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ZAGOSKIN, Lavrentii Alekseevich (1808-1890) – HOTOVITSKY, Antoinette (fl. 1940s). “Account of Pedestrian Journeys in the Russian Possessions of America”, original corrected manuscript translation of Zagoskin’s Peshekhodnaia opis chasti russkikh vladenii v Amerike v 1842, 1843 i 1844 godakh, Alaska, c.1942.
544 pages, quarto (265 x 203mm), pen and pencil on wove paper (first and last leaves, and a few oversized leaves, with some wear and some tears). Provenance: [manuscript:] Archie W. Shiels (1878-1974, author, President of Pacific American Fisheries; commissioner of the translation) – Arthur H. Clark Company; [typescript:] John Michael Lang.
The original corrected manuscript – unpublished – of the first complete translation of Zagoskin’s account of his “truly remarkable achievement” (Lada-Mocarski). The translation was commissioned by the noted collector Archie Shiels from Antoinette Hotovitsky, resident of Belkovsky (now uninhabited) on Kodiak Island, and wife of the village’s Orthodox priest Dmitrii Hotovitsky. Together with: a small file of manuscripts and typescripts relating to the translation; and a bound carbon typescript copy of Hotovitsky’s translation: one of small number of copies prepared by Archie W. Shiels from the manuscript. The typescript includes a reproduction of the important map published in the first edition of Zagoskin’s account. Arctic Bib. 19779; see Lada-Mocarski 130.
544 pages, quarto (265 x 203mm), pen and pencil on wove paper (first and last leaves, and a few oversized leaves, with some wear and some tears). Provenance: [manuscript:] Archie W. Shiels (1878-1974, author, President of Pacific American Fisheries; commissioner of the translation) – Arthur H. Clark Company; [typescript:] John Michael Lang.
The original corrected manuscript – unpublished – of the first complete translation of Zagoskin’s account of his “truly remarkable achievement” (Lada-Mocarski). The translation was commissioned by the noted collector Archie Shiels from Antoinette Hotovitsky, resident of Belkovsky (now uninhabited) on Kodiak Island, and wife of the village’s Orthodox priest Dmitrii Hotovitsky. Together with: a small file of manuscripts and typescripts relating to the translation; and a bound carbon typescript copy of Hotovitsky’s translation: one of small number of copies prepared by Archie W. Shiels from the manuscript. The typescript includes a reproduction of the important map published in the first edition of Zagoskin’s account. Arctic Bib. 19779; see Lada-Mocarski 130.