BILLINGS, JOSEPH: - Viaggio fatto per ordine dell' imperatrice di Russia Caterina II. nel nord della Russia Asiatica, nel mare Glaciale, nel mare d'Anadyr, e sulla costa Nord-Ouest dell'America, dal 1785 fino al 1794. Two volumes. Milano, Sonzogno e Comp., 1816.

. 12mo. Pp. xxiv, 288; 324. With 8 engraved plates, of which 5 coloured. Contemporary half calf, flat spines ruled and lettered in gilt. Volume two: A small notch to top of spine and hinges cracked. A few leaves with some light waterstain (volume two). Ownership stamp (Pietro Odescalchi). An Italian edition of Joseph Billing's account of the Russian expeditions to the Chukotskiy peninsula, the Aleutian Islands and to the coast of Alaska, translated into Italian by Luigi Bossi. ("Raccolta de' Viaggi", tomi xxi-xxii). Cat. Russica 1307. Howgego B96.

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