Travels in Siberia: Including Excursions Northwards, Down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and, Southwards, to the Chinese Frontier 2 Volumes

1st US Edition First US edition, first published in English in 1848, the original edition published in Berlin in 5 volumes between 1833-42. 8vo. 2 VOLUMES. xi-371pp,+ 42pp publisher's catalogue, vii-400pp. Original cloth blind-stamped and gilt, fraying at head, tail an corner of spine volume 2., but the gilt still bright former bookstore paste down on fep, signature and stamp of former owner, pen notes on the blank end papers, sparse foxing ow a still good set. Translated from the German by W.D. Cooley. Account by German scientist and explorer Erman of the 1828-29 Norwegian expedition to Russia and Siberia to study the north magnetic pole. Ermans work includes important comments and observations on physical geography and geology, the exile road to Siberia, Irkutsk, the chief political exile city, the manners, customs, and language of the Samoyedes and Yakuts, the trade carried on from the frontiers of Siberia to Bokhara and Tashkend, the fisheries of the Obi, the mineral riches of the Ural and Nerchinsk, the fossil ivory in the valley of the Lena and New Siberia, &c. Erman was awarded the medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1844, and the magnetic observations he made during his travels were utilized by C.F.Gauss in his theory of terrestrial magnetism.