Sabin, 22575 ; Lada-Mocarski, 30 (note) ; Hordern House, Captain James Cook Collection (Robert & Mary Anne Parks collection), 63 (Berne issue) ; Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 29 (“the text of this is printed from the same setting of type as the Berne edition, the title leaf only having been reset ; the woodcut vignettes on the title and at end of the text and the folding map are identical to those in the Berne edition”); not in Hill.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of the French translation, Geneva issue (there was another issue published in Bern the same year).<\/span><\/p>\n A very scarce book relating to Cook’s third voyage. The exploration of the Bering Strait and the search for the Northwest passage had been one of the most important tasks for Cook’s last voyage in the Pacific. The region was explored at length by Cook in 1778, and again by Clerke, after his former commander\u2019s death, in 1779.<\/p>\n The folding map contains two separate charts of Bering Strait and the northwest coast; it was engraved in Z\u00fcrich by Rodolf Holzhalb. New regarding their findings was keenly awaited in Europe, where a controversy raged between Engle on eh one hand and geographers Anton Friedrich B\u00fcsching and G.F. M\u00fcller on the other. Engel\u2019s opponents had attacked his \u201ctheory and assumptions regarding the Bering Strait. This was the era of passionate controversy about the figuration of Alaska and northwest coast, as well as the existence of the Northwest passage\u201d (Lada-Mocarski). Engel, the distinguished Swiss geographer and economist, was a prolific writer on the North Pacific. This book had first appeared in a much slighter form in German in 1780, but without the map. It is worth pointing out that the catalyst for this publication wa the entry of the death of Captain Cook and the discovery of Hawaii in B\u00fcsching\u2019s influential weekly journal the W\u00f6chentliche Nachrichten, now better known as the first entry in Forbes\u2019 Hawaiian National Bibliography. Engel had taken exception to B\u00fcsching\u2019s critique of his theory, and this work was his response.<\/p>\n Very good copy, upper corner of the title restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (233 x 190 mm) title-page and 26 pp., 1 folding map with 2 maps coloured in outline. Modern calf backed boards, bound in style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75015","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-uncategorized","7":"pa_auteur-engel-samuel-2","8":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Samuel ENGEL","chapeau":"Bering Strait and the Northwest Passage","adresse_bibliographique":"Gen\u00e8ve, Jean-Emmanuel Didier, 1781","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n