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The Mutiny of the Bounty in Swedish View picture(s) 1 BLIGH, William. Resa, Genom Södra Werlds-Hafvet, tolf hundrade Sjömil i öpen bät, frän Tofoa till Timor. Upsala, Joh. Edmans Enka, 1792. 12mo. Contemporary blue boards. With woodcut vignette on title and woodcut head- and endpieces. 119 [= 117; pp. 71-2 skipped], [3: blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cook  Exploration  Pacific  Sweden  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A classic work on Brazilian ethnography and exploration View picture(s) 2 EHRENREICH, Paul. Anthropologische Studien über die Urbewohner Brasiliens vornehmlich der Staaten Matto Grosso, Goyaz und Amazonas (Purus-Gebiet). Nach eigenen Aufnahmen und Beobachtungen in den Jahren 1887 bis 1889. Braunschweig, Druck und verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1897. Large 4to (31.3 x 24 cm.). Red cloth, gilt spine. With 30 tables with photographic illustrations, 9 tables, and 96 illustrations in the text. VIII, 165, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Brazil  Cultural History  Exploration  Social Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Cook's third voyage - an account by the assistant surgeon of the expedition View picture(s) 3 ELLIS, William. An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in his majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780; in search of a North-West passage between the continents of Asia and America. Including a faithful account of all their discoveries, and the unfortunate death of Captain Cook. Second edition. London, G. Robinson, J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1783. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf. With one folding engraved chart showing the tracks and discoveries in the Pacific Ocean made by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke and 21 full-page engraved plates showing natives from the Sandwich Islands, views of islands, natives in canoes, a Kamtschatka travelling in the winter and many more. (12), 358, (1); (4), 347, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Asia  Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Cook  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Hawaii  Russia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploring Central Asia View picture(s) 4 GARNIER, Francis. Voyage dans la Chine centrale, Vallée du Yang-Tzu, fait de mai à aout 1873. Paris, E. Martinet for Ch. Delagrave, 1874. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers. With a large folding map and several full-page tables. 39 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Asia  Asia [Far East]  China  Exploration  Spain  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Expedition to New Zealand in a curious binding View picture(s) 5 HOCHSTETTER, Ferdinand von. Neu-Seeland. Stuttgart, Gotta'scher Verlag, 1863. Large 8vo. Original cloth, with gilt title and ornament on spine, blind tooled sides, with an oval gilt illustration of a New Zealand landscape on the front cover, marbled edges. With 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, 6 coloured steel-engravings, by A. Meermann after Charles Heaphy, the outstanding colonial artist of New Zealand who had assisted Hochstetter in the geological survey of Auckland, and after F. Hochstetter himself, A. Campbell and C. Foscher, 9 large woodcuts and 89 woodcuts in the text. XX, 555, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Exploration  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The main source of early knowledge of the Pelew Islands in Micronesia in a Dutch translation View picture(s) 6 KEATE, George. Beschryving van de Pelew Eilanden, gelegen in het westlyk gedeelte van den Stillen Oceaan, opgesteld  uit de dagverhalen en mondelinge berigten van den Kaptein  Henry Wilson en sommigen van zyne officieren, welke  in Augustus 1783 aan dezelven schipbreuk geleden hebben met de Antelope, een paketboot, in dienst van de Engelsche Oostindische Maatschappy. Rotterdam, Gerard Abraham Arrenberg, 1789. 4to. Contemporary boards. With 4 full-page portraits, large folding map of the Northern Pacific, and 3 folding views, all engraved. XXXII, 365, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Pacific  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Piracy in the South Seas View picture(s) 7 KEPPEL, Henry. A visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. ship Maender with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.R. London, Richard Bentley, 1853. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary purple cloth. With a large folding engraved chart of the Indian Archipelago showing the track of H.S. ship Maender by J. & C. Walker, 8 coloured lithographed plates by Oswald W. Brierley. XV, 301; VIII, 286 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  China  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Splendid collection of important voyages View picture(s) 8 LA HARPE, Jean François de. Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages. Paris, Hotel de Thou (last 2 vols.: Laporte), 1780-1786. 23 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. With 89 plates (70 full-page, 19 folding, including 1 map), engraved under direction of Benard; the map by Dupuis. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Cook  Exploration  French  Hawaii  Pacific  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First-hand information on the journey of La Pérouse View picture(s) 9 LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy, Baron de. Voyage de Lapérouse, rédigé d'après ses manuscrits originaux, suivi d'un appendice renfermant tout ce que l'on a découvert depuis le naufrage jusqu'à nos jours, et enrichi de notes par M. de Lesseps, consul général de France à Lisbonne, et seul débris vivant de l'expédition dont il était interprète; accompagné d'une carte générale du voyage, orné du portrait et d'un fac-simile de Lapérouse. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Delaunay, 1831. 8vo. Modern half calf, spine gilt in compartments, with two red title labels. With an engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Lapérouse, a facsimile of one of his letters, and a large engraved folding map. (8), XVIII, 436 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Exploration  La Perouse  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Scottish botanist in the interior of South Africa View picture(s) 10 PATERSON, William. A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria, in the years 1777, 1778, 1779. The second edition, corrected. London, printed for J. Johnson, 1790. Large 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments with red morroco title label lettered in gold, the sides with blind tooled filet border, g.e. Large folding engraved map (56 x 34 cm.) of the Southern extremity of Africa, and 19 fine engraved and hand coloured plates, 15 depicting plants (one of which is misbound), 2 depicting animals, one depicting "Hottentots" and one "Boshiesmens habitations". XII, 175, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  Exploration  History  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Thrilling recollections of a Rotterdam teacher travelling to East Asia View picture(s) 11 PHILIPS, Teunis Hermanus. Hoe ik taalmeester werd. Reisherinneringen. Een souvenir, zijn vrienden hier en elders aangeboden. Rotterdam, W.Wenk, [1871]. 8vo. Blank paper wrappers with pasted photocopied original front wrapper. Wth full-page lithographed author's portrait and 13 full-page lithographed plates, of which 11 tinted en 2 in black & white, all by P. Blommers (The Hague). [6], 226 [5, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  China  Dutch  Exploration  History  Indonesia  Lithographs  Philippines  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attempt to liberate Mexico (1816) View picture(s) 12 ROBINSON, William Davis. Geschichte des Expedition des Generals Xaver Mina nach Mexico im Jahre 1816. Nebst seiner Biographie und einer Schilderun des damaligen Verhältnisse der spanisch-amerikanischen Colonien im Innern und gegen das Mutterland. Nach dem Englischen. Hannover, Hahne, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards. (2), 305 (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Mexico  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of a Russian expedition to north-eastern Siberia View picture(s) 13 SARYCHEV, Gavrila Andreyevich. Reis in het Noordoostelijke Siberie, en op de IJszee en den Noordoostelijken oceaan. Uit de Hooguitsche vertaling van Johann Heinrich Busse overgezet door N. Messchaert. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1808. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with marbled paper, uncut, in box. With large folding engraved map by C. van Baarsel, 10 folding engraved plates, 5 full-page hand-coloured aquatint plates, and 1 folding table. [2], XXXII, 190; X [= VIII], 334 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Exploration  Russia  Siberia  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The discovery of the sources of the Mississippi View picture(s) 14 SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe. Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the actual source of this river; embracing an exploratory trip through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) rivers in 1832. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1834. 8vo. Half calf with marbled boards, spine gilt. With five maps (2 folding, 3 full-page). VI, 307 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Americana  Exploration  Linguistics  Travel & Voyages  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) 15 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 circumnavigation that ended in failure View picture(s) 16 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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One of the best accounts of the Isthmus of Panama, including the earliest clear account and illustration on the use of a cigar View picture(s) 17 WAFER, Lionel. A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. London, printed for James Knapton, 1704. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. Kept in specially made cloth chemise and black half morocco slipcase (DESMONTS J. MAC DONALD CO, Norwalk, Conn). With folding engraved map of the Isthmus of Darien and Panama Bay and 3 folding engraved plates depicting Indians by I. Savage. [16], 283, [12] [1 bookseller's advert.] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  America [Central]  Ethnography  Exploration  Gold  Natural History  Piracy  Surgery  Tobacco  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the first Dutchman who set foot on Japanes soil View picture(s) 18 WICHMANN, Arthur. Dirck Gerritsz. Ein Beitrag zur Entdeckungsgeschichte des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1899. Large 8vo. Half cloth, gilt title on spine. [4], 104 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Exploration  Japan  Netherlands  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exploration of Australia by flying machine, rare censored copy View picture(s) 19 [RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas Edmé]. La découverte Australe par un homme-volant, ou le Dédale française; nouvelle très-philosophique: suivie de la Lettre d'un Singe, &ca. Leipzig and Paris, 1781. 2 parts in 4 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary half calf. With engraved frontispiece to each volume (3 half-page, 1 double-page), half title to volume I dated 1781 (according to Jacob almost always lacking), title-page to each volume with woodcut vignette, 19 full-page engraved plates of the extraordinary and bizarre people to be found in Australia, according to the author. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Exploration  Forbidden Books  French  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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