Maritime
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# 50060
ROGERS, Captain Woodes
A cruising voyage round the world : first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711.
Containing a journal of all the remarkable transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca ship, and other prizes : an account of Alexander Selkirk’s living alone four years and four months in an island; and a brief description of several countries in our course noted for trade, especially in the …
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# 49994
SHELVOCKE, George
A voyage round the world by way of the Great South Sea
Perform’d in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty’s Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish Crown) till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterwards continu’d in the …
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# 42701
DAMPIER, William (1651-1715)
A collection of voyages. In four volumes.
I. Captain William Dampier’s voyages round the world : describing particularly, the coasts and Islands in the East and West-Indies. The South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. The countries of Tonquin, Achin and Malacca. The Cape of Good Hope, New-Holland, &c. II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer; giving an account of his being left …
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# 50045
BULKELEY, John & John CUMMINS
A voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1.
Containing, a faithful narrative of the loss of His Majesty’s ship the Wager on a desolate island in the latitude 47 south, longitude 81:40 west: with the proceedings and conduct of the officers and crew, and the hardships they endured in the said island for the space of five months; their bold attempt for liberty, …
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# 49471
BLIGH, William (1754-1817)
A narrative of the mutiny on board His Majesty’s ship Bounty;
and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with charts. London : George Nicol, 1790. Quarto, half-calf over marbled papered boards, gilt-decorated spine with contrasting morocco title labels, folding engraved frontispiece of the …
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# 40313
[GREAT BRITAIN. ROYAL NAVY]
A List of His Majesty’s Royal Navy. Navy Office, 1st October 1794.
Large octavo (230 x 150 mm), in the original Admiralty-style binding of straight-grain red morocco with elaborate gilt border incorporating stars, wreaths and cornerpieces, spine gilt in six compartments; inner dentelles; all edges gilt; original marbled endpapers; engraved title-page with date in manuscript 1st October 1794 (although the list has additions to 1801); 200 pp., …
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# 44046
LISIANSKY, Urey (1773-1837)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva.
London : John Booth … and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), modern half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt rule, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards; speckled edges; preliminaries (2 blanks, frontispiece portrait of Lisianskii); xxi; [blank]; [ii], …
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# 50047
CAMPBELL, Archibald
A voyage round the world, from 1806 to 1812;
in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a narrative of the author’s shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship’s long-boat; with an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands, and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh : printed for Archibald …
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# 49530
von KOTZEBUE, Otto
Voyage of discovery to the South Sea, and to Behring’s Straits, in search of a north-east passage; undertaken in the years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the ship Rurick
London : Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. Octavo, finely bound in period style in half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, small repaired tear to first title leaf, pp. 220 (with a title leaf to the second part between pp. 110 – …
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![[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_DSFB_7153-300x300.jpg)
# 49083
Peter LEE (BRITISH CONSUL, ALEXANDRIA)
[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.
[Alexandria in Egypt : British Consulate, 1823]. Lithographed pro-forma document with manuscript entries, 270 x 385 mm, on wove paper watermarked with an Eagle and FAG in roman (cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Hilversum, 1950, p. 24); embossed paper seal of the British Consulate, Alexandria in Egypt intact at lower left; signed …
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# 48956
MORRISON, John Robert (1814-1843) [WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells]
A Chinese commercial guide, consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China.
By the late Hon. J. R. Morrison. Third edition, revised throughout, and made applicable to the trade as at present conducted. Canton : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1848. Third edition. Octavo, recent half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; pp. …
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# 49786
GRANT, James (1772-1833)
The narrative of a voyage of discovery performed in His Majesty’s vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales.
Including Remarks on the Cape de Verd Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together with Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of …
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# 48644
SPILBERGEN, Joris van
Journael van de Voyagie gedaen met drie schepen, uyt Zeelandt, naer Oost-Indien,
onder het beleydt van den commandeur Joris van Spilbergen, zijn eerste reyse, uytghevaren in den jare 1601, 1602, 1603 en 1604. Amsterdam : Gillis Joosten Saeghman, (c.1648). Small quarto, vellum-backed papered boards; pp. 56; title with woodcut vignette of Spilbergen’s ships, verso of title with large allegorical woodcut, and a further 4 woodcuts and 2 …
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![[POLYNESIA] Original letter containing vivid descriptions of Tahiti and Rarotonga. August, 1934.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2018/01/11115220/2017_DSFB_5360-300x300.jpg)
# 17253
[Author unidentified]
[POLYNESIA] Original letter containing vivid descriptions of Tahiti and Rarotonga. August, 1934.
Typed letter, [7] pages, on onion-skin paper, 280 x 215 mm, headed ‘At Sea, about 500 miles from N.Z. Sunday, August 19th, 1934’; with pencil map of the ship’s journey through the islands of Tahiti and three lines of handwritten text; addressed to ‘Dear Pauline’ (internal references indicate she was a close personal friend of the …
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# 38432
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)
Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.
Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam : Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges …
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![Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the "Preble" to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/12/15142435/2022_DSFB_8084-300x300.jpg)
# 38391
Imprisoned American seamen. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Correspondence relative to the visit of the “Preble” to the port of Nangasacki [Nagasaki], for the purpose of demanding imprisoned American seamen. August 28, 1850.
[Washington] : House of Representatives, 31st Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 84, [1850]. Octavo (225 mm), recent half black calf; pp. 44; a fine copy. In August 1848, the American whaler Lagoda was shipwrecked off Hokkaido. The 15 surviving crew were detained and taken to Nagasaki. Commander James Glynn, in the USS Preble, was …