Russkie moreplavateli v staroi Iaponii

DRUZHININ, N. M. Russkie moreplavateli v staroi Iaponii.

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DRUZHININ, N. M. Russkie moreplavateli v staroi Iaponii. Leningrad, Brokgaus-Efron, 1924.

8vo. Original illustrated wrappers; pp. 140, [4], frontispiece with four portraits, vignette of a Samurai on title, one headpiece, sketch map; light wear to wrappers, shelfmark label pasted around spine; internally, apart from even light browning, due to paper stock, a good copy; provenance: Latvian library stamps and cancellation marks to half-title and verso of title.
First edition of this narrative of the fate of Russian sailors in Japanese captivity, partly based on Vasilii Mikhaiilovich Golovnin's Narrative of my captivity in Japan 1811-1813.

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