Pacific
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# 47668
PENNY, Alfred
The head-hunters of Christabel : a tale of adventure in the South Seas
/ by Alfred Penny … Illustrated by Harold Pittard. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1903]. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), publisher’s pictorial cloth (boards with small amount of flecking), spine with vignette illustration and gilt lettering; first blank stamped ‘REVIEW COPY, With Secretary’s Compliments’; pp. 301, 16 (publisher’s ads.), illustrated with 4 plates …
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# 42374
SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)
Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.
Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden] : Jodocus Hondius for Nicolaus van Geelkercken, 1619. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript title and collection number to spine; title with large engraved vignette (early ownership signature to upper margin); pp. [4 blank], 175, [5 blank]; with a folding engraved world map and …
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# 36977
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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# 41535
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)
Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.
Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth-century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes in uniform binding (with the volume numbers I; II reversed by the binder); a fine set in bindings of the …
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# 31523
PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (first edition, coloured)
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, contemporary …
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![[ELIZABETH BLIGH'S COPY]. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_DSFB_2395-300x300.jpg)
# 42955
BLIGH, William (1754-1817)
[ELIZABETH BLIGH’S COPY]. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.
Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. The whole illustrated with charts, &c. Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the …
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# 43114
[ORSMOND, John Muggridge, 1788-1856]
Autograph letter in the Tahitian language, written by a chief of Bora Bora to the LMS missionary, Rev. John Muggridge Orsmond. Bora Bora, 1822.
Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, 3 pp. on quarto bifolium, 175 x 150 mm; letter in the Tahitian language addressed to missionary Rev. John Orsmond at Tahiti, written entirely in the hand of an unidentified chief of Bora Bora, signed ‘Porapora’ at the foot; undated, but probably 1822 (see below); traces of original …
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![[NEW TESTAMENT; TAHITIAN] Te mau Episetole a te Aposetolo ra a Paulo.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3380-300x300.jpg)
# 47394
DAVIES, John (1772-1855) (translator)
[NEW TESTAMENT; TAHITIAN] Te mau Episetole a te Aposetolo ra a Paulo.
I to Galatia, Ephesia, Philipi, Colosa, Tesalonia, ia Timoteo hoi, Tito, e Philemona. Te taio ra, e haapao oia iaite. Iesu Christi. Tahiti : i neia i te nenei raa a te mau misionari ra [colophon: printed at the Windward Mission Press], 1824. Duodecimo (175 x 110 mm), contemporary diced russia (rubbed, with chips at spine ends), spine with contrasting leather title-label lettered in gilt …
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# 37295
SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)
The artist and companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).
Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved. A very early depiction of …
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# 40288
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], [c.1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographed onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the box …
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![[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_DSFB_6590-300x300.jpg)
# 45572
MONTI, Anne-Georges-Augustin de (1753-1788)
[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.
Manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked TM, 1 page, quarto (210 x 170 mm). [Brest], ‘à bord [l’Astrolabe], le 10 juin 1785’. Headed ‘pour L’astrolabe’, and signed at the foot ‘de Monti’, the note comprises a short list of equipment that is required for the vessel: ‘two rudder bars … a spike for the …
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# 47413
DUFRÉNOY, Mme. (Adélaïde Gillette) (1765-1825)
Le Tour de monde, ou Tableau gégraphique et historique de tous les peuples de la terre,
contenant une description succincte des pays qu’ils habitent ; un aperçu des moeurs, coutumes, religions et lois… monumens et antiquités… notices biographiques… littérature, industrie, commerce, etc. Dédié à madame la comtesse de Ségur. Paris : Alexis Eymery, 1814. Six volumes, 32mo (135 x 90 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of mottled calf, spines with gilt decoration and contrasting …
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# 47508
FORGAME, Mme.
Esquisses historiques, anecdotiques et géographiques sur les principaux peuples anciens et modernes.
Paris : L. F. Hivert, 1847. Octavo (185 x 110 mm), publisher’s papered boards with gilt embossed decoration; pp. iv, 412, with 2 lithographed plates (including frontispiece), and numerous vignette illustrations in the form of historiated initials; an excellent copy. Written for a juvenile audience, Madame Forgame’s historical and geographical sketches cover plenty of territory, from …
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# 47283
A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)
The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.
[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …
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# 19520
DELISLE, Ferdinand; LEUTEMANN, Heinrich Gottlieb (Henrik) (illustrator)
Excursions chez les peuples étranges : causeries ethnographiques
/ avec une préface de A.Quatrefages, membre de l’institut-professeur au muséum d’histoire naturelle; illustrations en couleur par H.Leutemann. Paris : Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre et Cie., Emile Guérin, éditeur, [1889]. First edition. Quarto, original cloth backed pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), pp vi, 71, [1 table of contents], with 12 double-leaf chromolithographic illustrations bound in …
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# 47134
MILLS, A. (publisher)
Fanning Island Post Cards. First Issue. January, 1909. A. Mills, Suva.
[Title from printed text recto]. Suva, Fiji : A. Mills, 1909. Envelope of fine marbled paper, 95 x 150 mm, recto lithograph printed in black ink, main title set within decorative border; verso blank; extremely well preserved. (Note: envelope only, contains no postcards). Scarce pre-WW1 Pacific Islands cartophilic item printed in Suva by the postcard …