LISIANSKY (Urey).
Estimation :
30 / 60
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
A Voyage round the World in the years 1803, 4, 5, and 6 ; performed, by Order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the first, Emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva. London, John Booth, 1814 (reprint : Amsterdam, Israël, "Bibliotheca Australiana" 42, 1968, 4°, XXI-388 p., ill. et cartes h. t., rel. édit. Lisiansky was the deputy commander on this first Russian circumnavigation under Krusenstern. While Krusenstern was in Kamchatka, Lisiansky took his ship the Neva to Sitka where he played an important part in the reoccupation of the settlement which had been savagely attacked by the Kolosh Indians. On the way to China, the Neva hit a reef which led to the discovery of the Hawaiian islands now bearing Lisiansky's name. The 14th chapter gives a detailed description of Canton, where he spent two months.
