Pacific
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# 48533
LABILLARDIERE, [Jacques Julien Houten de].
Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,
fait par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2me année de la République Francoise. Paris : Chez H. J. Jansen, an VIII de la République Francoise [1800]. Two volumes quarto plus atlas folio, the two text volumes in early quarter papered boards with gilt-lettered calf spines …
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# 50757
BLIGH, William
The dangerous voyage performed by Captain Bligh, with a part of the crew of His Majesty’s ship Bounty, in an open boat, over twelve hundred leages of the ocean; in the year 1789.
To which are added, an account of the sufferings and fate of the remainder of the crew of said ship. Dublin : R. Napper, 1824. Duodecimo, contemporary full calf corner and edge wear, outer front hinge with splits at head and foot), spine with gilt rule and lettering (worn at ends); edges speckled red; woodcut …
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# 50802
EUROPAEUS, David Emanuel Daniel (Taneli)
Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.
[=The genealogical relationship of most languages of the Old World and the Australian world]. St. Petersburg : Typografiya Tovarishchestva “Obshchestvennaya Pol’za”, Bol’shaya Pod’yacheskaya no. 39, 1877. Large folio, 49 x 43 cm, pp. [10] (the last blank), comprising four double-page tables, preceded by the author’s explanatory essay illustrated with two wood-engravings; text in German; contemporary …
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# 51046
ROGGEVEEN, Jacob [MULERT, F. E., editor]
Scheepsjournaal, gehouden op het schip Tienhoven tijdens de ontdekkingsreis van Mr. Jacob Roggeveen, 1721-1722,
medegedeeld door F. E. Baron Mulert. Met eene kaart. Middelburg : J. C. & W. Altorffer, 1911. Octavo, publisher’s printed yellow wrappers; pp. 132, with a folding map at rear; text in Dutch; a very good copy. Scarce. Trove locates only the copy in the University of Melbourne Library. Regarded as the last major Dutch voyage …
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![An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3991-300x300.jpg)
# 50566
HEYLYN, Peter
An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.
By Peter Heylin. London : Printed for Henry Seile, 1652. [Extracted from the first edition of Heylyn’s Cosmographie]. Disbound folio, 340 x 235 mm; title-leaf, pp. 191-7, [1 Emendation of the Errata in the Fourth Book]; browned at the edges, some very early annotations and pen trials on the last side. The idiosyncratic geography of English …
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![[CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_4001-300x300.jpg)
# 50537
Anon.
[CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres
Lille : L. Lefort, 1849. First edition. Small octavo, publisher’s papered cartonnage binding with gilt decoration, frontispiece (Prise de possession des Iles marquises), previous owner’s name to front pastedown, pp. 201,a fine copy. Accounts of European exploration and discovery of and early settlements in the Pacific, with chapters on the Malay archipelago, Melanesia (includes New …
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![Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/02/2017_DSFB_4022-300x300.jpg)
# 16547
SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (c.1567-1625)
Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.
Amsterdami : apud Petrum Kærium, 1619. Second Latin edition. Small quarto, contemporary papered boards (rubbed); pp [8], 1-24, 17-71, nine folding maps and plates; title with large vignette of ships and a city and original owner’s annotation ‘This is in Dutch in ye. long booke pa : 145, 3 G.’; as in other copies, pages 14 and …
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# 48825
THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)
Relations de divers voyages curieux,
qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …
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# 49674
[FREYCINET, Rose de] MALLAC, Jacques
À Madame L. de Freycinet.
Île-de-France [Mauritius, Port-Louis] : Imprimerie de Mallac frères, 25 May 1818. Quarto (250 x 194 mm), 2 pp., letterpress, recto and verso of a single loose leaf; light horizontal fold, a fine example. This extremely rare and precious document – one of only three copies known – is a poetic tribute to the adventurer Rose …
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![[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia's North Province, 1930-31.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3652-300x300.jpg)
# 50453
"J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)
[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.
Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …
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# 50615
SEEMANN, Berthold
Viti : an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860 – 61
Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1862. Octavo, full polished calf, ruled in gilt, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, bound in compartments with raised bands, gilt rule and tooling, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, school prize label to front pastedown and armorial bookplate to front free endpaper …
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# 50584
BIRD, Isabella
The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands.
London : John Murray, 1890. Seventh edition, a later issue, with advertisements dated June 1897. Octavo, bright gilt-illustrated green cloth, very lightly rubbed at edges, gift inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper, pp. xvi; folding map, 318; 32, fore edge foxed, else a very fine copy.
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# 50553
BEST, Elsdon
The stone implements of the Maori.
Wellington, NZ : John Mackay, Government Printer, 1912. Series: Dominion Museum. Bulletin No. 4. First edition. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt-lettered black leather title label; title-leaf, pp. 410; with 50 b/w photographic plates and one folding line-drawn plate, plus other illustrations in the …
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# 38356
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 50346
BACQUART, Jean-Baptiste & Bernard DE GRUNNE
The Peter Hallinan Collection of Melanesian Art. Sotheby’s, London, 7 December 1992.
London : Sotheby’s, 1992. Auction catalogue. Large quarto (280 x 215 mm), decorated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; pp. 199, [3 bibliography]; 166 lots, illustrated in colour; an excellent copy.
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# 14845
COXE, William (1748-1828)
Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.
To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China. London : J. Nichols, 1780. First edition. Quarto, full polished calf (a couple of scuffs to the boards), spine extensively decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title label, expertly rebacked, folding frontispiece map of the Russian …