Australia, Pacific and Voyages
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A Discourse upon some late Improvements of the Means for Preserving the Health of Mariners.
PRINGLE, Sir John.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /Includes Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy. A work of huge importance for the inclusion of Captain Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy....
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Historia de la Vida y Viages del Capitan Jaime Cook.
[KIPPIS, Andrew]; NAVA PALACIO, Don Cesareo de (translator).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /First edition in Spanish. 2 volumes, small 4to, [ii], x, 262, [i]; [ii], 288, [i] pp., contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, a little light...
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Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance,
SPARRMAN, Anders.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /Sparrman's work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster...
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Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou journal d'une expedition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du sud & du Nord, en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780.
[RICKMAN, John].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery was based on the illicit copy of his journal that Rickman (Second Lieutenant on the Discovery...
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A true and impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas,
[ANSON'S VOYAGE]. THOMAS, Pascoe.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Earliest account of Anson's Voyage. Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Inclu...
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Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L'Aventure.
[MARRA, John].Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Scarce. The French edition of Marras' Journal, possibly translated by Anne Francois Joachim de Fréville. Published anonymously and surreptitiously...
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Voyages aux iles du Grand Ocean.
MOERENHOUT, Jacques Antoine.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /First edition of this 'scarce and important work on Tahiti by a long-time resident'. Moerenhout includes an historical account of Tahiti since the...
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Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806,
KRUSENSTERN, Johann Adam von.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /With the rare and beautiful atlas. A very attractive example of the French edition of the first Russian circumnavigation, complete with the atlas v...
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A Voyage to the South Sea;
BLIGH, William.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /The excessively rare advance issue of the voyage. Excessively rare. One of a handful of known copies of a special advance issue of Bligh's narrati...
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Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court-Martial
[BLIGH]. BARNEY, Stephen & CHRISTIAN, Edward.Original price £40,000.00 - Original price £40,000.00Original price £0.00£40,000.00£40,000.00 - £40,000.00Current price £40,000.00| /Superb copy, stitched as issued. The sensational trial of the Bounty mutineers. A legendary Pacific rarity. In 1789, a gang of disgruntled sailors...
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A Collection of Voyages chiefly in the Southern Atlantick Ocean.
DALRYMPLE, Alexander.Original price £14,000.00 - Original price £14,000.00Original price £0.00£14,000.00£14,000.00 - £14,000.00Current price £14,000.00| /With extra Jefferys chart. The extra chart, by Jefferys, is: A Chart of the Ocean between South America & Africa. With the Tracks of Dr Edmund ...
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A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean;
COOK, James.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /First octavo edition of the Third Voyage. The first octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage and the first to reach a wide audience. The text is sligh...
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Dernier voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du Monde,
ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage . A rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage which appeared nearly three years before th...
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A Comparative View of the Russian Discoveries with those made by Captain Cook and Clerke.
COXE, William.Original price £25,000.00 - Original price £25,000.00Original price £0.00£25,000.00£25,000.00 - £25,000.00Current price £25,000.00| /'Exceedingly rare' (Holmes). Issued some seven years after the first edition of the author's Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and A...
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Voyage round the World
KRUSENSTERN, Capt. A.J. von.Original price £13,500.00 - Original price £13,500.00Original price £0.00£13,500.00£13,500.00 - £13,500.00Current price £13,500.00| /The first Russian circumnavigation. An important work, being the official account of the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Kru...
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An account of the Pelew Islands,
KEATE, George.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /. 'In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was w...
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Australia.
CASTELL BROTHERS.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £1,000.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /A rare shape book. With rhyming verse designed to promote travel to Australia from England. The scenes depicted include Aborigines, sheep musteri...
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The Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition.
HILL, J.G. (compiler).Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £375.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Calvert promoted and financed this expedition, under the command of Lawrence Allen Wells, to explore unknown portions of inland Western Australia ...
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