Voyages & Exploration
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# 30552
STREHLOW, John
[HERMANNSBURG MISSION] The tale of Frieda Keysser. Frieda Keysser and Carl Strehlow : an historical biography. Volume 1: 1875-1910. [and] Volume 2: Between three worlds, 1910-1922. Part One [and] Part Two
London : Wild Cat Press, 2011 ; 2019. First edition. Three volumes large octavo, publisher’s papered boards in the pictorial dust jackets; Volume 1. pp xxxii, 1198, profusely illustrated with maps and plates, many in colour; Volume 2. Part 1. pp xxvi, 582, with 4 maps (one folding) and 64 pages of plates (many in colour) …
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# 22865
RUSDEN, G. W. (George William)
The discovery, survey and settlement of Port Phillip.
London and Edinburgh : Williams and Northgate, 1872. Second edition. Octavo, later gilt stamped cloth over boards, original printed wrappers bound in, pp vii, [1], 56; with 2 folding maps (some light foxing); very good. The copy of historian and bibliophile H. J. (Harold Jack) Finnis, 1889-1980 (Christie’s, London, May 1978). Ferguson 15215. Rusden’s work, …
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# 30476
TIPPING, Marjorie
Ludwig Becker : artist & naturalist with the Burke & Wills expedition
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, slight silverfishing to spine, pp. 224, illustrated. A fine copy housed in the publisher’s original plastic slipcase.
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# 30159
MURILLO VELARDE, Pedro (1696-1753)
Historia de la Provincia de Philipinas de la Compañia de Jesvs. Segvnda parte, qve comprehende los progresos de esta provincia desde el año de 1616 hasta el de 1716.
En Manila : en la Imprenta de la Compañia de Iesus, por D. Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, 1749. First edition. Folio, contemporary limp vellum with ties, spine with manuscript title in red and black ink; printed on rice paper; frontispiece full-page engraved plate with depictions of the Virgen de la Rosa and the Virgen de la Paz y Buen …
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# 30172
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas; Petrus Bertius; Pedro Ordóñez de Cevallos
Description des Indes Occidentales, qu’on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde:
par Antoine de Herrera, Grand Chroniqueur des Indes, & Chroniqueur de Castlle: translatee d’Espagnol en François. A la quelle sont adjoustees Quelques autres Descriptions des mesmes pays, avec La Navigation du vaillant Capitaine de Mer Jaques le Maire, & de plusieurs autres. Le contenu de cest oeuvre se veoit en la page suyvante. A Amsterdam …
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# 30162
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 30241
KUBASTA, Vojtech
[POP-UP BOOK] How Columbus discovered America
London : Bancroft & Co., [1960]. Quarto, pictorial boards, 8 pp (some mild foxing), small circle of wear with loss on the centre of the text pages from the metal pin holding the revolving wheel, the rear covers with colour illustration and three-dimensional rotating ship’s wheel, the inner rear cover also illustrated in colour and …
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# 29570
[RUSSELL, Benjamin].
[BOTANY BAY]. The Massachusetts Centinel. Vol. II, No. 47, March 2, 1785
Boston : Warden and Russell, March 2, 1785. Folio, pp. 4, letterpress, old folds, occasional staining, two small woodcut vignettes at masthead, very good. A rare contemporary account of the plans of the English to colonise New Holland, printed nearly three years prior to the arrival of the First Fleet. The Massachusetts Centinel was an …
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# 30168
BIGOT, Georges Ferdinand (1860-1927)
Croquis Japonais par G. Bigot. 1886. Tokio. [Bound with] Le Jour de l’an au Japon.
[Tokyo : The artist, 1886]. Two volumes in one, large folio (480 x 330 mm) (as issued), slightly later half burgundy crushed morocco over marbled papered boards ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, pastedown with bookplate of Grolier Club Library with its ‘WITHDRAWN’ stamp, marbled endpapers, original Japanese textured grey paper …
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# 29804
HARRIS, John (1667?-1719)
Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A complete collection of voyages and travels : consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers …
Containing whatever has been observed worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America … the climate, soil and produce … of each country: likewise the religion, manners, and customs … To which is prefixed a copious introduction, comprehending the rise and progress of the art of navigation … together with the invention and use …
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# 13321
Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV.
Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind, rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue, later endpapers, title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription lower margin; woodcut …
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# 29995
CROCKER, Henry
Adventures in New Guinea. The Narrative of Louis Trégance, a French sailor nine years in captivity among the Orangwoks a tribe in the interior of New Guinea.
/ Edited, and with an introduction, by the Rev. Henry Crocker, incumbent of St. Anne’s, Weremai, N.Z. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. First edition. Small octavo (165 x 115 mm), modern quarter calf over cloth, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, viii, 238 pp, [5] leaves of plates; an ex-library copy …
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# 30091
MEARES, John (c.1756 - 1809)
[HAWAII; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; CHINA] Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvästra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789, af Johan Meares. Sammandrag utur engelska originalet.
Stockholm : Hos kamereraren J.S. Ekmanson, på Bokhandl. Mag. I. Utters Förlag, 1797. Small octavo, contemporary half mottled calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; pp [12], 404; text in Swedish; heavily scored early ownership signature to bottom margin of title page, with resultant …
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# 30120
CATLIN, George (1796 - 1872)
North American Indians. Being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during their eight years’ travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. 1832-1839.
With three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author’s original paintings. Edinburgh : John Grant, 1926. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (edges rubbed, short tears to head and foot of spines), newspaper clipping pasted on to endpaper of first volume, pp. ix; (3); 298; xii; 303; numerous colour plates and maps (some …
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# 29830
HODGES, William (1744-1797)
Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783.
By William Hodges, R.A. London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCIII. [1793]. Large quarto, contemporary tree calf (corners a little bumped), gilt borders, spine with gilt ornament, contrasting leather title label lettered in gilt, joint a little weak, marbled endpapers, all edges pale yellow; engraved armorial bookplate for John …
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# 29899
McKINLAY, John (1819-1872)
McKinlay’s journal of exploration in the interior of Australia : (Burke Relief Expedition)
With three maps. Melbourne : F.F. Bailliere, [1862]. First edition. Octavo, original blind blocked plum cloth over boards by Detmold of Melbourne with ticket (spine sunned), small repairs to head a foot of spine, spine with gilt lettering and ornament, advertisements to endpapers, pp [4] advertisements, 136, [3] advertisements, 3 folding maps in pocket at …