Shows routes of various voyages. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Paris and Ferro. Includes small illustrations of inhabitants of Kamchatka and Louisiana. Annotation: "70." Outline color.
Relief shown pictorially. Shows tracks of various voyages. Includes illustrations of inhabitant of Kamchatka and from northwest of Louisiana. Map no. 115 of v.2 of de L'Isle's Atlas geographique et universel.
Relief shown by hachures. Illustrations by H. Warren, engraved by J. H. Kernot. Illustrationed with scenes of Skorskarskoi Pagost, Troitsk, and Kamchatka. Decorative border. 22 x 30 cm.
Published in London and New York by John Tallis &...
A reduced version of the De l'Isle/Buache map published by the Prussian Academy of Science & Literature, published by Euler, a German mathematician who was with the St. Petersburg Academy. Shows routes of Russian discoveries in 1723, 1732, and...
Shows eastern tip of Asian continent, including Kamchatka with northwestern North America mostly blank west of Hudson's Bay. Includes notes on circumstances and veracity of various discoveries. Relief shown pictorially. From: Histoire generale...
Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Polar projection. Kamchatka Peninsula and details of the Russian coastline are missing from this version of de L'Isle's north polar projection, which, along with added text, can be found on his 1740...
extracted from the description of Kamtchatka by Professor Krashennicoff, printed at Petersburg, in two volumes, 4to. in 1759; and tr. and communicated by the Rev. D. Dumaresque, D.D. chaplain to the English factory at...
Notes on Kankei Ibun (Voyages around the world)
Made with the assistance of Naoko Hoshino.
Vol. 0
Introduction
Table of contents with summary of each volume
List of illustrations
Vol. 1
Vessel Wakamiya-maru leaving Ishimaki, winter of...
1 v. (47 p.), handwritten, in Russian script. Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop. Further volumes not found....
1 v. (47 p.), handwritten, in Russian script. Tells the story of Bishop Innocent from 1827 when as Joann Veniaminov he came as a new missionary to Unalaska through 1842, when he returned to Alaska as a Bishop. Further volumes not found....
Old Num: LC.344-1.1
Description: wood; paint
Found: Sitka
Culture: Aleut; Alutiiq
History: From the collection of Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff, curator of the Alaska Historical Library and Museum from 1919-1940. Purchased by...
Accession Number: 81-3-3 Descriptive Narrative: Bronze medal. Octagonal shape (oblong with corners cut). Bust of man in military uniform on one side, sailing vessel and Russian inscription on reverse. Notes: Bronze medal issued by...