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53293
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History -- Volume 15, No. 1
$10.00 AUD

The Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1993. 64 PP. Contains article P. 18 to 29. Card covers. Near fine.. 24 x 16.3.

Article by F.R.L. Carleton. An Eighteenth Century conventual Franciscan naturalist on the Laperouse Expediton. PÃ¨re Laurent Receveur (1757-1788).

65077
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 21, Nos. 1 & 2
$20.00 AUD

The Australian Association for Maritime History. Adelaide. 1999. Edited by Mark STANIFORTH. No. 1: 72 PP, contains Part 1 of article between pages 46 to 62 with 1 map and 1 figure. No. 2: 73-144 PP, contains Part 2 of article between pages 73 to 106. with 1 figure. Card covers. Near fine. 24 x 16.3.

Articles by Alfons Van der Kraan: A Merchant Armed: The Van Goens mission to Ceylon and India, 1653-54.

70388
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 19, No. 1 - 1997
$10.00 AUD

The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1997. Edited by G.R. HENNING. No. 1: 72 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Card covers. Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 24.3 x 16.3.

No. 1: A regular and reciprocal system of commerce: Botany Bay, Nootka Sound and the isles of Japan, by Robert J. King. From Torres Islands to Dobo: the 1905 departure of the Torres Strait pearl-shelling fleets to Aru, Netherlands East Indies, by Steve Mullins. Cook's Endeavour Bark, by Mike Connell and Des Liddy.

65316
ACOSTA, Jose Juan Suarez, LORENZO, Felix Rodriguez & PADRON, Carmelo L. Quintero
CONQUISTA Y COLONIZACION
$20.00 AUD

Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1988. 1st Ed. No. 2 in the Historia Popular de Canarias series. 112 PP, (3 index), (2 authors) with 2 b/w plates and b/w illustrations (graph, maps & plans). Pictorial soft cover. Spanish text. Very good. 21 x 15. 8440412517

36694
ALAUX, Jean-Paul (editor)
MAGELLAN - Le Premier Voyage Autour du Monde par le Navire La Victoire, d'aprÃ¨s le RÃ©cit de Antoine Pigaphetta
$150.00 AUD

Editions du Galion d'Or. Paris. 1925. Limited edition of 600 copies. Trade edition of 500 numbered copies between 101 and 600 (No. 235), with a foreword by Paul Chack. (8), XXX, (2), 164 PP with wood cuts by Gustave Alaux, plus 5 plates of charts (4 folded). Fp: Arrival to the Pacific Ocean. Title page: Vignette of the Victoria. Illustrated card covers. Fine. French text. Scarce. 28.2 x 19.2.

61574
ALEXANDER, Caroline
SOUTH POLE RACE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 2011. Volume 220, No. 3, September 2011. 156 PP. Contains article P. 122 to 135 with 1map in colour, 1 figure and 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

The 1911 race to the South Pole between Scott and Amundsen.

70281
ALEXANDER, Caroline
SOUTH POLE RACE: AMUNDSEN vs SCOTT (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 220, No.3)
$5.00 AUD

N.G.S. Washington. 2011. September 2001. Includes article from P.122 to 135 with 1 map in colour and 10 b/w ilustrations (1 diagram and 9 b/w photos). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

67463
AMALFI, Carmello & The West Australian
BRAWL OVER WHO KEEPS RARE COIN / The French First Europeans to Claim Australia (in The West Australian)
$20.00 AUD

Perth. 1998. THe West Australian / The Australian. Articles pulled out from "The West Australian", "The Australian" published in January 1998. 4 pages and other related newspaper clippings with 1 sketch map, 2 colour and 8 b/w photos. Articles pasted down on card paper. Fine. 44 x 31.

Aftermath of the call of Saint AlloÃ¼arn, and his "Gros Ventre" at Dirk Hartog Island in April 1772.

50306
ANDERSON, Isabel
FROM CORSAIR TO RIFFIAN
$30.00 AUD

The Riverside Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1927. 1st Ed. XX, 209 PP, plus 24 plates with 28 b/w photos. Fp: A Riffian. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 20.7 x 14.5.

A 2 months long voyage in the mid 1920s, through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

45093
ANDREWS, Kenneth R. (editor)
THE LAST VOYAGE OF DRAKE AND HAWKINS
$5.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. Cambridge. 1972. Second Series. No. 142. XIV, 283 PP with 2 maps, plus 10 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, gilt device on front cover. Water damage on covers and endpapers. Spine sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Reading copy only. 22.5 x 14. 052101039X

45994
ANDREWS, Surgeon Captain O. W.
SEAMARKS AND LANDMARKS, being leaves from the log of Surgeon Captain O. W. Andrews, C.B.E., R.N.
$60.00 AUD

Ernest Benn Limited. London. 1927. 1st Ed. (8), 360, X, PP with 1 musical score and 5 drawings, plus 34 plates with 48 b/w illustrations, and a folded map of the Dardanelles and a folded chart of the South West Pacific). Fp: Portrait of the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Faint foxing and light wear to covers, o/wise a fine copy. 22.7 x 14.5.

Pacific Islands between December 1891 and February 1894 (Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides ...). Dardanelles and Gallipoli landing...

54236
ANGLEVIEL, FrÃ©dÃ©ric (editor)
PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS ET LE VANUATU. DÃ©couverte mutuelle et Historiographie d'un acte fondateur. 1606
$30.00 AUD

Groupe de Recherche sur l'Histoire OcÃ©anienne Contemporaine / DÃ©lÃ©gation de la Commission EuropÃ©enne au Vanuatu. Port Vila. 2007. 1st Ed. Opening Address by Nicolas Berlanga Martinez (European Commission) and prologue by Pierre Mayaudon (French Ambassador). 348 PP with 2 tables, 6 maps, 7 b/w illustrations and 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Texts in English, French, Spanish and abstracts in either language as well as Bichlamar. Fine. 20.8 x 15. 29515558082

Proceedings (15 papers) of a meeting organised in Vanuatu by the University of French Polynesia and the University of New Caledonia. 1 paper in Spanish, by Rey Juan Carlos. 4 papers in English by: Mercedes Camino, Carlos Mondragon, Michel Perez and Margaret Jolly. 10 papers in French by: Annie Baert, Jean-Christophe Galipaud, Dominique Barbe, Claire Laux, Francisco MellÃ©n...

34726
[ANONYMOUS]
MARITIME DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE
$10.00 AUD

W. & R. Chambers. London. c.1890. A Prize and Presentation book. 224, (32 adv.) PP with headpieces, tailpieces and 16 b/w illust. Fp: Selkirk falling over the precipice. Cloth cover, illustrated front cover, gilt title on spine. Speckling on front edge of front cover and spine. Internally very good. 18.8 x 12.5.

Tales of life on the ocean: Columbus' discovery of America. The South Sea Marauders: Henry Morgan, William Dampier... Narrative of the Dee a missing Whaler.

17982
ARCHIBALD, E. H. H.
TRAVELLERS BY SEA
$10.00 AUD

National Maritime Museum / HMSO. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 34 PP with 16 b/w illustrations on full page. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. Oblong: 16.5 x 21.5.

64440
ARMSTRONG, George & VIDAL, Gore
VIDAL IN VENICE
$15.00 AUD

Weidenfeld and Nicholson / Channel 4 Television. London. 1987. 1st paperback edition of the 1985 original. Edited by George Armstrong with a preface by Gore Vidal. 160 PP with colour illustrations (1 map with inset, paintings and colour photos by Tore Gill). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 26.4 x 19.5. 0297791575

20577
ARMSTRONG, Terence (editor)
YERMAK'S CAMPAIGN IN SIBERIA - A selection of documents translated from the Russian by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman, and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Terence Armstrong
$10.00 AUD

The Hakluyt Society. London. 1975. Second series volume 146. X, 315 PP with 1 map and 155 b/w illust., plus 1 folded map. Fp: The conquest of Siberia (folded plate). Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, small repaired closed tear at top of half-title page, o/wise a near fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5. 0904180034

52600
AUGHTON, Peter
THE FATAL VOYAGE. Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
$15.00 AUD

Tauris Parke Paperback. London. 2007. 1st paperback edition of the 2005 original. X, 203 PP, (3 publications) with 9 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 13. 1845114046

68763
AUGHTON, Peter
THE FATAL VOYAGE. Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
$25.00 AUD

Arris Books. London. 2005. 1st Ed. XII, 203 PP with 9 maps, plus 8 pages with 1 b/w and 12 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0184437050X

74514
AUROUSSEAU, M. (editor)
THE LETTERS OF F. W. LEICHHARDT (in 3 Volumes)
$60.00 AUD

The Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1968. 1st Ed. Vol. I: XVI, 424 PP with 4 maps (1 to 4). Fp: Portrait of Leichhardt in 1847. Vol. II: V, 425-820 PP with 4 maps 5 to 8), plus 1 large folded map (figure 9). Vol. III: VI, 821-1175 PP with 2 family trees and 2 maps (10 & 11). Cloth covers, gilt decoration "Victoria" on front boards, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, with foxing spots on outside edges. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 22 x 15.

14701
AUSTIN, K. A. (editor)
MATTHEW FLINDERS - On the Victorian Coast April-May 1802
$20.00 AUD

Cypress Book. Melbourne. 1974. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w illust. (charts, coastal views, paintings & photos). Fp: Flinders as a boy. FEP: Aerial view of the Shire of Flinders. REP: Surveyors at work. Pictorial stiff cover. Very good. 23.8 x 18.3. 0909807132

70764
BADGER, G. M. (editor)
CAPTAIN COOK, Navigator and Scientist
$25.00 AUD

A.N.U.P. Canberra. 1970. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Sir Macfarlane Burnet. IX, 143 PP with 4 colour & 18 b/w illust. Fp: Colour portrait of Captain James Cook, tipped in. Eps: Chart of the voyage of the Endeavour in the South Pacific 1769-1770. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 24 x 15. 0708100783

7 papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, in Canberra - 1 May 1969. J.C. Beaglehole, Sir Frederick White ...

20543
BADGER, Geoffrey
THE EXPLORERS OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD

Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 248 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 12 pages with 18 colour illustrations. Fp: Map of the Pacific. Eps: Mappe Monde. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 18.5. 0864172117

The story of hazard and adventure as the explorers found their way around the Pacific Ocean.

74573
BAILEY, John
INTO THE UNKNOWN - The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt
$30.00 AUD

Macmillan. Sydney. 2011. 1st Ed. XIV, 396, (6 publications) PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations (7 of them portraits). Pictorial stiff covers. Signed by the author on title page. Remainder mark on bottom outside edge. Near fine. 22.7 x 15.2. 9781742610450

69251
BAIONE, Tom (editor)
NATURAL HISTORIES: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
$30.00 AUD

Sterling Signature. New York. 2014. 1st Hardcover edition of the 2012 original. Foreword by Ellen V. Futter. XII, 164 PP with over 200 b/w or colour illustrations. FEP: A two-toed sloth climbing upright. REP: Trigla Volitans (Flying Gunard). Hard cover, pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.3. 9781454812149

Forty essays by Museum experts or notable masterworks, spanning 400 years. The First Animal Book, by Richard Ellis (Historia Animalium in five volumes , by Conrad Gessner, published 1551 to 1558). ... Discovering a New World: FranÃ§ois PÃ©ron's Voyage to Australia, by Richard Pearson (Voyage de dÃ©couvertes aux Terres Australes ... ). ... Sailing to the South Pole: Dumont d'Urville and the Discovery of East Antarctica, by Ross D. E. Macphee ....

14600
BALLANDE, Henri
LE PREMIER CAP-HORNIER
$20.00 AUD

Editions du Pen-Duick / Ouest-France. Paris. 1989. 1st Ed. 115 PP, plus 16 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 23 x 15.4. 2737304539

Voyage of discovery on board Eendracht, by her ship-owner Lemaire and her captain Willem Schouten between 1615 & 1617 to round the Horn. Discovery of Futuna (or Horn) Island...

75442
BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael
THE WORLD OF ICE; or The Cruise of "The Dolphin"
$25.00 AUD

Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. London. c. 1903. 1st edition in "The Rainbow" series. 310 PP, (10 publications). Fp: " ' She is a trim-built craft and a good ship ' ". Eps: Lists of publications. Cloth covers, illustrations and title on front board an spine. Prize note dated 1903 on verso of front endpaper. Ageing of paper and light foxing. Very good. 19.6 x 13.5.

Cruise to the Arctic and Greenland.

44884
BALLINA MUSEUM
LAS BALSAS EXPEDITION, Ecuador - Australia
$10.00 AUD

Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum. Ballina, NSW. c. 2000. No pagination, 16 PP with 1 map at centrefold, 4 b/w photos and 9 portraits. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15.

3 balsa rafts Guayaquil, Mooloolaba and Aztlan, from Guyaquil (27 May 1973) in Equador to Ballina in Australia, 8600 miles and 178 days.

45299
BANBURY, Philip
MAN AND THE SEA - From the Ice Age to the Norman Conquest
$15.00 AUD

Adlard Coles. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 269 PP with 7 maps, 14 drawings and 29 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0229115063

As the earth warmed, Man migrated North and became seaborne giving us the Venetis (Celtic in French Brittany), the Vikings, the Normans ...

13762
BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS
EARLY FRENCH VOYAGES TO AUSTRALIA - LES PREMIERES EXPEDITIONS FRANCAISES VERS L'AUSTRALIE (A portfolio of reproductions)
$450.00 AUD

Banque Nationale de Paris. Melbourne. 1981. Limited edition of 2300 copies. Special folder containing: An 8 PP text book with a preface by Rodney Davidson, 2 colour reproductions of invitations to attend State banquets marking the Centenary of Settlement in NSW (1888) and the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament (1901) and on title page (protected by tissue guard): Frontispiece of "Atlas du Voyage de La PÃ©rouse, 1797". As well as 17 facsimiles of plates (4 of them on double page) from the atlases from Bougainville's Voyage until that of Dumont d'Urville's Second Voyage. Original blue stiff folder. Letter from Banque Nationale de Paris to previous owner loosely inserted. Fine. French & English text. Large folio (47.3 cm x 65.6cm). This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.

44071
BARBICHE, Jean-Paul, BLONDEL, Annie & RANSON, Rita (editors)
DES ODYSSEES A TRAVERS LE TEMPS - Voyages, migrations, dÃ©couvertes
$100.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2002. 1st Ed. 458, (2) PP. Soft cover. Fine. French and English texts. 24 x 16 2747531708

40 texts on voyages, migrations and discoveries. 2 in English (Sailor, prospector, tramp: Jack London's journeys to socialism...), and 38 in French ( Le Havre to Valparaiso, on board the clipper Mineiro... Three uneasy pieces: the linguistic odyssey of Patrick White...)

38159
BARBOUR, Philip L. (editor)
THE JAMESTOWN VOYAGES UNDER THE FIRST CHARTER 1606-1609 Volume I
$25.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. Cambridge. 1969. 1st Ed. Publication 136 of Hakluyt Society second series. Vol. I: XXVIII, 247 PP with 1 facsimile of title page and 2 maps, plus 1 folded map and 2 b/w plates. Fp: The original fleet of 1606. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj has a little light foxing, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.

Documents relating to the foundation of Jamestown and the history of the Jamestown colony up to the departure of Captain John Smith, last president of the Council in Virginia under the first charter, early in October, 1609. Volume I: 44 documents.

31575
BARKER, Felix, ROSS-MACDONALD, Malcolm & CASTLEREAGH, Duncan
THE GLORIOUS AGE OF EXPLORATION
$15.00 AUD

Doubleday. New York. 1973. 1st US edition of the 1971 UK original, in the Encyclopedia of Discovery and Exploration. 488 PP with b/w and colour illust. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26.5 x 19.5. 038504352X

From the first explorations by Egyptians and Phoenicians to the voyage of Magellan.

31506
BARR, William & WILLIAMS, Glyndwr (editors)
VOYAGES TO HUDSON BAY IN SEARCH OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE 1741-1747 (in two volumes)
$30.00 AUD

The Hakluyt Society. London. 1994 & 1995. Nos. 177 & 181 in the Second series. Volume I: XII, (2), 333 PP with 11 b/w plates. Fp: Inscription on rocks at Sloop Cove, Churchill. Volume II: XV, 393 PP with 20 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Arthur Dobbs (1755). Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner at top of FFEP of Volume I. Dust jackest a little rubbed, o/wise a fine set. 22.2 x 14.2. 0904180360 / 417

Volume I: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton in 1741-1742 on the Furnace and the Discovery. Volume II: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747 on the Dobbs Galley and the California..

57622
BARRATT, Glynn
RUSSIA IN PACIFIC WATERS 1715-1825, A Survey of the Origins of Russia's Naval Presence in the North and South Pacific
$75.00 AUD

University of British Colombia Press. Vancouver. 1981. 1st Ed. XVIII, 300 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edge. Fine. 22.7 x 15. 0774801174

50499
BARRES, Alain, LAFFON, Michel, et al.
COLLOQUE LAPEROUSE ALBI, 1985 - Bicentenaire du Voyage de LapÃ©rouse 1785-1788
$120.00 AUD

Association LapÃ©rouse Albi - France. Albi. 1988. 1st Ed. Preface by Dr. Pierre Amalric. 464, 56, (8 program & colophon) PP with the 56 pages being the reprint of a special issue of SEH bulletin with "List of Items" collected on the wrecks and b/w illustrations (charts, maps & plans, engravings, facsimile of documents, portraits & photos), plus 28 pages with b/w illustrations (charts, maps, plans, photos and portraits). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2950264301

53 papers presented at the Seminar held in Albi on the 28th, 29th and 30th March, 1985. Copy numbered 019 on the colophon. One of the copies distributed to the attendants at this Seminar.

20135
BARRETO, Mascarenhas
THE PORTUGUESE COLUMBUS, Secret Agent of King John II
$25.00 AUD

Macmillan. London. 1992. 1st English edition, translated from the 1988 Portuguese original O PortuguÃªs Cristovao Colombo: Agente Secreto do Rei Dom Joao II. XXII, 572 PP with 6 tables, 19 genealogical trees, and 86 illlust., plus 8 pages with 16 b/w plates. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 09333563158

Columbus: a Portuguese spy in the court of the Spanish monarchs with the mission of putting Spain off the true route to India by misleading them into the Caribbean.

69886
BARRIE, David
SEXTANT - A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
$15.00 AUD

William Collins. London. 2015. 1st printing of the 2015 paperback edition (original of 2014). XX, 348 PP with 5 maps (4 on double page) and 9 figures (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 23 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.6 x 12.8. 9780007516582

70963
BASS, Gordon
THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURER
$20.00 AUD

Ebury Press / Penguin Random House Australia. Sydney. 2017. 1st Ed. (14), 365, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (2 plans of "Half-Safe" and 3 maps), plus 16 pages with 7 colour and 31 b/w photos). Pictorial soft covers. New. 23.3 x 15.3. 9781925324990

Bern Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep.

72085
BASSETT, Marnie
REALMS AND ISLANDS, The World Voyage of Rose de Freycinet in the Corvette Uranie 1817-1820
$55.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. London. 1962. 1st Ed. XII, 275 PP with 2 maps, plus 24 pages with 1 map and 46 b/w illust. Fp: Portraits of Rose and of Louis de Freycinet. FEP: Voyage Toulon to Shark Bay. REP: Shark Bay to Le Havre. Cloth cover, gilt ttle on vignette on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 15.

The voyage of Rose with her husband, Capt. Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, of the Uranie. Calls in Australia, shipwrecked on the Falklands (from her journal & letters and the reports of Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, Capitaine de Corvette).

42997
BATHE, B. W.
SEVEN CENTURIES OF SEA TRAVEL, From the Crusaders to the Cruises
$15.00 AUD

Barrie & Jenkins. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 298, (1) PP with 327 b/w illustrations, and 30 colour plates pasted down.. Cloth, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. Large format: 31.7 x 28.5. 0214668118

The development of sea travel from the 14th century to the present. A splendid publication.

20620
BATHE, B.W.
SEVEN CENTURIES OF SEA TRAVEL - From the Crusaders to the Cruises
$10.00 AUD

Portland House. New York. 1990. Reprint of the 1st US edition. 296 PP with 30 colour & 327 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.5 x 25.2. 0517017547

The development of sea travel from the 14th century to the present.

74607
BATTERSBY, William
JAMES FITZJAMES - The Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition
$30.00 AUD

Dundurn Press, Ltd. Toronto. 2010. 1st North American edition. 224 PP with 2 Family Tree and 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w illustrations (2 of them with an insert). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 24 x 16.5. 9781554887811

Captain of HMS Erebus during the ill-fated Arctic Voyage under Sir John Franklin's overall command.

21189
BAUDIN, Nicolas
LE VOYAGE AUX TERRES AUSTRALES 1800-1804
$10.00 AUD

MusÃ©e EugÃ¨ne Boudin / Ville de Honfleur. Honfleur. 1996. 4 PP in the form of a newspaper with 1 map in colour, 2 b/w & 10 colour illustrations. Compiled by Ann-Marie Bergeret. French text. Fine. 35 x 25.

Journal of an exhibition held from 4th May to 24 June 1996 at Honfleur, the birth place of Emmanuel Hamelin who was the Captain of the Naturaliste, one of the two vessels of Baudin's expedition to Australia (1800-1804). Preparations and the voyage itself. The exhibition was held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Contains a short biography of Admiral Emmanuel Hamelin and two of the artists of the voyage (Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas Martin Petit).

70561
BAUDIN, Nicolas
REFLECTIONS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL VOYAGER: Nicolas Baudin Letter to Philip Gidley King, 24 December 1802
$30.00 AUD

Friends of the State Library of South Australia. Adelaide. 2016. 1st edition. Edited and Translated by Jean Fornasiero. 46, (2) PP. Stiff covers, illustrated front. French and English text. Fine. 23.5 x 18. 9781876154912

... Supposed claims by the French Government on Van Diemen's Land ... Relations in Sydney between the English and the Aborigines... On the name given to King Island...

70676
BAUDIN, Nicolas
THE JOURNAL OF POST CAPTAIN NICOLAS BAUDIN - 1800-1803, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes GEOGRAPHE and NATURALISTE
$500.00 AUD

Friends of the Library of South Australia. Adelaide. 2004. New edition of the 1974 original Australian edition, translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with an updated (2004) preface and a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. Edition limited to 300 copies (99 numbered), this is one of the unumbered copies. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 222. XXI, 609 PP with 1 map and 1 chart, plus large folded map in pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Half title page with portrait of Nicolas Baudin. Title page. Cloth cover, bound in quarter leather, gilt device and title on spine, device in blind on front board, ribbon page marker. A fine copy. Scarce. 25.3 x 19.5. 187615442X

70824
BAUMAN, Jon
THE SOVEREIGNS AND THE ADMIRAL: A Biography of Isabel, Ferdinand and Colombus
$10.00 AUD

Epigram Press. Lufkin, Texas. 1991. 1st printing of the original edition. 379 PP with 1 family Tree of the Sovereigns and 3 maps. Hard cover, dj. Ex-library copy with rubbed patches on endpapers, stamps on front endpaper and the title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. 23.5 x 16. 1878096230

62286
BEAGLEHOLE, J. C.
THE DISCOVERY OF NEW ZEALAND
$35.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. London. 1961. 2nd edition of the 1939 original. XII, 102 PP, plus 7 b/w plates, & 1 folded chart at back. Fp: Portrait of James Cook. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (protected). Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.3 x 14.5.

The successive stages of the discovery of New Zealand.

73344
BEAGLEHOLE, J. C.
THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY (in 4 volumes and a portfolio)
$2200.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. Cambridge. 1968, 1969, 1967, 1967, 1974 & 1955. 2 reprints & 3 original editions. Volume I (Reprint of the 1955 original): CCLXXXIV, (2), 696 PP with 12 b/w illustrations in text, plus 9 folded plates (1 plan, 7 maps & 1 facsimile) and 32 pages with 35 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance, 1776. Volume II (reprint of the 1961 original): (4), CLXX, 1028 PP with 22 b/w illustrations in text, plus 2 folded maps, 6 folded plates and 52 pages with 67 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): The Resolution, by Henry Roberts. Volume III (original edition in 2 parts) - Part one: CCXXIV, 718 PP with 13 sketch maps, plus 2 folded maps, 5 folded plates and 64 pages with 75 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Captain Cook by John Webber. Part two: VIII, 721-1647 PP with 1 sketch map, plus 1 large folded map at end of volume and 10 plates with 11 b/w illustrations. Fp: Silhouette David Samwell. Volume IV (original edition): XII, 760 PP with 4 sketch maps in text, plus 1 large folded map, 3 colour plates and 30 pages with 47 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Captain James Cook by Nathaniel Dance, 1776. Top edge tinted. Portfolio "Charts & Views", edited by R.A. Skelton (original edition): VIII PP, plus 68 Charts and Views (some of them folded) drawn by Cook and his Officers. Each volume with cloth covers, gilt device on front boards, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket of Volumes I & II price clipped. Dust jacket of Volume IV with a faded spine and light insect damage on the lower part of flaps. Ageing of some of the dust jackets and a rubbed patch on Volume III (Part one). All volumes and portfolio have dust jackets and they are in plastic protective sleeves. Ageing of paper and occasional foxing, mainly on outside edges and some of the endpapers. Still a very good complete set. More images available upon request. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Volumes: 24.7 x 16.5, and Portfolio: 39.5 x 26.

Complete set published by the Hakluyt Society, Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771, with the 1968 Addenda and Corrigenda. Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775, with 1969 Addenda and Corrigenda. Volume III: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780, with the 1973 addendum "Cook and the Russians". Volume IV: The Life of Captain James Cook. Portfolio: "Charts & Views".

10316
BEALE, Edgar
KENNEDY OF CAPE YORK
$25.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1970. 1st Ed. (12), 282 PP with 6 maps (2 on double page), plus 20 pages with 48 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of Australia with tracks of Edmund Kennedy's Australian Travels 1840-1848. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 24 x 16.5. 0851790062

51535
BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE, C. F.
CARTE DES ARCHIPELS DES ILES SALOMON, DE LA LOUISIADE ET DE LA NOUVELLE BRETAGNE, situÃ©s Ã l'Est de la Nouvelle GuinÃ©e
$500.00 AUD

DÃ©pÃ´t GÃ©nÃ©ral de la Marine. Paris. 1806. Original copper-engraved chart (Hyd. Fr. No. 608 - No. 21) showing the tracks of Bruny d'Entrecasteaux' s Frigates in 1792 and in 1793. Size of chart inside graduated border (Latitude and Longitude MÃ©ridien de l'Observatoire ImpÃ©rial de Paris): 465 x 730 mm. Chart mounted on canvas buckram, laid paper with watermark Crown & Shield (AM on Shield) and name ARCHETTE. Coloured in outline with a very fine appearance. Very good condition. Size: 565 x 840 mm.

Chart of the Solomon Islands, the Louisiade and New Britain Archipelagoes, by C. F. Beautemps BeauprÃ©, hydrographer with the Expedition led by Bruny d'Entrecasteaux in search for LapÃ©rouse.

74515
BECKLER, Hermann
A JOURNEY TO COOPER'S CREEK
$50.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press & State Library of Victoria. Melbourne. 1993. 1st edition, No. 13 in the Miegunyah Press series. Translated by Stephen Jeffries and Michael Kertesz. Editor's Preface and Introduction by Stephen Jeffries. XLV, 205 PP with 9 drawings & 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 2 b/w and 2 colour illustrations and 1 large folded map tipped in on rear endpaper. Hard covers, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy. 24.2 x 15.5 9780522844849

31785
BEEBE, William
EDGE OF THE JUNGLE
$10.00 AUD

Garden City. New York. No date, c. 1928. Reprint of the 1921 original. (8), 303 PP. Fp: Portrait of William Beebe. Cloth cover. Covers marked, spine sunned, ageing of paper. Very good. 20.7 x 13.5.

Essays Dealing with the jungle at the Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society situated at Kartabo, British Guiana.

46311
BEEBE, William
HIGH JUNGLE
$5.00 AUD

Readers Union. London. 1952. Reprint of the original published by John Lane. XII, 234 PP with 2 drawings, plus 32 pages with 50 b/w photos. Eps: maps of the Americas and part of Venezuela.Cloth cover, device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Covers speckled. Foxing spots. Very good reading copy. 21 x 13.

Essays dealing with the jungle of Venezuela, in 1945, 1946 and 1948.

72769
BEGG, A. Charles & BEGG, Neil C.
DUSKY BAY
$20.00 AUD

Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. Christchurch, N.Z. 1966. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Right Hon. the Viscount Cobham. 240 PP with 18 figures (charts, drawing, letters, maps, sketches), plus 32 pages with 39 b/w and 31 colour illustrations. Hard cover, vignette on spine with gilt title, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and soiled with repaired tears and now in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy. Scarce. 24.6 x 15.6.

In the steps of Captain Cook.

31872
BELLEC, FranÃ§ois
OCEANS DES HOMMES
$20.00 AUD

Ouest-France. Rennes. 1987. 1st Ed. 236 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Hekatottore, Greek war galley with 100 oars. REP: View of Venice, 1500. Pictorial laminated boards. French text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.6 x 17. 2737300401

Mankind and the oceans.

46789
BELLEC, FranÃ§ois
LE LIVRE DE L'AVENTURE MARITIME
$10.00 AUD

Philippe Lebaud / Editions du FÃ©lin. Paris. 1995.. 1st edition, in Collection Les Temps du Monde. 315 PP, (2 colophon) with 34 b/w illustrations, plus 30 pages with 46 colour illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 27.5 x 19. 2866452054

63858
BERENGER, M.
COLLECTION ABREGEE DES VOYAGES FAITS AUTOUR DU MONDE - Tome QuatriÃ¨me
$100.00 AUD

Lejay fils, Libraire. Paris. 1789. 1st Edition of Volume 4: 408 PP with 1 headpiece, 1 tailpiece and a frontispiece. Fp: Anson voit revenir son Vaisseau... Tinted outside edges. Hard cover, full leather bound, gilt decoration and title "Voyage de Kooc" & "4" on spine. Stain on lower margin of leaf 113/114 & lower corner of leaf 131/132 chipped (no loss of text). French text. Very good. 19.3 x 11.5.

Volume 4 - 3 Voyages around the World: M. De La Barbinais Le Gentil (1714-1718) - Commodore Anson (1740-1744) - Capitaine Wallis (1766-1768).

73333
BERGER, Arthur
WUNDERWELT DER SÃœDSEE
$20.00 AUD

Buchergilde Gutenberg. Berlin. 1940. 1st edition. 168, (2) PP with 1 map at rear of book, plus 40 pages with 39 b/w photos. Hard cover, illustrated front board, cloth spine. Covers with light wear around edges and in a protective sleeve. German text, gothic script. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 23.8 x 17.

Wonderful world of the South Seas.

44296
BERRILL, N. J.
JOURNEY INTO WONDER
$10.00 AUD

Victor Gollancz. London. 1953. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 1 headpiece and 3 maps. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Few annotations in margin. Small stain on page 67. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 20 x 13.

The great voyages that opened up the world.

73499
BETHUNE, Gordon & HULER, Scott
FROM WORST TO FIRST - Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback
$30.00 AUD

John Wiley & Sons. New York. 1998. 1st Ed. Foreword "Letter from a customer and friend" by George Bush. 294 PP. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.8. 9780471248354

Continental Airlines.

38409
BIVAR, A. D. H. (editor)
THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA, A.D. 1325-1354 - Volume V - Index to Volumes I-IV
$20.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 2000. 1st Ed. Publication 190 of Hakluyt Society second series. X, 153 PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Letter from Hakluyt Society loosely inserted. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed around edges, o/wise a fine copy. 22.3 x 14.2. 0904180670

67132
BLAINEY, Geoffrey
SEA OF DANGERS: Captain Cook and his Rivals
$20.00 AUD

Penguin Group. Melbourne. 2010. 1st paperback edition of the 2008 original. XI, 420 PP with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 10 b/w and 14 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780143798521

1768 to 1771: quest of the great Southland by Captain Cook on the Endeavour and Jean de Surville on the St. Jean Baptiste.

71493
BLAINEY, Geoffrey
SEA OF DANGERS: Captain Cook and his Rivals
$30.00 AUD

Viking. Melbourne. 2008. 1st Ed. XI, 420 PP with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 10 b/w and 14 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dust jacket with llight shelf wear. 4 newspaper cuttings (The Sydney Morning Herald) loosely inserted. Discreet stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper. Near fine. 24 x 15.7. 9780670072231

1768 to 1771: quest of the great Southland by Captain Cook on the Endeavour and Jean de Surville on the St. Jean Baptiste.

75656
BLAKE, John
THE SEA CHART - The illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
$40.00 AUD

Conway/Anova Books Ltd. London. 20O9. Paperback edition of the 2004 original. Foreword by HRH The Duke of York. 164 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Illlustrated stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 30 x 28. 9781844860630

65226
BLIGH, William
THE BLIGH NOTEBOOK - 'Rough Account - Lieutenant Wm Bligh's voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor'
$25.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin / National Library of Australia. Sydney / Canberra. 1987 Transcription and Facsimile, edited by John Bach. XIV, 336 with 3 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations including 2 large folded plates with plans of Bounty launch, chart from Tofua to Isle of Java (with 3 insets) and painting of Kupang about 1803, & the facsimile of the Notebook (Page 221 to 328), draft list of mutineers (pages 331 to 336). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 24.6 x 16.8. 0049090321 / 0642104042

58974
BLOND, Georges
GRANDS NAVIGATEURS
$20.00 AUD

Gautier-Languereau. Paris. 1974. 1st edition in the Collection Nouveaux Bibliophiles, of the 1960 original. 147, (4) PP, plus 128 pages with over 155 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, colour vignette on front board, gilt title on spine. French text. Fine. 23.2 x 17.5.

14692
BOMBARD, Alain
LES GRANDS NAVIGATEURS
$10.00 AUD

Presses de la Cite. Paris. 1976. 1st Ed. 269 PP with 14 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Spine with a crease, foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. French text. 24 x 15.3. 2258001633

The Vikings, the Explorers (Bougainville, Cook, La PÃ©rouse), the legendary seafarers (Ulysses, Pytheas,...).

52891
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland
NOTE sur les rÃ©cents Voyages du Dr. H. Ten Kate, dans l'AmÃ©rique du Sud
$100.00 AUD

BibliothÃ¨que du Prince Roland Bonaparte. Paris. 1886. 1st Ed. Introduction by F. Escard. 11 PP. Bound copy. Card cover, cloth spine, title on paper vignette pasted down on front cover. Stamp at top corner of first page. Ingleton bookplate inside front cover. Near fine. French text. 25 x 19.

Voyage of an Anthropologist in Dutch Guyana where he arrived on 13 June 1885 at Paramaribo...

66699
BONINGTON, Chris
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE - Ultimate Feats of Modern Exploration
$15.00 AUD

Adventure Press / National Geographic Society. Washington. 2000. 1st Ed. 352 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, plans and photos). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 27.2 x 20.2. 0792279530

17 Adventures - Oceans: Kon Tiki / Thor Heyerdahl. Gipsy Moth / Francis Chichester. Ice Bird / David Lewis. ... Desert. Rivers. Mountains. Poles ... Air.

67432
BONINGTON, Chris
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE
$10.00 AUD

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1981. 1st Ed. 448 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, plans and photos). Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing. Very good. 28.2 x 22.2. 0340255994

21 Adventures - Oceans: Kon Tiki / Thor Heyerdahl. Gipsy Moth / Francis Chichester. Ice Bird / David Lewis. ... Desert. Rivers. Mountains. Poles ... Air.

65836
BONNE, M.
ATLAS MARITIME OU CARTES REDUITES DE TOUTES LES CÃ”TES DE FRANCE, avec des Cartes particuliÃ¨res des Isles voisines les plus considÃ©rables, suivies des Plans des principales Villes Maritimes de ce Royaume
$4500.00 AUD

Chez LattrÃ©. Paris. 1762. 1st Ed. Avertissement, 6 Mars, 1762, by Bellin. 8, (30 plates on double page), 46, 4 PP with 32 colour plates (Title page, DÃ©dicace au Roi and 30 colour plates on double page (1 Chart of France, 6 charts on the Atlantic Coast, 2 charts on the Mediterranean Coast, 3 charts on islands off the Atlantic Coast and 18 of plans). Full leather bound, gilt decorated covers, gilt title (shortened) on spine, all edges gilt, marbled enddpapers. Last plate with a short repair at fold and a few pages have small nicks at the bottom and one very small repaired closed tear. Corners of covers rubbed. French text. A near fine copy. Rare. Octavo format: 12.8 x 8.5.

Coasts and Ports of France, before the purchase of the Island of Corsica. An item for the collector. More images available upon request.

43282
BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline, BUSTARRET, Claire & BRETON, GÃ©rard
ETUDE CODICOLOGIQUE DES MANUSCRITS ET DESSINS DE MEDUSES DE FRANCOIS PERON ET CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR
$30.00 AUD

Editions du MusÃ©um du Havre. Le Havre. 1995. Volume 82, part 2, 2nd term 1995 of Bulletin Trimestriel de la SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©ologique de Normandie et des Amis du MusÃ©um du Havre. Contains article P. 5 to 97 with 41 b/w illust. and 6 b/w plates, plus 4 pages Addenda & Errata loosely inserted. Lacks the original soft cover, o/wise fine. French text. 29.5 x 20.8.

Material analysis of the documents as supports of texts and drawings drafted by PÃ©ron and Lesueur for their study on jelly-fish during a determined period of time (1800-1810). Comparison with other manuscripts contemporary with their work.

61043
BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline, BUSTARRET, Claire & BRETON, GÃ©rard
ETUDE CODICOLOGIQUE DES MANUSCRITS ET DESSINS DE MEDUSES DE FRANCOIS PERON ET CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR
$35.00 AUD

68921
BONNICHON, Philippe, GENY, Pierre & NEMO, Jean (editors)
PRESENCES FRANCAISES OUTRE-MER (XVIe-XXIe siÃ¨cles) - Tome I
$110.00 AUD

AcadÃ©mie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer / Karthala. Paris. 2012. 1st edition. Foreword by Abou Diouf and Preface by Xavier Darcos. Vol. I: 1190 PP, plus XII plates with b/w or colour illustrations.. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing. Fine. 24 x 16. 9782811107376

Tome / Volume I - Histoire: PÃ©riodes et Continents / History: Chronology , Continents.

68922
BONNICHON, Philippe, GENY, Pierre & NEMO, Jean (editors)
PRESENCES FRANCAISES OUTRE-MER (XVIe-XXIe siÃ¨cles) - Tome II
$85.00 AUD

AcadÃ©mie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer / Karthala.. Paris. 2012. 1st edition. Vol. II: 618, (4) PP with b/w illustrations (1 facsimile of document, 1 graph, 4 photos, 6 maps), plus XVI plates with b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing. Fine. 24 x 16. 9782811107383

Tome / Volume II: Science, religion et culture.

63733
BOOZ, Elisabeth B. & Patrick R., CLARKE, Thurston, FISHER, Ron & RAMSAY, Cynthia Russ
GREAT JOURNEYS OF THE WORLD
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1996. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, simile leather, device in blind on front board, gilt title on spine. Fine. 26 x 18. 0792229428

Crossing Europe on the Orient Express. On Safari in East Africa. A Royal Train through Rajasthan. Cruising the mighty Yangtze River. Traveling Canada's Transcontinental Railroad.

39003
BOURDAT, Pierre / DERIBERE, Paulette & Maurice
LOYS MASSON (1915-1969): PoÃ¨te et Romancier de l'OcÃ¨an Indien - An Indian Ocean Poet and Novelist / LES ILES MALDIVES - THE MALDIVE ISLANDS (in Courrier des Messageries Maritimes No. 141)
$20.00 AUD

Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes. Paris. 1974. No. 141, July-August 1974. Contains articles: P. 15 to 19 with 9 b/w photos / P. 20 to 29 with 1 map, 2 colour and 12 duotone illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French and English text. 30.5 x 24.

Loys Masson. Maldive archipelago, in the Indian Ocean.

73714
BOWDEN, Tim
CHANGI PHOTOGRAPHER - George Aspinall's Record of Captivity
$20.00 AUD

ABC Enterprise & Sun Books. Sydney. 1989. Paperback edition of the 1984 original. 144 PP with b/w illustrations: 3 maps, 2 newspaper clippings and photographs. Pictorial stiff covers. Reminder mark at top outside edge, o/wise fine. 21.8 x 21. 9780725105808

Departure and following the Fall of Singapore: POW in Changi, construction of the Burma railway...

73715
BOWDEN, Tim
THE CHANGI CAMERA - A Unique Record of Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway
$10.00 AUD

Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2012. Revised and expanded edition of the 1984 original. XIV, 242 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 newspaper clipping, 1 leaflet, 3 maps and photographs. Illustrated endpapers. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 17.7. 9780733629624

Departure and following the Fall of Singapore: POW in Changi, construction of the Burma railway...

18415
BOWEN, E. G.
BRITAIN AND THE WESTERN SEAWAYS
$5.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 196 PP with 61 photos, 17 line draw., 27 maps & 1 table in text. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Covers lightly marked. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21 x 15.7. 0500020760

The Atlantic Ocean and connected waterways which played an important role in the prehistory and early history of Western Europe.

66946
BOWERMASTER, Jon
DESCENDING THE DRAGON: My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 2008. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w photos, plus 32 pages with 29 colour photos. Photography by Rob Howard. Pictorial stiff covers. Top corner of last 50 page lightly bumped. Near fine. 25.4 x 21 9781426203046

... by kayak.

55461
BOWIE, Beverley
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK OF EMPIRE (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume CXII, No. 5, 1957)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1957. Volume CXII, No. 5, Nov. 1957. Includes article from P.583 to 626 with an introduction by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1 map on double page, 28 b/w photos and 17 colour illustrations (2 paintings by Edward Seago & 15 photos). Soft cover, spine worn. Leaf 637/638 torn (not affecting this article). Near fine. 25.4 x 17.4.

Voyage of the Royal Yacht Britannia.

68117
BOYD, Alistair
ROYAL CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
$10.00 AUD

Macdonald. London. 1962. April 1962 reprint of the January 1962 original. XII, 13-224 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w photos. Fp: "... how to get there". Cloth cover, title on vignette on spine. Signature of previous owner and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front endpaper. Very good condition. 22.2 x 14.5.

Alistair's journey around the world, following the quip of Prince Philip: "What I would like every University student or graduate to be able to do first of all is to work his way around the world on Â£5 ...".

54528
BRANCHI, Camillo
INSELN DER SONNE, INSELN DES GRAUENS: Kreuzfahrt im Pazifik
$10.00 AUD

Albert MÃ¼ller Verlag. Zurich. c. 1941. 1st German edition of the Italian original Dalle Isole Turchine agli Atolli del Sole. 202, (2) pp. Eps: Map of the South Pacific. Cloth cover, decorated front. Spine lightly sunned. Slight ageing of paper. German text. Very good. 23 x 16.

Cruise in the Pacific.

73557
BRASSEY, Lady
LE TOUR DU MONDE EN FAMILLE - Voyage de la Famille BRASSEY dans son Yacht le "SUNBEAM" -
$65.00 AUD

Alfred Mame & Fils. Tours. 1885. French edition translated by Richard Viot. Preface by Thomas Brassey. 414, (2 errata) PP with 78 woodcut engravings. FP: Royal Palm Avenue, Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro. Soft covers, title on front cover and spine. Corners of covers slightly worn, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 30.2 x 21.3.

A fast circumnavigation on a screw composite 3-masted top-sail yard schooner from Sheerness on 1/07/1876 to Cowes on 26th May, 1877. First call in a South Pacific island: Hao in the Tuamotus.

76036
BRASSEY, Lady.
A VOYAGE IN THE "SUNBEAM" - Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
$20.00 AUD

Century Publishing. London. 1984. Reprint in "The Century Seafarers" series of the 1878 original with the Preface by Thomas Brassey. Introduction by George Millar. XX, 492 PP with 66 b/w wood engravings by G. Pearson. FP: The Sunbeam. Title page: Cape Brassey, Smyth's Sound. Pictorial stiff covers with shelf wear and a few rubs and creases on spine.. Foxing spots on outside edges. A very good reading copy. 21.5 x 13.3. 0712603360

A fast circumnavigation on a screw composite 3-masted top-sail yard schooner from Sheerness on 1/07/1876 to Cowes on 26th May, 1877. First call in a South Pacific island: Hao, Tuamotus ...

68507
BRAZIER, Mark & DAVIES, Shann
VIVA MACAU !
$20.00 AUD

Macmillan. Hong Kong. 1980. 1st Ed. Foreword by Stanley Ho. (12), 132 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title-page: Chart of mouth of Canton river with Macau. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, chipped dj. Signature of previous owner on first page. Very good. 29 x 21.5. 9620301617

History of the first European city built on the Asian mainland, and initially used as a warehouse for trade with Japan.

42781
BRENNAN, Michael G.
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR TRAVELLERS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE WESTERN EUROPEAN GRAND TOUR
$5.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 15 b/w plates. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 0904180751

Annual lecture 2001. (Delivered at the Annual General Meeting, 26 June 2001).

54617
BRENNAN, Michael G. (editor)
THE ORIGINS OF THE GRAND TOUR. The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville (169-1654), William Hammond (1655-1658), Banaster Maynard (1660-1663)
$25.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 2004. 1st Ed. Series III, No. 14. XVIII, 331 PP with 49 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180859

Travels of the 17th century in Europe.

39881
BRENT, Peter
LA SAGA DES VIKINGS
$10.00 AUD

Tallandier. Paris. 1978. 1st French edition of the 1975 English original. 264 PP with 100 b/w illustrations and 8 colour plates. Title page: Silver cross, Norsberg, Botkyrka. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. French text. 25.3 x 17.2. 2235006116

37481
BRIDGES, Professor P. E. H.
AN ACCOMPLISH'D TRAVELLER WILL TAKE DRAUGHTS: BARBOT'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF GUINEA
$5.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 20 PP, with lecture between pages 12 and 20 (4 b/w illustrations). Soft cover. Staples removed, o/wise fine. 21.6 x 14.

Annual talk 1991. (Read at the Annual General Meeting).

35816
BRIDGES, R. C. & HAIR P. E. H. (editors)
COMPASSING THE VASTE GLOBE OF THE EARTH - Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996
$15.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 1996. 1st Ed., No. 183 in the Second Series. XI, 336, (1 erratum) PP with 29 b/w illust. Fp: Captain James Cook. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed around edges, o/wise a fine copy. 22.3 x 14.5. 0904180441

William Desborough Cooley and the foundation of the Hakluyt Society, by R. C. Bridges. Henry Yule: India and Cathay by, R. J. Bingle... With a complete list of the Society's Publications.

66286
BRINKBÃ„UMER, Klaus & HÃ–GES, Clemens
THE VOYAGE OF THE VIZCAINA: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
$20.00 AUD

Harcourt, Inc. Orlando, Florida. 2006. 1st US edition, translated from the 2004 German original by Annette Streck. (8), 328 PP. FEP: map of "Stages of the Fourth Voyage 1502-1504. REP: map of the "Four Voyages". Hard cover, dj. Head of spine of dust jacket with small chips, o/wise fine. 23.7 x 16. 0151011869

Shipwrecked, 1503, in the Bay of Playa Damas, Nombre de Dios, Panama.

75289
BRISTOW, John & HINTON, Anthony (editors)
GREAT TRUE ADVENTURES IN ICE AND SNOW
$20.00 AUD

Arco Publications Ltd. London 1958. New edition of the 1957 original. 224 PP. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and repaired tears and in a protective sleeve. Paper browning, otherwise near fine. 22.2 x 14.2.

Adventures: 10 in the Arctic (Sir John Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen ...) and 5 in the Antarctic: Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir Douglas Mawson, ...

32703
BROCHADO, Costa, MARJAY, Frederico, et al.. (editors)
DOM HENRIQUE THE NAVIGATOR
$60.00 AUD

Executive Committee for the Quincentenary Commemorations of the death of the Infante Dom Henrique. Lisbon. 1960. 1st English edition, translated from the Portuguese original by George F.W. Dykes. 100 PP with text illustrations, plus 55 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of the Infante Dom Henrique The Navigator. Marbled hard cover, pictorial dust jacket is rubbed around edges and has a small chip at top near spine and a crease on bottom right corner. Signature of previous owner on FFEP. Internally near fine. Scarce. 30 x 21.8.

Published for the quincentenary commemoration of the death of the Infante Dom Henrique. The Portuguese Century, by Costa Brochado. The birth of Astronomical Navigation in the Atlantic, the Key to the exploration of the Ocean, by Commander Teixeira da Mota...

74523
BROCK, Daniel George
TO THE DESERT WITH STURT - A Diary of the 1844 Expedition
$30.00 AUD

Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. Adelaide. 1975. 1st Ed. Preface and Introduction by Kenneth Peake-Jones. XXI, 222 PP, plus 1 colour plate and 4 facsimile pages of 2 of diaries (John McDouall and Daniel Brock). Fp (in colour): Daniel Brock at Poole's Grave. Eps: Map of Sturt's Journeys. Cloth covers, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 22 x 14.5. 0909112002

73919
BRODHEAD, John Romeyn
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - First Period: 1609-1664
$200.00 AUD

Harper & Brothers, Publishers. New York. 1853. 1st Ed. (6), XVI, 801, 10 publications PP, plus 1 map on double page of "New Netherland", with an inset "Cahohatatea / North River". Cloth covers with shelf wear, gilt title on spine which is frayed at bottom. Old water marks on front edge of first 30 pages, and again on top edges at end of book, not affecting legibility. Some light insect damage at lower margin of pages (obvious between pages 150 to 270, and for the last 42 pages, but minute to insignificant for the rest and not affecting the text. Occasional foxing. Faint signature of previous owner on FFEP. Still a very good copy of a scarce item. 24 x 16.

57087
BROWN, Anthony
MYSTERY OF THE VENUS MUTINEERS (in Australian Heritage, No. 13)
$10.00 AUD

Hallmark Editions Pty Ltd. Brighton, Victoria. 2008. Issue No. 13, Summer 2008. Contains article between P.41 and 46 with 1 map, 2 b/w and 4 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.9 x 21.2.

Colonial brig Venus.

40160
BROWN, Anthony J.
ILL-STARRED CAPTAINS - FLINDERS AND BAUDIN
$30.00 AUD

Crawford House. Adelaide. 2000. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by Tim Flannery. XX, 512 PP with 1 sketch, 3 maps, 3 plans and 9 charts, plus 28 pages with 22 b/w and 35 colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.6 x 16. 1863331921

Australian exploration seen through two very different expeditions.

67414
BROWN, Warren, MATHESON, Mick & KIDBY, Lang
The Great PEKING TO PARIS Expedition
$20.00 AUD

HarperCollins. Sydney. 2005. 1st Ed. XIII, 340 PPwith b/w photos and colour illustrations (1 map, artworks by Ben Mullins and photos by Bob Barker). Illustrated frontispiece and endpapers. Hard cover, dj (lightly rubbed). Near fine. 28 x 22.5. 0732282535

The 2005 re-enactment voyage of the 1907 expedition " La croisiÃ¨re Jaune".

51956
BROWNLEE, Walter
THE FIRST SHIPS ROUND THE WORLD
$10.00 AUD

Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1976. Reprint of the 1974 original, in the Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind series. 48 PP with b/w illust. Pict. card cover. Fine. Oblong: 20.2 x 21.3. 0521204380

Magellan and his fleet.

40710
BRUNTON, Paul, EASTON, Arthur & CUMMING, Helen
MATTHEW FLINDERS - The Ultimate Voyage
$15.00 AUD

State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. 36 PP with General chart of Terra Australis or Australia at centrefold, 8 b/w and 17 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0731371151

Catalogue of an exhibition presented at the State Library of New South Wales in 2001.

36813
BUCHET, Christian (editor)
L'HOMME, LA SANTE ET LA MER
$25.00 AUD

HonorÃ© Champion. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed., in the Sciences, Techniques et Civilisations du Moyen Age Ã l'aube des LumiÃ¨res series. 526 PP with 1 map, 2 graphs and tables. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. French text. 22 x 15. 2852036819

24 papers (1 in English, 1 in German, 1 in Portuguese and 21 in French) presented during the International seminar on Man, Health and the Sea, held in Paris 5th and 6 December 1995. Disease on French Slavers during the 18th century by Jean-Michel Deveau... Medicine and Science in the British Navy of the 18th century by N. A. M. Rodger... German Hospital ships during the World War II, by Hans Schadewaldt...

50975
BUCHET, Christian (editor)
SOUS LA MER. Le SixiÃ¨me Continent
$25.00 AUD

Presses de l'UniversitÃ© de Paris-Sorbonne. Paris. 2001. 1st edition in Collection Histoire Maritime. 374, (2) PP with tables and over 75 illustrations (engravings, graphs, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 2840502011

25 papers on the exploration of the ocean by philosophers, theologists, lawyers, historians, hydrographers, oceanographers... Jules Verne: myths and realities, by Philippe Masson... The Voyage of the Challenger (1872-1876), by Margaret Deacon... Explorations of Prince Albert I of Monaco, by FranÃ§ois Bellec...

75622
BURNET, Ian
WHERE AUSTRALIA COLLIDES WITH ASIA: The EpÃ®c Voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Origin of "On the Origin of Species"
$30.00 AUD

Rosenberg Publishing. Sydney. 2017. 1st Ed. 206, (2 publications) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Alfred Russell Wallace. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 24.6 x 18.2 9780994562784

74085
BUXTON, Richard
IF MATTHEW FLINDERS HAD WINGS: Circumnavigating Australia by Air and Sea
$45.00 AUD

Hardie Grant Books. Melbourne. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by John Bertrand. XII, 276 PP with facsimile of 37 hand written comments made by Matthew Flinders in his "A Voyage to Terra Australis". and colour illustrations (9 maps with location maps and photos). Eps: Map of Terra Australis. Hard covers, dj. Dust jacket with a few repaired chips and now in a protective sleeve, o/wise a fine copy. 30.5 x 28.3. 9781740666442

36360
BYE, Erik
VEIEN HAR INGEN ENDE
$10.00 AUD

J. W. Cappelens Forlag. Oslo. 1976. 1st Ed. 111 PP with 53 drawings by Karl Erik Harr. Eps: Departing Stavanger Harbour on 4th July 1825. Hard cover, dj. Foxing. Fine. Norwegian text. 26 x 21.5. 8202036054

From Norway to the prairies and forests of North America. 9 poems in English: Ballad of Norway House... Blow, silver wind... Again the road.

65768
CABEZA DE VACA, Alvar NuÃ±ez
RELATION DE VOYAGE, 1527-1537
$10.00 AUD

Actes Sud. Arles, France. 1989. 1st edition in "Terres d'Aventures". Preface by Yves Berger. Translated and annotated by Bernard Lesfargues & Jean-Marie Auzias. 195, (7), (4 publications) PP with 1 map "South of the United States / North of Mexico". Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on preliminary page. French text. Very good. 21.8 x 11.6. 2868694209

17696
CAMERON, Ian
EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION
$15.00 AUD

The Mallard Press. New York. 1991. 1st US Ed. 304 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title spread: De Soto discovery of the Mississippi. Half title page: A man of the Sandwich Islands in a mask. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large format: 36.5 x 27. 0792455533

Prehistoric and early explorers to the space age.

48424
CAMPBELL, Archibald
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD From 1806 to 1812
$50.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of the 1816 edition. No. 50 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. 288 PP, plus 1 folded map Track of the Eclipses longboat. (a Vocabulary of the Language of the Sandwich Islands between pages 227 and 251). Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette. Fine. 22 x 15.

Reminiscences of an English seaman who sailed with the Russian American Company from 1806 to 1812. Voyage... in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands were visited.

45366
CANNON, Judy
FOR THE LOVE OF TRAVEL - China and Japan through the eyes of a nineteenth-century Scot (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XIII, No. 10, July 2003)
$5.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2003. Volume XIII, No. 10, July 2003. Contains article between P.3 and 6 with 2 colour and 5 b/w illustrations. Pictorial (Nagasaki Musmee, 1866) soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Life in nineteenth-century Asia through the writings of George Robertson Nicoll.

19303
CANNON, Michael
PERILOUS VOYAGES TO THE NEW LAND
$50.00 AUD

Today's Australia Publishing Company. Melbourne. 1997 Revised and expanded "casebound" edition from the 1995 original. 272 PP with 5 tail-pieces, 25 head-pieces, and 131 b/w illust., plus 8 colour plates. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Name of previous owner on verso of front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. 30.2 x 21.8. 9780646240183

Experiences of Australian pioneer families on the high seas.

73542
CAPTAIN "X" & DODSON, Reynolds
UNFRIENDLY SKIES - Revelations of a Deregulated Airline Pilot
$15.00 AUD

Doubleday. New York. 1989. 1st Ed. IX, (5), 236 PP. Hard cover, title on a cloth spine, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 24 x 16. 9780385248242

15603
CASTLEREAGH, Duncan
THE GREAT AGE OF EXPLORATION
$10.00 AUD

Readers' Digest. London. 1979. Reprint with amendements of the 1971 original. 191 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 folded map (The Golden Age of Discovery 1492-1780). Title spread: Battle at Surat between the Portuguese & Arabs. Pictorial laminated boards, gilt title on cloth spine. Lettering on spine speckled. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 25.7 x 18.7.

From the first Portuguese inching along the African coast in the mid-1400's to the first circumnavigation of the world by Magellan.

20576
CELL, Gillian T. (editor)
NEWFOUNDLAND DISCOVERED, English Attempts at Colonisation, 1610-1630
$10.00 AUD

The Hakluyt Society. London. 1982. Second Series, Volume 160. XVIII, 310 PP with 5 bw illust. (3 maps). Fp: Map of the Island of Newfoundland. Cloth cover, dj. (rubbed around edges and in a protective sleeve). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0904180131

Settlement, tied to the exploitation of cod fisheries, as well as searching for iron, growing food...

72023
CHAMBERS, Neil
ENDEAVOURING BANKS - Exploring Collections from the "Endeavour" Voyage 1768-1771
$40.00 AUD

NewSouth Publishing. Sydney. 2016. 1st edition with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. 304 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings and sketches, charts, documents, medals, paintings, photos, portraits...). Fp (in colour): Joseph Banks, by Benjamin West. Quarter bound, illustrated boards, cloth spine, gilt title on front board and spine. Fine (as new condition). 28.7 x 24 9781742235004

47670
CHAMONAL, FranÃ§ois & Rodolphe
VOYAGES GEOGRAPHIE MARINE AMERICANA
$20.00 AUD

FranÃ§ois et Rodolphe Chamonal. Paris. c. 1995. 1st Ed. 226, (2) PP with 90 b/w illustrations, plus 9 colour plates. Fp (in colour): Y-Erran-Gou-La-Ga (Aborigines from New Holland). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. French text. 25.4 x 18.5.

Catalogue of 1129 books, manuscripts... on Maritime subjects, Voyages and Geography, and prices.

47671
CHAMONAL, Rodolphe
LIVRES ANCIENS VOYAGES GEOGRAPHIE MARINE
$35.00 AUD

Rodolphe Chamonal. Paris. c. 2001. 1st Ed. 345, (7) PP with over 190 b/w and 57 colour illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Fp (in colour): Penguins. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 25.4 x 20.8.

Catalogue of 1058 books, manuscripts... on Maritime subjects, Voyages and Geography.

75580
CHAPPELL, David A.
DOUBLE GHOSTS: Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships
$50.00 AUD

M. E. Sharpe Inc. New York. 1997. 1st edition in the "Sources and Studies in World Histories" series. Foreword by Kevin Reilly (series editor). XX, 231 PP with 1 map "Culture Areas of the Pacific" (on double page), plus 8 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 22.7 x 15.2. 9781563249990

43612
CHAPUIS, Olivier
A LA MER COMME AU CIEL - Beautemps-BeauprÃ© & la naissance de l'hydrographie moderne (1700-1850)
$125.00 AUD

Presses de l'UniversitÃ© de Paris-Sorbonne. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed., in Histoire Maritime series. 1062 PP with 31 colour and 111 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear and 2 creases on the spine. Outside edges a little soiled. Contents near fine. French text. Scarce. 24 x 16. 9782840501572

Beautemps-BeauprÃ©, French hydrographer and the coming of modern hydrography. Chapter 1 of Part 2 (pages 323 to 388): the laboratory of the South Seas (Voyage with d'Entrecasteaux, to Tasmania, then to New Caledonia in search of La PÃ©rouse).

31976
CHARLTON, Warwick
THE VOYAGE OF MAYFLOWER II
$10.00 AUD

Cassell. London. 1957. 1st Ed. XI, 264 PP with 1 drawing, 1 map and 2 plans, plus 38 pages with 3 figures and 64 b/w photos. Fp: The Mayflower under sail. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Dedicatory note to previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 21.8 x 14.2.

Re-enactment of the voyage of the Pilgrims Father (building of the replica, the voyage...).

48707
CHARLTON, Warwick
THE VOYAGE OF MAYFLOWER II
$5.00 AUD

Cassell. London. 1957. 1st Ed. XI, 264 PP with 1 drawing, 1 map and 2 plans, plus 38 pages with 3 figures and 64 b/w photos. Fp: The Mayflower under sail. Hard cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Lacks the free fly of front endpaper. Very good. 21.8 x 14.2.

Re-enactment of the voyage of the Pilgrims Father (building of the replica, the voyage...).

48053
CHARON, Annie, CLAERR, Thierry & MOUREAU, FranÃ§ois (editors)
LE LIVRE MARITIME AU SIECLE DES LUMIERES. Edition et diffusion des connaissances maritimes (1750-1850)
$25.00 AUD

Presses de l'UniversitÃ© de Paris-Sorbonne. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in collection Roland Mousnier. 265, (3) PP with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 15.8. 2840503638

17 papers by: Etienne Taillemite, John Hattendorf, HÃ©lÃ¨ne Richard... MichÃ¨le Polak.

74752
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley
THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD - Antarctic 1910-13
$30.00 AUD

Picador/Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London. 1994. In the "Picador Travel Classics" series with an Introduction by Paul Theroux. XCV, 607 PP with 4 maps (redrawn by E.J. Hatch), ribbon page marker. Hard covers, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper, o/wise a near fine copy. 19 x 13. 9780330335850

Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic.

35501
CHEVIGNY, Hector
LOST EMPIRE - The Life and Adventures of Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov
$15.00 AUD

Binford & Mort. Portland, Oregon. 1979. 6th printing of the 1965 original. (12), 356 PP. Fp: Portrait of Rezanov, 1803. Pictorial card cover. Covers lightly rubbed. Very good. 20.3 x 13.3. 0832303453

The west coast of North America, from Alaska to California.

31680
CHICHESTER, Francis
GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1967. 1st Ed. XVI, 269 PP with 7 maps and 5 line drawings, plus 40 pages with 14 colour and 39 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Very good. 23 x 15. 0340004843

Voyage from England and back with calls at Sydney, round Cape of Good Hope & Cape Horn when he was 65 years of age.

42231
CHRISTIE'S
TRAVEL AND NATURAL HISTORY
$20.00 AUD

Christie's London. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 142, (2) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Botafogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro. REP: United World Map, Lyons, 1535. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26.7 x 21.

Catalogue of a sale held in London on 30th May 2002. 329 lots.

42266
CLARK, Denis
THE SEA KINGDOM OF CORSICA
$15.00 AUD

Jarrolds. London. c. 1948. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 15 decorations, plus 34 PP with 31 b/w photos. Fp: Ajaccio - The Port. Eps: sketch map of Corsica. Cloth cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 21.7 x 14.5.

Voyage to Corsica and underwater fishing.

73428
CLEMENT, Harry G.
THE FUTURE OF TOURISM IN THE PACIFIC AND FAR EAST
$45.00 AUD

U.S. Department of Commerce / Bureau of Foreign Commerce. Washington. 1961. 1st Ed. Foreword by Luther H. Hodges. XIV, 296 PP with tables and b/w and colour illustrations: diagrams, graphs, maps. FEP: Major Air Routes in the Pacific and Far East. REP: Map of Pacific and Far East. Cloth covers with light soiling, title on front board and a lightly sunned spine. ontents near fine. 26.5 x 20.5.

16440
CLEMONS, Elizabeth
THE SEVEN SEAS
$10.00 AUD

Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1971. 1st Library edition. (14), 192, (2) PP with 4 diagrams, 12 maps and 60 b/w photos. Fp: Shore of one Aleutian islands. Decorated cloth cover. Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 21.2 x 17. 0394922921

The lure of the Seven Seas: stories and little known facts on distant seas.

51831
CLODE, Danielle
VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS. In Search of Terres Australes
$35.00 AUD

The Miegunyah Press & State Library of Victoria. Melbourne. 2007. 1st Ed. No. 87 in the Second Numbered series. XVI, 315, (3) PP with headpieces (on double page), 37 portraits and facsimile of manuscripts, plus 32 pages with 32 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20.5 x 13.5. 9780522852646

72812
CLODE, Danielle
IN SEARCH OF THE WOMAN WHO SAILED THE WORLD
$35.00 AUD

Picador / Pan Macmillan Australia. Sydney. 2020. 1st Ed. (16), 335 PP with b/w illustrations (21 headpieces and 1 map on double page "The Voyage of Jeanne Barret"). Pictorial stiff covers. New. 23 x 15.2. 9781760784959

Jeanne Barret, first woman to circumnavigate the world.

73974
COATES, Marion (editor)
SEA SEQUEL to the Week-End Book
$30.00 AUD

Nonesuch Press. London. 1934. 1st Ed. XXIV, 542 PP, (526-542 blank for "Manuscript pages"). Decorations by Charles Paine: endpapers, 2 headpieces, 8 drawings, 38 music scores. Illustrated cloth covers, spine a little faded. Outside edges with signs of ageing and few foxing spots. Very good copy. 19 x 12.

Sea Poetry: / Sea stories / Voyages of Discovery and Exploration... Songs and Sea Shanties.

52812
COIFFIER, Christian, PETIT, BÃ©atrice, et al. (editors)
LE VOYAGE DE LA KORRIGANE DANS LES MERS DU SUD
$400.00 AUD

Hazan / MusÃ©e de l'Homme / MusÃ©um National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris. 2001. 1st Ed. Preface by Jean-Claude Moreno, foreword by Douglas Newton, and introduction by Christian Coiffier. 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, paintings and photos), and 156 colour photos of artifacts. Hard cover, dj. French text. Fine. Scarce. 31.2 x 24.2. 9782850256114

Book produced for the exhibition held at the MusÃ©e de l'Homme, 5 December 2001 to 3rd June 2002. Discovery of Polynesia, by Marie-Claire Bataille-Benguigui. A call in New Caledonia, by Nathalie Rochard... Solomon Islands, by Daniel de Coppet...

56159
COLE, Michael (editor)
International Rare Books Prices 1989: VOYAGES, TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
$10.00 AUD

The Clique Ltd. York. 1989. Annual Publication. 5th titles in the IRBP series. X, 254 PP. Pictorial boards. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 15 0187077311X

1988 Catalogue Prices.

70822
COLLINGRIDGE, George
DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA - A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the Endeavour, in the year 1770
$35.00 AUD

Golden Press. Sydney. 1983. Facsimile edition of the 1895 original. XV, 376 PP with around 100 b/w illustrations (head pirces, tail pieces, drawings, portraits, maps ...), plus 13 plates with maps (5 on double page and 8 on full page). Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, dj. 2 small scratches on lower part of front cover. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Contents near fine. 32 x 25.5. 085589566

72800
COLNETT, Captain James
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND ROUND CAPE HORN INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, for the purpose of extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries...
$65.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1968. Facsimile reprint of the 1798 original. No. 36 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. (2), IV, XVIII, 180 PP, plus 1 portrait of Sir Philip Stephens and 9 folded plates (2 coastal views, 6 maps & 1 of a physeter or spermaceti whale). Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine), clear plastic protection (repaired at back). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 26 x 20.

Captain Colnett, on board the "Rattler" after rounding the Horn, visited the Galapagos and explored the coasts from Mexico to Chile and the off-lying islands.

15728
COLWELL, Max
THE VOYAGES OF MATTHEW FLINDERS
$20.00 AUD

Hamlyn. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed. 151 PP, profusely illustrated in b/w and colour. Half title page: Matthew Flinders' statue outside St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. Fp: Portrait of Matthew Flinders. FEP: Planisphere. REP: Views of Hobart. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.7. 0600359492

75751
COMPTON, Nic
VOICES FROM THE SEA - Remarkable Encounters with the World's Oceans
$30.00 AUD

Cassell Illustrated. London. 2007. 1st Ed. Foreword by Alex Thomson. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings & plans, paintings & prints, photos). Hard covers, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, otherwise fine. 28.5 x 24.5. 9781844035557

Atlantic Ocean: Liberdade, by Joshua Slocum / L'Heretique by Alain Bombard... Indian Ocean: Suez TF1, by Raphaela Le Gouvello ... Southern Ocean: Endurance & James Caird, by Ernest Shackleton/Leigh II, By Vito Dumas. Joshua, by Bernard Moitessier... Arctic Ocean: Fram, by Fridtjof Nansen Gjoa, by Roald Amundsen... / Pacific Ocean: Kon Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl...

62624
CONRAD, Joseph
GEOGRAPHY AND SOME EXPLORERS (in National Geographic Magazine - Volume XLV, No.3, March 1924)
$25.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1924. (30 adv.), 239-356, (32 adv.) PP. Contains article from P. 239 to 274 with 1 chart and 28 b/w photos (1 by Frank Hurley, 16 "The Lure of the Land of Ice" by Herbert G. Ponting, ...). Soft covers lightly soiled and with rubbed patches, otherwise contents are near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.

36808
LE CONTOUR, NoÃ«l (editor)
LE HONFLEURAIS AUX SEPT NAUFRAGES - Jean Doublet 1655-1728
$10.00 AUD

L`Harmattan. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed. 302 PP, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738447457

Cod fisherman. Corsair with Jean Bart... Slaver to the West Indies

71543
COOPER, Bill and Laurel
BACK DOOR TO BYZANTIUM: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe
$25.00 AUD

Sheridan House Inc. Dobbs Ferry, NY. 1986. 1st Ed. (6), 240, (3) PP with b/w illustrations: 1 track chart, 1 plan of Hosanna, 1 profile and 33 drawings. Pictorial stiff covers. Title page with vignette of Hosanna. Fine (mint condition). 21.5 x 14. 9781574090437

30018
COPPINGER, R.W.
CRUISE OF THE ALERT, Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene Waters. (1878-82.)
$300.00 AUD

R. Worthington. New York. 1884. 2nd Ed. XV, 256 PP plus 17 full-page woodcut illustrations from photographs by F. North, R.N., and from Sketches by the Author. Fp: HMS Alert at anchor in Tom Bay, West Coast of Patagonia. Rebound copy, retaining original gilt-engraved and decorated cloth cover and spine. All edges gilt. Bookplate on FEP. Corners a little worn, o/wise an excellent copy with only occasional light foxing. 26 x 18.5.

The voyage of a naturalist/zoologist on board the HMS Alert. Four years in the waters of Patagonia, Polynesia, Great Barrier Reef and the Seychelles.

55516
CORFIELD, Richard
THE SILENT LANDSCAPE: In the Wake of HMS Challenger 1872-1876
$20.00 AUD

John Murray / Hodder Headline. London. 2004. 1st Ed. XIV, (4), 286 PP with 18 headpieces, 1 map and over 15 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 0719565308

52295
COTTEAU, Edmond
EN OCEANIE. Voyage autour du Monde en 365 jours 1884-1885
$75.00 AUD

Librairie Hachette & Cie. Paris. 1888. 1st Ed. (4), 390 with 2 coastal views, 3 maps and 43 engravings (36 on full page), plus 1 folded map. Bound copy retaining the original pictorial soft cover. Marbled endpapers. Quarter bound, gilt title En OcÃ©anie on spine. Ferguson: 8727. Near fine. French text. 19 x 13.

Left Paris on 15th March 1884. Sailed from Toulon (20 March 1884) on the French warship Nive... Chapter III: Krakatau island 11-29 May 1884. Australia (pages 122 to 222): Torres Strait on 18th July 1884, then Port Kennedy, Townsville, Bowen, Rockhampton, Brisbane (27 July 1884), Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Sydney. New Caledonia on the Rockton in September 1884. New Hebrides on the French warship Duchaffaut in October 1884. Tahiti on the French warship Vire in November 1884... Return to Paris on 15 March 1885.

73354
COTTEAU, Edmond
EN OCEANIE. Voyage autour du Monde en 365 jours 1884-1885
$80.00 AUD

Librairie Hachette & Cie. Paris. 1888. 1st Ed. (4), 390, (8 publications) PP with 2 coastal views, 3 maps (2 on full page) and 43 engravings (36 on full page), plus 1 folded map at rear of book. Bound copy retaining the original pictorial soft cover (reinforced and fragile). Marbled endpapers. Quarter bound, gilt title "En OcÃ©anie, Voyage autour du monde, en 365 jours: 1884 - 1885" on leather spine. Ferguson: 8727. Light foxing. Near fine and scarce. French text. Images shows original soft cover. 19 x 13.

73355
COTTEAU, Edmond
EN OCEANIE. Voyage autour du Monde en 365 jours 1884-1885
$80.00 AUD

Librairie Hachette & Cie. Paris. 1895. 2nd edition of the 1888 original. (4), 390 PP with b/w illustrations: 9 in text (1 map, 1 coastal view, 2 portraits ...) and 42 on full page (1 coastal view, 2 maps and 39 engravings), plus 1 folded map at rear of book. Bound copy retaining the original pictorial soft cover (sunned). Marbled endpapers. Half bound, gilt title "En OcÃ©anie" on leather spine. Ferguson: 8727. Foxing. French text. Near fine. 19 x 13.

65847
COUPLAND, Sir Reginald
LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY
$5.00 AUD

Readers Union / Collins. London. 1947. Readers Union reprint of the 1945 original. 271 PP with 5 maps. Cloth cover, title on a badly damaged spine. Ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Name of previous owner on the front endpaper. Very good reading copy. 22 x 14.5;

48668
CRAIG, Robert (editor)
MARITIME HISTORY - Volume 3
$10.00 AUD

David & Charles. Newton Abbot, UK. 1973. Volume 3, No. 1, April 1973 and No. 2, September 1973. No. 1: 120 PP with 1 map, 4 graphs, 4 facsimile of posters, 4 tables and 8 b/w plates. No. 2: 121-236 PP with 1 facsimile of document and 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers of issue 1 rubbed and with creases. Very good. 21 x 14.7.

No. 1: Bergen, a Norwegian seafaring town, by Atle Thowsen. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and the development of Steamship links with Latin America, by Robert G. Greenhill... No. 2: Sea and Land mail in the former Netherlands East Indies, by R E J Weber. Round the world in 258 days: the voyage of the Bristol ship "Try", by Alison Grant.

73239
CRANE, Virginia Treece (editor)
THE MARTIN & OSA JOHNSON SAFARI MUSEUM
$100.00 AUD

Jostens Co. Printing & Publishing. Wichita, Kansas. 1998. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 20 colour and 31 b/w photos. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration and title on front board. 1 original post card, with Martin and Osa Johnson amongst pygmies, and published in British East Africa by by A. H. Wardle & Co. Ltd, tipped in on front endpaper. Fine condition. 28.5 x 21.8.

Their travels in the South Seas (1917 & 1919), Borneo (1920 & 1835) and in Eastern Africa (5 trips between 1920 and 1934), are recorded in the musem set in Chanute, Texas.

22656
CREE, Edward H.
THE CREE JOURNALS, The Voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N. as Related in his Private Journals 1837-1856
$35.00 AUD

Webb & Bower. Exeter, UK. 1981. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Michael Levien. 276 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Edward Hodges Cree. Eps: Chart of South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin. Hard cover, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 19. 0906671361

Personal narrative of Dr. Edward H. Cree, recording his cruises between 1837 & 1856: Notebook & sketch book.

66280
CRUICKSHANK, Dan
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 TREASURES
$20.00 AUD

Weidenfeld & Nicholson / BBC. London. 2005. 1st Ed. 256 PP with colour illustrations throughout (1 map on double page and photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.3 x 19.5. 0297843990

A journey to some of the world's best known treasures found in over 40 countries. Great churches and temples, statues, buildings and structures of achievement, weapons, art and artefacts.

65904
CULLEN, Edward Alexander
A Report on Visit to HARBOURS IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
$100.00 AUD

Marine Department / Government Printer. Brisbane. 1900. Report C.A. 64 - 1900. 10 PP, plus 1 plate with the b/w photo of a "single bucket dipper type of Dredge" for service at Calcutta, and 9 folded plates with colour of Ports (River Tyne, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Antwerp, Boston, & San Francisco). Soft cover, staples removed, with rusted remnants. Protecting folder. Bottom part of first leaf with foxing spots, o/wise near fine. A rare document. Foolscap size: 34 x 21.

Voyage to Europe on the Orient Liner SS Orizaba...

58287
CUMMINS, Joseph
FIRST ENCOUNTERS - Lost and Found in history: Epic true stories of Cultural Collision and Conquest
$20.00 AUD

Pier 9 / Murdoch Books Australia. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. 336 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, contemporary images). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.7 x 18.5. 9781741961430

25 epic tales: ... Part 4: The Great Southern Ocean: Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the World, 1519-1521. The Dutch discover Australia: 1623-1642... Louis Antoine de Bougainville in Tahiti, 1768. Endeavour and James Cook, 1768-1771 ...

71484
CUYVERS, Luc
SETTING SAIL: Ten Thousand Years of Seafaring Adventure
$30.00 AUD

Tide-mark Press Ltd. Windsor, Connecticut. 2004. 1st North American edition. 174 PP with colour illustrations: 4 maps on double page, paintings and photos. The 4 hour DVD inserted in the rear pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Eps: Mappemonde. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 28.2 x 22. 9781559498791

First blue water sailors: Austronesians & Polynesians. Sons of Sinbad: Arabian ships and seafarers. Dragon at sea: China and Oceanic explorers. ...

30717
D'ANCONA, Jacob
THE CITY OF LIGHT
$10.00 AUD

Little, Brown and Co. London. 1997. 1st Ed., translated and edited by David Selbourne. VIII, 392 PP with 69 b/w illust. Eps: Map showing the travels of Jacob d'Ancona 1270-73, between Ancona, Italy and Zaitun, China. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.4 x 19.2. 0316639680

Before Marco Polo, a Jewish-Italian merchant embarked on a perilous voyage to the East and the Chinese metropolis of Zaitun or the City of Light.

18049
D'ENTRECASTEAUX
LE VOYAGE DE D'ENTRECASTEAUX (1791-1793)
$25.00 AUD

ComitÃ© d'Entrecasteaux. NoumÃ©a. 1993. No pagination. 24 pages with b/w & colour illust. Pict. stiff cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

In 1792 & 93, the French explorer's voyage of discovery of the New Caledonian coasts (West then North-east) during his search for the vanished La PÃ©rouse.

46489
d'ESTAILLEUR-CHANTERAINE, Philippe
L'INFANT DE LA MER. Henri Le Navigateur
$20.00 AUD

Les Sept Couleurs. Paris. 1960. 1st Ed. 144 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Pages uncut, faint foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 18.8 x 11.8.

67858
D. LE BAIL & F. WEISSERT
LIVRES DE VOYAGES, Atlas, Estampes - Printemps 2006
$25.00 AUD

Librairie Le Bail - Weissert. Paris. 2006. Spring 2006 edition. 158 PP for 327 items with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a 4 folds flyer with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Sale catalogue with prices. Items: Voyages: 1 - 271. Marine: 272 - 291. Natural History: 292 - 307. Atlas: 308 - 327. Flyer: 2 items: 5 charts by Jean-Baptiste Louis Clouet, and 10 panoramic views, by Jean Boisseau.

67859
D. LE BAIL & F. WEISSERT
LIVRES DE VOYAGES, Atlas, Estampes - Printemps 2007
$25.00 AUD

Librairie Le Bail - Weissert Paris. 2007. Spring 2007 edition. 186 PP for 362 items with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Sale catalogue with prices. Items: Voyages: 1 - 311. Marine: 312 - 328. Natural History: 329 - 342. Atlas: 343 - 362.

46989
DALRYMPLE, Alexander
A HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF THE SEVERAL VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN (Two volumes bound in one)
$200.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1967. Reprint of the 1770 & 1771 editions. No. 11 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series (Volume 1/2). Volume I: (2), XXX, (II), 24, 24, 204, (3 errata) PP, plus 1 plate (natural history) and 3 folded charts. Volume II: (IV), 124, 20, (8 vocabulary of languages), (12 Chronological table of discoveries), (40 index) PP, plus 1 folded chart, and 11 plates (4 folded). Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette, front cover & spine, glassine protection (with chips/tear). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. Scarce. 26 x 21.

Volume 1: Spanish voyages of Magalhanes, Alvaro Mendana de Neyra, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. Volume 2: Dutch voyages of Lemaire and Schouten, Abel Tasman, Jacob Roggewein.

75617
DALTON, Trent
BY SEA & STARS - The Story of the First Fleet
$35.00 AUD

The Australian / Fourth Estate. Sydney. 2018. 1st Ed. Foreword by Paul Whittaker, Editor-in-Chief, The Australian. XX, 140 PP with 1 portrait of the author, 1 map "Voyage of the First Fleet" on double page and 21 b/w illustrations (9 on full page and 12 on double page). Eps: Stars of the Southern Hemisphere. Pictorial hard covers. Fine. 20 x 14. 9781460757413

74323
DARWIN, Charles
THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE IN H.M.S. BEAGLE
$700.00 AUD

Genesis Publications Limited. London. 1979. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No. 409/500), signed by George Penber Darwin (great grandson of Charles Darwin). Foreword by Prince Charles. Introduction by Richard Darwin Keynes. (2 blank), 843, (8 blank) PP with 4 b/w plates, Journal in Facsimile between pages 31 and 834, Crew List between pages 835 and 840. Fp (in colour): painting by Roy Williams. Marbled endpapers. Half bound, green buckram, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt title and 4 gilt decorations, gilt decoration on front board, gilt signature of Darwin on the back cover, all outside edges gilt. Contained in a green cloth slipcase with title on a white vignette. Bookplate of previous owner on verso of the front endpaper. Head of spine worn on 6 cms. Slipcase with minor rubbing on the label, and a 5 cm worn patch close to the bottom. An excellent copy. Format: 28.5 x 20.5 and slipcase: 29.5 x 23.5. 0904351122

56273
DAVID, Andrew (editor)
THE VOYAGE OF HMS HERALD to Australia and the South-west Pacific 1852-1861 under the command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham
$45.00 AUD

Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1200 copies. No. 3 in the second Miegunyah Press series. XXVIII, 521 PP, (3), with 11 survey charts & 8 maps, plus 24 pages with 48 illustrations (29 in colour). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, ribbon page-marker, dj. Fine. 24.7 x 18. 9780522843903

Between 1852 and 1861, HMS Herald covered part of the South-west Pacific and part of the Australian coast (including King George Sound & Shark Bay) and surveyed and charted known land masses and suspected hazards. In 1853, while at anchor off the Isle of Pines, it unknowingly witnessed the French take-over of New Caledonia and its Dependencies. Includes visits to Fiji, Lord Howe, survey of St.Paul Island (Indian Ocean) in early 1853 and Mellish Reef (Coral Sea) in 1858, where they found the abandoned wreck of the French naval vessel Duroc.

56239
DAVID, Andrew, FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe, NOVI, Carlos & WILLIAMS, Glyndwr (editors)
THE MALASPINA EXPEDITION 1789-1794 - The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina (Volume I: Cadiz to Panama)
$25.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society & Museo Naval. London & Madrid. 2001. 1st Ed. Series III, No. 8. Introduction by Donald C. Cutter. Volume I: XCVIII, 338 PP with 9 sketch maps and 39 b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Alejandro Malaspina. Eps: Tracks of the Malaspina Expedition. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180727

Volume I: Cadiz (30th July 1789) to Panama (14th December 1790).

56240
DAVID, Andrew, FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe, NOVI, Carlos & WILLIAMS, Glyndwr (editors)
THE MALASPINA EXPEDITION 1789-1794 - The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina (Volume II: Panama to the Philippines)
$50.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society & Museo Naval. London & Madrid. 2003. 1st Ed. Series III, No. 11. Volume II: XX, 511 PP with 7 sketch maps and 44 b/w or colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of JosÃ© Bustamante Y Guerra. Eps: Tracks of the Malaspina expedition Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180816

Volume II: Panama (15th December 1790) to the Philippines (3rd October 1792).

45591
DAVIES, Hunter
IN SEARCH OF COLUMBUS
$20.00 AUD

Sinclair-Stevenson. London. 1991. 1st Ed. XII, 308 PP with 4 maps, 17 tail and 21 head pieces, plus 8 pages with 15 colour photographs. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 16. 1856190676

72801
DAVIES, Hunter
THE TELLER OF TALES - In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson
$10.00 AUD

Sinclair-Stevenson / Reed International Books. London. 1995. 1st paperback edition of the 1994 original. XIII, 290 PP with 25 headpieces (portrait or type writer), plus 16 pages with 39 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Paper ageing around edges with occasional foxing. A very good reading copy. 232.2 x 15.6. 9781856196000

69892
DAVIES, Lynn & Margaret, & BOYLES, Warren (editors)
MAPPING VAN DIEMEN'S LAND and the Great Beyond
$100.00 AUD

Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart. 2018. 1st hardback edition. Introduction by Michael Giudici, Surveyor General, Tasmania. VI, 138 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts, maps and photos). Hard cover, pictorial boards. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. Fine. Oblong: 26.5 x 30.5. 9780648141334

Rare and Beautiful Maps from the Royal Society of Tasmania.

61950
DAVIES, Margaret (editor)
CHARLES DARWIN IN HOBART TOWN
$30.00 AUD

Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart. 2009. 1st Ed. X, 113 PP with 1 b/w portrait, 1 b/w plate and colour illustrations (6 maps, drawings, graphs, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 16.3. 9780646506364

Proceedings of a symposium held 11th February 2009, University of Tasmania.

32207
DAVIES, Nigel
VOYAGERS TO THE NEW WORLD
$15.00 AUD

William Morrow. New York. 1979. 1st US Ed. XIV, (2), 287 PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 24 x 16. 0688039962

Origins of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of America: China, Indonesia, Vikings, Phoenicians...

37820
de BISSCHOP, Eric
VERS NOUSANTARA ou l'enigme PolynÃ©sienne
$25.00 AUD

La Table Ronde. Paris. 1963. 1st Ed., introduced by Robert Argod. 247, (6) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos. Pictorial card covers (lightly rubbed and soiled). Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages. Contents very good. French text. Scarce. 20 x 14.

Settlement of Polynesia and voyages of the Polynesian races.

72114
DE BISSCHOP, Eric
CAP A L'EST - PremiÃ¨re ExpÃ©dition du TAHITI-NUI: Tahiti - Santiago du Chili (6 novembre 1956 - 28 Mai 1957)
$30.00 AUD

Librairie Plon. Paris. 1958. 1st edition. (4), 280, (2) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Covers rubbed and worn. Ageing of paper and foxing spots. Internally very good. French text. 20.2 x 14.

Voyage of a French navigator to refute the theory of Thor Heyerdahl on the discovery and settlement of Polynesia.

35156
DE BLIJ, Harm J. (editor)
EARTH '88 - Changing Geographic Perspectives - Proceedings of the Centennial Symposium
$20.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1988. 1st Ed. 392 PP with 109 maps, charts & graphs, and 92 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on half title page and title page, o/wise near fine. 28 x 24. 0870447637

Record of a week-long symposium held in Washington, D.C., in January 1988, to commemorate the centennial of the National Geographic Society. 22 papers: The spirit and impact of exploration by George Kish... The Oceans by William A. Nierenberg.

44003
de BROSSARD, Contre-Amiral
MOANA OCEAN CRUEL - Les Dieux meurent Ã la Grande Mer du Sud
$65.00 AUD

Editions France-Empire. Paris. 1966. 1st Ed. 384 PP with 10 maps, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Illustrated soft cover. Light browning of paper on edges, otherwise an excellent copy. French text. 24 x 15.5.

Life and ultimate death of 3 explorers of the Pacific: James Cook, Marion-Dufresne and De Surville.

15800
de BROSSES, Charles
HISTOIRE DES NAVIGATIONS AUX TERRES AUSTRALES (In Two Volumes)
$75.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1967. Bibliotheca Australiana No. 1. Facsimile reprint of 1756 original. Volume 1: (4), XIV, 464 PP, 4 errata & 4 folded charts. Volume 2: (4), 514 PP, 2 errata & 3 folded maps. Simile vellum with gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Fine. French text. 26 x 21.

History of the navigations towards the Southern Lands. Early history & discoveries in the South Seas. Sold as a set.

71201
DE BROSSES, Charles
LE PRESIDENT DE BROSSES EN ITALIE - Lettres FamiliÃ¨res Ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740 (in 2 volumes)
$150.00 AUD

Didier et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs. Paris. 1858. 2nd Ed. updated, annotated and with an essay on the life and writings of the author, by M.R. Coulomb. Vol. I: 4 adverts. (4), LX, 460 PP. Vol. II: (4), 504 PP, plus (2), 15, (3) adverts. Soft covers lightly soiled and chipped around edges with sunned spines. French text. Foxing. Very good. 22.5 x 14

56076
DE BRUNI D'ENTRECASTEAUX, A.-R.-J. and DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore
EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND JOURNALS WRITTEN ON SHIPS UNDER THE COMMAND OF D'ENTRECASTEAUX AND DUPERREY - 1793 AND 1824
$50.00 AUD

Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust & Indosuez New Zealand Limited. Wellington. 1986. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. Nos. 3 and 4 in the Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life series. Transcription and translation by Isabel Ollivier. Preface by L. A. Cameron. Foreword by Anne Salmond. 220 PP with 9 charts and coastal views, and 30 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on black label on front cover and spine. French and English text. Fine. Oblong: 26 x 30.5. 0908702051

Extracts from the Journals of the ships Recherche and EspÃ©rance in 1793, and Coquille in 1824.

73500
DE CRESPIGNY, Richard
FLY ! - Life Lessons from the cockpit of QF32
$20.00 AUD

Viking / Penguin. Sydney. 2018. 1st Ed. X, 292 PP with 3 figures and 5 insets. Pictorial soft covers with light wear and a few small creases. Occasional foxing. Very good. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780670078738

30196
DE GRAAF, H. J. (editor)
DE EXPEDITIE VAN ANTHONIO HURDT RAAD VAN INDIÃ‹, als Admiraal en Superintendent naar de Binnenlanden van Java, Sept.-Dec. 1678 volgens het Journaal van Johan Jurgen Briel, secretaris
$25.00 AUD

Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1971. 1st Ed., Volume LXXII in De Linschoten-Vereeniging series. XVII, 288 PP, plus 1 plan and 2 folded plates at back. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Dutch text. Fine. 25 x 16.5. 9024711177

The expedition of Anthonio Hurdt in 1678 in the interior of Java Island.

73565
DE LA PEROUSE, Jean F.G.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1785, 1786, 1787 AND 1788 BY THE BOUSSOLE AND ASTROLABE (Volume I, Volume II and ATLAS)
$300.00 AUD

N. Israel / Da Capo. Amsterdam / New York. 1968. Reprint of 1799 English edition. Translated from the French original published by order of the National Assembly and L. A. Milet-Mureau. Volumes Nos. 27, 28 & 29 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (2), VIII, LVI, 539 PP. Volume II: (2), VIII, 532 PP (14 Index), (2 errata). Atlas: (6), 69 plates (views, plans, charts, engravings). Simile vellum, gilt title on blue label on front board and spine of each volume. Labels on front board rubbed in parts, and on spine with gilt lettering sunned. Very light foxing. A near fine set. Vol. I & II: 26 x 20. Atlas: 40 x 27. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.

Voyage of exploration towards "What Captain Cook had not discovered". Calls: Easter Island, California, Alaska, Macau.. Botany Bay.

71323
DE LARIGAUDIE, Guy
RESONANCES DU SUD
$20.00 AUD

Librairie Plon. Paris. 1947. Reprint of the 1938 original. (8), 230, (2) PP with 2 maps on double page (voyages of the "Tooya" and the "Manureva") and (Rurutu Island), plus 16 pages with 22 b/w photos. Soft cover, illustrated front. Pages uncut. Ageing of paper, not affecting the plates. French text. Overall a very nice copy. 18.7 x 12.

Voyage of discovery to the archipelagoes of the Australes, Gambier and Tuamotus in the mid-1930's. The author was accompanying the French Governor Sautot during his annual travels.

33003
DE LEEUW, Hendrik
CROSSROADS OF THE BUCCANEERS
$15.00 AUD

J. B. Lippincott. Philadelphia. 1937. 1st US Ed. 414 PP with 1 map, head pieces and many attractive drawings by author. Includes 9 PP for Bibliography and 4 PP for Index. Cloth cover, dj. Top edge of spine and covers worn, dust jacket with small pieces missing at top and bottom. Internally very good. 24 x 16.5.

Voyage in 1934 and 1935 through the Spanish Main and the Islands of the Caribbean. An authoritative account of life in the Leewards and Windwards extending from Florida's coast to the Northeast shores of South America.

30856
DE MADARIAGA, Salvador
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Being the Life of the Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon
$15.00 AUD

Hollis & Carter. London. 1949. New edition of the 1939 original. XI, 498 PP, plus 2 folded maps and 3 folded plates with coastal views. Fp: The oldest known portrait of the Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon. Cloth cover, device (caravel) on front cover, spine sunned and lightly frayed. Some foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.

40658
De QUIROS, Pedro Fernandez
HISTOIRE DE LA DECOUVERTE DES REGIONS AUSTRALES - Iles Salomon, Marquises, Santa Cruz, Tuamotu, Cook du Nord et Vanuatu
$35.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2001. 1st Ed. Preface by Paul de Deckker. Translated from the Spanish and Annotated by Annie Baert. 346 PP with 3 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747504298

1st French translation of the 3 voyages by Spaniards from Peru towards the Solomon Islands, the Marquesas Archipelago... Vanuatu.

55604
DE ROSAMEL, Capitaine de Corvette Joseph
POHNPEI, MicronÃ©sie, en 1840. Voyage de circumnavigation de la DanaÃ¯de
$75.00 AUD

MusÃ©e de l'Homme / SociÃ©tÃ© des OcÃ©anistes. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. Publication No. 49. Edited by Pierre de Rosamel and Jean-Christophe Galipaud. 155, (3) PP with 1 chart, 2 maps, 2 engravings, 2 etchings, and 27 pages of facsimile of original manuscript. Fp: Sketch map of central western Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24.4 x 16. 2854300092

Call of DanaÃ¯de in Pohnpei (Bonnebey, Ponape) 7th to 21st of March 1840.

56074
DE SURVILLE, J. F. M.
EXTRACTS FROM JOURNALS RELATING TO THE VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND OF THE FRENCH SHIP ST JEAN BAPTISTE IN DECEMBER 1769 UNDER THE COMMAND OF J. F. M. de SURVILLE
$50.00 AUD

Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust & Indosuez New Zealand Limited.. Wellington. 1987. 2nd edition of the 1982 original and limited to 500 copies. No. 1 in the Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life series. Transcription and translation by Isabel Ollivier and Cheryl Hingley. Preface by L. A. Cameron. Foreword by Anne Salmond. (6), 228 PP with 16 b/w plates (charts, plans, drawings) and 3 maps compiled by Jeremy Spencer. Cloth cover, gilt title on black label on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. French and English text. Oblong: 26 x 30.5. 0090870206X

70903
DE VARIGNY, M. C.
VOYAGE AUX ILES SANDWICH (Iles HawaÃ¯), 1855 - 1869 (in Le Tour du Monde)
$70.00 AUD

L. Hachette / Le Tour du Monde. Paris. 1873. 4 instalments (livraisons 665, 666, 667 & 668) out of "Le Tour du Monde", Volume XXVI. 64 PP (209-272) with 38 wood-engravings: 2 maps, 4 headpieces and 32 text drawings (11 of them on full page). Inserted in a soft cover folder. Light foxing and some faint old watermarks. Contents clean and legible. French text. 30.2 x 21.5.

Voyage / Sojourn: 1855 to 1869.

68081
DE-LA-NOY, Michael
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC
$10.00 AUD

Sutton Publishing. Stroud, UK. 1997. 1st edition in "Pocket Biographies" series. 112 PP, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9780750915120

47365
DELGADO, James P.
ACROSS THE TOP OF THE WORLD - The Quest for the Northwest Passage
$10.00 AUD

Checkmark Books. New York. c. 1999. 2nd printing of the 1999 original. XII, 228 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title spread: HMS Terror in the ice. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 23.5. 0816041245

72207
DENHAM, H. M.
THE AEGEAN - A Sea-Guide to its Coasts and Islands
$25.00 AUD

John Murray. London. 1983 5th UK edition fully revised and enlarged. XXIX, 278 PP with c. 20 drawings by Madge Denham and c. 120 sketch maps, insets & harbour plans by Ayuda Scott-Elliot, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Title page drawing by David Knight. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Few foxing spots on outside edges and a few spots on endpapers. Contents fine. 24 x 16. 0393031977

70878
DESCHAMPS, Emile
LES ILES WALLIS (in Le Tour du Monde)
$70.00 AUD

L. Hachette / Le Tour du Monde. Paris. 1885. Instalment (livraison 1269) out of Le Tour du Monde, Volume XLIX. 16 PP (273-289) with wood-engravings (3 on full page): 1 map and 11 drawings by Th. Weber (7 of them from sketches by the author). Bound copy, red cloth, title on a vignette pasted down on front cover. Occasional foxing. French text. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5.

Emile Deschamps was the surgeon on board the French Navy frigate "Orne", sent from Noumea to rescue the crew of Lhermitte, another French Navy vessel, wrecked in Wallis Island.

31959
DESCHAMPS, Hubert
LES VOYAGES DE SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN, Saintongeais, PÃ¨re du Canada
$20.00 AUD

Presses Universitaires de France. Paris. 1951. 1st Ed., in Les Classiques de la Colonisation series (collection Colonies et Empires). (4), 368 PP with 5 maps. Illustrated soft cover. Ageing of paper, some pages unopened with P.9/10 poorly opened, o/wise near fine. French text. 22 x 13.8.

Samuel Champlain, founder of Canada: his voyages between 1603 and 1632, his observations on the Indians, his treatise on navigation and the duties of a good mariner...

54222
DEVAHUTI, D.
HARSHA, The Pan-Indian King (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly)
$10.00 AUD

Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1971. Volume 15, No. 6, issue for June 1971. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 13 to 18 with 6 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.

32858
DIBNER, Bern
THE VICTORIA AND THE TRITON - Two global expeditions reveal the advance in marine technology with the passage of four and a third centuries
$15.00 AUD

Burndy Library. Norwalk, Conn., USA. 1962. 1st Ed., publication No. 19 of the Burndy Library. 58 PP with 30 b/w illust. (1 map, 8 photos, and engravings), plus 1 folded coloured map of Maris Pacifici. Cloth cover binding the original copy (pictorial card covers), gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note on front endpaper signed by the author. Small bump on top of front cover, o/wise near fine. 27.8 x 21.5.

First circumnavigation by the Victoria of the Magellan expedition, 1519-1522. Submerged circumnavigation on the nuclear-propelled USS Triton, 1960.

15610
DIDEROT
SUPPLEMENT AU VOYAGE DE BOUGAINVILLE, publiÃ© d'aprÃ¨s le manuscrit de LÃ©ningrad
$90.00 AUD

Librairie E. Droz & The Johns Hopkins Press. Paris & Baltimore. 1935. 1st French edition of September 1935. Foreword and notes by Gilbert Chinard. 213, (3) PP. Fp: Facsimile of the 1st page of the manuscript held in Leningrad (Saint Petersbourg). Brown cloth cover, gilt device on front board and spine, gilt title on spine. Small label of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. French text. Image shows Title-page and Frontispiece. 22.5 x 15.

On the French explorer Bougainville, his life and his circumnavigation. Thoughts on the discovery of France by Aotourou... The myths of the noble savage.

73143
DILLON, Peter
NARRATIVE OF LA PEROUSE EXPEDITION, Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas, performed by order of the government of British India, to ascertain the actual fate of LA PEROUSE's expedition
$80.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1972. 1st edition in the Bibliotheca Australiana series, Nos. 53 & 54. Facsimile reprint of the 1829 original. Volume I: LXXVIII, (2 errata), 302 PP, plus 1 folded plate (Fp: Massacre at the Fejee Island in Sept. 1813). Volume II: (IV), 436 PP, plus 1 folded chart in colour "island of Mannicolo, 1827" and 1 folded plate in colour "Natives of La Perouse's island or Mannicolo". Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Glassine protection. Foxing on top outside edge and foxing spots on th 3 outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 9060721004

Peter Dillon, was the first to discover traces of the vanished expedition of La PÃ©rouse on the island of Ticopia and to investigate its fate on the island of Vanikoro.

60708
DISNEY, Anthony & McPHERSON, Kenneth
VASCO DA GAMA QUINCENTENARY CONFERENCE - Program and Abstracts
$10.00 AUD

La Trobe University & Curtin University. Melbourne & Perth. 1997. 1st Ed. 42 PP. Soft cover with clear plastic protection, pictorial front, spiral bound. Faint foxing. Near fine. 30 x 21.5.

A Conference on the Voyage of Vasco da Gama and 500 years of European-Asian Encounter, 21 to 29 June 1997. Program: pages 4 to 9. Participants: pages 10 to 14. 46 abstracts of papers presented: pages 15 to 42.

76366
DIVER, Marolyn
THE VOYAGES OF THE CLONTARF
$20.00 AUD

Dornie Publishing Company. Invercargill, NZ. 2011. 1st edition in the "Ancestral Journeys of New Zealand" series. 104 PP with 2 lists of passengers and b/w illustrations: 5 maps for 2 voyages, newspaper clippings, plans, prints, 13 portraits of passengers and photos. Pictorial stiff covers with a tiny tear on front cover and title-page, otherwise fine. 21 x 15. 9780473184667

2 voyages: 16th September 1858 - 5th January 1859 / 30th November 1859 -16th March 1869.

20645
DIVINE, David
THE OPENING OF THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 272 PP with 6 maps, 160 b/w illustrations & 28 colour plates. Eps: Orbis Terrae. Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped). Very good. 25.2 x 19.5. 0002111691

From the first attempt by primitive man to cross the unfordable river, through Sumerian, Nile, Minoan civilisation, to the Portuguese, Spanish explorers of the Renaissance.

37397
DODGE, Ernest S.
BEYOND THE CAPES - Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger 1776-1877
$5.00 AUD

Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1971. 1st US edition. XV, 429 PP with 3 maps, 1 plan, 6 charts & 50 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): British survey ship cruising in the South Seas. Eps: Map of Central Pacific between the 30th parallels. Cloth cover. Faint stains on outside edges, note on verso of front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16.

45063
DODGE, Ernest S.
BEYOND THE CAPES - Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger 1776-1877
$10.00 AUD

Victor Gollancz. London. 1971. 1st UK edition. XV, 429 PP with 3 maps and 58 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): British survey ship cruising in the South Seas. Eps: Central Pacific between the 30th parallels. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Note on recto of frontispiece, and stamp of previous owner on endpapers and recto of frontispiece. Foxing spots on outside edges, first and last leaves. Very good. 23.5 x 15.5.

The history of Pacific exploration.

73220
DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L.
OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue GÃ©ographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la MicronÃ©sie, de la PolynÃ©sie et de la MÃ©lanÃ©sie (in Three Volumes)
$500.00 AUD

Firmin Didot FrÃ¨res, Editeurs. Paris. 1836, 36 & 38. 1st edition in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 1: (4), 399, (1 errata) PP on 2 columns, plus 100 b/w plates on full-page and 2 folded maps "OcÃ©anie" & "Malaisie". Vol. 2: (4), 397, (3 position of plates and errata) PP on 2 columns, plus 100 b/w plates (101 to 200) and 1 folded map "PolynÃ©sie et MicronÃ©sie". Vol. 3: (4), 632, (8 errata and position of plates) PP on 2 columns, plus 104 b/w plates (201 to 304) and 2 folded maps "KalÃ©mantan ou BornÃ©o" and "MÃ©lanÃ©sie". Quarter bound, marbled boards, leather spine with gilt lines and title. Spine of the 3 volumes affected by the light / sun, lettering damaged. Ageing of paper. Still a very good set. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 21.5 x 14.

Vol.1: General description plus Malaisia (Indonesia, Malaya, Philippines) & Micronesia. Vol.2: Mariana in Micronesia, Polynesia (Hawaii, Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti). Vol.3: Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Melanesia (PNG, Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia), Australia, Kerguelen or Desolation Island.

73242
DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L.
OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue GÃ©ographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la MicronÃ©sie, de la PolynÃ©sie et de la MÃ©lanÃ©sie - (Tome Premier / Volume 1)
$200.00 AUD

Firmin Didot FrÃ¨res, Editeurs. Paris. 1836. 1st edition in "L'Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 1: (4), 399, (4 errata and notes to the binder on position of plates) PP (on 2 columns), plus 100 b/w plates on full-page and 2 folded maps "OcÃ©anie" & "Malaisie". Half bound copy (c. 1980s) retaining original soft covers, marbled boards & endpapers, leather spine with raised bands, gilt devices and title. Ageing of paper an d foxing, mostly around page edges. Very good. Image shows the title-page. French text. 22 x 14.5.

Vol.1: General description plus Malaisia (Indonesia, Malaya, Philippines) & Micronesia.

73243
DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L.
OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue GÃ©ographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la MicronÃ©sie, de la PolynÃ©sie et de la MÃ©lanÃ©sie - (Tome Deuxieme / Volume 2)
$200.00 AUD

Firmin Didot FrÃ¨res, Editeurs. Paris. 1836. 1st edition in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 2: (4), 397, (3 position of plates and errata) PP (on 2 columns), plus 100 b/w plates (101 to 200) and 1 folded map "PolynÃ©sie et MicronÃ©sie". Half bound (c. 1980s) copy retaining original soft covers, marbled boards & endpapers, leather spine with raised bands, gilt devices and title. Copy lacking plate called for: 129 "Ruines du Fort de Kai-Roua" for this Volume 2. Ageing of paper and foxing, mostly around page edges. Very good. French text. Image shows title-page. 21.5 x 14.

Vol.2: Mariana in Micronesia, Polynesia (Hawaii, Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti).

76044
DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L.
OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue GÃ©ographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la MicronÃ©sie, de la PolynÃ©sie et de la MÃ©lanÃ©sie (Tome TroisiÃ¨me - Volume 3)
$100.00 AUD

Firmin Didot FrÃ¨res, Editeurs. Paris. 1863. Reprint of the 1838 original in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 3: (4), 635, (4 position of plates) PP on 2 columns. Plus 35 of the called out plates 173 to 208 (New Zealand and Tonga) and the folded map "MÃ©lanÃ©sie". Modern binding retaining original front cover. Dark blue cloth covers, title on on a light blue label pasted down on spine, marbled endpapers. Copy with misbound copies (196 to 208), and missing plates (168 to 172, 210 to 284 then 297 to 304), called for. French text. Very good reading copy. 22.5 x 14.

Vol.3: text complete: Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Melanesia (PNG, Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia), Australia, Kerguelen or Desolation Island. As for the plates: on 124 called for, 89 of them are missing, and the bound plates are from an edition published with captions in French and Spanish.

15685
DONNO, Elizabeth Story
AN ELIZABETHAN IN 1582, The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls
$15.00 AUD

The Hakluyt Society. London. 1976. 1st Ed. Publication 147 in the Hakluyt Society second series. XVI, 365 PP with 1 figure in text plus 18 bw plates (charts, drawings...). Fp: A page of Madox's Diary, 24 Sept. 1583. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, gilt device on front cover, dust wrapper. Dust jacket with a few rubs, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0904180042

Voyage from England to Sierra Leone and Brazil.

54616
DOUBLEDAY, Nelson & COOLEY, C. Earl (editors)
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD TRAVEL (in 2 volumes)
$10.00 AUD

Doubleday & Co. New York. 1973. 2nd edition, revised by Marjorie Zelko and Diana Powel Ward. Vol. I: XIV, 652 PP with 59 maps, plus 60 pages with 129 b/w photos. Vol. II: XIV, 619 PP with 74 maps, plus 68 pages with 147 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (chipped). Occasional foxing. Near fine set. 21.5 x 14.5. 038506120X

15565
DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel
VOYAGE OF THE VENUS: Sojourn in California
$30.00 AUD

Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. 1996. Limited reprint (500 copies) of the 1956 edition by Glen Dawson, Los Angeles. XII, 115 PP plus 10 full-page b/w plates. Fp. Eps. Gilt-engraved cloth cover & spine. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 20 x 14. 0877705542

Excerpt from Voyage Autour du Monde sur la FrÃ©gate Venus pendant les annÃ©es 1836-1839. Comprises P. 77 to 164 of Volume II published in 1841 covering the visit to Monterey and the voyage down the coast of Lower California before calling at Mazatlan.

32952
DUCHAC, RenÃ© Virgile
VASCO DE GAMA - L'orgueil et la blessure
$10.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed., in the Recherches et Documents AmÃ©riques Latines series. 175 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.4. 2738436803

On the Portuguese explorer: What was he doing in between his voyages to India, why not doing more exploration for the next 20 years of his life..?.

74911
DUCHE, Jean
THE GREAT TRADE ROUTES
$15.00 AUD

McGraw-Hill Book Co. New York 1969. 1st UK Ed., in the International Library series. 128 PP with b/w and colour illust. Eps: Colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26 x 18.5. 0001001132

From the days of barter through to the New World and the transport revolution of modern times.

37335
DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste
A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, & AROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS 1826-1829
$25.00 AUD

University of California Press. Berkeley. 1999. 1st University of California Press printing. Translated and edited from the French original Voyage autour du monde, principalement a la Californie et aux Iles Sandwich, pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829, by August FrugÃ© and Neal Harlow. XXX, (2), 254 PP with 12 b/w illustrations (4 of them by the author). Title spread: View of Monterey, as seen from the harbor, by Auguste Duhaut-Cilly. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0520217527

Chapter 7 to 18: on the coast of California (USA) and Baja California (Mexico), between 1826 and 1828. Hawaii: September to November 1828...

30597
DULLES, Foster Rhea
EASTWARD HO!, The First English Adventurers to the Orient - Richard Chancellor - Anthony Jenkinson - James Lancaster - William Adams - Sir Thomas Roe
$20.00 AUD

The Bodley Head Limited. London. 1931. 1st Ed. XIV, 199 PP, plus 2 folded maps and 18 b/w plates (1 on double page). Fp: Czar Ivan Vassilivitch. Hard cover (lightly rubbed on hinges). Near fine. 22.4 x 14.5.

76358
DUMAS, Alexandre
CAPTAIN MARION
$100.00 AUD

The Caxton Press. Christchurch. 1949. 1st edition limited to 150 copies. Translated by F.W. Reed. 54 PP, pages on hand made paper. Original cover in full buckram, title on white label pasted down on front cover and spine, top outside edge tinted, dj. Front endpaper with signature of D.R. Gregg, Director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. Light offsetting on endpapers. Newspaper "Christchurch" clipping dated 3rd May 1952 "Massacre of 1772 recalled - More about Marion Dufresne", loosely inserted. A fine copy. Scarce. 22.5 x 14.5.

Account of the massacre of Capt. Marion du Fresne by the Maoris in 1772 written by Alexandre Dumas. One of the four pieces under the title of "Drames de la Mer", largely based on Crozet's log.

66532
DUMONT d'URVILLE, Captain Jules S. C.
TWO VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS - Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829, Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, New Guinea, Australia, South East Asia, Tasmania, Antarctica, New Zealand, Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the corvettes ASTROLABE 1826-1829, ASTROLABE and ZELEE 1837-1840
$30.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1992. 1st Paperback edition. Translated & retold by Helen Rosenman. XXXVI, 304 PP with 1 lithograph and 26 maps, plus 20 pages with 39 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 23 x 15.5. 9780522844320

The two great voyages of Dumont d'Urville to the Pacific and the Antarctic.

17759
DUMONT D'URVILLE, Contre-Amiral (editor)
VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE (in Two Volumes)
$500.00 AUD

Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Editeurs. Paris. 1868. New edition (corrected and updated). Volume I: (4), XI, 550, (1 index) PP with 1 head piece, plus 1 large folded chart at back, and 22 b/w plates. Fp: portraits of Bougainville, Cook, Lapeyrouse and Dumont d'Urville. Volume II: (4), 542, (1 index) PP with 1 head piece, plus 1 folded chart, and 22 b/w plates. Quarter bound, marbled boards and edges, gilt title on spine. Few pages with signs of ageing and occasional foxing, otherwise a fine set. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 27.3 x 18.

A narrative of voyages across the world's oceans and seas as discovered and charted by the explorers - Bougainville, Cook, D'Entrecasteaux, Vancouver, Baudin, Flinders, Hall, Krusenstern, Kings, Kotzebue...

17700
DUNMORE, John
PACIFIC EXPLORER, The Life of Jean-FranÃ§ois de La PÃ©rouse 1741-1788
$15.00 AUD

Dunmore Press. Palmerston North, NZ. 1985. 1st Ed. 318 PP with 1 genealogical tree, 8 maps and 26 bw illust. Title spread: La PÃ©rouse's ship anchored at Maui, Hawaii. FEP: Portrait of La PÃ©rouse. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.8 x 16. 0864690487

Biography of La PÃ©rouse, family background, years in the Indian Ocean, campaigns against the Royal Navy, his two-and-half years expedition to the Pacific between 1785 and 1788.

20739
DUNMORE, John
THE FATEFUL VOYAGE OF THE ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, A True Account of M. de Surville's Expedition to New Zealand and the Unknown South Seas in the Years 1769-70
$30.00 AUD

Pegasus Press. Christchurch, N.Z. 1969. 1st Ed. 127 PP, plus 8 b/w plates with 9 illustrations. Eps: Map of Indo-Pacific Oceans with track followed by the Saint Jean Baptiste. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed, spine sunned. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.

The commercial cruise/discovery of the French East Indiaman Saint Jean Baptiste and her Captain de Surville, from French India to South America, via the Solomon Islands and New Zealand...

70719
DUNMORE, John
Mrs COOK's BOOK OF RECIPES for Mariners in Distant Seas
$15.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum / Exisle Publishing. Sydney. 2006. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 15 headpieces. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 17.2 x 13.2. 0908988648

Stewed Albatross. Beer, lemon juice and other anti-scorbutic beverages...

76257
DUNMORE, John
FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC (in two volumes)
$350.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1965 & 1969. Volume I: 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. VIII, 356 PP with 13 maps, plus 2 b/w plates (charts). Volume II: 1st edition limited to 2000 copies. VIII, 428 PP with 12 maps. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jackets laminated with clear plastic. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges of Volume I. Set in an excellent condition. 22.2 x 14.5.

Volume I, The Eighteenth Century : Bougainville, De Surville, Marion Dufresne, Kerguelen, La PÃ©rouse, D'Entrecasteaux, and Marchand. Volume II, The Nineteenth Century: Baudin, Freycinet, Duperrey, Bougainville, Dumont d'Urville, Laplace, Vaillant, Dupetit-Thouars.

66993
DUNMORE, John & DE BROSSARD, Maurice
LE VOYAGE DE LAPEROUSE 1785-1788 (in Two Volumes)
$450.00 AUD

Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. 1985. 1st edition in Voyages et DÃ©couvertes series. Tome I: XIII, 315 PP with 75 b/w & colour illustrations, plus a folded chart (in three parts) in rear pocket. Tome II: XIII, 512 PP with 192 b/w & colour illustrations. Both volumes bound in blue cloth with colour vignette on front cover, gilt title on front board and spine, and contained in an illustrated cloth slipcase. Dedicatory note on half title page of Volume I, dated and signed by the author. Endpapers of Volume II split at the gutter. Faint foxing. French text. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 30.5 x 22. 2110808578

50070
DUVIARD, Dominique
SHIPS AND SEAFARERS: DISCOVERERS
$10.00 AUD

Moonlight/Methuen. London. 1984. 1st English edition, translated and adapted from the 1983 French original by Sarah Matthews. 92 PP with colour illustrations by Tony Ross. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. Small format. 18 x 11.5. 0907144705

51949
DUVIARD, Dominique
SHIPS AND SEAFARERS: DISCOVERERS
$5.00 AUD

42902
DUYKER, Edward
IN SEARCH OF LA PEROUSE (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XII, No. 12, September 2002)
$5.00 AUD

N.L.A. Canberra. 2002. Volume XII, No. 12, September 2002. Contains article from P. 18 to 21 with 3 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Links between the Bruny d'Entrecasteaux expedition and items in the National Library's Collection.

66169
DUYKER, Edward
UN ACCENT SUR LE FRANCAIS / WITH A FRENCH ACCENT (in National Library of Australia News - 1994)
$10.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1994. Article pulled out from the July 1994 issue. Pages 12 to 15 with 3 b/w and 3 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

On the first French contacts in Australia.

70465
DUYKER, Edward
AN IMPETUOUS LIFE. FranÃ§ois PÃ©ron, Naturalist and Voyager
$100.00 AUD

The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2006. 1st edition, No. 75 in the Second series of the Miegunyah Volumes. XXIV, 350 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy and scarce in this condition. 24.3 x 16.0. 0522852602

Naturalist with the Nicolas Baudin expedition to Australian waters 1801.

72771
DUYKER, Edward & TINGBRAND, P. (editors)
DANIEL SOLANDER, Collected Correspondence 1753-1782
$45.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies, No. 2 in the Miegunyah Press series. Foreword by Alan Frost. XVIII, (2), 466, (2) PP with 3 maps, plus 36 pages with 39 illustrations (12 colour and 27 b/w). Half-title page: Dr. Solander engraving & his signature. Hard cover, dj, ribbon page-marker. Foxing spots on top outside edges, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 052284636X

The Swedish naturalist who accompanied Joseph Banks on the first voyage of James Cook on the Endeavour (letters 90 to 106). Contains 188 letters from or to Solander in their original language with their English translation. (Letter 115 and others - Voyage of "Omai").

20156
DYSON, John
COLUMBUS, For Gold, God and Glory
$10.00 AUD

Simon & Schuster. New York. 1991. 1st US Ed. 228 PP with bw and colour illust. (photographs by Peter Christopher). Fp: Portrait of Columbus. Illustrated endpapers and half-title page. Hard cover, dj. As new. 31 x 23.7. 0671687913

In search of the real Columbus, and the actual reasons behind his discovery of the Americas.

20699
DYSON, John
WESTWARD WITH COLUMBUS
$10.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 64 PP with bw and colour illust. (photos by Peter Christopher). Title spread: Wind fills the sails of the new Nina. Half title page: The crest of Christopher Columbus. Eps: Columbus sails with a fleet of 17 ships on his second voyage to the New World. Laminated pictorial boards, dj (inside of dust jacket is a wall poster : size 28 x 68 cm). Near fine. 28.8 x 22.2. 0340555645

57658
DYSON, John
COLUMBUS, For Gold, God and Glory
$10.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 228 PP with bw and colour illust. (photographs by Peter Christopher). Fp: Portrait of Columbus. Illustrated endpapers and half-title page. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31 x 23.7. 0340487941

In search of the real Columbus, and the actual reasons behind his discovery of the Americas.

76222
EARL, Jack
KATHLEEN'S VOYAGE, The Log Book of Kathleen Gillett written and illustrated by ... during his 1947-48 voyage around the world
$10000.00 AUD

Weldon. Sydney. 1991. Limited facsimile edition (No.78 of 200 copies). Introduction by Bruce Stannard. (X), No continuous pagination, but 12 log books with a total of 328 pages plus one very large fold-out map (59cm x 1m.20). Illustrations made up of the author's sketches both in colour and b/w, b/w photos, facsimiles of documents, stamps, etc.. Fp: Kathleen Gillett off the Marquesas 1948. Endpapers: Sail plan of the Kathleen Gillett. Half-bound, gilt title on front cover, spine has raised bands and gilt title. Very small (1cm) round dark spot on back cover. Hand numbered and signed by the author on half-title page. A fine copy of this very scarce item. Large format: 59cm. x 41cm. 1863021752

A round the world voyage post WWII. From Australia through the Indian Ocean, calling at Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling, Rodgrigues and Mauritius, Reunion, South Africa. Then calls at St.Helena, Brazil, the Caribbean, Panama, Galapagos and across the Pacific: Marquesas, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand and return to Sydney. A magnificent book with extraordinary illustrations. More images available upon request.

57912
EDGEWORTH DAVID, Mrs.
FUNAFUTI, or Three Months on a Coral Island: an Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition
$55.00 AUD

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.. London. 1913. School Edition: abridged from the 1899 original. XVI, 150 PP, (2) with " pages glossary and 1 map, plus 6 b/w plates. Inside front cover: map with inset (Funafuti atoll). Soft cover, cloth with title on front cover. Faint foxing. A few pages a little dog-eared, o/wise very good. 18 x 12.

The Atoll of Funafuti. Borings into a coral reef and the results. Being the report of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society.

69137
EDMOND, Stuart
MEMORIES OF A BEN LINE MAN
$40.00 AUD

Bassman Books. Balbair, Dingwall, UK. 2015. Second impression of the 2015 original. (2), 215, (2) PP with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with small bump at top corner, o/wise a fine copy. 21 x 14.7. 9780956790866

73427
ELBOROUGH, Travis
ATLAS OF FORGOTTEN PLACES - Journey to Abandoned Destinations from around the World
$50.00 AUD

White Lion Publishing. London. 2021. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 4 b/w illustrations (1 engraving, 3 photos) and colour illustrations: maps, sketch maps and plans, by Martin Brown and photos. Decorative hard covers. Fine. 26.5 x 19. 9780711263307

Vacant properties: orphanages, lighthouses, mining towns ... dilapidated destinations: hotels, palaces, theme parks ... obsolete institutions: submarine bases, seaside sanatorium, Alcatraz prison....

70791
ELL, Gordon
ABEL TASMAN: In Search of the Great South Land
$20.00 AUD

The Bush Press of Auckland. Auckland. 1992. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 35 duotone illustrations and 8 colour illustrations (1 chart, 2 paintings and 5 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 18.4. 090860856X

A popular account of the discovery of Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga and Northern Fiji in 1642-43.

75202
ELLIS, William
JOURNAL OF WILLIAM ELLIS - Narrative of a Tour of Hawaii, or Owhyhee; with Remarks on the History, Traditions, Manners, Customs, and Language of the Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands
$70.00 AUD

Charles E. Tuttle Co. Rutland, Vermont. 1979. 1st Tuttle edition of the 1825 original, with an introduction by Thurston Twigg-Smith (1963) and Terence Barrow (1978). XXIV, 363 PP with 13 b/w illustrations (1 Hawaiian flag, 3 drawings and 9 plates), plus 1 folded Chart of the Sandwich Isles and the frontispiece: William Ellis, Missionary from the Society and Sandwich Islands. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Fine. 23 x 15.5. 0804812985

73448
ENDRES, GÃ¼nter G.
BRITISH AIRWAYS
$35.00 AUD

Ian Allan Ltd. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 112 PP with tables, 9 diagrams, maps and plans, and 40 b/w and 68 colour photos. Title spread: Boeing 757 G-BIKO "Harlech Castle". Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots inside dust jacket and top outside edge, o/wise fine. 29.7 x 22. 9780711017344

13903
ENTERLINE, James Robert
VIKING AMERICA, The Norse Crossings and their Legacy
$10.00 AUD

New English Library. London. 1973. 1st Ed. XX, (2), 217 PP with 2 maps in text plus 8 pages with 15 bw illust. Eps: Map of the North polar region and the North Atlantic Ocean. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Ageing of paper around outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.6 x 14.5. 450014797

On the Viking explorations and settlements of North America.

56265
ERSKINE, Dr. Nigel
CHARLES DARWIN, Voyages and Ideas that Shook the World (in Signals No. 86)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2009. No. 86, March-May 2009. Contains article from P. 2 to 9 with 13 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

By the curator of exploration of the Australian National Maritime Museum.

63339
ERSKINE, Dr. Nigel
EAST OF INDIA, forgotten trade with Australia (in Signals Quarterly No. 103)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2013. No. 103, June-July-August 2013, edited by Jeffrey Mellefont. 68P. Contains 4 articles between pages 2 and 27, plus page 48 with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Lord Wellesley's Boatman). New. 30 x 23.

Early links between Australia and India. Forgotten Lives: Indian workers in 19th century Australia, by Michelle Linder. Shipwrecks east of India: three-masted ship Ferguson on Ferguson Reef, by Kieran Hosty. By the Sea, drinking Tea, by Mariko Smith.

76296
ESTENSEN, Miriam
THE LIFE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS
$20.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. XXII, 538 PP with 5 maps and 19 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 15 colour plates. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner at top of half-title page, dust jacket with light wear, otherwise a fine copy. 23.7 x 16. 1865085154

74412
EVANS, Admiral Sir Edward
BRITISH POLAR EXPLORERS
$10.00 AUD

Collins of London. London. 1943. 1st Ed. in the "Britain in Pictures" series. 48 PP with 19 b/w illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Hard cover, decorated front cover, dj. War economy paper. Spine damaged at head and foot, o/wise contents good. 23 x 16.5.

Martin Frobisher. Sir John Franklin. James Cook. Scott. Mawson.

74526
EYRE, Edward John
JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1 (in 2 Volumes)
$150.00 AUD

Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1964. Facsimile Reprint of the 1845 original. No. 7 in the "Australiana Facsimile Editions" series. Volume I: (2), XVIII, (2), 448 PP, plus 11 plates (6 of them on some new animals), and 1 folded map of Australia inside pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Fp: Tenberry with wife and child. Volume II: (2), VI, 512 PP with 1 drawing, plus 11 b/w plates and 1 large folded "Map of Mr. Eyre's Routes in Central Australia" inside the pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Fp: Distribution of flour at Moorunde. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. A near fine copy. 21.8 x 14.5.

..Sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government, including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans.

51047
FABRE, David
SEAFARING IN ANCIENT EGYPT
$60.00 AUD

Periplus. London. 2004/2005. 1st English edition, translated from the French by Andrew Brown. XXII, (2), 278 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine/as new condition. 32.7 x 26.5. 9781902699332

Part I: Egypt and the sea. Part II: The professionals of Maritime Voyaging.

18203
FANNING, Edmund
VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS, INDIAN & PACIFIC OCEANS, CHINA SEA NORTHWEST COAST, FEEJEE ISLANDS, SOUTH SHETLANDS, ...
$45.00 AUD

Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Washington. 1970. Limited edition of 600 copies This copy is un-numbered. (34), XII, 13-324, (8 Index) PP with few b/w illustrations (portrait, house of Captain Fanning, Coat of Arms, frontispiece of original copy), plus 6 folded plates (crew list, chart of British Columbia & 4 registries of US ships) in pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Cloth covers, gilt engraved front cover and spine. Fine. 24.3 x 15.8.

Voyages and new discoveries made in the Southern Hemisphere between the years 1830 and 1837.

42199
FEEKEN, Erwin H.J. & Gerda E.E. & SPATE, O.H.K.
THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA
$50.00 AUD

Thomas Nelson. Melbourne. 1970. 1st Ed. VIII, 318 PP with 12 colour illust., 24 maps with exploration routes by discoverers & 146 b/w illust. (11 maps & plans). Title-page: Dutch vessel. Illustrated endpapers. Decorated hard cover, dj. Very light foxing on covers, outside edges, endpapers and few pages, o/wise a near fine copy. 29 x 21.4. 170018121

Discovery and exploration by sea and land with gazetteer of Australian place names and key to maps.

19376
FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe
COLUMBUS, And the Conquest of the Impossible
$20.00 AUD

Saturday Review Press. New York. 1974. 1st US Ed. 224 PP with 2 maps, 100 b/w and 17 colour illust. Fp: A portrait of Columbus by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. Title page: A sixteenth-century ship's compass. Eps: Natives of Hispaniola. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on front edge. A near fine copy. 25.5 x 18.5. 0841503303

21908
FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe
COLUMBUS
$10.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1992. Paperback edition of the 1991 original. XXVII, 218, (10 adv.) PP with 5 maps. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 19.6 x 12.9. 0192852604

A brilliant biography of Christopher Columbus.

11310
FESCHE, Charles FÃ©lix Pierre
LA NOUVELLE CYTHERE (Tahiti) JOURNAL DE NAVIGATION INEDIT - Ecrit Ã bord de la frÃ©gate du Roy la Boudeuse, commandÃ©e par M. le Chevalier de Bougainville
$45.00 AUD

Editions Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt. Paris. 1929. 1st Ed., in Collection Laque Orange Aventures et Voyages, with a foreword by Jean Dorsenne. XXX, (2), 34 PP (2), plus 1 map, 1 drawing and 2 coloured engravings. Soft cover, paper browned on edges/margins, o/wise near fine. French text. Scarce. 20.4 x 15.2.

The discovery of Tahiti in 1767 by a young apprentice attached to the Bougainville expedition.

73289
FESTETICS DE TOLNA, Comte Rodolphe
VERS L'ECUEIL DE MINICOY, aprÃ©s Huit Ans dans L'Ocean Pacifique et Indien Ã bord du Yacht "Le Tolna"
$950.00 AUD

Librairie Plon / Plon-Nourrit & Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs. Paris. 1904. 1st edition. (6), 395, (3) PP (superior gloss paper) with b/w illustrations: 3 headpieces, 2 tailpieces, 78 drawings (including a sketch chart of the atoll of Minikoi) & photos and 68 photographic plates (17 of them with artifacts collected and offered to the National Museum of Hungary), plus 3 large folded plates with charts of: North East Coast of New Guinea / Solomon Islands / Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. Fp: Portait of Comte Festetics de Tolna. Cloth cover with light wear around edges, gilt title on front board and spine. Signature of previous owner on half-title page. Light foxing of prelims and last pages. A near fine copy of a rare item. French text. 28.2 x 20.

57227
FINAU, Melito, FULILAGI, Franck Simete, ... VAITULUKINA, CÃ©lestine
TAVAKA LANU'IMOANA - MÃ©moires de Voyages
$200.00 AUD

ADCK (Agence de DÃ©veloppement de la Culture Kanak) & ComitÃ© de Recherche Historique Tavaka. NoumÃ©a. 2009. 1st Ed. Preface by Marie-Claude Tjibaou and Postface by Savelio Felomaki. Edited by Malia Sosefo Drouet-Manufekai. 216 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, title in blind on front cover and spine, dj. French text with 2 articles in Faka-Uvea (Wallis). Top outside page edges with faint foxing, o/wise fine. 28.8 x 23.4. 9782909407708

Tavaka lanu'imoana = Voyages aux couleurs de l'ocÃ©an / voyages on the ocean. A history of the migrations between "Uvea mo Futuna" (Wallis & Futuna) and New Caledonia.

53339
FINCH, Robert
BEYOND THE OCEAN RIM
$15.00 AUD

University of London. Bickley, Kent. 1943. 1st Ed. 180 PP with 12 b/w illustrations on full page. Fp (in colour): The Golden Hind captures the Treasure Galleon Cacafuego. Illustrations by E. A. Shearlock. Eps: world map with tracks of maritime explorers. Cloth cover, device on front cover. Covers with discoloured spots. Slight ageing of paper (War economy paper). Very good. 19.5 x 13.5.

66341
FINGER, Jarvis
THE ESCAPES FROM ST HELENA
$15.00 AUD

Boolarong Publications. Brisbane. 1987. 1st Ed. (6), 46 PP with b/w illustrations. Pctorial soft cover. Creases on front cover, rubbed patch on back cover. Very good. 21 x 14.7. 086439022X

St. Helena island situated near the mouth of the Brisbane River and for more than 60 years (from 1867), it was a secure prison for men, housing some of Queensland's worst criminals.

15086
FIRSTBROOK, Peter
THE VOYAGE OF THE "MATTHEW", John Cabot and the Discovery of North America
$15.00 AUD

BBC Books. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 192 PP with bw and colour illust. Title spread: the "Matthew". Hard cover, pict. dj. Near fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0563387645

John Cabot, his landing on the North American continent 500 years ago. The re-enactment voyage from Bristol in 1997. Chapter 3: designing Cabot's caravel.

34291
FIRSTBROOK, Peter
THE VOYAGE OF THE MATTHEW - John Cabot and the Discovery of North America
$10.00 AUD

KQED Books. San Francisco. 1997. 1st US edition. 192 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title spread: the Matthew. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 19. 0912333227

John Cabot, his landing on the North American continent 500 years ago. The re-enactment voyage from Bristol in 1997. Chapter 3: designing Cabot's caravel.

60523
FISHER , Denise, DUTTON, Kenneth, DUYKER, Edward
CELESTE DE CHABRILLAN / FREE FRENCH / DUMONT d'URVILLE (in Explorations No. 49)
$20.00 AUD

ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2010. (Part I & II), December 2010. Part I: 64 PP with 3 b/w photos. Part II: 65-128 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.

Issue 49 - Part I: CÃ©leste de Chabrillan, by Jana Verhoeven. Supporting the Free French in New Caledonia, by Denise Fisher. Barrallier in the Hunter, by Kenneth Dutton. Part II: The Library of Dumont d'Urville, by Edward Duyker.

45076
FISHER, Raymond H. (editor)
THE VOYAGE OF SEMEN DEZHNEV in 1648 - Bering's Precursor with Selected Documents
$10.00 AUD

The Hakluyt Society. London. 1981. Second Series, No. 159. XIII, 326 PP with 3 figures and 22 maps, plus a fold-out map at end of book. Cloth cover, gilt engraved device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.2. 0904180077

56106
FISHER, Tim & HALL, Susan (editors)
TRAVELLERS ART
$15.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jan Fullerton. 20 PP with 2 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 21. 0642107726

Booklet accompanying the exhibition.

35421
FLANNERY, Tim (editor)
THE EXPLORERS
$5.00 AUD

Text Publishing. Melbourne. 1999. Reprint of the 1998 original. (14), 386 PP with 1 map on double page, and small location maps Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 19.9 x 12.8. 1876485221

64 explorers: Tasman in 1642, Dampier in 1688, Cook in 1770, Phillip in 1788... FranÃ§ois PÃ©ron in 1802... to Dr. W.J. Peasley in 1977.

67553
FLANNERY, Tim (editor)
THE EXPLORERS
$10.00 AUD

Text Publishing. Melbourne. 1998. 1st Ed. (14), 386 PP with 1 map on double page, and small location maps Pictorial soft cover. Covers with creases. Ageing and foxing of paper. Very good reading copy. 23.3 x 12.8. 1875847723

64 explorers: Tasman in 1642, Dampier in 1688, Cook in 1770, Phillip in 1788... FranÃ§ois PÃ©ron in 1802... to Dr. W.J. Peasley in 1977.

17485
FLAUM, Eric
DISCOVERY: Exploration Through the Centuries
$10.00 AUD

Mallard Press. Sydney. 1990. 1st Australian edition. 208 PP with bw and colour illust. Eps: Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, by Sanson, 1719. Hard cover, dj. Printed on art paper. Fine. Large format: 36 x 26.4. 1863250328

Pleasant iconography.

71904
FLEMING, Fergus
BARROW'S BOYS
$15.00 AUD

Granta Books. London. 1999. 1st paperback edition of the 1998 original. XX, 489 PP with 4 maps and 34 headpieces, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 19.5 x 12.7. 9781862072862

John Barrow, elder statesman of exploration: Arctic and the North West Passage, Africa and search for Timbuctoo, Niger ... Antarctica.

54621
LA FLEUR, J. D. (editor)
PIETER VAN DEN BROECKE'S JOURNAL OF VOYAGES TO CAPE VERDE, GUINEA AND ANGOLA (1605-1612)
$15.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 2000. 1st Ed. Series III, Volume 5. XV, 139 PP with 1 facsimile of page of manuscript and 7 maps. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Pieter van den Broecke. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180689

15655
FLEURIEU, Charles P.C.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 1790-1792 PERFORMED BY ETIENNE MARCHAND (In Two Volumes)
$60.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of 1801 original English edition. Nos. 23 & 24 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (VIII), CXXVIII, 361 PP, plus 8 plates including 4 folded charts. Volume II: XII, 504 PP, plus 105 PP comprising the journal of the route of the ship 'Solide' in 1790, 1791 & 1792. Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26 x 21.

62892
FLEW, Janine
ANTARCTIC ELYSIUM, in the footsteps of Shackleton (in Signals No. 102)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2013. No. 102, March - April - May 2013, edited by Jeffrey Mellefont. 68P. Contains article between pages 24 and 29 with 1 b/w and 6 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (videographer David Doubilet braves below-zero waters at PlÃ©neau Bay, Antarctica). New. 30 x 23.

On the Elysium Antarctic Visual Epic exhibition held at the Australian National Maritime Museum: 13th April to 11 August 2013.

75233
FLINDERS
GRAVE OF EXPLORER MATTHEW FLINDERS UNEARTHED NEAR LONDON STATION (in The Doningtonian, No. 62)
$15.00 AUD

The Doningtonian. Donington, UK. 2019 Issue 62 "Bring Him Home", Winter 2019. No pagination, 40 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page and article at centrefold (3 pages with 2 b/w illustrations and 9 colour photos) by Esther Addley. 2 Newspaper clippings (Daily Mirror, 25/01/2019 & Lincolnshire Free Press 12/02/2019) loosely inserted. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

72017
FLINDERS, Matthew
A BIOGRAPHICAL TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF TRIM, ISLE DE FRANCE 1809
$30.00 AUD

John Ferguson / Halstead Press. Sydney. 1986. Reprint of 1the 1986 edition, with an introduction by Dr. Stephen Murray-Smith and a learned discource on the subject by Dr. T. M. Perry. 48 PP with illustrations by Annette Macarthur-Onslow. Fp: Portrait of Trim. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine (mint condition). 23 x 16.5. 0909134707

A brave seafaring cat who, in the company of Matthew Flinders, circumnavigated the globe in the years 1799-1804.

72744
FLINDERS, Matthew
A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS... (in Two Volumes and a folio atlas)
$650.00 AUD

Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1966. Facsimile edition of the 1814 original, No. 37 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (IV), X, (X), CCIV, 269 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Volume II: (IV), 613 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Atlas (in a cloth-covered clam box) with 18 b/w folded plates [charts (plate XV, in 3 folded parts) and coastal views] and 10 b/w folded plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis. Cloth covers, gilt titles on vignettes on the spines. More images available upon request. Faint foxing spots on the covers and outside edges of the volumes, o/wise a near fine set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 35 x 28.

A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the Commander during six years and a half in that Island.

73657
FLINDERS, Matthew
A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS... (in Two Volumes and a folio atlas)
$450.00 AUD

Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1966. Facsimile edition of the 1814 original, No. 37 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (IV), X, (X), CCIV, 269 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Volume II: (IV), 613 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Atlas (in a cloth-covered clam box) with 18 b/w folded plates [charts (plate XV, in 3 folded parts) and coastal views] and 10 b/w folded plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis. This set had been water damaged affecting the covers and only the outer edges of pages. Rebacked copy. Full covers with "Oyster Book Cloth", renewed endpapers, and original labels pasted down on spine. Slight ageing of paper, and old water marks on outside edges of Volumes 1 & 2.. Complete. Contents fine and overall, a very good set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 35 x 27.5.

74426
FLINDERS, Matthew
A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS : A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator (in Two Volumes and an Atlas)
$1000.00 AUD

South Australian Government Printer. Adelaide. 1989. Facsimile reprint of the 1814 original. Limited edition of 500 hand numbered copies (No. 263 / 500), with a foreword by John Tregenza. Volume I: (6), VI, XX, CCIV, 269 PP, plus 1 colour plate (portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders by Toussaint Antoine De Chazal), and 4 b/w plates. Eps: Chart of Spencer's Gulf, Investigator's Strait and Gulf of St. Vincent. Volume II: (II), 613 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Eps: Chart of Spencer's Gulf, Investigator's Strait and Gulf of St. Vincent. Atlas: No pagination 80 PP with 18 b/w plates (9 charts on double page, 7 on full page and 2 coastal views on double page) and 10 b/w plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis. Eps: pencil drawing by R.T. Sexton, showing HMS Investigator. Half bound, gilt title on front cover and spine. Gilt lettering has been rubbed on the spines at top of the two volumes. Minimal foxing on the cover of the Atlas. A near fine set contained in a custom built red velvet lined box with a clear perspex cover. More images available upon request. Large format: Volumes: 37.5 x 28.5cm., Atlas: 70.5 x 53cm., Boxed set: 58 x 76 x 10. A very heavy item so please ask for best available postage rate. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Can be sold without the box if requested. 0724365400

... Very nice collector's item.

34446
FOOTE, Timothy
WHERE COLUMBUS WAS COMING FROM (in Smithsonian, Volume 22, No. 9)
$5.00 AUD

Smithsonian Institution. Washington. 1991. Volume 22, No. 9, December 1991. Edited by Don Moser. 140 PP. Contains article from page 28 to 41 with 1 b/w and 13 colour illust. Soft cover. Near fine. 28.2 x 21.

On the cusp of the Renaissance, the navigator -pious and prejudiced, bold and greedy- was a man of his era.

60677
FORNASIERO, Jean
STRANGERS ON THE SHORE: Musical Encounters in Terra Australis, 1802 (in Explorations No. 50)
$10.00 AUD

ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2011. June 2011. 64 PP. Contains article pages 5 to 15. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.

On Baudin expedition.

73461
FORNASIERO, Jean & WEST-SOOBY, John (editors)
'ROAMING FREELY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE" - Nicolas Baudin's Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science
$50.00 AUD

Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2021. 1st Ed. VI, 341, (5 publications) PP with over 6 tables and 24 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. New. 23.3 x 15.5. 9781743058275

4 subjects with 14 papers. ... The Pacific as a laboratory for Natural History, by John Gascoigne. ... 3 papers on "The Manuscripts of FranÃ§ois PÃ©ron as Chronicler of the Sientific Voyage by: Gabrielle Baglione, Margaret Sankey ... Louis Freycinet at Port Jackson : Race, Colonialism and the figure of the French Scientific Traveller: 1803-1839, by Nicole Starbuck.

68688
FORNASIERO, Jean, LAWTON, Lindl, Peter & WEST-SOOBY, John (editors)
THE ART OF SCIENCES: Nicolas Baudin's Voyagers 1800-1804
$70.00 AUD

Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2016. 1st Ed. Forewords by Christophe Lecourtier, Ambassador of France to Australia, and Edouard Philippe, Mayor of Le Havre then French Prime Minister (May 2017). 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Review of exhibition / book "In Search of an Answer" by Christopher Allen, Weekend Australian", July 2017, loosely inserted. Pictorial card covers. New. 26.5 x 21.8. 9781743054277

68348
FORNASIERO, Jean, MONTEATH, Peter & WEST-SOOBY, John
ENCOUNTERING TERRA AUSTRALIS: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders
$50.00 AUD

Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2004. 1st Ed. XII, 412 PP with 2 head pieces and 130 b/w illustrations (maps and plans, charts and coastal views, drawings and engravings), plus 16 pages with 2 b/w and 35 colour illustrations. Title page: Portrait of Ouriaga (Bruny Island). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.8 x 17.5. 9781862546257

30276
FORSTER, Honore
BOTANY BAY FRANCAISE (in National Library of Australia News - Vol VIII, No. 2, November 1997)
$10.00 AUD

N. L. A. Canberra. 1997. Contains article pages 3 to 7 with 7 b/w and 3 colour illustrations. Illust. soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

The National Library's French holdings offer a fascinating perspective on Australia's convict past.

54443
FOSTER, Sir William (editor)
THE RED SEA AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES, at the close of the Seventeenth Century as described by Joseph Pitts, William Daniel and Charles Jacques Poncet
$40.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 1949. 1st Ed. No. C in the Second series. XL, 192 PP, plus 3 plates (1 on full page and 2 folded). Fp: Pitts's plan of the temple at Mecca(folded). Cloth cover, gilt devices on front cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, other wise near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.

Pitts was the first Englishman to penetrate into the holy cities of Islam. Daniel's journey from England to India took him through the Red Sea. Poncet gives a first hand account of Abyssinia at the end of the 17th century.

70216
FREDSTON, Jill
ROWING TO LATITUDE: Journeys along the Arctic's Edge
$10.00 AUD

North Point Press. New York. c. 2005. 7th reprint of the 2002 paperback edition (original of 2001). (4), XVIII, 289 PP with 2 maps on double page, plus 8 pages with 16 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 20.9 x 13.8. 0865476551

74048
FREELY, John
CLASSICAL TURKEY
$10.00 AUD

Penguin Books. London. 1990. 1st edition in the "Architectural Guides for Travellers" series. VIII, 152 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings, sketches, maps, sketch maps , plans and photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780140118537

70646
FREEMAN, John
THE COASTS OF BRITAIN
$10.00 AUD

Bison Books. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 96 PP with colour photos; Hard covers, dj. Small chip at lower part of front cover of dust jacket. Near fine. 30.5 x 23.5. 0861242173

63818
FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY
THE TURNBULL LIBRARY RECORD - Volume XV
$15.00 AUD

The Friends of the Turnbull Library. Wellington. 1982. Vol. 15, No. 1 (May 1982) & No. 2 (October 1982). 144 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5.

No. 2: Louis Le Breton's New Zealand, by R. D. J. Collins.

63819
FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY
THE TURNBULL LIBRARY RECORD - Volume XVI
$15.00 AUD

The Friends of the Turnbull Library. Wellington. 1983. Vol. 16, No. 1 (May 1983) & No. 2 (October 1983). 144 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5.

Nos. 1 & 2: French explorers in New Zealand, 1769-1840, by Isabel Ollivier.

52376
FRIIS, Herman R. (editor)
THE PACIFIC BASIN. A History of its Geographical Exploration
$25.00 AUD

American Geographical Society. New York. 1967. 1st Ed. Special Publication No. 38. Foreword by Charles B. Hitchcock. XIV, 457 PP with 42 figures, plus 44 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket with few chips. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 17.5.

Art and science of navigation, by Norman J. W. Thrower. Map compilation, by R. A. Skelton. Geographical exploration by the: Chinese, Japanese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, Russians, French, English, United States...

36705
FRITH, Henry
THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION - A brief record of Maritime Discovery from the earliest times to the 18th Century
$15.00 AUD

Ward, Lock and Co. London. c. 1900. 1st Ed.? VIII, 312 PP with head pieces, tail pieces and text illustrations, plus 4 b/w plates. Fp: Columbus on his first voyage. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Edges of covers lightly rubbed. Occasional foxing with spots on outside edges. Dedicatory note dated 1901 on FFEP, otherwise very good. 19.5 x 13.

72676
FROMENT-GUIEYSSE, Georges
LA PEROUSE
$95.00 AUD

Editions de l'Empire FranÃ§ais. Paris. 1947. 1st edition in the "Les Grand Navigateurs" series. 155, (5) PP, plus 5 b/w plates and 1 large folded map at rear of book. Fp: Portrait of Jean FranÃ§ois Galaup De La PÃ©rouse. Hard cover, illustrated front, title on front board and spine. Ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Near fine. French text. 19 x 14.

66747
FROST, Alan
THE PRECARIOUS LIFE OF JAMES MARIO MATRA, Voyager with Cook, American Loyalist, Servant of Empire
$50.00 AUD

The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. No.6 in the Miegunyah Press series. XIV, 264, (2) PP, plus 12 b/w plates (6 of them maps & charts). Cloth cover, dj, ribbon page-marker. Fine. 24.3 x 16. 052284667X

First voyage with Captain Cook and first account of this voyage with a concise vocabulary of the language of Otahitee. His proposals to establish a settlement in NSW. His diplomatic posting at Tangier...

75458
FROST, Alan
THE GLOBAL REACH OF EMPIRE: Britain's Maritime Expansion in the Indian and Pacific Oceans 1764 - 1815
$75.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2003. 1st edition, limited to 1000 copies, No. 46 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. XIV, 33, (3) PP with 4 tables, 6 figures and 9 maps (4 on double page), plus 4 pages with 5 colour illustrations. FEP: "Typus Orbis Terrarum" (1570), by Ortelius. REP: World Map from G/. A. Cook. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.3 x 16. 0522850502

61506
FUENTES, Carlos
THE BURIED MIRROR: Reflections on Spain and the New World
$15.00 AUD

Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 1992. 1st US edition. 400 PP with over 160 b/w & colour illustrations. Eps: Theodor de Bry's map of the Western Hemisphere in 1596. Title-page: The Bonampak murals. Hard cover, gilt title on a cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 26 x 18.5. 0395479189

The Spanish culture and legacy in Spain and America, since the discovery by Columbus of the New World.

71196
FULIGNI, Bruno
TOUR DU MONDE DES TERRES FRANCAISES OUBLIEES
$40.00 AUD

Editions du TrÃ©sor. Paris. 2014. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 1 map on double page and 10 headpieces by Sergio Aquindo. Illustrated soft covers with flaps, dj (a large folded - poster like - map in colour). French text. Fine. Format - dj/poster: 42 x 56, book: 21 x 14. 9791091534109

65318
GALDOS, Benito PÃ©rez
ZUMALACARREGUI
$5.00 AUD

Libreria y Casa Editorial Hernando. Madrid. 1995. New edition, Historia 16 - Caja de Madrid. 231 PP with b/w illustrations (headpieces and tailpieces). Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Spanish text. Very good. 19 x 12.

63746
GALIPAUD, Jean-Christophe & JAUNEAU, Valerie
AU-DELA D'UN NAUFRAGE . Les Survivants de l'expÃ©dition LapÃ©rouse
$55.00 AUD

IRD Editions / Actes Sud / Editions Errance. NoumÃ©a. 2012. 1st Ed. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 9782877724883

Archaeology and LapÃ©rouse expedition: underwater on the wrecks of Boussole and Astrolabe, and ashore for the survivors and their camps ...

54618
GAMBLE, David P. & HAIR, P. E. H. (editors)
THE DISCOVERY OF RIVER GAMBRA (1623), BY RICHARD JOBSON
$15.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 1999. 1st Ed. Series III, No. 2. XVI, 341 PP with 6 maps, 8 line drawings, 1 b/w and 2 colour plates, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): River Gambia near Basse, July 1979. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180646

65343
GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, Inca
COMENTARIOS REALES DE LOS INCAS - Epitome
$15.00 AUD

Editorial Mantaro. Lima, Peru. 1998. 1st Ed., April 1998. 204, (1) PP. Decorated soft covers. Light ageing of paper. Spanish text. Near fine. 20.5 x 14.2.

54221
GARDINER, Kenneth
THE TRAVELLERS FROM CATHAY (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly)
$10.00 AUD

Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1971. Volume 15, No. 6, issue for June 1971. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 34 to 38 with 2 colour and 4 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.

11742
GARNIER, Jules
VOYAGE A LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE 1867-1868
$90.00 AUD

Editions du Cagou. NoumÃ©a. 1990. Facsimile reprint of the 1867 original in Le Tour du Monde, Voyage Ã la Nouvelle-CalÃ©donie published by Librarie Hachette. (4), 123 PP with 6 charts and plans, and 67 b/w engravings. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. French text. 30.5 x 21.5.

The voyages of Jules Garnier through New Caledonia, between 1863 and 1866, where he studied mineral deposits and gave his name to the nickel ore Garnierite. An exceptionally good book.

46686
GARNIER, Jules
VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE - LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE (cÃ´te orientale)
$125.00 AUD

Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur. Paris. 1871. 1st Ed. (4), 364 PP, plus 4 b/w plates (engravings and tissue guard) and 1 large folded map in colour (New Caledonia). Soft cover. Map with a closed tear, o/wise near fine. Rare. French text. 18.6 x 12

The voyages of Jules Garnier through New Caledonia, between 1863 and 1866, where he studied mineral deposits and gave his name to the nickel ore Garnierite.

73661
GARRETT, Wilbur E. (editor)
FRANCE CELEBRATES ITS BICENTENNIAL [in National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 176, No.1, January 1989]
$30.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1989. Special Issue with Message "Vive la DiffÃ©rence", by National Gegraphic Society President Gilbert M. Grosvenor: (14), 174 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

France Bicentennial of the Great Revolution. The New, the Enduring PARIS. The Great Revolution, by Merle Severy. Two Revolutions: USA / France, by Charles McCarry. ... Tour de France, An Annual Madness, by Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle ...

75065
GARRETT, Wilbur E. & Al (editors)
100 YEARS Reporting on "THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IS IN IT". (National Geographic Magazine - Volume 174, No.3]
$15.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1988. September 1988 Issue. (15), 270-432 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (pages 271 to 286: 4 folded plates with front covers of 360 issues) . Soft covers, "Yellow Border" front cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

Centennial issue 1888 - 1988. Odyssey: The Art of Photography. Alexander Graham Bell ...

54527
GASCOIGNE, John
CAPTAIN COOK: Voyager Between Worlds
$30.00 AUD

Hambledon Continuum. London. 2007. 1st Ed. XVI, 288 PP with 7 maps and 42 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781847250025

11364
GASSER, Bernard (editor)
CONNAISSANCE ET COMMUNICATION, Actes du TroisiÃ¨me Colloque CORAIL, NoumÃ©a, 3 et 4 Septembre 1990
$50.00 AUD

CORAIL/UFP. NoumÃ©a. 1991. 1st Ed. 306 PP with b/w illust. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 15.

Thirteen chapters by authors on: exploration & discoveries, church & missions, communication & power ...

75454
GEEVES, Lance
SOUTHWARD HO! - A Southland Argosy which sought and found the golden fleece of freedom in the Huon, Tasmania
$70.00 AUD

Lance Geeves / Huon Newspaper Co. Ltd. Geeveston, Tasmania. 1988. 1st edition of July 1988. 232 PP with 28 b/w illustrations. FEP: Sketch map of Tasmania and map of Southern Tasmania. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.8 x 14. 0731645847

The author was a former editor of the weekly newspaper "Huon News". The sub-title on front cover is: A history of the origin, culture and characteristics of people who settled the Great South Land.

71945
GEHRTS, Miss M.
A CAMERA ACTRESS IN THE WILDS OF TOGOLAND
$120.00 AUD

Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. London. 1915. 1st edition with an introduction by Major H. Schomburgk. XX, 21- 316 PP with b/w illustrations , 1 sketch of a fortified village and its plan, plus frontispiece and 31 plates with 60 photos. Fp: Konkombwa Warrior in full gala dress. Cloh cover, title on a sunned spine. Image shows the frontispiece and title-page. Covers have light wear, mostly rubbing around edges and corners. Remnants of insect damage on front gutter (a few small holes). Offsetting on endpapers. Occasional foxing. Contents clean and overall, a very good copy. Scarce. 23.5 x 15.

The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematographical dramas.

11652
GEIL, William Edgar
OCEAN AND ISLE
$50.00 AUD

W. T. Pater. Melbourne. 1902 1st Ed. (8), 309 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 sketch map and 9 illustrations of postal stamps, plus 94 b/w plates (6 of them on double page) for 100 engravings. Fp: Portrait of Geil. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, Title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Brief note on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.8 x 15.5.

Voyage to study the works of Protestant missions in the Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century: organization, instruction, efforts. Descriptions of the islands and states of Oceania.

73492
GERBAULT, Alain
IN QUEST OF THE SUN - The Journal of the Firecrest
$40.00 AUD

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1930. October 1930 edition of the November 1929 UK original. 315 PP with 4 maps, plus 1 folding map and 8 plates with 14 b/w photos. Fp: Alain Gerbault at Suva, (Fiji Islands). Top outside edge tinted. Cloth cover, title at top of front cover and spine. Foxing and offsetting of paper. Ex Libris stamp and address of previous owner on front endpapers. 5 newspaper clippings (in English) pasted down on endpapers, and envelope containing about 10 newspaper clippings in French and a photo of his monument at Vaitape, Bora Bora, French Polynesia, loosely inserted. Very good reading copy. 23 x 16.

From New York to Le Havre, then crossing Panama Canal, the Pacific Ocean, Torres Strait, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic from Capetown to Normandy.

32072
GIARDINI, Cesare
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COLUMBUS
$10.00 AUD

Curtis Books. Philadelphia. 1967. 1st US edition, in the Portraits of Greatness series. Translated from the 1966 Italian original. 76 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title spread: The 3 caravels Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards. Small dent on front cover, o/wise near fine. 29.2 x 23.

74521
GILES, Ernest
AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED:The Romance of Exploration, being a Narrative compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 (in Two Volumes)
$150.00 AUD

Doubleday. Sydney. c. 1980. Facsimile limited deluxe edition of the 1889 original, (No.71/100). Front endpaper of Vol. I, with text and number of this limited edition. Volume I: LX, 320 PP with 11 b/w illustrations, plus 3 large folded maps and 11 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Ernest Giles. Volume II: X, (2), 363 PP with 12 b/w illustrations, plus 3 large folded maps and 9 b/w plates. Fp: View on Peterman Range. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj (glassine protection). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 23 x 15. 0868240168

70419
GILKERSON, William
ULTIMATE VOYAGE: A Book of Five Mariners
$10.00 AUD

Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boston. 1998. 1st edition. (10), 314 PP with line drawings by the author (vignette on title page, headpieces, endpieces and text illustrations). Fp (in colour): " Vessle" swept gloriously along the waterfront, by the author. Pictorial soft cover. Top corner slightly bumped. Near fine. 28 x 21.5. 1570624615

A seafaring tale.

64179
GODARD, Philippe & Les Nouvelles CalÃ©doniennes
LE JOUR OU L'AUSTRALIE DEVINT FRANCAISE (in Les Nouvelles Hebdo)
$20.00 AUD

Les Nouvelles Hebdo. NoumÃ©a. 1998. Article pulled out from Weekly issue, No. 533, 22 - 27 May 1998. Pages 16, 17 & 18 with 5 b/w and 11 colour illustrations. Plus photocopy of the 3 pages article "30 Mars 1772: Le Jour oÃ¹ l' Australie faillit devenir FranÃ§aise" by Jacques Nougier and published in Jeune Marine, No. 233, Avril-Mai-Juin 2016. French text. Fine. Large formet: 43.7 x 29..

Saint AlloÃ¼arn, and his "Gros Ventre" at Dirk Hartog Island, April 1772.

22152
GOLOVNIN, V.M.
AROUND THE WORLD ON THE KAMCHATKA 1817-1819
$20.00 AUD

Hawaii Historical Society & University Press of Hawaii. Honolulu. 1979. 1st English Ed., translated with an introduction and notes by Ella Lury Wiswell. XXXXII, 353 PP with 2 maps, 1 portrait of Capt. Cdr. Golovnin and 15 b/w reproductions of watercolours. Fp (colour): A Kolosh Chief from Baranov Island. Eps: Route of the sloop Kamchatka 1817-1819. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 16. 0824806409

Not only a voyage, but an insight to the societies and peoples encountered during this world cruise.

49395
GOODMAN, Jordan
THE RATTLESNAKE. A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea
$35.00 AUD

Faber and Faber. London. 2005. 1st Ed. X, 357 PP with 23 b/w illustrations (headpieces, charts, documents...), plus 16 pages with 7 b/w and 28 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0571210732

20777
GORDON, Mona
THE MYSTERY OF LA PEROUSE
$45.00 AUD

Bascands. Christchurch, NZ. 1961. 1st Ed. 187 PP, plus 24 pages with 1 map and 24 plates. Fp: Bust of La PÃ©rouse by Rude. FEP: Track of La PÃ©rouse in the Pacific. REP: De Lesseps's journey from Kamtschatka to Paris. Cloth cover, title on sunned spine. Edges of covers a little worn. Contents near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.

36802
GOTLIB, Patricia
AUSTRALIADES - Voyage d'une Parisienne aux antipodes
$20.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed. 178 PP with 1 sketch-map of Australia. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738486312

Voyage in 1995, at the time of the resumption of nuclear experiments in Moruroa. Sydney as a career woman. Backpacker to Adelaide & Kangaroo Island, Darwin and Kakadu, Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef.

38959
GRAHAM, Lydia S.
PORT TO PORT - A Description of Real Journeys, made by Real People, under Modern Conditions
$20.00 AUD

A. Wheaton. Exeter. 1938. 2nd impression. 136 PP with 22 figures (21 maps and plans) and 27 b/w photos. Fp: Eden gardens and Pagodan, Calcutta (the second city of the Empire). Eps: World map. Attractive illustrated cloth cover. Near fine. 21.8 x 14.

Round the world voyages westward and eastward. Written by a headmistress who describes journeys made by herself and recounted to her pupils in an endeavour to stimulate their imagination and interest and to give them a general idea of the relation of one part of the world to the rest. It even includes some simple questions put to the students.

73578
GRANT, James
THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY PERFORMED IN HIS MAJESTY'S VESSEL THE LADY NELSON, of Sixty Tons Burthen, WITH SLIDING KEELS, in the Years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to NEW SOUTH WALES
$120.00 AUD

Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1973. Facsimile edition of the 1803 original. (10), XXVI, 195 PP, plus 6 plates on full page (1 colour & 5 b/w), a large folded plan, and a large folded map. Fp: A sketch of two boats and a cutter with sliding keels. Red cloth cover, gilt title on spine. A near fine copy. Image shows the title-page. 26.7 x 21.7. 0724300368

38125
GREEN, R. C. & CRESSWELL, M. M. (editors)
SOUTHEAST SOLOMON ISLANDS CULTURAL HISTORY - A Preliminary Survey
$50.00 AUD

Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington. 1976. 1st Ed., Bulletin No. 11 of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 287 PP with 17 tables and 79 figures (maps, sketches, photos), plus 4 folded plates. Pictorial soft cover. Light wear, o/wise near fine. 24.6 x 17.5.

15 contributions. New light on the Spanish settlement of the Southeast Solomons, by Jim Allen. The history of post-Spanish European contact in the Eastern District before 1939, by Kaye C. Green...

76140
GREGORY, Alexis
THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL - 1880-1939
$40.00 AUD

Cassell. London. 1991. 1st English edition of the 1990 French original. 220 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0304340375

The Menu and the Cure, The Railroads, The Grand Tour, The Orient Express, To Russia and the Steppes, Egypt, Across the Pond, The Birth of the Modern Liner, ..

66534
GRIBBIN, John and Mary
FITZROY. The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
$15.00 AUD

Review / Headline Books. London. 2003. 1st paperback edition. XII, 336 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 plan of HMS Beagle, 2 charts (1 on double page) and 17 headpieces (FitzRoy Barometer), plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Photocopy of 2 pages biography from "Gent Mag., 1865", tipped in on half title page. Near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0755312902

67557
GRIBBIN, John and Mary
FITZROY. The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
$10.00 AUD

Review / Headline Books. London. 2003. 1st paperback edition. XII, 336 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 plan of HMS Beagle, 2 charts (1 on double page) and 17 headpieces (FitzRoy Barometer), plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Very good. 23.5 x 16. 0755312902

73307
GRIMSHAW, Beatrice
IN THE STRANGE SOUTH SEAS
$40.00 AUD

Books for Libraries Press. Freeport, N.Y. 1971. Reprint in the "Black Heritage Library Collection", of the 1908 original. (2), X, 381 PP, plus 48 plates with 56 b/w photos. Fp: A native picnic, Tahiti. Cloth cover, title on spine, no dj. A near fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5. 0836987640

Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga.

57943
GROVE DAY, A.
THEY PEOPLED THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD

Duell, Sloan and Pearce. New York. 1964. 1st Ed. X, 180 PP with 13 b/w illustrations (10 headpieces) by George Wilson. Eps: Map of the South Pacific. Cloth cover. Signs of water damage at lower corner of front cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good reading copy. 21 x 14.

73278
GUEGAN, Bertrand (editor)
VOYAGE DE LA PEROUSE AUTOUR DU MONDE, publiÃ© d' aprÃ¨s tous les manuscrits de l'Auteur
$100.00 AUD

Editions du Carrefour. Paris. 1930. 1st Ed., in Collection Voyages et Decouvertes. XVI, 294 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map on double page, 1 sketch map and 2 coastal views on a single page, 8 drawings on double pages and 10 drawings on single page. Bound copy of the 1930 paperback edition, retaining original soft covers. Half bound, marbled boards, leather spine with raised bands, gilt title and 2 devices. Marbled endpapers. French text. Excellent condition. 24 x 20.

Voyage: 1785, 1786, 1787 & 1786.

38594
GUIART, Jean
DECOUVERTE DE L'OCEANIE - Tome I: Connaissance des Ã®les
$55.00 AUD

Le Rocher Ã la Voile & Haere Po. NoumÃ©a & Papeete. 2000. 1st Ed. 277 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21 x 15.

71532
GUILLAUMIN, Emile
FRANCOIS PERON - Enfant du Peuple - Un Grand Voyage - Une Oeuvre - Une Vie
$200.00 AUD

Les Marmousets. Moulins, France. 1982. 1st edition limited to 450 copies (400 with cloth cover), with a preface by Jacques Lougnon. 154 PP with 61 b/w reproductions of original engravings. Half title page: portrait of FranÃ§ois PÃ©ron by M. C. A. Lesueur. Title page: Canda, Jeune fille Malaise, Timor. Cloth cover, colour vignette on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. French text. Near fine. 37.8 x 27.5. 2903886040

The life and the works of FranÃ§ois PÃ©ron and his great voyage to Australia with the Baudin expedition.

40903
GUILLOU, Jean
MOI, JEAN GUILLOU, SECOND CHIRURGIEN DE L'ASTROLABE - Voyage de LapÃ©rouse 1785-1788
$80.00 AUD

Editions de l'Etrave. Beauvoir-sur-Mer, France. 1999. 1st Ed. 311 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, plans and photos) and 16 colour plates. Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note dated and signed by the author on first page. Bookplate of previous owner pasted down inside front cover. French text. Fine. 22 x 15.5. 2909599426

Historical novel. Exploration of the Pacific by LapÃ©rouse on board La Boussole and L'Astrolabe. Call at Botany Bay, shipwrecked on Vanikoro Island... Building of a boat, arrival in Australia near Mackay.

50515
GUILLOU, Jean
DES JALONS DE L'HISTOIRE (Plats et Bouteilles Historiques)
$10.00 AUD

Editions de l'Etrave. Le Fresne, France. 2004. 1st Ed. 148 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, maps, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 15.5. 2909599701

Historical pewter plates and sealed bottles, used by discoverers and explorers, as a testimony of their call, act of ownership, distress...

53198
GUILLOU, Jean
ECHOS DU GRAND OCEAN
$35.00 AUD

Editions de l'Etrave. VerriÃ¨res, France. 2006. 1st Ed. 155, (5) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, maps, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 15.5. 2909599823

17 true stories of the Indian or Pacific oceans.

60683
GUILLOU, Jean
L'ODYSSEE D'ANN SMITH - Le destin d'une femme qui croisa celui de l'expÃ©dition La PÃ©rouse
$45.00 AUD

Editions de l'Etrave. Beauvoir-sur-Mer, France. 2002. 1st Ed. 157, (3) PP with 9 maps, b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings) and 11 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note to previous owner on preliminary page, dated and signed by the author. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 15.5. 2909599574

Historical novel. Convict sent to Australia, escape from Botany Bay on one of the vessels of La PÃ©rouse... Life in Hawaii... Attempt to reach the US east coast on an American whaling ship...

64178
GUILLOU, Jean
L'AUSTRALIE DE L'OUEST AURAIT PU APPARTENIR A LA FRANCE (in Cols Bleus - Issue No.2452)
$20.00 AUD

ADDIM / Cols Bleus, Hebdomanaire de la Marine et des Arsenaux Paris. 1998. 5 Septembre 1998. 36 PP. Contains article pages 4 to 8 with 4 b/w illustrations, and 5 colour illustrations (1 map, 4 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Saint Allouarn and "Gros Ventre" in 1772 on the West Australian coast.

39127
GURNEY, Alan
THE RACE TO THE WHITE CONTINENT
$15.00 AUD

W. W. Norton. New York. 2000. 1st printing. XII, 320 PP with 24 b/w illustrations and 11 maps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0393050041

51640
HACKFORTH-JONES, Jocelyn
AUGUSTUS EARLE, Travel Artist
$30.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1980. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP with 16 colour plates, and 168 b/w illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed/chipped, o/wise near fine. 28.3 x 22.2. 064299143X

Paintings and drawings (in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia), illustrating his voyages to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and an eight months sojourn on Tristan da Cunha as a castaway.

45006
HAKLUYT, Richard
THE PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONS VOIAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION (in 2 Volumes)
$150.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society & The Peabody Museum of Salem. Cambridge. 1965. Extra Series XXXIX. A photo-lithographic facsimile of the 1589 original, with an Introduction by Davis Beers Quinn and Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and a new Index by Alison Quinn. Volume I: LX, (16), 501 PP plus large folded map Typus Orbis Terrarum. Volume II: (6), 506-975 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, the endpapers and the margin of the 2 pages facing the folding map. A little damage to the dust jacket of Volume I, o/wise very good. 30 x 20.

56017
HAKLUYT, Richard
THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS VOYAGES TRAFFIQUES & DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION - Volume One
$20.00 AUD

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London. 1907. 1st Ed., in the Everyman's Library series. Introduction by John Masefield. Vol. 1: XXVI, 468 PP. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers slightly marked. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 17.5 x 11.

Volume 1. ... Discoveries ... Made by Sea or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeares.

15556
HAKLUYT, Richard & ROWSE, A. L.
THE FIRST COLONISTS, Hakluyt's Voyages to North America
$10.00 AUD

Folio Society. London. 1987. 2nd printing of the 1986 Folio Society version. XII, 142 PP with 28 b/w illustrations, plus 12 pages with 14 colour illustrations. Fp: Title-page of the English edition of Theodor de Bry's America, part 1 (Virginia). Cloth cover, device engraved on front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5.

16 reports, letters on the first voyages to the coast of North America: Newfoundland & Virginia on the East coast and California on the West coast (Sir Francis Drake in 1578).

57895
HALE, John R. (editor)
AGE OF EXPLORATION
$5.00 AUD

Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1974. Reprint of the 1970 authorized English edition, in the Great Ages of Man series. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, Illustrated front, cloth spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 27.3 x 22.2.

From the Captains sent by Henry the Navigator to Captain James Cook.

72177
HALE, Katherine
LEGENDS OF THE SAINT LAWRENCE
$20.00 AUD

Canadian Pacific Railway. Montreal. c. 1926. Reprint of the 1920 original. 48 PP with colour illustrations by Chas W. Simpson. REP: Mao of the River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Pictorial stiff cover. Near fine. 26 x 17.

42427
HALL, Captain Basil
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF CAPTAIN BASIL HALL R.N.
$50.00 AUD

Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. 1895. 1st Ed. VIII, 9-387 PP, plus 6 b/w plates. Fp: Burial of Sir John Moore. Title page: Fast Castle, (Wolf's Crag). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Rebacked copy, retaining most of original cloth cover, repaired fold of endpapers. Old watermarks on 3 or 4 leaves, slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 20.7 x 15.

First 10 years of his time at sea. Entered the Royal Navy in 1802. Halifax Station to 1808. Off the coast of Spain to 1811. Sailed in 1812 for the Far East.

37591
HALL, Lincoln
DOUGLAS MAWSON - The Life of an Explorer
$15.00 AUD

New Holland. Sydney. 2000. 1st Australian edition. 224 PP with 1 plan, 4 maps and 178 b/w photos. Title page: Home of the Blizzard. Eps: Map of the route of the Discovery during the two voyages of BANZARE. Laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 23.5. 1864366702²

The best-known of Australia's Antarctic explorers. His first steps were a geological survey in 1903 of the New Hebrides Islands (Vanuatu)...

55498
HALLS, Chris
WEST COAST DISCOVERER DIRCK HARTOCHS (in Port of Fremantle Quarterly Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

Port of Fremantle. Fremantle. 1971. Volume 4, No. 4, Spring 1971. Includes article P. 21 to 25 with 5 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 19.5.

Dirck Hartoch voyage on the Eendracht.

75214
HAMILTON, Dora & Bruce
IN THE QUEST OF THE GREAT SOUTHLAND - An Account of the Origin of the Bligh Museum of Pacific Exploration
$15.00 AUD

Bligh Museum / Mercury. Adventure Bay, Bruni Island. 1963. 1st Ed. 15 PP. Soft covers, decoration and title on a lightly soiled front cover. Contents near fine. 22.2 x 15.8.

Recorded during 1963.

66523
HAMILTON, George
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN HIS MAJESTY'S FRIGATE PANDORA
$90.00 AUD

Hordern House / Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1998. Australian Maritime Series, No.4. Reissue of the 1793 original with a foreword by Alex Allan, British High Commissioner, and an essay by Peter Gesner, Curator of Maritime Archaeology, Queensland Museum. Limited edition to 950 copies. 38, 164 PP with 7 b/w illustrations (1 portrait of George Hamilton, 1 chart, 1 photo, and 4 engravings). Fp: A manuscript chart of the coast of New Holland sketched by William Bligh whilst in the Bounty's Launch. Hand bound in quarter cherry Scottish calf with marbled papered sides, gilt title on bordeaux vignette on spine. A hint of foxing along top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy22.7 x 14.2. 1875567224

HMS "Pandora" was despatched by the Admiralty to capture the mutineers of the "Bounty".

75541
HANBURY-TENISON, Robin (editor)
THE GREAT EXPLORERS
$25.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson. London. 2010. 1st Ed. 304 PP with 204 b/w or colour illustrations. Half title page: map of the Columbia River, by William Clark. Title spread: Alexander von Humbolt and companion on the way to Cajambe Volcano, Ecuador. Hard cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner at top corner of front endpaper, otherwise fine. 25.2 x 19. 9780500251690

40 Great Explorers - Oceans: 5 from Christopher Columbus to James Cook. Land: 9 from Hernando de Soto to Marc Aurel Stein. Rivers: 8 from Samuel de Champlain to Henry Morton Stanley. ....

73844
HARE, Rosalie & LEE, Ida
THE VOYAGE OF THE CAROLINE: from England to Van Diemen's Land and Batavia in 1827-28 ...
$250.00 AUD

Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. London. 1927. 1st Ed. XIV, 308 PP, plus over 40 b/w plates (8 of them folded) with over 42 illustrations (manuscript pages, portraits, charts & maps, portraits and prints ...). Fp: Cover of the Journal. Blue cloth covers, rebacked with original spine pasted down. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. Contents are clean and overall, this is a very good copy of a scarce item. 22.8 x 14.5.

... with chapters on the Early History of Northern Tasmania, Java, Mauritius and St. Helena, by Ida Lee (Mrs Charles Bruce Marriott).

68407
HARRIS, D. D. & SIMMONDS, A. F.
PATTERNS OF TRADE. A Geographical Approach
$20.00 AUD

The Jacaranda Press. Brisbane. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 127 PP with 14 tables and 96 figures (graphs, 33 maps, photos). Title spread: an Ocean going Junk. Pictorial stiff cover (laminated). Ex-library copy with small stamps on title page (recto & verso), marks on rear endpaper. Contents clean and an otherwise very good copy. 25 x 19.

Contents: Simple markets and country towns, Changing routes and adapting ships, Australian trade and trading partners, Port activities and interaction...

46751
HAYES, Edmund (editor)
LOG OF THE UNION. John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and around the World 1794-1796
$20.00 AUD

The Massachusetts Historical Society and The Oregon Historical Society. Portland, Oregon. 1986. 1st soft cover edition. XXXVIII, 136, (2 colophon) PP with 12 maps (2 on double page), and 1 colour and 36 b/w illustrations (plans, drawings, facsimile of log book...). Soft cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 24.7 x 27.8. 0875950892

Boston 1st September 1794. Cape Horn 1st February 1795. Northwest coast of America: 16th May to 11th September 1795 . Hawaii, 12th October 1795... Macao, 3rd December 1795... Cape of Good Hope, 24th April 1796... Return to Boston 8th July 1796.

60279
HAYNES, John J.
THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE - The Story of the Fort Berthold Indian Mission, 1876-1985
$10.00 AUD

John J. Haynes. Exeter, UK. 1987. 1st Ed. (8), 123 PP with 2 maps and 10 b/w photos. Fp: June Fox and Sakakawea statue. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note dated and signed by the author. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0951200208

40183
HAYTER, Alethea
A VOYAGE IN VAIN - Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804
$15.00 AUD

Faber and Faber. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 188 P, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, offsetting of the front endpaper. Very good. 22.5 x 14. 0571102409

49487
HAYTER, Alethea
A VOYAGE IN VAIN - Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804
$10.00 AUD

Faber and Faber. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 188 P, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover. Dust jacket tipped in on rear endpaper. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Few foxing spots on outside edges and some pages. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. 0571102409

15630
HEAPS, Leo
LOG OF THE CENTURION
$15.00 AUD

Macmillan Publishing. New York. 1974. 1st printing of the 1st U.S. edition. Introduction by Christopher Lloyd. 264 PP with 10 colour and 49 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Philip Saumarez. Eps: Chart of the Centurion's route round the world. Cloth cover, gilt-engraved spine, dj. Dust jacket with light repairs in a protective sleeve. Some light foxing, otherwise near fine. 25.2 x 18.