Travel & Exploration
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# 51763
WHITELEY, Brett and DRISCOLL, Michael.
Native Rose (hardcover edition)
Sydney : Richard Griffin, 1986. Large quarto, cloth in dust jacket (light handling wear), 58 pp, illustrated by Whiteley. The scarce hardcover edition of this book of poems illustrated with large format plates. A series of poems by Michael Driscoll inspired by the Olgas (Kata Tjuṯa) in Central Australia and the journals of explorer Ernest …
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# 51288
DIEN, Claude-Marie-François (1787-1865, engraver); LESUEUR, Charles-Alexandre (1778-1846 , artist)
Nouvelle-Hollande. Vases, Armes, Pêche.
[Paris : De l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1807-1817]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 315 x 240 mm (plate mark), 330 x 253 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, ‘XXII’ printed upper right; fine condition. Source: Plate XXII from the Atlas historique volume of the first edition of Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes, the …
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# 51289
TESTARD, François-Martin (fl. 1790-1819, engraver); LESUEUR, Charles-Alexandre (1778-1846 , artist)
Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle Galles du Sud. Armes, Ustencils et Ornemens.
[Paris : Arthus Bertrand, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving, 315 x 240 mm (plate mark), 258 x 344 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, ’29’ printed upper right; fine condition. Source: Plate 29 from the Atlas historique volume of the second edition of Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes, the official account of the Baudin …
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# 51418
THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828)
Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779.
Upsala : J. Edman & J. Edmans enka, 1788-1793. Four volumes octavo, original uniform binding of marbled papered boards (an expected amount of rubbing), spines with leather title labels in gilt; Vol. 1: pp. [26], 390 + [2] engraved plates; Vol. 2: pp. [32], 384 + [4] plates; Vol. 3: pp. [14], 286, 289-389, 400-414; …
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# 51407
THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828); LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste de Monet de (1744-1829)
Voyages de C. P. Thunberg au Japon, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de la Sonde, &c.
Traduits, rédigés et augmentés de notes… particulièrement sur le Javan et le Malai, par L. Langlès,… et revus, quant à la partie d’histoire naturelle, par J.-B. Lamarck,… A Paris : Benoit Dandré, An IV 1796. Four volumes octavo, handsome contemporary full calf with gilt borders (bindings rubbed, and with a few scuff marks), flat spines …
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# 51576
NANCE, F. R. (Florence Rush)
Soochow : the garden city
Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1936. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards (lightly foxed); endpaper maps, pp. [8], 76., with 24 b/w plates of photographs by C. H. Wong, 5 folding maps; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. First edition of this guidebook to Soochow (Suzhou), written by …
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# 51558
STORRIE, A. L. and KETTLEWELL, J. W. (compilers)
The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd. Tourist Guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania
Sydney : William Dymock, 1899. Small quarto, gilt-lettered red cloth (marked, recessed), advertisement for David Jones to lower board, advertisements to endpapers, pp. xvi; 288, extensively photographically illustrated and with several two tone maps, a few marks, some bleeding from red boards to lower few leaves, a very good copy. A very scarce tourists guide …
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# 51628
LAWES, William George (1839-1907)
Rev. W. G. Lawes, pioneer LMS missionary in Niue and New Guinea: cut signature (c.1890).
Manuscript in ink, 50 x 180 mm, cut from the foot of a letter and reading ‘… paper you request I do not take photographs now and have no copies of my old ones. I am, Yours very sincerely, W. G. Lawes‘; mounted on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf, annotated …
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# 51716
EISLER, William and SMITH, Bernard
Terra Australis : the furthest shore
Sydney : International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 239, light handling marks, illustrated. A large scale exhibition on the history of the discovery and colonisation of the Australian continent, a detailed catalogue.
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# 51514
Japan Tourist Bureau.
From the car window. Kyoto – Shimonoseki
Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, April 1936. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, light edge rubbing and a crease, staple bound, 17 pp, illustrated, maps, a very good copy.
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# 51690
TOOLEY, R. V.
The mapping of Australia
London : The Holland Press, 1979. First edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth with leather title labels in illustrated dustjacket (edges lightly foxed), pp. xx; 633, internally clean, extensively illustrated. The essential reference for Australian and Antarctic maps. The first edition. Volume 1 in the Holland Press Cartographical Series. A fine, clean copy of a scarce reference.
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# 49733
SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)
Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,
verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. St. Petersburg : Gräff ; Leipzig : Voss, 1839. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), contemporary red calf, richly gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; blue endpapers; pp. xv, [1 blank], 318, [2 Errata]; text in German (roman) and Tibetan script; scattered light foxing, a …
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# 13336
HAY, John, 1546-1607
De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.
A Joanne Hayo Dalgatttiensi Scoto Societatis Jesu in librum unum coacervatae. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Martini Nutij, ad insigne duarum Ciconiarum, Anno M. DC. V. [Antwerp : Martin Nutius, 1605]. Octavo, fine Jesuit binding of full calf ruled in gilt with ornamental cornerpieces; upper board with central Jesuit device, lower board with heraldic crest; flat-panel spine tooled …
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# 49578
[Anon.]
The China Directory for 1863. (With contemporary provenance from a Tientsin-based company listed in the Directory)
Fourth Annual Publication. Hong Kong : A. Shorted & Co., 1863. Octavo, gilt-illustrated black cloth (spine expertly replaced), contemporary ownership inscription for the company of Pedder & Co. of Tientsin, dated 7th March,1863 to front pastedown (Pedder & Co. are listed in the Directory on p. 52), folding table ‘Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.’s …
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# 51560
LAKE, Andrew
Changes and chances : a personal history of All Saints Jakarta
Jakarta : All Saints Church, 2004. Octavo trade paperback, pp. xix, [1 blank], 202; with numerous b/w photographic illustrations; an excellent copy, inscribed on the half-title for the visiting Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Alexander Downer, presumably by an Australian embassy staff member: ‘Dec. ’04. Dear Minister Downer, Welcome back to Jakarta. I …
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# 26921
TINDALE, Norman B.
Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.
Adelaide : The Hassell Press, [1941]. Offprint from Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 4, February 28th, 1941. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed buff wrappers, pp 357-362, with line-drawn text illustrations plus [2] full-page photographic plates; very short tear at top edges of leaves, else a good copy. A …