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MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich. 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. London: Thomas Jefferys, 1764.
4o (253 x 201 mm). 4 engraved maps (including 2 large folding maps by THOMAS JEFFERYS, hand-colored in outline) (some light offsetting and browning). Modern quarter calf. Provenance: 1765 presentation inscription (partly erased); James Smith (armorial bookplate).
Second edition in English. "Contains the original account of Captain Behring's Polar Expedition, and discovery of the strait which bears his name, and the western limits of North America. Taken from the third volume of Müller's 'Sammlung Russischer Geschichte,' Petropol, 1758. Since the rapid developments of British Columbia and Alaska this important book is becoming indispensable for the history of discovery and exploration in the Northern Pacific" (See Lada-Mocarski 17). Sabin 51285. See Hill 1200; Wagner Northwest Coast 597.
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Second edition in English. "Contains the original account of Captain Behring's Polar Expedition, and discovery of the strait which bears his name, and the western limits of North America. Taken from the third volume of Müller's 'Sammlung Russischer Geschichte,' Petropol, 1758. Since the rapid developments of British Columbia and Alaska this important book is becoming indispensable for the history of discovery and exploration in the Northern Pacific" (See Lada-Mocarski 17). Sabin 51285. See Hill 1200; Wagner Northwest Coast 597.