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Viaje alrededor del mundo hecho en los años 1768, 69, 70 y 71…
Madrid: Imprenta de Don Tomás Jordan, 1832.
"Useful and interesting for Spanish youth"
Six volumes, duodecimo, with six engraved plates (one in each volume), original blue printed wrappers preserved, early owner's name on the title-pages, old stamps from Barcelona library, bookplates of José Gallart Folch; a charming set in contemporary.....
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #4106630
Carte d'une Partie de la Cote de la Nle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Cape Tribulation to Cape York
Engraved map, 295 x 335 mm.; original folds. French edition of Cook's chart, based on the original engraved chart in Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. This was the earliest charting of the coast of Queensland; it details the.....
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4504222
Carte de la Nlle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Point Hicks to Cape York
Engraved map, 370 x 785 mm.; original folds; mounted. Perhaps Cook's most famous chart, here in its first French version, prepared for the French language edition of the official account of the Endeavour voyage. The magnificent sweep of the east.....
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #2904309
Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage…
London: Elliot Stock, 1893.
First publication of the Corner Journal
Quarto, with portrait frontispiece, four maps and plates bound in as well as three large folding charts in rear endpaper sleeve; in the original polished wooden boards, morocco spine lettered in gilt. A wonderful Cook relic: one of just fifty.....
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4303378
A Journal of a Voyage round the World…
London: Becket and De Hondt, 1771.
Earliest account of the Endeavour voyage: from the library of George III
Quarto; trimmed fairly closely to the text block; contemporary half calf and speckled boards, with the royal cipher of King George III in gilt on both covers. First edition of the earliest.....
Price (AUD):
$42,500.00
Ref: #4503929
A Journal of a Voyage round the World…
London: Becket and De Hondt, 1771.
First account of the Endeavour voyage
Quarto; a good copy in modern quarter calf and marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. First edition of the earliest published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific: the rare first issue, with the leaf of dedication.....
Price (AUD):
$48,500.00
Ref: #3010828
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas…
London: C. Dilly and J. Phillips, 1784.
A highly unusual coloured Parkinson with the plates in two states
Quarto, second enlarged edition, with a frontispiece portrait, two maps (one double-page), and 26 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring and with the uncoloured plates bound in duplicate; notably wide margins, contemporary binding.....
Price (AUD):
$55,000.00
Ref: #4503971
Voyage autour du monde…
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume, 1797.
First French issue
Two volumes, octavo, six folding engraved plates after Parkinson, a handsome set in contemporary French mottled calf, flat spines gilt, double red and tan morocco labels. First French edition, first issue: the artist's account of Cook's first voyage and the discovery.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #3807772
Autograph letter signed to John Hawkesworth…
London: c. 1771.
First Lord of the Admiralty to Cook's first editor
Quarto, autograph manuscript in ink; single page on a bifolium with address panel; on paper watermarked "LVG" Amusing original letter from Sandwich to John Hawkesworth, ghostwriter of the official account of Cook's first voyage (following item). Sandwich writes.....
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #4504815
Journal d'un Voyage autour du Monde, Fait par MM. Banks & Solander…
Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1772.
First French edition
Octavo, blind-stamped ex-libris to half title; contemporary French marbled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A fine copy of the first French account of Cook's Endeavour voyage, and the first French book on the east coast of Australia. Fréville.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3812970
Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack for the Year of Our Redemption 1775…
Boston: Mills & Hicks, 1774.
Imaginative American almanac depiction of Maori and Aborigines in 1774
Duodecimo, 32 pp., original printed wrappers. Rare American-printed Almanac with an important notice of "An Account of the Inhabitants of New Zealand, (embellished with an elegant Representation of a Warrior of that Nation, and two.....
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4011293