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
Pp. [viii]+76(processed, last blank), appendices, select bibliography; navy art. leather, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle marked, top fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; free endpapers faintly offset; Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1965. First edition. *Facsimile of a thesis submitted to the History Department at the University..... 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
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
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
Botanist and explorer. Pp. x+148(last blank), 4 plates, full page maps, references, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and a trifle rubbed at foot; dust wrapper, backstrip faded; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. Biography of the botanist who..... 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
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
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
Pp. xxiv+372+[2](colophon, verso blank), text illustrations and maps (some full page), endpaper map printed in blue, notes, index; roy. 8vo; navy cloth, spine blocked in red and lettered in gilt, large coloured pictorial onlay on upper board; within navy cloth slipcase with printed title label on spine, the cloth slightly..... More
to ascertain the position of the 141st degree of East Longitude, being the boundary line between New South Wales and South Australia. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. 16(last blank)+xx(appendix), 2 folding tinted maps in pocket at end; roy. 8vo; qr. brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, Cockerell marbled papered boards; Queensberry Hill..... More
The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Pp. 304, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, double page map, appendices, references, index; wide demy 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1985. First paperback edition. *The story of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, led by..... More
landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. in 1801-1803. Edited by T. M. Perry and Donald H. Simpson. Pp. [viii]+72(last blank), 2 coloured plates plus black & white frontispiece portrait and numerous plates following the text, 1 text illustration, 9 maps..... More