His discoveries, romantic life, and tragic disappearance. Pp. xii+172(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 12 plates, text maps (1 double page), appendices, index; boards slightly marked; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; free endpapers lightly offset, a little faint foxing; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1952. First edition. *Signed by the author on..... More
Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the government to a voyage of discovery. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. With a Foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. Pp. xxii+610(last blank), frontispiece, 2 full page maps, appendices, index; med. 4to; dark green cloth, lettered and ruled in..... More
undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in..... More
The Men and the Mutiny. Pp. 320, 15 plates (1 double page), title page vignette, text illustrations (some full page), decorative headpieces, text maps, endpaper chart, chronology, notes on sources, index; med. 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards faintly scuffed; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed;..... More
From Melbourne to Myth. [Exhibition catalogue]. Pp. [vi]+50(last blank), illustrated in colour and black & white, map, notes, exhibition list of works; square 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2002. First edition. More
Pp. 152, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, full page map, pictorial endpapers, index; demy 4to; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards slightly sprung and with a couple of tiny bruises to edges; dust wrapper, backstrip faded, slightly foxed on reverse; a little light foxing; Paul..... 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
George Caley's journey to Mount Banks, 1804. Pp. [viii]+150, 12 plates, full page text illustration, title page vignette printed in green, pictorial endpapers, 10 maps (1 folding, 3 double page), appendix, notes and references, select bibliography, index; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a...... More
Convict, bushranger, explorer. Pp. [xii]+100, 4 plates, text drawings, 3 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly faded; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *George Clarke, alias the Barber, lived for five years among Aborigines in New South Wales in the early 1800s. He..... More
The Life of Dumont D'Urville. Pp. 252, 8 plates, 7 maps (6 full page), notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; edges of boards a trifle rubbed dust wrapper; Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 2007. First edition. *'Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville (1790-1842) undertook three global voyages of exploration and is the navigator..... More
Pp. 76, frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, text illustrations (one full page), tipped-in folding facsimile of a manuscript page from The Origin of Species, map, bibliography; small demy 4to; printed card wrappers, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; occasional slight soiling; Burndy Library, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1960. Burndy Library Publication No. 17..... More
The life of Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer and Governor of Jamaica, 1815-1901. Pp. 416, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, 3 full page maps plus endpaper map, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; upper board faintly scratched, bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges red, slightly damp marked; dust..... 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
Pp. 152(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, text maps (some full or double page), index; demy 4to; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased and split, with a 5cm. razor cut to fore-edge centre of front panel; scattered foxing; Paul Hamlyn, Dee Why West, Sydney..... More
Pp. xvi+538, 8 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations, 5 full page maps, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, index; tall demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted; dust wrapper; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2002. First edition. More
The world voyage of Rose de Freycinet in the Corvette Uranie, l8l7-l820. From her Journal and Letters and the Reports of Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, Capitaine de Corvette. Pp. xii+276(last blank), frontispiece plus 23 plates (including a map), 2 full page text maps, endpaper maps printed in blue, appendices..... More
from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845. Pp. xx+544, frontispiece, plus 6 plates (one folding), 7 text illustrations; later half calf, (new spine, earlier corners), with gilt lettered and decorated maroon leather title label on the spine, fore-corner tips neatly..... 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
Under command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G., for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia, and placed under the control of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia - South Australian Branch. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [ii]+208(last blank), vocabularies; navy cloth, lettered in..... 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
Edited with an Introduction by Marjorie Tipping. Pp. 94+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, plus 2 full page illustrations, the title and headpiece decorations printed in red, bibliography, index; navy papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board near fore-corner; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; text..... More
; with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which are added the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall, with an account of their new discoveries. Embellished..... More
The Journal of Seaman Samuel Smith. Edited with an Introduction by Peter Monteath. Pp. xiv+86, full page illustrations and maps, select bibliography; tall demy 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; Corkwood Press, Adelaide, 2002. First trade edition thus. *'On 18 July 1801 a young man from Manchester by..... 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