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Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America to which is prefixed A summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage : serving as an explanation of a map of the Russian discoveries, published by the Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh, translated from the High Dutch of S. [i.e. G.] Muller of the Royal Academy of Petersburgh, with the addition of three new maps

Title: Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America [electronic resource] : to which is prefixed A summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage : serving as an explanation of a map of the Russian discoveries, published by the Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh, translated from the High Dutch of S. [i.e. G.] Muller of the Royal Academy of Petersburgh, with the addition of three new maps / by Thomas Jefferys.
Author: Miller, Gerard Fridrikh, 1705-1783.
Publication: London : Printed for T. Jefferys, 1764.
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viii, 120 p., [4] leaves of plates ([2] fold.) : 4 maps (some fold.); 27 cm.

Uniform Title

Nachrichten von Seereisen, und zur See gemachten Entdeckungen. English

Alternative Title

Nachrichten von Seereisen, und zur See gemachten Entdeckungen.
Summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage.

Subject

Note

Translation of: Nachrichten von Seereisen, und zur See gemachten Entdeckungen, which forms the third volume of: Sammlung russischer Geschichte / Gerard Fridrikh Miller. Leningrad, 1758. First ed. of English translation published London, 1761.
Includes index.
Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
Sabin no. 51285.

With (note)

With: The history of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the countries adjacent : published at Petersbourg in the Russian language ... and translated into English / by James Grieve. London : T. Jefferys, 1764 ([6], 280 p., [7] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 2 maps).

Reproduction (note)

Electronic reproduction.

Contents

The editor's preface (viii p.) -- A summary of voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea ... (44 p.) -- Voyages from Asia to America (p. [45]-117) -- Index (p. 118-120).

OCLC

820328186
TGPSM12-B492

Author

Miller, Gerard Fridrikh, 1705-1783.

Title

Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the discoveries of the North West Coast of America [electronic resource] : to which is prefixed A summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage : serving as an explanation of a map of the Russian discoveries, published by the Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh, translated from the High Dutch of S. [i.e. G.] Muller of the Royal Academy of Petersburgh, with the addition of three new maps / by Thomas Jefferys.

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Jefferys, 1764.

Edition

2nd ed.

With:

With: The history of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the countries adjacent : published at Petersbourg in the Russian language ... and translated into English / by James Grieve. London : T. Jefferys, 1764 ([6], 280 p., [7] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., 2 maps).

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2012. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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Travel.

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Added Author

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755. Opisanie zemli Kamchatki. English.

Added Title

Summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage.

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