Voyages & Exploration

# 42560

RAMSAY, Christine Wu

Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West

Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …

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# 42476

HUNT, Susa and CARTER, Paul

Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.

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# 41659

BARDIN, William (c.1740-1798)

Wright’s new improved terrestrial globe,

on which the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places are Carefully laid down, with all the New Discoveries Made by the late CAPT. COOK and other current NAVIGATORS to the Present Time. London : William Bardin, 1782. Terrestrial globe, 9 inches in diameter, engraved gores and two polar calottes with original hand colouring over papier mache …

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# 41371

WHITE, John (1756-1832)

John Whites resa till Nya Holland, åren 1787 och 1788.

I sammandrag af Samuel Ödmann. Upsala [i.e. Uppsala] : J. Edmans Enka, 1793. Octavo, contemporary half-calf over papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and contrasting title-piece lettered in gilt (the leather a little dry and worn); pp. XII, 147, [1], illustrated with 4 engraved plates; front pastedown with early ownership inscription in pencil, front …

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# 39538

COZENS, Charles

[TRANSPORTATION] Adventures of a Guardsman.

London : Richard Bentley, 1848. First edition. Duodecimo (170 x 110 mm), contemporary half red calf over cloth, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, original marbled endpapers, pp. viii, 272; occasional light foxing, several leaves with browning, else internally excellent; ex St. John’s College Library, …

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# 41699

KAY, Rev. John

[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,

and published by the authority of the Meeting. Edited by the Rev. John Kay, Coatbridge, Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), disbound; pp. [i]-iv, [5]-91; last few leaves with some marginal toning, otherwise fine condition throughout. Rare.

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# 41555

LEJEUNE, Augustin-Laurent

[IMAGINARY VOYAGES; NEW ZEALAND] Den unga vilden.

Öfversättning af Joh. P. Renmark. I-II. Stockholm : C. F. Marquard, 1802. Octavo (172 x 106 mm), handsome contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt rule and contrasting title- and number-pieces in gilt; pp. [2], 176 + 240; separate title-pages for each part; some browning and very occasional and minor marginal stains; early …

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# 41707

KEANE, John F.

My journey to Medinah: describing a Pilgrimage to Medinah performed by the author disguised as a Mohammedan.

London : Tinsley Bros., 1881. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth over bevelled boards (spine discoloured, chip with loss to centre of spine, head and foot worn), bookplate for W. Arthur Jeffrey to front pastedown, signed by Jeffrey on the front free endpaper, old bookseller’s label removed, hinges a little cracked, pp. viii; 212, internally clean, a …

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# 41536

COOK, James, 1728-1779; FORSTER, Georg, 1754-1794; FURNEAUX, Tobias, 1735-1781

[COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :

hwarwid Herrar Forsters och Furneaux journaler blifwit jämnförde och nyttjade : Innehållande det hufwudsakeligaste af de på denna resa gjorda nya uptäckter i söderhafwet, Rörande Södra Polens Ishaf nya uptäckte Öars naturalier och Inwånarnes Tänkesätt, Seder, Klädedrägt, m.m. Upsala [Sweden] : Johan Edman, 1783. Octavo, nineteenth century papered boards with title label to spine (edges …

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# 41725

SMITH, Edward Herbert; [BRUGUIÈRE, Antoine André, Baron de Sorsum, 1773-1823]

[LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / “Sweet heart-soothing poesie!”

Foolscap folio (189 x 285 mm), full maroon calf (boards worn and scuffed), spine with gilt decoration; front pastedown with armorial bookplate with the motto VIRTUS INCENDIT VIRES and initials FLS below the coat of arms; manuscript in ink in the author’s own hand, [6] 147 [5] pp; the preliminaries comprise a title leaf and 3-page index …

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# 41601

FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754-1794)

Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

Öfversättning. Nyköping : J. P. Hammarin, 1795. Octavo (170 x 107 mm), disbound; pp. 96 (including title-page); text in Swedish; scattered light foxing, a vertical tear in the fore-edge margin of p. 15; title-page with contemporary ink signature. Slightly abridged Swedish translation (by Carl Fr. Landell) of Forster’s 1793 German version of the voyage account of Surville, …

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# 41472

STEIN, Christian Gottfried Daniel (1771-1830)

[GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

af. Chr. Gottfr. Dan. Stein; efter 9:de upplagan af år 1819, översätt och försedd med en serskild artikel öfver Skandinavien, af C. Netherwood. Med ett fullständigt Register, som säljes särskildt, och varigenom arbetet tillika kan begagnas som Lexicon. Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1819. Small octavo (146 x 113 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (lightly …

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# 41585

BARTON, Robert D.

Reminiscences of an Australian pioneer

Sydney : Tyrrell’s, 1917. Octavo, gilt-lettered purple cloth (spine faded, boards discoloured and edge with rodent damage), pp. viii; 288, internally clean. Provenance: The Balcombe-Murphy family, “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria; thence to the à Beckett family, with a note inserted relating to the author’s connection to the Murphys.

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# 41691

INGLIS, Gordon

Papua : “A grandchild of the empire.”

[London] : Charles Hooper, [1912]. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth; pp. 47, with 16 b/w photographic plates; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher to the front free-endpaper.

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# 41689

GRIMSHAW, Beatrice

The new New Guinea.

London : Hutchinson & Co., 1910. First edition. Thick octavo (230 x 150 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated blue cloth (very lightly marked, spine ends a little softened); top-edge gilt; pp. viii, 322, [2] (colophon, verso blank), plus 48 leaves of b/w photographic plates, and a folding map; an excellent first edition copy, with the bookplate of …

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# 41701

PATTERSON, George

[NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] Memoirs of Rev. S. F. Johnston, the Rev. J. W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson, missionaries on Tanna.

: with selections from their diaries and correspondence, and notices of the New Hebrides, their inhabitants and missionary work among them / by Rev. George Patterson, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Green Hill, Pictou, N.S. Philadelphia : W. S. & A. Martien, [1864]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked purple pebbled cloth (corners …

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