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A Poor "Member of Christ".
Friday Christian; or the First-Born on Pitcairn's Island.
New York & Philadelphia, D. Appleton & Co. [and] G.S. Appleton, 1849.
Small octavo, frontispiece, 4-pp. advertisements at rear; an attractive copy in the original ribbed and blind-stamped...
First edition, and a good copy of this particularly uncommon children's book on the fate of the Pitcairners. The work...
Australian: $1250 (Approx. US $1304, Euro €906) Quote ref.
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ADAM, Paul Auguste Marie.
Lettres de Malaisie.
Paris, Editions de la Revue Blanche, 1898.
Octavo, some browning, uncut; a good copy in publisher's blue quarter cloth.
First issue of the first edition of Adam's most important work. Lettres de Malaisie had appeared as a serial in...
Lewis, p. 1; Manguel & Guadalupi; Negley, p. 3.
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[AGUIAR, Vasco José de].
Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda...
Lisbon, Vicente Jorge de Castro, 1841.
Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of...
A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre.
In...
Innocêncio, VII, 405.
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ANDERSON, George William.
A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World...
London, Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the Original Kings’ Arms, 1784- 1786.
Folio, with 80 engraved maps, plans and views; contemporary diced Russia leather, very well rebacked, bottom margin...
An especially attractive copy of a book that was probably usually read to pieces given the poor condition in which most...
Beddie, 19 (but imprint varies); Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 61; Hill, 18; Holmes (first edition), 54.
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ANDREWS, William.
A Daring Voyage Across the Atlantic by Two Americans, the Brothers Andrews.
New York, E.P. Dutton, 1880.
Octavo, frontispiece and engraved plates, old yellow cloth, circulating library bookplate to rear endpapers and a few...
First edition: remarkable account of an American adventure. This book describes the extraordinary 1878 transatlantic...
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China in Miniature; containing illustrations...
Boston, Clapp and Broaders, 1834.
Duodecimo, 15 plates (14 hand-coloured); fine in contemporary calf-backed boards.
A delightful study of nineteenth-century Chinese life. Issued with 16 plates one of which is missing. The plates depict...
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ANONYMOUS COMPILER.
Voyages autour du Monde. Notes extraites de divers ouvrages etrangers & traductions...
?France, circa 1810- 1820.
Octavo, manuscript in ink on about 140 pages, in English and French; original binding of mottled sheep, heavily rubbed...
A remarkable manuscript compilation of voyage articles, assembled by an unknown writer towards the start of the...
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Les Loix du Roy Minos...
Amsterdam, Francois l'Honore, 1716.
Duodecimo, contemporary vellum, titled in ink on the spine, old patch to lower cover; a good copy.
'Nouvelle edition' (according to the title-page) of an early work in the tradition of Fénélon's Avantures de...
Not in Barbier or NUC.
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Physionomies Nationales des Peuples...
Paris, Delaunay, circa, 1810.
Duodecimo, 25 engraved plates (all but one handcoloured); an excellent copy in contemporary marbled boards, extremities...
First edition of this delightful French physiognomical study of the peoples of the world, which compares the facial...
Ferguson, 505a; not in Forbes.
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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, with strong impressions of all 42 folding engraved plates and maps, with the single leaf of directions to...
A beautiful copy of the first edition, one of 350 large or 'royal paper' copies, much superior to the less...
Borba de Moraes, I, 32; Cox, I, p. 49; Hill, 1817; Kroepelien, 1086.
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