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Dutch translation of the account of Captain Cook's third and last voyage

COOK, James and James KING. Reis naar den Stillen Oceaan, ... tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het noorder halfrond, ter uitvoering gebragt onder 't bestuur van de bevelhebbers Cook, Clerke en Gore in de jaaren 1776, 1777, 1779 en 1780. Met de schepen de Resolution en Discovery, ...
Rotterdam, Abraham Bothall and Dirk Vis II, 1788. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XVI, 611, [1 blank] Full description
€ 1,650
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A rare 19th-century Spanish edition of Cook's first voyage

[COOK, James (Don J.M.Y.P. y DON S.C., translator)]. Historia de los viajes del Capitan Cook. Por mar y tierra traducidos al castellano.
Madrid, Doña Teresa Martinez é Hijo, 1853. 8vo. With 4 full-page wood-engraved plates. Modern half black morocco. "211" [= 231], [2 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,750
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French translation of William Dampier's travels in the south seas,
including the first successful English landing in Australia

DAMPIER, William. Nouveau voyage autour du monde, où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusieurs côtes & isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les côtes meridionales du Chili, du Perou, & du Mexique; l'Isle de Guam, Mindanao, & des autres Philippines, les isles orientales qui sont prés de Cambodie; de la Chine; Formosa, Luçon, Celebes, &c. la Nouvelle Hollande, les isles de Sumatra, de Nicobar, & de Sainte Helene & le Cap de Bonne Esperance.
Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1698. 2 volumes. 12mo. With the same engraved frontispiece in both volumes, 6 engraved maps (including 4 folding), and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine and board edges. [10], 315; [1 blank]; [2], "316", [1], 317-616, [4] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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An extremely early and rare Tahitian imprint

DAVIES, John (translator). Te mau Episetole a te Aposetolo ra a Paulo. I to Galatia, Ephesia, Philipi, Colosa, Tesalonia, ia Timoteo hoi, Tito, e Philemona. Te taio ra, e haapao oia iaite. Iesu Christi.
Tahiti, i neia i te nenei raa a te mau misionari ra [colophon: printed at the Windward Mission Press], 1824. 12mo (17.5 x 11 cm). The text is printed in Tahitian, in two columns. Contemporary diced brown Russia, kept in a green slipcase. 71, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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Family album with rare photos of Australia and India in the late 19th century

DICKEN, Charles Shortt and DICKEN FAMILY. [Album containing illustrations and photographs of Australia and India]. [Illustrated title-page:] Contributions thankfully received.
Australia [and England and India?], 1870s. Oblong album (ca. 23 x 30 cm). With 36 albumen prints, including 14 photographs of Australia. These include houses, churches, buildings in Springsure, Queensland around 1870, photos of Charles with his horse, a wonderful picture of an "Alligator killed in the Mackay River" and "bottle trees near Taroon", 5 photographs of India: Bengal Camp Delhi, multiple group photos in Darjeeling, a group photo in front of the government house in Calcutta, and the crew of the H.M.S. Narcissus, 17 photographs of Gibraltar, America, Switserland, art pieces and the Dicken family. Further with 24 watercolour paintings of flowers, landscapes and people, including two of the Taj Mahal, and 17 coloured pencil and ink drawings of people. The drawings and paintings are almost all signed S. P. D. or F. E. D., who were likely members of the Dicken family. Most photographs and art pieces are captioned in pencil or brown ink, several leaves are decorated with additional drawings or dried plants. Contemporary maroon cloth, embroidered with yellow flowers. Comes in a custom-made black-cloth clamshell box (internally covered in burgundy cloth), with a black morocco title-label on the spine, lettered in gold, and a folding liner of the same burgundy cloth. [50] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Solving the mysterious disappearance of the famous explorer La Pérouse in the South Sea Islands

DILLON, Peter. Reis naar de eilanden der Zuidzee, gedurende de jaren 1827 en 1828, behelzende het verslag der ontdekking van het lot van De la Pérouse.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1830. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographed frontispieces and a folding engraved map of Vanikoro. The plates are new for this edition, lithographed by Jean Augustin Daiwaille after designs by (Pieter van der?) Meulen and based on the plates in the English edition. Contemporary stiff sprinkled paper wrappers. X, 336; VI, 350 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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French expedition to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, with 60 lithographed plates

DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César. Entdeckungs-Reise der französischen Corvette Astrolabe unternommen auf Befehl König Karls X. in den Jahren 1826-1827-1828-1829.
Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, [ca. 1840]. 2 parts in 1 volume (text and plates). Folio. With a lithographed title-page and 60 lithographed plates. Modern green half morocco, original boards. 118, [1], [1 blank] Full description
€ 4,950
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Extremely rare Dutch collection of early voyages, including Pelsaert’s account of Australia

[DUTCH VOYAGES - Joost HARTGERS (publisher)]. Oost-Indische voyagien door dien begin en voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervatende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provintien derwaerts ghedaen ... Eerste deel. daer in begrepen zijn 16 voyagien.
Amsterdam, [printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for] Joost Hartgers, 1648.
Comprising:
(1) [VEER, Gerrit]. Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen, door 't Way-gat ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(2) [HOUTMAN, Cornelis]. Eerste schip-vaert der Hollanders naer Oost-Indien ... anno 1595.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(3) [NECK, Jacob van en Wybrand van WARWIJCK]. Waerachtigh verhael van de schip-vaert op Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(4) [NOORT, Olivier van and Jacob van NECK]. Wonderlijcke voyagie by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(5) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Steven vander HAGEN]. Historis journael van de voyage gedaen met 3 schepen ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(6) [MATELIEF, Cornelis]. Journael, ende historische verhael, van de treffelijcke reyse ghedaen naer Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(7) [BROECKE, Pieter van den]. Wonderlijcke historische ende journaelsche aenteyckeningh ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(8) [SPILBERGEN, Joris van]. Oost- en West-Indische voyagie, door de Strate Magallanes naer de Moluques ...
Including: [SCHOUTEN, Willem Cornelisz. and Jacob le MAIRE]. Journael, ofte beschrijvinge van de wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz. Schouten van Hoorn. In de jaren 1615, 1616, 1617 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(9) HEREMITE, Jacques l' and Gheen Huygen SCHAPENHAM]. Journael vande Nassausche vloot ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(10) [BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz.]. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn ...
Including: [RAVEN, Dirck Albertsz.]. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse ghedaen by den Commandeur Dirck Albertsz. Raven, na Spitsberghen ...
"Sardam, Willem Willemsz., 1648." [= Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648?].
(11) [PELSAERT, François and Jeremias van VLIET]. Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae Oost-Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(12) TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinge van Indien ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.
(13) CARON, François. Beschrijvinge van het machtigh coninckrijcke Japan ...
Including:
- GYSBERTSZ., Reyer. Historie der martelaren ...
- KRAMMER, Coenraad. Verhael van de groote pracht ... op den feest ghehouden in de stadt van Meaco ...
- CAMPEN, Leonart. Kort verhael van 't profijt, dienst, ende nuttigheydt dat de Oost-Indische vereenighde Nederlandtsche Compagni in Japan soude genieten, by so verre sy den Chineesen handel bequaemen.
- SCHOUTEN, Joost. Beschrijvinghe van de regeeringe, macht, religie, costuymen, traffijcquen, en[de] andere remercquable saken, des Coninghrijcx Siam. Gestelt inden jare 1636 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 13 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved general title page for the whole collection, a typographical general title page with a woodcut illustration of ships at sea, each part of the collection has its own title page (in some cases two) with a woodcut illustration (the majority the same as on the general title page). Further with 11 folding woodcut illustrations, several woodcut tailpieces, and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. A detailed list of contents is available upon request. Full description
€ 80,000
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Lepidoptera of the world documented from the Austrian Novara expedition, 1857-1859

FELDER, Cajetan; Rudolf and Alois Friedrich ROGENHOFER. Lepidoptera.
Vienna, K-K hof & Staatsdruckerei, 1864-1875. 3 volumes. 4to (29 x 24 cm). With 139 (of 140) full-page lithographic plates showing 2487 butterflies and moths. Contemporary half dark blue cloth, marbled paper sides. [2], 20 pp. + 139 full-page plates Full description
€ 950
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Presentation copy to the colorist of the plates in Fitzgerald's study on Australian orchids,
seldomly found complete

FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond. Australian orchids.
Sydney, Thomas Richards (vol. 1, part 1-2, 4-7; vol. 2, part 1-2), Charles Potter (vol. 1, part 3; vol. 2, part 4 & 5) & George Stephan Chapman (vol. 2, part 4), [1875--1894]. 12 parts in 2 volumes (vol. 1: part 1-7; vol. 2: part 1-5). Large folio (ca. 50 x 34 cm). With 118 lithographed plates (10 double-page) all but 1 coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour. The plates were all drawn by Fitzgerald and lithographed by himself and Arthur J. Stopps. All plates are interleaved with accompanying letterpress descriptions. Contemporary half cloth in a uniform style (various colours) with the original publisher's wrappers (also in various colours: yellow, green, blue, turquoise) mounted on the cloth. The 12 volumes are preserved in 20th-century green cloth boxes with a uniform black morocco spine label. 118 plates plus letterpress descriptions. Full description
€ 18,000
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