A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the early eastern navigations of the Russians

by James Burney

$7,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Publisher's brown paper covered boards, rebacked to style. First edition of a scarce work of Pacific exploration, which includes a first-hand account of Cook's death in publisher's boards, uncut. The present work, supplemental to Burney's great five-volume Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Seas published between 1803-1817 , concentrates on the discoveries and voyages made by all the main maritime nations in the North East Arctic regions, but

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