ivan fedorovich krusenstern (3 Ergebnisse)

Two volumes in one, quarto, bound without the leaf of binder's directions noted by Forbes as usually absent; with a hand-coloured plate by Atkinson as frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map in vol. 1; modern half red morocco, gilt. First English edition: Ivan Fedorovich Krusenstern commanded this important Russian naval voyage to the Marquesas, Hawaii, Kamchatka, the Northwest Coast, China and Japan. His brilliant corps of officers -- Lisiansky (commanding the Neva), Rezanov, Langsdorff, Kotzebue and Bellingshausen -- all went on to make their mark on Pacific exploration. The expedition is famous for the stunning visual record created by the scientist and illustrator Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, whose images of tattooed men of the Marquesas (including European beachcombers) are some of the most enduring early nineteenth-century images of the Pacific. One such portrait, titled 'Native of Nukahiva' forms the frontispiece of the first volume of this book, while a view of Nagasaki Harbour as the second frontispiece is one of the earliest views of Japan published in the west. The expedition consisted of two vessels, the Nadezhda and Neva, under the command of Krusenstern and Yurii Lisiansky. Both had trained in the British navy as young men where they first met and formed a lasting professional association. The voyage was sponsored by the Tsar and was primarily intended for scientific research and cartography. One of the expedition's ships spent some time on the Northwest Coast, reaffirming the Russian presence there and putting together a cargo of valuable furs bound for China. A Russian ambassador to Japan was taken aboard, and although it was intended that he stay in Japan, this advance was rebuffed and relations between the two countries were not established. Nonetheless good cartographic work between the Japanese islands northwards to the Kamchatka peninsula was achieved. This book is of great Hawaiian interest as both vessels visited the islands following their rendezvous in the Marquesas, at which point Krusenstern sailed north to Kamchatka while Lisiansky remained in Kealakekua and Waimea procuring supplies. The following year, in October 1805, the Neva was almost wrecked on an unknown reef to the north of the Hawaiian group. Daybreak revealed a small uninhabited landmass that was christened Lisyansky Island, a name retained in recent times as part of the Hawaiian Islands. . The map in vol. 1 little foxed otherwise a very good copy.

London: John Murray, 1813. 2 vols. in 1, 4to, xxxvi, 314; [ix], [i](blank), 404pp (bound without the leaf of binder's directions noted by Forbes as usually absent). With a hand-colored plate by Atkinson as frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map in vol. 1 a little foxed. Modern half red morocco, gilt-lettered backstrip, gilt top. A very good copy. § FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN CIRCUMNAVIGATIONIt was commanded by Krusenstern with a brilliant corps of officers--Lisiansky (commanding the Neva), Rezanov, Langsdorff, Kotzebue and Bellingshausen--all men who went on to make their mark on Pacific exploration. Although sponsored by the Czar, the voyage was funded by the Russian American Company to "open relations with Nippon and the Sandwich Islands, to facilitate trade in South America, to examine California for a possible colony, and to make a thorough study and report on the Northwest coast, its trade and future." The great importance of this work is its contribution to hydrographic knowledge of the Pacific coast of North America. By reason of Krusenstern's precise nature, he objected to Richard Hoppner's sometimes inaccurate translation, particularly of navigational terms and references. Separately, Lisiansky in the Neva called at Easter Island and together the two ships sailed for the Marquesas and Hawaii where the Nadeshda proceeded to Kamchatka and Japan, and the Neva to Russian America with an intended rendezvous at Canton to sell their cargo of furs. Krusenstern's excellent account of their time in Japan relates their failed ambassadorial mission, imprisonment, and exploration of the coasts of Hokkaido and visits to the Ainu.Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 433; Hawaii One Hundred, 17; Kroepelien, 693; O'Reilly-Reitman, 730; Sabin, 38331. Arctic Bibliography 9381; Cordier Japonica 459; Hill 952; Kroepelien 693; see Lada-Mocarski 61 (Russian edition); Sabin 38331.

In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq.London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in gilt-ruled compartments with black morocco title piece lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Philip Earl of Sefton; Volume 1. frontispiece handcoloured aquatint plate of Native of Nukahivadrawn and engraved by J. A. Atkinson, xxxii, 314 pp, with afolding engraved map by NeeleChart of The Northwest Part of the Great Ocean, Drawn By D. F. Sotzmann 1811, Reduced from Captn.Krusenstern's Original Chart; Volume 2. frontispiece handcoloured aquatint plate View of Nangasaki by Atkinson, x, 404 pp; light foxing and toning to preliminaries of Volume 1, else clean and crisp throughout, with the plates and map in fine condition; an excellent wide-margined copy. First edition in English of Krusenstern's important narrative of the first Russian circumnavigation. Although ostensibly under the auspices of the Czar, Krusenstern's expedition was actually funded by the Russian American Company to "open relations with Nippon and the Sandwich Islands, to facilitate trade in South America, to examine California for a possible colony, and to make a thorough study and report on the Northwest coast, its trade and future" (Hill). A number of the officers under Krusenstern's command, including Lisiansky (commanding the Neva), Bellingshausen, Kotzebue, Rezanov and Langsdorff, would go on to make significant voyages of exploration in the Pacific. After visiting Brazil, the expedition entered the Pacific, where the Neva and Nadeshda were separated in a storm.Lisiansky, in the Neva, made for Easter Island, later meeting up with Krusenstern, in the Nadeshda, in the Marquesas. The two ships then sailed together to Hawaii. From there Krusenstern continued west to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Japan - his narrative contains an extensive account of his failed ambassadorial mission in Nippon - while Lisiansky made for Russian America.The expedition ships would eventually rendezvous in Canton before returning to Kronstadt by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Krusenstern's account was first published in Russian, in three volumes plus folio atlas, at St. Petersburg, 1809-1813. The English edition was translated by Hoppner from the first German edition (also in three volumes plus folio atlas), published at St. Petersburg, 1810-1814, with the title Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805 und 1806. Hill 952; Sabin 38331; Kroepelien 693; Lada-Mocarski 61 & 62 (note); Arctic Bib. 9381; Cordier Japonica 459.