Adventures in California of Zakahar Tchitchinoff, 1818-1828; Early California Travel Series XXXIV

Los Angeles: Glen Dawson [Printed by Mallette Dean], 1956. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Dean, Mallette. One of 225 copies, duodecimo size, [56] pp. Zakahar Tchitchinoff was born in 1802 in a town in Eastern Siberia; he joined his father, an employee of the Russian American Company, where he was employed on the Company's ships.

Tchitchinoff's descriptions of his adventures in California give a good picture of Russian activities in the Farallones in the period of 1818-1828, which consisted mostly of hunting seals for their fur. For the men it was a life filled with deprivation, and Tchitchinoff gives us a first-hand insight into the hardships (truncated) of their daily lives.

Printed, illustrated and bound in paper boards by Mallette Dean, an eminent California artist and printer, with the colour wood engravings and the wood-engraved initials printed from the original blocks.

___DESCRIPTION: Quarter orange and gray striped cloth with decorative paper covered boards, paper spine label, four color wood engravings by Mallette Dean including frontis; duodecimo size (7 3/8" by 5 3/8"), pagination: [i-iv], v-xxix, 1-26, [1 colophon], limited edition of 225 copies, unnumbered.

___CONDITION: Fine overall, the binding clean, the corners straight, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a bare hint of rubbing to the corners, else fine.

___CITATION: Hawk no. 334.

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