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# 44046
LISIANSKY, Urey (1773-1837)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva.
London : John Booth … and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), modern half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt rule, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards; speckled edges; preliminaries (2 blanks, frontispiece portrait of Lisianskii); xxi; [blank]; [ii], …
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# 50047
CAMPBELL, Archibald
A voyage round the world, from 1806 to 1812;
in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a narrative of the author’s shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship’s long-boat; with an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands, and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh : printed for Archibald …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 49530
von KOTZEBUE, Otto
Voyage of discovery to the South Sea, and to Behring’s Straits, in search of a north-east passage; undertaken in the years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the ship Rurick
London : Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. Octavo, finely bound in period style in half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, small repaired tear to first title leaf, pp. 220 (with a title leaf to the second part between pp. 110 – …
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# 48643
DUNCAN, William Augustine.
Account of a Memorial presented to His Majesty by Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quir, concerning the population and discovery of the fourth part of the world, Australia the Unknown, its great riches and fertility, discovered by the same Captain.
With licence of the Royal council of Pampeluna printed by Charles de Labayen anno 1610. From the Spanish. With an introductory notice. Sydney : Thomas Richards, 1874. Octavo, contemporary half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed), lettered in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, book label of David G. L. Worland, pp. 30; [blank]; …
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# 48976
[HADDON, Alfred Cort]; RIVERS, W. H. R.; SELIGMAN, C. G.; MYERS, Charles; McDOUGALL, W.
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)
Cambridge, UK : at the University Press, 1901-03. Two volumes, large quarto (280 x 210 mm), in uniform cloth-backed printed green wrappers as originally issued (Part I in superb condition, the upper wrapper of Part II with a lengthy tear and chipped corner, both Parts slightly sunned at edges and with the original printed price …
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![[POLYNESIA] Original letter containing vivid descriptions of Tahiti and Rarotonga. August, 1934.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2018/01/11115220/2017_DSFB_5360-300x300.jpg)
# 17253
[Author unidentified]
[POLYNESIA] Original letter containing vivid descriptions of Tahiti and Rarotonga. August, 1934.
Typed letter, [7] pages, on onion-skin paper, 280 x 215 mm, headed ‘At Sea, about 500 miles from N.Z. Sunday, August 19th, 1934’; with pencil map of the ship’s journey through the islands of Tahiti and three lines of handwritten text; addressed to ‘Dear Pauline’ (internal references indicate she was a close personal friend of the …
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![[COOK] Nuttig en leerzaam onderhoud, in fraaije verhalen, voor de lieve jeugd; door J. H. Campe.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_1780-300x300.jpg)
# 49865
CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich
[COOK] Nuttig en leerzaam onderhoud, in fraaije verhalen, voor de lieve jeugd; door J. H. Campe.
Amsterdam : Ten Brink & De Vries, 1827. Second edition. Small octavo (160 x 100 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards (rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends); pp. viii, 96; title with engraved vignette, illustrated with [2] engraved plates; text in Dutch; includes a ‘true account of a curious event on Cook’s last voyage’ …
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# 17465
CARON, François (1600-1673)
Beschrijvinghe van het Machtigh Koninghrijcke Japan … …
Amsterdam : Joost Hartgers, 1652. Small quarto, later quarter vellum over marbled papered boards, spine with manuscript title in black ink; title with woodcut vignette of two ships, pp 78; headpiece, historiated initials, side notes; a fine copy. Caron’s rare and highly important contemporary description of Japan was first published in 1648 as part of …
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# 42444
HEINE, Wilhelm
Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,
unter Zuziehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe von Wilhelm Heine. Leipzig : Hermann Costenoble (Band 1) / Otto Purfürst (Bände 2-3), 1858-59. Three volumes, large octavo (245 x 175 mm), uniform publisher’s bindings of blind-blocked pebbled cloth with gilt-decorated and -lettered spines (rubbed and lightly marked, spines sunned); Band 1. XX, 330 pp., …
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![[TAHITI] Histoire des révolutions de Taïti,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/08/2025_DSFB_4720-300x300.jpg)
# 47519
[PONCELIN DE LA ROCHE-TILHAC, Jean-Charles]
[TAHITI] Histoire des révolutions de Taïti,
avec le Tableau du Gouvernement, des Moeurs, des Arts, & de la Religion des Habitans de cette île, par Messire Poutavery, Grand-Earée de Taïti; ouvrage traduit du Taïtien en Français par Mademoiselle B.D.B.D.B. Paris : chez Lamy, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, 1782. Two parts in one volume, duodecimo (150 x 90 mm), contemporary full calf, boards …
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![[TASMAN] Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/02/2026_DSFB_1026-300x300.jpg)
# 49581
LEUPE, Pieter Arend (editor); SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz von
[TASMAN] Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan,
volgens het journaal gehouden door C.J. Coen, op het schip Castricum … Met de daarbij behoorende kaart en eenige fac-similés, en geographische en ethnographische aanteekeningen, tevens dienende tot een zeemansgids naar Jezo, Krafto en de Kurilen, en stukken over de taal en voortbrengselen der Aino-landen, van Jonkheer P.F. von Siebold. Amsterdam : Frederik Muller, 1858. …
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![[QUIROS] Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoça, marques de Cañete :](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/03152245/2017_DSFB_0082-300x300.jpg)
# 14844
Suárez de Figueroa, Cristóbal (1571-after 1644)
[QUIROS] Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoça, marques de Cañete :
A don Ivan Andres Hurtado de Mendoça su hijo, marques de Cañete, Señor de las Villas de Argete y su partido, Montero mayor del Rey nuestro señor, Guarda mayor de la ciudad de Cuenca, etta / por el doctor Christoval Suarez de Figueroa. En Madrid : en la Imprenta Real, Año 1616. Second issue of …
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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, [E.?] G.’; as in other copies, pages 14 and …
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# 42374
SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620) and Jacob LE MAIRE (c.1585-1616)
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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# 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, …