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The Celebrated George Barrington

Nathan Garvey
The Celebrated George Barrington: A Spurious Author; the Book Trade, and Botany Bay

Introductory Pricing till January 09

Australian: $58 (Approx. US $37, Euro €30)
ISBN 9781875567546
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Captain James Cook, The Greatest Discoverer

Hordern House Rare Books
Captain James Cook, The Greatest Discoverer : The Robert and Mary Anne Parks Collection

Quarto, 174 pages, bound in cloth with colour dustjacket. 133 items fully described and illustrated in colour throughout, with bibliography of principal references and an index.

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Australian: $45 (Approx. US $29, Euro €23)
ISBN 9781875567539
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The Parsons Collection Part 1

Hordern House
Rare Pacific Voyage Books: The Parsons Collection Part 1

Quarto, 128 pages, bound in saifu cloth with colour dustjacket. 138 items fully described and illustrated in colour throughout.

Now available

Australian: $65 (Approx. US $42, Euro €33)
ISBN 9781875567461(pt. 1)

 
The Parsons Collection Part 2

Hordern House
Rare Pacific Voyage Books: The Parsons Collection Part 2

Quarto, 160 pages, bound in saifu cloth with colour dustjacket. 156 items fully described and illustrated in colour throughout, with bibliography of principal references and an index to both parts.

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Australian: $65 (Approx. US $42, Euro €33)
ISBN 9781875567478 (pt. 2)

 
The Parsons Collection Parts I & II

Hordern House
Rare Pacific Voyage Books: The Parsons Collection Part I and Part II

Part 1- Quarto, 128 pages, bound in saifu cloth with colour dustjacket. 138 items fully described and illustrated in colour throughout.
Part 2 - Quarto, 160 pages, bound in saifu cloth with colour dustjacket. 156 items fully described and illustrated in colour throughout, with bibliography of principal references and an index to both parts.

Discounted Price

Australian: $99 (Approx. US $63, Euro €51)
ISBN 9781875567461 & 9781875567478

 
Encyclopedia of Exploration Complete Set of Four Volumes (Special Price)

Raymond John Howgego
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION Complete Set
To 1800 1800 to 1850 1850 to 1940: Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration

4 Volumes Quarto format (280 x 210 mm.), bound in cloth with a colour dustjacket.

Now Available

Australian: $999 (Approx. US $640, Euro €511)
ISBN 9781875567447

 
Encyclopedia of Exploration 4, 1850-1940

Raymond John Howgego
Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration

Quarto format (280 x 210 mm.), 1047 pages; bound in cloth with a colour dustjacket.

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Australian: $295 (Approx. US $189, Euro €151)
ISBN 9781875567423

 
Encyclopedia of Exploration 3, 1850-1940

Raymond John Howgego
Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940: The Oceans, Islands & Polar Regions

Quarto format (280 x 210 mm.), 704 pages; bound in cloth with a colour dustjacket.

Now available

Australian: $245 (Approx. US $157, Euro €125)
ISBN 9781875567416

 
Encyclopedia of Exploration 2,1800-1850

Raymond John Howgego
Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850

Quarto format (280 x 210 mm.), 704 pages; bound in cloth with a colour dustjacket.

Now available

Australian: $245 (Approx. US $157, Euro €125)
ISBN 9781875567393

 
Encyclopedia of Exploration 1, to 1800

Raymond John Howgego
Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800

Quarto format (280 x 210 mm.), 1184 pages; bound in cloth with a colour dustjacket.

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Australian: $295 (Approx. US $189, Euro €151)
ISBN 9781875567362

 
Matthew Flinders: personal letters

Matthew FLINDERS
Matthew Flinders: personal letters from an extraordinary life. Edited by Paul Brunton, for the Mitchell Heritage Series.
Preface by Sir Alastair Goodlad, British High Commissioner to Australia.

Quarto format (240 x 170 mm.), 272 pages, with 19 colour-printed illustrations; printed on Canaletto Liscio paper, bound in burgundy cloth with illustrated boards and a silk book ribbon.

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Australian: $138 (Approx. US $88, Euro €71)
ISBN 9781875567324
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The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages

Kenneth HILL
The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, at the University of California, San Diego. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 2004.

Thick small quarto, with a frontispiece portrait; 685 pages, bound in blue cloth. Fully indexed by author and title, and with chronological index of publication dates.

The new edition available now

Australian: $175 (Approx. US $112, Euro €90)
ISBN 9780939226108
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Broadbent: India, China, Australia

Dr James Broadbent, Dr Suzanne Rickard, Dr Margaret Steven.
India, China, Australia: Trade and Society, 1788-1850

Quarto, 270 x 210 mm., profusely illustrated; bound in black Wilbalin cloth with pictorial dustjacket.

LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Australian: $120 (Approx. US $77, Euro €61)
1200 copies printed
ISBN 9781876991029
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Broadbent: Australian Colonial House

Dr James Broadbent
The Australian Colonial House
Architecture and Society in New South Wales 1788-1842.
Winner of the National Trust Heritage Award.

Small folio (310 x 245 mm.), 460 pages, with several hundred previously unpublished illustrations of original paintings and line drawings, and many 19th-century photographs; printed on high quality gloss art paper, bound in linen boards with a colour dustjacket.

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Australian: $185 (Approx. US $118, Euro €95)
ISBN 9781875567188
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Journals of Captain James Cook

Captain James Cook
The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery
Edited from the Original Manuscripts by J.C. Beaglehole

Four volumes, large octavo (234 x 156 mm.), and portfolio (377 x 248 mm.), over 4000 pages, maps and illustrations; 68 charts and views in a separate portfolio; bound in cloth.

NOW OUT OF PRINT

Australian: $2500 (Approx. US $1601, Euro €1279)
ISBN 9780851157443

 
The Skottowe Manuscript

Lieutenant Thomas Skottowe
The Skottowe Manuscript. Illustrations by Richard Browne. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, commentary by Tim Bonyhady and notes by John Calaby.

Two volumes, 80 & 112 pp., large octavo format (310 x 195 mm.), with 27 full-page watercolours and 26 pages of manuscript in colour-facsimile; printed on high quality gloss art paper, bound in fine cloth; slipcase.

VERY LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Australian: $425 (Approx. US $272, Euro €217)
ISBN 9780908197835

 
Hawaiian National Bibliography Complete Set

David W. Forbes
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 Volume I: 1780-1830. Volume II: 1831-1850. Volume III: 1851-1880. Volume IV: 1881- 1900.

Quarto (250 x 205 mm.), printed in black and red, bound in fine-weave green cloth.

Reduced Online Price - Order NOW!

Australian: $450 (Approx. US $288, Euro €230)
Limited Numbers
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Hawaiian National Bibliography 4

David W Forbes
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 Volume IV: 1881-1900.

Quarto (250 x 205 mm.), 755 pages with 21 illustrations; printed in black and red, bound in fine-weave green cloth.

Reduced Online Price!

Australian: $125 (Approx. US $80, Euro €64)
ISBN 9780824826369
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Hawaiian National Bibliography 3

David W. Forbes
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 Volume III: 1851-1880.

Quarto (250 x 205mm), 735 pages with 24 illustrations; printed in black and red, bound in fine-weave green cloth.

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Australian: $125 (Approx. US $80, Euro €64)
ISBN 9780824825034
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Hawaiian National Bibliography 2

David W. Forbes
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 Volume II: 1831-1850

Quarto (250 x 205 mm.), 599 pages with 20 illustrations; printed in black and red, bound in fine-weave green cloth.

Reduced Online Price!

Australian: $105 (Approx. US $67, Euro €54)
ISBN 9780824823795
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Hawaiian National Bibliography 1

David W. Forbes
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 Volume I: 1780-1830.

Quarto (250 x 205 mm.), 548 pages and 30 illustrations; printed in black and red, bound in fine-weave green cloth.

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Australian: $105 (Approx. US $67, Euro €54)
ISBN 9780824820428
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Hawaiian National Bibliography 1: de luxe issue

David W Forbes
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 Deluxe Volume I: 1780-1830

Quarto (250 x 205mm), 548 pages with 30 illustrations; printed in black and red and bound in crimson half morocco.

LIMITED AVAILABILITY

Australian: $750 (Approx. US $480, Euro €384)
50 copies only
ISBN 1 875567 13 5
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Holden: Photography in Colonial Australia

Robert Holden
Photography in Colonial Australia: the Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book

Small quarto format (265 x 200 mm.), 172 pages, with numerous illustrations; printed on high quality gloss art paper, bound in terracotta cloth with paper label, slipcase.

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Australian: $59.95 (Approx. US $38, Euro €31)
ISBN 9780958847872
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