Travels in Siberia: including excursions northward, down the Obi, to the polar circle, and, southwards, to the Chinese frontier . Translated from the German, by W. D. Cooley

Erman, Adolph

Published by Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1850

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First American edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xi, [2], 14-371, [1], [44] Lea & Blanchard catalogue; vii, [2], 14-400; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine; tops of spines chipped level with textblocks, bottom of spine chipped, corners bumped and rubbed, mild spotting throughout a good, sound copy. "In 1828 Erman embarked on a journey round the world, at first traveling in the company of the expedition of Christopher Hansteen, which was to carry out magnetic measurements in Siberia. The expedition turned back at Kyakhta on the border of Mongolia, but Erman proceeded alone and at his own expense to Yakutsk and Okhotsk. Crossing the Sea of Okhotsk to Kamtchatka, he wandered across the peninsula to Petropavlovsk. There he joined the expedition of Fedor Petrovich Litke which took him to Tahiti, from where he returned to Europe by way of South America. By October 1830 he was back in Berlin and spent the following four years writing a narrative of his travels" (Howgego E17). AB 4663; Cordier, Sinica, 2780;.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Travels in Siberia: including excursions northward, down the Obi, to the polar circle, and, southwards, to the Chinese frontier . Translated from the German, by W. D. Cooley
• Publisher: Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1850
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