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GERHARD FRIEDRICH MÜLLER (1705-1783)
Voyages from Asia to America, for Completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a Summary of the Voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in Search of a North East Passage, translated by Thomas Jefferys. London: T. Jefferys, 1761. 4° (259 x 203mm). 3 engraved maps only by Jeffreys, one folding and hand-coloured in outline. Type-ornament headpieces and woodcut tailpiece. (Variable light browning, short tear on folding map, lacking one folding map). Contemporary English speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, other decorated with fleurons (a little rubbed and scuffed, splitting on joints, upper hinge reinforced with fabric tape). Provenance: John Monins (bookplate).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 'This important book is indispensable for the history of discovery and explorations in the northern Pacific. It is a sometimes incomplete translation of [Müller's] Nachrichten von Seereisen, und zur See gemachten Entdeckungen [...] and it represents the most extensive account in English of Bering's polar expedition and of the discovery of the Bering Strait and the western limits of North America' (Hill). Hill 1199; Howes M-875; Lada-Mocarski 17; Sabin 51285.
Voyages from Asia to America, for Completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a Summary of the Voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in Search of a North East Passage, translated by Thomas Jefferys. London: T. Jefferys, 1761. 4° (259 x 203mm). 3 engraved maps only by Jeffreys, one folding and hand-coloured in outline. Type-ornament headpieces and woodcut tailpiece. (Variable light browning, short tear on folding map, lacking one folding map). Contemporary English speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, other decorated with fleurons (a little rubbed and scuffed, splitting on joints, upper hinge reinforced with fabric tape). Provenance: John Monins (bookplate).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 'This important book is indispensable for the history of discovery and explorations in the northern Pacific. It is a sometimes incomplete translation of [Müller's] Nachrichten von Seereisen, und zur See gemachten Entdeckungen [...] and it represents the most extensive account in English of Bering's polar expedition and of the discovery of the Bering Strait and the western limits of North America' (Hill). Hill 1199; Howes M-875; Lada-Mocarski 17; Sabin 51285.
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