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Facsimile reprint.104 facsimile plates, 37 of which are in color; 8 maps & 4 views on double pages. 61.8x45.8 cm (24¼x18"). Presented in publisher's blue cloth-covered portfolio with paper title label; 63x47.6 cm (24¾x18¾"). Facsimile, published in the Bibliotheca Australiana series, of the 1813 St. Petersburg edition. Adam Johann von Krusenstern (known in Russian as Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн, tr. Iván Fyodorovich Kruzenshtérn) was a Baltic German admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. The chief object of this undertaking was the development of the fur trade with Russian America (Alaska). Other goals of the two-ship expedition were to establish trade with China and Japan, facilitate trade in South America, and examine the coast of California in western North America for a possible colony. Upon his return, Krusenstern wrote a detailed report, "Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805 und 1806 auf Befehl Seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät Alexanders des Ersten auf den Schiffen Nadeschda und Newa" ("Journey around the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 at the Command of his Imperial Majesty Alexander I in the Ships Nadezhda and Neva") published in Saint Petersburg. The present lot is a facsimile of the Atlas that accompanied this publication. A facsimile of the narrative portion of Voyage round the World was published by Nico Israel / Da Capo Press in 1968.