NATURE'S EXPLORERS. Adventurers Who Recorded The Wonders of The Natural World.
London. Published by The Natural History Museum, 2019. Royal 8vo. pp.240 with colour and black & white illustrations.map. hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine copy.
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
THE PROVING GROUNDS. A Journey through the Interior of New Guinea and Australia.
HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1991. 8vo.pp.viii + 391, illustrated in black and white and colour. Maps, Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dust Wrapper. ISBN 0246136332 An exotic & touching account of tribal worlds, as well as an exuberant adventure story. The author finds himself in New Guinea , He travels.....
THE JOURNAL OF JOHN SWEATMAN - A Nineteenth Century Surveying Voyage in North Australia and Torres Strait
St Lucia. Published by University of Queensland Press. 1977. 4to. pp. xxxiii+ 208 + 12 plates, 2 maps and 4 figures.Appendix & Index.original dark brown cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy.
HIGH MOUNTAINS AND COLD SEAS A Biography of H.W.Tilman.
London. Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980. 8vo. pp.366 + black & white photographs and maps. Green cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.
PORTRAITS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAORI Painted in 1844.
Wellington, New Zealand: Published by A.H. Reed. 1972. Folio.16 pages of text plus 49 full page platesin colour and a colour map. Half deep red morocco with marbled boards and raised bands A Very good unmarked copy. Limited to 750 copies this No 234. very heavy and will require extra.....
THE EXPLORERS OF THE PACIFIC .
Kangaroo Press,Kenthurst,1988. First edition. pp.248 Profusely illustrated Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust jacket. ISBN 0864172117.
CAPTAIN COOK. Navigator and Scientist. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969
Canberra, Published by Australian National University Press, 1970. Introduction by Sir Macfarlane Burnet. First Edition.,8vo. pp ix + 143 with 4 colour and 18 black & white illustrations. Colour portrait of Captain Cook, endpaper maps of the voyage of the Endeavour in the South Pacific 1769-1770. Previous owners name &.....
WALKING THE KOKODA TRAIL. Do-it-yourself Trekking Guide.
Australian Military History Publications,Loftus, 1994. Quality paperback.pp.x+ 118.illustrated throughout. original owners name on title page else Very Good. ISBN 0646181394.
BARBOT ON GUINEA. Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678 - 1712. Two Volumes.
London, Published by the Hakluyt Society, 1992. 8vo pp.cxxviii,+ 1-328 ;pp.viii + 329-916, with 57 illustrations. index, bibliography. Original blue cloth titled in gilt, in complete dust wrappers now protected.. Heavy set will require extra postage, Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to.....
THE TRAVEL DIARY OF ROBERT BARGRAVE Levant Merchant 1647-1656.
London. Published by Hakluyt Society, 1999. 4to. pp. xix + 288 with black & white illustrations. Blue cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. "Robert Bargrave (1628-1661) was a merchant, diarist and traveller.This work is the first fully annotated, old spelling edition of the whole of Bargrave's journals, and follows his four.....
ARCTIC AMBITIONS. Captain Cook and The North West Passage.
Published by The University of Washington Press, 2015. Oblong 4to. pp.429 profusely illustrated Oblong 4to. This is a New Copy in Original Publishers shrink wrap. ISBN 9780295993997.
SEARCHING FOR FRANKLIN: THE LAND ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION.1855.
London. Published by Hakluyt Society, 1999. 4to. pp.xv + 292 with 13 black & white plates and maps. blue cloth hardcover in dustwrapper.
VOYAGES TO HUDSON BAY IN SEARCH OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE. 1741-1747. Volume I The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742, Volume II The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746 - 1747.
London. Published by Hakluyt Society, 1994- 1995. Two Volumes. Vol.1. pp.xii + 333 with maps and illustrations. Vol. 2. ppxv 393 with map & illustrations. rear of volume one board has a damp stain. .Original blue cloth in slightly frayed dust wrappers. "Volume I describes the naval discovery expedition of.....
FOUR TRAVEL JOURNALS. THE AMERICAS, ANTARCTICA AND AFRICA, 1755-1874.
London. Published by Hakluyt Society, 2007. 4to.pp.x + 404 with black & white illustrations and maps. Blue cloth hardcover in a good dust wrapper, Account of four previously unpublished travel journals, the first of a participant in a Spanish expedition, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Qyadra, from Mexico to.....
COLUMBUS. THE FOUR VOYAGES
New York, Viking, Penguin, 2011. Royal 8vo.pp.xvii + 423 with colour and black & white illustrations and seven maps.Original quarter papered boards hardvover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Fine Copy.
LES ALPES DESCRIPTINS ET RECITS.Avec Seize Illustrations D'apres Les Dessins De E .Rittmeyer
Bale & Geneve, H.Georg. 1868, 8vo. pp.ii publishers ads + viii +448 + 16 full page black and white illustrations. quarter dark green french leather marbelled boards.deep green.a few a little scattered pale foxing there is a small brown mark affecting the margin through ten pages not affecting the text.....
MON VOYAGE AUX TERRES AUSTRALES - Journal personnel du Commandant Baudin
Paris, Published by Imprimerie Nationale, 2001. 8vo. pp.467 with 96 colour plates. further black & white illustrations. maps etc. Original stiff card pictorial softcover with french flaps. Text in french. Very Good copy. Journal of Nicolas Baudin kept during his voyage of discovery to Australia. ON HOLD.
BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. Including Boswell's Journal of A Tour To The Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George Birbeck Hill.
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1887. Six Volues. 8vo Plates , folding facsimile letters etc. Original brown/red cloth. Very Good Set.
BRADSHAW'S DESCRIPTIVE RAILWAY HAND-BOOK OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Oxford. Published by Old Home. 2012. Facsimile Edition. Thick 8vo,512 pages in 4 sections, originally published in 1863,black & white illustrations and maps, original owners inscription to front pastedown. Special Collectors' Edition.with the original belli band. "This luxury edition was bound in leather and printed on fine paper"...
RESULTS OF THE ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS No. 79.Summary of The Archbold Expedition To New Guinea 1956 - 1957.
New York. Published by American Museum of Natural History, 1959. 4to. pp.69 + black & white plates.some minor soiling to the original printed wrappers,
THE ORIGINS OF THE GRAND TOUR. The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville 1649-1654. William Hammond, 1655-1658, Banaster Maynard, 1660-1663.
London. Published by Hakluyt Society, 2004. 4to. pp.xvii + 331 with black & white illustrations. Blue cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. Very good copy. "The long-term English fascination with the Grand Tour was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of.....
THE GREAT PEKING TO PARIS EXPEDITION
Australia. Published by HarperCollins, 2005. Photography by Bob Barker . 4to.pp.140 profusely illustrated in colour throughout.illustrated end papers. Original rust coloured hardcover in complete pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. The fascinating story of the ultimate road trip and the people who made it in 1907 an extraordinary challenge to.....
THE PILGRIM.The Journeys of Pietro Delia Vale.
The Folio Society, London,1989. 8vo pp.xix + 303 + 17 black & white plates and pictorial endpapers. original red and green cloth hardcover with gilt device on upper board.In slipcase. A Fine copy. This book describes the travels of Pietro de la Valle who was born in Rome in 1586.....
LOST PARADISE. The Exploration of The Pacific.
London. Published by Century, Hutchinson. 1987. 4to. pp.248 with colour and black & white illustrations and maps Brown cloth hardcover boards in pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. 'Makes extensive use of contemporary diaries and other documents and illustrations from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society, this book.....
THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS. The Voyages of the Brig Williams 1819-1820, as recorded in contemporary documents and the journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter.
London. Published by Hakluyt Society, 2000. 4to. pp. xv + 232 with colour and black & white illustrations and maps.original blue cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. ' In 1819 William Smith, with a general cargo from Montevideo to Valparaiso, sailed further south round Cape Horn than his predecessors, in the.....