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Russians, Discoveries in geography, Travel, Tinne languages, Glossaries, vocabularies, Koniagmiut dialect, Russian, History, Natural history, Discovery and explorationPlaces
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Full title translated: Exploration on foot of part of the Russian possessions in America. Accomplished by Lieutenant L. Zagoskin in 1842, 1843, and 1844. With a copy engraved map on Mercator's projection. In two parts. St. Petersburg. Printed at the press of Karl Krai. 1847-48
The map is thought to be the first printed map of the interior region of Alaska
With information on Yup'ik, Aleut and Athabascan languages, and the Yukon and Kuskokvim [or Kuskokwim] regions
Each part has its own title page. Pagination: Part 1, [ii], [1]-182 [2] pages; Part 2, [ii], [1]-120, [1]-43, [44], [2] pages, map
Parke-Bernet Galleries. Celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter, volume 6, number 3521
Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition), page 651
Wickersham, J. Bibliography of Alaskan literature, 1724-1924, number 5904
Lada-Mocarski, V. Bibliography of books on Alaska published before 1868, number 130
William Reese Co.; purchase; 04/2019; $11,000
SCNHRB copy has each of the two parts bound separately (volume 1, 39088020232146; volume 2, 39088020232187)
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries. Purchased with funds from the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy has the volumes bound in old drab green cloth with gilt-tooled black leather spine labels. There is a small hole, with some loss of the illustration, in the middle of the folded map in volume 2
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