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Voyages and travels in various parts of the world : during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807 / by G.H. von Langsdorff ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langsdorff, G. H. von (Georg Heinrich), 1774-1852, author.
- Language:
- Ainu
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770-1846.
- Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich.
- Voyages around the world.
- Nadezhda (Ship).
- Neva (Ship).
- Polynesia--Description and travel.
- Polynesia.
- Northwest Coast of North America.
- Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)--Description and travel.
- Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia).
- Travel.
- North America--Northwest Coast of North America.
- Russia (Federation)--Kamchatka Peninsula.
- Genre:
- Inscriptions (Provenance)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 617, [17] pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carlisle [Pa.] : Printed by George Phillips and for sale in Philadelphia, by M. Carey & Son, Abraham Small, and Moses Thomas ; in New York, by Kirk & Mercein ; in Boston, by Wells & Lilly ; in Baltimore, by J. & T. Vance ; in Richmond, by Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, and Peter Cottom, 1817.
- Language Note:
- English, with translations into Nukahiwa and Ainu languages (pages 292-305).
- Notes:
- American edition of the English translation (London. 1813-14) of the author's Bemerkungen auf einer reise um die welt. Frankfurt aum Mayn, 1812.
- Part I with half-title, Voyage from Compenhagen to Brazil, the South Sea, Kamschatka and Japan, contains an account of the expedition of the ships Nadeshda and Neva under Capt. Krusenstern, until Langsdorff's separation from it at Kamschatka in 1805. Part II has half-title: Voyage to the Aleutian islands, and the north-west coast of America, and return by land over the north-east parts of Asia through Siberia, to Petersburgh.
- Includes index.
- Folded frontispiece plate depicts "A Japanese fortress."
- Local Notes:
- HSP copy on deposit in the Library Company of Philadlephia.
- Cited in:
- Sabin, 38896
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 41226
- Howes, U.S.iana, L81
- Other Format:
- Online version: Langsdorff, G.H. von (Georg Heinrich), 1774-1852. Voyages and travels in various parts of the world.
- OCLC:
- 4238291
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