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MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS CONDE DE BENYOWSKY (1741-1786)
Memoirs and Travels. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790. 2 vols., 4° (278 x 211mm). With half-titles. Engraved portrait vignette on title, 23 engraved plates and maps, many folding. (Some browning to the last few plates of Vol. II, tear with small loss in bottom margin of P3 in Vol. I.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with floral tools (short splits on upper joint of vol. I). Provenance: Anne Brodie (19th-century shelfmark and signature on titles).
FIRST EDITION OF BENYOWSKY'S POPULAR ACCOUNT. Benyowsky's 'eventful life involved him in political action for which the Russian government exile him to Siberia. With a handful of equally adventurous men, he escaped from Kamchatka by sea in 1771. The trip took them to Japan, Formosa, and China. The work contains interesting accounts of Siberia, the Russian fur trade, and the history, life, and customs of Kamchatka. The author also describes the Kurile and Aleutian Islands, and claims to have landed on the Alaskan mainland' (Hill). Most of the second volume records Benyowsky's activities in Madagascar in the name of the French government. Cordier Japonica 454; Cordier Sinica 277; Hill 115; Lada-Mocarski 45. (2)
Memoirs and Travels. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790. 2 vols., 4° (278 x 211mm). With half-titles. Engraved portrait vignette on title, 23 engraved plates and maps, many folding. (Some browning to the last few plates of Vol. II, tear with small loss in bottom margin of P3 in Vol. I.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with floral tools (short splits on upper joint of vol. I). Provenance: Anne Brodie (19th-century shelfmark and signature on titles).
FIRST EDITION OF BENYOWSKY'S POPULAR ACCOUNT. Benyowsky's 'eventful life involved him in political action for which the Russian government exile him to Siberia. With a handful of equally adventurous men, he escaped from Kamchatka by sea in 1771. The trip took them to Japan, Formosa, and China. The work contains interesting accounts of Siberia, the Russian fur trade, and the history, life, and customs of Kamchatka. The author also describes the Kurile and Aleutian Islands, and claims to have landed on the Alaskan mainland' (Hill). Most of the second volume records Benyowsky's activities in Madagascar in the name of the French government. Cordier Japonica 454; Cordier Sinica 277; Hill 115; Lada-Mocarski 45. (2)
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