China: Ca. first half of 19th century. Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors. A very interesting and engaging collection of genre scenes. The trees, rocks, and landscapes are particularly well rendered, and the figures are full of life. The pictures in many such albums often follow a sequence of events..... Read More about Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper
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London: Elliot Stock, 1893. First Wharton edition. Read More about Captain Cook's Journal during His First Voyage Round the World Made in H.M. Bark...
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Rouen: Robert Machuel le jeune & Eustache Heraul, 1715. Attractive set of the first collected edition of Dampier in any language to include the related accounts of Cowley, Sharp and Wood. Read More about Nouveau voyage autour du Monde, où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusieurs...
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New York: Collins & Hannay, 1833. First edition. The memoirs of one of America’s greatest explorers, containing the account of the first naval expedition to the southern hemisphere sponsored by the U.S. government. The author gives accounts of adventures in Australia, and includes tales of the rescue of the Rev..... Read More about Voyages Round the World; with Selected Sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South...
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1932. First edition. Dr. Fortune was Margaret Mead's husband to whom the book is dedicated. He spent six months studying the islanders living off the east coast of New Guinea. Read More about Sorcerers of Dobu. The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. With an...
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Exeter: W.C. Featherstone and sold by the author, 1843. Fifth Edition. In May 1820 the author, an experienced seaman, embarked on a sealing expedition aboard the Princess of Wales, landing at Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, and the Crozet Islands, where the ship was wrecked. Subsisting on..... Read More about Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter, with...
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Greensburg, [Pa.]: John M. Snowden, 1804. First American Edition. First published in London in 1800, Gregory's Journal of a Captured Missionary recounts the ill-fated second voyage of the missionary vessel Duff to the South Sea Islands in 1798. It had been only the second attempted missionary voyage to the Pacific..... Read More about A Visible Display of Divine Providence; or, the Journal of a Captured Missionary, Designated to...
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Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1908. Read More about Hinemoa. With Notes and Vocabulary
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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. Francis was the son the rather more famous Frederick Marryat. This is his finely illustrated account of Sir Edward Belcher's 1843-46 voyage on HMS Samarang. The purpose of the voyage was to survey the important ports of Singapore, Borneo, Hong Kong, Macao, the..... Read More about Borneo and the Indian Archipelago
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New York: Macmillan Company, 1952. Fourteenth printing, 1952. SIGNED. Signed by the author on the title page: “James A. Michener Glassboro 3 - 11 - 52”. Read More about Tales of the South Pacific
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New York: Macmillan Company, 1947. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the ffep: "Dear Ted (Spence), It's a deep pleasure to have this in the hands of a man who has been such a constant, friendly help. (and I phrsaed this before you got promoted!) Jim Michener." Read More about Tales of the South Pacific
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Christchurch, New Zealand: Avon Fine Prints, 1969. First edition. Several of the illustrations depicting Cook's voyages are from original art, brought together from a variety of museums. Also included are brief biographical notes of the artists represented. Read More about Captain Cook's Artists in the Pacific 1769-1779
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[New Haven: July 1857. Separately-issued offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series, Vol. xxiv, July 1857. "[Redfield's] last contribution to meteorological science was a memoir upon the cyclones or typhoons of the north Pacific Ocean, prepared at the request of Commodore Perry, to accompany his Narrative..... Read More about On the Cyclones or Typhoons of the North Pacific Ocean; with a Chart, Showing their Courses of...
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London: Printed for John Stockdale … and George Goulding, [1789]. First edition. Portlock and Dixon, captains of the ships King George and Queen Charlotte, set out on behalf of the King George's Sound Company to establish a trade in furs on the northwest coast of America, especially otter furs. Their..... Read More about A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in...
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Boston: Samue T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, New York: John P. Haven, 1822. First American edition. With much on voyage in the Duff and on Tahiti. Read More about Memoirs of Captain James Wilson, containing an Account of His Enterprises and Sufferings in...
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Mt. Vernon NY: Privately printed by William Edwin Rudge, 1927. One of 500 specially bound copies of a total edition of 900. Beachcomber Bill’s copy. A fascinating account of this social and scientific expedition, and a monumental example of fine book production. William E. Belanske’s copy with two photographs aboard..... Read More about To Galapagos on the Ara 1926: the events of a pleasure-cruise to the Galapagos Islands and a...
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