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Briefe im Jahr 1772 nach Island angestellte Reise betreffen.
Upsala & Leipzig: Magnus Swederus, 1779.
Banks and Solander in iceland
Octavo, large map and chart and eleven plates (most folding), 13 plates in total; contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards. First German edition, preceded only by the very rare Swedish edition of 1777, and followed by London and Paris...
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3910345
Beretning om Corvetten Galathea's Reise.
Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1849-1851.
The first Danish circumnavigation
Three volumes, octavo, tinted lithographs; uncut in the original quarter purple cloth with printed labels, brown boards. Scarce official account of the first Danish circumnavigation. The Galathea made her voyage between 1845 and 1847. Forbes notes that the purpose of the mission...
Price (AUD):
$2,450.00
Ref: #3302735
Sammandrag af Captain Jacob Cooks tredje Resa…
Uppsala: Johan Edman, 1787.
First Swedish account
Octavo, with a folding map, woodcut vignette at top of first text page, with the advertisement leaf; in contemporary pale half calf over speckled paper boards, spine panelled in gilt, original label. The rare first Swedish version of the official account of Cook's...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #3806709
Malningar af Nagra Folkslag fran de Frammande Werldsdelarne...
Stockholm: J. A. Probsts, 1825.
Swedish costume booklet for children
Folding concertina case of 24 individual handcoloured ethnographic portraits, each measuring 88 x 57 mm., mounted upon linen within marbled card covers; with accompanying 24mo booklet of some 42 pp., both housed within original papered slipcase. Ephemeral early-nineteenth century Swedish...
Price (AUD):
$3,150.00
Ref: #3806731
Ett år i stilla hafvet reseminnen från Patagonien…
Stockholm: Lith. Art. Anstalt, 1872.
Fine Hawaiian royal portraits
Quarto, with 12 tinted lithographic plates; a very good copy in original decorated boards. Scarce and finely illustrated voyage account, including handsome lithographed portraits of the Hawaiian monarchs Kamehameha the Fourth and Kamehameha the Fifth. The author, Adolf Ekelöf, was a....
Price (AUD):
$1,750.00
Ref: #3608609
Søe-Evolutioner eller En Orlogs-Flodes…
Copenhagen: Ernst Henrich Berling, 1743.
Royal copy of an important work on naval manoeuvres
Folio, with woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials, engraved allegorical frontispiece and 68 full-page plates, mostly showing various formations, manoeuvring, and engagements of naval fleets; title-page with oval library stamp of "Søe Officerernes Bibliothek Stempel"; a fine...
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #3805662
Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden…
Stockholm: Adolf Bonnier, [1854-1855].
Royal Swedish circumnavigation
Two volumes in one, octavo, with three folding tinted maps, and 20 lithographs (18 coloured) and numerous woodcuts; original brown cloth, gilt. First edition: the official account of the voyage of the Eugenie, the first Swedish circumnavigation, with particularly good accounts of the...
Price (AUD):
$2,100.00
Ref: #3103062