Voyages & Exploration
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 36977
HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James
The three voyages of Captain James Cook
1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …
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![[JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland. (First English edition)](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_DSFB_3979-300x300.jpg)
# 40550
[BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von, Archbishop of Uppsala (1746-1803)
[JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland. (First English edition)
Containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and …
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# 40477
[COOK, James, 1728-1779].
An abridgement of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages.
The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ; the second in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. For making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, by order of his majesty. Extracted from the quarto edition, in five volumes. Containing a relation of all the interesting transactions; including an abridgement of Captain Furneaux’s narrative of …
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# 40313
[GREAT BRITAIN. ROYAL NAVY]
A List of His Majesty’s Royal Navy. Navy Office, 1st October 1794.
Large octavo (230 x 150 mm), in the original Admiralty-style binding of straight-grain red morocco with elaborate gilt border incorporating stars, wreaths and cornerpieces, spine gilt in six compartments; inner dentelles; all edges gilt; original marbled endpapers; engraved title-page with date in manuscript 1st October 1794 (although the list has additions to 1801); 200 pp., …
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![[COOK; WEBBER] An alphabetical catalogue of plates, engraved by the most esteemed artists, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, French, English, and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell, engravers and printsellers,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_DSFB_3644-300x300.jpg)
# 40423
BOYDELL, John and Josiah
[COOK; WEBBER] An alphabetical catalogue of plates, engraved by the most esteemed artists, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, French, English, and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell, engravers and printsellers,
No. 90, Cheapside, and at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall; preceded by an account of various works, sets of prints, galleries, &c. forming part of the same stock. London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1803. Quarto, contemporary blind-tooled red half-roan over marbled boards (edges rubbed), rebacked in crushed morocco with gilt rule, gilt-lettered morocco …
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# 29235
KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy.
In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …
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# 38389
[WHITE, William]
Important information relative to New Zealand,
intended to be an answer to all Inquiries made by those Interested in the occupancy of that country by British Subjects, &c., especially with respect to questions relative to its geography, soil, climate, natural resources, and the validity of titles to lands purchased from the native chiefs by foreigners. Together with an appendix, comprising the …
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# 40288
LETAILLE, Charles
Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.
Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …
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# 40251
CRUCHLEY, George F. (1797 - 1880)
Cruchley’s new terrestrial globe, from the most recent authorities, exhibiting the discoveries in equatorial Africa, North Pole, and the new settlements and divisions in Australia, New Zealand, California, Texas &c.
London : G. F. Cruchley, [ca.1862] Terrestrial globe, 12 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colouring over plaster base, graduated equator and ecliptic, the oceans with an analemma, hand-engraved calibrated brass meridian ring, movable brass polar calotte, small area of restoration to the north polar axis, engraved calendrical paper horizon ring with zodiac (in …
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# 40653
de VRIES-EVANS, Susanna
Conrad Martens on the Beagle and in Australia (deluxe edition)
Brisbane : Pandanus Press, 1993. Quarto, gilt-lettered padded leather, signed label to front pastedown, pp. 208, illustrated. Included a supplement in a pocket at the rear. The deluxe edition, specially bound, limited to 35 signed copies. This book includes Conrad Marten’s formative years in England, his artistic journey on the Beagle, visiting Tahiti and New …
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# 40355
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875)
Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.
Manuscript in brown ink, 2 pp., octavo (200 x 135 mm), on wove paper watermarked ‘MARION’; headed ‘Toulon, 16 September 1835’, and signed at the foot ‘C. Laplace’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient (but the content makes it clear it is addressed to a representative of the Imprimerie Royale, the publisher of his …
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# 40117
MJÖBERG, Eric (1882-1938) et al.
Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg’s Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. (Twelve individual parts)
Series: Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri, 1918-22. Twelve disbound individual issues, comprising Volume 58 nos. 6, 7, 9; Volume 59 nos. 1, 4; Volume 60 no. 4; Volume 61 nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; Volume 63 no. 6. Uniform large quarto (310 x 250 mm), disbound, illustrated, partially unopened, …
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# 39212
RIEMER, Gustav Adolf (1842-1899)
Group of original photographs from a Prussian expedition to the Far East and South Seas, 1874-77.
Six stereoscopic albumen print photographs, individual images 68 x 68 mm, mounted in identical pairs to the back of the original embossed mounts of thin black card, each 85 x 175 mm, rectos with the photographer’s original pencilled sequence numbers at lower right corners, versos with later pencilled sequence numbers corresponding to the numbers of …
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# 40219
VIVIENNE, May
Travels in Western Australia. Being a description of the various cities and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state (first edition)
London : William Heinemann, 1901. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth boards with gilt vignettes and lettering (corners and edges lightly bumped and rubbed), hinges cracked, light foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, pp. xv, 344, frontispiece with black-and-white photographic portrait of the author; illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographic plates; pages uncut, occasional light foxing, a …
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# 40262
SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)
The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.
/ By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …