Voyage Autour Du Monde Fait Dans Les Annees 1803 1804 1805 Et 1806 Par Les Ordres De Sa Majestie

by Adam Johann Von Krusenstern

$27,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Text in period patterned paper wrappers, the atlas bound to style in uniform period panelled wrappers. Housed in black morocco backed boxes. First edition in French of Krusenstern's seminal account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe: complete with the rare atlas of plates. Capt. Ivan von Krusenstern's voyage was one of the most important post-Cook Pacific voyages, specifically aimed at obtaining more knowledge of the northern Pacific

• Binding: Leather

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