Description
- Notes:
- The whole narrated from the original papers, by Martin Sauer, secretary to the expedition.
- Colophon reads: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street.
- "Vocabulary of the Yukagir, Yakut, and Tungoose (or Lamut) languages", p. [1]-8, 4th count, includes vocaulary in English translated into those Siberian languages.
- "Vocabulary of Kamtshatka, the Aleutian Islands, and of Kadiak", p. [9]-14, 4th count, includes vocabulary in English translated into the Itelmen, Aleut, and Koniagmiut languages and dialects.
- Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1, [A]2 versos blank) a-b⁴ (b4 verso blank) c² (c2 verso blank) B-2T⁴ 2U² [A]-[G]⁴ [H]² (-[H]2)
- Errata: p. [1], 2nd count.
- Folded map, bound to face p. [1], 3rd count, has cartouche reading: A chart of the strait between Asia & America with the coast of Tschutski, laid down from astronomical observations, made in the icy sea during the years1786 &c. to 1794. Drawn by A. Arrowsmith.
- There are 15 leaves of plates, of which there is a folded map and illustrations numbered I-XIV.
- Text primarily in English with some vocabulary in transliterated Russian and indigenous languages of Siberia such as Yakut, Yukagir, and Tungus (or Lamut)
Citation
"An account of a geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia:
for ascertaining the degrees of latitude and longitude of the mouth of the river Kovima; of the whole coast of the Tshutski, to East Cape; and of the islands in the eastern ocean, stretching to the American coast. Performed, by command of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, empress of all the Russias, by Commodore Joseph Billings, in the years 1785, &c. to 1794
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(1802).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:731470/
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