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There are 62 books in this catalogue.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
Nordenskiold, A. E. translated by Alexander Leslie
Book Number: 68180
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macmillam. London 1883.
8vo. hardcover, 413pp. Two colour maps, one folding. Two b/w portraits engraved by G. J. Stodart of which one is the b/w frontis with tissue guard. B/w illus. Good+, tissue guard foxed, some light foxing throughout. Light stain on cover, light wear to cover corners, spine slanted.
Price: $250.00


Drake's Island of Thieves, Ethnological Sleuthing
Lessa, William A.
Book Number: 68146
ISBN: 0824803337
Publisher: The University Press of Hawaii Honolulu 1975.
8vo. hardcover. 289pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good. / Good+ d/w with small chips at top of spine and faded spine.
Price: $25.00


Francis Drake - Privateer : Contemporary Narratives and Documents
Hampden, John (editor & compiler)
Book Number: 68145
ISBN: 0413284301
Publisher: Eyre Methuen, London 1972.
8vo. hardcover. 286pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, foxing to top edge of text-block. / Very good d/w with some wear to corners.
Price: $25.00


On Austral Shores: A Modern Traveller's Guide to the European Exploration of the Coast of Victoria and New South Wales
Lipscombe, Trevor
Book Number: 65934
ISBN: 0858812053
Publisher: Envirobook, Sydney 2005.
4to. hardcover. 253pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $20.00


The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
Skelton, R.A. & Marston, Thomas E. & Painter, George D.
Book Number: 67718
ISBN: 
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1966.
4to. hardcover. 291pp. index, b/w illus., maps 3 folding. Very good, minor insect damage to fep., a few small spots on edge of text-block. / Good d/w insect damaged on edges.
Price: $15.00


Dictionary of Discoveries
Langnas, I. A.
Book Number: 67670
ISBN: 
Publisher: Philosophical Library, 1959.
8vo. hardcover. 201pp. Very good. / Good+ rubbed d/w.
Price: $18.00


Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
Ford, Corey
Book Number: 67674
ISBN: 
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 206pp. endpaper maps. Very good, owner's details on first blank page. / Very good d/w rubbed on corners.
Price: $18.00


The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-one Members and A Composite Diary of Their Activities From All Known Sources
Clarke, Charles G.
Book Number: 67571
ISBN: 0870620002
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark: Glendale, Ca., 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 351pp. index, sepia plates. Near Fine, owner's stamps on fep & half-title. / no d/w.
Price: $30.00


Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographical Features of Northwestern America
Meany, Edmond S.
Book Number: 67546
ISBN: 
Publisher: Binfords & Mort, Portland, 1957
8vo. hardcover. 344pp. +43pp. b/w illus, Very good. / Good, chipped d/w.
Price: $25.00


Dampier's Monkey: The South Seas Voyages Of William Dampier.
Mitchell, Adrian
Book Number: 66985
ISBN: 9781862547599
Publisher: Wakefield Press, South Australia 2010.
Large 8vo. softcover. 545pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light toning to page edges.
Price: $20.00


THE TACTLESS PHILOSOPHER - Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-98)
Hoare, Michael E.
Book Number: 66859
ISBN: 0725601213
Publisher: Hawthorn Press. Melbourne, 1976
8vo. hardcover. 419pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Good+ d/w with faded spine.
Price: $125.00


The Conquest Of Paradise: Christopher Columbus And The Columbus Legacy
Sale, Kirkpatrick
Book Number: 66581
ISBN: 0340533838
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. London: 1991.
8vo. hardcover. 453pp. index. Very good, . / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


COOPER'S CREEK. Junoir edition
MOOREHEAD, Alan; (abridged by Lucy Moorehead)
Book Number: 66392
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton. London. (1963).
8vo.illustrated cloth hardcover. 148pp. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Ship : Retracing Cook's Endeavour Voyage
Baker, Simon
Book Number: 65742
ISBN: 056353463X
Publisher: BBC Books 2002.
4to. hardcover. 224pp. index, colour illus., maps. Very good, owner's inscription verso fep.. / Very good d/w.
Price: $10.00


The Head-Hunters of Borneo
Bock, Carl
Book Number: 65900
ISBN: 705415120
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Belgium, 1986
8vo. Padded leather covered boards, hardcover, gilt edges. 342pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good+. Time life Classics of Exploration slip taped to verso fep.
Price: $25.00


Voyage autour du monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont-d'Urville pendant les années 1837, 38, 39 et 40. 2 volumes.
LE GUILLOU Élie Jean François - ARAGO
Book Number: 60223
ISBN: 
Publisher: Paris, Berquet et Pétion, 1842, 1843.
2 volumes, 8vos, marbled paper covered boards, leather spine with raised bands. pp.381,382. 30 b/w plates including 2 frontispieces. Good, covers rubbed, wear to top of spine on vol1. Foxing. Text in French.
Price: $750.00


Commodore Sir John Hayes. His voyage and life. With some account of Vice Admiral D'Entrecasteaux's voyage of 1792-3.
Lee, Ida
Book Number: 64807
ISBN: 
Publisher: Longman's, Green & Co London 1912.
8vo. orig. cloth hardcover. 340pp. index, 33 b/w illus. including maps + frontis. Good, cover chipped along spine edges & top & bottom of spine, very good inside.
Price: $125.00


Conquests & Discoveries of Henry the Navigator Being the Chronicles of Azurara
Castro e Almeida, Virginia De
Book Number: 64609
ISBN: 
Publisher: Allen & Unwin London 1936.
8vo. hardcover. 253pp. b/w frontis., illus., maps. Good, some wear to cover, foxing to endpapers & prelims.
Price: $20.00


William Dampier (The Golden Hind Series)
Wilkinson, Clennell
Book Number: 64485
ISBN: 
Publisher: John Lane the Bodley Head, London 1929.
8vo. orig. cloth hardcover. 257pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, foxing and tape marks on endpapers
Price: $45.00


A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: performed in 1785 1786 1787 and 1788 in The King George and Queen Charlotte Captains Portlock and Dixon. Bibliotecha Australiana #43.
Portlock Nathaniel (Capt.).
Book Number: 64114
ISBN: 
Publisher: N. Israel Amsterdam / Da Capo,New York, 1968. Bibliotecha Australiana
Small 4to. hardcover. 133pp. Five Folding maps. Very good, a few small marks on outer page edges, first map creased on edge.
Price: $35.00


Atlas of Discovery
Roberts, Gail
Book Number: 63913
ISBN: 0490003001
Publisher: Aldus Books, London 1973.
4to. hardcover. 192pp. index, colour maps. Very good. / Very good d/w with creased front flap.
Price: $15.00


The Discovery of the Nile
Guadalupi, Gianni
Book Number: 58944
ISBN: 1840370459
Publisher: Swan Hill Press;, 1998
Folio. hardcover. 352pp. index. colour illus. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/w. heavy book extra post may apply.
Price: $25.00


SELKIRK'S ISLAND
SOUHAMI, Diana
Book Number: 62845
ISBN: 0297643851
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 2001
8vo hardcover 246pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep / very good+ d/w. Selkirk was a pirate and a buccaneer who sailed on the South Seas on looting expeditions for gold and treasure. In 1703 he joined an expedition whose object was to plunder French and Spanish ships. Conditions on the ship were appalling; scurvy, dysentery and typhus flourished and most of the crew died or went mad. Eventually they reached the island of Juan Fernandez 400 miles off the coast of Chile where Selkirk opted to maroon himself. Suddenly solitude and silence were imposed and his only relationship was to the island and to himself. He learnt to kill goats with cudgels and use their skins for coats and shoes. He hollowed out a canoe and circumnavigated the island. He wished there were a woman on the island, but perhaps he used the goats he had tamed for his sexual satisfaction. Gradually he found that company was not essential and that he was the Governor of this island, afraid of nothing it contained.
Price: $18.00


Columbus: The Four Voyages
Bergreen, Laurence
Book Number: 62681
ISBN: 9780143122104
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2012.
8vo. softcover. 423pp. colour & b/w illus. Very good+.
Price: $10.00


Christopher Columbus. The Dream and the Obsession: A Biography
Granzotto, Gianni
Book Number: 62678
ISBN: 
Publisher: Guild Publishing, London, 1986.
8vo. hardcover. 300pp. index, maps. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $10.00


Ferdinand Magellan.
Benson, E. F.
Book Number: 62623
ISBN: 
Publisher: Bodley Head, London 1929.
8vo. hardcover. 262pp. index, b/w frontis, 2 folding maps. Very good, foxing to endpapers, a few spots on cover.
Price: $15.00


The Circumnavigators
Wilson, Derek
Book Number: 62621
ISBN: 1841197092
Publisher: Robinson, London 1989.
8vo. softcove331pp. index. b/w illus. Very good, foxing to endpapers * outer page edges.
Price: $15.00


North West Passage
Thomson, George Malcolm
Book Number: 59313
ISBN: 0436520486
Publisher: London Secker 1975
8vo hardcover 288pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's signature on fep / very good d/w. Bibliography: p. 276-278.
Price: $18.00


The Great American West: A Pictorial History from Coronado to the Last Frontier
Horan, James D.
Book Number: 5891
ISBN: 
Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959, First Edition
black cloth with tan cloth spine, title stamped in black on spine. VG., light tape marks & light foxing to endpapers, owner's details on fep. No d/w. First Edition. oversized volume. 650 illustrations in halftone and color, including 500 historical photographs.
Price: $15.00


IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT
Mear, Roger and Swan, Robert
Book Number: 3858
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, 1987. 1st edition.
Signed on title page by author (Swan) pp xiv+306. 8vo. Colour & b/w illus. Fine/very good.
Price: $12.00



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