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

by Adam Johann Von Krusenstern

$15,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Text volumes bound in grey paper boards, rebacked, paper labels; atlas bound to style in grey paper boards. First French edition, with the very rare atlas not published with the English edition. This is the first Russian circumnavigation, written by its commander, and of great importance to Pacific history for his account of the attempt to open Japan to commerce, and for Krusenstern's notes on the Russian-Chinese trade. The two ships sailed from Kronstadt on July

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