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Scoresby, William | Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World, for Magnetical Research (meer info) | London, Longman, Green, 1859 first edition | 8vo, contemporary calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering label, rubbed and marked, marbled end ... | € 650.00 |
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Stanley, Henry M. | Through the Dark Continent (meer info) | Harper and Brothers 1878 First US Edition. 2 volumes | 8vo, publisher’s de luxe half morocco over marbled boards, lightly rubbed, spines gilt, marbled en... | € 650.00 |
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Wild, Frank | Shackleton's Last Voyage. The story of the Quest (meer info) | London, Cassell 1923 first edition | 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, little rubbed and discoloured. xvi, 372 pages with a coloured fron... | € 680.00 |
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Charcot, Jean | Le "Français" au Pole Sud. Journal de l’Expedition Antarctique Français 1903-1905 (meer info) | Paris Flammarion 1906, first edition | half vellum, marbled end papers. | € 680.00 |
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Percival, Robert | An account of the Cape of Good Hope (meer info) | London C. and R. Baldwin 1804 | 4to, contemporary tree calf rebacked preserving the original back strip, one damaged corner repaired... | € 680.00 |
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Rochefort, Charles de | Natuurlyke en zedelyke historie van d'Eylanden, de voor-eylanden van Amerika (meer info) | Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1662 first Dutch edition. | 4to, recent calf with marbled boards. Frontispiece, title, 4, 3, 12, 475, 11 pages. With 5 (of 6?, ... | € 680.00 |
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Speke, John Hanning | Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (meer info) | Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and sons 1863, first edition | 8vo, original cloth gilt. xxxi, 658 pages and 34 pages publisher’s catalogue at rear. Engraved fro... | € 680.00 |
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Wit, Frederick de | Novissima et accuratissima XVII Provinciarum (meer info) | Map 50x56 cm, 1680, center fold (misfolding) as issued, old colouring, unobtrusive blind stamp in pl... | € 690.00 |
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Anonymous | Discours by Forme van Remonstrantie: Vervatende de Noodsaeckelickheyd van de Oost-Indische Navigatie (meer info) | [Netherlands], 1608 | Disbound. Mild browning, very pale marginal damp stain at top. Discusses the Spanish control of the ... | € 690.00 |
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Peters, Carl | New light on dark Africa (meer info) | London etc, Ward Lock and Co 1891, first English edition | 8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth. xviii, 597 pages, frontispiece and 32 full-page plates, illustra... | € 750.00 |
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Valentia, George A. | Reize naar Indie, Ceylon, de Roode Zee, Abyssinie en Egypte, in de jaren 1802 tot 1806 (meer info) | Francois Bohn, Haarlem 1816-1818, first Dutch edition, 4 volumes | 8vo,13x21cm, modern hardcover. vi, 372; vi, 356; viii, 380; vi, 402 pages with 8 plates. Besides a f... | € 750.00 |
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Charcot, Jean | Le "Français" au Pole Sud. Journal de l’Expedition Antarctique Français 1903-1905 (meer info) | Paris Flammarion 1906, first edition | Publisher's half calf with the original wrappers bound in, marbled endpapers. Very good clean copy. | € 750.00 |
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La Condamine, Charles Marie de | Relation Abrege d'un Voyage fait dans L'Interieure De L'Amerique Meridionale (meer info) | Jean-Edme Dufour Philippe Roux, Maestricht 1778 | 8vo, original wrappers, worn and spine repaired. in a modern cloth drop-back box. Folding frontispie... | € 750.00 |
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Kane, Elisha Kent | Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 (meer info) | Childs Peterson, Philadelphia, 1856, first edition, 2 volumes | A remarkable set, one of the few earliest copies as "Kane's Sea" (now Kane Basin) had not been added... | € 750.00 |
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Fisher, Alexander | Dagboek eener ontdekkingsreis naar de noorderpoolstreken, met de schepen... Hecla en Griper, in de jaren 1819 en 1820 (meer info) | Dordrecht, Blusse en van Braam 1822 first Dutch edition | 8vo, original printer’s stiff papered wrappers, spine with restaurations, later label. (2), 363, (... | € 750.00 |
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Shackleton, Sir Ernest H. | South, the story of the 1914-1917 expedition (meer info) | New York, The Macmillan company 1920, first American edition, “advance copy” | 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt. xvi, [6], 380 pages, foxing. With 88 illustrations and a... | € 750.00 |
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Vivien, L | Atlas Universel pour servir à l'Étude de la Géographie et de l'Histoire anciennes et modernes (meer info) | Paris, Desenne and Menard, 1834 | Folio 34x26 cm, leather spine with marbled boards, 62 double page plates together forming 48 maps | € 750.00 |
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Colonial office | Correspondence on the subject of the removal of inhabitants of Pitcairn's Island to Norfolk Island (meer info) | London, Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode 1857 | And “ Further papers on the subject of removal of inhabitants of Pitcairn's Island to Norfolk Isla... | € 760.00 |
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Roy, Jacob Jansz de | Hachelijke reystogt van Jacob Jansz de Roy, na Borneo en Atchin, in sijn vlugt van Batavia, derwaards ondernomen in het jaar 1691, en vervolgens (meer info) | Leyden, Pieter van der Aa 1706 | 8vo, 19th century half morocco, front hinges strengthened. 190 pages plus index, 2 folding maps (d�... | € 780.00 |
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Barth, Heinrich | Travels and Discoveries in north and central Africa (meer info) | New York 1857-1859 first American edition, 3 volumes | 8vo, in brown cloth.Vol. 1 xxvii, (2) 30-657 pages + (1), 3 blank leaves; Vol. 2 xiii, (2), 16-709 p... | € 780.00 |
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Keate, George | Beschryving van de Pelew eilanden (meer info) | Arrenberg, Rotterdam 1789, first Dutch edition | 4to, half leather with marbled boards, upper spine chipped, joints rubbed. xxxii, 366, (4) pages wit... | € 780.00 |
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Ross, Sir John | Verhaal van eenen tweeden zeetogt, en van verscheidene landreizen, in de Noordpool-gewesten ondernomen tot opsporing eener noordwestelijke doorvaart (meer info) | Zutphen, W. J. Thieme 1836/1837 first Dutch edition 3 volumes | 8vo, printer’s original stiff marbled wrappers with restorations, title label second volume lackin... | € 800.00 |
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Borchgrevink, Carsten | First on the Antarctic Continent, Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898 - 1900 (meer info) | London George Newnes, 1901 first edition | 8vo, red orange cloth with gilt titling on front and spine. xvi, 333 pages and 31 pages ads. With po... | € 800.00 |
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Reid, T. | Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (meer info) | London, Longman etc 1822, first edition | 8vo, 19th century half morocco. xxiv, 392 pages with some foxing, uncut. Scarce. | € 830.00 |
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Casas, B[artolomé] de Las | Relation des Voyages et des Decouvertes Que les Espagnols ont fait dans les Indes Occidentales (meer info) | Amsterdam J. Louis de Lorme, 1698 | Bound with, as usual: [Chevremont, J.B. de] L'Art de Voyager Utilement. | € 840.00 |
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Parry, Sir William Edward | Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific (meer info) | John Murray, 1821 first edition | 4to, contemporary (or original?) cloth-backed boards, lower cover scuffed, (edge) wear. (6), xxix, (... | € 840.00 |
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Dampier, W. / Wafer, L. | Nieuwe reistogt rondom de wereld (meer info) | I. van Campen, Nijmegen, 1772 | 2 (of 4) parts in 1 volume, (5), 80,(3); (4),92 pages, 1 engraved folding map of Africa, Europe and ... | € 850.00 |
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Miani, Giovanni | manuscript copy of a letter addressed to Roderick Murchison (meer info) | Vienna?, 1863 | 7 pages of hand writing in French. With title “L’arbre Miani retrouvé dans l’Afrique Centrale... | € 850.00 |
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Purchas, Samuel | Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations Of The World And The Religions (meer info) | London, William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone, 1614 second edition | 4to, modern cloth gilt. Missing the title-page only. Text starts at the dedication, then To The Read... | € 850.00 |
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Rohlfs, Gerhard | Meine Mission nach Abessinien (meer info) | Leipzig, Brockhaus 1883 first edition | 8vo, somewhat later half morocco gilt with marbled endpapers. xx, 348 pages with a folding map and 2... | € 850.00 |
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Bowdich, T. E. | Geschiedenis van het Britsche Gezantschap, in het jaar 1817 aan den Koning van Ashantee, in de binnenlanden van Afrika, in de nabijheid van de Goudkust, gezonden (meer info) | Amsterdam, J. C. van Kesteren 1820 first edition | 8vo, modern boards. vi, 292 pages with a beautiful hand coloured frontispiece copper engraving “Ee... | € 860.00 |
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Stuhlmann, Dr. Franz | Mit Emin Pascha ins Herz von Afrika (Deutsch-Ost-Afrika) (meer info) | Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1894, first edition | Large 8vo, 18x29 cm, publisher's pictorial cloth, little rubbed and some traces of use, all edges ma... | € 880.00 |
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Browne, W.G. | Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria (meer info) | London 1799 first edition | 4to, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked and corners repaired. xxxviii 496 pages, steel engraved fro... | € 880.00 |
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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913 (meer info) | Constable and Company 1929, 2 volumes Second edition | 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, used and rubbed. lxiv, 300, [4]; viii, 301-585, many illustrations, m... | € 880.00 |
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Piassetsky, P. | Russian Travellers in Mongolia and China (meer info) | Chapman Hall, London 1884, first English edition, 2 volumes | 8vo, half leather with marbled boards. 321; 315 pages with many wood engravings, full page and in te... | € 880.00 |
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Richardson, James | Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa performed in the Years 1850-51 (meer info) | London, Chapman and Hall, 1853 first edition 2 volumes | 8vo, original boards, rubbed, discolourings and wear, spine ends repaired. (iii)-xxviii, 343; viii, ... | € 880.00 |
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Laird, Macgregor / Oldfield, R. A. K. | Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the River Niger, in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah, in 1832, 1833, and 1834 (meer info) | London, Bentley 1837 first edition. 2 volumes | 8vo, original boards, with cloth rebacked/restored, morocco title labels, traces of use. xvi, 452; v... | € 890.00 |
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Ellis, Henry | Voyage en Chine, ou journal de la derniere ambassade anglais a la cour du Pekin (meer info) | Delaunay, Paris 1818, first French edition, 2 volumes | 13x21 cm. viii, 340 and 398 pages. With engraved portrait and 7 engraved plates (views) + 3 folded m... | € 950.00 |
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Krapf, Johann Ludwig | Travels, researches, and missionary labours, during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa (meer info) | Trubner Co, 1860 first English edition | 8vo, contemporary full prize calf gilt, rubbed etc, spine ends restored, gilt edges. li, (2), 566, (... | € 950.00 |
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Chappe d'Auteroche | Reize naar Siberië, op bevel des Konings van Vrankryk ondernomen in 1761 (meer info) | Deventer, Lucas Leemhorst 1771 1772, first Dutch edition, 2 volumes | 8vo, full calf, rubbed and marked, marbled end papers. xiv, (2), 331 (1); (2), 327, (1) pages with a... | € 950.00 |
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(Collins, Wilkie) | The Woman in White (meer info) | London, Chapman and Hall 1859-1860 “All the year round” pre first edition | 8vo (24 x 16 cm), old cloth boards with a repaired spine. 135 leaves and 4 tipped-in paragraphs. Com... | € 950.00 |
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Phillip, A. | Voyage du Gouverneur Phillip à Botany-Bay (meer info) | Paris, Buisson, 1791 first French edition | 8vo. Contemporary marbled sheepskin, (4), 443 pages. The rare first French edition, published only ... | € 950.00 |
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Amundsen, Roald | The North West Passage (meer info) | London, A. Constable and Company, 1908, first English edition, 2 volumes | 8vo 335 + 397 pages with 141 bw photos and plates, two frontispieces, and each volume has a map in f... | € 950.00 |
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Amundsen, Roald | The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram" 1910-1912 (meer info) | New York, Lee Kedrick 1913, first American edition, 2 volumes | xxxv, [1], 392; x, 449 pp. Illustrated with numerous photo plates, plus diagrams, maps (a few foldin... | € 950.00 |
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Baker, Samuel W. | The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile (meer info) | Macmillan and Co., London, 1866. First edition 2 volumes | 8vo, original pictorial cloth, spine ends repaired. xxx, 395; ix, 384 pages with an engraved portrai... | € 950.00 |
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Beechey, Frederick W. | Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions (meer info) | Carey Lea, 1832 first American edition | This copy with the Note bound in from the publisher stating that some of Beechey’s remarks upon th... | € 950.00 |
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Beke, Charles Tilstone | The Sources of the Nile: Being a General Survey of the Basin of that River, and of its Head-Streams: with the History of Nilotic Discovery (meer info) | London, James Madden, 1860 first edition | 8vo, original cloth rebacked with new endpapers. xv, (4), 156 pages with half-title, folding litho m... | € 950.00 |
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Shillibeer, J. | A Narrative of the Briton's Voyage to to Pitcairn's Island (meer info) | Londom, Law and Whittaker 1818, third edition | 8vo, uncut in original boards, rebacked with new label. (12), 180, (2) pages with 16 plates on 12 le... | € 950.00 |
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Shackleton, Sir Ernest H. | The Heart of the Antarctic (meer info) | London, William Heinemann, 1909 first edition, 2 volumes | 8vo, original cloth, spine sunned and with little wear, slight staining to covers. Research Institut... | € 970.00 |
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Nicholas, John Liddiard | Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815 in Company with the Rev. Samuel Marsden (meer info) | London, James Black and son 1817 first edition 2 volumes | 8vo, contemporary half calf. xix, (1), 431, (1); xii, 397, (1) pages with 2 maps and 4 engravings. B... | € 980.00 |
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