Voyages And Discovery from

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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.

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

[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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item