ERMAN, Georg Adolph (1806-1877). Travels in Siberia: including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese Frontier. London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1848.
2 volumes, 8vo. With folding engraved route map outlined in color. Contemporary calf gilt (spines and portions of covers sunned). Provenance: Inigo Richmund Jones, British Army Officer (gift inscription on his leaving Eton from Nevyl Graves Russell, 1864). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Erman was part of a Norwegian-sponsored German expedition across Siberia for magnetical, geological and ethnological observations, led by Christophe Hansteen, Director of the Christiana Observatory. In 1828 they crossed from Berlin to St. Petersburg and into Siberia. Arctic Bibliography 4662; Sabin 22771.