VOYAGES AND TRAVEL from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First edition. 4to, 270 x 205 mm. xx, 294 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, handsomely rebacked. With nine plates and maps; light browning, and faint water stains in a few corners, a very good, clean copy. Kennet of the Dene bookplate. Broughton sailed to the northwest coast of America, via Rio… Read more about this item

London: Printed at the Logographic Press, 1790. First edition. 4to, viii, xcv,372, [108] pp, 10 maps (3 folding), 18 plates (1 colored and 5 folding). Later full calf. Offsetting from the plates, but a fine, clean copy (285 mm. x 220 mm). Meares visited the Northwest coast in 1786 and 1788. He explored the strait of Juan de Fuca,… Read more about this item

London: Henry Colbun and Richard Bentley, 1830. First English edition. Two volumes. 8vo, 342, 362 pp. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume, and a folding map. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, marbled edges. Joints slightly rubbed, but a fine set. Kotzebue Forbes 759.

London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo. xv, 432; x, 415 pp. Original blue cloth. A bright copy, about fine, scarce in this condition. Walpole visited Rio de Janeiro, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Mexico, California, Hawaii, and Samoa. The 80 pages devoted to his visit to Hawaii are (as Forbes says twice) a lively account, and… Read more about this item

London: R. Randal, 1789. First edition. 8vo. 151 pp. Modern calf. A very rare, anonymously published narrative of the Portlock and Dixon voyage. The preface is signed "C.L." and its author states that he attended the captains on the voyage. W.H. Portlock's Collection of Voyages attributes the narrative to surgeon Colin Lauder, as does Lada-Mocarski. An important supplement to… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson, 1799. Second English octavo edition. 3 volumes, 8vo. Vol. I, xii, 532 pp., portrait, 2 charts and 2 plates; Vol. II, 498 pp., frontispiece, 3 charts and 24 plates; Vol. III, 446 pp., frontispiece, 1 chart, 2 plans, and 7 plates. Contemporary calf, slightly rubbed, red and green lettering pieces. internally, mostly very clean. Forbes 310.… Read more about this item

Wellington, Salop: John Jones, 1893. First edition. 8vo., original blue cloth, beveled edges; 233 [5] pp. Map. Binding extremities a bit rubbed. Despite the poor-quality paper, a good copy. Account of a luxurious voyage around the world, by the ship's doctor. Forbes 4431.

New York: John P. Haven, 1831. First American edition. Two volumes, 357, 360 pp. 8vo, original cloth backed boards with paper labels. Cloth spines frayed, but the hinges are sound, a very good copy, with usual foxing. Scarce in unrestored original condition, as poorly made as are most American books of the period. One of the important early ethnographic… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo. xv, 402, 1 leaf (ads); viii, 395 pp. With engraved aquatint frontispieces and a folding chart. Original cloth, recased with expert repairs to the extremities of the spines. An exceptionally clean and fresh copy, seldom found in the original binding. Bennett sailed on the Tuscan, an English whaling ship, and… Read more about this item

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition The so-called Admiralty edition. Two volumes. Quarto, 272 x 212 mm. Contemporary half russia with paste paper boards, sprinkled edges, joints rubbed. V. 1 pp. [i]-[xxiv], [1]-392. V. 2 pp. [i]-[viii], [393] - 742, with the half titles but without the final leaf of advertisements. With a two line erratum… Read more about this item

London: George Goulding, 1789. First edition. Quarto (350 x 240 mm), 360, 48 pp.,with 22 engraved maps, charts, and plates Original blue-gray paper boards, parchment spine. Printed on thick paper (4 cm.+) and with the natural history plates beautifully colored. Old public library stamps on versos of plates, minor spotting and offsetting, but a superb, completely untrimmed, copy "George… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C., 1835. First edition. 28 pages, disbound. "An important document on island, reefs, rocks, etc., in the Pacific Ocean" Forbes 970.

London: G.G. and J. Robinson; and J. Edwards, 1798. First edition. 4to. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Three volumes, with 17 engraved plates and a chart, plus folio atlas containing 16 large plates. (432 text pages and 7 plates in Volume 1; 504 text pages, 4 plates and a chart in Volume II, 508 text pages, 6 plates in Volume… Read more about this item

New York: Harper, 1836. First edition. 8vo, lacking wrappers, scattered foxing. 300 pp. Signed and inscribed "with the compliments of J.N. Reynolds New York Oct. 25, 1826. This address was the climax of Reynolds's decade of agitation for an exploring expedition, which resulted in 1838 in the United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes. The address… Read more about this item

Boston: John Putnam, 1847. First edition. 12mo. 324 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt, light shelf wear, old paper school library label on spine, but an attractive and very clean copy. Putative early issue, without plates. "An informal account by a participant on the United States Exploring Expedition....The Hawaii portion of the text is on pages 178-209". Clark also describes… Read more about this item

New London: Lay and Hussey, 1828. First edition. 12mo., 168 pp. Original full calf with leather spine label. Front hinge weak; occasional spotting and tanning to the paper, but a better than usual copy of this book which is usually found considerably browned and foxed, due to the poor quality of its materials and its life generally in damp… Read more about this item

London: Charles Knight, 1825. First edition. 8vo, xiv, 480 pp, original boards, uncut, rebacked, new endpapers. Pp. [i]-[xiv], [1]-478, 2 leaves. With a folding chart of the Sandwich Islands and four hand-colored plates. Forbes 610.[33028].

London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition, with additions. Two volumes, 8vo., Volume I, lxvi, 44; II., 344, Vol. II, 344 pp. Contemporary half Russia, bound without half titles; extremities a little worn, light foxing (mostly on the first and last few pages). Each volume is inscribed and signed by Mariner, a rare find, although the presentee's name was removed.… Read more about this item

London: Treuttel and Wurtz, 1823. First edition in English. Quarto, 277 mm x 212 mm. vi, [2], xxvii, [5], 285, [2], 297, [3] pp. plus folding map and twenty-five lithographic plates. 19th century half Russia with marbled boards, spine with slight wear; top edge gilt, other uncut, occasional light offsetting, an excellent copy. Arago was the official artist on… Read more about this item

London: Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1829. First edition. Two volumes 8vo. Vol. I: xvi, 536 pp, map and four plates; Vol. II: viii, 576 pp., four plates. Three-quarter calf with marbled boards, black leather labels. A little light foxing to the plates, but a nice copy of this "most important book on the history and ethnology of the Society… Read more about this item