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.....
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1837. Octavo, original cloth boards with blindstamped decoration, gilt title, frontis portrait plate of Cook, folded facsimile plate of Cook recording the transit of Venus in 1769, b&w text illus, canoe vignette halftitle page, pp 496. Closed tear facs plate. Very good condition.
Melbourne: Privately Printed, 1926. 1st ed., 8vo, wraps (printed with title, globe, and "AA" monogram for author, partially gilt), yapp edges, pp 81. Presentation copy signed by the author. Printed for private circulation. Yapp eges worn, some light foxing, very good condn. A detailed description of the circumnavigation of the.....
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.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. 1st ed., original cloth boards, octavo, pp xi, 535, incl Index, three coloured folding maps, b&w plates and text illus. Lacks the colour frontis, which has been bound in as a colour facsimile. Ex-library, with stamps to title page (several stamps) and.....
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.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 2001. Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed.). 1st ed., royal 8vo, pp. 467, (3), incl Index, b/w illustrations, maps, charts, colour plates, French text, pictorial card cover, near fine. Transcription of the journal Nicolas Baudin kept on his voyage of discovery to Australia.
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.....
Paris: Henri Plon, 1872. 6th edition, 3 vols., 8vo, Australie: pp. viii, 366; Java: pp. (ii) 452; Pekin: pp. (ii) 360; b/w frontis each vol., colour maps some folded, b/w plates and ills., decorated endpapers, armorial bookplate to front pastedown each volume of Major Stephen Massingberd of Gunby Hall, dated.....
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, pp.(ii), 215, (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 of the following Sailors'), few closed.....
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, pictorial boards, profusely illustrated with colour plates and illus., as new Lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue of 250 items from the 1500s to the early 1800s featuring the spectacular and exotic art produced.....
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 Bligh, colour plates, text illus, pp xv, 150. Number 1594 of limited edition of 2000, signed by illustrator and designer. Previous owner's bookplate. Occasional.....
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.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. 1st ed., 4to, original cloth boards, colour and b&w illus, maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, pp xii, 347. Minor rubbing to corners of d.j., small closed tear to top edge of rear panel of d,j. Near fine in good dustjacket. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of the drawings.....
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.
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.....
London: Folio Society, 2016. Octavo, original quarter cloth and silver boards with illustration, frontis plate, b&w plates, map, pp xx, 235. Fine in near-fine slipcase. Chatwin's classic travel account, with photographs.
Sydney: Golden Press, 1983. Facsimile Edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 376, Index, b/w ills and maps, loosely inserted colour folded map, original gilt decorated boards, minor rubbing cnrs, in very good d.j. Collingridge was a well-known Australian cartographer who challenged the view that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to chart.....
London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, nd c( 1910). 12mo, pp. 193, colour frontis, colour and sepia plates, discrete stamp title page, endpapers lightly tanned, light foxing edges, original cloth boards, minor fishing rear. Includes Livingstone, Francis burton, John Stuart, and John MacGregor.