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

vp: vd. Including: 1. The New Cries of London with Illustrations. New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850. 16 pages. 15 half-page woodcuts and title-vignette. Original yellow pictorial wrappers, with badminton, tops. etc as outside rule on upper yellow cover. 2. A Brother's Gift to His Sister. With 8 pictures. Yellow pictorial..... Read More about Group of 23 Chapbooks

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

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...

London: John Murray, [1933]. First edition. Read More about The Discoverers of the Fiji Islands. Tasman, Cook, Bligh, Wilson, Bellingshausen

1925. A PIRATE SETS SAIL ON WILLIAM BEEBE'S EXPEDITION. Under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, the Arcturus departed New York and sailed via the Sargasso Sea, the Cocos Islands and finally to the Galapagos. Dickerman's official capacity was as assistant artist to the expedition, a role which..... Read More about Album documenting the Arcturus Expedition, 1925

London: The Religous Tract Society, 1885. First edition. Read More about Jottings from the Pacific

1961. Offprint. Inscribed on the front upper wrapper to Laszlo Magyar on 30/7/79. Read More about Prehistoric Voyages as Agencies for Melanesian and South American Plant and Animal Dispersal to...

London: Holden & Hardingham, [1914]. First edition. Read More about A Journey to Java