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Account of a very important voyage of exploration, with beautiful lithographs View picture(s) 1 ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victor. Promenade autour du monde (pendant les années de 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet). Paris, Béthune & Plon for Leblanc, [1822]. 2 text volumes in 8vo and 1 folio atlas. Text volumes in contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and tooled in gold and black, atlas in contemporary grey boards, with printed title pasted on front cover, uncut. With a lithographed map of the world and 25 lithographed plates in the atlas, 2 concerning Rio de Janeiro, 5 the Sandwich Islands and 3 Australia. [4], XXX, 452; [4], 506 pp.; [28] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Hawaii  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Dutch circumnavigation View picture(s) 2 BALEN, Johan Hendrik van. De avonturen van Jacob Everts. Olivier van Noort. De eerste reis der Nederlanders rondom de wereld. 1598-1601. Amsterdam, Jan Leendertz., (ca. 1870). Sm.8vo. Orig. richly gilt and black-stamped illustrated red cloth. With 4 chromo-lithographed plates by Gebr. Braakensiek. 182, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Marquis de Beauvoir in East Asia View picture(s) 3 BEAUVOIR, Ludovic. Java, Siam, Canton. Voyage autour du monde. Quatrième édition. Paris, Henri Plon, 1870. 8vo. Contemporary light brown half pigskin, spine gilt. With a large folding coloured map, 13 full page plates, of which 3 folding. [4], 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  China  Circumnavigation  East Indies  Indonesia  Java  Thailand  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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To the Pacific coast of South America View picture(s) 4 BELCHER, Edward. Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty's ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China, from Dec. 1840 to Nov. 1841. London, Henry Colburn, 1843. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with title lettered in gold. Folding map of the Canton river, folding map with the tracks of the H.M.S. Sulphur,  large world chart also showing the course of the Sulphur, 19 steelengravings with views on Panama (2), on Honolulu, Mount Elias, Sitka at New Archangel, the volcano of Consequina, Fort George at Astoria, Port Anna Maria, attack on the war junks, Thoka-nauta or Phillips, natives of Port Victoria, native of New Guinea, bow of a state canoe, Prahu of Geby, native of Celebes, native women of Celebes, attacks on first bar battery, Chinese soldiers with gingals, Chinese soldiers at great guns and several illustrations in text. XXII, 387; VI, 474 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  China  Circumnavigation  England  Indonesia  Maritime History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original edition of Bougainville's voyage around the world View picture(s) 5 BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de. Voyage autour du Monde par la frégate du Roi "La Boudeuse" et la Flûte "L'Etoile"; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. Paris, Saillant et Nyon, 1771. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine. With 20 engraved maps (map 16 in 2 parts) and 3 engraved plates. [8], 417, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Circumnavigation  French  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reading book about the Dutch explorers View picture(s) 6 BRINKMAN, J. Verzameling van korte Nederlandsche reisbeschrijvingen, een leesboek voor de jeugd. Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1823. Sm.8vo. Orig. wrappers. 118 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  East Indies  Education  Geography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sailing the globe: visiting the Sandwich Islands and California View picture(s) 7 DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste. Viaggio intorno al globo principalmente alla California ed alle Isole Sandwich negli anni 1826, 1827, 1828 e 1829. Turin, Stabilimento Tipografico Fontana, 1841. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary purple half calf with gilt title on gilt decorated spine. Marbled blue boards. With 4 wood-engraved plates: 'Veduta del porto e della vallata d'' Anarora nell' Isola di Waho.- Veduta di Monterye nell'Alta California, presa dalla rada.- Veduta della missione di San Luis rey nella California.- Veduta di Ross (Stabilimento Russo vicino alla Bodega).' XVI, 296; 592 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Circumnavigation  Dictionaries  French  Hawaii  Italy  Sandwich Islands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Often praised work on South America View picture(s) 8 FREZIER, [Amédée François]. Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili, du Perou, et du Bresil. Fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714. Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1717. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc. XX, 1-294; (2), 297-600 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Brazil  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With a description of the Russian settlement in California View picture(s) 9 KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Neue Reise um die Welt, in den Jahren 1823, 24, 25 und 26. Weimar, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1830. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. Contemporary cloth. With 2 hand-coloured etched frontispieces, folding engraved chart of the Bay Mattaway near Tahiti, and 2 large folding engraved charts of groups of islands in the Pacific. XXII, 191; 176; 177, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [North]  America [South]  Cartography  Chile  Circumnavigation  Northern Passage  Philippines  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare account of a commercially unsuccessful circumnavigation by Marchand in splendid binding View picture(s) 10 MARCHAND, Etienne. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792. Précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween par C.P. Claret Fleurieu. Paris, De l'imprimerie de la république, (1798-1800). 6 vols. (5 text vols. and 1 atlas). Large 8vo and 4to atlas. Contemporary light brown calf, spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco titlelabels, gilt ornamental borders on sides, gilt board edges, gilt inner dentelles with meander pattern, g.e. (COURTEVAL). 3 folding tabels with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. (4), VIII, CCI, (3), 294, (2); VII, (1), 529, (1); (2), VIII, 474, (2); VIII, 494, (2); XII, 559, (5); (2), VIII, 158, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The science of the great basins View picture(s) 11 MURRAY, John. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1872-76 under the command of Captain Sir George S. Nares, and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. Prepared under the superintendence of the late C. Wyville Thomson. A summary of the scientific results. London, 1895. 2 vols. Large 4to. Cloth. With 9 coloured maps, several double-page, 43 charts, several double-page or folding, 22 diagrams, several double-page or folding, and wood-engraved vignettes in the main work, 6 lithogr. plates and fig. in text to the first appendix on zoology, and 16 double-page coloured maps in the second general appendix. LIII, (1 blank), 1608; (8), 32; VIII, 38 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Circumnavigation  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting edition of the account of the first Dutch circumnavigation by Olivier van Noort, 1598-1601 View picture(s) 12 NOORT, Olivier van. Journael van de wonderlijcke voyagie door de Straet Magalanes, ende voorts den gantschen kloot des aertbodems om, gedaen met vier scheepen, onder het beleydt van Olivier van Noordt, uytgevaren in 't jaer 1598. Verhalende de bysonderste vreemdicheden, haer op de reyse voorgevallen, als mede de zeden en manieren der inwoonderen, vreemde aerdt van vogelen, en beesten, etc. die zy daer te lande gezien hebben. Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [1663]. 4to. 19th-century cloth. Woodcut of two ships on title page, full-page woodcut (153 x 1078 mm.) of a winged woman, ' Fama', blowing a trumpet and holding another trumpet in her left hand, floating above the globe, by Christoffel van Sichem, signed by the well-known CVS monogram with '(S)ichem. fecit." added; underneath a laudatory poem on Van Noort signed with "Hier na een Beter". 2 engravings (p. 7 and 8, after two plates of Hartgers) and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, showing coastal views with ships and native fishing, a burning ship at sea, a pinguin, meeting with natives on an island, etc. 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Circumnavigation  Dutch  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Around the world with a French explorer View picture(s) 13 PAGÈS, François-Xavier. Nouveau voyage autour du monde, en Asie, en Amérique et en Afrique, en 1788, 1789 et 1790; précédé d'un voyage en Italie et en Sicile, en 1787; avec un receuil de tout ce que les voyageurs ont publié de plus curieux sur toutes les parties du globe, excepté l'Europe, sur leurs arts, leurs sciences, leurs productions commerciales et naturelles, leurs moeurs et leurs usages; ainsi que l'histoire de leurs gouvernemens anciens et modernes. Paris, H. J. Jansen, An V (1797). 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt, with red and green labels, gilt borders on sides, gilt binding edges, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. With 6 engraved plates, of which 4 folding: 2 in vol. 1 by Y. le Gonaze after N. Ozane (Mascate and Mocomoco) and 2 in vol. 2 by Copia after Périguon (St. Domingue). VI, 504; 420; 414, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Arabia  Cartography  Circumnavigation  Italy  Persia  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a very interesting account of the first Swedish circumnavigation View picture(s) 14 SKOGMAN, Carl Johan Alfred. Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden, Åren 1851-1853, under befäl af C.A. Virgin. Stockholm, Adolf Bonnier, [1855]. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half blue morocco, blue boards, spine ribbed and gilt. With 3 folding tinted lithographed maps, 26 full-page plates (20 chromo-lithographs, 6 wood-engravings), wood-engraved illustrations in text. VI, [1, 1 blank], 250; VI, [1 blank, 1, 1 blank], 224, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Circumnavigation  Pacific  Sweden  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a very interesting account of the first Swedish circumnavigation View picture(s) 15 SKOGMAN, Carl Johan Alfred. Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden, Åren 1851-1853, under befäl af C.A. Virgin. Stockholm, Adolf Bonnier, (1855). 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter calf with gilt lettering on spine, marbled covers. With 3 folding tinted lithographed maps, 26 plates (6 full-page wood-engravings, 20 full-page chromo-lithograps) 18 wood-engraved illustrations in text. VI, 250, [2]; V, [3], 224, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Circumnavigation  Colour Platebooks  Illustrated Books  Pacific  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The world according to Smith View picture(s) 16 SMITH & SON, Charles. Smith's Terrestrial Globe Containing the whole of the Latest Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the most celebrated Circumnavigators. London, C. Smith & Son. 172. Strand, 1860. Terrestrial globe, diameter 31.5 cm, made of 24 engraved half gores, contemporary coloured, in a stand, consisting of a brass meridian, a wooden horizon circle with an engraved almanac pasted on, supported by four turned wooden legs with two cross-bars, on the centre of which a brass support for the meridian is placed. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  English  Globes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Cook's natural historian on his findings during the Second Voyage View picture(s) 17 SPARRMAN, Anders. Tal, om Den tilväxt och nytta, som Vetenkaperne i allmänhet, särdeles Natural-Historien, redan vunnit och ytterligare kunna vinna, genom undersökningar i Söder-haftet, hället för Kongl. Vetenskaps-Academien, vid Praesisii Nedläggande, Den 31 Octob. 1778. Stockholm, George Lange, 1778. 8vo. Without binding. With large engraved vignette on title. 40 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Circumnavigation  Cook  Exploration  Natural History  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A new passage to the Pacific and state-sponsored piracy View picture(s) 18 SPILBERGEN, Joris van. Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum; quarum una Georgii à Spilbergen classis cum potestate Praefecti, altera Iacobi le Maire auspiciis imperioque directa, annis 1614, 15, 16, 17, 18. Exhibens novi in mare Australe transitus, incognitarumque hactenus terrarum ac gentium inventionem: praelis aliquot terra marique commissa, expugnationesque urbium: una cum duabus novis utriusque Indiae historiis, catalogo munitionum Hollandicarum ... Leiden, Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619. Oblong 4to (18.3 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind stamped pigskin over boards, spine with raised bands, marbled edges. Large allegorical engraving on title, with 25 numbered engraved maps and views: 2 large folding maps (one of the world and the one of the East Indian archipelago), one folding, one double-page and 18 full-page plates with several insets, etc. 175 pp., lacking blank leaf (P4), which divides the two narratives but was mistakenly included as pp.119-20 in the continuous pagination. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  East Indies  VOC  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A circumnavigation that ended in failure View picture(s) 19 THOMAS, Pascoe. A true and impartial journal of a voyage to the South-seas, and round the globe in his Majesty's ship the Centurion, under command of commodore George Anson. Wherein all the material incidents during the said voyage, from its commencement in the year 1740 to its conclusion in 1744, are fully and faithfully related...., Together with some historical accounts of Chili, Peru, Mexico, and the empire of China.... London, S. Birt, J. Newbery & J. Collyer, 1745. 8vo. Contemporary calf on sides, two gilt fillets along the edges of the sides, rebacked with red and blue morocco title labels, blind tooled binding edges. (16), 347, 39 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Chile  China  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Mexico  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"Rare and highly desirable" (Lada-Mocarski) View picture(s) 20 ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Reise um die Welt, mit Capitain Cook. Mannheim, E. F. Schwan, 1781. 8vo. Contemporary boards. With a silhouette portrait on the title page, as Forbes suggests of Cook, but probably of Zimmermann, woodcut head- and endpiece. 110 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Circumnavigation  Cook  German  Hawaii  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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