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MÜLLER, GERHARD FRIEDRICH. Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a Summary of the Voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage...Translated from the High Dutch of S. Muller, of the Royal Academy of Petersburgh. With the addition of three new maps...By Thomas Jefferys. London: for T. Jefferys 1761. 4to, contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco spine label, modern quarter brown morocco gilt case by H.C. Fehr, upper joint with 1 1/2-inch split at top, corners worn, slight worming to extreme lower blank margins, a single very slight tear to each folding map, the first map also creased at central fold and with small fold tear at center, some offsetting to folding maps. First Edition in English, 4 engraved maps, 2 of them large, folding and handcolored in outline, the last map "A Map of Canada" dated 1762. Müler's complete account of the Bering expedition and of the Russian discoveries in the region was first published in Sammlung Russischer Geschichte (St. Petersburgh 1758, vol. 3). "This important book is indispensable for the history of discovery and explorations in the northern Pacific"--Hill, p. 206; Howes M 875 ("Most important contemporary account of Bering's discoveries, by a scientist attached to his second expedition"); Sabin 51285; Streeter sale VI, 3458; Lada-Mocarski 17. Provenance : Dacre family, contemporary bookplate