Voyages & Exploration
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# 46277
SMITH, M. Staniforth
[NEW GUINEA] Handbook of the Territory of Papua. (First edition)
Melbourne : J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, 1907. Octavo, original cloth backed papered boards (sunned and lightly marked), pp 108; internally very clean, a good copy. A comprehensive handbook for prospective traders, investors and residents. British New Guinea had been transferred to Australian control on 16 November 1905. Under Australian administration it became known as …
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# 46275
ORIENT LINE
[AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION]. Passenger list for S.S. Otranto, April 1928
Oblong octavo, colour wrappers (small chips, edge wear), pp [14], map, illustrations, list of passangers. Passanger list for the Orient Line pleasure cruise to the Mediterranean on the S.S. Otranto, departing London 21st April 1928. 8 pages are devoted to advertising the Orient Line to Australia, including images of the ship’s interior, map of the …
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# 46192
FORNASIERO, Jean et al.
The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin’s voyagers 1800-1804
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2016 (2017 reprint). Quarto, 265 x 218 mm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew …
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# 38364
[THOMAS, Antoine, 1644-1709]
A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.
London : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCIII [1703]. Octavo (155 mm), contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; pp [28], [4 blank], 71, [1]; a few leaves with pale staining; early manuscript ex libris of the Holy Cross Abbey Library; housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. English translation of Brevis relatio eorū quæ spectant ad declarationem …
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# 29393
HUDDART, Joseph (1741-1816) (attrib.)
The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.
Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, to New Holland, &c. &c. Collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs, and observations, of the most experienced officers in the Hon. East India Company’s Service; and from the last edition of the French Neptune Oriental, by Mons. D’Après de Mannevillette. Being …
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# 29401
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, Baron de (1781-1846)
Hyacinthe de Bougainville : autograph letter, signed, written from the harbour of Macao in 1825 during his circumnavigation in the “Thétis”.
Manuscript in brown ink, folio, 1 page; headed ‘Rade de Macao, ce 1er Janvier 1825’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient and concerns the Lazarist missionary, Lamiot; old vertical and horizontal folds (minor tears at the ends), roughened at top and bottom edges, else clean and complete, with red wax seals preserved. Rare, unpublished …
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# 44863
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …
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# 42307
Valignano, Alessandro (1539-1606) et al.
Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell’anno 1587.
Con l’arrivo de’ Signori Giapponesi nell’India. Cavati dalle lettere della Compagnia di Giesù. Ricevute il mese d’ Ottobre 1588. Con licentia de’ superiori. In Venetia, appresso i Gioliti. 1588. Small octavo (160 x 105 mm), modern quarter red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt ‘AVVISI DELLA CINA’; new …
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# 39126
CAIRNS, John; STRACHAN, Robert
Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54
A Sammelband of fifty-four individual issues of newspapers published in Hong Kong between 1845 and 1854, comprising twenty issues of the Overland Register, and Price Current and thirty-four issues of The Hongkong Register; together with two issues of newspapers published in India in 1852 and 1853. Large folio (510 x 340 mm), custom modern binding of …
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# 45928
HENRY S. KING & CO.
Henry S. King & Co.’s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East.
Bombay : King, King & Co. ; Calcutta : King, Hamilton & Co., 1890. Duodecimo (145 x 100 mm), original printed white wrappers (advertisements on lower wrapper and inside front and back), 117 pp, with 1 folding maps: Map Shewing the Lines of Communication carried on by the Steamers of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam …
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# 42442
Mantova, Gampietro di (1706-1756)
Relazione del martirio de’ Padri F. Pietro Martire Sans … F. Francesco Serrano … F. Giovanni Alcober, F. Giovacchino Royo, e F. Francesco Diaz dell’ Ord de’ Pred. Accaduto nella Provincia di Fokien nell Impero della Cina negli anni 1747 e 1748.
Rome : Girolamo Mainardi, 1752. First edition. Octavo, contemporary calf-backed decorated boards (darkened and a little worn); front pastedown with early Jesuit library label; title-page with woodcut vignette; pp. 483; early repair to bottom margin of title, scattered light spotting, a very good copy. A collection of texts relating to the martyrdoms of the five …
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# 45935
ARMY IN BURMA
Routes in Burma. Routes in the northern Shan States and the Wa States. Routes “D”
Issued by the General Staff, Headquarters, Army in Burma, under the authority of the Government of Burma. Rangoon : Suppt., Govt. Printing and Stationary, Burma, 1938. Quarto, stringbound cloth (a few stains), bookplate to front pastedown of the Army Headquarters Central Library, Simla, pp. 455; 19; diagrams of bridge construction, a few worm holes, very …
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# 45914
HAZELL, Denis H. (1897 - 1930)
Picturesque Hongkong
Hongkong : Ye Olde Printerie, [c.1925]. Oblong folio, string bound lettered card wrappers with pasted on photograph of Hong Kong by night, title page with pasted on photograph, previous owner’s name neatly written in ink, pp. [vi – foreword]; 26 sepia photogravures tipped-on to 24 sheets with accompanying descriptive letterpress, a fine example A fine …
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# 21848
TANAKA, Ryozo, ed.
The “Sino-Japanese Disturbances” souvenir album. Shanghai. 1932
[Tokyo: Shomi-do, 1932]. Oblong quarto, silk-bound boards with ribbon binding, unpaginated, title page, two maps printed in colour, 48 leaves of photographic plates interlined with tissue, colophon, a fine copy in the original lettered cardboard box. Scarce in this condition.
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# 45562
HEWITT, Charles
[MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.
[Circa 1868]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); recto inscribed ‘9d pence each’ (presumably in the hand of a Melbourne print- or bookseller); verso with imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer, Australasian Studio, 95, Swanston Street. Melbourne’; a strong print but with scattered foxing; the back mark is faded. The American …
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# 45819
HAMILTON, Walter
The East India gazetteer;
containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the Eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants. London : Printed …