In two volumes. Pp. xx+372(last colophon, verso blank)+[viii]+404(last colophon, verso blank), frontispiece portrait to each volume, plus a total of 45 plates (4 double page), large folding chart at end of Volume II, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dark green textured cloth, spines lettered in gilt, upper boards decorated in blind;..... More
Eight text volumes and an atlas. Comprising: 1. 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 Carteret, Captain Wallis, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the..... More
Edited and Introduced by Christine Holmes. Pp. xxxii+98(last blank) 24 plates, 3 full page maps; small demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Caliban Books, London, 1984. First edition thus. *Elliot served as Midshipman on the Resolution with Cook. The section of his journal, first published here..... More
Three volumes in four, comprising: Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with them. Pp. xvi+248(last blank); Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775 with..... More
Pp. xvi+528(last advertisement), engraved frontispiece portrait, appendices; med. 4to; early calf boards with decorative gilt border, neatly rebacked, with later spine lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, the boards slightly scuffed, fore-corners lightly worn; all edges green; later endpapers, a little light creasing (just affecting a couple of words..... More
Pp. 216, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, endpaper map, select bibliographical references, index to artists; oblong 4to; black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip faded, edges a trifle rubbed; small water stain to top edge of a few leaves; Millwood Press, Wellington..... More
Introduction & Notes by Owen Rutter. [Translated into English by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve]. Pp. 220(last blank)+[2](blank), folding map, 12 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, appendix, notes; f'cap folio; green buckram, with gilt lettered and decorated brown leather title label on spine, upper board decorated in gilt, the cloth slightly marked and rubbed..... More
Pp. x+148(last blank), 4 plates, 5 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, backstrip faded and a trifle foxed; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *Biography of the..... More
and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their Inhabitants. By William Ellis, Missionary from the Society and Sandwich Islands. Pp. [viii]+480, engraved frontispiece portrait and 8 plates, 2 text illustrations, 2 folding maps, facsimile signature, appendix on the Hawaiian language; demy 8vo; modern qr. leather [kangaroo?]..... More
Pp. xiv+146, frontispiece portrait, plus 7 plates, chronology, appendix, index; med. 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt, top fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, faintly foxed on reverse, edges lightly rubbed, the backstrip slightly faded; text block faintly browned, a few light spots of foxing; Currawong Publishing..... More
With a study of the narratives of all explorers by sea and land in the light of modern charting, many original or hitherto unpublished documents, thirty-nine illustrations, and sixteen specially prepared maps. In two volumes. Volume I: Pp. xvi+366+[2](blank), portrait of the author as frontispiece, tissue guard, 20 portraits of..... More
Including a list of documents, letters to and by Leichhardt, with a biography. Pp. [58], processed and printed on rectos only, 1 full page map; post 4to; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cloth faintly scuffed; free endpapers slightly offset; privately printed, Melbourne, 1953. Edition limited to 75 numbered copies..... More
On discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, by which the Non-Existence of an undiscovered Continent, between the Equator and the 50th Degree of Southern Latitude, is demonstratively proved. Also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage, In the years 1772, 1773, and 1774. With an Account of the Separation of the two..... More
