Peshekhodnai͡a opisʹ chasti Russkikhʺ vladenīĭ vʺ Ameriki͡e

Title Variants

Alternative: Exploration on foot of part of the Russian possessions in America

Alternative: Peshekhodnai͡a opisʹ chasti Russkikh vladeniĭ v Amerike

By

Zagoskin, Lavr. Al. (Lavrentiĭ Alekseevich), 1808-1890 , author

Krai, Karl, , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Sanktpeterburgʺ, pechatano vʺ Tipografīi Karla Kraĭi͡a, 1847-1848

Notes

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

Subjects

(Lavrentiĭ Alekseevich), , 1808-1890 , 19th century , Alaska , Discoveries in geography , Discovery and exploration , Glossaries, vocabularies, etc , History , Koniagmiut dialect , Natural history , Russian , Russians , Tinne languages , Travel , Zagoskin, Lavr. Al

Call Number

QH105.A4 Z36 1847-1848

Language

Russian

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.164445
OCLC: 13182200