Voyages et Decouvertes Faites par le Russes le Long des cotes de la Mer Glaciale & sur l'Ocean Oriental, tant vers le Japon que vers l'Amerique. On Y a joint l'Histoire du Fleuve Amur

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Author: Gerhard "G" Friedrich Muller (1705-1783) Year: 1766 Publisher: Marc-Michel Rey Place: Amsterdam Description Two volumes bound in one. [i]-xii, [1]-388; [i]-iv, [1]-207; Table of Contents; [3] publisher's ads. Folding map showing the lands touching the Arctic Circle, including a large portion of Russia and parts of America, including California. Duodecimo (6 ¾" x 4") bound quarter tan leather with contemporary patterned paper boards with gilt decorative rules, gold spine label with gilt lettering; all edges speckled red. (Howes M-875. Sabin 51286. Streeter VI) First French edition of this work originally published in German in 1758. Gerhard Friedrich Müller was a Russian-German historian and pioneer ethnologist. Müller participated in the second Kamchatka expedition, which reported on life and nature of the further (eastern) side of the Ural mountain range. From 1733 till 1743, nineteen scientists and artists traveled through Siberia to study people, cultures and collected data for the creation of maps. Müller, who described and categorized clothing, religions and rituals of the Siberian ethnic groups, is considered to be the father of ethnography. On his return from Siberia, he became historiographer to the Russian Empire. He was one of the first historians to bring out a general account of Russian history based on an extensive examination of the documentary sources. His accentuation of the role of Scandinavians and Germans in the history of that country – a germ of t

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