A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva.

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London : John Booth and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme ​ Brown, 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), modern half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt rule, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards; speckled edges; preliminaries (2 blanks, frontispiece portrait of Lisianskii); xxi; [blank]; [ii], 388, illustrated with 5 plates (2 aquatint views) and 8 coloured maps (3 folding); light foxing and offsetting, a fine copy of a rare work, which is often found incomplete. Important narrative of the first Russian circumnavigation under Krusenstern, written by the expedition s deputy commander Lisianskii and first published in St. Petersburg in 1812. The expedition reached Hawaii in mid 1804. The Neva arrived at Hawaii June 8 and departed June 20 and Lisianskii s account is brief but includes visits to Kealakekua Bay and to Waimea, Kauai. (Forbes). Lisianskii then provides a detailed account of the expedition s activities at Kodiak and Sitka in Alaska in 1804-05, including his subjugation of the Kolosh Indians who had destroyed the settlement of the Russian-American Company at Sitka. Appendix 3 comprises a Vocabulary of the Languages of the Islands of Cadiack and Oonalaschca . The two fine aquatint views of Harbour of St. Paul in the Island of Cadiack and Harbour of New Archangel in Sitca of Norfolk Sound are after Lisianskii s own drawings. As well as a world map, the work contains coloured charts of several locations along the

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