Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Bering's Straits, in Search of a North-east Passage; Untertaken in the Years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the Ship Rurick (Parts I and II bound in one volume)

  • Leather bound
  • London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1821
By von Kotzebue, Otto
London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1821. Leather bound. Very good. 220pp. Octavo [23 cm] in twentieth century quarter red leather over dark blue boards, with gilt spine title. Recased. Lacks the color frontis. Light rubbing to spine, small perforation to front joint at top; ink name dated 1932 on front pastedown, hinges cracked (but holding). With four fold-out maps. An abridged English version of Kotzebue's "Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse," published in the same year as the first English edition.

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Title

Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Bering's Straits, in Search of a North-east Passage; Untertaken in the Years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the Ship Rurick (Parts I and II bound in one volume)

Author

von Kotzebue, Otto

Binding

Leather bound

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Sir Richard Phillips and Co: London

Date

1821


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