GEORG HEINRICH VON LANGSDORFF (1744-1852) Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World, during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807. London: B. Clarke for Henry Colburn, 1813. 2 volumes, 4° (269 x 203mm). Frontispiece portrait, folding map and 19 engraved plates. (Portrait and vol. II frontispiece off-set.) Contemporary English sprinkled half calf over marbled boards [free endpapers in both vols. watermarked '1819'], spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2 (skilfully rebacked, retaining lettering-pieces bearing title). Provenance : Thomas Philip de Grey, second Earl de Grey and third Baron Grantham, Newby Hall, Ripon (1781-1859, bookplates as Baron Grantham, boards gilt-stamped 'Newby Hall'). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A RARE, COMPLETE COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY: an important account of the Russian Embassy to Japan, the Alaska fur trade and the Russian settlement in California, by one of the scientists on Krusenstern's world voyage for the Tsar of Russia. Expedition ships Nadeshda and Neva investigated the Marquesas, described and illustrated in detail here and with Langsdorff's appended vocabulary of the islands. With Count Rezanov, a founder of the Russian American Company and Russian Ambassador to Japan, he sailed to Japan to open trade talks (which failed), but their stay is finely detailed and illustrated to include a voyage to Hokkaido and an appended vocabulary of the Ainu language. Langsdorff left the expedition in Kamchatka with Rezanov in 1805 and sailed for Alaska and Sitka, the site of the first Russian fort, and continued to California, the first Russian settlement at Fort Ross and San Francisco. The work is most often found without the second volume which further describes the Pribilof Islands, Unalaska, Sitka, Kodiak, the native inhabitants and the Russian American Company: 'Voyage to the Aleutian Islands, and the North-West Coast of America, and return by land over the North-East Parts of Asia, through Siberia, to Petersburgh', which Sabin credits as having the fullest account of Sitka and San Francisco to date. Returning to Kamchatka, Langsdorff made his way back to St Petersburg via Yakutsk from Okhotsk, also described in detail. This copy is from the library of the politician Earl Thomas de Grey, First Lord of the Admiralty from 1834 to 1835 in Sir Robert Peel's first administration and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1841 to 1844. Hill 969; Sabin 38896; Arctic Bibliography 9665. Kropelien 708; cf. Lada-Mocarski 69 (German edition). (2)
GEORG HEINRICH VON LANGSDORFF (1744-1852) Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World, during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807. London: B. Clarke for Henry Colburn, 1813. 2 volumes, 4° (269 x 203mm). Frontispiece portrait, folding map and 19 engraved plates. (Portrait and vol. II frontispiece off-set.) Contemporary English sprinkled half calf over marbled boards [free endpapers in both vols. watermarked '1819'], spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2 (skilfully rebacked, retaining lettering-pieces bearing title). Provenance : Thomas Philip de Grey, second Earl de Grey and third Baron Grantham, Newby Hall, Ripon (1781-1859, bookplates as Baron Grantham, boards gilt-stamped 'Newby Hall'). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A RARE, COMPLETE COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY: an important account of the Russian Embassy to Japan, the Alaska fur trade and the Russian settlement in California, by one of the scientists on Krusenstern's world voyage for the Tsar of Russia. Expedition ships Nadeshda and Neva investigated the Marquesas, described and illustrated in detail here and with Langsdorff's appended vocabulary of the islands. With Count Rezanov, a founder of the Russian American Company and Russian Ambassador to Japan, he sailed to Japan to open trade talks (which failed), but their stay is finely detailed and illustrated to include a voyage to Hokkaido and an appended vocabulary of the Ainu language. Langsdorff left the expedition in Kamchatka with Rezanov in 1805 and sailed for Alaska and Sitka, the site of the first Russian fort, and continued to California, the first Russian settlement at Fort Ross and San Francisco. The work is most often found without the second volume which further describes the Pribilof Islands, Unalaska, Sitka, Kodiak, the native inhabitants and the Russian American Company: 'Voyage to the Aleutian Islands, and the North-West Coast of America, and return by land over the North-East Parts of Asia, through Siberia, to Petersburgh', which Sabin credits as having the fullest account of Sitka and San Francisco to date. Returning to Kamchatka, Langsdorff made his way back to St Petersburg via Yakutsk from Okhotsk, also described in detail. This copy is from the library of the politician Earl Thomas de Grey, First Lord of the Admiralty from 1834 to 1835 in Sir Robert Peel's first administration and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1841 to 1844. Hill 969; Sabin 38896; Arctic Bibliography 9665. Kropelien 708; cf. Lada-Mocarski 69 (German edition). (2)
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