Histoire de Kamtschatka: Des Isles Kurilski, et des Contrees Voisines

Stepan Krasheninnikov; Stephan Petrovich Krascheninnikoff

Chez Benoit Duplain, 1757

[The Russian Far East and Alaska] 2 volumes, bound in one.  Rebacked, with contemporary leather boards. Gilt ruled.  Marbled end sheets. Separate title page for v.2.  [4] XV, 327 p.; [8], 359 p. Two fold out maps.  Small tear to second at anchor. 

Attributed to Stepan Krasheninnikov by the National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints.  First French edition, translated by Marc Antoine Eidous from the English ed. of James Grieve.  Krasheneninnikov's Opisane zemli Kamchatki (first printed in 1755) was an important account of Kamchatka, Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, which was based upon his own travels and those of George Wilhelm Stellar. Refs: Hill 948; Sabin 38303; Howes K 265. 

The history of Kamtschatka and the Kuriliski Islands