67 - A fine copy of the two-volume first French edition of Stepan Petrovich Krašeninnikov’s famous *Histoire et description du Kamtchatka*, published in Amsterdam by Marc Michel Rey in 1770. First French edition of the famous history of Kamchatka

A fine copy of the two-volume first French edition of Stepan Petrovich Krašeninnikov’s famous *Histoire et description du Kamtchatka*, published in Amsterdam by Marc Michel Rey in 1770. First French edition of the famous history of Kamchatka A fine copy of the two-volume first French edition of Stepan Petrovich Krašeninnikov’s famous *Histoire et description du Kamtchatka*, published in Amsterdam by Marc Michel Rey in 1770. The first Russian edition appeared in 1755; this French translation, based on the 1768 Paris edition, contains numerous revisions and omissions, including the removal of the ten-page glossary devoted to the Kamchatka dialect. An important geographical and ethnographic account of the Kamchatka Peninsula, accompanied by engraved plates and fold-out maps of the region and the Kuril Islands. The work is one of the principal 18th-century sources on the geography, natural history, and indigenous peoples of Kamchatka, and was also used by the Japanese scholar Maeno Ryōtaku for his *Kamchatka-shi* (1790). First French edition of the celebrated history of Kamchatka (2 volumes)