CUNNINGHAM, PETER MILLER:

Two years in New South Wales Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; of its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History &c.&c. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes in one. London, Henry Colburn, 1827.

. Large 12mo. Pp. xvi, 346; iii-viii, 336. With one large folding map (with tear repaired on verso). Later half green calf, spine gilt with four raised bands and red title label, speckled edges, extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Cunningham was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and spent four years in New South Wales. His work is considered to be one of the best decriptions of the life and manners in the colony at this time. This edition is enlarged and includes a map not found in the first edition. Ferguson 1110. Kress C. 1869.

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Book number: 29097

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DILLBERG, GUSTAF:

Kanniballiv på Nya Zealand. Lund 1913.

. Pp. 96. With many illustrations in the text. Original pictorial boards, cloth spine. A Swedish account about the Maori people in New Zealand.

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Book number: 43042

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DOW, T.K. (Editor):

The Government handbook of Victoria. An Australian Colony. Preface by J.W. Taverner. Melbourne, Robert S. Brain, about 1898.

. Pp. 194. With many photographic illustrations. Modern green cloth, gilt and with title label on spine with the original stapled paper covers bound in. Front cover strengthened.

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Book number: 29135

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EKBOHRN, CARL M.( Editor):

Loggboks-anteckningar under en jordomsegling med fregatten Eugenie åren 1851-53, gjorda och fäderneslandets ungdom tillegnade af en Jungman. Stockholm, P.A. Huldbergs Bokhandel, 1856.

. Pp. (iv), 256. With eight hand coloured lithographed plates, one folding map (foxed) and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Original printed pictorial boards, nicely rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed. First edition of the popular, abridged edition of the first Swedish circumnavigation. (Skogman published the first official account in 1854-55). The coloured plates depict views from Buenos Aires, Lima, San Francisco, Guayaquil, Tahiti and Honolulu, some of inhabitants from Tonga, Hawaii, Tahiti and Niue (Savage Island), and a Chinese theatre. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana 395. Larson 222.

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Book number: 120632

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, Madeira, South America, the Galapagos, Hawaii, California, Tahiti, Australia, Hong Kong, Canton, the Philippines, Singapore, Mauritius and the Cap.

EKELÖF, ADOLF:

Ett år i Stilla Hafvet. Reseminnen från Patagonien, Chili, Peru, Californien, Britiska Columbia och Oceanien. Stockholm 1872.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 163, (1). With 12 full page plates, of which several with portraits, and some coloured and tinted views. Original printed boards, cloth spine, rebacked. Some light browning to the text. An account by a Swedish officer of a British voyage along the Pacific Coast of America and to the Hawaiian islands between 1867-68. The attractive plates include costumes and views from Lima, Tahiti, Hawaii, Honolulu and the Vancouver Island, made after photographs and the author's own aquarelles. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana, 396. O'Reilly-Reitman 1260.

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Book number: 100265

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EYRE, EDWARD JOHN:

Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1; sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of their Relations with the Europeans. Two volumes. London, T. & W. Boone, 1845.

. Pp. xviii, (2), 448; vi, 512. With 22 lithographed plates and one woodcut illustration. The two separately published maps by Arrowsmith are here supplied in facsimile. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Bookplate (John Robertson). A wonderful copy of the first edition, probably a later issue (see Wantrub), which didn't include the maps. Includes Appendices by John Gould on birds of Southern Australia and by J.E. Gray on South Australian animals, amphibians and reptiles. "In 1839 Eyre made two expeditions, from Adelaide to Lake Torrens, and from Port Lincoln to Streaky Bay. In June 1840 he set out on his most notable expedition, westward from Adelaide along the Great Australian Bight, with one white companion (Baxter) and three natives. Baxter was murdered by two of the natives, and Eyre and the remaining Aborigine reached Albany only after a desperate journey. Eyre includes in his relations considerable valuable material on the Aborigines and their habits". (Ferguson). Eyre was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Coles 472. Ferguson 4031. Wantrub 133a.

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Book number: 29149

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FINLEY, JOHN PARK & CHURCHILL, WILLIAM:

The Subanu. Studies of a Sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao. Part I: Ethnographical and Geographical Sketch of Land and People. Part II: Discussion of the Linguistic Material. Part III: Vocabularies. Washington D.C. 1913.

. Pp. 236. With 2 folding maps (of the island of Mindanao and of the sub-district of Dapitan). Original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Published by the Carnegie Institution. First edition of the first scientific study of the Subano language and culture in the Philippines.

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Book number: 17020

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, the philippines, pacific, asia, asie, asiatic, travel, exploration

FISCHER, TEODOR:

Vagabondlif i Australien. Stockholm 1879.

. Pp. 124. With 4 illustrations. Original printed wrapper (with one illustration) is not present in our copy. Contemporary half cloth. Scarce. Only edition. A narrative of the author's stay in the area around Adelaide in South Australia.

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Book number: 16024

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FORSTER, ANTHONY:

South Australia. Its progress and prosperity. London, Sampson, Law, Son and Marston, 1866.

. Pp. iii-xii, 474. Without advertisement. With one coloured folding map (with short tear at inner margin). Contemporary half green calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title label, slightly rubbed. Bookplate. Ferguson 9691.

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Book number: 29106

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FRANKLYN, H. MORTIMER (Editor):

A glance at Australia in 1880: or, Food from the South: showing the present condition and production of some of its leading industries, namely, wool, wine, grain, dressed meat, etc. etc., the amounts of each produced and exported. To which is appended the rise and progress of some of the leading mercantile houses in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, and also a pastoral & agriculture directory of the whole of Australia. Melbourne, The Victorian Review Publishing Company Limited, 1881.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxxii advertisement, xx, 414, directory (ii), cvii. Original pictorial maroon cloth, stamped in black and gold. Spine and upper part of front cover faded. Some wear to spine and corners. Bookplate. Ferguson 9734.

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Book number: 29109

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LE GOBIEN, CHARLES:

Histoire des isles Marianes, nouvellement converties a la religion Chrétienne, & de la mort glorieuse des premiers missionaires qui y ont prêché la Foy. Paris 1701.

. 12mo. Pp. xxiv, 384; 383-433 + table (15). With two folding engraved maps of the Mariana Islands and Guam. Twelve first lvs slightly browned. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and title-label, extremities rubbed, top of spine chipped, hinges cracking. Second edition, reissued from the first (Paris 1700), of this interesting account of the Mariana (or Ladrone) islands in the West Pacific and the Jesuit mission established there by Diego Luis de Sanvitores. Father Le Gobien, a French Jesuit writer (and editor to "Lettres édifiantes"), based his account chiefly on reports and letters by missionaries. Includes a letter by P. Clain about the discovery of the Caroline Islands. See Bibl. Univ. xxiii, 570. De Backer-S. iii, 1513. Graesse iv, 49. Palau 134431.

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Book number: 13022

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HAWKESWORTH, JOHN (Editor):

[COOK, JAMES]. An Account of the Voyages undertaken, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook. [First Voyage]. Three volumes. London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773.

. 4to. Pp. (xii), xl, (8), 456; xiv, 410; 395. With 52 engraved plates and maps, many folding. One leaf repaired at lower margin, slight loss of text. Attractively bound in speckled calf, spines with five raised bands, richly decorated, with red and green morocco title labels, marbled end papers. (By G. Hedberg at the beginning of 20th century). Copy of Ericsberg castle, Sweden. Second, considered the best, edition of Cook's first voyage during the years 1768-71. The aim of the expedition was to observe the "Transit of Venus" at Tahiti and secondly to search for a Great Southern Continent. The expedition entered the Pacific around Cape Horn and sailed to Tahiti where the observations of the Venus were made, then the voyage continued to the Society Islands, and after that New Zealand was explored and also the eastern coast of Australia (New South Wales). Hawkesworth's account was an immediate success and aroused much interest in the Pacific throughout Europe. Captain Cook was promoted to the rank of Commander, and in the following year he set out in command of the Resolution heading once more to the Pacific. The first volume of Hawkesworth account covers the voyages by John Byron , Captain Wallis and Captain Carteret. Cf Hill (2004) 782 & 783.

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[COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES]. HAWKESWORTH, JOHN:

Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majeste Britannique, actuellement regnante: Pour faire des decouvertes dans l'Hemisphere Meridional, et successivement executes par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavour ... Four volumes. Paris, 1774.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), iv, (ii), v-xvi, xxxii, 388 with 16 folding engraved maps and plates; pp. (vi), 536 and 16 engraved maps and plates, of which many folding; pp. (vi), 394, (1) and 17 engraved maps and plates, mostly folding; pp. viii, (ii), 367, (1) and 3 folding engraved maps and plates. A few plates with small tears at fold and one leaf in volume four (pp. 359/60) reinforced at outer margin without loss of text. Contemporary full calf, spines with five raised bands, decorated in gilt and with title labels, worn. Extremities rubbed, hinges weak and cracked (volume four upper board detached), and first volume's title label vanished. Occasionally some browning but overall a good copy. First French edition of this early important compilation of British maritime expeditions, edited by Hawkesworth, translated from the original English published in the previous year. Includes the first official account of Cook's first voyage during which he visited Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus across the disk of the sun, discovered the Society Islands, explored and surveyed New Zealand, and the eastern coast of Australia, naming it New South Wales. Other voyages included are: Byron's voyage to the Gilbert Islands, Wallace's discovery of Tahiti and Moorea, and Carteret's discovery of Pitcairn Island. The beautiful plates depict sea views, landscapes and natives. The maps show the new discoveries in the Pacific and the different routes of the ships. Many new areas were charted and several islands and coastlines were recorded for the first time. Borba de Moraes 395. Cf Hill 783. Sabin 30940.

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Book number: 99788

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HEYERDAHL, THOR [With inscription]

Expedition Kon-Tiki. [Advance copy] Stockholm, A. Bonniers, 1949.

. Pp. 206. With two maps (one coloured folded) and many photo illustrations. As issued in original printed wrappers. Housed in an artistic custom-made box. Advance copy of the first Swedish edition, translated by Bengt Danielsson, member of the expedition. Exceptional copy with a dedication by Yvonne and Thor Heyerdahl.The Kon-Tiki was a raft in which the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands in 1947. Heyerdahl's book about his experience was first published in Norwegian in 1948 and became a best-seller. It was republished and translated into several languages. The original Kon-Tiki raft is now on display at a museum in Bygd¿y (Oslo). The dedication is written by Thor to bookseller J.H. Nilsson on the front endpaper (translated): "[you] should have come with us on the journey and taken care of the half-women mermaids we met on arrival, i.e. those who were created as mermaids from the waist up, and as humans from the waist down! ". Above a drawing of a mermaid by his wife Yvonne together with a hearty greeting. The cover has some light discolouration, and a few small tears, the endpaper partly browned but a very good copy.

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JAUSSEN, FLORENTIN-ÉTIENNE:

Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue Maorie. dialecte Tahitien. [Paris, St.Germain-en-Laye, imp. Toinon, 1861].

. 12mo. Pp. 56, 78, 1 blank leaf, pp. 92. Contemporary marbled paper boards, some paper loss, cloth spine, rubbed. No endpapers, pencil scribbles on paste downs. Exceedingly rare first edition published by the Catholic mission of Tahiti.Jaussen, French-born missionary who was the first bishop of Tahiti where he resided between 1848 and 1891. His Tahitian name was Tepano. In addition to this work, he published a catechism and a prayerbook in Tahitian. This is the first comprehensive linguistic work of Tahitian, comprising three parts; grammaire tahitien, dictionnaire tahitien-français and vocabulaire français-tahitien. At end pages 93-96 are missing but the vocabulary is complete. O'Reilly, Tahiti, 5765. Not in Zaunmüller or Vater.

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Book number: 121495

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