Pacific
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# 31184
DUPETIT-THOUARS, Abel Aubert (1793-1864)
Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839 … Atlas pittoresque
Paris : Gide, 1841. Folio (535 x 335 mm), contemporary quarter-calf over blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (light rubbing), marbled endpapers, half-title, title page, 68 lithographed plates (14 with original hand colour, some others with tint blocks, occasional light foxing but remarkably clean), large engraved folding map of the world (a little miscreased), 3 …
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# 31183
DAMPIER, William (1652-1715)
[DAMPIER]. Nouveau voyage autour du monde ; ou l’on decrit en particulier l’isthme de l’Amerique … plusieurs cotes & isles des Indes Occidentales, les isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les Cotes Meridionales du Chili, du Perou, & du Mexique, l’Isle de Guam, Mindanao, & des autres Philippines, les Isles Orientales qui sont pres de Cambodie, de la Chine, Formosa, Lucon, Celebes, &c. la Nouvelle Hollande,
les Isles de Sumatra, de Nicobar, de Saint Helene, & le Cap de Bonne-Esperance. Ou l’on traite des differens terroirs de tous ces pays, de leurs ports, des plantes, des fruits, & des animaux qu’on y trouve : de leurs habitans, de leurs coutumes, de leur religion, de leur gouvernement, de leur negoce, &c. Rouen : …
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# 31181
HENRICY, Casimir (1814-1900)
Album pittoresque d’un voyage autour du monde exécuté par ordre du Gouvernement Francais.
Paris : Charles Noblet, [1883]. Oblong quarto, red patterned cloth with embossed and gilt pictorial design, spine with gilt lettering (rebacked), all edges gilt, pp 1-8 [text] and 25 leaves with engravings by de Laplante from drawings by Paris; scattered foxing. The circumnavigation by Admiral Paris in the Artémis took place between 1837 and 1840. …
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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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# 31176
BORGET, Auguste (1808-1877)
[HAWAII] Fragments d’un voyage autour du monde
Moulins [France] : P.A. Desrosiers Imprimeur Editeur, [1850]. Oblong quarto, original illustrated full vellum (some marking and staining), pp [12], [12] leaves of lithographic plates in two tints; occasional very mild foxing, otherwise a clean, firmly bound and desirable copy of this seldom seen work. Not in Sabin; Forbes, 1766. ‘This is a very rare …
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# 31175
ZIMMERMANN, Johann Heinrich, 1741-1805
Dernier Voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du monde,
où se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort, publié en allemand par Henri Zimmermann témoin oculaire, & traduit avec un abrégé de la vie de ce navigateur célèbre, & des notes. Berne : Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1782. Octavo, recent half calf over marbled boards with contrasting morocco title label, lettered in gilt, later endpapers, pp. …
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# 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, [c.1860]. Octavo, pictorial gilt red cloth boards, all edges gilt, 248 pp, illustrated with 11 engravings; occasional mild foxing, a very good copy. Scarce. Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy de Lesseps (1766-1834) was an officer on the Astrolabe, one of the two ships in the ill-fated scientific …
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# 30262
HESLOP, Robert
Copper halfpenny token for Robert Heslop, dealer in natural curiosities, Finsbury Square, London, 1790s.
London : Robert Heslop, n.d. [c.1795]. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.7 mm. Obverse: A male contortionist and a monkey. Around the perimeter: CAN YOU DO SO. Reverse: An inscription on six lines THE FIRST SHOP IN LONDON FOR NATURAL CURIOSITYS PAINTINGS COINS COLOURS FOR ARTISTS &c. Around the perimeter: R. HESLOP NO. 86 CHISWELL STREET FINSBURY …
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# 28033
METHODIST MISSION (PAPUA)
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Buki tapwaroro : uula tapwaroro : wosi tapwaroro : biga Kiriwina. / Kiriwinan catechism and hymn book. (Personal copy of Vera M. Goodwin, wife of fellow Methodist missionary J. A. Goodwin).
Sydney : Epworth Printing and Publishing House, 218 Castlereagh Street, 1946. Second edition. Small octavo (177 x 120 mm), publisher’s cloth backed papered boards in the original owner’s protective jacket of plain grey cloth; the front pastedown has a typed label that reads: ‘Presented to Mrs John Goodwin on the occasion of her departure to …
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# 30173
VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;
in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty’s command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop …
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# 28066
STANFORD, Edward
London Atlas Map of the Asiatic Archipelago
London : Edward Stanford, circa 1900. Chromolithograph map, dissected and laid on linen, 530 x 685 mm (sheet), cloth covers with title label, a very good copy. London Atlas Series. Map of south-east Asia with inset maps of Singapore (with descriptive text) and Labuan Island (Malaysia), including British Burmah (now Myanmar), Siam (Thailand), Cambodia (Cambodia), …
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# 30340
SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)
[TAHITI] The Diadem taken from the top of Mount Aorai, circa 1885
Albumen print, 107 x 166 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘The Diadem taken from the top of Aorai’; unmounted, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and …
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# 30341
SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)
[TAHITI] Papeete from the Signal House, circa 1885
Albumen print, 128 x 216 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘Papeete from Signal House, right side’; unmounted; a strong print with rich tonal range, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs …
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# 30675
[FIJI; MISSIONS] Ai vola ni Lotu Katolika vaka-viti
/ ai vakaro i Jisu kivei ira na Bete ni Lotu Katolika. [Catholic Missal. Fijian]. Lyon : Imprimerie Vitte & Perrussel, 1888. Octavo, original blind blocked full leather, gilt (boards rubbed, worn at corners), spine lettered in gilt (worn at head and tail and along outer hinges), decorative lining papers, first blank with wet stamp …
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# 28252
[BROMILOW, William Edward, 1857-1929, translator]
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso. ‘Ida ‘Inapwana ta ‘Ida To-‘Etoseana ‘ina Onoaupaupa Auauna. (Missionary Sister Badcock’s own copy, with a manuscript letter in Dobuan from a woman at the leper colony on Ubuia Island)
Verso of title page: The New Testament in Dobuan, Papua, New Guinea. Sydney : Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1908. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), contemporary yapp-edged limp morocco (a little scuffed, worn at head and tail of spine and rear top edge) with the name ‘Sister Irene Badcock’ stamped in gilt in …
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# 30245
SINCLAIR, James; PEARS, M. B. (compiler and editor)
To find a path : the life and times of the Royal Pacific Islands Regiment. Volume 1. Yesterday’s heroes 1885-1950.
Bowen Hills, Qld. : Boolarong Publications, 1990. “The Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition”. Large quarto (300 x 220 mm), publisher’s white-lettered papered boards, in illustrated dust jacket, endpaper maps, pp viii, 310; profusely illustrated with b/w photographic illustrations, map; a fine copy.