Voyages & Exploration
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# 33652
[COLUMBUS]
The Latin letter of Columbus : printed in 1493 and announcing the discovery of America. Reproduced in facsimile, with a preface.
London : Bernard Quaritch, 1893. Royal octavo (220 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed stiff wrappers, pp vi, [8], partially uncut, a near fine copy. Published by Quaritch to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s letter. Three copies traced in Australian collections: University of Sydney Library; National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales …
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# 33051
HENRY, R. J., Captain
On board the yacht “Maraquita”, photographed by Captain Henry at sea, on her outward bound voyage to Iceland, November 1858.
[British, November 1858]. Stereoscopic photograph, each individual image 71 x 64 mm (arched format), on original card mount 110 x 170 mm (trimmed at the lower margin and so lacking the printed caption), verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘On Board the Yacht – Maraquita’ (same wording as the original printed caption); the prints are …
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# 33311
SIMPSON, C. C.
Across the Owen Stanley Range, British New Guinea.
By C. C. Simpson. Communicated by J. A. Kershaw. [Melbourne : The Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, 1907]. Offprint from the Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XXIII, No. 9, January 10, 1907. Octavo, plain paper wrappers (light vertical fold), stapled, titled by hand on upper wrapper; pp. [155]-168 (last blank); a good copy.
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# 33114
SPURLING, Stephen (1821-1892); BAILY, Henry Hall (1839-1896)
Studio portraits of five officers of the Russian naval corvette “Boyarin”. Hobart, May-June 1870.
Five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, mount sizes 101 x 63 mm (1) and 105 x 63 mm (4); one with the back mark of H. H. Baily, Hobart and four with the back mark of S. Spurling, Hobart; the versos have fully contemporary inscriptions written in ink or pencil, identifying the …
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# 32325
WESTALL, William (1781-1850)
William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.
Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 75 x 180 mm; dated ‘Oct. 31st 1826’, the document is written in Westall’s hand and is worded: ‘Recd. of G. J. Robson Esqre. Ten Guineas for a Drawing for Mrs. Haldimand. [Signed] W. Westall. / £10.10’; blind stamped at left margin ‘Receipt Three Pence’; clean and complete. Rare …
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# 32580
HERISSON, Eustache ; BONNE, Rigobert
Carte générale de l’Europe, ou l’on voit le départ et le retour du Capne. Cook, dans ses differéns voyages.
Dressée par Hérisson, Eleve de Mr. Bonne, ancien Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. A Paris : chez Basset Md d’Estampes Rue Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, no. 670, 1802. Copperplate engraving, original outline hand colour, 525 x 755 mm (image), old folds as issued, a fine example. Map of Europe showing the departures …
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# 33008
ABBOTT, J. H. M. (John Henry Macartney) (1874-1953)
An outlander in England : being some impressions of an Australian abroad. (Presentation copy, and with an ALS by the author)
London : Methuen & Co., 1905. Second edition. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth over boards (damp staining to boards, pastedowns and endpapers); a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper for the Governor of Pentonville Prison ‘To Major O. E. M. Davies, with best wishes from the Author, J. H. M. Abbott, …
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# 33117
Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)
Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.
[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …
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# 32595
CARNEGIE, David W. (Wynford) (1871-1900)
Spinifex and Sand. A Narrative of Five Years’ Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia
London : C. Arthur Pearson, 1898. Thick large octavo, publisher’s sand-coloured cloth over boards, upper board illustrated and lettered in black (corners a little bumped, spine dulled as usual), spine with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt; ; pp xvi, 454, portrait frontispiece and a total of 47 photographic plates and line illustrations, 4 …
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# 32748
BOLTON, Lissant (and others, editors)
Melanesia : Art and Encounter
Edited by Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams and Ben Burt. London : The British Museum Press, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 384, illustrated. New copy. The British Museum’s uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the …
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![[ABORIGINES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA] Australien. King Georges-Sund Wohnungen.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/07/16141215/2021_DSFB_4710-300x300.jpg)
# 31254
RIEMER, Gustav Adolph (1842-1899)
[ABORIGINES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA] Australien. King Georges-Sund Wohnungen.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 74 mm each image) on orange card mount (85 x 175 mm); recto of mount with printed caption across lower margin: 342. Australien. King Georges-Sund. Wohnungen; in the left margin: Photographie von G. Riemer, Zahlmeister S.M.S. Hertha. Verlag von Gustav Lierach & Co, Berlin S W 48; and in …
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# 31950
ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH; [BYRON, Henry J.]
Royal Princess’s Theatre, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday! Or Harlequin King Hoop-de-Dooden-Doo & the Savages of the Desolate Island.
The Overture and Music Composed, Selected, and Arranged by Mr R. B. Stewart. The whole produced under the entire direction of Mr J. W. Kimber, and Personal Supervision of Mr W. Paterson … … Edinburgh : [s.n.], 1864 [5 – 30 January]. Playbill, 760 x 255 mm; lithograph printed recto only, with an illustration by …
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# 31005
THOMSON, J. P. (James Park) (1854-1941)
A survey of recent exploration in British New Guinea. (Inscribed by the author)
/ By J. P. Thomson, F.R.S.G.S., etc. … (Read at the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Brisbane, Monday, 20th August, 1894.). [Brisbane : s.n., 1894]. “Reprinted from the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Brisbane, Vol. X.” Octavo, disbound, printed grey wrappers with the original owner’s name ‘Roland L. …
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# 31177
RICHARD, Jérôme; [Babié de Bercenay, François, 1761-ca. 1830, editor]
Voyages chez les peuples sauvages, ou l’homme de la nature : histoire des peuples sauvages des deux continens et des naturels des isles de la mer du Sud.
Paris : Laurens aîné, 1808. Second edition. Three volumes, octavo, contemporary calf-backed papered boards (rubbed), spines with contrasting leather labels lettered and numbered in gilt, hinges a little weakened, pp xxxi, 464; 566; 480; illustrated with engraved plates; second volume with mild water stain at centre margin of first few leaves (not affecting legibility of …
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![[LA PEROUSE] Voyage de M. de Lesseps du Kamtschatka en France](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19003925/2015_DSFB_1631-300x300.jpg)
# 31173
[LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy de]
[LA PEROUSE] Voyage de M. de Lesseps du Kamtschatka en France
avec une préface par Ferdinand de Lesseps. Paris : Maurice Dreyfous, [ca.1860]. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), pictorial gilt red cloth boards (fine and bright), all edges gilt; 248 pp, illustrated with 11 engravings; third plate (Kamtschatka volcano) has a 40 mm tear at fore-edge, occasional light foxing, but an excellent example. Scarce. Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy …
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# 31174
LEGRAND, Augustin
Album de la jeunesse : mélange d’histoire naturelle, minéraux, plantes, animaux,
leur emploi dans la vie : quelques élémens des sciences exactes : tableaux astronomiques, cosmographiques et géographiques, costumes, naturels de diverses contrées du globe, anecdotes curieuses, chasses on pêches, d’après nos célèbres voyageurs, accompagné de courtes explications. Paris : Librairie de Gide fils, [1830?]. Oblong quarto, later papered boards with the front panel of the …