diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1f48bf3..198d152 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Unpublished 1.0.0.9000
 
+- fixed bug with fetching result pages with an offset >= 10,000 (=1e+05 ...) [issue #25](https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient/issues)
 - timed out corpus queries are no longer cached (see [issue #7](https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient/issues/7))
 - improved error handling
 - improved logging
diff --git a/R/KorAPQuery.R b/R/KorAPQuery.R
index 04d859a..340bd4c 100644
--- a/R/KorAPQuery.R
+++ b/R/KorAPQuery.R
@@ -474,8 +474,19 @@
     # Calculate the actual offset in tokens
     currentOffset <- current_offset_page * maxResultsPerPage
 
-    # Build the query with the appropriate count and offset
-    query <- paste0(kqo@requestUrl, "&count=", min(if (!is.na(maxFetch)) maxFetch - results else maxResultsPerPage, maxResultsPerPage), "&offset=", currentOffset, "&cutoff=true")
+    # Build the query with the appropriate count and offset using httr2
+    count_param <- min(if (!is.na(maxFetch)) maxFetch - results else maxResultsPerPage, maxResultsPerPage)
+    
+    # Parse existing URL to preserve all query parameters
+    parsed_url <- httr2::url_parse(kqo@requestUrl)
+    existing_query <- parsed_url$query
+    
+    # Add/update count and offset parameters
+    existing_query$count <- count_param
+    existing_query$offset <- currentOffset
+    
+    # Rebuild the URL with all parameters
+    query <- httr2::url_modify(kqo@requestUrl, query = existing_query)
     res <- apiCall(kqo@korapConnection, query)
     if (length(res$matches) == 0) {
       break
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-corpusQuery.R b/tests/testthat/test-corpusQuery.R
index e5289e0..d9e9575 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-corpusQuery.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-corpusQuery.R
@@ -103,6 +103,14 @@
   expect_output(print(q), "Ameisenplage.*pubDate since 2014")
 })
 
+test_that("fetchNext with offset 1000000 (= 1e+06) works", {
+  skip_if_offline()
+  kco <- KorAPConnection(accessToken = NULL, verbose = TRUE, cache = FALSE)
+  q <- corpusQuery(kco, "<base/s=t>")
+  q <- fetchNext(q, offset = 1000000)
+  expect_gt(nrow(q@collectedMatches), 10)
+})
+
 test_that("Query from KorAP URL returns as many results as corresponding direct query", {
   skip_if_offline()
   kco <- KorAPConnection(accessToken = NULL)