Travel & Exploration

# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 51102

PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)

The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …

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# 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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# 49454

LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem

Premier livre de l’histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois;

et des choses a eux advenues: ensemble les conditions, les meurs, & manieres de vivres des Nations, par eux abordees. Plus les Monnoyes, Espices, Drogues, & Marchandises, & le pris d’icelles … … Amstelredam [Amsterdam] : Cornille Nicolas [Cornelius Nicolaius], 1598. Folio, later full polished calf (sunned and lightly marked), spine with raised bands and …

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# 16547

SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (c.1567-1625)

Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.

Amsterdami : apud Petrum Kærium, 1619. Second Latin edition. Small quarto, contemporary papered boards (rubbed); pp [8], 1-24, 17-71, nine folding maps and plates; title with large vignette of ships and a city and original owner’s annotation ‘This is in Dutch in ye. long booke pa : 145, 3 G.’; as in other copies, pages 14 and …

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# 48371

PELSAERT, Francois (c.1595-1630)

Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.

Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards; title-leaf, pp. 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile); some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves; a clean and well preserved copy, housed in a calf …

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# 48825

THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)

Relations de divers voyages curieux,

qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …

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# 49674

[FREYCINET, Rose de] MALLAC, Jacques

À Madame L. de Freycinet.

Île-de-France [Mauritius, Port-Louis] : Imprimerie de Mallac frères, 25 May 1818. Quarto (250 x 194 mm), 2 pp., letterpress, recto and verso of a single loose leaf; light horizontal fold, a fine example. This extremely rare and precious document – one of only three copies known – is a poetic tribute to the adventurer Rose …

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# 49798

VIANA, Francisco Javier de (1764-1820)

Diario del teniente de navio D. Francisco Xavier de Viana, trabajado en el viage de las corbetas de S.M.C. “Descubierta” y “Atrevida” en los años de 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 y 1793.

[Also titled: Diario del viage explorador de las corbetas españolas “Descubierta” y “Atrevida”, en los años de 1789 á 1794]. Cerrito de la Victoria [Uruguay] : Imprenta del ejército, 1849. Octavo, quarter crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (small expert restorations to head and foot of spine); marbled endpapers; …

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# 49135

IGUCHI, Jōhan

天文図解 Tenmon Zukai (= Illustrated Explanation of Astronomy)

Osaka : Ganshōdō, 1897 (first published in Osaka by Itamiya Mohe Kaihan, 1689). Five volumes, octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked); printed title labels, 32, 31, 37, 64, 54 folding leaves, with 60 woodcut illustrations of astronomical diagrams, devices and star maps, including a volvelle in volume three; complete; housed in a modern slipcase. A …

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# 50090

VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623-1688)

Kunyu quantu [A map of the whole world]

[Korea, between 1860 and 1931; after the original map printed in Peking in 1674]. World map, printed by woodblocks in six sheets, each measuring 182.0 x 57.5 cm; expertly cleaned and lined by paper conservators on Japanese kozo tissue, traces of old fold lines; a superb example with full sheets, untrimmed. A monumental map of …

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