Hill, 969 ; O’Reilly, 735.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of the English translation, published one year after the German original.<\/span><\/p>\n The work is packed with ethnographic information, particularly on tattoos and music (2 plates). The end of the second volume is taken up by a vocabulary of the island of Nouka-Hiva.<\/p>\n “Le Dr Langsdorff, 1774-1862, m\u00e9decin allemand, disciple de Blumenbach, participa comme naturaliste, \u00e0 bord de la Nadirjeda, de 1803 \u00e0 1806, \u00e0 la circumnavigation de Krusenstern. Son r\u00e9cit, alerte et vivant, compl\u00e8te utilement les relations de Krusenstern et de Lisiansky. Le premier volume est d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 Alexandre Ier, le second, \u00e0 Krusenstern. Langsdorff, avec la Nadiejeda, passa & Nuku-Hiva, (\u00eeles Marquises), dans la baie de Taiohae, du 6 au 17 mai 1804. Table des positions des diff\u00e9rentes \u00eeles des Marquises. M\u0153urs et coutumes des indig\u00e8nes : anthropologie, tatouages, v\u00eatements, organisation religieuse et sociale, canots, La documentation a \u00e9t\u00e9 facilit\u00e9e par la pr\u00e9sence dans l’ile des deux d\u00e9serteurs europ\u00e9ens, Roberts et Cabri que Langsdorff pr\u00e9nomma Jean-Baptiste. Au d\u00e9part vers les \u00eeles Sandwich, Cabri se fait emmener par Krusenstern. Vocabulaire de l’ile de Nouka-Hiva, 400 mots recueillis par Langsdorf” (O’Reilly).<\/p>\n “Langsdorff was a German physician with a passion for natural history. Together with Mikolai Petrovich Rezanov, chamberlain of Czar Alexander I and Russian ambassador to Japan, Langsdorff accompanied the round-the-world expedition led by Kruzenshtern until it reached Kamchatka in 1805…Comprehensive accounts are given of Brazil, Japan and Hawaii. The first volume, containing the account of the Kruzenshtern expedition with the Nadeshda and Neva until Langsdorff’s and Rezanov’s separation from it at Kamchatka in 1805, has as half-title “Voyage from Copenhagen to Brazil, the South Sea, Kamschatka, and Japan” (Hill 969).<\/p>\n Some quires toned, traces of stamps removed from titles; spine and corners skilfully restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 volumes 4to (263 x 204 mm) XXI, 362 pp., 3 unn.l, 15 engraved plates (including the portrait as frontispiece) including a folding one for the volume I ; 4 unn.l, 386 pp., 3 unn.l of index, 6 engraved plates (including the frontispiece) inclunding a folding map for the volume II. Contemporary tree calf, large gilt rool framing covers, flat spine with red morocco lettering piece, red edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1407,1409],"class_list":{"0":"post-75191","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-circum-2","8":"product_tag-oceania","9":"pa_auteur-langsdorff-georg-heinrich-von-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Georg Heinrich von LANGSDORFF","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Londres, printed for Henry Colburn, 1813-1814","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n