Voyages & Exploration
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# 40263
HOGARTH, D. H.
Arabia
Spine title: A history of Arabia. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1922. First edition. Octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s navy cloth over boards (very lightly marked) with gilt-lettered spine; pp. [vi], 139, with large folding map at rear; clean throughout; front pastedown with ticket of Jerusalem bookseller Ludwig Mayer, and front endpaper with …
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# 40304
LE MAIRE, Jacob (1585-1616)
Mirror of the Australian Navigation
Sydney: Hordern House, 1999. Folio, pp. 196, quarter goatskin over marbled boards, illustrated. Includes a 96-page exact facsimile of the rare original Dutch printing of 1622 and a 65-page exact facsimile of the original English text by Alexander Dalrymple of 1770. Introductory essay by Dr Edward Duyker, New South Wales History Fellow. Edition strictly limited …
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# 39762
CIRCUMNAVIGATORS' CLUB (NEW YORK)
The Circumnavigators’ Club. (Including an early Certificate of Membership)
New York, NY : The Circumnavigators’ Club, 104 Pearl Street, 1912. Duodecimo (155 x 118 mm), original limp pigskin (moderate wear to edges, corners and spine), front lettered in blind ‘Circumnavigators’ Club’; marbled pastedowns and endpapers; pp. xxi, [2 blank], [1 List of officers], printed on parchment, text in black with vignette decorations and initials …
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# 40112
SINCLAIR, James
Last frontiers : the explorations of Ivan Champion of Papua. (Limited edition)
Broadbeach Waters, Qld. : Pacific Press, 1988. Edition limited to 1000 copies of which this is #505, signed by the author and Ivan Champion. Octavo (250 x 170 mm), publisher’s green cloth in pictorial dust jacket, housed in gilt-lettered green cloth slipcase; pp. xii, 307, index, bibliography, b/w photographic illustrations, endpaper maps, large folding map unopened …
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# 40039
DUYKER, Edward
François Péron : an impetuous life : naturalist and voyager
Carlton, Vic. : The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Series: Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; Number 75. Octavo (240 x 160 mm), publisher’s cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket, xxiii, 349 pp., plus 16 unnumbered pages of plates; maps; a very fine copy of this now scarce book. ‘Presents a balanced assessment of the difficult …
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# 39647
DAVID, Lindsay
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2.
Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder G.C.M.G. for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia … Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 1999. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue buckram, pp. 207. Facsimile of the 1893 original edition. Accompanied by the two large folding maps in separate buckram folder. Together with : …
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# 18841
ARAGO, Jacques (1790-1854)
Curieux voyage autour du monde par Jacques Arago
Paris : Alfred Duquesne, 1881. Nouvelle edition. Sextodecimo, 130 x 82 mm, recased, preserving upper and lower wrappers, pp. 63, very good. In this curious little volume, Arago’s account of the Freycinet expedition is rendered without employing the letter ‘A’ once, except, notably, on the title page and some notes for clarity at the end. …
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# 18893
[JAMAR, Jacques]; [COMET, Rita]
Photograph album containing portraits of a Belgian Lazarist missionary to China, and including a group of late Qing traditional paper and silk Chinese dolls. Circa 1903-1964
Photograph album, circa 1900. Small oblong quarto (165 x 235 mm), half morocco with ornamental gilt rule over faux crocodile papered boards, original floral-patterned lining papers, front pastedown with binder’s ticket of bookseller and stationer Gilon, Verviers (Belgium); [20] leaves of thick card, containing 4 cabinet card format portrait photographs of Lazarist missionary Father Jacques …
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# 19088
BOULTER, Daniel (1740-1802); BOULTER, Joseph (1743-1819); BOULTER, John (1745-1816)
Copper halfpenny token for Daniel Boulter’s ‘Exhibition of natural and artificial curiosities’, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1796.
Yarmouth : Joseph, Daniel and John Boulter, 1796. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.8 mm. Obverse: A female seated holding a scroll inscribed BOULTER’S EXHIBITION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. In ex. YARMOUTH in a straight line. Reverse: Three figures symbolising Asia, Africa and America presenting various curiosities to Britannia, who is recording them in a book. …
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# 39535
DALRYMPLE, Alexander
An account of the discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean
By Alexander Dalrymple, first printed in 1767, reissued with a foreword by Kevin Fewster and an essay by Andrew Cook. Sydney : Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1996. Octavo, full blue calf, lettered and ruled in gilt, blind embossed, pp. 47, xxxi, 103., [5] leaves of folded plates. The deluxe edition, …
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# 39755
HOWGEGO, Raymond John.
The Encyclopedia of Exploration (complete set in five volumes)
Sydney : Hordern House, 2003-2010. Five volumes, quarto, bound in cloth with colour dust jackets. The definitive reference set. The first four volumes in fine condition, the fifth is as new, still in shrinkwrap. “The vast scope of the Encyclopedia of Exploration makes it a work unlike any other in its combination of historical, biographical …
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# 38880
WILLIAMS, F. E. (editor)
The Papuan Villager. Volumes 1 (1929), 2 (1930), 3 (1931), 4 (1932) and 5 (1933).
Port Moresby, Papua : Government Printer, 1929-1933. Five volumes, bound in the original pictorial wrappers (as issued at the end of each respective year by the Government printer); Volume 1, nos. 1-11 (complete); Volume 2, nos. 1-12 (complete); Volume 3, nos. 1-12 (complete); Volume 4, nos. 1-12 (complete); Volume 5, nos. 1-12 (complete); all issues …
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![[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Papouasie : histoire de la Mission (1885-1935)](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1906-280x300.jpg)
# 39439
DUPEYRAT, André
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Papouasie : histoire de la Mission (1885-1935)
Issoudun : Arch. de N. D. du Sacre-Coeur ; Paris : Dillen, [1935]. First edition. Octavo (245 mm), binder’s cloth (lightly marked) with gilt-lettered spine; pp. [3], 544; large folding colour map, 3 sketch maps, 64 b/w photographic plates; text in French; bound without the half-title; a lovely, clean copy; pastedown with ex libris of …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Papua. Annual Report for the year 1913-14.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1434-300x300.jpg)
# 39214
MURRAY, J. H. P.
[NEW GUINEA] Papua. Annual Report for the year 1913-14.
At head of title: 1914. Melbourne : Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914. Foolscap folio (320 mm), bound in later quarter calf over cloth boards with gilt-lettered title piece to spine; pp. 195, followed by [2] folding maps and [2] pages of b/w photographic plates; the title page with some light staining and ‘Discarded’ stamp …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Migration and the Orokaiva.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1819-300x300.jpg)
# 39444
BAXTER, Michael W. P.
[NEW GUINEA] Migration and the Orokaiva.
Port Moresby, PNG : Department of Geography, University of Papua and New Guinea, 1973. “Slightly revised version of a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at the University of Papua and New Guinea in January 1972”. Series: Department of Geography Occasional paper no. 3, January 1973. Quarto (255 x 205 …
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# 38510
RITCHIE, Edward Samuel; [GIBBS, Robert]
Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.
New Bedford, Massachusetts : E. S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman’s Buildings, No. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. Octodecimo (160 x 100 mm), original leather-backed stiff wrappers (stained, small loss to leather at tail of spine), the upper wrapper lettered in black and inscribed in ink – evidently in …