William Scoresby junior, the great Arctic explorer, was actively engaged on scientific research into magnetism and published several papers on the...

A beautifully bound copy of Bligh's log of the journey from Timor to Batavia, and that of the return voyage to England after the 1789 mutiny.First...

The suppression of piracy off Borneo. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo.'In August ...

A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...

The scarce variant issue in two volumes of Archibald Campbell's comprehensive survey of the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, richly illustrated...

In the original wrappers. The preferred, much enlarged second edition of Australian ornithologist Alfred North's comprehensive report, containing d...

The images of Australian parrots comprise some of John Gould's most iconic work. Here beautifully presented in fine condition.Folio, 92 fine hand-...

Commissioned by the Royal Society following Cook's death, this is the rare silver issue: one of only 322. News of Cook's death in Hawai'i in 1779...

With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...

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

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

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

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

Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...

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

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...

A rare complete set of the official account of Freycinet's voyage of scientific exploration. During the nineteenth century, a large part of ornith...

Four proof plates before letters from Cook's third voyage. Four proof plates before letters being early states of images from Cook's last voyage, s...

A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...

Extremely rare botanical drawings of australia with fine provenance. One of six scientists chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany Matthew Flinders...