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Sauer, Martin. AN ACCOUNT OF A GEOGRAPHICAL AND

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Sauer, Martin.  AN ACCOUNT OF A GEOGRAPHICAL AND
Sauer, Martin. AN ACCOUNT OF A GEOGRAPHICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL EXPEDITION TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA, ..... AND OF THE ISLANDS IN THE EASTERN OCEAN, STRETCHING TO THE AMERICAN COAST ...... London: T. Cadell, Jun & W. Davies 1802 4to. xxvi(1, errata)332,58pp. Fourteen plates, lg folding map of "The Strait Between Asia and America". Old full diced calf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled edges & endpapers. A very good, clean & desirable copy, with half title.

Howes S-117; Lada-Mocarski 58. The expedition, 1785 to 1794, was sent by order of Catherine the Great, under the command of Joseph Billings. "This is the first account in English of the first major exploring expedition sent out by the Russians to the Frozen Ocean and North Pacific after Bering's second expedition of 1741. Sauer, an Englishman, was historian and secretary of the expedition" - Streeter 3499.