Hawaii and Tahiti

BILLE, Steen.
Beretning om Corvetten Galathea's Reise.
Copenhagen, C.A. Reitzel, 1849- 1851.

Three volumes, octavo, tinted lithographs; a very good set, uncut in the original quarter purple cloth with printed...

Scarce official account of the first Danish circumnavigation. The Galathea made her voyage between 1845 and...

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BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de.
Voyage autour du Monde...
Paris, chez Saillant & Nyon, 1771.

Quarto, with 20 engraved charts, mostly folding, and three plates of boats; a few stains to endpapers and half-title...

First edition of Bougainville's narrative of his important voyage, the first French circumnavigation. Bougainville's...

Hill, p. 31; Kroepelien, 109; O'Reilly-Reitman, 283.

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CHRISTIAN, John.
Original manuscript catalogue of Books in Mr Christian's Library...
Cumberland, (Workington Hall?), 1780.

Tall folio; 405 x 160 mm., 20 pp. (eight of which are blank), manuscript in ink; sewn in old wrappers entitled...

A remarkable insight on the Bounty mutineer's family and intellectual background: the original manuscript...

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COOK, James and James KING.
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785.

Three volumes, quarto, and an atlas, folio, with altogether 87 engraved plates and maps, of which 63 appear in the...

A very attractive set of the official account of Cook's last voyage. The full story of the voyage, and Cook's eventual...

Beddie, 1552; Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 85; Hawaii One Hundred, 5; Hill, 361; O'Reilly-Reitman, 434.

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COULTER, John.
Adventures in the Pacific...
Dublin, William Curry Jnr., 1845.

Octavo; original cloth, spine sunned, library stamp and shelf markings on title, otherwise a fine untrimmed copy.

First edition: with a detailed and lengthy account of the Marquesas in the 1830s where Coulter assumed native dress,...

Hill, p. 70; O'Reilly-Reitman, 903.

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DIXON, Captain George.
A Voyage Round the World...
London, George Goulding, 1789.

Quarto, folding frontispiece map, and 21 plates and maps (a number folding); occasional little light off-setting; a...

First edition of Dixon's narrative, a companion to Portlock's account of the same voyage. The voyage was initiated by...

Hill (2nd edn), 118; Howes, D-365; Judd, 53; Lada-Mocarski, 43; Wagner, I, pp. 207 etc., II, pp. 732-735.

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EKELÖF, Adolf.
Ett år i stilla hafvet reseminnen från Patagonien...
Stockholm, Lith. Art. Anstalt, 1872.

Quarto, with 17 images on 12 tinted or chromolithograph plates; a little browned throughout, small snag to spine but a...

A rare and finely-illustrated voyage account, by a young Swedish lieutenant who sailed on the English frigate...

Kroepelien, 396; O'Reilly-Reitman, 1260.

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ELLIS, William.
Polynesian Researches, during a residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands...
London, 1830.

Two volumes, octavo, with portrait of Pomare, two folding maps, seven engraved plates and 16 wood engravings;...

Second edition: one of the most important works on the history and ethnology of the Society Islands, by one of the most...

Hill, p. 96; Judd, 61 (later edition); not in Ferguson; O'Reilly-Reitman, 7556.

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[HAWAII] ANGLADE, Marie Gabriel Bosseront d'.
Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï.
Paris, Librairie Plon, 1893.

Octavo, folding map; uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers, front wrapper creased.

A fine copy of the first edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by...

Carter, p.157.

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HOMBRON, M.
Aventures les plus curieuses des Voyageurs...
Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1847.

Two volumes, octavo, frontispiece in each volume plus 38 plates in the text; some foxing throughout, small repair to...

A very detailed illustrated history of the grands voyages for children including La Pérouse, Dumont d'Urville...

Not in Beddie.

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