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The Rodney Davidson copy of an incredibly rare Australiana publication about De Vlamingh's voyage to Australia in 1696-97

[VLAMINGH, Willem de (subject); Mandrop TORST (attributed)]. Journaal wegens een voyagie, gedaan op order der Hollandsche Oost-Indische Maatschappy in de jaaren 1696 en 1697 ...
Amsterdam, Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsvelt, Philip Verbeek, and Jan Lamsvelt, 1701. Small 4to. With a small woodcut vignette on the title page and one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the text. 18th-century marbled wrappers, later endpapers, kept in a gold-tooled quarter blue morocco and blue cloth custom box, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. 24 pp. Full description
€ 550,000
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The famous circumnavigation by Jacques L'Hermite, with a description of Peru and Chile by Madriga and Spilbergen

[WALBEECK, Johan van]. Journael van de Nassausche vloot, ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aert-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgertsz., 1648. 4to. With half-page woodcut with two ships on the title-page and a large double-page engraved plate. 18th-century marbled wrappers. [2], 76 [ i.e 78] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
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Extremely rare 1788 Russian edition of Zimmermann's account of Cook's third voyage

ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Posliednee puteshestvie okolo svieta Kapitana Kuka s obstoiatel'stvami o ego zhizni i smerti ...
St Petersburg, P.B. [= Peter Bogdanovich], 1788. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [4], 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 28,500
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