Voyages & Exploration

  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 34659

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. A fine copy.

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  • Relacion breve de la embaxada y presente que la Magestad del Rey Don Felipe

    # 13715

    MORAGA, Hernando de (d. 1620)

    Relacion breve de la embaxada y presente que la Magestad del Rey Don Felipe

    Tercero Rey de las Españas, y Emperador del Nuevo mundo, hizo á Xaabay Rey de Persia clarissimo: la qual embaxada dio Don García de Silua y Figueroa su Embaxador, el año passado de 1618 años, hecha por fray Hernando Moraga, Custodio de la Prouincia de San Gregorio de Felipinas, que se halló presente en la Corte del Persiano, …

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  • Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    # 34645

    ANEMAAT, Louise

    Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …

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  • [CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

    # 34643

    PECH, Émile

    [CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

    Paris : Ancienne Libraire Furne, Jouvet &​ Cie, 5 rue Palatine, [c 1895]. Quarto, contemporary half red cloth over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering, (joints weakened, edges rubbed with chips to spine), 286 pp (scattered foxing), illustrated with 73 gravures in the text. A fair copy. A French children’s story in which much of …

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  • The Sir Ross Smith flight : official souvenir.

    # 34525

    SMITH, Ross Macpherson Sir (1892-1922)

    The Sir Ross Smith flight : official souvenir.

    [Cover title]. Also titled: My own story of the flight. [Sydney] : Union Theatres, [1920]. Quarto (295 x 230 mm), original pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with some nicks and wear to fore-edge, lightly marked in lower corner and with contemporary pencilled owner’s inscription at top edge); staple bound, 8 pp; printed in sepia, illustrated with …

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  • Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo : a native of the Marquesas Islands, who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

    # 34378

    [PAGE, Harlan]

    Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo : a native of the Marquesas Islands, who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

    New York : American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-street, [1829]. At foot of wrapper title: Series IV., no. 1. Duodecimo (132 x 85 mm), illustrated yellow wrappers, stitch bound; original owner’s name (Charles A. Pierce, Groton, Mass.) to both sides of the upper wrapper; lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement and Fanshaw, printer at foot; pp 36, …

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  • Brittany

    # 34212

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Brittany

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Mortime Menpes. …

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  • Life in the forests of the Far East; or travels in Northern Borneo.

    # 34285

    ST. JOHN, Spenser

    Life in the forests of the Far East; or travels in Northern Borneo.

    London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, pebbled blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt with illustrations of palm trees, edges and corners rubbed, bookplates of W. H. Cresswell to verso of front free endpapers, pp. xvi; 406; (2, adverts); xii; 424, sixteen tinted lithographs and three folding maps (one with …

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  • Catalogue of extremely rare and important printed books and ancient manuscripts (signed presentation copy)

    # 33558

    ROBINSON, Lionel and Philip

    Catalogue of extremely rare and important printed books and ancient manuscripts (signed presentation copy)

    London : William H. Robinson Lts, 1948. Quarto, printed boards (discoloured and worn), pp. 200, illustrated including folding plates. Astonishing collection of printed books and manuscripts, too many treasures to list, but including the first book printed in English (Caxton’s Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy, 1475), the earliest known American verse (a broadside ballad …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; CATHOLIC MISSIONS] Massacre at Woodlark Island, (of crew and passengers of brig "Gazelle.")

    # 34022

    New South Wales. Legislative Assembly.

    [NEW GUINEA; CATHOLIC MISSIONS] Massacre at Woodlark Island, (of crew and passengers of brig “Gazelle.”)

    Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 27 February, 1857. Sydney : Government printer, 1857. Foolscap folio, string bound, pp [1], 15; marginal water damage at top edges, else fine. ‘Return to an Address from the Honorable the Legislative Assembly, dated 10 February, 1857, requesting that His Excellency the Governor General would be pleased …

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  • [MARQUESAS] Ueber den Ursprung des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Staatsform in den Südsee-Inseln, und zwar auf der Insel Nuckahiwah, einer der Washington-Inseln. 

    # 10668

    TILESIUS VON TILENAU, Wilhelm Gottlieb (1769-1857)

    [MARQUESAS] Ueber den Ursprung des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Staatsform in den Südsee-Inseln, und zwar auf der Insel Nuckahiwah, einer der Washington-Inseln. 

    pp 133-168 in: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pőlitz (editor), Jahrbücher der Geschichte und Staatskunst : eine Monatsschrift. Leipzig : Hinrichs, May, 1828. Octavo (215 x 130 mm), original printed wrappers, pp 113-224, partially uncut; with folio size folding lithographic plate of Marquesan tattoo designs at rear; a fine copy. Text in German in Fraktur. The German naturalist and explorer …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local "workboys", Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    # 33738

    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local “workboys”, Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    Two sepia tone gelatin silver print photographs on card stock, in identical 88 x 140 mm format, one with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘W. O. Linehan, Lt. Ryan & some native workboys at Manus’; both in excellent condition. In 1916 Australian soldiers Warrant Officer N. C. Linehan and Lieutenant Harold Ryan were …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    # 34398

    ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande. Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal.

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving with original hand colouring, 314 x 241 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 21 printed upper right. light foxing and handling marks. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …

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  • Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal

    # 34397

    ROGER, Barthelemy (1767-1841, engraver); PETIT, Nicolas-Martin (1777-1804, artist)

    Nouvelle-Hollande : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Bedgi-Bedgi, jeune homme de la tribu des Gwea-gal

    [Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur, 1824]. Copperplate stipple engraving, 318 x 242 mm (plate mark), 365 x 280 mm (sheet), titled in the image lower centre, number 22 printed upper right; pale foxing and handling marks, a very good example. Source : Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l’Empereur …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Art styles of the Papuan Gulf. (Ian Hogbin's copy, inscribed by Douglas Newton)

    # 33975

    NEWTON, Douglas (1920-2001)

    [NEW GUINEA] Art styles of the Papuan Gulf. (Ian Hogbin’s copy, inscribed by Douglas Newton)

    New York : Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. First edition. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial black papered boards printed in white (corners bumped, spine with a few small abrasions), a significant association copy, the front free-endpaper with the ownership signature of Australian anthropologist Ian Hogbin, inscribed below by the author, renowned ethnographer and …

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  • L’art autochtone de Nouvelle-Calédonie.

    # 33732

    GUIART, Jean

    L’art autochtone de Nouvelle-Calédonie.

    [Nouvelle-Caledonie] : Éditions des Études Mélanésiennes, [1953]. Octavo, publisher’s illustrated wrappers, 49 pp, illustrated with 27 plates (2 colour), line drawings in the text, folding colour map, bibliography; a fine copy. Text in French. An important and scarce reference work on the indigenous art of New Caledonia.

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