Author: DE LESSEPS, JEAN BAPTISTE BARTHÉLÉMY BARON:
Title: Voyage de M. de Lesseps au Kamtschatka, en quittant M. de la Pérouse. (Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages. Tomes 24-25). Two volumes. Paris, Bossange & Co., 1791.
Description: . Pp. (vi), viii, 280; (iv), 380, vi, (1). With two folding engraved maps and one engraved plate by Choffard. Contemporary calf, spines with five raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with title labels, lighlty rubbed, small repair (expertly) to one rear cover. First published in Paris 1790.De Lesseps accompanied as Interpreter on La Perousse circumnavigation which was designed to follow up on the voyage of Bougainville in establishing a French presence in the South Pacific. Departing from Brest in 1785 the expedition sailed through the South Pacific, and then up the coast of China to Kamchatka. In 1787 De Lesspes left the expedition at Kamchatka to return to Paris overland through Siberia with documents, views and maps of the first two years of the voyage. He thus became the only survivor of the ill-fated expedition. This narrative contains detailed observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants along the route as well as descriptions of plant and animal life. Volume two includes brief vocabularies of Russian and four Siberian languages; Kamchatkan, Koryak, Chukchi and Lamut. Cf Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesia 723 (first ed.). Cf Ferguson 87. Cf Sabin 40208.

Keywords: Travel general, kamchatka, russia, siberia, russian, siberian, travel, exploration


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