Mes Croisieres dan la Mer de Behring: Nouvelles Chasses et Nouveaux Voyages. Traduit de L'Allemand par I. Roustan. Avec 132 gravures d'apres les photographies de l'auteur et une carte
1908 · Paris
by Niedieck, Paul
Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1908. First edition in French (first published in English in 1909 by Rowland Ward as "Cruises in the Bering Sea"). 8vo. (6), ii, 296, (2) pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait frontispiece of the author, plates, folding map in pocket at rear. Czech Asia, p. 150: "On the Kamchatkan coast ... bagging bear along the shores of Betchevinskaya Bay. He also collected Ovis nivicola in the surrounding hill country, walrus, and sea lion before turning his attention to Alaska. Captain C.R.E. Radclyffe was his hunting companion." Very good. Dark green quarter-morocco (spine faded to a uniform rich brown), marbled boards and endpapers, gilt spine title, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original illustrated wrappers bound in. (#6056). (Inventory #: 59134)