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A. H & A. W. Reed, Wellington . Auckland . Sydney . Melbourne, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. introduction by editor, list of illustrations and index. Dark green coloured endpapers with white coloured publisher's logo. Between pages 96 and 97 there are 15 pages of black and white photographs and one page showing an illustration of Captain James Cook. Dark green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. At the rear of the book there is an eight page fold out facsimile map, showing "A Chart of the Sea Coast of New South Wales or the East Coast of New Holland by Lieutenant J Cook Commander Of His Majestys Bark Endeavour, who Discovered and Explored this Coast in 1770". Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black and aqua coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Journals of Captain James Cook and his observations of discoveries around Australia.… Leer más

The Folio Society, London, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover (illustrated Cloth). Very Good Condition/Slipcased. Second-hand copy, the only damages the previous owners bookplate on the olive green front end paper. Illustrated with colour plates, reproductions of drawings in black and white, and four maps. Indexed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 279, [5] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; 15th century; Exploration. Inventory No: 0280439. .

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1.2 kg; (8), 454 pages with chapter notes, source notes, and index, bound in original dark green papered boards, with colour illustrated dust jacket. The top left hand corner of the rear board has been bumped with similar crushing of the dust jacket at that point. There is no other damage to describe. This highly original and wide-ranging book offers a reassessment of the career of the man whose Caribbean landfall in 1492 change forever both the Old World and the New. Is the 1st new assessment in English in half a century and the 1st ever to place Columbus's achievement in full historical perspective, tracing it vividly is the through the last 5 centuries. Dustjacket blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Biography; Exploration; America; ISBN:… Leer más

Bloomsbury, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 288 pp., decorated dustwrapper. Minimal wear to the edges of the dustwrapper, otherwise in very good order. The author manages to make climbing through dark holes many hundreds of metres underneath the surface of the Earth entertaining educational and even exciting. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Exploration; Speleology; Science & Technology. ISBN: 0747548153. ISBN/EAN: 9780747548157. Inventory No: 0205517. . 9780747548157

Sceptre ( Hodder & Stoughton ), London, 1992. reassured. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. It was Stanley's success in the assignment to find Livingstone that 1st won him international acclaim. Subsequently he led to further African expeditions of far greater scope and scientific importance. He completed Livingstone's work by finding the source of the Nile, and he also charted the 2700 mile long Congo River and located the legendary Mountains of the Moon in western Uganda. And, in what was one of the 19th century's greatest acts of geopolitical piracy, he built the roads and established the River Communications that created the so-called Congo Free State for his patron, King Leopold the 2nd of Belgium. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). [10], 401, [5] pages, including 4 pages of advertisements for other titles, chapter notes, bibliography, and index. Black and white photography throughout the… Leer más

Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. List of illustrations, introduction by Russell Drysdale and bibliography. Black coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Before Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley created the greatest intellectual upheaval in the world in the late 19th century, both of them spent a very uneventful time in colonial Australia. This is a tale of that uneventful time. A little rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges. Minor bumping of the top book corners. Light age toning of the text block edges and pages with offset tanning of the end pages. Creasing of the dustwrapper edges with a 1 inch tear to the top right hand corner of the rear panel. Patchy fading of the front panel and sunning of the back strip. Some marks can be seen to the rear panel. Size:… Leer más

Penguin, London, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. List of illustrations, chronology of the voyage of The Beagle, bibliography and index. Illustrated end pages showing various forms of animals and birds. The text is illustrated with colour and black-and-white illustrations, most contemporary to the voyage that Darwin undertook, if not from the voyage itself. An illustrated book dealing with the voyage of the ship Beagle in 1831, with its 22 year old naturalist – Charles Darwin. For five years the Beagle went on a surveying voyage around the world, on the orders of the Admiralty. "For the young Darwin this was not only a great and exhilarating adventure, but the beginning of a whole new conception of the origin and evolution of the various species of life on earth, which, a few decades later was to revolutionise most of the beliefs hitherto held sacred. In this vivid and colourful narrative of the… Leer más

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: map. VI, 182 pages; includes a double page map. The tragic story of Burke and Wills. This book is part of the Australian Classics series. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Slight darkening of the text block, and ruffling of the dust jacket top edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: map. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Exploration; Australia; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0207144133. ISBN/EAN: 9780207144134. Inventory No: 0276508. . 9780207144134

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: map. VI, 182 pages; includes a double page map. The tragic story of Burke and Wills. This book is part of the Australian Classics series. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Slight darkening of the text block, and ruffling of the dust jacket top edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: map. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Exploration; Australia; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0207144133. ISBN/EAN: 9780207144134. Inventory No: 0285535. . 9780207144134

Nelson, Melbourne, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1.55 kg; pp. [viii], 318, [2](blank); double-page coloured reproduction of Ortelius's map of the Pacific Ocean (Maris Pacifici, Amsterdam, 1570), 24 full-page coloured maps, with 11-page key, 170 illustrations (some full-page), including 11 in colour, & several text maps, 45-page gazetteer of Australian place names, bibliography, index; A useful and informative book; the Gazetteer includes details of who bestowed the place names and whom or what after which they were named. very slight rubbing to the head of the spine section of the dust jacket, no damage to the illustrated hardcover binding, no annotations. Size: Demy Quarto. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Australiana; Exploration; Australia; ISBN: 0170018121. ISBN/EAN: 9780170018128. Inventory No: 0282410. . 9780170018128

The Hakluyt Society, London, 1948. Reissued, 1st thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. LI, 292pp., list of plates, list of maps, foreword by Hakluyt Society members, editor's preface, select bibliography, one folding map, 9 appendices and index. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, which folds out, showing H. M .A .S. Dolphin in Matavai Bay, Tahati; the fold out section has a triangular crease [small] running the full length of the page. The text is illustrated with another 5 black-and-white illustrations and two black-and-white maps. The fore paper edge and bottom paper edge are deckled. Blue coloured boards with self embossed decoration and gilt illustration of a ship on the front and back panels and gilt writing on the spine. Hakluyt Society Second Series, No. 98 (XCVIII). The discovery of Tahati in 1766. The first reprint of the original Journal. Bumping with some fraying to the head and to the heel of the spine. Bumping to the top book… Leer más

Allen & Unwin, New South Wales, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 400 g; X, 286pp., acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Black and white frontispiece, showing title page of a 1597 atlas. Throughout the text there are 12 coloured plates, several text illustrations, maps and illustrations at the beginning of chapters. Blue boards with gilt writing on the spine. The endpapers are illustrated with maps. There is minor shelf wear evident on the bottom edge of the boards, and there's an ownership inscription at the bottom right-hand corner of the half title page. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a map overlaid with illustrations. 600 years before the birth of Christ there was an imagined, and immense land at the bottom of the world. "At the heart of 'Discovery' is the power of a myth and the adventures and sacrifices of those who pursued it, for this is a story of how an imagined place was made real, how the speculation is of visionaries… Leer más

Rigby, Adelaide, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various Contemporary. 700 g; 176 pages, includes an index of ships, index of persons, and bibliography. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of documents, and maps and photographs and drawings, bound in papered boards with a colour illustrated dust jacket, the book has only slight rubbing at the heel of the spine and light fading of the spine section of the jacket, and previous owner's name and details at the bottom right-hand corner of the front free end page. As far back as the early 1600s, the Dutch East India Company instructors merger ships to strike out eastwards after the Cape of Good Hope on their way to the East Indies. This brought the company ships close to the West Coast of Australia. Even though there was much danger for The Indiamen in those uncharted waters, the company thought the risk worth taking because the long voyage was almost halved. -- front fold over… Leer más

Oliver & Boyd, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Tom Weir and Douglas Scott -- Photographers. 138 pp. Black and white photographic frontispiece, of Amadablam. The text is illustrated with two coloured photographs and 89 black and white plates, along with two black and white maps. Green coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. Corners are slightly rubbed and there is minimal shelf wear obvious to the bottom edges of the book. The head and the heel of the spine a soft and bumped and dust marks to the top edge. The spine is sunned and the gilt writing is faded. Fading and sunning of the top of the front panel for the first 1" and along the back spine gutter for 2". Top edge of the book is slightly foxed and booksellers sticker on front paste down. Journey of exploration to the west of Everest, climbing and crossing the highest pass in the world at Tesi Lapcha in the early 1950s. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,, New York, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Endnotes, some more books and index. The text is illustrated with numerous reproductions, in black-and-white, of contemporary illustrations, black-and-white photographs and at the beginning of the text a double page map showing the Spanish Empire in Mexico. 1/4 rust coloured back strip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 chocolate brown coloured boards. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and gold coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Specifically designed for young readers; a history of the conquest and exploration, exploitation and the heritage of the Spanish invasion of South West America. Softening of the back strip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Fading to the lower book edges. Some ruffling of the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. Full Number Line. Size: Square Quarto. [8], 216… Leer más

Angus & Robertson, Melbourne, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Maps on endpapers, coloured frontispiece tipped in , 10 full-page & 32 text drawings, illustrated dustwrapper. Peach coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with pink and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Skilfully edited by Sir Grenfell Price, these selections from the journals kept by Cook on his three voyages in the Pacific are reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of his discovery of Australia in 1770. Rubbing of the back strip edges and book corners. Some flecking along the front spine gutter region. Very light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels, particularly the rear with some fading of the back strip. Some age toning of the fold over panels and to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

Dover Press, New York, 1971. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good -- Faded Spine/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Geoffrey C. Ingleton. 500 g; XXVI , 292 pp. with double page map of the Pacific Ocean showing the 9 regions before the voyages of Capt James Cook, and another double page map showing the known regions after the voyages of Capt James Cook Skilfully edited by Sir Grenfell Price, these selections from the journals kept by Cook on his three voyages in the Pacific are reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of his discovery of Australia in 1770. -- It abounds in descriptions of newly discovered plant species, particulars of coastline and land features, details of navigation and impressions of the various Pacific people he encountered. -- Rear panel blurb. Apart from the slight fading of the spine section of the binding, blacking out of the price at the top of the front panel, there is no damage to describe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide… Leer más

Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. a look at Australia's Explorers. the dustjacket is slightly faded on the spine, has split at the lower right and left of the front panel, and rubbing with short tears across the top edge. There is no damage to describe or the binding apart from the usual browning of the page edges. The book contains double page in the page maps, reproductions of drawings and photographs, and small maps. In this book the author deals briefly with events leading to the discovery of Australia then relates in graphic detail the heroism, trams and sufferings of the explorers who blazed the trail across the great subcontinent and laid it open for settlement. – The author also devote some chapters to the adventures and perils of the settlers, Overlanders, and gold fossickers who played an important part in opening up the nearly 3,000,000 square miles of Australia. Size: 8vo - over… Leer más

Phoenix Press, London, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Introduction by Tim Flannery, acknowledgements and sources and further reading. Colour illustrated paperback binding with pale purple and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Starting with Willem Jansz in 1606 through to W. J. Peasley in 1977, explorers of Australia tell of their experiences – the good, the bad, the tragic etc. – in their own words. Minor creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Stains and handling marks to the rear panel with age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 385, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Exploration; Australia; History. ISBN: 1842121170. ISBN/EAN: 9781842121177. Inventory No: 0125721. . 9781842121177

John Murray, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Introduction by author, list of illustrations and bibliography. The text is illustrated with both black-and-white illustrations and photography. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Quoting from the front fold over panel blurb " ... From the lunatic fringe of mainly nineteenth-century exploration John Keay has brought to book another miscellaneous of Wanderers weird and wonderful. Here the evangelist to sailed through the Suez Canal before it was built is joined by the sailor who tried to walk around the world. Here to is the lady who like nothing better than a good mangrove swamp, a sad girl who preferred the dunes of the Sahara, and an explore who always felt fail of his followers. There stories by with "the most amazing tale a… Leer más