![KASHEVAROV, Aleksandr Filippovich (1809-1870). “Zhurnal pri baidarnoi ekspeditsii, naznachennoi dlia opisi severnago berega Ameriki, 1838 g.” in Zapiski Imperatorskago Russkago Geograficheskago Obshchestva. T. 8, vyp. 2. [“Diary of the Canoe Expedition Sent to Describe the North Shore of America, in 1838” in Proceedings of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Vol. 8, part 2.] St. Petersburg: at the Press of the Imperial Academy of Science, 1879.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_15724_0347_000(kashevarov_aleksandr_filippovich_zhurnal_pri_baidarnoi_ekspeditsii_naz103035).jpg?w=1)
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KASHEVAROV, Aleksandr Filippovich (1809-1870). “Zhurnal pri baidarnoi ekspeditsii, naznachennoi dlia opisi severnago berega Ameriki, 1838 g.” in Zapiski Imperatorskago Russkago Geograficheskago Obshchestva. T. 8, vyp. 2. [“Diary of the Canoe Expedition Sent to Describe the North Shore of America, in 1838” in Proceedings of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Vol. 8, part 2.] St. Petersburg: at the Press of the Imperial Academy of Science, 1879.
The first edition of this detailed description of coastal Northern Alaska between Point Barrow and Return Reef – an important but little-known expedition. “Like Franklin and Dease and Simpson, Kashevarov had carried out an important voyage of exploration despite hardships and hostile encounters with the Eskimos, but the Russian-American Company would never capitalize on his discoveries” (Bockstoce). The area was too far from the Company’s main zone of activity; the expedition was commissioned primarily as part of the geopolitical tussle between Russia and Great Britain. The account was published a decade after Kashevarov’s death, forty years after the fact. It is rich in the kind of ethnographic detail that is often lacking from early descriptions of Alaska. Bockstoce, Furs and Frontiers in the Far North (New Haven: Yale, 2009), p. 192. Together with: a copy of the first edition in English, published in Fieldiana: Anthropology, volume 69 (Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1977).
Octavo (247 x 165mm, with deckle edges). Unopened. One folding map and one plate, both chromolithographs (plate lightly sunned in the inside margin; map with a short tear near the hinge). Modern wrappers preserving the original printed front wrapper (light spotting). Provenance: Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers.
The first edition of this detailed description of coastal Northern Alaska between Point Barrow and Return Reef – an important but little-known expedition. “Like Franklin and Dease and Simpson, Kashevarov had carried out an important voyage of exploration despite hardships and hostile encounters with the Eskimos, but the Russian-American Company would never capitalize on his discoveries” (Bockstoce). The area was too far from the Company’s main zone of activity; the expedition was commissioned primarily as part of the geopolitical tussle between Russia and Great Britain. The account was published a decade after Kashevarov’s death, forty years after the fact. It is rich in the kind of ethnographic detail that is often lacking from early descriptions of Alaska. Bockstoce, Furs and Frontiers in the Far North (New Haven: Yale, 2009), p. 192. Together with: a copy of the first edition in English, published in Fieldiana: Anthropology, volume 69 (Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1977).
Octavo (247 x 165mm, with deckle edges). Unopened. One folding map and one plate, both chromolithographs (plate lightly sunned in the inside margin; map with a short tear near the hinge). Modern wrappers preserving the original printed front wrapper (light spotting). Provenance: Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers.