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'Northern Regions, Vol. IIII: Nova Zemjla, Siberia, Kamtschatka.
'Northern Regions, Vol. IIII: Nova Zemjla, Siberia, Kamtschatka.'
Title page with illustration of a bear.
Itinerary begins by covering 'Nova Zemjla' [Nova Zemlya] before progressing roughly south and then east through Siberia until it reaches 'Kamtschatka'.
Pennant's account based in part on communications with Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), see pp. 30, 115–116. For their printed correspondence up to 1781, see Carol Urness (ed), 'A Naturalist in Russia: Letters from Peter Simon Pallas to Thomas Pennant' (Minneapolis, 1967). Volume contains several prints inserted from Pallas's 'Reise Durch Verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs' (Saint Petersburg, 1771–1776).
Volume contains several of John Webber's prints from Captain Cook's third voyage, inserted at various points from pp. 132–205.
Two watercolours, apparently of Kamchatka, inserted between pp. 146–151.
'The Apotheosis of Captain Cook' illustration signed by Moses Griffiths, alongside a detailed description of the image by Pennant, pp. 222–223.
Chart of the Bering sea, to show 'what knowledge, wrong or right, our Admiralty had anterior to the year 1770[?]', inserted after p. 223.
Full itinerary and general index at rear of volume, followed by 'Quadrupeds of the Russian Asiatic Dominions and countries bordering on them', and 'Birds of the Asiatic Russian Empire'.
Title page with illustration of a bear.
Itinerary begins by covering 'Nova Zemjla' [Nova Zemlya] before progressing roughly south and then east through Siberia until it reaches 'Kamtschatka'.
Pennant's account based in part on communications with Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), see pp. 30, 115–116. For their printed correspondence up to 1781, see Carol Urness (ed), 'A Naturalist in Russia: Letters from Peter Simon Pallas to Thomas Pennant' (Minneapolis, 1967). Volume contains several prints inserted from Pallas's 'Reise Durch Verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs' (Saint Petersburg, 1771–1776).
Volume contains several of John Webber's prints from Captain Cook's third voyage, inserted at various points from pp. 132–205.
Two watercolours, apparently of Kamchatka, inserted between pp. 146–151.
'The Apotheosis of Captain Cook' illustration signed by Moses Griffiths, alongside a detailed description of the image by Pennant, pp. 222–223.
Chart of the Bering sea, to show 'what knowledge, wrong or right, our Admiralty had anterior to the year 1770[?]', inserted after p. 223.
Full itinerary and general index at rear of volume, followed by 'Quadrupeds of the Russian Asiatic Dominions and countries bordering on them', and 'Birds of the Asiatic Russian Empire'.
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