Includes Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy. A work of huge importance for the inclusion of Captain Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy....

First edition in Spanish. 2 volumes, small 4to, [ii], x, 262, [i]; [ii], 288, [i] pp., contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, a little light...

Sparrman's work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster...

Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery was based on the illicit copy of his journal that Rickman (Second Lieutenant on the Discovery...

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...

Scarce. The French edition of Marras' Journal, possibly translated by Anne Francois Joachim de Fréville. Published anonymously and surreptitiously...

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

With the rare and beautiful atlas. A very attractive example of the French edition of the first Russian circumnavigation, complete with the atlas v...

The excessively rare advance issue of the voyage. Excessively rare. One of a handful of known copies of a special advance issue of Bligh's narrati...

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 ...

First octavo edition of the Third Voyage. The first octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage and the first to reach a wide audience. The text is sligh...

Rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage . A rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage which appeared nearly three years before th...

'Exceedingly rare' (Holmes). Issued some seven years after the first edition of the author's Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and A...

The first Russian circumnavigation. An important work, being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Kru...

. 'In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was w...

A rare shape book. With rhyming verse designed to promote travel to Australia from England. The scenes depicted include Aborigines, sheep musteri...

Calvert promoted and financed this expedition, under the command of Lawrence Allen Wells, to explore unknown portions of inland Western Australia ...