Beschreibung:
A three-volume translated account, published in 1821, of the pioneering Russian expedition that mapped the coast of Siberia and Alaska.
Remarks and opinions of the naturalist of the expedition, continued: Teneriffe; Brazil; Chili, with notices from Father Alday, and a tabular view of the missions; California; The Philippine Islands; The Mariana Islands. Guahon; Extract from the archives of San Ygnacio de Agaña; On our knowledge of the First Province of the Great Ocean; Radack, Ralick, Repith-Urur, Bogha, the Cornwallis Islands; The Caroline Islands; The Penrhyn Islands; The Low Islands. Romanzoff Island; Waihu, or Easter Island; The Sandwich Islands. Johnstone Island; Methods of kindling fire; Kamtschatka. The Aleutian Islands and Beering's Straits; Meteorology. The magnet; Appendix by other authors: General remarks on the voyage; On the coral islands; On the nature of the rocks Moritz von Engelhardt; List of minerals J. F. Eschscholtz; Description of a new species of monkey J. F. Eschscholtz; Observations on the Medusae, Velellae, and Porpitae J. F. Eschscholtz; Description of new foreign butterflies J. F. Eschscholtz; Aerometrical observations, from 18th of July, 1816, to the 13th of April 1818; Temperature of the sea-water at different depths in the years 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818; Remarks on the observations on the specific gravity of the sea-water in different latitudes, and on the temperature of the ocean at different depths J. C. Hörner; Postscript Adalbert von Chamisso.