Australia, Pacific and Voyages
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Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido;
KEPPEL, Capt. the Hon Henry.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| /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 £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /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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Royal Society Cook Medal.
[COOK]. PINGO, Lewis.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| /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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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 £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /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 £7,250.00 - Original price £7,250.00Original price £0.00£7,250.00£7,250.00 - £7,250.00Current price £7,250.00| /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 £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /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 £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /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 £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00Original price £0.00£65,000.00£65,000.00 - £65,000.00Current price £65,000.00| /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 £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £5,000.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /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 £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /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 £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £0.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00| /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 £110,000.00 - Original price £110,000.00Original price £0.00£110,000.00£110,000.00 - £110,000.00Current price £110,000.00| /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 £135,000.00 - Original price £135,000.00Original price £0.00£135,000.00£135,000.00 - £135,000.00Current price £135,000.00| /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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Voyage autour du Monde,
DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore.Original price £75,000.00 - Original price £75,000.00Original price £0.00£75,000.00£75,000.00 - £75,000.00Current price £75,000.00| /Important scientific and hydrographic research. A complete set of a work whose publication was never completed. One of the rarest and most beautifu...
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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 £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /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 £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /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 £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00| /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 £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /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 £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /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 £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /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 £2,250.00 - 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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