![ZAGOSKIN, Lavrentii Alekseevich (1808-1890) – Zapiski Russkago Geograficheskago Obshchestva. Knizhka pervaia [– vtoraia]. [Notes of the Russian Geographical Society. Books 1 and 2.] St. Petersburg: at the press of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1846-1847. [Bound with:] Règlements provisoires de la Société Géographique de Russie. St. Petersburg: at the Press of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1845.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_15724_0420_000(zagoskin_lavrentii_alekseevich_zapiski_russkago_geograficheskago_obshc062838).jpg?w=1)
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ZAGOSKIN, Lavrentii Alekseevich (1808-1890) – Zapiski Russkago Geograficheskago Obshchestva. Knizhka pervaia [– vtoraia]. [Notes of the Russian Geographical Society. Books 1 and 2.] St. Petersburg: at the press of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1846-1847. [Bound with:] Règlements provisoires de la Société Géographique de Russie. St. Petersburg: at the Press of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1845.
The earliest report of Zagoskin’s Alaska expedition. The full report – also in the Greene collection – began to appear later the same year and was completed in 1848. This extract of Zagoskin’s findings was compiled from his journals by S.I. Zelenyi. It includes a preliminary version of Zagoskin’s important map of the interior of Alaska. These first two volumes of the Russian Geographical Society’s transactions also include Vrangel’s “How to Reach the Pole”, Litke’s obituary of Kruzenshtern, and Savich’s report on the Hudson Bay Company – one of the earliest and most reliable descriptions available to Russian audiences of their great trading rivals in North America.
Three volumes in one, octavo (220 x 140mm). Four engraved maps, two of which folding (some spotting; margins lightly browned). 19th-century quarter calf, preserving the front wrappers of vol.2 and of the Règelements; the spine flat and with two black morocco labels gilt-lettered in French (front joint and spine head repaired). Provenance: William Priester (his sale, Bonham’s New York, 25 June 2013, lot 2126).
The earliest report of Zagoskin’s Alaska expedition. The full report – also in the Greene collection – began to appear later the same year and was completed in 1848. This extract of Zagoskin’s findings was compiled from his journals by S.I. Zelenyi. It includes a preliminary version of Zagoskin’s important map of the interior of Alaska. These first two volumes of the Russian Geographical Society’s transactions also include Vrangel’s “How to Reach the Pole”, Litke’s obituary of Kruzenshtern, and Savich’s report on the Hudson Bay Company – one of the earliest and most reliable descriptions available to Russian audiences of their great trading rivals in North America.
Three volumes in one, octavo (220 x 140mm). Four engraved maps, two of which folding (some spotting; margins lightly browned). 19th-century quarter calf, preserving the front wrappers of vol.2 and of the Règelements; the spine flat and with two black morocco labels gilt-lettered in French (front joint and spine head repaired). Provenance: William Priester (his sale, Bonham’s New York, 25 June 2013, lot 2126).