Burney, James

A Chronological History of the North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians

Amsterdam / New York Nico Israel / Da Capo 1969, Facsimile Reprint of 1819 London Edition., Facsimile Reprint of 1819 London Edition. (Hardcover issued without dust jacket) vii,310pp. As new. Octavo (22.5x14cm) with 2 folding maps. Bound in simulated vellum. The work contains accounts of voyages by the English, Dutch, Danes and Russians, in search of the North-east passage to India and China, Kamchatka, and discoveries in the Polar Seas. The Russian accounts relate among many others to the Spangberg and Walton voyages to Japan, the voyages of Bering and Tscherikow, and those to the Aleutian Islands, the N.W. Coast of America, etc. Series: Bibliotheca Australiana 49.

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