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. hcalf. Raised bands. Some cracks in leather along joints. Wear to spine ends. Spine rubbed.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. XVI,344 pp., 2 folded engraved maps and 5 engraved plates. Plate I and II having each two illustrations are divided, and the illustrations are inserted at the places where they are treated in the text. Internally clean and fine.

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.: 56363