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A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6 : performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva
Uniform Title
Puteshestvie vokrug sveta. English
Title
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6 : performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva / by Urey Lisiansky.
Published
London : Printed for J. Booth ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, by S. Hamilton, 1814.
Physical Description
xxi, [3], 388 p., [13] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Binder's ticket: F. Westley, Friar St., Showmaker Row. Bookplate: East.
Notes
Chapters 8-12 (p. 138-244) describe the author's visit to Kodiak and Sitka.
Stipple engraved portrait of the author drawn and engraved by Cardine (i.e. João Cardini?). Diagrams engraved by Smith; after Lisiansky. Colored aquatint by John Heaviside Clark; after Lisiansky. Maps engraved under the direction of Aaron Arrowsmith.
Published originally in Russian, St. Petersburg, 1812; English translation by the author.
"A vocabulary of the language of the islands of Cadiack and Oonalaschca, the bay of Kenay, and Sitca Sound."--P. 329-338.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Eberstadt, no. III-153.
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 4
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Travel literature.
Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1814.
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