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# 41536

COOK, James, 1728-1779; FORSTER, Georg, 1754-1794; FURNEAUX, Tobias, 1735-1781

[COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :

hwarwid Herrar Forsters och Furneaux journaler blifwit jämnförde och nyttjade : Innehållande det hufwudsakeligaste af de på denna resa gjorda nya uptäckter i söderhafwet, Rörande Södra Polens Ishaf nya uptäckte Öars naturalier och Inwånarnes Tänkesätt, Seder, Klädedrägt, m.m. Upsala [Sweden] : Johan Edman, 1783. Octavo, nineteenth century papered boards with title label to spine (edges …

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# 40477

[COOK, James, 1728-1779].

An abridgement of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages.

The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ; the second in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. For making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, by order of his majesty. Extracted from the quarto edition, in five volumes. Containing a relation of all the interesting transactions; including an abridgement of Captain Furneaux’s narrative of …

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# 42451

DIXON, George

A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon.

Dedicated, by permission, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., by Captain George Dixon. London : Published by Geo. Goulding, 1789. Second edition. Quarto, full diced russia, ruled in gilt, masterfully rebacked, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles; marbled edges and endpapers; presentation inscription …

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# 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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# 17953

DAM, Meyndert van; STICHTER, Cornelis

A VOC ship’s binding from the Chamber of Amsterdam.

d’Erven Stichters Comptoir Almanach, Voor ‘t Jaar 1800. Voorzien van eene aanwyzing der Jaar-, Paarden-, Beesten- en Leermarkten, welke in de Bataafsche Republiek gehouden worden, als mede de Vacantien, het Varen der Trekschuyten en Beurtschepen, het vertrek der Posten en Postwagens. Nevens de maans op- en ondergang. Te Amsterdam : by de erfgen. van de Wed. C. Stichter, …

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# 42450

BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.

London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …

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# 13747

KLINGER, Johann Georg; MULLER, Johann Wolfgang

Relations de divers voyages curieux

Also titled: Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde. Nuremberg : J. G. Klinger, 1805-1807. Second edition. Original box of red paper over card, 114 x 100 x 105 mm, with gilt embossed decoration, the lid lettered in gilt Jeu de voyage des cinq parties du monde (corners bumped); the box in three compartments: …

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# 47313

[HOFMANN, Karl Friedrich]

L’homme cultivé, ou Tableau des différentes périodes de culture et de civilisation,

que le genre humain a parcourues depuis l’origine des sociétés jusqu’à nos jours. Ouvrage destiné à entretenir la jeunesse en l’instruisant et en lui formant le coeur. Enrichi de 50 gravures enluminées et de deux Cartes géographiques. Traduit de l’allemand d’après la seconde edition revue et augmentée. Leipzig : Bruder et Hofmann, [1812]. Square duodecimo (140 x 120 …

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# 29235

KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)

A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy.

In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …

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# 35516

BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

[CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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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 (315 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed pictorial papered boards (lightly rubbed), pp vi, 71, [1 table of contents], with 12 double-leaf chromolithographic …

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# 49394

BECHER, A. B.

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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# 46652

SIMPSON, Sir George (1787 - 1860)

Narrative of a journey round the world, during the years 1841 and 1842

London : Henry Colburn, 1847. Two volumes, octavo, polished half-calf over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, a few scuffs, spines a little faded, edges speckled red, armorial bookplates to front pastedowns, portrait frontispiece (foxed), pp. viii; large folding map of the …

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# 49618

MEYER, Anthony J.-P.

Oceanic Art / Ozeanische Kunst / Art Océanien (two volume edition)

Köln : Könemann, [1995]. First edition. Two volumes. Folio, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jackets (fine); pp. 640, with a total of 731 illustrations in colour and b/w, maps; housed in an illustrated box (some light edge wear). Parisian tribal art dealer Anthony Meyer’s monumental and fabulously well illustrated publication is probably …

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# 48532

D'ENTRECASTEAUX, Antoine Bruni [Bruny] (1737-1793)

Voyage de D’entrecasteaux, envoyé à la recherche de La Pérouse

… / rédigé par M. de Rossel. Paris : De L’Imprimerie impériale, 1808. Two volumes, thick quarto, both text volumes finely bound in uniform full morocco, ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked, spines in compartments with ornamental gilt tooling and lettering, all edges gilt, first volume with half-title, title leaf, pp. lvi, 704 pp with 32 folding …

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# 47286

[WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

[COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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