Australia, Pacific and Voyages
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Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America;
COXE, William.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /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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Waheiadooa. Chief of Oheitepha lying in State.
WEBBER, John.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /One of the most well-known images from the earlier issue of Webber's Views in the South Seas. The body lying in state was that of a young chief by...
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View in the Island of Cracatoa.
WEBBER, John.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /A beautiful print from the earlier issue of Webber's Views in the South Seas. The Resolution and Discovery anchored off Krakatoa on their journey...
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An Offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands.
WEBBER, John (after); HALL, [John] & MIDDIMAN, [Samuel] (engravers).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /This engraving after a drawing by Webber comes from the official account of Cook's Third Voyage, published in 1784. The Resolution and the Discove...
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View of a Fiatooka or Burying Place in Tongataboo.
WEBBER, John; THORNTON, John (engraver).Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /A particularly fine copy of Webber's view of one of the carefully tended ceremonial burial grounds on the island of Tongatapu, the main island of ...
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View in Pulo Condore; A Fiew in Annamooka, one of the Friendly Islands; A View in Matavai, Otaheite; View in Ulietea.
WEBBER, John; PRESTEL, Marie Catherine (aquatint).Original price £14,750.00 - Original price £14,750.00Original price £0.00£14,750.00£14,750.00 - £14,750.00Current price £14,750.00| /Complete set of the four sepia aquatints. John Webber, the official artist on Cook's Third Voyage, produced a remarkable body of work to illustrate...
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Sydney Parkinson.
NEWTON, James (engraver).Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /A fine engraved portrait of Sydney Parkinson, the young Scots artist who travelled on the Endeavour as Joseph Banks's botanical illustrator. Foll...
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Part of the Crew of His Majesty's Ship Guardian endeavouring to escape in the Boats.
DODD, Robert.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /One of the most famous shipwreck disasters in the eighteenth century, the Guardian was wrecked on an iceberg twelve days out of Cape Town. Command...
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Death of Captain Cook in February 1779,
WEBBER, John (after); BARTOLOZZI, Francesco (engraver) & BYRNE, William (engraver).Original price £6,750.00 - Original price £6,750.00Original price £0.00£6,750.00£6,750.00 - £6,750.00Current price £6,750.00| /Rare oval variant of the well-known Bartolozzi engraving of Cook's death. Webber completed his oil painting of the scene soon after returning t...
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Remarks on Mr. Forster's Account of Captain Cook's Last Voyage round the World,
WALES, William.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /Wales' attack on Forster. One of the rarest items concerning the Second Voyage. 'Wales, who was the astronomer in the Resolution, challenges the a...
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[Memorial 11].
QUIROS (Pedro Fernandes de).Original price £125,000.00 - Original price £125,000.00Original price £0.00£125,000.00£125,000.00 - £125,000.00Current price £125,000.00| /11th presentation memorial. A great rarity: an original quiros presentation memorial. 'The discovery of the Southern Continent, whenever, and by w...
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[Petit Voyages]. Indiae Orientalis Pars X.
DE BRY, Theodor.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher. Forced to flee his native Liege in the Spanish-controlled Southern N...
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[The three voyages of Captain Cook].
[COOK]. FRÉVILLE, Anne François Joachim de.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /First Swedish editions of Cook's voyages. An attractively bound first edition set of Cook's voyages in Swedish.Three works: I. 2 vols in one, [xxvi...
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Histoire des navigations aux terres Australes,
BROSSES, Charles de.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Important collection with fine maps. Valuable collection of voyages to the South Pacific which aimed to stimulate French discovery and colonisation...
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A Second Voyage round the world, in the Years MDCCLXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXV.
[COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE].Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /An officer's account - a legendary Cook rarity. The rarest of all the surreptitious accounts of Cook's voyages, issued with a title phrased to misl...
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A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771;
[MAGRA, James].Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Good unsophisticated example. First edition of the first published account of Cook's first circumnavigation, published two months after the return ...
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Vie du Capitaine Cook ...
[KIPPIS, Andrew;] J.H. CASTERA (translator).Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /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...
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Otaheite: a Poem.
[COATES, Rev. Charles?]Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /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...
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A Discourse upon some late Improvements of the Means for Preserving the Health of Mariners.
PRINGLE, Sir John.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /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....
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