Staehlin, Jakob von Storcksburg

Relation du nouvel archipel septentrional, découvert depuis peu par les Russes dans les mers de Kamtschaka & d'Anadir.

[Paris, chez Knapen & Fils, 1782]. 12mo. ii + 60 pp. French edition of Das von den Russen in den Jahren 1765, 66, 67 entdekte nordliche Insel-Meer zwischen Kamtschatka und Nordamerika (1774), based on the augmented English edition of the same year. Staehlin “was Secretary to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and a member of the Royal Society of London. In the present work he attempted to present the gradual progress of the new Russian discoveries of islands in the North Pacific, including the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak and Unalashka islands, and a number of others. Staehlin states that his compilation is based on the original reports of the Russian traders who, under a convoy from the Admiralty, commanded by Lieutenant Sind (‘Syndo’), spent 1764–67 exploring the North Pacific area, discovering new islands and confirming previous discoveries. Extracts from the reports made to the Russian Senate, via the government chanceries in Irkutsk and Kamchatka, are joined to Staehlin’s over-all narrative” (Lada-Mocarski 20).
Issued with Kenneth Macaulay, Histoire de Saint-Kilda (xxiv + 336 pp.) and Pierre Louis Le Roy, Recit des aventures singulieres de quatre voyageurs russes (ii + 96 pp.) Le Roy’s narrative of the adventures of four Russian sailors who were cast away on the desert island of East-Spitzbergen.
Contemporary full calf, spine gilt, gilt borders on covers.

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