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Sarytschew, Gawrila. ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISC

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Sarytschew, Gawrila.  ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISC
Sarytschew, Gawrila. ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH-EAST OF SIBERIA, THE FROZEN OCEAN, AND THE NORTH-EAST SEA. London: Richard Phillips 1806-07 (published in two parts) iv,(5)-70(2); (2)-80pp. Five plates, 3 of which are folded, the other two in hand color. Recent cloth. This copy contains the original title leaf for a 1810 volume of Phillips' "A Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages and Travels", but the indiviadual title leaves for the two parts of the Sarytschew narrative have been supplied in facsimile. The original text & plates are very good & clean.

Tourville 3967; Sabin 77126; Arctic Bibl. 37222. Translation of the original Russian edition of 1802, "by one of (the) expeditions most energetic and able, though more youthful officers", and the only publication of his account in English. The expedition, under Joseph Billings, was sent out by Catherine the Great to explore and map the coast of north-eastern Siberia as far as East Cape, and also the seas & islands of the North Pacific. The expedition was active for several years, 1785-1793, and made several visits to the Aleutians & Alaska, and spent one winter at Unalaska..