemporary account of Bering’s second voyage” (Howes). RBH and ABPC do not record any copies of either title having been offered at auction. The two works appear in volumes 5-7 of Pallas. Remarking on the Steller, Lada-Mocarski notes that the title page differs but the typeface and the number of pages are the same; the same can be said of the Sievers. Other differences can be observed (the page numbering; the running heads; the setting of leaves G6-I4 in Steller) but “the priority of issue cannot be definitely established [and] one can safely consider this separate edition as one of the earliest ‘offprints’ from a scholarly journal, published probably simultaneously with corresponding pieces in the journal itself” (Lada-Mocarski). Hill 1635; Howes S-935; Lada-Mocarski 51; Sabin 91218; Tourville 4333; Wickersham 6120.
Two works in one volume, octavo (199 x 120mm). Folding engraved plate in the second work (small printed bibliographical notice mounted in the margin of the first title; occasional faint marginal dampstain; occasional light scattered spotting). 19th-century boards with a tree-calf effect, the spine flat and with red and green title pieces lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Natureverein zu Riga (cancelled title stamp) – traces of two deleted title stamps – William Lorch, bookseller.