Travel & Exploration

  • Recüeil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux

    # 49506

    TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste

    Recüeil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux

    de J.B. Tavernier, escuyer, Baron d’Aubonne, qui n’ont point esté mis dans ses six premiers voyages : divisé en cinq parties. I. Une relation du Japon, & de la cause de la persecution des chrestiens dans ses isles … II. Relation de ce qui s’est passe dans la negociation des deputez qui ont este en Perse …

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  • Travels in Siberia : including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier.

    # 49958

    ERMAN, Adolph

    Travels in Siberia : including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards, to the Chinese frontier.

    Translated from the German, by William Desborough Cooley. In two volumes. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1848. First English edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary full polished calf ruled in gilt, bindings in compartments with gilt decoration and red and green leather title and volume labels lettered in gilt; marbled edges, pastedowns and endpapers; …

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  • Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof : being a narrative of travels in the Crimea and bordering provinces; with notices of the naval, military, and commercial resources of those countries

    # 49989

    SEYMOUR, H. D.

    Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof : being a narrative of travels in the Crimea and bordering provinces; with notices of the naval, military, and commercial resources of those countries

    London : John Murray, 1855. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth (split to upper joint, chips to head of spine), binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants to yellow endpapers, frontispiece engraving, pp. xxiv; 361; five folding maps and plans, 32 (advertisements, dated January 1855), a good copy. A detailed account of the Crimea (Ukraine, Russia) published for …

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  • Hantu Hantu. An Account of Ghost Belief in Modern Malaya.

    # 50091

    McHUGH, J. N.

    Hantu Hantu. An Account of Ghost Belief in Modern Malaya.

    Malayan Heritage Series, No. 3. Woodcut illustrations by A. F. Anthony. Singapore : Donald Moore for Eastern Universities Press. 1959. Second Edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, light browning, pp. 125, illustrated. Previous owner’s name from Kelantan to preliminary blank, as well as small wet stamp for East Coast Book Center, Kota Bharu. An examination …

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  • Memoria o estabelecimento de Macau,

    # 48922

    BIKER, Julio Firmino Judice

    Memoria o estabelecimento de Macau,

    Memoria o estabelecimento de Macau, escripta pelo Visconde de Santarem. Abreviada relação da embaixada que el-rei D. João V mandou ao imperador da China e Tartaria. Relatorio de Francisco de Assis Pacheco de Sampaio a el-rei D. José I dando conta dos sucessos da embaixada a que fora mandado à ĉorte de Pekim no anno …

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  • A general view of Chinese civilization and of the relations of the West with China.

    # 48952

    LAFFITTE, Pierre; HALL, John Carey (translator)

    A general view of Chinese civilization and of the relations of the West with China.

    From the French of M. Pierre Laffitte, (Director of Positivism). Translated by John Carey Hall, M.A., Assistant Japanese Secretary to H.B.M.’s Legation, Tokyo. London : Trübner & Co. ; Yokohama, Shanghai & Hongkong : Kelly & Walsh (Limited) ; Tokyo & Yokohama : Z. P. Mary & Co. (Limited), 1887. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), …

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  • An official guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. IV CHINA

    # 50004

    Imperial Japanese Government Railways

    An official guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. IV CHINA

    Tokyo : Department of Railways, 1915. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered cloth (label removed from spine), top edges gilt, maps to endpapers (lacking the folding map in rear endpocket), pp. cxxiv; 414; extensively illustrated with numerous maps (many folding and in colour, including Tientsin, Peking, Hong Kong, Foochow, Nanking, Soochow, Canton, Shanghai, Amoy, etc.).. The China volume from …

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  • [TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at 'Outu'ai'ai point, Arue.

    # 50117

    SPITZ, Charles Georges (1857-1894)

    [TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at ‘Outu’ai’ai point, Arue.

    [Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph, 193 x 152 mm; verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil: Pomare’s tomb – Tahiti; a strong print with dark tones; the print has some light creasing but is otherwise in very good condition; unmounted. [TOGETHER WITH] A smaller albumen print, 110 x 165 mm, with another view of the …

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  • [COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, "Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti"

    # 50118

    [HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; WEBBER, John (1752-1793) (artist); BERNARD, Robert (1734-1777) (engraver)

    [COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, “Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti”

    Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Albumen print photograph of a copperplate engraving, 110 x 207 mm; unmounted; verso with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; in good condition with an expected amount of very light creasing. Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des marais de …

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  • Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker

    # 50219

    INGLETON, Geoffrey C.

    Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker

    Foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Guildford, Surrey [U.K.] : Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986. Large quarto, publisher’s green cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, upper board with pictorial onlay of Flinders’ Investigator and Baudin’s Le Géographe, front endpapers with map, rear endpapers illustrated with …

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  • H.M. Bark Endeavour : her place in Australian history.

    # 50218

    PARKIN, Ray

    H.M. Bark Endeavour : her place in Australian history.

    With an account of her construction, crew and equipment and a narrative of her voyage on the east coast of New Holland in the year 1770. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press (MUP), 1999. Reprint. With plans, charts and illustrations by the author. Quarto, two volumes in slipcase, pp. 468, 25 maps, a few very small spots of …

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  • The voyage of the Batavia

    # 50217

    TERRY, Martin (editor)

    The voyage of the Batavia

    By François Pelsaert ; reissued with a translation from the original Dutch and a commentary by Martin Terry. Sydney : Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1994. Octavo, quarter green Scottish calf over marbled papered boards (edges lightly rubbed), title label to spine, pp. xxiii, 161, folding plates, a couple of …

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  • Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia

    # 50120

    WOODS, Martin et al.

    Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia

    Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, 2013. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xxix, 256, illustrated. Base of spine bumped with a crack. An extraordinary exhibition of manuscript and printed maps of Australia, the Pacific and the world from the medieval period to nineteenth century.

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  • The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea

    # 12308

    HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)

    The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea

    or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by …

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  • The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in his voyage into the south sea : Anno Domini 1593.

    # 48397

    HAWKINS, Sir Richard, c. 1562 - 1622

    The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in his voyage into the south sea : Anno Domini 1593.

    London : Printed by I. D[awson] for John Jaggard, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand Starre in Fleete-streete, neere the Temple Gate, 1622. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue Morocco, elaborate gilt rules and tooling, spine in compartments with raised bands, tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled …

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  • The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China.

    # 49744

    SEMEDO, Alvaro

    The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China.

    Wherein all the particular Provinces are accurately described : as also the Dispositions, Manners, Learning, Lawes, Militia, Government, and Religion of the People. Together with the Traffick and Commodities of that Countrey. Lately written in Italian by F. Alvarez Semedo, a Portughess, after he had resided twenty two yeares at the Court, and other Famous …

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