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Muller, S. (Gerhard Friedrich) VOYAGES FROM ASIA

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Muller, S. (Gerhard Friedrich)  VOYAGES FROM ASIA
Muller, S. (Gerhard Friedrich) VOYAGES FROM ASIA TO AMERICA, FOR COMPLETING THE DISCOVERIES OF THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SUMMARY OF THE VOYAGES MADE BY THE RUSSIANS ON THE FROZEN SEA, IN SEARCH OF A NORTH EAST PASSAGE ....... London: for T. Jefferys 1761 First edition 4to. xliii,76pp. Four maps, 2 of which are large folding maps, partly hand colored. Bound in modern full calf, spine gilt. Bottom edge of title and one edge of map browned, thin spot in outer margin of one leaf - apparently a paper defect, affecting nothing. A very good, clean, desirable copy.

Hill p.206; Howes M875; Streeter 3459. "This important book is indispensable for the history of discovery and explorations in the northern Pacific. It is taken from the third volume of Muller's Semmlung Russische Geschichte, published in 1758, and represents the most extensive account in English of Bering's polar expedition and the discovery of Bering Strait and the western limits of North America." - Hill.