Voyages & Exploration

# 38509

BAKEWELL, Sarah

[JORGEN JORGENSON] Jörundar Hundadagakónungur : Ævisaga

Reykjavík: Skrudda, 2005. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket, pp 280, b/w plates, map, bibliography, index; text in Icelandic; an as new copy. Icelandic translation of Sarah Bakewell’s The English Dane : a life of Jorgen Jorgenson (London : Chatto & Windus, 2005), which tells – through his own manuscripts and …

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# 38505

RIENITS, Rex and Thea

Early artists of Australia

Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. A valuable survey of the first European artworks of the Australian continent, including chapters on Cook’s artists, the First Fleet, Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans, early Tasmanian …

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# 6465

THOMPSON, R. Wardlaw

[MISSIONS] My trip in the “John Williams”

London : London Missionary Society, 1900. First edition. Royal octavo, pictorial cloth (fine and bright), spine lettered in gilt, xii, 208 pp, 62 illustrations, edges with very mild flecking, internally clean and sound, a near fine copy. Account of the voyage of the missionary ship John Williams to New Guinea, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, Fiji, Niue, …

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# 15232

ANDREWS, Irene Dwen

Latitude 18 South. A sojourn in Tahiti (signed copy)

Cedar Rapids, Iowa : The Torch Press, 1940. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (rear panel slightly water stained), pp. 372, photographic illustrations. Presentation inscription signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

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# 38224

[FRIEND]. ENNIS, Henry.

Remarks on board His Majesty’s ship Tamar;

in a voyage from England to Port Praia, Cape of Good Hope – New South Wales. Melbourne: Richard Griffin, 1983. Small folio, quarter-calf in dustjacket, 34 pp. (deckled-edged), title-page and frontispiece illustrated by Friend, Foreword by Kenneth Hince. Limited to 160 copies.

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# 37788

GEORGE PHILIP & SON

Philips’ 6 inch terrestrial globe

London : George Philip & Son, circa 1930. Terrestrial globe 6 inches in diameter, printed gores over plaster base, graduated equator band, supported on a contemporary half-meridian stand on turned wooden base, some old surface rubbing, with a recently applied varnish, a very good example. An interesting interwar terrestrial globe, showing the renamed cities of …

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# 3522

FRISTEDT, Conrad

[QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES; MAORI] På forskningsfärd : minnen från en tvåårig vistelse

bland Ceylons Tamiler och Singhaleser, Australiens Kannibaler och Nya Zeelands Maorer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers förlag, [1891]. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, [iv], 256 pp, [19] leaves of plates (some colour), 1 colour map, a good copy. Text in Swedish. A Swedish traveller’s account of …

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# 37211

MURRAY, A. S.

Twelve hundred miles on the River Murray

With facsimile illustrations in colours by the author. Australia : George Robertson, and London : J. S. Virtue, 1898. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered cloth, lacking the front free endpaper, pp. 36, 15 tipped-in colour plates, corners torn on the frontispiece plate, else a very good copy. Murray’s oversized illustrated folio on the Murray, retracing the route …

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# 37441

BROWN, George, Rev. (1835-1917)

Melanesians and Polynesians : their life histories described and compared.

London : Macmillan, 1910. First edition. Octavo (230 mm), publisher’s green cloth over boards with gilt pictorial device (Solomon Islands feast bowl) to upper board and gilt-lettered spine (upper board and spine lightly marked); pp. xvi, 451, illustrated with 40 b/w photographic plates; binding firm, contents very clean, a near fine copy. A classic reference work …

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# 35151

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LONDON)

Missionary lotto.

London : Church Missionary Society, [circa 1900]. “Second series. (Revised)”. Original card box, 235 x 115 x 21 mm, with title and imprint to lid (light marks and handling wear, but sturdy and without any edge or corner splits); the inside lid with printed Missionary Lotto Rules (mild foxing); the interior of the box is …

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# 36715

Photographer unknown.

Patteson Memorial Chapel, Norfolk Island.

[Sydney : Government Printing Office, ca. 1920]. [From the original negative of a photograph taken in the early 1880s by an unidentified photographer]. Gelatin silver print photograph on heavy paper stock, 235 x 260 mm; caption (added by the printer) in the negative lower right; in fine condition; verso with serial number 86; unmounted. St. …

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# 35361

HADDON, Alfred C. (1855-1940)

Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs

London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895. The Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis. First edition. Octavo (185 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed), spine titled in gilt (softened at the ends and with a couple of small marks); pp [4 publisher’s ads.], xviii, [2], 364, [14 ads.]; illustrated …

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# 29580

STOW, J[efferson]. P[ickman]. (1830 - 1908)

The voyage of the Forlorn Hope 1865.

Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., 1894. Octavo, lettered wrappers (chipped and torn with loss to spine, repaired by an expert paper conservator), title page with silverfishing and loss, conserved with Japanese tissue, presentation inscription from the author’s daughter to Alfred Rowan dated at Adelaide, 1907 (some loss to the inscription), pp. [vi], 42, (2 …

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# 36668

MEYER, Anthony J.-P.

Oceanic Art / Ozeanische Kunst / Art Océanien

Köln : Könemann, [1995]. Single volume second edition. Folio (320 x 275 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (very good); pp. 640, with a total of 731 illustrations in colour and b/w, maps; half title with pale foxing, faint damp stain to top edges of last few leaves, but an excellent …

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# 29076

BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)

Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

: contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …

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# 29091

BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine, Comte de (1729-1811)

A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769.

/ by Lewis de Bougainville, Colonel of Foot, and Commodore of the Expedition, in the Frigate La Boudeuse, and the Store-dhip L’Etoile. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. London : Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Davies, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, in Russel-Street, Covent-garden, …

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