![KRUZENSHTERN, Ivan Fedorovich (1770-1846). Puteshestvie vokrug Sveta v 1803, 4, 5 i 1806 godakh na korabliakh Nadezhde i Neve. [A Voyage Around the World in the years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 on the Ships Nadezhda and Neva.] Text volumes only. St. Petersburg: at the Naval Press, 1809, 1810, 1812.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_15724_0095_000(kruzenshtern_ivan_fedorovich_puteshestvie_vokrug_sveta_v_1803_4_5_i_18053439).jpg?w=1)
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KRUZENSHTERN, Ivan Fedorovich (1770-1846). Puteshestvie vokrug Sveta v 1803, 4, 5 i 1806 godakh na korabliakh Nadezhde i Neve. [A Voyage Around the World in the years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 on the Ships Nadezhda and Neva.] Text volumes only. St. Petersburg: at the Naval Press, 1809, 1810, 1812.
The first edition, Russian version, of the narrative for the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe, one of the most important after Cook and especially valuable for its description of the Northwest coast of America and of the North Pacific. In this copy, volume 3 has 412 pages rather than the usual 449, ending with Rumiantsev’s letter followed by a leaf of errata. This volume is in a contemporary binding, and its printed table of contents makes no mention of the meteorological data found in pages 413-449 of some copies. It is evidently complete as issued, and may be from a previously unrecorded, earlier variant. Rare: RBH and ABPC record no other copy of this title having been offered at auction. Arctic Bib. 9377; Forbes 401; Howes K-272 "d"; Lada-Mocarski 61; Lada-Mocarski 62 (note); Smirdin 3707; Sopikov 9902; Svodnyi Katalog (1801-1825), 4136; Wickersham 6228.
Text only. Three volumes, quarto (254 x 210mm). With the half titles; with errata in part 3. (Main text of vol. 3 ends at p. 412 and is without the table barometric data; without the errata in part 2; Vol. 1 with some marginal repairs, half title repaired in the inside margin, mainly marginal dampstain in some gatherings; vols 2-3 with occasional light marginal spotting). Vol. 1 bound in contemporary Russian half calf with flat spine, edges yellow; Vols 2-3 in contemporary Russian green half roan with flat spines, edges sprinkled yellow (hinges of vol. 2 repaired; extremities rubbed). Provenance: [Vol. 1:] “Aleksandrovskii” (inscription on front endpaper) – Library of the 1st Cadets Corp (shelf label; title stamp) – Library of the Geographical Faculty, Leningrad State University (title stamp) – Russian bookseller’s price (in manuscript on rear free endpaper); [Vols 2-3:] Library of the Alexander Military Law Academy (title stamps); [Vols 1-3:] Swann Galleries (sold, 27 April 1995, lot 269) – William Reese Co.
The first edition, Russian version, of the narrative for the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe, one of the most important after Cook and especially valuable for its description of the Northwest coast of America and of the North Pacific. In this copy, volume 3 has 412 pages rather than the usual 449, ending with Rumiantsev’s letter followed by a leaf of errata. This volume is in a contemporary binding, and its printed table of contents makes no mention of the meteorological data found in pages 413-449 of some copies. It is evidently complete as issued, and may be from a previously unrecorded, earlier variant. Rare: RBH and ABPC record no other copy of this title having been offered at auction. Arctic Bib. 9377; Forbes 401; Howes K-272 "d"; Lada-Mocarski 61; Lada-Mocarski 62 (note); Smirdin 3707; Sopikov 9902; Svodnyi Katalog (1801-1825), 4136; Wickersham 6228.
Text only. Three volumes, quarto (254 x 210mm). With the half titles; with errata in part 3. (Main text of vol. 3 ends at p. 412 and is without the table barometric data; without the errata in part 2; Vol. 1 with some marginal repairs, half title repaired in the inside margin, mainly marginal dampstain in some gatherings; vols 2-3 with occasional light marginal spotting). Vol. 1 bound in contemporary Russian half calf with flat spine, edges yellow; Vols 2-3 in contemporary Russian green half roan with flat spines, edges sprinkled yellow (hinges of vol. 2 repaired; extremities rubbed). Provenance: [Vol. 1:] “Aleksandrovskii” (inscription on front endpaper) – Library of the 1st Cadets Corp (shelf label; title stamp) – Library of the Geographical Faculty, Leningrad State University (title stamp) – Russian bookseller’s price (in manuscript on rear free endpaper); [Vols 2-3:] Library of the Alexander Military Law Academy (title stamps); [Vols 1-3:] Swann Galleries (sold, 27 April 1995, lot 269) – William Reese Co.