Voyages et Decouvertes Faites par le Russes le Long des cotes de la Mer Glaciale & sur l'Ocean Oriental, tant vers le Japon que vers l'Amerique. On Y a joint l'Histoire du Fleuve Amur

Author: Gerhard "G" Friedrich Muller (1705-1783)Year: 1766Publisher: Marc-Michel Rey Place: AmsterdamDescription Two volumes bound in one. [i]-xii, [1]-388; [i]-iv, [1]-207; Table of Contents; [3] publisher's ads. Folding map showing the lands touching the Arctic Circle, including a large portion of Russia and parts of America, including California. Duodecimo (6 ¾" x 4") bound  quarter tan leather with contemporary patterned paper boards with gilt decorative rules, gold spine label with gilt lettering; all edges speckled red. (Howes M-875. Sabin 51286. Streeter VI) First French edition of this work originally published in German in 1758.  Gerhard Friedrich Müller was a Russian-German historian and pioneer ethnologist. Müller participated in the second Kamchatka expedition, which reported on life and nature of the further (eastern) side of the Ural mountain range. From 1733 till 1743, nineteen scientists and artists traveled through Siberia to study people, cultures and collected data f