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[Cook's Third Voyage
A VIEW OF CHRISTMAS HARBOR IN KERGUELEN'S LAND
London 1784. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. unknown
Référence libraire : WRCAM50204
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[Cook's Third Voyage
A WOMAN OF KAMTSCHATKA
London 1784. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the tlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE unknown
Référence libraire : WRCAM50198
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[Cook's Third Voyage
A WOMAN OF PRINCE WILLIAM'S SOUN
London 1784. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the Atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. - ALASKA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. unknown
Référence libraire : WRCAM10710
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[Cook's Third Voyage
NATIVES OF OONALASHKA AND THEIR HABITATION
London 1784. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. - ALASKA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. unknown
Référence libraire : WRCAM50194
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[Cook's Third Voyage
SUMMER AND WINTER HABITATIONS IN KAMTSCHATKA
London 1784. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. unknown
Référence libraire : WRCAM50199
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[Cook's Third Voyage
THE INSIDE OF A WINTER HABITATION IN KAMTSCHATKA
London 1784. Engraving. Folio. Matted suitable for framing with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. unknown
Référence libraire : WRCAM50200
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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] MAGRA, James, attributed
A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour in the years 1768 1769 1770 and 1771; Undertaken in Pursuit of Natural Knowledge at the Desire of the Royal Society: containing All the various Occurrences of the Voyage with Descriptions of several new discovered Countries in the Southern Hemisphere; and Accounts of their Soil and Productions; and of many Singularities in the Structure Apparel Customs Manners Policy Manufactures &c. of their Inhabitants
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt in the Strand 1771. A fine copy. Quarto; a fine copy in a Sangorski-style binding of half green morocco spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. <p><p>First edition of the earliest published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific: the rare first issue with the leaf of dedication to 'The Right Honourable Lords of the Admiralty and to Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander' inserted by the publishers to add authenticity. This was the first of a series of so-called "surreptitious accounts" of Cook's various voyages to appear in print: the Admiralty found it practically impossible to enforce their ruling that no unofficial publications should pre-empt the official and lengthier accounts of the voyages naturally much slower in the press. In this case however legal action was taken against the publisher for using an unauthorised dedication forcing removal of the leaf during publication. 'It is accordingly of the greatest rarity and copies of the book containing the dedication are far more valuable than those without it…' Davidson. In this large copy the offending leaf has generous margins and retains its printed instruction to the binder "Place this next the title" which also interestingly indicates that the leaf was printed quite separately from the rest of the work.</p> <p>The British public's eagerness for news of the voyage needed more than newspaper accounts while the officially sanctioned narrative would be a long time coming. Published anonymously some two months after the return of the Endeavour and nearly two years before Hawkesworth's official account the Cook scholar Beaglehole demonstrated that the sailor James Magra was the author. His illicit sale of his journal to the publishers might well have confirmed Cook's opinion of him: 'one of those gentlemen frequently found on board Kings Ships that can very well be spared or to speake more planer good for nothing…'. He was a New Yorker and a loyalist. Whatever his skipper and the authorities may have thought of him it was Magra who got the first description of the voyage into print -- the earliest printed account of the east coast of Australia published even before acceptance of the name Botany Bay here called Sting-ray Bay as Cook originally christened it.</p> <p>Magra later changed his name to Matra to claim a family inheritance. As Alan Frost has shown "The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook; American Loyalist; Servant of Empire" 1995 Matra used his experiences on the east coast of Australia to draft his 1783 proposal for a penal colony at Botany Bay. Never shy in self-promotion he announced his hope of being made Governor. His plan like Sir Joseph Banks's before and George Young's after him had its effect on the planners of the First Fleet and he was called as an expert witness to the committee in charge of solving the question of transportation see Frost pp.113-122. His life has prompted a considerable literature with multiple studies of his career and importance including those by G.B. Barton George Anthony Wood James Watson who christened him the "Father of Australia" an accolade more often awarded to Joseph Banks and more recently Antonio Giordano who has him as "Australia's Spiritual Father" and Andrew Tink.</p> </p> . Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand unknown
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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] [MAGRA, James]
Supplément au Voyage de M. de Bougainville; ou Journal d'un Voyage autour du Monde Fait par MM. Banks & Solander Anglois en 1768 1769 1770 1771
Paris: Saillant & Nyon 1772. Very slight rubbing to joints but a fine tall copy with good margin. Octavo blind-stamped ex-libris to half title; contemporary French marbled calf flat spine gilt in compartments red morocco label. <p><p>A fine copy of the first French account of Cook's Endeavour voyage and the first French book on the east coast of Australia. Fréville translates the text now considered to be by Magra which - published in English in 1771 - was the unauthorised and earliest account of the progress of the Endeavour voyage. This is one of two probably simultaneous issues this one having the "Supplément" title-page; in this form the publishers intended the book to complement the octavo edition of Bougainville's voyage. The work also includes some material that did not appear in the original London edition including a 'Lettre de M. de Commerson' the famed naturalist from Bougainville's circumnavigation who remained behind at Mauritius to continue his research. </p> <p>The second supplement is equally important: the 'Lettre de M. le B. de G.' is a learned treatise on the possibility of a northwest passage written at Königsberg modern Kaliningrad and quoting from experts on the region such as Gmelin Muller and Engel. Although the identity of this scholar remains hazy it is surprising that such an interesting - and relatively early - report on the northwest passage has been largely ignored. Continuing the parade of famous explorers included in this short work the Commerson letter is said to have been conveyed to France by none other than Kerguelen promoter of the "Terre Australe".</p> <p>Rolf du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue further notes that a letter from Sir Joseph Banks to the Académie des Sciences is also quoted in the introduction said to have first been published in the Journal des Savans. Despite his best efforts to distance himself from Magra's work including having the false dedication in the London edition removed it appears that his unwilling association with the work continued on the continent. Indeed one of the attractive aspects of this copy is not only the fine contemporary French binding but the spine label which reads 'Voyage de Solander': it was not unusual for Banks to be given top-billing in the excitement of the return of the Endeavour but there cannot be too many examples that plump for Solander.</p> </p> . Saillant & Nyon unknown
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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] ALVARADO Y PENA, Santiago de (translator)
Viaje alrededor del mundo hecho en los años 1768 69 70 y 71 por el célebre Santiago Cook Comandante del navÃo del Rey El Endeavour… Traducido del francés por D. Santiago de Alvarado y de la Peña
Madrid: Imprenta de Don Tomás Jordan 1832. Six volumes duodecimo with six engraved plates one in each volume original blue printed wrappers preserved a charming set in contemporary Spanish quarter calf gilt. <p><p>Very uncommon first Spanish edition of Cook's first voyage published in 1832 as part of a series described as the 'New Library of Modern Voyages useful and interesting for Spanish youth.' The work has a charming series of six plates which include a scene in Tahiti featuring the Chief Mourner and two New Zealand scenes a warrior in profile the war canoe and conclude with a dramatic scene on board the Endeavour. The presence of the original printed wrappers bound-in is of more than passing interest as the back wrappers give an interesting overview of how the set was marketed being sold for 6 reales per volume as they were issued whether in Madrid or in the provinces and stressing the value of the work for the instruction of youth. Each volume would subsequently be priced 8 reales per volume.</p> <p>The translator Alvarado y de la Pena based his work on the French edition of Cook's first voyage. He also prepared at least one other work of Australian interest an edition of George Barrington published in Madrid circa 1815. Beddie listed copies in the Mitchell and National Libraries.</p> </p> . Provenance: Early owner's name on title-pages; old stamps from Barcelona library; José Gallart Folch bookplates. Imprenta de Don Tomás Jordan unknown
Référence libraire : 4106630
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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] PARKINSON, Sydney
Voyage autour du monde sur le vaisseau de Sa Majeste Britannique l'Endeavour… avec les planches de l'auteur…
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume 1797. A few leaves a little foxed; a very good copy. Two volumes octavo six folding engraved plates after Parkinson a handsome set in contemporary French mottled calf flat spines gilt double red and tan morocco labels. <p><p>First French edition first issue: the artist's account of Cook's first voyage and the discovery of eastern Australia. Translated by C. Henri from the 1784 English edition it also contains material from later voyagers updating the account including the experiences of the Forsters on the second voyage. This is the octavo issue noted by Kroepelien as preceding the otherwise identical quarto of the same year.</p> <p>Parkinson had been employed in 1767 by Sir Joseph Banks who thought so highly of his work that he arranged for the young man to join him on Cook's first voyage. When the expedition's draughtsman Alexander Buchan died at Tahiti Parkinson was called on to take over all of the topographical work completing some 1300 sketches quite apart from compiling vocabularies in Tahiti and New Holland. At the end of the voyage en route from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope he died of a fever and after the return of the Endeavour ownership of his manuscripts and drawings was disputed: Banks considered that they were his while Parkinson's brother Stanfield claimed them under the provisions of his brother's will. When Hawkesworth learned of the impending English publication of this work he got an injunction to delay its appearance until some time after his official account and despite having used Parkinson's work extensively retaliated by deliberately omitting Parkinson's name from the narrative: even the botanical illustrations in the official account have no credit to the artist.</p> <p>Some of the bibliographical history of this work is quite complex. An extended note by Rolf du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue explains that this octavo issue although textually identical to a quarto issue published the same year by the same publisher is actually the genuine first issue du Rietz demonstrates from an error in the signatures that the quarto was re-imposed. Du Rietz knew the octavo only from the copy in the University of Oslo although no complete census of the two issues has been attempted. A note in O'Reilly-Reitman suggests — as if we needed more complexity — that the number of plates is uncertain as they examined copies with any number between five and eight; nonetheless six plates is the standard collation.</p> </p> . De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume unknown
Référence libraire : 3807772
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[COOK: SECOND VOYAGE] SPARRMAN, Anders
Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et Autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres…
Paris: chez Buisson 1787. Good copy. Two volumes quarto with a folding map and 16 engraved plates some folding; contemporary mottled calf. <p><p>Cook's second voyage and travels in South Africa by the famous Swedish naturalist. This is the first edition in French the most profusely illustrated of the early editions of the book. This is an example of the quarto version an octavo version appeared simultaneously. Sparrman professor of zoology at Uppsala University was in South Africa when Cook's second voyage called there in 1772; Forster engaged him to accompany the expedition as assistant naturalist. Though much of his book is a narrative of travels in Africa with emphasis on its flora and fauna and a remarkable series of plates on termites and their habitations he includes an interesting account of his voyage with Cook in the first volume - as Hocken notes 'Hairbreadth escape from collision of the two ships not mentioned elsewhere. Shocking details as to the food on board. Described the plants which Georg Forster drew… Both interesting and amusing…'.</p> <p>Sparrman published an expanded Swedish version of his account of the voyage in 1802 with a second volume in 1818 but this account in its various versions was the only eighteenth-century text by this member of the second voyage.</p> </p> . chez Buisson unknown
Référence libraire : 2903123
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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] SHAW, Alexander
A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook to the Southern Hemisphere; with a Particular Account of the Manner of the Manufacturing the same in the various Islands of the South Seas; partly extracted from Mr. Anderson and Reinhold Forster's Observations and the verbal Account of some of the most knowing of the Navigators: with some anecdotes that happened to them among the natives
London: Alexander Shaw 1787. Quarto eight pages printed text followed by original blank leaves separating the 36 actual cloth specimens several full page as well as many smaller; original calf binding neatly lettered and decorated spine. <p><p>This rare and exotic publication of original Pacific artefacts is the most remarkable of the whole Cook canon: with a brief but significant letterpress introduction it mainly consists of actual specimens of eighteenth-century tapa cloth collected in the Pacific islands particularly Hawaii Tahiti and Tonga. </p> <p>In modern times the publication has become one of the great rarities of eighteenth-century Pacific exploration. This is an example of the first issue of the book with the strictly contemporary bookplate of Sir Corbet D'Avenant 1752-1823 Baronet of Stoke and Adderley. Donald Kerrr speculates in his census that D'Avenant was likely an original subscriber on first publication. </p> <p>Published only a few years after the return of the ships from Cook's third voyage it is not recorded how many of the cloth-books were prepared and up until the recent detective work of Erica Ryan at the NLA very little was known about the publisher Alexander Shaw either. However the limited supplies of the actual cloth must have dictated a very small edition – the most recent census of known copies by Donald Kerr stood at the tiny figure of 66 recently revised by us to 68 of which 57 were held by international libraries. This count of course includes the later issues of the book which continued to be sold often with dramatically varying contents as late as 1806. </p> <p>There has in effect never been a standard collation of the book – the fascinating dedication addressed to an unnamed "Sir" is genuinely vague on numbers – not least because it is obvious that Shaw was simultaneously selling individual samples and "fine specimens of the tree with the bark" at his shop in the Strand. </p> <p>Indeed as Forbes shows in some detail in the Hawaiian National Biography and others including Ian Morrison Maryanne Larkin Erica Ryan and Donald Kerr have all confirmed in more detail no two copies of the work are identical meaning that a precise collation is needed every time. Thus while 39 different samples are listed in Shaw's introductory list and "40" are mentioned at another point in the dedication many copies have quite different collations not least because the Jamaican sample perhaps the most surprising addition was apparently dropped in the course of publication. </p> <p>In short the present example has a total of 36 separate samples including particularly fine full-page examples of many of the more famous sheets. Almost none of the sheets have been particularly affected by the late-Georgian and Victorian practice of clipping: it is well-known that many collectors constructed what have become known as 'snippet books' of the Cook tapa cloths by cutting pieces from copies of Shaw's volume and pasting them into separate books or albums. </p> <p>As a result of this clipping habit copies of the original Shaw book survive in various states of completeness sometimes with only very small fragments of the once full-page specimens remaining. In this copy with its original blank leaves in place it is quite clear that the specimens have essentially retained their original shape with only four or perhaps five showing evidence of very minor clipping as can be shown from the ancient offsetting onto the adjoining blanks. </p> <p>The production of this book reflects the genuine curiosity aroused by tapa a fascination that drove competition between collectors of 'artificial curiosities' and generated an active market for the sheets brought home by Cook's men. The preface of the book contains descriptions of bark cloth manufacture by Cook Anderson Forster and an anonymous officer titled 'one of the navigators' and is followed by the list of the specimens compiled by Shaw. The list is indeed rich in fascinating details; for example we learn that the various uses of the tapa: 'wore sic by the people in the rainy season' or 'used at the human sacrifice'. Some of the notes in the list are longer and doubtless arise from tales told by the mariners who collected the tapa in the first place as boasted on the title page. </p> <p>Each island group used designs unique to its culture and the interest of Europeans in this material equalled the passion aroused by the extraordinary wood-carvings and exotic shells brought back by Cook. </p> <p>The Shaw Catalogue is of great significance as a repository of unique original tapa but it also speaks of the time when Cook's sailors were spreading their stories of the alluring South Seas while drawing-room chatter throughout the land luxuriated in descriptions of the new exotic. The publication forms a tangible link between these narratives the indigenous cultures of the South Pacific and Hawaiian islands the myriad personal and trading relationships that developed between the islanders and mariners and the genteel world of gentleman collectors and their cabinets of curiosities.</p> </p> . Provenance: Norton J. Whitmont collection; Kelton Foundation Los Angeles; original owner Sir Corbet D'Avenant 1752-1823 Baronet of Stoke and Adderley with armorial bookplate. Corbet d'Avenant was the son of Anne Corbet daughter of Sir Robert Corbet c.1670-1740 4th Bt of Stoke upon Tern. Upon the death of Anne's brother rector of Adderley from 1735 Sir Henry Corbet the seventh baronet on 7 May 1750 the baronetcy became extinct and the family estates passed to his nephew Corbet D'Avenant who assumed the name of Corbet and was created a baronet on 27 June 1786. Upon his death on 31 March 1823 the second baronetcy also became extinct. Alexander Shaw unknown
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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] WEBBER, John, after, engraved by BT. POUNCY B. T.
A View of the Town and Harbour of St Peter and St Paul in Kamtschatka
London 1784. Engraving 253 x 533 mm. to plate mark paper size 290 x 540 mm.; a little light old creasing at right side; in fine condition. <p><p>Rare proof impression of one of the most atmospheric views made by Webber to illustrate Cook's third voyage: the St Peter and Paul ostrog as seen during the expedition's first visit to Avacha Bay.</p> <p>This wonderful panorama of St Peter and St Paul with Cook's ships at anchor in the bay would later appear as plate 74 in the atlas to the official account of the third voyage. Webber's image depicts the small Kamchatkan settlement with its inhabitants fishing in front of their distinctive dwellings all in an untouched landscape with wooded coastline and distant snow-covered mountains. It offers an arcadian vision of the place wildly at variance with what it would become: modern Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky now a major commercial port and the home of Russia's nuclear submarine fleet. It was at St Peter and St Paul that the battered vessels called in late April 1779 and here that Major Behm agreed to take the news of Cook's death overland to St. Petersburg.</p> <p>This is an early state of the print before letters. The temporary credits here scratched into the plate are differently worded to the final version that would appear in the publication: here there is no caption identifying the view and the image is identified as "Drawn from Nature by J. Webber" and "Engraved by B.T. Pouncy". In the finished version these would be differently expressed as "J. Webber del." and "B.T. Pouncy sc.". The proof engraving is printed on a noticeably different paper and its inking is distinctly finer than the examples of the finished version with which we have compared it. The result is a greater tonal quality.</p> <p>Joppien and Smith discuss the Kamchatkan visit at some length in both text and catalogue volumes of their study of the art of Cook's third voyage. In their description of the related watercolour view now in the Dixson Library in Sydney they note that the original version has probably been lost and that the Dixson watercolour is probably related to the engraving process. </p> <p>This is a desirable and rare version of one of Webber's most successful images from Cook's third voyage. `</p> </p> . unknown
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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] COOK, James and James KING
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by Command of his Majesty for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere…
London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol… and T. Cadell 1784. Skilfully rebacked with original spines laid down lower panel of one spine repaired and a small defect in leather on another. Three volumes quarto and an atlas folio with altogether 87 engraved plates and maps of which 63 appear in the atlas; contemporary diced russia leather flat spines gilt in compartments with a complex design black leather lettering pieces and round crimson numbering-pieces within dark green labels; the atlas volume in a neat modern binding of half calf and marbled boards. <p><p>First edition of the official account of Cook's last voyage. This is a good set of this tremendous publication the detailed narrative of the voyage extensively illustrated with beautiful engravings after John Webber and so popular at the time that copies were sometimes literally read to pieces. "A magnificent summation of all the public and private journals logs drawings and other observations made during the voyage and… as important a record of the exploration of the North Pacific as Cook's first two voyages had been for the South Pacific. It is in fact one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century…" Forbes.</p> <p>The Resolution and Discovery made an enormous sweep throughout the Pacific calling at Tasmania New Zealand the Cook Islands Tonga and Tahiti before heading north and making famous landfall at the Hawaiian islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands in honour of his patron. After exploring the Northwest coast of America and returning to Hawaii Cook was killed in the notorious skirmish ashore. Command passed to Clerke and after his death to John Gore. The shocking news of the explorer's death reached England through overland reports from the Russian Pacific coast some months before the ships themselves returned. It marked the end of an age and the beginning of another that would feature a number of the men who had been aboard the Cook voyage: among them Bligh Vancouver and Colnett. </p> <p>Unlike the official narratives of the first two Cook voyages this was planned as a grander publication with the three text volumes containing some of the lesser illustrations but the 63 more important illustrations and maps appearing on a large scale in the separate folio-sized atlas volume. The result does justice to John Webber's superb visualisations of the Pacific. Webber was the official artist on the voyage: his romantic views remain the most evocative of all early portrayals of the islands and helped to foster the notion of island paradise that so affected an European public eagerly reading the voyages of discovery being published in the eighteenth century.</p> <p>The full story of the voyage including the narrative of Cook's murder at Kealakekua Bay was so eagerly awaited by the public that the entire first edition sold out within three days at the then huge price of four pounds fourteen shillings and sixpence and copies were soon changing hands at up to ten guineas.</p> </p> . Provenance: Robert Baker early signature in volume 1 possibly the Baker whose books were sold by Sotheby in 1855 and whose copy of the Cook second voyage atlas is in the Dixson Library State Library of New South Wales; H. Mackenzie-Begg with his small bookplate in each volume. Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol… and T. Cadell unknown
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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] COOK, James and James KING
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; Undertaken by Command of His Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere…
London: Stockdale Scatcherd and Whitaker Fielding & Hardy 1784. A few spots and stains but a good set. Four volumes octavo with two folding maps and 49 plates in a smart modern binding of polished half calf with gilt labels edges rough-trimmed only with the often discarded half-titles present. <p><p>First octavo edition of the third voyage account with a large chart of the world as discovered by Captain Cook and a finely engraved folding map of the Hawaiian Islands. Intense public interest in the fabulous discoveries of the third voyage and widespread consternation over the death of England's beloved mariner resulted in copies of the quarto edition selling out quickly. The demand prompted two London octavo editions of 1784-1785 including this set printed for John Stockdale and a group of entrepreneurial publishers. The text was abridged omitting some technical and navigation details and as a result reads more like an adventure than the official quarto edition. The list of subscribers is considerable indicating the fervent public interest and a modest price considerably reduced from that of the expensive quarto edition.</p> <p>In addition to the two impressive maps the plates have been re-engraved for the smaller format. Aside from the large chart accompanying the first volume showing the progress of the expedition the two folding plates are noteworthy. The first depicts the death of Cook and was engraved after the original by Dodd. It ignominiously depicts the last moments of the great navigator here shown lying face down and clutching the shore whilst dragged by the calves by a Hawaiian warrior in a tapa cape. The second folding plate is a map of the Hawaiian Islands with a separate chart of Karakakooa Bay marked with soundings details of native villages and areas under cultivation — and the location 'Here Capt. Cook was killed' duly noted.</p> <p>This edition was originally issued in weekly parts with printed wrappers; half-titles for this edition seem to be usually absent though this set includes those for volumes 2 to 4 none is called for in volume 1. The title pages are dated 1784 although the span of publication passed into the following year.</p> </p> . Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, Fielding, & Hardy unknown
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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich
Dernier Voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du monde où se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort publié en allemand par Henri Zimmermann témoin oculaire & traduit avec un abrégé de la vie de ce navigateur célèbre & des notes
Berne: Nouvelle Société Typographique 1783. In excellent condition. Octavo woodcut vignette on title; contemporary continental Swiss mottled calf spine with small floral device gilt in compartments between raised bands double orange labels just chipped at edges; a nice copy. <p><p>Zimmermann's eye-witness account of Cook's third voyage first appeared in German at Mannheim in 1781. The French version was next with this second French edition and a second German edition appearing in 1783. Dutch editions appeared in 1784 and 1791 and a Russian version was published at St Petersburg in 1786. These seem to have been all the appearances of the narrative until the Alexander Turnbull Library published Tewsley's translation in 1926. As Rodney Davidson wrote of the early printings 'all these editions are exceedingly rare… It is hard to predict the realisation price for a copy if one were to come into the open market as competition between collectors would be very keen…'. Beddie records only the Mitchell and National Library copies in Australia. 'Both French editions are of great rarity and are of interest not only on that account but because of the additional matter which they contain…' Holmes.</p> <p>In any early edition this is one of the scarcest of all the Cook voyage accounts there is for example no copy of any of the eighteenth century editions in the catalogue of the Hill collection. It was the first description of the third voyage to appear on the continent and as one of two accounts first published in 1781 - a full three years before the official account - it may well be the first description of the voyage to have been published. It includes an eyewitness account of Cook's death and is also 'valuable for his lower-deck impressions of the character of Cook…' Beaglehole.</p> <p>'Zimmermann a native of Speyer was coxswain in the Discovery. From the start of the voyage he determined to keep a shorthand journal of the voyage and to retain it despite the instructions… demanding the surrender of all logs and journals… His account is by no means free from errors but it has an ingenuousness and charm which differentiate it from the other accounts. His appreciation of Cook's character deserves to rank with that of Samwell' Holmes.</p> </p> . Provenance: Rodney Davidson with bookplate. Nouvelle Société Typographique unknown
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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] COOK, James and James KING
Troisième voyage de Cook ou Voyage à l'Océan Pacifique…
Paris: Hôtel de Thou 1785. Fine. Five quarto volumes including the final atlas volume containing a total of 88 engraved maps and plates; uniform contemporary full calf armorial bindings. <p><p>A superb set of the desirable first French edition of the official account of Cook's third voyage in outstanding contemporary French bindings bearing the arms of the Ruolz Montchal family. </p> <p>The French edition of the voyage is illustrated in the manner of the English publication. This set includes a version of the famous "Death of Cook" plate based on the original drawing by John Webber not all copies of the French quarto edition include this plate. Furthermore the fourth and final volume of the text is complete with all seven appendices including the folding vocabulary table.</p> </p> . Provenance: Ruolz Montchal family large gilt coat-of arms on all covers. Hôtel de Thou unknown
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[COOK] LEBRUN Henri:
Voyages et aventures du capitaine Cook. Nouvelle édition, revue et approuvée par la société d'Ecclésiastiques.
Tours, Mame, 1852. In-12 de [4]-236 pages, demi-chagrin noir, dos à 4 nerfs avec titre doré et encadrements à froid.
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[CORSE] - PANASSIÉ (Louis), VERDEAUX (Laurent) -
L'âme corse.
Paris, Presses de la cité - connaissance du monde, 1979 ; in-4, 125 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Comme neuf.
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[COSTARD J.-P.]
Manuel de la bonne compagnie ou l’Ami de la Politesse, des Egards, du Bon ton et de la Bienséance, … troisième édition.
P., Ancelle, 1818. In 18 broché, couverture muette de l’époque, pièce de titre imprimée, frontispice + 192 pp.
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[CRETE] - LAROCHE (Charles) -
La crête ancienne et moderne.
Paris, Société francaise d editions d art l-henry may , s.d. ; in-12, 312 pp., demi toilé a coins . Dos muet exemplaire bibliothèque (tampon).
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[CREUSE] - ROSSIGNOL (Gilles) -
Le guide de la Creuse.
Lyon, La manufacture, 1991 ; in-8, 251 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
Référence libraire : 201706760
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[CROATIA -- TRAVEL]. LOVRIC, Ivan [LOVRICH, Giovanni].
Biljeske o putu po Dalmaciji opata Alberta Fortisa i Zivot Stanislava Socivice. Observations on various parts of the travels into Dalmatia of Abbot Alberto Fortis.
Zagreb Yugoslavia: Izdavacki Zavod Jugoslavenske Akademije 1948. 4to. 229 3 pp. 1 large folding map 7 plates text illusts. Quarter-green cloth over gray boards mnr bmpng to crnrs shlfwr w/ d.j. mnr foxng chppng to crnrs still VG/VG-. First edition in Croatian of this work first published in Italian in 1776 by the noted author and ethnographer. The chief importance of this work is his section on the customs of the Morlachs in which he sought to correct some assumptions on Morlachism and the topography of Dalmatia made by Alberto Fortis in his 18th century travel account. Izdavacki Zavod Jugoslavenske Akademije, hardcover
Référence libraire : 35678
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[CUISINE, VOYAGE] - MEYER (Christian) -
BESSER ESSEN & REISEN - OSTERREICH 93.
DALLAU, MBM-EDITION - CHRISTIAN MEYER, 1993 ; in-8, 620 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
Référence libraire : 200700360
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[Da Ros] La Pérouse (Jean-François de Galaup ; comte de)
Le Voyage extraordinaire de Lapérouse, illustré par Da Ros
Le Chant des sphères 1971 3 volumes petit in 4, en feuilles sous chemises et étui d'éditeur, 215- 244- et 223 pp. Très nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, in et hors texte. Bel exemplaire.
Référence libraire : 36264
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[Dahlbergh, Erik].
Suecia antiqua et hodernia. [Stockholm, 1693-1714].
Large oblong folio. 3 vols. in 1. 354 engravings on 321 plates (some folding). 13 pp. index. Marbled brown calf with double borders of six different rolls (gilt-stamped tendrils, blossoms, and fleurs-de-lis) and double fillets, gilt-stamped label to richly gilt spine, leading edges and inner dentelle gilt, marbled endpapers and matching fore-edge marbling. First edition of this splendid collection of Swedish views. In a master binding by the Swedish bookbinder Gustaf Hedberg (1859-1920). - The first copies of this work, printed at the cost of the Swedish king, were given away by the royal family; it was not for sale until 1772. The present copy is one of the few ones with the plates bound flat in oblong folio (instead of folded in large oblong 4to), for which the plates frequently had to be mounted within paper borders or remargined to ensure a uniform large oblong folio format. - Hinges imperceptibly restored. Interior slightly fingerstained and with professionally restored tears; altogether a well-preserved copy of the rare plano edition; plates in early, bold impressions. Brunet V, 578. Graesse Vi, 519. Ebert 21882. Hiler 211. Ornamentstichslg. Bln. 2256. Lipperheide Haa 3. Thieme/B. VIII, 276. Collijn 1600-talet 197. Warmholtz 207. Avery AH485. AKL XXIII, 421.
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[Dalrymple, Alexander]. - Taylor, Robert.
[Drop-title:] Capt. Taylor's remarks, in ship Ceres. [London, George Bigg, 1787].
Small folio (31.5 x 24.5 cm). 12 pp. Contemporary, vellum-backed, stiff marbled wrappers. Rare second edition, second state, of a journal of a voyage from Sumatra to Bengal, kept by Captain Robert Taylor on the ship Ceres, followed by additional comments from "a manuscript, which may be depended upon". Locations sighted include: Hog Island, the Cocos islands, Aceh, the Straits of Malacca, Barren Island and the Andaman Islands. - The journal was published by the eccentric Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), Captain Cook's leading rival. As hydrographer for the East India Company, Dalrymple would publish an annual series of memoirs and detailed ships' logs that he obtained in that function. He would compare historical sources gathered from extensive archival research with newly obtained data straight from the ships and his own careful observations. With these publications Dalrymple became the originator of official British hydrography and as such they give a unique impression of the (development of the) scientific background that laid behind the trade of the British Empire in the East. - The journal was first published in 1782 together with A brief statement of the prevailing winds from monsieur Après De Mannevillette. - A very good copy. A. S. Cook, Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), (PhD diss., 1992), A120. ESTC T75520 (6 copies). For Dalrymple: A.S. Cook, "Dalrymple, Alexander (1737-1808)", in: ODNB online (2008); Howgego, to 1800, D4.
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[DANIEL (Gabriel)]
Voyage du monde de Descartes
Paris, Veuve Simon Bénard, 1690. In-12, [18]-437 pp. 1 pl., veau marbré brun, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre rouge, tranches mouchetées (reliure défraîchie mais solide, rousseurs, petite déchirure sans atteinte à la planche).
Référence libraire : 20594
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[Darwin's Beagle Voyage]
The Voyage of the Beagle 1831-1836. and: DOUGLAS H.P. FitzRoy's Hydrographic Surveys. and: BARLOW Nora. The Voyage of the Beagle. Contained in: Nature Vol. 128 No. 3243 & Vol. 129 No. 3249 & Vol. 129 No. 3255. These articles: pp. 1065-67; 200; 439.
London:: Macmillan & Co. 1931-32. 1931. 3 issues. Small 4to. pp. 1053-88; 181-216; 413-448. Original self-wraps. Very good. Macmillan & Co.), 1931-32. paperback
Référence libraire : LLV2250
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[Darwin, C.] F. Burkhardt & S. Smith (eds)
A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882.
1985 [6], 690 p., portrait, 4to, cloth. Added is: Supplement to the Calendar, 1994 (iii, 46 p.).
Référence libraire : ND20265
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[Defauconpret, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste]
2 Tomes en 1 livre: Quinze Jours A Londres, A La Fin De 1815. Par M ***./ Six Mois a Londres en 1816. Suite de L'ouvrage aynat pour Titre: Quinze Jours A Londres, A La Fin De 1815. Par la meme Auteur.
Paris, Alexis Eymery, Libraire, Delaunay, Libraire, 1816 und 1817. 8°. 21 x 13 cm. 214 und 243 Seiten. Blauer Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret, geboren 1767 in Lille, gestorben 1843.
Référence libraire : 13772DB
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[DEFOE, Daniel]
La Vie et les Aventures surprenantes de Robinson Crusoé. Contenant Son retour dans son Isle, ses autres nouveaux Voyages & ses Réflexions. Traduit de l'Anglois. Nouvelle Edition avec Figures (3 volumes).
A Paris, chez Laurent Prault, 1768, 6 tomes reliés en 3 volumes in-12 de 175x100 mm environ, tomes 1 et 2 : xvj-259-291 pages, tomes 3-4 : !!!!!!-240-267 pages, tomes 5-6 : 258-213 pages, pleine basane granitée brune, dos lisses portant titres et tomaisons dorés, ornés de petits fers et frises dorés, coupes dorées, gardes marbrées, tranches mouchetées. Petit manque de papier dans la marge interne p. 217 (T1), erreurs de pagination : T. 1 : saut de la p. 180 à 193 sans manque de page, T3 : préface et préface du traducteur mélangées mais complètes, T4 : cahier H (168 à 193) mal numéroté sans manque de page, des rousseurs et pages brunies, coins émoussés, dos avec petits de ver, frottements sur les coupes et coiffes, petit manque de cuir sur une coiffe (T5-6), sinon bon état, complet de 4 frontispices et 10 figures hors texte.
Référence libraire : 96128
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[Demeurisse] Herriot, Edouard :
Porte (La) océane, lithographies originales de René Demeurisse.
Lyon, Georges Bouvet et Cie, 1948 ; in-folio, en feuillets sous chemise-étui de l'éditeur cartonnée en papier miel, tissu bleu au dos de la chemise, titre blanc, étui muet ; (1) f., 105 pp., (4) ff. ; une lithographie en noir en frontispice, nombreuses lithographies en noir in-texte protégées par des serpentes ; couverture à rabats illustrée en couleurs.
Référence libraire : 2202
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[Denis (Louis)].
Itinéraire Portatif ou guide historique et géographique du voyageur dans les environs de Paris, à quarante lieues à la ronde.
Paris Nyon Aîné 1781 1 Un volume de format grand in 12 de VIII pp. (titre, avertissement, avis); un plan de Paris dépliant en frontispice; ; 458 pp.; première et deuxième partie contenant une carte dépliante, "Carte dressée pour l'intelligence des coches d'eau qui sont sur la rivière de Seine, Yonne, Marne, Oise et Aisne", 1776. Puis en troisième partie, Une "Grande Carte Générale des Environs de Paris..". de 1776; 1 f. de titre et 168 pp.. Nombreux tableaux de distances et de temps. Reliure de l'époque en pleine basane marbrée; dos à nerfs orné; pièce de titre en maroquin rouge; tranches rouges.
Référence libraire : 16446
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[DENTU].
[Procès pour contrefaçon].
1810 - 1811 5 pièces in-4, en feuilles, cousues.
Référence libraire : 234910
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[DESCHAMPS (Pierre)].
Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne à l'usage du libraire et de l'amateur de livres. contenant : 1° Les noms anciens, grecs et latins, de la décadence latine et de la Renaissance, des principales divisions de l'Europe, provinces, villes, bourgs, abbayes, etc., avec leur signification actuelle en langues vulgaires : 2° Les recherches les plus étendues et les plus consciencieuses sur les origines de la typographie dans toutes les villes, bourgs, abbayes d'Europe, jusqu'au XIXe siècle exclusivement ; 3° Un dictionnaire français-latin des noms de lieux, destiné à servir de table. Par un bibliophile
Paris, Sur l'imprimé de Firmin-Didot frères, Dorbon aîné, s.d. (1928) fort vol. in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., 1592 colonnes, [2] ff. n. ch. de réclames, demi-chagrin cerise, dos à faux-nerfs, tête mouchetée (reliure de l'époque). Dos épidermé et passé, charnières frottées.
Référence libraire : 242366
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[DESERT]
Déserts du monde Geo.
Paris, Solar, 2002 ; in-4, 207 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
Référence libraire : 201508758
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[DIEZMANN, A.]
Malerische Reise um die Welt. Eine geordnete Zusammenstellung des Wissenswerthesten von den Entdeckungsreisen eines Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Laperouse, Bligh, Vancouver... , verfaßt von einer Gesellschaft Reisender und Gelehrter unter der Leitung des Hernn Dumont d`Urville. Ins Deutsche übertragen von A. Diezmann. 2 Bände in 1 / Malerische Reise in Sued- und Nordamerika. Eine geordnete Zusammenstellung des Wissenswürdigsten von den Entdeckungsreisen eines Columbus, Las Casas, Oviedo, Gomara, Garcilazo de la Vega, Acosta, Forster, La Condamine, Ellis, Ulloa.... verfaßt von einer Gesellschaft Reisender und Gelehrter unter der Leitung des Herrn Alcide d`Orbigny. Deutsch v. A. Diezmann.Insges. 2 Text- u. 2 Tafelbände.
Lpz., Baumgärnter 1834 und 1839. 4°, VIII, 338 S. u. II, 320 S.; XVI, 320 S.; 256 S., IV; 99 S., I; insges. 1055 Kupferstichabb. auf 277 Taf., 1 gestoch. Generalkarte, 16 Kupferstich-Porträts auf 4 Taf, Taf. 71 (Generalkarte von Oceanien) fehlt; 4 HLnbde. d. Zt., berieben, bestoß., Rüleinen ausgebleicht, 2 Rü. vom Buchblock abgeplatzt, 1 Buchrü. tlw. rissig, 1 Vorderdeckel lose, 1 Einbddecke lose, einige Vorsätze u. Taf. lose, bzw. gelockert, vereinzelt schwach stockfl. Engelmann 99; Sabin 21214. - Malerische Reise 2 Bände in 1 Band. Im Band Nord-Amerika beigebunden: Eine Reise durch Asien - Eine Reise durch Afrika.
Référence libraire : STLL0130
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[Dominguez, Carlos Guillermo]; [Gatti, Tullio]
Gran Canaria : Islas Canarias
Large white folio; 158 p, color illus & map ; 31 cm. In Spanish; Text in Spanish, English and German. || Travel; Photographs.
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[DORAT Claude-Joseph].
Le Pot-pourri, épitre à qui on voudra ; suivie d'une autre épître, par l'auteur de Zélis au bain [Masson de Pezay].
Paris, Sébastien Jorry, 1764 ; in-8 de 53 pp., reliure du milieu du XIXe siècle, veau blond glacé, encadrement de filets dorés et à froid sur les plats, armes dorées au centre, dos lisse avec titre doré en long, roulette intérieure, tranches dorées (Ottmann-Duplanil).
Référence libraire : 1073
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[Douglas Souvenir Distributors] Schorn, Robert (photos)
Tasmania ""an island paradise""
Tasmania: Douglas Souvenir Distributors 1982. Paper bound heavy card covers quarto beautifully illustrated throughout in colour. Includes 4-page centrefold and detailed map inside rear cover. Unpaginated. As new. 140 grams. Scan available on request. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Tasmania: Douglas Souvenir Distributors, 1982 unknown
Référence libraire : 26577 ISBN : 0908144008 9780908144006
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[DROGUE] - WEBER (Olivier) -
La route de la drogue voyage en Opiomie.
Paris, Arléa, 1996 ; in-8, 341 pp., br.
Référence libraire : 201305342
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[DU BUISSON (Paul-Ulric)].
Abrégé de la révolution de lAmérique angloise, Depuis le commencement de lannée 1774, jusquau premier Janvier 1778. Par M. ***, Américain.
A Paris, rue Dauphine, Chez Cellot & Jombert, fils jeune, Libraires & Imprimeur, la seconde Porte cochère à droite, par le Pont-Neuf. Au fond de la Cour, 1778. 1778 1 vol. in-12° (175 x 107 mm.) de : [1] f. (Titre), 452 - [3] (Privilège, Errata) pp. Plein veau d'époque, dos à nerfs orné, titre de marocain rouge, filet doré sur les coupes. (Coiffes arrasées, fentes aux mors, coins émoussés, intérieur très frais).
Référence libraire : 6339
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[DUBOIS-FONTANELLE (Jean-Gaspard)]
Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud, Natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire.
A Bordeaux, chez les Frères La Bottière et à Paris, chez Le Jay, 1770 [en fait 1769]. In-12, 340p. Reliure plein chagrin fauve, dos à faux-nerfs, pièces de titre rouges, gardes marbrées (reliure moderne).
Référence libraire : 35718
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[DUBOIS-FONTANELLE (Jean-Gaspard)]
Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud, Natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire.
In-12, 340p. Première édition. Noms de possesseurs en pages de faux-titre. Sobre reliure moderne. Bon exemplaire.
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[DUC d'ORLEANS] - RECAMIER (Docteur).-
Souvenirs des voyages de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans.
P., Plon, 1927, fort et grand in 8° broché, 373 pages ; couverture légèrement fanée.
Référence libraire : 59141
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[DUMONT KUNST-REISEHUHRER] - ROTHER (Almut und frank) -
Die kanarischen insel.
Koln, DuMont buchverlag, 1987 ; in-8, 496 pp., broché, couverture illustr. Inseln des ewigen fruhlings, teneriffa, gomera hierro la palma gran canaria fuerteventura lanzarote.
Référence libraire : 200808405
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[DUMONT KUNST-REISEHUHRER] - ROTHER (Almut und frank) -
Elba.
Koln, DuMont buchverlag, 1983 ; in-8, 256 pp., broché, couverture illustr. Ferieninsel im tyrrhenischen meer maccienwildnis, kulturstatten, dorfer, mineralienfundorte -.
Référence libraire : 200808406
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[DÉCOUVERTES, VOYAGES] - HERRMANN (Paul) -
Das grosse buch der entdeckungen.
Reutlingen, Ensslin & Laiblin verlag, 1958 ; in-8, 344 pp., cartonnage d'éditeur avec jaquette. 155-164 tausend.
Référence libraire : 200900911
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[EARLY 20TH CENTURY TRAVEL ACCOUNTS].
The Wide World Magazine. No.112. Vol. 19.
London.: George Newnes Limited. First Edition. July1907. Decorated covers black & white illustrations throughout some soiling to covers head & tail of spine chipped and a repair to the lower corner still a clean and firm copy. 24 x 18cm. This issue's contents include: A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers and more. . George Newnes, Limited. unknown
Référence libraire : 216093
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