Lot 514
Russia--Krusenstern, Adam John de
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Memoir of the celebrated Admiral John de Krusenstern, the first Russian Circumnavigator, translated from the German, by his daughter Madame Charlotte Bernhardi, and edited by Rear Admiral Sir John Ross. London: Longmans, Green [&c.], 1856. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy to Capt. Scobell, engraved frontispiece, half-title, original cloth, small blindstamp on title, bookplate, gilt stamp on cover, shelf number at foot of spine, spine very slightly rubbed
Footnote
Provenance: Captain George Treweeke Scobell, M.P. for Bath, the first person to raise publicly the idea of the Victoria Cross in a defined format in his address to the House of Commons in 1854. Inscription and bookplate. The Cruising Assocation.