Two volumes bound in one. [i]-xii, [1]-388; [i]-iv, [1]-207; Table of Contents; [3] publisher's ads. Folding map showing the lands touching the Arctic Circle, including a large portion of Russia and parts of America, including California. (16mo) 17.1x10.2 cm (6¾x4"), quarter tan leather with contemporary patterned paper boards with gilt decorative rules, gold spine label with gilt lettering; all edges speckled red. This volume is the first French edition of this work originally published in German in 1758, which is the "most important contemporary account of Bering's discoveries, by [Gerhard Friedrich Muller (1705-1783), historian and scientist, who was] attached to [Bering's] second expedition" - Howes.
Two volumes bound in one. [i]-xii, [1]-388; [i]-iv, [1]-207; Table of Contents; [3] publisher's ads. Folding map showing the lands touching the Arctic Circle, including a large portion of Russia and parts of America, including California. (16mo) 17.1x10.2 cm (6¾x4"), quarter tan leather with contemporary patterned paper boards with gilt decorative rules, gold spine label with gilt lettering; all edges speckled red. This volume is the first French edition of this work originally published in German in 1758, which is the "most important contemporary account of Bering's discoveries, by [Gerhard Friedrich Muller (1705-1783), historian and scientist, who was] attached to [Bering's] second expedition" - Howes.
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