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  • Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 - Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].

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    [Società Geografica Italiana]

    Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].

    Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Letts's Australasian pocket diary, with an almanac for 1885.

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    LETTS, SON & CO.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Letts’s Australasian pocket diary, with an almanac for 1885.

    Being the forty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (Accession June 20, 1837). London : Letts, Son & Co. Limited, [1884]. “Pocket series, no. 25”. Narrow octavo (180 x 90 mm), original green pebbled cloth with wallet-style flap, publisher’s gilt-stamped crest to front; title page with original owner’s name D. S. McKelne, Perth …

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  • [IMAGINARY VOYAGES; NEW ZEALAND] Den unga vilden.

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    LEJEUNE, Augustin-Laurent

    [IMAGINARY VOYAGES; NEW ZEALAND] Den unga vilden.

    Öfversättning af Joh. P. Renmark. I-II. Stockholm : C. F. Marquard, 1802. Octavo (172 x 106 mm), handsome contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt rule and contrasting title- and number-pieces in gilt; pp. [2], 176 + 240; separate title-pages for each part; some browning and very occasional and minor marginal stains; early …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue ...

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    VYSE, Charles (active 1770-1815)

    [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue …

    A new edition, with alterations, improvements and additions. London : printed for G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, by J. Crowder and E. Hemsted, Warwick-Square, 1803. Small octavo, contemporary brown cloth boards (rubbed and stained), pastedowns and front endpaper with contemporary child’s scribbling, front endpaper with modern biro inscription dated 1984; frontispiece engraved portrait of Charles …

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  • Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

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    FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754-1794)

    Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

    Öfversättning. Nyköping : J. P. Hammarin, 1795. Octavo (170 x 107 mm), disbound; pp. 96 (including title-page); text in Swedish; scattered light foxing, a vertical tear in the fore-edge margin of p. 15; title-page with contemporary ink signature. Slightly abridged Swedish translation (by Carl Fr. Landell) of Forster’s 1793 German version of the voyage account of Surville, …

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  • [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

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    STEIN, Christian Gottfried Daniel (1771-1830)

    [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

    af. Chr. Gottfr. Dan. Stein; efter 9:de upplagan af år 1819, översätt och försedd med en serskild artikel öfver Skandinavien, af C. Netherwood. Med ett fullständigt Register, som säljes särskildt, och varigenom arbetet tillika kan begagnas som Lexicon. Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1819. Small octavo (146 x 113 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (lightly …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.

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    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Cricket team from Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, Otago, circa 1900.

    Sepia-toned gelatin silver print photograph, 150 x 200 mm; laid down on its original board mount with decorative lithographic border; verso with an inscription in fountain pen in a later hand headed ‘Pukeuri Cricket Team’ and identifying the XI by name (plus two others); the print has beautiful tones and excellent clarity, and is in …

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  • [SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt's squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

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    BURTON BROTHERS

    [SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt’s squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

    Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 245 x 295 mm; ms. caption in the negative reads: ‘6395. Lt. Gaunt’s Squad drilling. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Protected, Oct. ’99’; the print is in good condition; the mount is sunned at the edges and has a tiny amount of insect damage at …

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  • The three voyages of Captain James Cook

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    HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James

    The three voyages of Captain James Cook

    1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …

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  • An abridgement of Captain Cook's first and second voyages.

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    [COOK, James, 1728-1779].

    An abridgement of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages.

    The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ; the second in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. For making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, by order of his majesty. Extracted from the quarto edition, in five volumes. Containing a relation of all the interesting transactions; including an abridgement of Captain Furneaux’s narrative of …

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  • Important information relative to New Zealand,

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    [WHITE, William]

    Important information relative to New Zealand,

    intended to be an answer to all Inquiries made by those Interested in the occupancy of that country by British Subjects, &c., especially with respect to questions relative to its geography, soil, climate, natural resources, and the validity of titles to lands purchased from the native chiefs by foreigners. Together with an appendix, comprising the …

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  • Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d'un Voyage Autour du Monde.

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    LETAILLE, Charles

    Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.

    Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …

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  • Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.

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    LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875)

    Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.

    Manuscript in brown ink, 2 pp., octavo (200 x 135 mm), on wove paper watermarked ‘MARION’; headed ‘Toulon, 16 September 1835’, and signed at the foot ‘C. Laplace’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient (but the content makes it clear it is addressed to a representative of the Imprimerie Royale, the publisher of his …

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  • The cruise of Her Majesty's ship "Challenger" : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.

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    SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)

    The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.

    / By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …

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  • [TAHITI; MUSIC] Airs tahitiens : Arue! Arue!

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    SPITZ, Charles Georges or HOARE, Sophia (attributed)

    [TAHITI; MUSIC] Airs tahitiens : Arue! Arue!

    [Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph (160 x 210 mm) of two pages of music notation (the original was most likely handwritten and then lithographically printed before it was photographed); generic title legible as Airs tahitiens at the head of the left-hand page, with the title of the individual tune Arue! Arue! (= Praise! Praise!) at the head of …

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  • Gems from the Coral Islands : or incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the

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    GILL, William

    Gems from the Coral Islands : or incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the

    South Sea Islanders. Eastern Polynesia: comprising the Rarotonga Group, Penrhyn Islands, and Savage Island. By the Rev. Gill, Rarotonga. Philadelphia, [Pa.] : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1855]. First edition. Octavo, pictorial blue cloth, gilt (lightly rubbed), front pastedown with rubber stamp of the Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, California, xiv, [15]-285 pp, illustrated, edges with mild flecking but internally …

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