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Voyages et aventures dans l'Alaska, ancienne Amérique russe. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais... par Émile Jonveaux... / Frederick Whymper
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie 1871 In-4 25 x 15,5 cm. Reliure moderne, demi-toile marron-clair, dos lisse, pièces de titre havane, II-412 pp., 377 gravures sur bois, 1 carte de l’Alaska repliée in fine, table des matières. Bel exemplaire, intérieur très frais avec rousseurs marginales.
Bon état d’occasion
Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America - now ceded to the United States - and in various other Parts of the North Pacific. With Map and Illustrations.
London, John Murray, 1868. Later full green cloth without title on back. Endpapers renewed. A stamp on htitle and verso of title. Engraved frontispiece. Halftitle. XIX,331 pp., 15 wood-engraved plates, many textillustr. and 1 large folded lithographed map (mounted on thin linen). Throughout some foxing and brownspots.
First edition. An American edition issued 1869. One of the first expeditions after Alaska was bought from Russia in 1867. It also includes description of Kamchatka.
