Travel & Exploration

  • Tattoo

    # 51356

    GROS DE BELER, Aude. (editor.)

    Tattoo

    Arles : Musée du quai Branly Actes sud, [2014]. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards,, pp. 303, illustrated. new copy. ‘The practice of tattooing has an extensive primitive history in Asian and African countries, where it had social, religious and mystical roles. In 3000 BC, Otzi (whose mummy was famously discovered in the 1990s) covered his body …

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  • Mirror of the Australian Navigation

    # 51335

    LE MAIRE, Jacob (1585-1616)

    Mirror of the Australian Navigation

    Sydney: Hordern House, 1999. Folio, pp. 196, quarter goatskin over marbled boards, illustrated. Includes a 96-page exact facsimile of the rare original Dutch printing of 1622 and a 65-page exact facsimile of the original English text by Alexander Dalrymple of 1770. Introductory essay by Dr Edward Duyker, New South Wales History Fellow.  Edition strictly limited …

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  • Sailing for the east. History & catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602 - 1799

    # 51244

    SCHILDER, Gunter & KOK, Hans.

    Sailing for the east. History & catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602 – 1799

    Houten (The Netherlands) : Hes &​ De Graaf, c. 2010. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 707, extensively illustrated, CD-ROM. A detailed study of the sea routes the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) took from Europe to Asia, illustrated with maps and charts on vellum, instruments and books from the period.

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  • Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    # 29462

    LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)

    Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    London : T. &​ W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …

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  • Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,

    # 48533

    LABILLARDIERE, [Jacques Julien Houten de].

    Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,

    fait  par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2me année de la République Francoise. Paris : Chez H. J. Jansen, an VIII de la République Francoise [1800]. Two volumes quarto plus atlas folio, the two text volumes in early quarter papered boards with gilt-lettered calf spines …

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  • Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

    # 50718

    EYRE, Edward (1815-1901)

    Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.

    Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested in Mr. Christy’s letter of …

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  • 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 :

    # 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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  • The native tribes of Central Australia

    # 50555

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The native tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, plain paper label to pastedown, pp. xx, 672 (last blank), [2 publisher’s advertisements]; illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; scattered foxing throughout, a good copy.

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  • China's Millions (January - December 1901)

    # 50800

    HUDSON TAYLOR, Rev. J. (General Director)

    China’s Millions (January – December 1901)

    Melbourne : China Inland Mission, 1901. Australasian edition. Quarto, contemporary gilt-lettered plum cloth (spine sunned), bookplate residue to front pastedown, pagination various, a complete set of issues for they year 1901, with Supplements, numerous maps and black and white photographic illustrations, a few spots of foxing and small marks, a very good set. Australian version …

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  • Peking. A historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest

    # 51036

    BREDON, Juliet (1881 - 1937)

    Peking. A historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest

    With maps, plans and illustrations. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1920. First edition. Octavo, modern quarter crushed maroon goatskin over cloth, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, ruled in blind, pp. xvi; 478, numerous photographic illustrations and folding maps and plans of the city, a very good copy in modern binding. A popular guide …

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  • Yochi shiryaku [Outlines of World Geography or a Short Description of the World]. Volume 12. [Australia and the Pacific].

    # 50720

    UCHIDA, Masao (1838-1876)

    Yochi shiryaku [Outlines of World Geography or a Short Description of the World]. Volume 12. [Australia and the Pacific].

    Tokyo : Uchida Masayoshi zoban, 1880. Volume 12 only (of thirteen volumes published between 1870 and 1880), Large octavo (253 x 178 mm), original wrappers with title labels, string-bound in the Japanese manner, printed woodblock text on folded rice paper, with numerous lithograph illustrations and a folding map; occasional pale water staining to bottom corners, map …

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  • The Encyclopedia of Exploration

    # 50724

    HOWGEGO, Raymond John.

    The Encyclopedia of Exploration

    Sydney : Hordern House, 2003 – 2008. Five volumes, quarto, bound in cloth with colour dust jackets (lightly sunned), pp. xv; 1168; xi; 690; x; 724; xii; 1046; prospectus loosely enclosed, a very good set. The definitive reference works. The first four volumes, covering the history of exploration by land and sea from the earliest …

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  • An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.

    # 50566

    HEYLYN, Peter

    An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.

    By Peter Heylin. London : Printed for Henry Seile, 1652. [Extracted from the first edition of Heylyn’s Cosmographie]. Disbound folio, 340 x 235 mm; title-leaf, pp. 191-7, [1 Emendation of the Errata in the Fourth Book]; browned at the edges, some very early annotations and pen trials on the last side. The idiosyncratic geography of English …

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  • [CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres

    # 50537

    Anon.

    [CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres

    Lille : L. Lefort, 1849. First edition. Small octavo, publisher’s papered cartonnage binding with gilt decoration, frontispiece (Prise de possession des Iles marquises), previous owner’s name to front pastedown, pp. 201,a fine copy. Accounts of European exploration and discovery of and early settlements in the Pacific, with chapters on the Malay archipelago, Melanesia (includes New …

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  • The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (deluxe issue, with the coloured version of the engraving 'Probable effects of over female emigration')

    # 51164

    [CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor

    The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (deluxe issue, with the coloured version of the engraving ‘Probable effects of over female emigration’)

    Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …

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

    # 51024

    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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