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xxxiii+270+[2]+15+[1]+48+xix+[1] pages 14 of 18 engraved plates, maps (many folding) and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/4") in original leather binding. First edition.Richard Owen Cambridge was a British poet. He was educated at Eton and at St John's College, Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree, he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737. Four years later he married, and went to live at his country seat of Whitminster, Gloucestershire. In 1751 he removed to Twickenham, where he enjoyed the society of many notable persons. Horace Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the character of news-monger. His chief work is the Scribleriad (1751), a mock epic poem, the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Cervantes as his master. The satire shows considerable learning, and was eagerly read by literary people; but it never became… Read More

xxx+408 pages with frontispiece, and one additional plate, large folding map and vocabulary of the Pelew language. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") Original 3/4 leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering and red label to spine. (Hill 907 & 816) Fourth edition.In 1783, the East India Company packet, the Antelope out of Macao was shipwrecked on the Pelew islands (now Pelau or Belau in the western Carolines, in Micronesia). All the crew were saved and were the first Europeans to make contact with these islanders. They were lucky in that there was a Malay there, shipwrecked the year before, who was able to act as interpreter. Captain Henry Wilson and his crew developed unusually amicable relations with the Palauan inhabitants and participated in expeditions against their enemies. They were able to recover a great deal from the wreck and to build a new vessel, with which they sailed to Macau after a stay of just over three months. They took with them Lee Boo, who became a figure of fashionable interest in… Read More

250 unnumbered pages of manuscript entries with drawings of elevations on free endleaves. Folio (12 3/4" x 9 1/4") bound in contemporary canvas, ties intact in a custom enclosure. original hand written logbook on hand-ruled laid paper.The Mermaid was a thirty-gun frigate launched in 1784 and broken up after the end of the War of 1812. During the period covered by the present log, she was on blockade duty off the coast of Spain and in the Mediterranean Sea, busy capturing and destroying hostile vessels, including French, Neapolitan and Spanish merchant ships, working vessels, and privateers. Some of these adventures required sea chases and other forms of maritime attack, and all are recorded in the log. The list of unfortunates appears at the end of the text in a handy chart: List of Vessels Captured & Recaptured by His Majesty's Ship Mermaid since her arrival in the Mediterranean 12th June 1799, which includes sixty-two ships in total.Admiral Robert Dudley Oliver was a senior officer of the British… Read More

xxiv+417 pages with 9 illustrations, including frontispiece, 4 maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt vignette of the ship Victoria to front cover in original jacket. Translated by Donald M Lockhart, Introduction by C F Beckingham. Second Series, volume 162. First edition.Jeronimo Lobo was the last survivor of the small band of Jesuit Father who tried, with a measure of success, to reconcile Ethiopia to the Church of Rome. His life was long and adventurous. Chosen to serve in India when still a novice, he was ordained with extreme haste and embarked on a ship which was force to turn back in the Gulf of Guinea. He reached India in the next year after being involved in a naval fight against the Dutch and English off Mozambique. He was selected for the Ethiopian mission and made a remarkable attempt to reach the country from the Somali coast. After his unsurprising failure in this he returned to India and… Read More

xxix+310pp+clxxix+[2 add] pages with the twenty plates called for, including six maps (4 folding, and the plate "Cutting into Winter Harbour" inserted as frontispiece rather than after page 97), tables and appendixes. Lacks Errata slip. Quarto (11 3/4" x 9 1/2") bound with original boards and new spine with gilt lettering. Second edition.William Edward Parry was born in Bath, England. In 1803, at the age of 13, he entered the Royal Navy and became a sublieutenant the same year. He served in the English Channel and in the Baltic Sea during the Napoleonic Wars and, promoted to lieutenant in 1810, was sent to protect whalers in the Spitzbergen Archipelago. After having spent the War of 1812-1814 on the east coast of North America, Parry had only one wish -- to go in search of the Northwest Passage. He requested authorization from the Admiralty to participate in the polar expeditions that it was organizing. The Admiralty agreed and supported his four Arctic voyages. His first expedition was with John… Read More

lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,… Read More

[4]+28+[2] pages lacking the map. Small quarto (10" x 7½") rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. (Sabin 22572) First edition.Rare account of travels into the arctic, most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier, Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle, Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique... Lausanne, 1765. Condition:Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within, hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat.

Roche Products 1976 London, 1976 About very good issued in wrappers 1st Wrappers Quarto A grained heavy quarto paper folder containing:A Facsimile of "A Chart Shewing the Track of the Centurion around the World" and a list of key incidents during the voyage The map and key incidents have soiling which appears to be modern done as part of the production. A Facsimile of the Title Page and extracts describing Scurvy. A Facsimile of Anson`s Log Entry on the Taking of the Acapulco Galleon. All facsimiles include reproduction of the stains and foxing from the original. There is also a brief account of "The Story of Anson`s Voyage" Roche are the manufacturers of Redoxon Tablets, "a true and powerful fpefic againft the fcorvy" The folder is soiled with some wear. A publicity production Bookseller. Soft cover.

[6]+xxvii+[3, Table of Contents and Directions for Placing Plates]+285; [2]+297+[3] pages with folding frontispiece map and 14 lithographed plates (two folding) Part 2: 299 pages with 11 lithographed plates, tables, in-text red line diagram and appendices. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in half leather with new spine and original marbled boards. (Ferguson 885; Hill 298; Sabin 1865) First English Edition.
Jacques Étienne Victor Arago was a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a Voyage Round the World. Jacques Arago joined Louis de Freycinet as an artist when he left Toulon in 1817 in command of a scientific voyage around the world aboard the corvette Uranie. The expedition returned in 1820 and Arago was the first to publish an account, the Promenade autour du monde, in the form of letters to a friend named Battle, in 1822. An English translation followed in 1823. He continued to expand on his adventures in further editions and in the late 1830s published a much longer version under the title… Read More

[8]+xv+248+[24] pages with title in red and black, frontispiece, 4 folding maps, 27 engraved figures (many folding) and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5"") bound in quarter leather with raised spine bands and black label in gilt over marbled boards. First English edition.Francois Leguat was a French Huguenot originating from the Province of Bresse, now part of the department of Ain, who fled to Holland in 1689 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Marquis Henri du Quesne had published a book giving a glowing description of the island of Réunion. and, with the cooperation of the Dutch East India Company, was planning to establish a colony of French Protestant refugees on the island.
Two ships were charted for the purpose and many refugees, including Leguat, were eager to become colonists, but when du Quesne learnt that France had sent a squadron of ships to the island, he abandoned this plan as he wanted to avoid any confrontation with the French. Instead he fitted out a small frigate,… Read More

lxxi+221 pages with frontispiece, 4 folding maps, illustrations, appendices, bibliography and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and edge ruled decorative blind stamp to covers in original jacket. Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Appendices, by L. E. Elliot Joyce. Second Series, Volume 73. First edition.
The text of the 1699 edition, with slight changes, and additional material.
Lionel Wafer was a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the South Seas and visited Maritime Southeast Asia in 1676. In 1679 he sailed again as a surgeon, soon after settling in Jamaica to practice his profession.
In 1680, Wafer was recruited by buccaneer Edmund Cooke to join a privateering venture under the leadership of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, where he met William Dampier at Cartagena. After being injured by a flash-ignition of gunpowder… Read More

27 pages with facsimiles. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Translated with notes by Edward F Tuttle. First edition.Condition: Spine sunned else a better than very good copy.

x+428 pages. Quarto (11 1/2" x 8") bound in original leather binding with raised bands and gilt label to spine. Edited by Antonio Tenreiro. In double column pages issued without map. First published in 1614.
Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and writer. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir Pilgrimage Peregrinação in 1614, an autobiographical work whose truthfulness is nearly impossible to assess. The tale of his adventures was written after the fact, according to Pinto's memories of the events, and for that reason it may be open to doubt as a completely accurate historical source. However, it well documents the impact of the Asian civilizations on the Europeans and constitutes a perfectly realistic analysis of Portuguese action in the Orient, far more realistic than the one made by Luís de Camões in The Lusiads. The most controversial of his claims is that of having been the first European to land in Japan and the introduction of the arquebus.… Read More

Printed for John Noon 1743 London, 1743 Very good bound in lether with gilt lettering to spine First Edition Hardbound Octavo 2 Volumes Lacks maps and plate, Errata and 2 add pages. Old calf rebacked. An abridged translation of the first ten volumes of LETTRES EDIFIANTES, including Piccolo's description of the California missions; particulars of the missions in Mexico, Peru, and Hudson Bay; and Barrera's ABODE AMONG THE MOXOS AND CHIRIGUANOS OF SOUTH AMERICA. "A work so entertaining and curious, that it has been translated into most of the languages of Europe" - Cox. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

2 volumes. xxxvi+395 pages with frontispiece and folding plates. xii+381 pages with folding frontispiece and plates. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4) bound half leather over marbled boards with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. (Hill 1615) First Dublin edition. The Dublin edition was printed in the same year as the London editions.
Anders Sparrman, at the age of nine, enrolled at Uppsala University, beginning medical studies at fourteen and becoming one of the outstanding pupils of Linnaeus. In 1765 he went on a voyage to China as ship's doctor, returning two years later and describing the animals and plants he had encountered.
He sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in January 1772 to take up a post as a tutor. When James Cook arrived there later in the year at the start of his second voyage, Sparrman was taken on as assistant naturalist to Johann and Georg Forster. After the voyage he returned to Cape Town in July 1775 and practiced medicine, earning enough to finance a journey into the interior. He… Read More

3 volumes. xvi+423 pages with 4 maps, Full texts of all letters, together with translations of those in German, French and Italian; v, 425-819 pages with 5 maps. The years of scientific reconnaissance in Australia, 1842-4, around Sydney and Newcastle, in the Hunter-Goulburn valley, and to the Moreton Bay district; v+821-1175 pages with 2 maps. Leichardt's major exploration, from 1844 until his disappearance in 1848, with a table of subsequent events. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover edges blind stamped in original jackets. Collected and translated by M Aurousseau. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volumes 133, 134 and 135. First edition.Ludwig Leichhardt was a German explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia. On 14 February 1842 Leichhardt arrived in Sydney, Australia. His aim was to… Read More