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Purchas his Pilgrimes In five bookes [and] Purchas his Pilgrimage.

PURCHAS, Samuel.

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Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes… Sur les corvettes le...

[BAUDIN] PERON, Francois & Louis...

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In somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.

MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.

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A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of...

FLINDERS, Matthew.

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O ke Kumu Leomele, no na Himeni a me na...

[HAWAIIAN IMPRINT] HYMNAL. BINGHAM, Hiram...

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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four...

SWIFT, Jonathan.

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La Découverte Australe par un Homme-volant, ou le Dédale français;...

[RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas...

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Carte de l'isle Bonaparte Assujettie aux Opérations Géométriques de MM...

LISLET GEOFFROY, Jean-Baptiste.

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Charles Noury (1809-1869), a French naval officer born in Nantes, spent a number of years on service in the Pacific where he was entranced by the Marquesas islands. Years later, in his retirement, he studied and shared his collection of Pacific and especially Marquesan artefacts, and his Album Polynésien, an extremely rare and beautiful illustrated description of these and of observations that he made there, was published in Nantes in 1861. Among the wonderful depictions of artefacts the most beautiful of the images is that of the tattooed hand which, particularly graceful and beautiful. Read more here