Official voyages and expeditions as well as solo or private travel accounts.
Historic and modern, personal and official.
The story of Isaac Gilsemans, cartographer, illustrator and editor on the Dutch East India Company voyages of Abel Tasman 1642-3.
Anderson realised in 1985 that the illustrations by Gilsemans were accurate cartographic charts, rather than mere sketches.
Includes travel to Formosa, Japan, Tonga, Batavia, Tasmania and New Zealand.
ISBN9780909010751
Dutch, exploration, history, New Zealand, Maori
VG- softback, one small PUNCTURE to front cover (only).
$20 C/C
Te Papa Press 2001 first edition, 162pp+ plates.
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The Memorial Edition of the Works of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton edited by his Wife.
Victorian travel in Arabia with much discussion of the customs and habits of the Muslims.
G some faults:
vol 1- upper joint split, head of spine frayed, back strip has been strengthened along the split upper joint with a temporary stiff paper joint, top part of upper board mottled, corners rubbed, first page has old ink 'No.298' faint foxing to closed edges and prelims/ margins, water mark to closed edges (only, not into the text or margins), xxx+,436pp + 1 col fldg map, frontis portrait of Isabel Burton, 6 plates (2 coloured, others tinted lithographs), 1 folding plan and a double page plan, with 8 illustrations in the text;
vol 2- corners rubbed, grease mark to top corner of first and last few pages, Victorian Private Library stamp to first page, some light handling wear to boards, xiv,479pp + 8 plates (3 coloured, including coloured frontspiece portrait of Burton with tissue guard), 1 folding plan ( with lib stamp on verso) and 20 illustrations, including a small plan in the text, a good set but vol 1 could do with a little restoration.
$375 heavy set please email for postal quote.
Tylston & Edwards 1893 2 vols (complete) in the Memorial Edition
[#2024 ]
Encompasses Cook's explorations to Antarctica, New Zealand, Fiji, Easter Island etc.
Illustrated with woodcuts by C W Bacon.
exploration, nautical, pacific
Good hardback reading copy.
Ex-library, cloth sunned and faded, shelf mark [12] to spine in marker, stamps to endpapers, title page and some page margins, covers and stamps only faults.
$45 C/C
Robert Hale 1953 first thus after Golden Cockerel limited edition, cloth, xx 214pp + folding map at rear.
[#5348 ]
Extracts from the Journals of Captain James Cook Giving a Full Account in his Own Words of his Adventures and Discoveries in New Zealand.
australasia, maori, captain cook, H.M. Endeavour, H.M. Resolution, H.M. Adventure, Furneaux,
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Reed 1969 reprint of Second Edition, 262pp+ plates and folding map.
[#3934 ]
First published in 1935, this book takes us into the virtually unknown world of Mongolia, a country historically cloaked in secrecy which has only recently opened up to the west. Henning Haslund was a Danish adventurer who accompanied Sven Hedin and other explorers into Mongolia and Central Asia in the 1920s and 30s. Haslund takes us to the lost city of Karakota in the Gobi desert. We meet the Bodgo Gegen, a god-king in Mongolia similar to the Dalai Lama of Tibet. We meet Dambin Jansang, the dreaded warlord of the 'Black Gobi'. There is even material in this incredible book on the Hi-mori, an 'airhorse' that flies through the sky and carries with it the sacred stone of Chintamani. Aside from the occult, esoteric and mystical material, there is plenty of just plain adventure: Haslund and companions journey across the Gobi desert by camel caravan; witness initiation into Shamanic societies; meet reincarnated warlords; and experience the violent birth of 'modern' Mongolia.
ISBN0932813151
VG softback with light wear at corners.
$20 B/C
Adventures Unlimited Press 1992 first thus edition after 1935 original, xv 358pp + adverts for AUP books. [#2833]
Hidden behind the Himalayas and ruled over by a God-king, Tibet has always cast a powerful spell over travellers form the West. Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval land during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the extraordinary race between agents, soldiers, missionaries, mountaineers, explorers, and mystics from nine different countries to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. Concludes with the Chinese invasion of 1950.
ISBN9780192851321
Tibet, Dalai Lama, history, central asia, Himalaya
VG Softback
$15 C/B
Oxford University Press 1983, 274pp.
[#3540 ]
Mandeville's Travels written between 1357 and 1371 claims to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Islamic world, and into India and China.
The book is based on other contemporary accounts embroidered with legendary or fantastical elements.
VG faux leatherette hardback with no jacket as issued.
$10 C/C
Heron Press (1970s), xviii 278pp.
[#5739 ]
The memoirs of a Canadian Rocky Mountains warden.
Serving in Bannf, Yoho and Jasper National Parks, Sid Marty also writes poetry and literature.
ISBN 0771058527
keywords
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some wear and minor tears.
$10 C/C
McClelland and Stewart 1978 first edition, 270pp.
[#4715 ]
Naipaul's travelogue conveys the disillusionment which he experienced on his first visit to his ancestral land.
Naipaul was a British Hindu, and the book was banned in India for its negative portrayal of India and its people.
British, Hindu, literature, india, travel
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Minor foxing to closed edges.
$9 C/B
The Reprint Society 1964, 288pp.
[#4147 ]