J. F. Blumenbach
Nachricht von der letzten grossen Russischen Entdeckungsreise
im nordöstlichen Weltmeer. [News of the Great Russian Voyage of Discovery in the
North-East Ocean.]
Weimar: Industrie-Comptoirs, 1798.
8vo. 7 pages. Text is in German. A scarce primary resource.
This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account.
Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.
Succinct bulletin on exploration in Russia Arctic seas, with mention of
Bering, Billings, and Sarychev (Sarychew).
These are the original pages printed in 1798, and NOT a reprint.
This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816
and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy.
Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important
scientific journal.