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KOTZEBUE, Otto von (1787-1846). A New Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1830. The first edition in English of Kotzebue’s third circumnavigation, a cause of alarm in England as a marker of the growing Russian presence in the American Northwest. Kotzebue’s accounts of Sitka, the new Russian-Californian settlement of Ft. Ross, and the San Francisco Bay region are heightened by criticism of the harsh treatment of California Indians and of Polynesians by missionaries. On his previous voyage he had been equally critical of Russian treatment of Alaskan natives. Arctic Bib. 9191; Forbes 759; Hill 947; Howes K-259; Lada-Mocarski 93 (note); Sabin 38288; Wickersham 6207. Two volumes, 12mo (180 x 114mm). Frontispieces, 3 maps, 2 of which are folding (some offsetting to maps). Without list of illustrations found in some copies. Single ad leaves at rear of each volume. Modern half calf. Provenance : Bernard Gore Brett (bookplates) – Wayfarer’s Bookshop.