Author: HALL, M(aurits) C(ornelis) van.
Title: Het leven en karakter van den admiraal Jhr. Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen.
Description: Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1841.Contemporary half morocco, spine richly gilt. With engraved portrait and 7 plates with facsimile signatures. XXVI,340, (2) pp.Original edition. - The official biography of admiral Van Kinsbergen (1735-1819). From 1771-1775 he was in the service of the Russian empress Catharina. He fought in the Crimea and the Black Sea.Cat. NHSM II, p.848; Muller, Bibl. Neerl.-Russe, 176.

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