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MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- RUSSIA -- SARYTSCHEW, G. Reis in het Noordoostelijk Siberie, en op de IJszee en den Noordoostelijken Oceaan. Uit de Hoogduitse vert. v. J.H. Busse overgezet d. N. Messchaert. Amst., J. Allart, 1808. 2 in 1 vol. (2), xxxii, 190; x, 334 pp. W. lge-fold. engr. map by C. v. Baarsel, 5 handcold. costume plates, 10 fold. views by R. Vinkeles & 1 fold. table. Cont. hcf. w. dec. gilt back & red label. (Top of spine chipped, upper outer corner faintly stained in places, half-ti second vol. lacking? (also not present in digital copy NCC), else a fine and clean copy).
Sarychev was deputy to Captain Joseph Billings, the leader of the Russian expedition of 1785 to 1793, sent by Empress Catherine II to explore the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans, during which "Alaska and the Aleutians, especially Unalaska, were first carefully charted" (Hill). Sarychev's account was first published in Russian in 1802 as Puteshestvie Flota Kapitana Sarycheva. This is the first Dutch translation. - Hill 1527; Howes S-115; Sabin 77125 (German ed.).€ 500
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