muller 1705 (8 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes bound in one. [i]-xii, [1]-388; [i]-iv, [1]-207; Table of Contents; [3] publisher's ads. Folding map showing the lands touching the Arctic Circle, including a large portion of Russia and parts of America, including California. Duodecimo (6 ¾" x 4") bound quarter tan leather with contemporary patterned paper boards with gilt decorative rules, gold spine label with gilt lettering; all edges speckled red. (Howes M-875. Sabin 51286. Streeter VI) First French edition of this work originally published in German in 1758. Gerhard Friedrich Müller was a Russian-German historian and pioneer ethnologist. Müller participated in the second Kamchatka expedition, which reported on life and nature of the further (eastern) side of the Ural mountain range. From 1733 till 1743, nineteen scientists and artists traveled through Siberia to study people, cultures and collected data for the creation of maps. Müller, who described and categorized clothing, religions and rituals of the Siberian ethnic groups, is considered to be the father of ethnography. On his return from Siberia, he became historiographer to the Russian Empire. He was one of the first historians to bring out a general account of Russian history based on an extensive examination of the documentary sources. His accentuation of the role of Scandinavians and Germans in the history of that country - a germ of the so-called Normanist theory - earned him enmity of Mikhail Lomonosov, who had previously supported his work, and dented his Russian career. Müller, was appointed by the Ruling Senate of Empress Anna Ioannovna as one of the leaders of the "Second Kamchatka," also known as the "Great Northern" Expedition. The other members of the expedition included, naturalist J. G. Gmelin, the astronomer Louisde l'Isle de la Croyér, and navigator Vitus J. Bering who had led the First Kamchatka Expedition (1725-1730). As a newly appointed professor of history at the Academy of Sciences in 1731, Müller was to report on the manners, customs, religions and histories of the inhabitants of Siberia. He was also to observe and comment upon its geography, its commerce, its military and political institutions, as well as the history of Russian geographical discoveries in Siberia, the Arctic and Pacific oceans. As dictated by the Ruling Senate, all of his findings were to be recorded in Latin and kept secret, only to be published with permission by the Ruling Senate. In 1750 accounts of his travels in Siberia were published as the Opisanie Sibirskogo Tsarstva. Some official documents of the expedition were also published in Ezhemesiachnyia sochineniia, VII in 1758, however Müller's full account of the trip, Zur Geschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften Petersburg, was not published until 1890. Condition: Joints, corners and edges professionally restored; insect damage to spine label, rear pastedown; remains of label on front pastedown; large paper loss on fly leaf expertly renewed, paper lose to corners on next few pages; ownership marks; else about very good.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. Folio (19 6/8 x 13 4/8 inches). 4pp. list of subscribers, text in Dutch (some minor spotting to text leaves). One double-page and 90 full-page exceptionally fine engraved plates, some engraved in colour, all with original hand-colour in full (without the frontispiece found in some copies, some insignificant marginal spotting). Contemporary Dutch mottled calf, each cover decorated with a broad gilt border of acanthus and daisy roll tool (rebacked, spines scuffed, extremities a bit worn, neat repairs to corners). Provenance: with the engraved armorial bookplate and ink library stamp of Hippolyte Wouvermans (fl 1893-1902), bibliophile and member of the Belgian Commissariat, on the front paste-down of each volume, and a bibliographical note by Benjamin Linnig tipped in to the front paste-down of volume one. First edition in Dutch, first published posthumously with German and French text in 1766-1767, limited issue, number 96 of 99 copies printed, this one inscribed as such beneath the list of subscribers by the notary public in Dordrecht, P.J. van Heenbergen, guaranteeing that no copies were printed in excess of those ordered by subscribers. "It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the beauty of some of Knorr's illustrations exceeds that of their models and that in all cases the artist's eye has transformed neutral, natural objects into permanent, formal aspects of humanism. The detail and accuracy of Knorr's engravings not only made possible zoological classification but firmly established the distinction between fossils of organic origin and sports of nature" (DSB). The magnificent plates include 15 of corals, 7 of shells, 6 of butterflies and moths, 4 of sea-urchins, 6 of minerals, 7 of crabs, lobsters, scorpions and spiders, 4 of starfish, 9 of fish, 7 of birds, 14 mammals and 12 of reptiles. Knorr was an early pioneer of paleontology, and extremely accomplished engraver, and art dealer who, in his lifetime, put together a handsome collection of drawings based on the Cabinets of Curiosity and other amateur collections of natural history specimens in Holland and Germany in the early 18th century (Muller, Houttyn, Schadeloock and others), many of the examples in this book are from the collection of Christoph Jacob Trew (1708-1770), author of "Hortus Nitidissimis". Nissen calls for a portrait, although this seems to be rarely present. Landwehr 97; Nissen ZBI 2229.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. x, [2], 388; iv, 207, [22]index, [3]ads. large folding engraved map. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (some chipping & wear to extremities, some age-browning, overall a nice set). First Edition of the French Translation of the third volume of Müller's Nachrichten von Seereisen. (Sammlung Russiche Geschichte (1758)), an invaluable reference source for the history of Russian discovery and exploration in north-east Asia and along the north-west coast of America. It is the best contemporary account of Bering's first and second expeditions to Bering Strait and the western limits of North America, during which he discovered Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Müller served as a scientific associate on Bering's second voyage, 1741-42. Müller's work also contains the substance of crucial written reports which he found in the archives in the town of Jakutsk which established that the Bering Strait had in fact first been discovered and navigated by Semyon Dezhnyov in 1648. This French translation is apparently fuller and superior to the English translation published by Thomas Jefferys in 1761. The map is a copy of the St. Petersburg 1758 issue of the Müller map (first published in 1754), which contained the first cartographic representation of what is now the Alaska peninsula. The map also confirmed the existence of a body of water between Asia and America, a subject of great controversy over the preceding two hundred years, and presented a correct delineation of the Kurile Islands. Howes M-875. Sabin 51286. Streeter VI 3462. Wickersham 6333. Wagner 614. JCB 1531 (incorrect date 1756 cited). Gagnon I 2479. Wroth, Cartography of the Pacific, p. 263. cfTPL 185, cfLande 1358, cfHill p. 206, cfLada-Mocarski 17 (1st English Edition).

Hardcover. 4to., (10 2/8 x 8 2/8 inches). Two fine large engraved folding maps by Jefferys of ".the Discoveries made by the Russians on the North West Coast of America" and ". of Canada and the North Part of Louisiana with the Adjacent Countrys", and two smaller engraved maps printed on the same folding sheet of: ". the N. E. parts of Asia, and N. W. parts of America, showing their Situation with respect to Japan, taken from a Japanese Map of the World, brought over by Kempfer and late in the Museum of Sr. Hans Sloane" and ". of the Discoveries of Admiral De Fonte, and other Navigators, Spanish, English, and Russian, in quest of a Passage to the South Sea, By Mr. De l'Isle Sep'r 1752". Modern quarter red morocco, gilt. Second English edition, with textual changes and an Index at the end. Müller's complete account of the Bering expedition and of the Russian discoveries in the region was first published in "Sammlung Russischer Geschichte" (St. Petersburgh 1758, volume 3). 'This important book is indispensable for the history of discovery and explorations in the northern Pacific . it represents the most extensive account in English of Bering's polar expedition and of the discovery of the Bering Strait and the western limits of North America' (Hill). Hill 1200; Howes M-875; Lada-Mocarski 17; Sabin 51285. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to., (10 1/8 x 8 2/8 inches). Two fine large engraved folding maps by Jefferys of ".the Discoveries made by the Russians on the North West Coast of America" and ". of Canada and the North Part of Louisiana with the Adjacent Countrys" hand-coloured in outline, and two smaller engraved maps of: ". the N. E. parts of Asia, and N. W. parts of America, showing their Situation with respect to Japan, taken from a Japanese Map of the World, brought over by Kempfer and late in the Museum of Sr. Hans Sloane" and ". of the Discoveries of Admiral De Fonte, and other Navigators, Spanish, English, and Russian, in quest of a Passage to the South Sea, By Mr. De l'Isle Sep'r 1752". Modern quarter red morocco, gilt. First English edition. Müller's complete account of the Bering expedition and of the Russian discoveries in the region was first published in "Sammlung Russischer Geschichte" (St. Petersburgh 1758, volume 3). 'This important book is indispensable for the history of discovery and explorations in the northern Pacific . it represents the most extensive account in English of Bering's polar expedition and of the discovery of the Bering Strait and the western limits of North America' (Hill). Hill 1199; Howes M-875; Lada-Mocarski 17; Sabin 51285. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Second edition. Quarto. Book 1 and only. [1 - t.p.], [1 - dedication to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna from Mueller], [4 - dedication to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna from the Academy of Sciences], [4 - Preface], 368, [6 - Brief Chronology of Siberian History]; [24 Alphabetical Index] pp. 20th-century owner's inscription on the title page; Soviet bookshop's ink stamp on the rear pastedown endpaper. Period brown full calf; maroon spine with a gilt-lettered title label and gilt-tooled decorative vignettes. Binding expertly repaired on extremities, mild water stains in text and on the title page, occasional pencil and ink markings in text, but overall a very good copy. Very rare Russian imprint with only four paper copies found in Worldcat (Library of Congress, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California Berkeley, University of Lausanne). This is the second edition of the first fundamental Russian work on the history of Siberia, written by a noted member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gerhard Friedrich Müller. The first edition (1750) became the first book, based on the materials, collected during the Great Northern or Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733-1743) to the Arctic coast of Siberia and east to the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, led by Vitus Bering (1681-1741). The next famous work, based on the results of Bering's expedition - Stepan Krasheninnikov's "Opisaniye Zemli Kamchatki" - was published only in 1755. As one of the heads of the so-called "Academic detachment" of Bering's expedition, Müller for ten years travelled across Eastern Siberia, between Beryozov, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Nerchinsk and Yakutsk, exploring archives of local administrations. A vast collection of original papers and their copies, which he brought to Saint Petersburg, comprise famous "Müller's portfolios," which were used by generations of historians and are now deposited in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA). Müller's work was written in German and translated into Russian by the Academy's associates Ivan Golubtsov and Vasily Lebedev. The 1750 and 1787 editions contain chapters 1-5 of Müller's original manuscript (which consisted of 23 chapters). Chapters 6-8 were published in Müller's magazine "Ezhemesyachnye Sochineniya?" in 1764. The first publication in German took place in 1761-1763 on the pages of St. Petersburg periodical "Sammlung Russischer Geschichte" and included ten chapters. The complete manuscript (with 23 chapters) was never published. The next Russian edition of Müller's work, under the title "Istoriya Sibiri" was issued in 1937-41 (only two volumes of four planned were issued, with several editors being arrested during Stalin's purges). The complete scientific edition was issued only in 2005 (Miller, G.F. Istoriya Sibiri. M.: Vostochnaya Literatura RAN, 2005; 3 vols.). The second edition (1787) doesn't have textual differences with the first editon, except for the format of the chronology of Siberian history, placed after the main text (the first edition has in it a table form, the second edition - in the form of a list). The second edition was also published without a copper-engraved vignette on the title page. According to the "Svodny Katalog," the print run of the first edition was 1325 copies (1300 on regular paper, 300 - on "foreign" and 25 special copies for presents on the "Alexandria" paper), the second edition - 612 copies (one can presume, that 600 copies were printed on regular and 12 - on special paper). Worldcat finds eight copies of the first edition (1750): Library of Congress, Alaska State Library, New York Public Library, University of California Berkeley, Princeton University, University of Oklahoma, University of Cambridge, University College (London). Given the print run and quantity of the surviving copies in public depositories, one can state that the second edition is rarer. Composition of the second edition: a)      Two dedications to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, a daughter of Peter the Great. The second dedication talks about Peter the Great's decision to send an expedition to ascertain whether Asia connects to America, the expedition's success and Elizaveta's order to publish its results. b)     Preface, most likely written by Grigory Teplov (1717-1779) - an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and its factual head in 1746-1762 (see more about the history of the publication of the first edition in Pekarsky, vol. 2, p. 355). c)      Five chapters of Müller's manuscript, covering the period from the times of Genghis Khan to ca. 1618. Chapter I. A relation about ancient events before the Russian possession (pp. 1-46); Chapter II. About the settlement of Siberia and its conquest by the cossacks from Don (pp. 47-114). Chapter III. About the acceptance of Siberia under Russian rule (pp. 115-166); Chapter IV. About the construction of towns Tyumen, Tobolsk, Lozve, Pelym, Beryozov, Surgut, Tata, and the final exile of Khan Kuchum from Siberia (pp. 167-246); Chapter V. About the construction of towns and forts Narym, Ketskoye, Verkhoturye, Turinsk, Mangazeya, Tomsk and Kuznetsk, with some events related to these places (pp. 247-368). d)     Brief chronological list of Siberian history (in 1499-1618; pp. [1-6]); e)     Alphabetical Index to the first book of Siberian history (pp. [7-30]). Selected bibliography: Bitovt, Y. Redkiye Russkie knigi i letuchiye izdaniya XVIII veka, 1099. Miller, G.F. Istoriya Sibiri. 3 vols. M.: Vostochnaya Literatura RAN, 2005. Pekarsky, P. Istoriya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk v Peterburge: 2 vols. SPb., 1870-1873. Svodny Katalog Russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati 18 veka, 4240. Sopikov. Opyt Rossiiskoi bibliografii, 7723.

No Binding. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 19 3/4 x 26 1/4 inches (50.1 x 66.6 cm). engraving. original outline colour. Müller's Nouvelle Carte "is one of the most important maps of the northwest coast produced in the eighteenth century and the first to delineate the area with accuracy."(Verner & Stuart-Stubbs). First published in 1754, several editions of the map were published over a thirty year period. The important 1773 revisions, including the revised Alaska outline, were maintained in the 1784 edition. Müller was the supervisor of the Geographic Department of the Akademiya Nauk. His Nouvelle Carte was the first official map to show the Russian discoveries in the North Pacific. "The map illustrates the official Russian viewpoint that not only was the land sighted by the Russians at the farthest east part of the American mainland, but most of the coastline glimpsed on the return voyage, as well as the land seen by Gwosdev in 1732 opposite the eastern tip of Asia." (Cummings et Al p. 255). It includes the tracks of Bering and Chrikov's 1741 exploration routes and Dezhnev's voyage, from the mouth of the Kolyma River eastward and around the Chukotsk Cape. Cummings, The Exploration of North America, p. 225. Bagrow, A History Of Russian Cartography Up To 1800, pp. 163. Medushevskya, 'Cartographic Sources For The History Of Russian Geographical Discoveries In The Pacific Ocean', Cartographica, Monograph No. 13/75, pp. 71-73. Tooley, Landmarks of Mapmaking, p. 131. Falk, Alaskan Maps, 1784-10. cfWagner 591. cfGlenbow Museum, The Canadian West Discovered, p. 34. cfKershaw 1114. cfFite & Freeman, A Book Of Old Maps, 51. cfVerner & Stuart-Stubbs, The North Part Of America, 38 & p. 275.