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Discovery and Exploration History

124270
CALDER, ALEX; LAMB, JONATHAN, ORR, BRIDGET.

Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. viii, 344; text with numerous b/w. illustrations, index, bound in original fawn cloth, title lettered in brown on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
Honolulu; University of Hawai'i Press; 1999. Click here to Order
AUD$40

124029
DUMONT D'URVILLE, CAPTAIN (later Rear-Admiral) JULES S-C.

An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages To The South Seas. To Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829 in the corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee. Translated from the French and edited by Helen Rosenman.
Two Volumes; First Edition; 4to; Vol.1. pp. lv, 312; frontispiece; 27 plates eight of which are in colour; 13 maps one of which is double page; appendices; notes. Vol.11. pp. xiv, 319; frontispiece; 29 plates, two of which are coloured; 16 maps including one double page map; appendices; notes biographical index; bibliography; index; original full canvas binding; title lettered in gilt on red leather label on spine, original slip case with a few marks, very good set.
Carlton; Melbourne University Press; 1987.
Excellent illustrations including sealers hut in Westernport, Sydney Cove, horse races, racial types in New Guinea and everyday life amongst the sailors. Also unique insights into the feelings of the French as colonists who only wish to return to France after making their fortune compared to the English who will happily live in a colony and develop farms and businesses in the colony never returning to their homeland. Click here to Order
AUD$175

124207
DUYKER, EDWARD.

Nature's Argonaut. Daniel Solander 1733-1782. Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks.
First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 380; numerous b/w and colour illustrations, glossary of scientific terms, glossary of Swedish terms, appendix, notes, bibliography, botanical index, zoological index, general index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, minor spotting on top edge otherwise a fine copy.
Carlton South; Melbourne University Press/ The Miegunyah Press; 1998. Click here to Order
AUD$65

124178
FLEMING, JAMES.

A Journal of Grimes' Survey. The Cumberland in Port Phillip January - February 1803. Edited by John Currey.
Demy 8vo; pp. 93, (7); frontispiece, 5 text illustrations, 5 maps, inside back cover a folding facsimile of Grimes' chart of Port Phillip, appendix (Grimes' field book), bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, fine copy.
Malvern, Vic; Banks Society Publication/The Colony Press; 2013. Click here to Order
AUD$50

124114
McINTYRE, DENNETH GORDON.

The Secret Discovery of Australia. Portuguese Ventures 200 Years Before Captain Cook.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxii, 427; endpaper maps, 8 pages of plates, 55 line-drawings (of which many are sketch maps), appendix, chapter notes, bibliography, index of places and subjects, index of persons, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in white on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
Medindie, S.A.; Souvenir Press; 1977. Click here to Order
AUD$50

124118
MACKAY, DAVID.

In the Wake of Cook. Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. (xii), 216; 3 illustrated maps, notes, conclusion, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy.
London; Croom Helm; 1985. Click here to Order
AUD$40