The American Expedition by Waxell, Sven - 1952

William Hodge, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. First Published. 236 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains.

London: William Hodge and Company, 1952 Book. Good. Hardcover. 256 pages, bibliography, index, fold-out maps, portrait of Vitus Bering as a frontispiece.. Corners bumped, foxed fore edges, clipping shadow on the last page of the index. soiling- mainly on the rear pane- of the dust jacket, edges and extremities chipped and rubbed, large chip on the head of the spine and part of the adjacent top front edge..

London, England: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1952. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 236pp w bibliography and index. Eight indexed fold-outs, frontis, mapped endpapers. Adhesive residue on half-title page. Research center stamp at top of ffep. Blue-grey cloth w gold lettering on spine. Light surface wear, vertical scuff on spine. Binding square and sound. No DJ. Octavo: 22 x 14.5cm. Translated by M.A. Michael from Johan Skalberg's Danish version Vitus Berings Eventyrlige opdagerford 1733-1743.

London: William Hodge & Co., Ltd.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight DJ wear. .

London: William Hodge, 1952. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.236

London: William Hodge and Company Ltd., 1952. 1st trans. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 236 pages, map end papers and fold-out maps. Faint paper clip mark to title page and frontis. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 856970

London, William Hodge and Company, [1952], First edition. . original green cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped), very minor rubbing at lower edge but a clean fine copy. . 8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; x, 11-236 pp, frontis (the only known portrait of Vitus Bering), 7 foldout maps from early sources, foldout plate of sea-lions, endpaper maps showing route, bibliog, index. . Based in part on a previously lost manuscript, this is an account of Bering's famous expedition that established the true position of America in relation to Asia, showing that the two continents were not connected, and brought back the first authentic account of the natives of the Aleutian islands and the American mainland. Translated from the Danish work of the 1733-1743 expedition by M. A. Michael, who also provides an excellent historical introduction. Nerhood 82: 'a detailed description of Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk'. Ricks 251. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

Hardback. 1952. Intro. & notes: M.A. Michael. 236pp, 7 maps & 2 plates, William Hodge, London 1952. *An account of Bering's second expedition to Kamchatka, by his second-in-command. Very good in dust jacket. .

WAXELL, Sven. The American Expedition. With an Introduction and Note by M.A. Michael. London: (1952). 1st ed. Illus. Folding maps. 236pp. Orig. cloth, d/j.

William Hodge and Company, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1952 Edition: Translated from Johan Skalberg's Danish versin Vitus Berings Eventyrlige opdagerfaerd 1733-1743 by M.A. Michael: 236 pages, illustrated, frontispiece with 7 maps, some folding, 2 plates Map end papers. The manuscript of this book was lost for nearly two hundred years. It is an account by Bering's second-in- command of the famous voyage of discovery that established the true position of America in relation to Asia and brought back the first authentic account of the natives of the Aleutian islands. The frontis is the only known portrait of Vitus Bering. Ex library with remants of library bookolate on blank prelim, stamp to front end paper, end paper maps are missing pieces where a dustjacket was previously removed. Contents clean, no dust jacket. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item… Read More