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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.
- 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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