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KOTZEBUE, Otto von. A New Voyage round the World, in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. London: Samuel Bentley for Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.
2 volumes, 12o (188 x 118 mm). 2 engraved frontispieces and 3 maps (2 folding). (Some occasional foxing, maps with light offsetting.) 20th-century calf, spines gilt in compartments, each with two gilt-lettered black morocco lettering pieces (light wear to joints and edges, small abrasion to rear cover of second volume).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Kotzebue's third circumnavigation (the second under his command) for the Csar, for the purpose of protecting Russian American Company interests on the Pacific Northwest coast against foreign fur traders. He sailed from Kronstadt to Brazil, then went by way of Cape Horn to Chile, Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Tonga, Navigator's Islands, and Radack, and than to Kamchatka. The work is as important to Alaska and California as it is to Polynesia, and his accounts of Sitka, the new Russian settlement at Ross, and the San Francisco Bay region are heightened by criticism of the harsh treatment of California Indians and of Polynesians by missionaries. On his previous voyage he had been equally critical of Russian treatment of the Alaska Indians. The English translation caused alarm in England as it indicated a growing Russian presence in the American northwest. Borba de Moraes I:440; Cowan I p.335; Hill 947; Kroepelien 675; see Lada-Mocarski 93 (Russian edition); Sabin 38288.
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PREUSS, Ernst Wilhelm (ca 1800-1839). Astronomische Beobachtungen auf des Herrn Capitain Otto v. Kotzebue zweiten Reise um die Welt in den Landungsplätzen angestellt. Edited by F. G. W. Struve. Dorpat: J.C. Schünmann, 1830. 4o (224 x 183 mm). Later gilt-lettered cloth. FIRST EDITION. Preuss accompanied Otto von Kotzebue on his second circumnavigation under his command, i.e. the third Russian circumnavigation, 1823-26. Preuss made astronomical observations in Chile, Tahiti, Radack, Kamchatka, San Francisco, California, the Sandwich Islands, Sitka and Manilla. The work was edited by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793-1864) who added an article on Preuss's observations of the moon in San Francisco and Kamchatka. After the voyage in 1826, Preuss became an astronomer in the observatory in Dorpat. Wickersham 6216. (3)
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Kotzebue's third circumnavigation (the second under his command) for the Csar, for the purpose of protecting Russian American Company interests on the Pacific Northwest coast against foreign fur traders. He sailed from Kronstadt to Brazil, then went by way of Cape Horn to Chile, Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Tonga, Navigator's Islands, and Radack, and than to Kamchatka. The work is as important to Alaska and California as it is to Polynesia, and his accounts of Sitka, the new Russian settlement at Ross, and the San Francisco Bay region are heightened by criticism of the harsh treatment of California Indians and of Polynesians by missionaries. On his previous voyage he had been equally critical of Russian treatment of the Alaska Indians. The English translation caused alarm in England as it indicated a growing Russian presence in the American northwest. Borba de Moraes I:440; Cowan I p.335; Hill 947; Kroepelien 675; see Lada-Mocarski 93 (Russian edition); Sabin 38288.
[With:]
PREUSS, Ernst Wilhelm (ca 1800-1839). Astronomische Beobachtungen auf des Herrn Capitain Otto v. Kotzebue zweiten Reise um die Welt in den Landungsplätzen angestellt. Edited by F. G. W. Struve. Dorpat: J.C. Schünmann, 1830. 4