Travel & Exploration
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# 51489
HENDERSON, G. C.
The journal of Thomas Williams, missionary in Fiji, 1840 – 1853
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1931. Two volumes, octavo, maroon cloth (spine wrinkled in the second volume), light foxing to preliminaries, pp. li; 606, plates. The missionary Thomas Williams was the grandfather of Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Loosely enclosed : the flap from one jacket, and copies of correspondence from the Rev. T. M. O’Connor …
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# 51316
[PROPAGANDE FIDE]
Augusto Friderico, magnae Britanniae principi, Georgii Regis filio, Carmina linguis exoticis in honorem Dei pueri a tribus magis adorati …
[Rome : Propaganda Fide Press, 1793], Folio (360 x 230 mm), original decorative paper wrappers (upper wrapper almost detached, and lacking backstrip); ff. [1 blank], I-XXIII (i.e. 23 numbered leaves); printed on recto only and within an ornamental border; engraved arms of the Duke of Sussex at the head of title-page; verso of first blank …
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# 51229
LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807,
von G. H. von Langsdorff, Kaiserlich-Russischen Hofrath, Ritter es St. Annen-Orens zweiter Classe, Mitglied mehrerer Akademien und gelehrten Gesellschaften … … Frankfurt am Mayn : Im Verlag bey Friedrich Wilmans, 1812. Two volumes, quarto (270 x 220 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners somewhat worn), spines in compartments …
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# 51227
[HARTGERS, Joost]
Wonderlijcke Voyagie, by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes, ende voorts den gantschen kloot des Aertbodems om, met vier Schepen : onder den Admirael Olivier van Noort,
uytghevaren Anno 1598. Hier achter is by-gevoeght de tweede Voyagie an Iacob van Neck, naer Oost-Indien. t’Amstelredam : Joost Hartgerts, 1648. Quarto (240 x 185 mm), later vellum-backed marbled papered boards; pp. 88; title with large woodcut, one foldout plate with 6 woodcuts; decorated initials, tailpieces; a very good copy with wide margins. The fourth European …
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# 51213
[LOUIS-LE-GRAND]
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque des ci-devant soi-disant Jésuites du Collége de Clermont, dont la Vente commencera le Lundi 19 Mars 1764.
Paris : Saugrain & Leclerc, 1764. Octavo, contemporary sheep-backed speckled papered boards (joints expertly repaired), flat spine with gilt lettering and decoration; edges stained red; half-title leaf, pp. xviii, 488; later pencilled annotation on the title notes that the sale was finished on the 18 August 1764; a few marginal annotations, (quite possibly by the …
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# 50758
MAIORICA, Girolamo; SEMEDO, Àlvaro; TRIGAULT, Nicolas
De novis Christianae Religionis progressibvs, et certaminibus in Iaponia, anno M. DC. XXII. in Regno Sinarvm, M. DC. XXI. et M. DC. XXII. Litterae; ad Reuerendum in Christo Patrem Mvtivm Vitellescvm Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Iesv
ad Reuerendum in Christo Patrem Mvtivm Vitellescvm Praepositvm Generalem Societatis Iesv. Monasterii Westphaliae [Münster] : Ex Officina Typographica Michaelis Dalii [Michael Dalius, or Daly], 1627. Quarto (200 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript lettering to spine; title with woodcut Jesuit device, early ownership inscription of the Collegium Embricense (the Jesuit college at Emmerich …
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# 50759
HULSIUS, Levinus
Four German-language editions from Hulsius’ collection of voyage accounts, chronicling early Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies.
The publishing enterprise of Flemish-born scientific instrument maker, linguist, and bookseller Levinus Hulsius (1550-1606) was inspired by Theodor De Bry’s celebrated series of voyage accounts. The first volume in the collection published by the Hulsius workshop appeared in 1598; and, although Hulsius died in 1606, his publishing project was continued by his widow and heirs, with 26 …
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# 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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# 51228
MENDES PINTO, Fernão
Les voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto.
Fidelement traduicts de Portugais en François par le Sieur Bernard Figuier, Gentil-homme Portugais. Et dédiez à Monseigneur le Cardinal de Richelieu. Le contenu de la présente histoire se verra à la page suivante. Paris : Mathurin Henault, 1628. Thick quarto (230 x 170 mm), contemporary full calf, boards with double-gilt rule (minor staining, one corner restored), spine …
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# 51220
POLO, Marco (1254-1324)
Marco Polo Venetiano, delle merauiglie del mondo per lui vedute :
del costume di varij paesi, & dello stranio viuer di quelli, della descrittione de diuersi animali, del trouar dell’oro, & dell’argento, delle pietre preciose : cosa non meno vtile, che bella. Di nuouo ristampato, & osseruato l’ordine suo vero nel dire. In Venetia: Appresso Ghirardo & Iseppo Imberti, MDCXXVI [1626]. Duodecimo, contemporary limp vellum, spine …
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# 51191
KIÖPING, Nils Mattsson; WILLMAN, Olof Eriksson; [CARON, François]
Een kort beskriffning uppå trenne resor och peregrinationer, sampt Konungarijket Japan:
I. Beskrifwes een Reesa, som genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedniska Konungarijken, sampt Öjar; medh flijt är förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping … II. Förstelles thet stoora och machtiga Konungarijke Japan, samt thes invånares handel och wandel. III. Beskrifwes een Reesa till Ost Indien, China och Japan, giordh och beskrefwen aff Oloff Erickson Willman … IIII. Uthföres een reesa …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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.