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STEPHAN PETROVICH KRASCHENINNIKOFF
The History of Kamtschatka, and the adjacent islands... translated... by James Grieve. Gloucester: R.Raikes for T.Jefferys of London, 1764. 5 engraved plates (2 folding), 2 folding engraved maps. (Small wormhole in lower margins of leaves to C2.) FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Sabin 38301.
[Bound with:]
Thomas JEFFERYS. The Great Probability of a North West Passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte. London: for Thomas Jefferys, 1768. 3 folding engraved maps, one hand-coloured in outline. (Some worming, marginal in the main, but with occasional loss of a few characters.) FIRST EDITION. Sabin 28460.
[Bound with:]
Gerhard Friedrich MUELLER. Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America... Trasnlated from the high dutch... second edition. Edited by Thomas Jefferys. London: for Thomas Jefferys, 1764. 4 engraved maps, 2 folding. (Some light marginal worming). This second edition in english includes one more map than the first. Cf.Sabin 51285.
3 works in one volume, 4° (258 x 207mm). Contemporary tree calf (spine and extremities worn).
Together with a separately bound copy of the first edition in english of the third work.
An interesting selection of early works dealing with the search for the North West Passage. In Britain an Act of Parliament in 1745 authorised a reward to be paid to the discoverer of a sea route around the north of the Americas: the search was to last for nearly 100 years. (2)
The History of Kamtschatka, and the adjacent islands... translated... by James Grieve. Gloucester: R.Raikes for T.Jefferys of London, 1764. 5 engraved plates (2 folding), 2 folding engraved maps. (Small wormhole in lower margins of leaves to C2.) FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Sabin 38301.
[Bound with:]
Thomas JEFFERYS. The Great Probability of a North West Passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte. London: for Thomas Jefferys, 1768. 3 folding engraved maps, one hand-coloured in outline. (Some worming, marginal in the main, but with occasional loss of a few characters.) FIRST EDITION. Sabin 28460.
[Bound with:]
Gerhard Friedrich MUELLER. Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America... Trasnlated from the high dutch... second edition. Edited by Thomas Jefferys. London: for Thomas Jefferys, 1764. 4 engraved maps, 2 folding. (Some light marginal worming). This second edition in english includes one more map than the first. Cf.Sabin 51285.
3 works in one volume, 4° (258 x 207mm). Contemporary tree calf (spine and extremities worn).
Together with a separately bound copy of the first edition in english of the third work.
An interesting selection of early works dealing with the search for the North West Passage. In Britain an Act of Parliament in 1745 authorised a reward to be paid to the discoverer of a sea route around the north of the Americas: the search was to last for nearly 100 years. (2)