Both volumes with a different collation to that given in Forbes. First edition in French. 2 volumes, 8vo, lvi, 458; [iv], 497, [i] pp., light wa...

Tahiti depicted as an earthly paradise. Rare. ESTC lists 12 copies only. Author attribution from old note to title. One of the less common poetic o...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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 eighteenth century manuscript panorama of Madras. one of the first detailed views of this city today populated with more than 7 million people...

Large paper copy - one of 100. One of the finest books on the Caucasus. Freshfield was a former President of the Alpine Club and an honorary secret...

An anonymous account of the expedition led by Cornelis de Houtman, published in the same year as the Dutch edition (Journael vande Reyse der Holla...