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Very Good. 3 volume set. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 printing. 8vo. Good binding and cover. Hardcover. Contemporary boards, rebacked modern spines. Foxing throughout. Hand painted pictures. See our pictures. 1st English edition of Kotzebue's first voyage, the second Russian circumnavigation. Von Kotzebue commanded the ship Rurick and sailed to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Chile, Easter Island, and the Marshall islands, Tahiti, Pitcairn, Radack and Kamtchatka. The expedition ventured up the North American coast and Hawaii, and searched unsuccessfully for a passage to the Arctic Ocean. Includes charts of the North Pacific coasts of Asia and America, the Aleutians, St. Lawrence Island, and the Bering Strait where Kotzebue Sound was discovered and named for the explorer. Abbey Travel 596; Arctic Bibliography 9195; Borba de Moraes I: 439; Forbes 528; Hill 944; Howes K-258; Lada-Mocarski 80; Sabin 38291; Streeter sale VI: 3512.