Missionary Voyages among the South Sea Islands
Boston: Clapp & Broaders, 1834. First edition. An illustrated juvenile edition summarizing the two voyages of the Duff... Read More about Missionary Voyages among the South Sea Islands
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Boston: Clapp & Broaders, 1834. First edition. An illustrated juvenile edition summarizing the two voyages of the Duff... Read More about Missionary Voyages among the South Sea Islands
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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
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. First edition. Read More about Under Tropic Skies
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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...
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London: Printed for J. Nourse…and T. Davies…, 1772. First English Edition. The First English Edition of the First French Circumnavigation. Bougainville’s command was to first turn over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands to the Spanish, allies of the French. He tells the story of the discovery and occupation of the Falklands..... Read More about A Voyage round the World…In the years 1776, 1767, 1768, and 1769…Translated from the French...
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London: Geoffrey Bles, [1935]. First edition. Capetown, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand etc. Read More about Out of the World
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London: The Religous Tract Society, 1895. First edition thus. New Guinea. Read More about Pioneer Life and Work in New Guinea
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London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell; W. and A. Strahan, 1773; 1777; 1785. First editions of first two voyages; second edition of the third voyage. Complete Set of Cook's Three Voyages. A complete set of the official accounts of Cook's three voyages. "Captain's Cook's three great voyages form the basis..... Read More about An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries...
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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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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
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London: Arrowsmith, nd. An account of the cruise of the schooner Chance, 1928-1929 from New London through the South Seas to Sydney. Read More about The Great Dipper to the Southern Cross
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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: F.V. White, 1893. First edition. Detective novel. Read More about The March of Fate. A Novel
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London: John Murray, [1933]. First edition. Read More about The Discoverers of the Fiji Islands. Tasman, Cook, Bligh, Wilson, Bellingshausen
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[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
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London: The Religous Tract Society, 1885. First edition. Read More about Jottings from the Pacific
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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...
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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...
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench. Trubner & Co, 1927. First Edition. ASHLEY MONTAGU'S COPY. Read More about Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands
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London: Holden & Hardingham, [1914]. First edition. Read More about A Journey to Java
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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...
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Doesborgh: J.C. van Schenk Brill, 1875. First edition. Read More about Nederlandsch Oost-Indië. Beschreven en afgebeeld voor het Nederlandsche volk
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New York: George R. Gorman 75 Varick Street, [1936]. Reprint of 1825 edition. From the library of Charles Edison. From the library of Charles Edison (1890-1969), son of Thomas A. Edison and Governor of New Jersey from 1941-1944. Read More about Royal Naval Biography; of Peter Heywood, Esq. One of the Survivors of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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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
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