A first English edition of Charlotte Bernhardi’s translation of her father, Admiral Krusenstern’s Memoir… of his 1803-06 circumnavigation of the globe was one of the rarer items offered at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) on February 20.
Edited by the polar explorer Sir John Ross and published in 1856, 10 years after Krusenstern’s death, it was the first biography of the distinguished Russian commander and explorer. This West Sussex copy sold at £900 and would doubtless have made more had the binding not been damaged.
A better-preserved example of this tall octavo volume sold, among the many works relating to Krusenstern’s voyages in the Martin Greene library, for $6000 (then £4475) at Christie’s New York last December.