Voyages & Exploration

# 42339

Rhodes, Alexandre de (1593-1660)

Relation de ce qui s’est passé en l’année 1649. Dans les royaumes où les Peres de la Compagnie de Jésus de la province du Japon, publient le Saint Evangile.

[Dediee a la Reyne de Pologne et de Suede. Par le P. Alexandre de Rhodes de la mesme Compagnie. A Paris, chez Florentin Lambert, M.DC.LV.]. Octavo (165 x 100 mm), modern panelled red calf, spine lettered in gilt; engraved frontispiece (not found in other examples), 120 pp; clean throughout, but lacking the title-leaf and the 6-page dedication …

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# 26028

LAMP, Jean-Frédéric

Abrégé de géographie pour les écoles.

Par J. F. Lamp. A Paris : Chez F. G. Levrault, libraire, rue de la Harpe, no. 81 ; Strasbourg : rue des Juifs, no. 33, 1833. Troisième édition. Duodecimo (165 x 105 mm), original pink paper-covered boards printed in black, the upper board with vignette illustration of a globe, lower board with publisher’s advertisements, …

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# 39977

RIEMER, Gustav Adolf (1842-1899)

Reise S.M.S. Stosch nach China und Japan 1881-1883.

Photographirt und herausgegeben v. G. Riemer, Marine Zahlmeister. Band II [of 2] See- und Schiffsbilder. Leipzig : F. A. Brockhaus, 1883. Oblong folio (300 x 400 mm), original red cloth over boards decorated and lettered in gilt, upper board with titles in German, Chinese and Japanese (some light flecking and minor stains, lower board with damp …

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# 21818

MEGGITT, J. C.

Japan across Siberia, Russia and Germany. Impressions of a tour.

Cardiff : Western Mail and Echo Ltd, 1935. Octavo, lettered boards, pp. 80, illustrated. A series of articles reprinted from the Western Mail & South Wales News, including the Chinese of Penang and Singapore, fashion in the Straits, Hong Kong and Shanghai, farming in Japan etc. Folding map tipped-in at rear.

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# 41476

SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)

[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Louis-Auguste de Sainson, artist on the Astrolabe expedition : autograph letter signed, dated August 1831.

Manuscript in ink written on 2 sides of a quarto bifolium, 240 x 185 mm; dated at Paris, 18 August 1831, and signed at the foot ‘De Sainson, painter du voyage de l’Astrolabe, rue St. André des arts 55’, the letter is addressed to ‘monsieur le Baron’; de Sainson writes to ensure that a promise obtained …

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# 41551

SPARRMAN, Anders (1748-1820)

Un compagnon suédois du capitaine James Cook au cours de son deuxième voyage. (Presentation copy for Francis Edwards)

Oslo : La Coquille qui Chante, 1939. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. (This copy is no. 29). Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page by the work’s translator for London bookseller Francis Edwards: ‘Francis Edwards, with the compliments of Bjarne Kroepelien’. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), white pigskin over papered boards, spine with raised bands …

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# 18584

BERGHAUS, Hermann; 村田文夫 [MURATA, Fumio, translator]

輿地新. [Yochi shinzu furoku]. [Supplement to the Map of the World].

Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo: 勝村治右衛門 [Katsumura Jihei], 柳原喜兵衛 [Yanahara Kihei], 北畠茂兵衛 [Kitahata Mohei] et al.. 1874. Two volumes, small quarto (250 x 180 mm), Japanese 5 hole stab binding, original yellow paper covers (rubbed) and title labels; with volvelle showing the earth’s orbit, 3 double page copper engraved colour maps, and numerous black and white maps and …

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# 42916

[Società Geografica Italiana]

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].

Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …

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# 15728

MANLEY, Admiral Isaac (1755 - 1837)

A set of books from the library of Admiral Isaac Manley, the last surviving crew member on Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage

Paris and the Parisians, in 1835. London : Richard Bentley, 1836. Two volumes, octavo, publisher’s cloth (spines defective), pp. xv; 418; vii; 412; Manley’s armorial bookplate to front pastedown of volume 1 (bearing the family motto Manus hæc inimica tyrannis – This hand is hostile to tyrants), each volume signed on the title page ‘Admiral Manley’. Born in London …

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# 42697

KELL, Julius

Reise nach der Verbrecher-Colonie Neu-Südwales

[=Voyage to the penal colony of New South Wales]. Series: Neueren Entdeckungsreisen Nach grösseren Reisewerken für die Jugend; Band 3. Leipzig : Julius Meissner, 1848. Small octavo, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled papered boards, 240 pp, illustrated with [4] steel-engraved plates, scattered foxing and browning (particularly to the plates), a small faint damp stain …

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# 42674

RIBELLE, Charles de.

Voyages a travers le monde et l’industrie des nations (coloured version)

Paris: Amable Rigaud, c. 1863. Folio, plum cloth with fine morocco spine gilt-decorated in compartments, all edges gilt, 292pp., scattered foxing, silk endpapers (marked), 16 coloured lithographed plates. The last section concerns Oceania and Australia. The chapters in the section on the Americas include sugar cane, cotton, Mexico, California, Panama, Araucania, the Guyanas, Brasil, Peru, …

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# 41616

BLIGH, William [BURNEY, James]

Engelske capitainens Wilhelm Blighs resa genom södra werlds-hafvet, tolf hundrade sjömil i öpen båt, från Tofoa till Timor.

Upsala : J. Edmans enka, 1792 [but 1793]. Duodecimo (150 x 90 mm), contemporary half-calf (worn), spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt lettering (tear to leather on lower section of spine, the front outer hinge starting to loosen); front pastedown with early acquisition note ‘Joh: Erik Sundberg er retta egaren till denna bok Boda …

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# 41557

BRISSOT, Jacques-Pierre (1754-1793)

[ABOLITIONISM] Nya resa genom Nord-americanska fri-staterna år 1788.

Från franska originalet sammandragen, och med anmärkningar försedd af Johan Reinhold Forster. Öfwersatt från tyskan. Stockholm : A. J. Nordström, 1799. Octavo (172 x 112 mm), contemporary half calf over papered boards (rubbed and with light staining, corners bumped), spine richly gilt (a little faded and with a couple of small marks) and with dark …

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# 41533

VANCOUVER, George, 1757-1798; SPARRMAN, Anders, 1748-1820

En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.

Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver’s voyage account, being Anders Sparrman’s abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (spine and edges worn and rubbed); contemporary …

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# 42450

BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.

London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …

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# 42270

PRATTEN, H. E.

Asiatic impressions

A collection of articles by H. E. Pratten. Sydney : Fergusson, 1908. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers by Harry Weston, small chips to head and foot of spine, previous owner’s name to title page, pp. 95, occasional underlining in blue pencil, photographically illustrated plates. The author’s descriptions of The Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, China, India, …

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