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Siberia and Kamchatka
Georg Adolph ERMAN (1806-1877). Travels in Siberia: including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier... Translated from the German by William Desborough Cooley. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1848. 2 volumes, 8° (213 x 137mm). Half-titles. Folding engraved map. Contemporary red calf gilt, green morocco spine labels. Provenance: Mr.& Mrs.H.Freedman (presentation inscription, dated 1946, to 'Gerald'). First edition in English: a translation of the first part of Erman's 'Reise um die Erde durch Nord-Asien...' (Berlin: 1833-1848), including the narrative but omitting the atlas volume and the scientific results found in the original edition. Arctic Bibliography 4662.
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Georg Wilhelm STELLER (1709-1746). Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamschatka... herausgegeben von J.B.S. Frankfurt & Leipzig: Johann Georg Fleischer, 1774. 8° (200 x 115mm). Engraved title vignette, 13 engraved plates, 2 maps. (Some marginal staining.) Contemporary half speckled sheep gilt (light scuffing to extremities); together with 8 other works in 11 volumes (including: John Dundas COCHRANE. Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, London, 1825, 2 vols., third edition, 8°; [Eve FELINSKA]. Revelations of Siberia. By a banished lady. Edited by Colonel Lach Szyrma, London, 1852, 2 vols., 8°; Thomas William ATKINSON. Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor and Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China, London, 1860, 8°). (14)
Georg Adolph ERMAN (1806-1877). Travels in Siberia: including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier... Translated from the German by William Desborough Cooley. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1848. 2 volumes, 8° (213 x 137mm). Half-titles. Folding engraved map. Contemporary red calf gilt, green morocco spine labels. Provenance: Mr.& Mrs.H.Freedman (presentation inscription, dated 1946, to 'Gerald'). First edition in English: a translation of the first part of Erman's 'Reise um die Erde durch Nord-Asien...' (Berlin: 1833-1848), including the narrative but omitting the atlas volume and the scientific results found in the original edition. Arctic Bibliography 4662.
[With:]
Georg Wilhelm STELLER (1709-1746). Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamschatka... herausgegeben von J.B.S. Frankfurt & Leipzig: Johann Georg Fleischer, 1774. 8° (200 x 115mm). Engraved title vignette, 13 engraved plates, 2 maps. (Some marginal staining.) Contemporary half speckled sheep gilt (light scuffing to extremities); together with 8 other works in 11 volumes (including: John Dundas COCHRANE. Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, London, 1825, 2 vols., third edition, 8°; [Eve FELINSKA]. Revelations of Siberia. By a banished lady. Edited by Colonel Lach Szyrma, London, 1852, 2 vols., 8°; Thomas William ATKINSON. Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor and Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China, London, 1860, 8°). (14)
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