Captain Cook

  • The journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery (complete set)

    # 46978

    COOK, Captain James

    The journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery (complete set)

    Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1968-1969. Five volumes octavo, gilt-decorated cloth in dustjackets (lightly marked), plus the folio of maps and charts. Light scattered foxing, more prominent to the gutters and in the folds of the panels of the portfolio of charts. A good set.

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  • Cook's Pacific encounters. The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Gottingen.

    # 46890

    HETHERINGTON, Michelle et al.

    Cook’s Pacific encounters. The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Gottingen.

    Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv; 110, illustrated. Ephemera enclosed. “Cook’s Pacific Encounters brings together objects from the Cook-Forster collection of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany, and materials related to Cook’s voyages held in Australian collections. The Cook-Forster collection comprises artefacts collected during the three Pacific voyages …

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  • Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé dans les ports et à la mer.

    # 27137

    KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)

    Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé dans les ports et à la mer.

    Paris : Annales maritimes et coloniales. II.e partie. Année 1824. – Juin. Octavo, bound in contemporary marbled wrappers, pp [2], 457-541, with an engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator (p.540); light browning to some of the leaves, but a very good copy. Text in French. An important treatise on the causes of, and preventive measures …

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  • Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé

    # 46403

    KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)

    Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé

    dans les ports et à la mer. Half title: Médecine nautique. A Paris : de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1824. Second edition. Octavo, bound in modern cloth backed marbled boards, spine with gilt ornament and leather title label lettered in gilt, pp 115, [1] engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator; mild foxing to the last few leaves, …

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  • A miniature terrestrial globe, circa 1830, showing Cook's third voyage.

    # 45628

    BAUER FAMILY

    A miniature terrestrial globe, circa 1830, showing Cook’s third voyage.

    [Nuremberg : Bauer family, circa 1830]. Miniature terrestrial globe, two-and-a-half inches in diameter, original outline hand colouring, metal pins, housed in card box, the label on the lid with an image of a cartographer (the lower part of the case reconstructed); a fine copy signed MPS (the Bauer family). A charming early nineteenth-century terrestrial globe …

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  • [ULIMAROA] Daniel Djurbergs namn på Australien.

    # 45076

    DU RIETZ, Rolf

    [ULIMAROA] Daniel Djurbergs namn på Australien.

    / av Rolf Du Rietz. Stockholm : Bortzells, 1961. “Särtryck ur Ymer 1961, h. 2.” [=Reprinted from: Ymer, vol.2 (1961)]. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), printed wrappers (a little sunned), the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription by Du Rietz for Swedish academic and collector Teddy Brunius; pp. 81-100; text in Swedish, with a summary …

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  • Rules of the Polynesian Society

    # 45154

    POLYNESIAN SOCIETY

    Rules of the Polynesian Society

    New Plymouth, NZ : Thomas Avery & Sons Limited, 1922. Third edition. Octavo, self-wrappers (lightly foxed, old fold lines), pp. 7; some spotting at margins, otherwise good.

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  • List of reprints from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, also of other available Maori publications.

    # 45155

    POLYNESIAN SOCIETY

    List of reprints from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, also of other available Maori publications.

    Wellington, NZ : Polynesian Society, [1941]. Octavo, stapled wrappers (foxed, owner’s pencilled name and date ‘F. H. Molony May 1943’ to front, lower wrapper extensively annotated in pencil, paper splits at head and tail of spine); pp. 12, [2]; original owner’s marginalia, otherwise internally good. Dating based on one of the ‘New Publications’ advertised on …

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  • The art of Captain Cook's voyages (four volume set)

    # 45179

    JOPPIEN, Rüdiger and SMITH, Bernard

    The art of Captain Cook’s voyages (four volume set)

    Volume one : The voyage of the Endeavour 1768 – 1771. With a descriptive catalogue of all the known drawings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and the original engravings associated with them. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985 (reprint). Folio, cloth in dust jacket, pp. xv; 247, illustrated. Volume two :  The voyage of …

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  • Captain Cook’s journal during his first voyage round the world made in H. M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768 - 71.

    # 44443

    WHARTON, Captain W. J. L.

    Captain Cook’s journal during his first voyage round the world made in H. M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768 – 71.

    A literal transcription of the original MSS. With notes and introduction. Illustrated by maps and facsimiles. London : Elliot Stock, 1893. Large octavo, contemporary blue half calf over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed), spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, contrasting Morocco title label, lettered in gilt, pp. lvi; 400; maps and plates, lacking the three …

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  • Pioneers of the Pacific : voyages of exploration 1787 - 1810

    # 44130

    RIGBY, Nigel et al.

    Pioneers of the Pacific : voyages of exploration 1787 – 1810

    Perth : University of Western Australia Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Due to the dominance of Captain Cook’s Pacific exploration, many voyages of science and exploration following him to the Pacific have not received the attention they deserved. This title aims to correct this imbalance through the …

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  • Midshipman William Harvey, sailor on all three voyages of Captain Cook : his watercolour portrait and snuff box.

    # 42458

    [HARVEY, William, 1752-1807]

    Midshipman William Harvey, sailor on all three voyages of Captain Cook : his watercolour portrait and snuff box.

    Watercolour on paper, 247 x 227 mm, in an early gilded wood and gesso frame, inscribed verso Midshipman Hardy [sic] of Ct. Cook’s Ship Discovery 1779. Exhibited: Endeavour voyage: the untold stories of Cook and the First Australians. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2 June 2020 – 26 April 2021. Reference: Coates, Ian (editor). Endeavour voyage, the …

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  • Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.

    # 41535

    SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)

    Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.

    Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II  reversed by the binder, a fine set in early bindings …

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  • European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale's copy, signed by artist and author)

    # 44121

    SMITH, Bernard

    European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale’s copy, signed by artist and author)

    A study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s navy cloth over boards, in dust jacket (chipped, sunned and worn), 287 pp, with 171 b/w plates; internally very clean and sound, a good copy of the scarce first edition. Signed on the title page by …

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  • Early artists of Australia (presentation copy for Russell Drysdale)

    # 44120

    RIENITS, Rex and Thea

    Early artists of Australia (presentation copy for Russell Drysdale)

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear, chips to head and foot of spine, a little more than evident in the photo), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed from the authors ‘Maisie and Tass with lots of love from Rex …

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  • Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    # 41879

    DELATTRE, Charles

    Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

    Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …

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