(WORLD) Ivan Fedorovich Krusenstern [Mercator Map of the Who

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(WORLD.) Ivan Fedorovich Krusenstern. [Mercator Map of the Whole World or a General Map of the Journey of Captain Kruzenstern]. Large engraved Russian language chart of the world tracking the route of Krusenstern's three-year voyage of exploration. 26 3/4x37 inches sheet size, wide margins; Russian annotations in pencil, partly mended damages at lower center with minimal printed surface affected. St. Petersburg, 1813

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Extremely scarce Russian chart of the world from Krusenstern's "Atlas K Puteshestviyu Vokrug Sveta Kapitana Kruzenshterna", an accounting of the first successful circumnavigation of the globe by a Russian squadron between 1803 and 1806, which included important descriptions of the North Pacific, Alaska, and Japan.