Australia, Pacific and Voyages
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Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido;
KEPPEL, Capt. the Hon Henry.Original price $2,916.00 - Original price $2,916.00Original price $0.00$2,916.00$2,916.00 - $2,916.00Current price $2,916.00| /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 ...
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A Voyage round the World,
ANSON, George.Original price $3,564.00 - Original price $3,564.00Original price $0.00$3,564.00$3,564.00 - $3,564.00Current price $3,564.00| /A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...
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New Illustrations of Zoology,
BROWN, Peter.Original price $8,424.00 - Original price $8,424.00Original price $0.00$8,424.00$8,424.00 - $8,424.00Current price $8,424.00| /First illustration of an Australian bird. Notable for being the first book to include an illustration of an Australian bird. Brown (fl.1766-1791) w...
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Royal Society Cook Medal.
[COOK]. PINGO, Lewis.Original price $3,564.00 - Original price $3,564.00Original price $0.00$3,564.00$3,564.00 - $3,564.00Current price $3,564.00| /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...
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Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836,
DARWIN, Charles; FITZROY, Capt. Robert; KING, Capt. Philip Parker.Original price $84,231.00 - Original price $84,231.00Original price $0.00$84,231.00$84,231.00 - $84,231.00Current price $84,231.00| /With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...
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View of Owhyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands; View of Morea, or Eimo, one of the Society Islands;
CLEVELEY, John & James (after); JUKES, F. (engraver).Original price $38,876.00 - Original price $38,876.00Original price $0.00$38,876.00$38,876.00 - $38,876.00Current price $38,876.00| /Magnificent hand-coloured aquatints from Cook's third voyage. The complete series of four separately issued hand-coloured aquatint views of the Pac...
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Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,
[BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].Original price $9,395.00 - Original price $9,395.00Original price $0.00$9,395.00$9,395.00 - $9,395.00Current price $9,395.00| /Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...
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Journal de la navigation autour du globe
BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien (Baron de).Original price $19,438.00 - Original price $19,438.00Original price $0.00$19,438.00$19,438.00 - $19,438.00Current price $19,438.00| /The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indo...
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Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie.
COMMELIN, Isaac (editor).Original price $36,000.00 - Original price $36,000.00Original price $0.00$36,000.00$36,000.00 - $36,000.00Current price $36,000.00| /Dutch mercantile enterprise - the definitive edition. The definitive edition of the great early Dutch voyages of exploration. This collection of vo...
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Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus
DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.Original price $84,231.00 - Original price $84,231.00Original price $0.00$84,231.00$84,231.00 - $84,231.00Current price $84,231.00| /With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...
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Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique
ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.Original price $6,480.00 - Original price $6,480.00Original price $6,480.00$6,480.00$6,480.00 - $6,480.00Current price $6,480.00| /Engelmann's superbly illustrated world geography is undoubtedly one of the most elegant of the early nineteenth century.. The text contained in the...
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Voyage de la Pérouse
LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de).Original price $25,917.00 - Original price $25,917.00Original price $0.00$25,917.00$25,917.00 - $25,917.00Current price $25,917.00| /The first scientific voyage to California, with royal provenance. The first edition of one of the most important scientific explorations ever under...
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Remembering Babylon
MALOUF, DavidOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $0.00$130.00$130.00 - $130.00Current price $130.00| /Signed by author. A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation. It depicts the conflict between early British settlers and native Aborigina...
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Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe execute par ordre du roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829.
DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sebastien Cesar.Original price $142,544.00 - Original price $142,544.00Original price $0.00$142,544.00$142,544.00 - $142,544.00Current price $142,544.00| /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...
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Voyage autour du Monde,
FREYCINET, Louis-Claude de Saulces de.Original price $174,940.00 - Original price $174,940.00Original price $0.00$174,940.00$174,940.00 - $174,940.00Current price $174,940.00| /A rare complete set of the official account of Freycinet's voyage of scientific exploration. During the nineteenth century, a large part of ornith...
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The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand; A Human Sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite; Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captn. Cook; Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their Habitations.
WEBBER, John; POUNCY, B.T. (etching) & WOOLLETT, W. (aquatinting).Original price $12,311.00 - Original price $12,311.00Original price $0.00$12,311.00$12,311.00 - $12,311.00Current price $12,311.00| /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...
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Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;
SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.Original price $25,917.00 - Original price $25,917.00Original price $0.00$25,917.00$25,917.00 - $25,917.00Current price $25,917.00| /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...
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Illustrationes Florae novae hollandiae
BAUER, Ferdinand.Original price $64,793.00 - Original price $64,793.00Original price $0.00$64,793.00$64,793.00 - $64,793.00Current price $64,793.00| /Extremely rare botanical drawings of australia with fine provenance. One of six scientists chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany Matthew Flinders...
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Joseph Banks Esq.
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua (after); DICKINSON, William (engraver).Original price $9,719.00 - Original price $9,719.00Original price $0.00$9,719.00$9,719.00 - $9,719.00Current price $9,719.00| /Sir Joseph Banks as a young man. A beautiful example of this classic image of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) as a young man, at the height of his cel...
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James Cook Surveyor of Newfoundland
SKELTON, R.A. (editor).Original price $324.00 - Original price $324.00Original price $0.00$324.00$324.00 - $324.00Current price $324.00| /Cook the surveyor. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the library of the University of California at Los Angeles.2 parts, one of 365 copies, ...
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Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. FLINDERS, Matthew; BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John (illustrator).Original price $2,139.00 - Original price $2,139.00Original price $0.00$2,139.00$2,139.00 - $2,139.00Current price $2,139.00| /A handsome first edition of this recounting of Matthew Flinders' famous voyage, that led to the discovery of the Illawarra coal seams and the Bass...
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Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America;
COXE, William.Original price $2,916.00 - Original price $2,916.00Original price $0.00$2,916.00$2,916.00 - $2,916.00Current price $2,916.00| /Coxe, an English priest and historian, at one time based in St. Petersburg, endeavoured to collect the journals of the several voyages relating to...
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