RECITS DE VOYAGES LA SIBERIE ORIENTALE ET L'AMERIQUE RUSSE
1883 · Pari
by Sachot, Octave
Pari, 1883. [4],266,[2]pp. plus dozens of in-text and full-page illustrations. Frontis. 12mo. Original half morocco and paper covered boards, spine gilt. Worn at spine ends and along hinges and edges. Scattered light foxing. About very good. Second edition, after the first of 1875. The final sixty-seven pages describe an 1865-66 journey to Alaska, during which the Sachot travelled to Unalakleat, Nulato, Sitka, and several other places. He includes descriptions of the coast, of Eskimos, and of the animals and places he observed. Howes calls for a map but no map is mentioned on the titlepage or in the table of plates, and the five copies listed on OCLC do not mention a map either. Scarce. HOWES S6. TOURVILLE 3937 (1st ed). WICKERSHAM 5817 (1st ed). OCLC 20111917 (Inventory #: WRCAM38277)