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FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North.London : 1786
First edition in English, originally published in German in 1784. A comprehensive overview of northern explorations from ancient to modern times, including accounts of the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish and Russian voyages in search of the north-west and north-east passages from the earliest recorded explorations to 1780, including... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 132399
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RICKMAN, John. Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery;London : 1781
First edition, the "London edition" of the first full account in English of Cook's third voyage, published anonymously to avoid legal action by the Admiralty (Forbes). An attractive copy, with the points outlined for Forbes's state B, "the exact priority not established".
John Rickman was a second lieutenant aboard the Discovery, being discharged... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 147062
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HARRISON, John. The Principles of Mr. Harrison's Time-Keeper, with plates of the same.London : 1767
First edition of the primary account of the invention of the marine chronometer, which revolutionized the science of navigation. "There was no comparable advance in navigational aids until the development of radar in the twentieth century" (Norman).
In 1714, the Board of Longitude offered a substantial reward of 20,000 to anyone who could find... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 138402
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HORSBURGH, James. The India Directory, or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America.London : 1841-43
Scarce fifth edition of this important and justly famous publication, much enlarged in successive editions from the first of 1809-11, which was to become the standard manual for the eastern navigation; this copy with an excellent nautical pedigree, having passed through the hands of a trio of American sea captains.
Provenance: mounted on a preliminary... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 139134
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COOK, James, & James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.London : 1785
Second edition of Cook's fatal third voyage, an attempt to find a north-west passage, during which he "discovered" Oahu and Kauai at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, and, more importantly, "depicted accurately for the first time the north-west coast of America, leaving no major discoveries for his successors. In addition the scientific discoveries... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 75595
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COOK, James, & James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.London : 1785
Second and preferred edition of Cook's fatal third voyage, this set one of a small number with the text volumes printed on fine paper, apparently hot-pressed to give a more silken finish, and presented in a particularly attractive contemporary morocco binding, in this regard highly uncommon: the last set in such a binding appearing at auction in 1992.... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 139133
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BURNEY, James. A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.London : 1803-17
First edition of "the most important general history of early South Seas discoveries, containing practically everything of importance on the subject; collected from all sources, with the most important remarks concerning them... Many of the early voyages to California would be inaccessible were they not collected herein" (Hill). James Burney (1750-1821)... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 133007
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CHETWOOD, William Rufus The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, in Several Parts of the World…1726
First edition. "Howes points out that Boyle's narrative must probably be a work of pure fiction, and certainly any reading of the novel supports his contention. Like the Thousand and One Nights, the novel is a series of tales, each new story prompted by a character in the last" (Gove). Sabin states that Castelman's narrative, which is distinguished... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 49943
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BRENCHLEY, Julius Lucius. Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865.London : 1873
First edition of this detailed work with numerous stunning hand-coloured plates.
"This voyage was especially significant for the natural history data collected. The ship sailed from Sydney under the command of Sir William Wiseman to display the British flag in the different archipelagos of the western Pacific. Visits were made to Lord Howe Island,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 146569
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COOK, James; HAWKESWORTH, John (ed.) An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,London : 1773
First edition of the official account of Cook's first voyage, a handsome and appealing set in the preferred issue with the Straits of Magellan plate, together with previous exploratory expeditions under Byron, Carteret and Wallis, compiled by John Hawkesworth.
The primary purpose of Cook's voyage in Endeavour was the observation of the transit... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 87127
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BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793:London : 1806
First edition of the "first illustrated English work on Vietnam" (Hill), being a description of the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. The account is superbly illustrated with aquatints of views, "types," and natural history specimens, Abbey commending the aquatinting as "of excellent quality."
"The voyage visited Madeira,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 81263
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BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793:London : 1806
First edition of the "first illustrated English work on Vietnam" (Hill), being a description of the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. The account is superbly illustrated with aquatints of views, "types," and natural history specimens, Abbey commending the aquatinting as "of excellent quality."
"The voyage visited Madeira,... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 80780
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PARRY, William Edward - FISHER, Alexander. Letters Written during the late Voyage of Discovery in the Western Arctic Sea,London : 1820-21
An appealing sammelband of uncommon travel narratives printed by the radical publisher and bookseller Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840), including a rare collection of anonymously published letters from Parry's first Arctic voyage in search of the north-west passage, the author now identified as Alexander Fisher, assistant surgeon on the expedition.... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 112632
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FORSTER, George. Geschichte der Reisen, die seit Cook an der Nordwest- und Nordost-Küste von Amerika,Berlin : 1791
First edition of this "early and important compilation of voyages to the Northwest Coast containing the voyages of Meares, Mortimer, Portlock, and Dixon" (Forbes). The work, which provides an update to the voyages covered in Forster's 1784 Geschichte der Reisen und Entdeckungen im Norden, also includes a series of essays and commentaries by Forster... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 134112
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CHURCHILL, Awnsham & John. A Collection of Voyages and Travels,London : 1732
Second, enlarged edition, of one of the great voyage collections, originally issued by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill in four volumes in 1704 with the advice and encouragement of the philosopher John Locke. Hill describes it as "a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts".... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 50373
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CORYATE, Thomas. Coryat's Crudities:London : 1776
First collected edition of the writings of Thomas Coryate (1577?-1617). The Crudities, describing his tour from London to Venice and back, is his best known work, with many points of historical interest, including his admirable rendering of the story of William Tell (cited as the earliest in English); it is also remembered for the prefatory mock-panegyric... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 75476
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KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806,Paris : 1821
First edition in French of the first Russian circumnavigation, one of the most significant Pacific voyages after Cook, presented here in superior condition in a choice period binding, complete with the rare atlas of plates, "very important and difficult to obtain" (Hill). A highly desirable set.
Krusenstern (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern, 1770-1846)... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143059
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ROUPPE, Louis. [NAVAL MEDICINE.] De morbis navigantium, liberus unus.Leiden : 1764
First edition of this work on the diseases incidental to seamen, a considerably expanded edition of author's thesis published at Leiden in 1762. Louis Rouppe (1729-1780) travelled much in the West-Indies as a naval physician aboard the Princess Carolina vessel for the Dutch West Indische Companie. This work, published in Latin, is often considered the... Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 132861
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MAC CARTHY, Jacques. Choix de voyages dans les quatre parties du monde,Paris : 1821-22
First edition of this rich account of voyages worldwide up to the date of publication, with an expansive and detailed glossary, presented here in an attractive contemporary binding.
Originally from Ireland Jacques Mac Carthy (1785-1835) went into service in the French army in 1800, became a battalion commander, and in 1830 became head of the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 146684
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TYSSOT DE PATOT, Simon. Voyages et avantures de Jaques Masse.Bourdeaux [i.e. The Hague] : 1710 [i.e. around 1714]
First edition of this early utopian novel, "the best-known of all the radical philosophical novels of the Early Enlightenment" and which "surpassed practically every other work of philosophical fiction of the age for notoriety" (Israel, pp. liii and lvi). The novel details a Frenchman shipwrecked off South Africa - the co-ordinates are given as 60E/44S,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123204
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LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Voyage in Search of La Pérouse …London : 1800
First edition in English, same year as the French, this in the favoured, and less common, single-volume quarto edition. Labillardière was the botanist and doctor on the d'Entrecasteaux Pérouse search expedition, and was entrusted with the task of writing the official account following the death of the commander from scurvy. "Although unsuccessful... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 79886
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SHIPPING - B., F. Lose Blätter, enthaltend Fingerzeige für Schifffahrttreibende, gesammelt von F.B.Vegesack : 1863
Rare first edition of a detailed "guide for skippers", published in Vegesack, the northern district of Bremen, on the Weser river and at the mouth of the river Lesum. Compiled by "F. B.", who remains otherwise unidentified, the work was assembled from information gathered over many years, both by personal experience, as well as from information given... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 113475
