Full title: A journey into Siberia, made by order of the king of France. Containing an account of the manners and customs of the Russians, the present state of their empire; with the natural history, and geographical description of their country,...
vi, [2], 293 p. front, XVIII pl., 2 fold. maps. 28 cm.
"This work is plagiarized from the prof. Sir C. L. M. von Giesecke's Lectures and from Generla Vallancey."--Allibone, Crit. dictionary of English literature, v. 2.
With an appendix containing an historical account of the Dutch, English, and American whale fisheries; some important observations on the variation of the compass, &c.; and some extracts from Mr. Scoresby's paper on "Polar...