Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan during the years 1811, 1812, and 1813; with Observations on the Country and the People

by Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Second and best edition. iv, 315; 2 , 356, 2 ; iii-viii, lxxxix, 1 , 302, 2 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards, repairs to joints. Provenance: W. S. Witham bookplate . Howes G231; Wickersham 6166; see Lada-Mocarski 65, 82, 153. Item #370739 Captured while carrying out a survey of Russian America and Kamchatka, Captain Golownin 1776-1831 writes of a his two years captivity by

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