Australia, New Zealand & Pacific / Pacific Islands

[DUTCH VOYAGES - Joost HARTGERS (publisher)]. Oost-Indische voyagien door dien begin en voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervatende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provintien derwaerts ghedaen ... Eerste deel. daer in begrepen zijn 16 voyagien.
Amsterdam, [printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for] Joost Hartgers, 1648.
Comprising:
(1) [VEER, Gerrit]. Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door 't Way-gat ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(2) [HOUTMAN, Cornelis]. Eerste schip-vaert der Hollanders naer Oost-Indien ... anno 1595.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(3) [NECK, Jacob van en Wybrand van WARWIJCK]. Waerachtigh verhael van de schip-vaert op Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(4) [NOORT, Olivier van and Jacob van NECK]. Wonderlijcke voyagie by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(5) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Steven vander HAGEN]. Historis journael van de voyage gedaen met 3 schepen ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(6) [MATELIEF, Cornelis]. Journael, ende historische verhael, van de treffelijcke reyse ghedaen naer Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(7) [BROECKE, Pieter van den]. Wonderlijcke historische ende journaelsche aenteyckeningh ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(8) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van]. Oost- en West-Indische voyagie, door de Strate Magallanes naer de Moluques ...
Including: [SCHOUTEN, Willem Cornelisz. and Jacob le MAIRE]. Journael, ofte beschrijvinge van de wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz. Schouten van Hoorn. In de jaren 1615, 1616, 1617 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(9) HEREMITE, Jacques l' and Gheen Huygen SCHAPENHAM]. Journael vande Nassausche vloot ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(10) [BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz.]. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn ...
Including: [RAVEN, Dirck Albertsz.]. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse ghedaen by den Commandeur Dirck Albertsz. Raven, na Spitsberghen ...
"Sardam, Willem Willemsz., 1648." [= Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648?].
(11) [PELSAERT, François and Jeremias van VLIET]. Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(12) TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinge van Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(13) CARON, François. Beschrijvinge van het machtigh coninckrijcke Japan ...
Including:
- GYSBERTSZ., Reyer. Historie der martelaren ...
- KRAMMER, Coenraad. Verhael van de groote pracht ... op den feest ghehouden in de stadt van Meaco ...
- CAMPEN, Leonart. Kort verhael van 't profijt, dienst, ende nuttigheydt dat de Oost-Indische vereenighde Nederlandtsche Compagni in Japan soude genieten, by so verre sy den Chineesen handel bequaemen.
- SCHOUTEN, Joost. Beschrijvinghe van de regeeringe, macht, religie, costuymen, traffijcquen, en[de] andere remercquable saken, des Coninghrijcx Siam. Gestelt inden jare 1636 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 13 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved general title page for the whole collection, a typographical general title page with a woodcut illustration of ships at sea, each part of the collection has its own title page (in some cases two) with a woodcut illustration (the majority the same as on the general title page). Further with 11 folding woodcut illustrations, several woodcut tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. A detailed list of contents is available upon request. Full description

[FRENCH - COLONIAL - MARITIME]. Souvenirs de voyages martimes par un officier de marine en retraite
Algiers, Adolphe Jourdan Libraire-editieur Jourdan, 1884. 8vo. 19th-century half morocco. VIII, 516, [2] pp. Full description

[FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'année commune 1863.
Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, August 1863.
With: (2) [IDEM]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'an 1864 (title on the front wrapper: Annuaire de Taïti pour 1864).Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, October 1864. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. With two original photographs in the 1863 edition, both reproducing maps, one showing the islands Tahiti and Moorea and the other showing archipels which were then under French protectorate. Original publisher's printed wrappers. VIII, 372; [4], LX, 126, [2 blank] pp. Full description

GJÖRWELL, Carl Christoffer (ed.). Almänna rese-beskrifwaren eller sammandrag af de nyaste och bästa rese-beskrifningar, hälst de som nyligast utkommit; til uplysning af andra länders geographie, natural-historia, stats-förfatning, hushålning, lärdom, bruk och seder: uti bref författat.
Stockholm, printed by Johan Arvid Carlbohm [and A.J. Nordstrom], 1780 [-1782]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of "Jacob" (James) Cook as a frontispiece in vol. 1, with some head and tail pieces throughout the 2 vols. Contemporary half goatskin. [4], 360; [2], 134, [2], 135-194, [2], 195-“168” [= 268] pp. Full description

GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de. Voyages à Peking, Manille et l'Ile de France, faits dans l'intervalle des années 1784 a 1801.
Paris, l'Imprimerie Impériale (J.J. Marcel) for Treuttel and Würtz, 1808. 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo (text) and folio (atlas). The atlas with 92 engraved illustrations on 61 leaves by De Guines after Deserve and 6 engraved maps (4 folding) by D'Houdan. Text volumes in 19th-century half calf, atlas volume in contemporary half calf. [4], LXIII, 439; [4] 476; [4], 488 pp.; atlas: 4 pp. text (title and index). Full description

[HAWAII]. Constitution of the Republic of Hawaii. Promulgated July 4th, A.D. 1894.
[Honolulu, 1894]. 22 x 14.5 cm. Stapled leaves in publisher's original turquoise wrappers, with letterpress title on front. Kept in modern half morocco clamshell box. VI, [2 blank], 56 pp. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - HAWAII - CHINA]. [Lai FONG(?), A CHAN, WOODBURY & PAGE, I.W. TABER and Hippolyte ARNOUX]. [Collection of 12 photographs of China, Indonesia, the Hawaiian Islands, California and Egypt].
Late 19th century. With 12 albumen prints, ranging in size from ca. 16.5 x 23 cm to 21 x 28 cm. Full description

HAWKESWORTH, John (editor). Reizen rondom de weereld, ondernomen . . . tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het zuider halfrond . . .
Including:
BYRON, John. [Drop title:] Verkort verhaal der reizen . . . Tocht van den Kommandeur Byron.
WALLIS, Samuel. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1766, 1767 en 1768. . . . voerende des Konings schip Den Dolphyn.
CARTERET, Philip. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1766, 1767, 1768 en 1769. . . . voerende des Konings sloep De Swaluw.
COOK, James. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1769, 1770 en 1771. . . ., voerende 's Konings schip, Den Onderneemer.
Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, 1774. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece. With an extra folding engraved world map in 2 hemispheres incorporating Cook's recent discoveries: Rigobert Bonne, De oude en nieuwe waereld . . . verrykt met de ondekkingen der laatste reizigers, Amsterdam, 1792 (23×41.5 cm). Modern cloth. [4], 351, [1] pp. Full description

HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. Novis orbis, sive descriptio Indiae Occidentalis ... Methaphraste C. Barlaeo. Accesserunt & aliorum Indiae Occidentalis descriptiones, & navigationis nuperae Australis Jacobi le Maire Historia, uti & navigationum omnium per Fretum Magellanicum succincta narratio.
Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1622. Folio. With an engraved title, 17 engraved maps (1 folding, 16 double-page), a full-page portrait, and 4 half-page illustrations in the text. Later three-quarter vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, red edges. [4], "81" [=84], [2], "9" [=10], 11, [1 blank] ll. Full description

KEATE, George. Beschryving van de Pelew Eilanden ...
Rotterdam, Gerard Abraham Arrenberg, 1789. 4to. With 8 plates: 4 mixed technique (partly stipple-engraved) portraits, 1 large folding engraved map of the Palau Islands and western equatorial Pacific, and 3 folding engraved views. Contemporary boards. XXXII, 365, [1] pp. Full description