Voyages and the Pacific

[ANSON] BYRON, John [and] Abbé Gabriel François COYER.
The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron… [bound with] A Supplement… Containing a Discovery and Description of the Island of Frivola….
London, Baker, Leigh and Davies [and] Millar, Whiston and White, 1768 and, 1752.

Octavo, two works bound in one, the first with frontispiece; very fresh copy in contemporary sprinkled boards, neatly...

Second edition of Byron's own account of the Anson voyage, bound together with the most famous satire on Anson's...

Gove, 'The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction', p. 317 (second work); Hill, 233; James Ford Bell, B642.

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[ANSON] WALTER, Richard, compiler.
A Voyage Round the World...
London, Printed for the Author by John and Paul Knapton, 1748.

Thick quarto, strong impressions of all 42 folding engraved plates and maps, includes single leaf directions to the...

First edition. One of 350 large or 'royal paper' copies, much superior to the relatively ill-proportioned ordinary...

Alden, 'European Americana', 748/225; Borba de Moraes, I, 32; Cox, I, p. 49; Hill, 1817; Kroepelien, 1086; Sabin, 101175.

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ANSON, George. WALTER, Richard, compiler.
Voyage autour du Monde.
Geneva, Henri-Albert Gosse, 1750.

+, fait dans les Années MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Par George Anson, Présentement Lord Anson, Commandant en Chef d'une...

Early French edition of the famous account of Anson's voyage (there was an Amsterdam edition, in a different French...

Alden, 'European Americana', 750/337; not in the catalogue of the Hill collection; Sabin, 1638.

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APIANUS, Petrus.
Cosmographia introductio...
Venice, Io. Antonius da Sabbio & Brothers for Melchiore Sessa, July, 1533.

Small octavo, with a large woodcut on title-page of an astrolabe enclosing the world, with a full-page astronomical...

Rare early edition, in the popular shortened format, of Apianus' hugely popular work on cosmography, an early...

Alden, 'European Americana', 533/3; Harrisse (BAV) , Add 100; JCB, I, 107; Van Ortroy , 84.

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APIANUS, Petrus.
Cosmographia introductio...
Venice, Sabiensis, 1551.

16mo., several woodcut illustrations; a fine copy in contemporary vellum, slightly bowed, (despite numbering of leaves,...

Rare early edition, in the popular shortened format, of Apianus' hugely influential work on cosmography, an early...

Alden, 'European Americana', 551/5 (two copies only); Karrow, p.53; NUC, 0354519; Ortroy (Apian), 92.

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ARAGO, Francois.
Inauguration de la Statue de François Arago a Paris Le Dimanche 11 Juin 1893.
Paris, Chamerot et Renouard, 1893.

Quarto, 64 pp.; a very good unopened copy in the original grey titling wrappers, some edge wear.

Publication commemorating the inauguration of the statue erected to honour the eminent French physicist and astronomer...

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ARAGO, Francois.
Inauguration de la statue de Francois Arago a Perpignan.
Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1879.

Quarto, title-page with engraved vignette, plus pp. 17-43; spine split else fine in original green printed wrappers.

Offprint by the Institut de France, from the publication commemorating the erection of the statue of François Arago in...

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ARAGO, Jacques.
Narrative of a Voyage Round the World...
London, Treuttel and Wurtz, 1823.

Two parts in one volume, quarto, with a folding map as frontispiece and 25 engraved plates from original drawings by...

The first edition in English of this private narrative of the 1817-1820 Freycinet expedition to Australia and the...

Davidson, 'A Book Collector's Notes', pp. 112-2; Dunmore, II, pp, 63 - 108; Ferguson, 885 (not noting the map in error); FORBES , 562; Hill, 29; Judd, 4.

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ARAGO, Jacques.
Souvenirs d'un Aveugle. Voyage autour du monde… Chasses. Drame.
Paris, H.-L. Delloye, 1840.

Large octavo, 15 plates, untrimmed with an early library stamp on the title-page; a handsome copy in polished half...

Fine copy of this unusual work by the prolific and rather eccentric Arago, which includes vivid descriptions of the...

Ferguson, 2906aa; Hill, 30 (note); not in Forbes.

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[ARCTIC] PEARY, Robert E.
The North Pole.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.

Thick octavo, photographic illustrations and folding map; a little marked especially to the blank endpapers and the...

A very good copy of the illustrated London edition of Commander Peary's own account of his historic attainment of the...

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