KRASCHENINNIKOFF STEPHAN PETROVICH The History of Kamtschatk

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KRASCHENINNIKOFF, STEPHAN PETROVICH. The History of Kamtschatka. Translated by James Grieve. 2 folding maps, 5 plates. 4to, contemporary calf; armorial bookplate on the front pastedown (Baron St John of Bletso). nice copy. Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764

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first english edition. This abridged translation of Krascheninnikoff's 1755 Russian narrative of his journey across Siberia to Kamchatka includes information gleaned from Georg Wilhelm Steller's notes on Bering's second voyage. "[They] are an important part of this work, and constitute one of the earliest accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands"--Hill 948; Howes K265; Sabin 38301; Wickersham 12 (note); Arctic Bibliography 9264.
with--Explorations of Kamchatka. Translated by E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughan. Portland, 1972. The first unabridged translation of Krascheninnikoff's work.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.