Tattooed from head to foot, this ‘Native of Nukahiva’ (in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia) right features on one of the two frontispieces and a folding chart that form the illustrative content of the 1813, first English edition of Adam von Krusenstern’s 1803-06 Voyage round the World…
A translation from the original German of a circumnavigation of the globe undertaken in the service of Alexander I of Russia, this untrimmed example in modern morocco backed boards sold well at £6800 in a Dominic Winter (19.5% buyer’s premium) auction of July 19-20.