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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, ... By Thomas Jefferys ...
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1781 Bid (b.w.) Af.404.26 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Gerard Fridrikh, 1705-1783 12386
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- viii,xliii,[1],76p.,plates : maps ; 4°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for T. Jefferys, 1761.
- Notes:
- S. Muller = Gerhard Friedrich Mueller.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Biddle, Oration, q.v.; number 20 in table of contents; item 25 in volume; upper right corner of title cut away. With long marginal note in Latin on p. iv of the Summary and brief notes in English on pp. xxxvii and xxxix, all by Franklin, badly shaved; minor correction in another hand on p. 17. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (3); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1855, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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