The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821

By Fabian G. von Bellingshausen

Translated from the Russian. Edited by Frank Debenham

with Rare dustjackets

Hakluyt Society, London 1945 First English Edition. Hakluyt Society second series, XCI &XCII. 2 volumes, 8vo., 20 maps, frontispiece to each volume, 36 plates, original blue cloth gilt, a fine set with good+ dust jackets. Each volume bearing the private polar book plate of Raymond Priestley. —Spence 117; Taurus 3; Rosove 33.A1.

Bellingshausen with 118 companions circumnavigated the Antarctic circle and confirmed the existence of the South Shetland islands, discovered several new islands at high southern latitudes, and may well have been the first to sight the Antarctic continent itself. This is the first translation of Bellinghausen"s original Russian 1831 narrative, complete with notes by Frank Debenham. An unusually well preserved set in Rare dust jackets.