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On the ambitious projects of Russia in regard to north west America, with particular reference to New Albion & New California.

Title
On the ambitious projects of Russia in regard to north west America, with particular reference to New Albion & New California. By an Englishman. Introduction by George P. Hammond.
Publication
[San Francisco] The Book club of California, 1955.

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Additional Authors
  • Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787-1846.
  • Hammond, George Peter, 1896-
  • Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853.
  • An Englishman
  • Book Club of California
Description
3 p.l., (1)6-79 p. facsim. (map); 26 cm.
Subject
  • Russians > California
  • Russians > America
  • California > Description and travel
  • California > History > To 1846
  • Northwest Coast of North America
Note
  • "Three hundred & fifty copies ... produced at the Allen press by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at Kentfield, California."
  • At head of title: ... 1830.
  • First published in 1830 by Frederic Shoberl of London, who may have been the author. "His purpose was to rouse the English nation to a realization of the importance of the northwest coast of America, which ... was in danger of Russian conquest and settlement."--cf. p. [5], 20-21.
  • Based chiefly on Otto von Kotzebue's "Neue Reise um die Welt, in ... 1823, 24, 25, und 26."
Call Number
*KP (Book club) (On the ambitious projects of Russia)
LCCN
58036413
OCLC
3508121
Title
On the ambitious projects of Russia in regard to north west America, with particular reference to New Albion & New California. By an Englishman. Introduction by George P. Hammond.
Imprint
[San Francisco] The Book club of California, 1955.
Local Note
"The present edition ... is from a copy in the Bancroft library of the University of California."--p. 21.
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Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787-1846. Puteshestvi︠i︡a vokrug sveta.
Hammond, George Peter, 1896-
Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853. Attributed name
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787-1846. Neue um die Welt.
An Englishman.
Book Club of California.
Research Call Number
*KP (Book club) (On the ambitious projects of Russia)
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