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KRUZENSHTERN, Ivan Fedorovich (1770-1846). Atlas de l’océan pacifique . St. Petersburg: by S. Froloff, [1824-] 1827 [1828]. The first edition, French issue, complete with both the South Pacific and the North Pacific sections –this rare atlas is seldom found with both parts together. A Russian-language issue was published in the same year. RBH and ABPC record only three copies of both languages altogether; all three – including the Streeter copy – featured only the South Pacific maps; apparently no copy of the North Pacific section has sold at auction before. This landmark of cartography – certainly one of the most important early atlases of the American Northwest – was compiled by Kruzenshtern from his own voyage around the world, supplemented by various subsequent voyages in the North and South Pacific. The engraved general title was apparently issued only once both parts had been published. All the South Pacific maps are dated 1824 in the engraving, and all the North Pacific maps are dated 1826 or 1827; one of the North Pacific maps [plate 33] has an engraved statement in the bottom margin, in French, that the map was corrected in 1828. Lada-Mocarski notes that later editions are known, in which some of the South Pacific maps bear a similar printed statement of correction dated variously 1835 or 1838. Three text volumes were published to accompany the atlas, but the last volume appeared a decade after the first: consequently, the text is seldom found together with the atlas. Cf. Arctic Bib. 9375 (1838 edition); Forbes 581 and 672; Howes K-270; Lada-Mocarski 91; Phillips 3242 (1835 edition); Wickersham 1760. Atlas only. Two parts in one volume, folio (653 x 476mm). Engraved general title, two part titles, two printed dedications [part I: Alexander I; part II: Nicholas I], table of contents; and 34 engraved maps, of which nine double-page and five with extension flaps or with small sections folded by the binder; all mounted on stubs (occasional small repairs in some margins; some plates with scattered spotting, some with offsetting). Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked to style possibly preserving an early red morocco label; sides with surface repairs). Provenance : deleted title stamp – Maggs Bros. Ltd. and William Reese Co.