Title: Langsdorff's Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806... Author: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von Place: San Francisco Publisher: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell Date: 1927 Description: Translated by Thomas C. Russell. xiv, 158 pp. Illustrated with a folding map, facsimiles of original German and English edition title-pages, 2 portraits (of Langsdorff and Rezanov), and five plates from engravings in the original German edition of 1812. 10x6½, linen-backed blue boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed, jacket with paper spine label. No. 234 of 260 copies. Langsdorff was a naturalist with Kruzenshtern on his voyage aroung the world. This volume reprints the California-related portion of his work, and includes a reproduction of the first published view of San Francisco, which was issued with the original German edition but not its English translation. Howes L81; Cowan p.382; Hill, 970; Rocq 15908. Ink ownership signature of H.W. Kennedy to front pastedown. Lot Amendments Condition: Sunning to jacket spine and margins, else fine in very good jacket. Item number: 177401
Title: Langsdorff's Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806... Author: Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von Place: San Francisco Publisher: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell Date: 1927 Description: Translated by Thomas C. Russell. xiv, 158 pp. Illustrated with a folding map, facsimiles of original German and English edition title-pages, 2 portraits (of Langsdorff and Rezanov), and five plates from engravings in the original German edition of 1812. 10x6½, linen-backed blue boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed, jacket with paper spine label. No. 234 of 260 copies. Langsdorff was a naturalist with Kruzenshtern on his voyage aroung the world. This volume reprints the California-related portion of his work, and includes a reproduction of the first published view of San Francisco, which was issued with the original German edition but not its English translation. Howes L81; Cowan p.382; Hill, 970; Rocq 15908. Ink ownership signature of H.W. Kennedy to front pastedown. Lot Amendments Condition: Sunning to jacket spine and margins, else fine in very good jacket. Item number: 177401
Testen Sie LotSearch und seine Premium-Features 7 Tage - ohne Kosten!
Lassen Sie sich automatisch über neue Objekte in kommenden Auktionen benachrichtigen.
Suchauftrag anlegen
.jpg "Quelle: Christie's")
.jpg "Quelle: Christie's")
