Voyages & Exploration

  • A short account of the declaration given by the Chinese Emperour Kam Hi, in the year 1700.

    # 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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  • The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

    # 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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  • Hyacinthe de Bougainville : autograph letter, signed, written from the harbour of Macao in 1825 during his circumnavigation in the "Thétis".

    # 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 Rare, unpublished …

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  • The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

    # 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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  • Avvisi della Cina, et Giapone del fine dell'anno 1587.

    # 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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  • Sammelband of Hong Kong newspapers, 1845-54

    # 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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  • Picturesque Hongkong

    # 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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  • The “Sino-Japanese Disturbances” souvenir album. Shanghai. 1932

    # 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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  • [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.

    # 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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  • The East India gazetteer;

    # 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 …

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  • Lure of the southern seas : the voyages of Dumont D'Urville, 1826-1840

    # 46004

    HUNT, Susan et al.

    Lure of the southern seas : the voyages of Dumont D’Urville, 1826-1840

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 141, illustrated.

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  • The Malay Archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise

    # 45456

    WALLACE, Alfred Russell (1823 - 1913)

    The Malay Archipelago : the land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise

    A narrative of travel with studies of man and nature. London : Macmillan and Co., 1869. Volume one : Second edition; volume two : first edition. A mixed set. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated green cloth (edges a little rubbed, short tears to head and foot of spines, hinges cracked), pp. xx; 312; iv; 524; engravings …

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  • The discovery of the mainland of New Guinea : Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón or Íñigo Ortiz de Retes?

    # 45151

    FORSYTH, John Walter [INGLETON, Geoffrey C., copyist & editor]

    The discovery of the mainland of New Guinea : Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón or Íñigo Ortiz de Retes?

    / by J. W. Forsyth. (Copy by G. C. I.). Manuscript in fountain pen, 67 pp., foolscap folio, written recto only on faint-ruled paper; with a page of prefatory notes by Geoffrey C. Ingleton, headed ‘Forsyth’s Paper’; complete and very well preserved; housed a custom clamshell box. ‘John Forsyth, a solicitor by profession, was an …

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  • [JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

    # 45648

    [BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von

    [JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

    Upsala : uplagde af Magnus Swederus … , 1777. First edition. Octavo, papered boards with title label to spine (edges rubbed, chips and small areas of loss), title with engraved vignette illustration of the Icelandic landscape and Geyser spouting water, ownership signature dated 1878 to front pastedown, pp. 20, [2], 376, [1 errata], with two …

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  • La storia della chiesa del Giappone

    # 42446

    CRASSET, Jean

    La storia della chiesa del Giappone

    del rev. Padre Giovanni Crasset della Compagnia di Gesù. Traduzione dal francese di Selvaggio Canturani. Venice : Baglioni, 1737. Four volumes, duodecimo, uniform 19th-century bindings of quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; with 6 folding copper-engraved plates; a very fine set. Second Italian edition of Crasset’s history of the …

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  • Paris

    # 45626

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Paris

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (corners bumped, a few marks to spine), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards; occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The …

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