Travel & Exploration

# 50803

JONES, Phillip

Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …

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# 50749

DRAPER, William, Sir (1721-1787)

Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments, claiming the Galeon, and refusing payment of the Ransom Bills, for preserving Manila from pillage and destruction :

in a Letter addressed to the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department. London : printed for J. Dodsley, 1764. Octavo, recent half calf over cloth boards with gilt rule; spine with raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt; pp. 43; [blank]; bound with the half title (which is …

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# 50463

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

World Pictures (deluxe edition, with original signed watercolour)

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1902. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (spine ruled, light wear), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 332, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. This is copy …

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# 50134

BARROS, João de

Década primeira [-terceira] da Asia de João de Barros dos feitos que os Portugueses fizerão no descobrimento & conquista dos mares & terras do Oriente. [WITH] Quarta década da Asia de João de Barros …

Lisbon : Jorge Rodriguez, 1628 (complete second edition of the first three Décadas) ; Madrid : na Impressão Real, 1615 (first edition of the fourth Década). Four volumes, folio (300 x 205 mm, the fourth volume slightly taller), uniform early twentieth-century bindings of gilt-ruled quarter black morocco over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments lettered and …

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# 50497

BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT, Jean-Baptiste (1778-1846)

Carte de l’île de la Réunion, par Bory de S.t Vincent, officier d’État-Major, pour servir à son Voyage dans quatre îles des mers d’Afrique;

Dédiée à son Excellence le Maréchal Berthier, Ministre de la Guerre. [Paris, Dépôt de la Guerre, 1804]. Engraved map, dissected into eighteen panels and laid on linen, 645 x 860 mm., some light stains and wear along the folds, title label with manuscript Carte de Bourbon, a very good example. The very rare separately issued version …

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# 50382

HEYLYN, Peter

Cosmographie, in four books. Containing the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof.

by Peter Heylyn. With an accurate and an approved Index of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Inhabitants, People, Cities, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Islands, Forts, Bays, Capes, Forests, &c. of any Remarque in the whole World; Much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself …

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# 50511

ARLINGTON, L. C.

The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter cloth, lettered in gilt, over …

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# 50632

Anon.

Bartender’s guide to the best mixed drinks

Tokyo : Kasuga Boeki K.K., circa 1955. Revised edition. Distributed by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Small quarto, illustrated boards, title leaf, pp. 143; [blank]; 7, black and white photographic plates of bar utensils, wet stamp from a Melbourne bookshop to front endpaper, a very fine copy. Attractive bartender’s guide to mixing over 220 cocktails in …

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# 50571

WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)

Tropical nature, and other essays

London : Macmillan and Co., 1878. Second edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (lightly marked, bruised at head and foot of spine), armorial bookplate of Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904) to front pastedown, hinges slightly cracked, pp. xiii; [iii]; 356; (1 – catalogue); (blank), occasional light foxing, a very good copy of a book difficult to find …

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# 50545

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

Brittany

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies …

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# 50615

SEEMANN, Berthold

Viti : an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860 – 61

Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1862. Octavo, full polished calf, ruled in gilt, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, bound in compartments with raised bands, gilt rule and tooling, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, school prize label to front pastedown and armorial bookplate to front free endpaper …

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# 50594

BATCHELDER & CO.

Studio portrait of Lieutenant Nassau Stephens, RN. Melbourne, December 1872.

Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Barchelder & Co., Artist Photographers, 41 Collins St. East, Melbourne’, and with a roughly contemporary inscription in ink ‘December 1872’; the print and the mount are both in good condition; the carte is accompanied by a section cut …

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# 50542

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Excursions in and around Singapore

Singapore : The American Express Company, Inc., [1920]. Tourist brochure, 180 x 85 mm (folded), four panels, pp. [8], double panel map of Singapore town, includes tours of Johore and Penang, a fine copy. A single example recorded on Worldcat (National Library of Singapore).

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# 50584

BIRD, Isabella

The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.

London : John Murray, 1890. Seventh edition, a later issue, with advertisements dated June 1897. Octavo, bright gilt-illustrated green cloth, very lightly rubbed at edges, gift inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, pp. xvi; folding map, 318; 32, fore edge foxed, else a very fine copy.

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# 49972

GREIG, George

[SWAN RIVER COLONY]. The South African Almanac and Directory for the year 1833

Cape Town : Printed and Published by the Proprietor, George Greig, Keizersgracht, [1832]. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (light edge wear), pp. [xviii – advertisements]; five lithographed plates of views of Cape Town; title leaf; preface leaf; lxxxiii; [i]; 13 – 292, occasional light foxing or spotting, a very good copy. A scarce Cape Town colonial …

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# 50532

ORANGE, James

The Chater collection. Pictures relating to China, Hongkong, Macao, 1655 – 1860

With historical and descriptive letterpress. London : Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (lightly marked), top edge gilt, pp. 528, numerous colour and black and white plates, tissue guards; a very good copy. Limited to 750 numbered copies. “The book was compiled by James Orange in 1924 and is one of the most significant historical …

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