London: John Murray, 1878. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars, which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. Read More about Six Months in Ascension. A Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition

London: Printed for J. Nourse…and T. Davies…, 1772. First English Edition. The First French Circumnavigation. First English edition of the first French circumnavigation (first published in Paris, 1771). Bougainville’s command was to first turn over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands to the Spanish, allies of the French. He tells the story..... Read More about A Voyage round the World…In the years 1776, 1767, 1768, and 1769…Translated from the French...

London: Geoffrey Bles, [1935]. First edition. Capetown, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand etc. Read More about Out of the World

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...

1892. There was an old Fijian legend of walking unharmed through native oven on hot white stones by the Matagali tribe, on the Island of Beqa. On 1 September 1892, the Governor of Fiji, Sir John Bates Thurston, arranged for the "Fire Ceremony" to be performed before the Vice-Regal Party..... Read More about Fiji Fire Ceremony

London: F.V. White, 1893. First edition. Detective novel. Read More about The March of Fate. A Novel

[Munchen; Berlin: Marees-Gesellschaft. Verlag R. Piper & Co. Hersteller: Ganymed, 1926]. Number LVI of LXXX copies specially bound (limitation notice on front pastedown). Deluxe issue. The deluxe issue of this beautifully produced facsimile in color of Gauguin's original manuscript of his collaboration with the Symbolist poet Charles Morice. A version..... Read More about Noa Noa, Voyage de Tahiti]. [Edited by Julius Meier-Graeffe

London: Printed and Published in Great Britain by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Number 86 of 300 copies printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Read More about A Compendium of the East Being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies Made By the Sieur Jean...

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1846. Second America Edition. Suppressing the Pirates of Borneo. An account of Keppel's setting off from Singapore to Borneo where, with other commanders of British ships, and Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak the Borneo pirate tribes were suppressed in 1843-44. A large portion of..... Read More about The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the...

c.1870. French naval officer Paul Émile Miot was the first person to take photographs of the Pacific Islands during a voyage to the Marquesas islands and Tahiti in 1869. Born in Trinidad and educated in Ireland, Miot was something of a photographic pioneer, being possibly the first to use photographs..... Read More about Eight albumen photographs of Polynesia

1842. "A description by Colenso of the service used by the Bishop of London for the reception of three priests from the Church of Rome. On the last page is only a verse - Rev. xviii, 4, 5" (Williams). Read More about He Kupu Wakatupato, Na te Aroha Pono [in Maori

San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, Printers, [circa 1862]. The woodcut is signed by Loomis and shows a tropical atoll with palm trees, small huts and several sailing vessels. The prospectus for the company survives at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, dated 1862 and titled: Proposals for forming a children's..... Read More about Evening Star Joint Stock Company ... Share in the Missionary Vessel "Evening Star"