# 45112

[KOTZEBUE; CORNEY; MARINER]

Resor i Söderhafvet,

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innehållande: hr Kotzebues resa i Söderhafvet. – Hr Corneys resa till Sandwichs-öarne samt mynningen af floden Colombia. – Hr Mariners vistande på Tonga-öarne, samt berättelse om desamma. [=Voyages in the South Seas… …]. Stockholm : Ecksteinska tryckeriet, 1828. Series: Bibliothek för de nyaste resbeskrifningar, no. 4. Octavo (185 x 112 mm), lacking the upper and lower wrappers although the black-lettered blue-papered spine has been substantially preserved; pp. [6], 241; text in Swedish; contents exceptionally clean and fresh, with the Royal Library’s discreet old duplicate marking in pencil to front endpaper.

Pacific voyage accounts of Otto von Kotzebue (1815-1818; 1823-1826), Peter Corney, first mate on the Columbia, a schooner belonging to the North West Company (1813-1818), and William Mariner, ship’s clerk aboard the British privateer Port au Prince, who spent several years as a captive in Tonga (1806-1810).

Trove locates a single copy in Australian collections (SLNSW)