Voyages & Exploration

  • 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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  • Venice (deluxe edition)

    # 45694

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Venice (deluxe edition)

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1904. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly rubbed and marked, spine browned with chips at head and foot), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. x; 222, illustrated with 100 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, a good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies …

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  • Cold recall : Roald Amundsen's reflections from the South Pole

    # 45635

    KLØVER, Geir O. (editor)

    Cold recall : Roald Amundsen’s reflections from the South Pole

    Oslo, Norway : Fram Museum, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 142, illustrated. ‘Cold Recall combines the complete texts of Roald Amundsen’s lectures about his expeditions through the Northwest Passage and the South Pole with the original hand-coloured lantern slides he used to illustrate his lectures. Together they offer a unique insight into how Amundsen presented …

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  • Paizagens da China e do Japão.

    # 42470

    Moraes, Wenceslau de (1854-1929)

    Paizagens da China e do Japão.

    Lisbon : Livraria Tavares Cardoso, 1906. First edition. Octavo, later red leather with gilt-lettered spine; original colour-illustrated upper wrapper bound in (chipped and with light staining); pp. [vi], 239, [2]; with numerous half-tone photographic illustrations; text in Portuguese; a good copy.

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  • Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,

    # 42444

    HEINE, Wilhelm

    Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,

    unter Zuziehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe von Wilhelm Heine. Leipzig : Hermann Costenoble (Band 1) / Otto Purfürst (Bände 2-3), 1858-59. Three volumes, large octavo (245 x 175 mm), uniform publisher’s bindings of blind-blocked pebbled cloth with gilt-decorated and -lettered spines (rubbed and lightly marked, spines sunned); Band 1. XX, 330 pp., …

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  • Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium ...

    # 42373

    COLLADO, Diego (d. 1638 or 1641)

    Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium …

    Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [bound with] Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae linguae … Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [and bound with] Niffon no Cotōbani yô confesion, … [= modus confitendi et examinandi poenitentem Japonensem, formula suamet lingua Japonica … ] Romae typis & impensis Sacr. …

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  • Reception of the foreign ministers by the Chinese Emperor, June 29 1873.

    # 35336

    RONJAT, Étienne Antoine Eugène, 1822-1912 (artist)

    Reception of the foreign ministers by the Chinese Emperor, June 29 1873.

    This Emperor, Toong Chir, died last winter of smallpox at the age of twenty. [Title from the inscription verso]. [U.S.A.? France? : s.n., probably 1875]. Albumen print photograph of a drawing by French artist Etienne Ronjat (after a Chinese painting), carte de visite format, 61 x 102 mm; verso with contemporary inscription in ink; both the print …

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  • Baudin in Australian Waters.

    # 45766

    BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline

    Baudin in Australian Waters.

    The artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands 1800 – 1804. With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France. Edited by Jacqueline Bonnemains, Elliott Forsyth and Bernard Smith. Melbourne …

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  • Journey among men (presentation copy from Russell Drysdale to Donald Murray)

    # 45729

    MARSHALL, Jock and DRYSDALE, Russell

    Journey among men (presentation copy from Russell Drysdale to Donald Murray)

    London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (lightly stained, edge wear, a couple of tape repairs verso), 206 pp. illustrated throughout by Russell Drysdale. Inscribed by the artist in the year of publication on the first blank ‘For Donald Murray with great regard & affection from Tass. Russell Drysdale. September 1962’. …

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  • Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642.

    # 44894

    TASMAN, Abel Janszoon (1603 - 1659)

    Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand in 1642.

    With documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644 being photo-lithographic facsimiles of the original manuscript in the colonial archives at The Hague with an English translation and facsimiles of original maps to to which are added life and labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman by J. E. Heeres, Ll. D. Professor at the Dutch …

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  • Game of Round the World with Nellie Bly, the World's Globe Circler

    # 41839

    McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS

    Game of Round the World with Nellie Bly, the World’s Globe Circler

    A novel and fascinating game with plenty of excitement by land and sea. New York : McLoughlin Brothers, [c.1890]. Chromolithograph game board, 415 x 400 mm, in two sheets, folding, with vignettes of Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, a steam ship and a steam train; in fine condition, housed in a modern box in period style with …

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  • Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

    # 45110

    SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.

    Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842

    London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information …

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  • H. M. Stanley, the African explorer.

    # 45558

    BRUTON, J. E. (photographer); YORK, Frederick (publisher)

    H. M. Stanley, the African explorer.

    [Title from printed caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm; recto of mount printed in lower margin ‘H. M. Stanley, the African explorer. Photographed by J. E. Bruton, Cape Town. F. York, London, Copyright’; verso blank; in fine condition. A superb portrait of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Welsh-American explorer, …

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  • [TRANSPORTATION] Las colonias penales de la Australia y la pena de deportación.

    # 45577

    ARENAL, Concepción

    [TRANSPORTATION] Las colonias penales de la Australia y la pena de deportación.

    Memoria premiada por la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas en el concurso ordinario de 1875. Madrid : Eduardo Martinez, 1877. Large octavo (255 x 170 mm), publisher’s wrappers (lightly marked, head and tail of spine chipped), 99 pp; text in Spanish; entirely unopened, a very good copy. Ferguson 6092. In 1875 the Spanish …

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  • Shields of Melanesia

    # 45069

    BERAN, Harry; CRAIG, Barry

    Shields of Melanesia

    / Edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai’i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, 2005. Quarto (295 x 215 mm), publisher’s black cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. xix, [1], 287; illustrated in colour and b/w; maps; light handling wear, an excellent copy.  

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  • Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias

    # 38393

    LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco

    Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias

    cõ todo el descubrimiento, y cosas notables que han acaescido donde que se ganaron hasta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico, y dela nueva España. Medina del Campo : Guillermo de Millis, 1553. Second edition.Two parts in one, folio (275 x 200 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, original ties partially intact, spine with early title …

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