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
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
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
with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip's Voyage. Compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in..... More
Arranged by M. L. A. Milet Mureau, Inspector of Fortifications and Member of several literary Societies at Paris. To which is prefixed, NARRATIVE OF AN INTERESTING VOYAGE FROM MANILLA TO ST. BLAISE. And annexed, TRAVELS OVER THE CONTINENT, with the dispatches of La Perouse in 1787 and 1788, by M...... 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
with an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, A List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson. Third Edition, to which is now first added, A Postscript, dated Sydney Cove, October 1, 1788. By Captain Watkin Tench of the Marines. Pp..... More
with an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, A List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson. By Captain Watkin Tench of the Marines. Pp. viii+[iv](contents, blank)+146, several binder's blanks at end; post 8vo; twentieth century half calf, spine lettered and..... More
with An Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson. By Captain Watkin Tench, of the Marines. Pp. viii+[iv](contents, blank)+146, numerous blinder's blanks at end); post 8vo; twentieth century half calf, the spine decorated..... More
with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. Pp. xviii+300+[36](appendix, last blank), black & white title page vignette, plus 65 hand coloured engraved plates, all but one (opposite page 186) with tissue guard, appendix; med. 4to; early dark green half morocco..... More