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First French edition of Bligh's account View picture(s) 1 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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Elementary geometry by an early Oxford professor View picture(s) 2 BRADWARDINE, Thomas. Geometria speculativa, omnes conclusiones geometricas  studentibus artium & philosophie aristotelis valde  necessarias simul cum quodam tractatus de quadratura  circuli noviter edito. Paris, Gaillard, for Jehan Petit, 1511. Small folio. Modern calf, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in the style of the early 16th-century, uncut. With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages. (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Incunable edition of one of the great Roman satirists, edited by Bartolomeo Fonzio View picture(s) 3 PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus. Satirarum opus. Venice, Dionysius de Bertochis & Pelegrinus de Paschalibus Bononienses, 10 September 1484. Sm. folio (292 x 205 mm). Vellum over boards (rebacked). Woodcut printer's device on last leaf (Device A), not rubricated (capital spaces not filled in), printed in Roman type: 110R and 83R. Collation: a-d6, e4; (28) leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Incunabula  Italy  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldus edition of the collected works of one of the most important Italian humanists View picture(s) 4 PONTANUS, Joannes Jovianus (Giovanni PONTANO). Opera. Urania, sive de Stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De Hortus Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina sive postorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendeca syllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae vero in tot opere habeantur in Indice, qui in calce est, licet videre.  Venice, Aldus Manutius, (May-August 1505). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern speckled brown calf in 16th-century style, frontcover with Aldus' printer's device stamped in gold, ribbed spine lettered in gilt. Title and final page with Aldus' woodcut printer's device. [242] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Humanism  Italy  Meteorology  Post Incunabula  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) 5 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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Interesting for the history of the study of incunables, with an autograph letter of William Blades View picture(s) 6 [INCUNABLE - ENGLAND]. Statuta synodalia herbipolensia. (Two quires). (Würzburg, Georg Reyser, ca. 1486). Folio. Later bound in two leaves from a 13th-century vellum theological manuscript, rubricated and decorated with alternating red and blue initials with penwork. Printed in red and black in gothic type. With cut out (fragments of?) reproductions of 19th-/ early 20th-century woodcuts of ca. 21 x 14 cm. pasted on the inside of the front (Annunciation) and back cover (Christophorus, with the year 'cccc xx tercio'). (12) lvs. 32 lines; written space: 180x120mm; Type: 112a. Full description >> Related Subjects: Germany  History of Printing  Incunabula  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare work comprising meditations on all days of the month in the Tahitian language View picture(s) 7 [MONTITON, Albert]. Meditatione, oia hoi: feruri raa, no te mau mahana'toa no te avae hoe. Papeete, Neia i te nenei raa parau a te Epikopo (Imprimerie de la Mission catholique), 1873. Small 8vo. Modern marbled boards with gilt morocco letterpiece on spine (ATELIERS LAURENCHET). (4), 167, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mission  Religion  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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