Pacific
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# 23505
DOOLEY, Gillian and Danielle CLODE
The first wave : exploring early coastal contact history in Australia
Mile End, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2019. Large octavo (234 x 136 mm) trade paperback, pp x, 448, colour illustrations, maps; brand new publication. ‘The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or …
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# 23322
LIEBIG
[NEW GUINEA] Iles du groupe de la Nouvelle-Guinée.
Belgium : Liebig, circa 1910. French language edition. Complete set of 6 chromolithographed trade cards, each 73 x 113 mm, depicting the indigenous cultures of the island of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands; versos with printed information; a colourful set of images in pristine condition..
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# 23250
"SEMAPHORE"
Khaki comedy and newsy nonsense / by “Semaphore”.
Melbourne, [Vic.] : E.H. Gibbs & Sons, [between 1942 and 1945]. Small octavo (180 x 125 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers (lightly foxed), staple bound, 32 pp; contents clean, a good copy. Australian wit and humour, written by a serviceman in the second AIF. Date of publication no earlier than 1942 as reference is made …
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# 22949
HAWKESWORTH, John; COOK, James and KING James
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 from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; by John Hawkesworth, Ll.D. in three volumes. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety …
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# 22853
CALLANDER, John
Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.
Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some …
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# 21569
JARVES, James Jackson (editor)
The Polynesian, 1844-45 : 21 issues of the weekly Honolulu newspaper, official organ of the Hawaiian Government.
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands : J. J. Jarves, 1844-45. Twenty-one individual issues, folio newspaper (460 x 300 mm), bifolium format; disbound; text in English and Hawaiian; most issues with some water staining (not affecting legibility of the print), otherwise well preserved; accompanied by the near-contemporary marbled papered board covers (now detached, chipped and heavily worn) …
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# 22787
HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
Sixteenth Annual Report of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society: presented June 13, 1868.
Honolulu : Printed by H. M. Whitney, 1868. Duodecimo, original printed yellow wrappers, string bound, pp 34; a fine copy. The Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society was established in 1852 to support the work of Congregational missionaries in the Hawaiian archipelago and other regions of the Pacific. Its first annual report was issued in 1853 (Forbes, …
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# 23226
JOPPIEN, Rüdiger and SMITH, Bernard
The art of Captain Cook’s voyages (four volume set)
Volume one : The voyage of the Endeavour 1768 – 1771. With a descriptive catalogue of all the known drawings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and the original engravings associated with them. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985 (reprint). Folio, cloth in dust jacket, pp. xv; 247, illustrated. Volume two : The voyage of …
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# 22948
CHRSITIAN, Glynn
Fragile Paradise. The discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty mutineer (signed copy)
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1982. Quarto, cloth (lacks dustjacket), pp. 256, illustrations. Signed and inscribed by the author, a descendant of the mutineer.
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# 22418
[Grace CARTER, née FLECK, 1770-1855]; Jonathan L. BENNETT; John Thomas BENNETT
[COOK] Correspondence regarding payment of an annuity to Grace Carter (Fleck), niece of Captain James Cook, from the estate of Cook’s widow, Elizabeth.
30 December 1842 – 5 April 1853. Group of 19 manuscript letters from London solicitors J.L. Bennett of Merton (17) and J.T. Bennett of Finsbury (2) to Mrs. Grace Carter, of Redcar, Yorkshire (4), and Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, incumbent of Redcar (15), on the payment of an annuity to Grace Carter from the estate of …
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# 22555
Prévost, Antoine François (Abbé) (1697-1763)
Histoire générale des voyages,
ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu’à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues … … Paris : Didot, 1746 – 1789. Twenty volumes, quarto (290 x 230 mm), uniformly bound in period full French speckled calf, ruled in gilt, …
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# 22500
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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# 22498
BLISMON, Ana-Gramme (pseud.) [BLOCQUEL, Simon-François, 1780-1863]
Beautés de l’histoire des voyages en Amérique et dans l’Océanie : ouvrage contenant le portrait, le caractère, la religion, les Mœurs, les coutumes et les usages des différens peuples de cette partie du monde.
Series title: Le jeune voyageur dans les cinq parties du monde. Paris : chez Delarue ; Lille, chez Castiaux, [1829?]. “Édition augmentée”. Duodecimo, later full calf with gilt lettered contrasting leather title labels to spine, original wrappers bound in (the lower wrapper with engraved illustration), pp 240, [18] leaves of plates including natives of New …
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# 22660
"I.M."
Samoa. Natives diving for money.
[Title from pencilled inscription]. Circa 1920. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 173 x 253 mm, watercolour initials of the artist “I.M.” and caption in pencil, both at lower right; further pencilled inscription at lower left (illegible); laid down on modern board; in fine condition.
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# 18467
BRY, Johann Theodor de; Johann ISRAEL (illustrator)
Indiae orientalis (Small Voyages), Parts IV-XI.
The first Latin editions of Parts IV-XI (eight parts in two volumes) of one of the most important collections of voyages published in the Age of Discovery, primarily devoted to the exploration of the East Indies and containing 140 engraved plates and maps illustrating voyages to the Spice Islands, India, Africa and North America. The …
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# 21888
GARCIA, Francisco
[SPANISH COLONISATION OF THE PACIFIC] Relacion de la Vida de el Devotissimo hijo de Maria Santissima, y dichoso Martir Padre Luis de Medina, de la Compañia de Iesus, que murio por Christo en las Islas Marianas (llamadas antes de los Ladrones) con otro Compañero seglar, llamado Hipolito de la Cruz.
En Madrid : con licencia de el Ordinario, 1673. Quarto (197 x 142 mm), contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink (faded), ties partially remnant; ff [1 blank], title leaf with early inscription and stamp of the Collegium Bareinonense Societatis Iesu, pp 146; text block starting to loosen, two pages with light soiling (one with short …