Pp. 248, 12 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations and maps (some full page), endpaper maps printed in blue, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1988. First edition. More
Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. In two volumes. Pp. xxviii+476+xviii+406, with a total of 102 plates (16 coloured, including the frontispieces), a few text figures and maps (1 folding, printed in brown & red), appendices, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt, a couple of fore-corners faintly bruised;..... More
Being Lieutenant William Bligh's Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, to take the Breadfruit from the Society Islands to the West Indies. Now Published for the First Time from the Manuscript in the Admiralty Records, with an Introduction and..... More
Pp. viii+172, appendices, bibliography, endpaper maps; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the laminate slightly wrinkled, edges slightly worn; Marsh Walsh, Melbourne, 1975. First edition. *The author traces the voyages of exploration to the South Seas and to Australia, from Marco Polo, Da Gama and Tasman through to James Cook. More
The Adventures of Ludwig Leichhardt and John Gilbert. Pp. xxii+306, 16 plates, text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, full page map, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle creased, with publicity wrap-around (also lightly creased); inked ownership inscription on upper free..... More
Columbus' Own Journal of Discovery Newly Restored and Translated. Pp. xii+242(last blank), 16 plates, text illustrations and text decorations, 2 full page maps, appendices, notes, index; demy 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed, edges lightly rubbed; upper endpapers faintly offset, small inked annotation..... More
Pp. xxviii+218, 8 plates, 5 maps (one double, others full page), notes, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991. First U.K. edition. *'Examines the explorer's quest for patronage and the development of his geographical ideas, as well as describing..... More
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. Pp. [xii]+300, 9 text maps (8 full page), plus endpaper maps, index; med. 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black papered boards; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed; Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1985. First U.S. edition. *Originally published in Italian. More
The story of Don Cristobal Colon, Admiral of the Ocean and his four voyages westward to the Indies according to contemporary sources. Pp. 208(last colophon), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, the title page printed in red & black, printed endpapers, chronology, bibliography, index; demy 4to; cream cloth..... More
Maps by Erwin Raisz. Pp. 236, frontispiece portrait, plus 6 plates, text maps & charts (some full or double page), appendices, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in white; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free..... More
The Journals of Lieutenants Elliott and Pickersgill. Edited and Introduced by Christine Holmes. Pp. xxxii+98(last blank) 24 plates, 3 full page maps; brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, head of spine and edges of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed..... More
Papers Presented at the Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Symposium, Sutherland Shire, 1-3 May, 1970. Foreword by Councillor A. T. Gietzelt, President, Sutherland Shire Council. Pp. 142(last blank), 8 plates, one text figure, endpaper maps, errata sheet loosely inserted, notes, index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, edges..... More
preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c., by Geoffrey Rawson. With engravings by John Buckland Wright. Pp. 100+[2](map, colophon), 9 wood engravings printed in dark green, full page map, chronological table; narrow roy. 4to; green canvas, lettered and decorated in gilt, the..... More
undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's ship The Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland..... More
Tasman, Cook, Bligh, Wilson, Bellingshausen. Pp. xviii+324+[2](advertisements), 47 plates (including several maps, 3 of which are folding) plus a large folding map in pocket at end, sources, index; boards a trifle scuffed, the spine cloth slightly faded; price-clipped dust wrapper, worn and quite torn, the back panel lightly foxed; inked..... More
. Pp. 336, illustrated in colour and black & white, text plus endpaper maps, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial green cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in brown, the boards slightly canted, edges lightly rubbed, with a couple of light bruises; top edges green; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed..... More
Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. 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.... In two volumes. Pp. xvi+366+xiv+367-768, 29 plates (including frontispiece with..... More
Voyage of the U.S. exploring squadron, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842: together with explorations and discoveries made by Admiral D'Urville, Captain Ross, and other navigators and travellers; and an account of the expedition to the Dead Sea, under..... More
Voyage of the U.S. exploring squadron, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842: together with explorations and discoveries made by Admiral D'Urville, Captain Ross, and other navigators and travellers; and an account of the expedition to the Dead Sea, under..... More
Pp. 160, 12 plates, 2 full page maps, table of dates, suggestions for further reading, index; spine extremities and bottom fore-corners of boards bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges rubbed; a little light foxing; Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1970. First edition. *The history of African exploration 'from the Egyptians to..... More
Collected and newly translated by M. Aurousseau. In three volumes. Pp. xvi+424(last blank)+vi+425-820(last blank)+vi+1176(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 11 maps (one folding, several full page), appendices, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards bruised (some heavily), the spines a trifle faded; price-clipped dust wrappers..... More
The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific. Drawings by Walter Stackpool. Pp. [x]+212+[2](last blank), text illustrations, 4 text maps (1 double page), endpaper map, bibliography; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, laminate lifting, edges slightly creased and split; small marks to fore-edges of leaves, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Doubleday..... More
Portrait of a visionary. Pp. xii+200, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, full page map, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in bronze, bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; Century, London, 1987. First edition. *The life of an eighteenth-century Italian navigator in the service of Spain whose thirst..... More
Pp. 176, 24 plates, several tailpiece illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn; Terence Dalton Limited, Lavenham, Suffolk, 1975. First edition. *David Blackburn, of Norfolk Island descent, was Master of H.M.S. Armed Tender Supplywhen it joined the fleet to sail from Portsmouth to Botany Bay in 1787. A...... More
Pp. [vi]+xxiv+22+212+[2](errata), frontispiece portrait, plus 26 plates, 3 full page maps, vocabularies errata; a few tiny bruises to edges of boards; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Caliban, London, 1984. Facsimile edition. *Parkinson was one of the two artists on the Endeavour on James Cook's..... More