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Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846)
A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage undertaken in the years 1815-1818... in the ship Rurick. London: A.& R.Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821. 3 volumes, 8° (208 x 130mm). Half-titles. 16 maps and plates, 9 plates (1 uncoloured, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates), after Ludovik Choris, and others. (Title page to vol.II laid down and with margins repaired, spotting to plates and maps.) 20th-century brown half calf gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red and green morocco lettering-pieces on spine (light fading to spines). Provenance: Edinburgh Subscription Library (stamp on verso of final map in vol.II); Edwin Stanton Fickes (bookplate)
First edition in English, an abridged version of the German original and a 'very important and much-prized work' (Hill). Abbey Travel II.596; Hill p.165; Sabin 38291. (3)
A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage undertaken in the years 1815-1818... in the ship Rurick. London: A.& R.Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821. 3 volumes, 8° (208 x 130mm). Half-titles. 16 maps and plates, 9 plates (1 uncoloured, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates), after Ludovik Choris, and others. (Title page to vol.II laid down and with margins repaired, spotting to plates and maps.) 20th-century brown half calf gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red and green morocco lettering-pieces on spine (light fading to spines). Provenance: Edinburgh Subscription Library (stamp on verso of final map in vol.II); Edwin Stanton Fickes (bookplate)
First edition in English, an abridged version of the German original and a 'very important and much-prized work' (Hill). Abbey Travel II.596; Hill p.165; Sabin 38291. (3)
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