A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians

by James Burney

$5,800 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Payne and Foss, and John Murray, 1819. 8vo, viii, 310pp. With two folding charts. Modern half red morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, joints rubbed but sound. Internally very good. § Including Cook’s third voyageFirst edition, and very scarce. Although intended as a supplement to Burney’s great five-volume Chronological history of the Discoveries in the South Seas

• Binding: Leather

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