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