Histoire de Kamtschatka, des Isles Kurilski, et des contrées voisines.Lyon, Benoit Duplain, 1767. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 2 large folding engraved maps, of Kurilski Isles and Kamtschatka respectively. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.
[KRASHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich and Marc Antoine EIDOUS (translator)]. · 1731 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
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[8], XVI, 327 [1 blank]; [8], 359, [1 blank] pp.First French translation of an excellent account of the second Russian scientific expedition to East Siberia and surroundings (1731-1742), led by Gmelin, including the first scientific account of Kamchatka. Krasheninnikov had joi...