Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...

The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support of the Dutch government. A book of primary importance in the h...

11th presentation memorial. A great rarity: an original quiros presentation memorial. 'The discovery of the Southern Continent, whenever, and by w...

Earliest Utopia set in Terra Australis - source for Gulliver?. A collection of three influential imaginary voyages and works of utopian fiction, he...

Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher. Forced to flee his native Liege in the Spanish-controlled Southern N...

Important collection with fine maps. Valuable collection of voyages to the South Pacific which aimed to stimulate French discovery and colonisation...

Europeans as seen by the Japanese. A rare and very attractive small Japanese publication recording European voyages to Japan prior to the arrival o...

The first scientific voyage to California, with royal provenance. The first edition of one of the most important scientific explorations ever under...

The second Spanish edition of a highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer e...

The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indo...

Dutch mercantile enterprise - the definitive edition. The definitive edition of the great early Dutch voyages of exploration. This collection of vo...

A superb large copy in contemporary green morocco of the preferred enlarged second edition. Ferrer Maldonado's account of a spurious 1588 voyage t...

Earliest account of Anson's Voyage. Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Inclu...

First edition of this account of the deeds of Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza (1535-1609), Captain General of Peru and from 1590-1596 Viceroy of Peru. ...

First edition of this 'scarce and important work on Tahiti by a long-time resident'. Moerenhout includes an historical account of Tahiti since the...

The first to include the important Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. 'The original edition of the voyage for the disc...

Illustrious provenance of Straits of Magellan classic. A fine copy of this rare book from the library of Charles de Fleurieu, author of Discoveries...

The first printed celestial atlas. An early edition of De le stelle fisse, the first printed celestial atlas. Notable for the depiction of the Coro...

Important eye-witness acount of Java. First Latin edition of this important account of Cornelius Houtman's voyage, the first Dutch voyage to the Ea...

Superb copy, stitched as issued. The sensational trial of the Bounty mutineers. A legendary Pacific rarity. In 1789, a gang of disgruntled sailors...

With extra Jefferys chart. The extra chart, by Jefferys, is: A Chart of the Ocean between South America & Africa. With the Tracks of Dr Edmund ...

With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...

Rarely found complete. Extremely rare and desirable set of the first edition of d'Urville's voyage in the Astrolabe.The zoology section was produce...