![BERKH, Vasilii Nikolaevich (1781-1835). Pervoe Morskoe Puteshestvie Rossiian, predpriiatnoe dlia presheniia geograficheskoi zadachi: soediniaetsia li Asiia c Amerikoiu? [The First Russian Sea Expedition, Undertaken to Solve a Geographical Problem: Does Asia Connect with America?] St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Science, 1823.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_15724_0060_001(berkh_vasilii_nikolaevich_pervoe_morskoe_puteshestvie_rossiian_predpri100523).jpg?w=1)
![BERKH, Vasilii Nikolaevich (1781-1835). Pervoe Morskoe Puteshestvie Rossiian, predpriiatnoe dlia presheniia geograficheskoi zadachi: soediniaetsia li Asiia c Amerikoiu? [The First Russian Sea Expedition, Undertaken to Solve a Geographical Problem: Does Asia Connect with America?] St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Science, 1823.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_15724_0060_000(berkh_vasilii_nikolaevich_pervoe_morskoe_puteshestvie_rossiian_predpri052726).jpg?w=1)
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BERKH, Vasilii Nikolaevich (1781-1835). Pervoe Morskoe Puteshestvie Rossiian, predpriiatnoe dlia presheniia geograficheskoi zadachi: soediniaetsia li Asiia c Amerikoiu? [The First Russian Sea Expedition, Undertaken to Solve a Geographical Problem: Does Asia Connect with America?] St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Science, 1823.
The rare first edition of valuable first-hand accounts of Bering’s highly important First Kamchatka Expedition, Russia’s first scientific naval expedition, which confirmed that Asia and America are separate. RBH and ABPC record no copy having ever been offered at auction. Berkh based his book on the manuscript journals of two participants in Bering’s expedition, Aleksei Chirikov and Peter Chaplin, which he had discovered accidentally in the archives of the Russian admiralty. Not in Arctic Bib.; Howes B-377; Lada-Mocarski 87; Tourville 531; Wickersham 6094.
Octavo (190 x 120mm). Engraved folding map after Bering; folding letterpress table (bound without the blanks; repaired tear in the last text leaf and in the map margin). Contemporary Russian half sheep, flat spine tooled in blind, edges sprinkled blue (rear free endpaper repaired; spine ends chipped; corners repaired); modern black cloth slipcase. Provenance: Library of the Naval School Students (shelf label in the preface; marginal stamps throughout) – Boris Kuznetsov (lawyer; bookplate, title stamp) – Shapero Rare Books.
The rare first edition of valuable first-hand accounts of Bering’s highly important First Kamchatka Expedition, Russia’s first scientific naval expedition, which confirmed that Asia and America are separate. RBH and ABPC record no copy having ever been offered at auction. Berkh based his book on the manuscript journals of two participants in Bering’s expedition, Aleksei Chirikov and Peter Chaplin, which he had discovered accidentally in the archives of the Russian admiralty. Not in Arctic Bib.; Howes B-377; Lada-Mocarski 87; Tourville 531; Wickersham 6094.
Octavo (190 x 120mm). Engraved folding map after Bering; folding letterpress table (bound without the blanks; repaired tear in the last text leaf and in the map margin). Contemporary Russian half sheep, flat spine tooled in blind, edges sprinkled blue (rear free endpaper repaired; spine ends chipped; corners repaired); modern black cloth slipcase. Provenance: Library of the Naval School Students (shelf label in the preface; marginal stamps throughout) – Boris Kuznetsov (lawyer; bookplate, title stamp) – Shapero Rare Books.