![GOLOVNIN, Vasily -- RIKORD, Peter, Captain. Zapiski flota kapitana Rikorda o plavanii ego k Yaponskim beregam b 1812 i 1813 godakh. [Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord concerning his sailing to Japan's shores in 1812 and 1813, and about his relations with the Japanese]. St. Petersburg: Morskaya, 1816.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07295_0074_000(010841).jpg?w=1)
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GOLOVNIN, Vasily -- RIKORD, Peter, Captain. Zapiski flota kapitana Rikorda o plavanii ego k Yaponskim beregam b 1812 i 1813 godakh. [Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord concerning his sailing to Japan's shores in 1812 and 1813, and about his relations with the Japanese]. St. Petersburg: Morskaya, 1816.
4° (280 x 235mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Takatai-Kahi and 4 folding engraved plans after Rikord. (Faint dampstain throughout.) Uncut in the original blue wrappers (repaired and sympathetically rebacked preserving some of the spine).
FIRST EDITION, A TALL COPY, UNCUT IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF RIKORD'S EXPEDITION TO RESCUE GOLOVNIN. It consitutes an important and early first-hand account of contact between Japan and Russia, and is one of the titles exhibited at the New York Public Library's 'Russia Engages the World' exhibition of 2003 (Whittaker, p.189). Rikord sailed to Japan on the Russian sloop-of-war Diana, taking on board a number of Japanese seamen shipwrecked off the coast of Kamchatka, and capturing the captain and several crew from a large junk. He landed at Kunashie where he negotiated the eventual release of Golovnin. Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin later wrote a popular account of the experiences; both accounts were translated for an English edition in 1818.
4° (280 x 235mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Takatai-Kahi and 4 folding engraved plans after Rikord. (Faint dampstain throughout.) Uncut in the original blue wrappers (repaired and sympathetically rebacked preserving some of the spine).
FIRST EDITION, A TALL COPY, UNCUT IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF RIKORD'S EXPEDITION TO RESCUE GOLOVNIN. It consitutes an important and early first-hand account of contact between Japan and Russia, and is one of the titles exhibited at the New York Public Library's 'Russia Engages the World' exhibition of 2003 (Whittaker, p.189). Rikord sailed to Japan on the Russian sloop-of-war Diana, taking on board a number of Japanese seamen shipwrecked off the coast of Kamchatka, and capturing the captain and several crew from a large junk. He landed at Kunashie where he negotiated the eventual release of Golovnin. Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin later wrote a popular account of the experiences; both accounts were translated for an English edition in 1818.
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