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On the famous voyage of Captain Louis Freycinet View picture(s) 1 ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victor. Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde. Ouvrage enrichi de soixante dessins et de notes scientifiques. Paris, Hortet et Ozanne, 1839. 4 vols. Large 8vo. Contemp. half green morocco, spines gilt. With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author. (4), 400; (4), 423 (1 blank); (4), 399, (1 blank); (4), 451, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Cartography  Hawaii  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early plan to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific oceans; with the often lacking map View picture(s) 2 BASTIDE, Martin (de) la. Mémoire sur un Nouveau Passage de la Mer du Nord à la Mer du Sud. Paris, De l´Imprimerie de Didot fils aîné, 1791. 8vo. Original wrappers. With a large folding engraved map showing the greater part of Nicaragua, including the big lakes, parts of Costa Rica, the river systems (River St. Juan), mountain ranges, and the more important cities and volcanoes: 'Carte du Lac de Nicaragua et de la Rivière St. Juan sur laquelle on a marqué le passage proposé pour faire communiquer l'Ocean à la Mer du Sud', dated 1791. (4), 70 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [Central]  Hydraulics  Navigation  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Danish circumnavigation View picture(s) 3 BILLE, Steen Andersen. Beretning om Corvetten Galathea's Reise omkring Jorden, 1845, 46 og 47. Copenhagen, C.A. Reitzel, 1849-1851. 3 vols. 8vo. Original half cloth, preserved in a modern box. With 5 folding lithographed maps, of which one large folding general map, folding facsimile, and 20 full-page tinted lithographed plates with views, costumes, etc. (2), XII, 496; (4), VIII, 465, (5); (4),513, LXVII, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America [South]  Denmark  Hawaii  Indonesia  Japan  Pacific  Philippines  Sandwich Islands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First French edition of Bligh's account View picture(s) 4 BLIGH, William. Rélation de l'enlèvement du navire Le Bounty... : avec le voyage subséquent de cet officier et d' une partie de son équipage dans sa Chaloupe, depuis les Îles des Amis, dans la Mer du Sud, jusqu'à Timor, établissement hollandais aux îles Moluques. Paris & Amsterdam, Firmin Didot & Gabriel Dufour, 1790. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, orange gilt title label.  With 3 engraved folding maps. [4], XVI, 171, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Pacific  Tahiti  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Mutiny of the Bounty in Swedish View picture(s) 5 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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Original edition of Bougainville's voyage around the world View picture(s) 6 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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The memoires of an English missionary in the Pacific View picture(s) 7 BUZACOTT, Aaron & James Povey SUNDERLAND. Mission life in the islands of the Pacific. Being a narrative of the life and labours of the rev. A. Buzacott, missionary of Rarotonga, for some time co-worker with the rev. John Williams, martyr of Erromanga. London, Harrild for John Snow and Co., 1866. Small 8vo. Modern half red hard-grained morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. With an original pasted-in photographical portrait of Buzacott with his signature underneath as a frontispiece, 7 full-page woodcut plates and some woodcut illustrations in the text. (2), XXII, 288 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Mission  Pacific  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fascinating description of the Hawaiian Islands View picture(s) 8 CAMPBELL, Archibald. A Voyage round the World from 1806 to 1812; in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich  Islands, were visited. Including a Narrative of the author's shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his  subsequent wreck in the ship's long boat. With an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh, for A. Constable, etc., 1816. 8vo. Original half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with title-label. With folding engraved map. 288 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  China  Hawaii  Japan  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Travel account with magnificent series of views; a superb set in the most original condition possible View picture(s) 9 CHORIS, Louis. Vues et paysages des régions équinoxiales, recueillis dans un voyage autour du monde, par Louis Choris, avec une introduction et un text explicatif. Paris, Paul Renouard, 1826. Six parts. Folio. Each part in original mauve printed printed wrappers, preserved in a green morocco box. With 24 lithographed plates. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Hawaii  Lithographs  Pacific  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important collection of travel accounts regarding early Pacific exploration View picture(s) 10 DALRYMPLE, Alexander. An historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. I: being chiefly a literal translation from the Spanish writers. Vol. II: containing the Dutch voyages. London, Printed for the author, 1770-71. 2 vols. in one. Large 4to. Contemporary full polished calf, richly gilt and decorated spine with gilt title on red morocco title-label (sl. damaged), gilt ornamental border along the sides of covers, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Vol. 1: 3 folding engraved maps, 2 engraved plates; vol. 2: 7 folding engraved plans, 1 folding engraved map, 3 engraved plates, a few signed by J. Collyer. III-XXX, (2), 24, 204, (4), 21, (3); (4), 124, 20 (60) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The exemplary life of a native of Hawaiï View picture(s) 11 DWIGHT, Edwin Welles. Memoir of Henry Obookiah, a Native of the Sandwich  Islands, who died at Cornwall, Connecticut, February  17, 1818, aged 26. Revised edition. New York, The American Tract Society, (ca. 1830). 12mo. Contemporary half calf. With engraved portrait of Henry Obookiah by Dagget, Hinman & Co. for frontispiece. 124 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America, North  English  Hawaii  Pacific  Sandwich Islands  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the history of the Jesuits on the Marianne Islands in the Pacific View picture(s) 12 GARCIA, Francisco. Istoria della conversione all nostra Santa fede dell' isole Mariane, dette prima de' Landroni, nella vita, predicatione, e morte gloriosa per Christo del venerabile P. Diego Luigi di Sanvitores, e d'altri suoi Compagnia di Giesù ... E tradotta nell'Italiano dal Padre Ambrosio Ortiz. Napels, Camillo Cavallo & Michele Luigi Mutii, 1686 (Colophon: 1687). 4to. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Engraved portrait by F. Pesche of Diego Luigi di San Vitores being murdered by the 'barbari' on the 2nd of April 1672. (23), 663, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Discovery & Exploration  Italy  Jesuits  Mission  Pacific  Spain  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dictionary of the Polynesian language East Funtunan View picture(s) 13 GRÉZEL, Isidore Dictionnaire Futunien-Français avec notes grammaticales. Paris, Maisonneuve, 1878. 8vo Original printed wrappers. (4), 304 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dictionaries  Mission  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Desirable copy of the first edition of the official account of James Cook's first voyage View picture(s) 14 HAWKESWORTH, John. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty, for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. London, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1773. 3 volumes. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, ribbed spine richly gilt with floral ornaments and two red and green title labels lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red speckled edges. With 28 fine engraved charts and views of coast-lines, bay's and estuaries, several large folding, of the South Sea, Pacific islands, Tahiti, New Zealand and New South Wales in Australia, and 23 fine engraved plates, mostly folding, showing scenes of meeting with Pacific and Australian inhabitants at the coast, plants, native costume and scenes of their daily life. [12], XXXVI, [3], 676 [=455, skipping pages 140-360]; XV, [1], 410; [6], 411-799 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Cook  Maritime History  Pacific  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Celebrating the Chinese New Year in Manado View picture(s) 15 HICKSON, Sydney John. A naturalist in North Celebes. A narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, with notices of the fauna, flora and ethnology of the districts visited. London, John Murray, 1889. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco, ribbed & gilt spine, gilt vignette of Owen's School 'Cambridge local examination honours. First class' on front cover. Coloured lithographed frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 6 full-page lithographed plates, and 29 views and plates in text. XV, 392 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Pacific  Philippines  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Shipwreck in the Pacific View picture(s) 16 KEATE, George. Relation des Iles de Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'océan pacifique; Composée sur les journaux et les communications de Capitaine Henri Wilson, et de quelques-uns de ses Officiers ... Paris, Le Jay and Maradan, 1788. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With engraved portrait medallion of Wilson on frontispiece, folding map of the Palau Islands, Philippines and the Chinese Sea, 12 folding engraved plates with views of local scenery and utensils, 3 full-page portraits of local population. [4], 282; [4], 274, [6] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Pacific  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Hudson's Bay Territories; presentation copy by the author View picture(s) 17 MARTIN, Robert Montgomery. The Hudson's Bay Territories and Vancouver's island, with an exposition of the chartered rights, conduct, and policy of The Honorable Hudson's Bay Corporation. London, T. and W. Boone (printed by T. Brettell, London), 1849. 8vo. Original brown blind stamped gilt cloth. With a large folding map by James Wild, coloured in outlines, and a half-page steel-engraving of an 'Indian village at the Red River settlement', on p. VIII. VII, 175 pp. [added: [26] pp.]. Full description >> Related Subjects: America, North  Canada  Economy  Native Americans  Northern Passage  Pacific  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a very rare and little-known journal of an important voyage to the Pacific View picture(s) 18 MICHELENA Y ROJAS, Francisco. Viajes científicos en todo el mundo, desde 1822 hasta 1842; durante los cuales fueron visitadas ... Dedicados a la nacion Venezolana. Madrid, I. Boix, 1843. 4to. Half calf, gold-tooled spine. With full-page author's portrait by Leopoldo Lopez, woodcut coat of arms on dedication, 12 full-page lithographed illustrations by J. Abrial, and 2 large lithographed folding maps (depicting Sydney and the tracks of the voyage). All lithographs executed by J. Aragon. 408, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  Hawaii  Pacific  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The account of a voyage of a Swedish privateer together with a vivid travelaccount on Germany View picture(s) 19 MORTIMER, George. Engelsmannen Joh. Hindric Cox Resa Genom Söderhafvet Till On Amsterdam, Marien-Oarna, O-Taheiti, Sandvichs-och Räf-Oarna, Tinian, Unalaska och Canton i China. Nyköping, Peter Winge, 1798. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. 77, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cook  Europe  German  Hawaii  Literature  Pacific  Piracy  Russia  Sweden  Trade  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Essay on chronometry resulting from Roquemaurel's circumnavigation View picture(s) 20 MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Observations chronométriques faites pendant la campagne de circumnavigation de la corvette La Capricieuse, commandée par M. Roquemaurel, capitaine de vaisseau. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1855. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary grained red half roan. With 4 folding plates. VIII, 139, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Brazil  Navigation  Pacific  Science  Surveying  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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