Izvi︠e︡stīe o Pelevskikh ostrovakh, lezhashchikh v zapadnoĭ storoni︠e︡ Tikhago okeana
By: sobrannoe iz dnevnykh zapisok i iz ustnykh razskazanīĭ Kapitana Genrikha Vilʹsona i ni︠e︡kotorykh ego ofit︠s︡erov, koi v vidu sikh ostrovov v tysi︠a︡cha semʹsot vosemʹdesi︠a︡t tretʹem godu avgusta 10 preterpi︠e︡li korablekrushenīe na Antelopi︠e︡, pochtovom sudni︠e︡ Vostochnoĭ Indīĭskoĭ Kompanīi ; s opisanīem nravov, obyknovenīĭ, obri︠a︡dov zhiteleĭ i proizvedenīĭ zemli
Contributors: Wilson, Henry, -1810; Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: S ukaznago dozvolenīi︠a︡; R&C
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Moskva
Language: rus
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Palauans; Description and travel; Antelope (Packet); Portraits; Glossaries, vocabularies; Early works to 1800; Palauan language; English; Shipwrecks; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Izvestie o Pelevskikh ostrovakh
Work titles: Account of the Pelew Islands
Notes: "Perevod s frant︠s︡uzskago." Translated by I.G.

Printer's mark on t.p. verso: R&C (roman) in a wreath, the mark of Ridiger i Klaudīi︠a︡.

Sopikov lists another edition of the same translation published in Moscow in the same year but with 6 portraits and 2 other illustrations. Cf. V.S. Sopikov, Opyt rossīĭskoi  biblīografīi (red. V.N. Rogozhina, 1904), no. 4375.

Each volume has separate t.p.; each has 2 frontispiece portraits.

Folded engravings are landscapes.

Woodcuts:  head pieces, tail pieces.

"Slovarʹ pelevskago i︠a︡zyka," p. [231]-243.

Errata at end.

LC copy in mottled Russia leather with dark leather book label on spine. Has Yudin Collection bookplate printed by G.P.O., 1928. No other indications of Yudin provenance. Shelved with the Yudin Collection.