A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East Passage

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Author: Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846) Year: 1821 Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown Place: London Description 3 volumes. xvi+[blank]+hand-colored aquatint+358 pages with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, 2 hand-colored aquatint plates, tables and 2 folding maps; 433 pages with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, 2 hand-colored aquatint plates, tables, figures, 3 maps (2 folding) and foldout plate; 442 pages with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, tables, figure and map. Octavos (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in half leather with five raised spine bands in gilt lettering over marbled boards. (Abbey Travel 596; Hill 944; Sabin 38291) First edition in English. Otto von Kotzebue was a Russian officer and navigator in the Imperial Russian Navy. He was born in Reval. He was known for his explorations of Oceania. On promotion to lieutenant, Kotzebue was placed in command of an expedition, fitted out at the expense of the imperial chancellor, Count Nikolay Rumyantsev, in the brig Rurik . In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and Adelbert von Chamisso, and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a passage across the Arctic Ocean and explore the less-known parts of Oceania. Proceeding via Cape Horn, he discovered the Romanzov Islands, Rurik Islands and Krusenstern Islands (today Tikehau), then made for Kamchatka. In the middle of July he proceeded northward, coasting along the north-wes

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