The first Danish circumnavigation

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1 BILLE, Steen Andersen.
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 >>

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The exemplary life of a native of Hawaiï

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2 DWIGHT, Edwin Welles.
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 >>

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First edition of narrative of a journey to Brazil, Chile, Peru and the Sandwich Islands

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3 MATHISON, Gilbert Farquhar.
London, for Charles Knight, 1825. 8vo. Later three quarter green painted calf, gilt tooled spine and black gilt morocco title label. Engraved folding map of the Sandwich Islands by Cruchley, handcoloured lithographed frontispiece of  "Riding costume of Peruvian females" and three handcoloured lithographed plates showing, Females of Lima, an Ancient stone found in the interior of Woahoo and a Sandwich Islander. XII, (4), 478 pp. Full description >>

Related Subjects: America [South]  America, North  Brazil  Chile  Hawaii  Peru  Sandwich Islands  Travel & Voyages 

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