LESSEPS, Jean Baptiste Barthélmy de. Travels in Kamtschatka, during the Years 1787 and 1788. Translated from the French.

LESSEPS, Jean Baptiste Barthélmy de. Travels in Kamtschatka, during the Years 1787 and 1788. Translated from the French.LESSEPS, Jean Baptiste Barthlmy de. Travels in Kamtschatka, during the Years 1787 and 1788. Translated from the French. For J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard. 1790. Tow volumes, 8vo. Contremporary quarter calf, red morocco labels to spines, lettered in gilt, spines ornamented in gil; pp. xvi, 283; viii, 408, folding engraved map; extremeities rubbed, one lettering piece with marginal flaws, light spotting internally (map more so and with tyny

LESSEPS, Jean Baptiste Barthélmy de. Travels in Kamtschatka, during the Years 1787 and 1788. Translated from the French. For J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1790.

Tow volumes, 8vo. Contremporary quarter calf, red morocco labels to spines, lettered in gilt, spines ornamented in gil; pp. xvi, 283; viii, 408, folding engraved map; extremeities rubbed, one lettering piece with marginal flaws, light spotting internally (map more so and with tyny margianl flaw, a very good copy

First English edition, translated from the first French edition of the same year. Lesseps was a member of the expedition undertaken to circumnavigate the globe under the command of La Perouse. Before setting off on their exploration of the Pacific, the expedition ships Boussole and Astrolabe put in at the Port of Avatscha (Saint-Peter and Saint-Paul), where Lesseps was set down. He travelled through Siberia and Russia on his return to France. The greater part of the present narrative covers his time in Kamchatka, with accounts of the towns and peoples, as well as descriptions of volcanoes and other geological phenomena. The A

National Maritime Museum Catalogue I.138.

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