KRASCHENINNIKOW, STEPHAN.

Opisanie Zemli Kamtschatki... d.i. Beschreibung des Landes Kamtschatka... und mit Landkarten und Kupferbildern 1764 herausgegebt von T. Jefferys... nun in das Deutsche übersetzet und mit Anmerkungen erläutert von Johann Tobias Köhler.

Lemgo, Meyerischen Buchhandlung, 1766. 4to. Contemp. full sprinkled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Wear to top of spine. A small crack in fronthinge at upper compartment. Slightly rubbed. Stamp on title-page. XVI,344 pp., 2 folded engraved maps and 5 engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots, light toning to plates.

First German edition of one of the fundamental texts of Siberian scholarship. With detailled accounts of the zoology, geography and botany of the region as well as on the language and culture of the Itelmen and Koryak peoples.

Order-nr.: 54687