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Georg Wilhelm Stellers gewesenen Adjuncti und Mitglieds der Kayserl. Academie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka dessen Einwohnern, deren Sitten, Nahmen, Lebensart und verschiedenen Gewohnheiten / herausgegeben von J.B.S.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Steller, Georg Wilhelm, 1709-1746.
Contributor:
Scherer, Johann Benedikt, 1741-1824.
Language:
German
Subjects (All):
Steller, Georg Wilhelm, 1709-1746--Biography.
Steller, Georg Wilhelm.
Steller, Georg Wilhelm, 1709-1746.
Discoveries in geography.
Biography.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)--Description and travel.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia).
Alaska--Discovery and exploration.
Alaska.
Koryak language.
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages, 24 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 384, 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 14 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, music, plan ; 22 cm (8vo)
Other Title:
Georg Wilhelm Stellers gewesenen Adjuncti und Mitglieds der Kayserl. Academie der Wissenschaften.
Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka.
Place of Publication:
Frankfurt und Leipzig : bey Johann Georg Fleischer, 1774.
Notes:
Edited by Johann Benedikt Scherer.
Title vignette: Landscape in Kamchatka.
Signatures: a-b chi A-2A A*-D* E* (only first leaf of gatherings A*-E* signed with asterisk, the other leaves are simply signed A2-A5 etc., concluding with E2-E3; a1 verso, a2 verso blank).
Plates unnumbered; number of plates in different copies variable, depending on whether or not plates with more than one illustration have been cut into separate parts (see Lada-Mocarski).
Page 366 misnumb.: "566".
"Leben Herrn Georg Wilhelm Stellers ..." (p. [1]-24, 2nd count), by Johann Benedict von Scherer.
Includes: "Geographie und Verfassung von Kamtschatka aus verschiedenen schriftlichen- und mündlichen Nachrichten, gesammlet zu Jakuzk, 1737." (p. [1]-58, 5th count), by Gerard Fridrikh Miller (signed: "Müller." on p. 58); "Wörterbuch der üblichen Sprache der Koriäcken, von Tumana bis Aklan." (p. [59]-71, 5th count).
Scattered references to America.
Contains:
Miller, Gerard Fridrikh, 1705-1783.
OCLC:
71027581

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