London: Blackie and Son, c. 1895. 1st thus, octavo, pictorial decorated cloth boards, illus frontis plates, pp 224 plus 8 pp publisher's ads with two plates. N.d. (1895), possibly first edition. Pages toned. Corners lightly rubbed. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper. Very good condition. A decorative 1890's binding. The life.....
Nico Israel, 1971. 1st ed., 2 volumes, pp.v, 328, 359. 2 folding plates, light creasing to half-title of first volume, original boards. Near fine condition. Includes Francois Peron's visit to Australia. Facsimle of 1824 edition.
London: Joyce Gold, 30th September 1814. Unknown artist. Original mezzotint portrait, hand-coloured, 90cm x 75cm (Flinders’ image) on sheet 23.5xm x 14.5cm. Printed below image, "Published 30th September, 1814 by Joyce Gold, Naval Chronicle Office, 103 Shoe Lane London". Bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton to rear board of frame. Condition: Very.....
London: John Murray, 1815. Original half-leather marbled boards with gilt rule, pp 521. Boards, worn, edges rubbed, black binders tape on spine. Presentation inscription ffep. 'Holy Island Library' blindstamped to edge of upper board. Darkened inner edge of title page. Fair condn. The Quarterly Review, a literary and political periodical.....
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. Two volumes bound into one, 4to, Volume I: pp. viii, 376, Index; Volume II: pp. viii, 368, Index; b/w frontis, b/w plates and ills., maps, endpapers tanned, hinges broken, original green cloth boards, scuffed with light silverfishing, few stains, front board and spine detached, head.....
Edinburgh: G. Robinson, 1785. 1st edition, octavo, pp.clxv, 452, large engraved folding map to fronts 'A New Map of Scotland ; The Hebrides and Western Coasts... 1785'., 'Plan of a Town' plate, folding appendix 'Account of the quantity of Herrings and Cod exported from England ... 1750 to 1782" some.....
![Item #103113 Around the World with my Younger Son [Signed]. Alice Austin](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/103113.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785831358)
Melbourne: Privately Printed, 1926. 1st ed., octavo, wraps (printed with title, globe, and "AA" monogram for author, partially gilt), yapp edges, pp 81. Printed for private circulation. Presentation copy by the author to her grandson Frank Austin "For my dear grandson Frank Austin". Yapp eges worn with some small closed.....
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1976. Octavo, pp. xiv, 481, Index, b/w ills., map, pictorial endpapers, original cloth boards, dustjacket.Previous owner's bookplate. Small closed tear to the upper edge of d.j., now repaired. Near-fine condition in very good d.j. Maritime history of the island continent. Covers development of sea-borne trade, internal and.....
Sydney: Allen & Unwin in association with the National Library of Australia, 1987. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour frontis, double-page colour plate, b&w plates (two folding), pp xiv, 336. With a signed greeting card from the editor loosely inserted. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine in like d.j. Transcription and facsimile of.....
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth boards with gilt title, dustjacket, pp xvi, 325. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Australia from a wide variety of viewpoints, dating from 1605 to the 1990s. Includes travel accounts by Jules Verne, Francois Pelsaert, William Dampier, Sydney Parkinson, Mary Ann Parker, Rose Freycinet.....
Melbourne: OUP, 1966. 8vo., pp xii 112 incl. index, b/w plates fold. col. plate, dec. e.ps., or. cl. bds., gilt dec., nr fine in price-clipped d.j.
London: Hakluyt, 1974. Large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, frontis portrait of Cook, b&w plates, colour plates, maps, pp xi, 760. 51 illustrations (4 in colour) and 5 maps. Water damaged to the top edge of the text block, which has caused occasional marking to the top edge of pages. Previous.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First edition, published at the Gresham Press. Octavo, pictorial white cloth elaborately decorated in gilt upper board and spine, Fisher Unwin emblem stamped in gilt lower board, all edges gilt, b&w portrait plate of Sebastian Cabot with tissue guard, two map plates, pp xx, 311.....
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1928. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt to spine, b&w plates, three maps (including two folding), pp xix, 319. Ex-library: library number marked on spine, number inscribed on title page and front endpaper, text and illustrations/maps clean. Corners and foot of spine light ly.....
Utrecht: Johannes Altheer, 1827. 1st ed. Royal octavo, text in Dutch, pp.(ii), 215, 8 folding plates (7 folding plates 'List of the Main Dutch Discoveries'), (1 folding plate: 'Table In which the Latitudes and Longitudes of some of the most Distinguished Discoveries of the Dutch are compared with the Observations.....
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1967. Two volumes (complete), octavo, b&w frontis plates, pp xv, 441; vii, 428. Facsimile of the 1834 edition. Near-fine condition.
Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia and Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2015. 1st ed., folio, pp 352, original pictorial boards, profusely illustrated with colour plates and illustrations. Very good condition. Lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue of 250 items from the 1500s to the early 1800s featuring the spectacular and exotic.....
Guildford (Surrey): Genesis Publications Limited, 1976. Folio, original half leather with gilt decoration and raised bands, colour frontispiece, 5 folding maps, b&w illus, pp 951. With G.N. Ingeton's book-plate front endpaper. Preface by Lord Mountbatten; introductory essays by Stephen Walters and D.G.C. Allan. Includes "A Description of the Mangostan and.....
Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Introduced by Alan Viliers, illustrated with watercolours and drawing by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Folio, pictorial cloth boards, colour frontis portrait of William Bligh, colour plates, text illus, pp xv, 150. Number 1594 of limited edition of 2000, signed by illustrator (Geoffrey C. Ingleton) and designer.....
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1925. 2nd ed., 8vo, pp. 159, (1 advert), b/w frontis portrait, b/w plates and ills., original cloth bds., spine sunned, cloth scuffed, small hole to rear fore-edge, remains of d.j. (front cover) affixed to front pastedown. Colonial Australia, text in German.
London: Jones & Causton, 1857. First edition. 12mo, original green cloth boards with blindstamped decoration upper and lower boards, title stamped in gilt upper board, folding map as frontispiece, pp 115. Two very small chips to the foot of the spine. Corners bumped. Previous owner's signature front endpaper, otherwise clean.....
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, (1861) 1971. Octavo, original boards, folding map, b&w port. front., pp 36. Occasional light foxing, good condition. Facsimile of original publication produced in 1861.
![Item #101561 Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824-1825. [1826]....](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/101561.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781083982)
London: John Murray, 1826. Robert Dampier (Illus.). 1st ed., quarto, original half-leather with marbled boards, later spine with raised bands and gilt. Complete with all 15 aquatint plates including folding frontispiece view of the great Volcano at Peli, folding chart of the voyage, map, views. Previous owner's bookplate fep.Some scattered.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition. Octavo, half leather binding with marbled boards, large colour folding lithograph map frontis, pp 448. Small library stamps, otherwise near-fine. The Challenger expedition of 1872 - 1876 was a grand scientific tour of the world covering 68,000 nautical miles. It was a scientific.....
London: Royal Geographical Society (John Murray), 1834. Fourth volume of the Journal of Royal Geographical Society of London, pp.iv, 423, incl Index, 7 folding maps of which 3 in colour, foxed, 4 b&w plates stained and heavily foxed, fine amorial book-plate of J.T. Williamson, full calf, scuffed, bumped, some wear.....