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Histoire generale des voyages… Livre troisiéme. Voyages aux Terres Australes ou Antarctiques.
Paris: Didot, 1753.
With Dampier's famous botanical plates newly engraved
Duodecimo, two folding plates, very good copy in contemporary full patterned calf. With voyage accounts extracted from the larger published accounts of Françoise Pelsart, Abel Tasman, William Dampier and Willem Schouten. Of special interest are the two attractive folding plates.....
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #4107558
Nouveau voyage autour du Monde…
Rouen: Robert Machuel le jeune & Eustache Herault, 1715.
A beautiful set of the first full collection of Dampier
Five volumes, duodecimo, with a total of 34 engraved maps, coastal profiles and harbour plans (12 folding) and 32 plates (13 folding) including engraved title pages and frontispiece for volume I-III;...
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4003698
A Voyage to New Holland, &c. In the Year, 1699…
London: James Knapton, 1703.
The first deliberate English voyage to Australia
Octavo, with a folding frontispiece map, four maps and ten plates and tables; publishers advertisements at end; in original eighteenth-panelled calf, spine renewed. The important and rare first edition of the first deliberate English voyage to Australia, one of...
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504930
A Voyage to New Holland…
London: Argonaut Press, 1939. Octavo, frontispiece, folding map and other facsimile plates, fine in half green crushed morocco by Sangorski, top-edge gilt, spine with raised bands. A foundation document in the discovery of Australia, here offered in a splendid binding by Sangorski and Sutcliff. This Argonaut Press edition includes a....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #4504604