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Establishment of a colony at Port Phillips (Melbourne) and the foundation of Hobart

TUCKEY, James Hingston. Bericht von einer Reise nach Neu-Süd-Wallis um zu Port-Philipp in der Bass's Strasse eine Kolonie anzulegen. Gethan in dem Schiffe Kalkutta in den Jahren 1802, 1803 und 1804.
Weimar, Im Verlage des F.G. priv. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs 1805. 8vo. Contemporary blue paper over boards. VI, 136 pp. Full description
€ 500
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Imaginary Dutch travels in Australia

[VAIRASSE D'ALAIS, Denis]. Histoire des Sevarambes, peuples qui habitent une partie du troisiéme continent, communément appellé la Terre Australe.
Amsterdam, Etienne Roger, 1702. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece (repeated in volume 2) and 2 title-pages printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down, with a new red title-label. 333, [1 blank]; 303, [25] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Australia Imaginary Voyages & Utopias VOC
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The Rodney Davidson copy of an incredibly rare Australiana publication about De Vlamingh's voyage to Australia in 1696-97

[VLAMINGH, Willem de (subject); Mandrop TORST (attributed)]. Journaal wegens een voyagie, gedaan op order der Hollandsche Oost-Indische Maatschappy in de jaaren 1696 en 1697 ...
Amsterdam, Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsvelt, Philip Verbeek, and Jan Lamsvelt, 1701. Small 4to. With a small woodcut vignette on the title page and one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the text. 18th-century marbled wrappers, later endpapers, kept in a gold-tooled quarter blue morocco and blue cloth custom box, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. 24 pp. Full description
€ 550,000
Australia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC
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The famous circumnavigation by Jacques L'Hermite, with a description of Peru and Chile by Madriga and Spilbergen

[WALBEECK, Johan van]. Journael van de Nassausche vloot, ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aert-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen.
Amsterdam, Joost Hartgertsz., 1648. 4to. With half-page woodcut with two ships on the title-page and a large double-page engraved plate. 18th-century marbled wrappers. [2], 76 [ i.e 78] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
Chile Circumnavigation Latin America Navigation Pacific Islands Peru South America Travel & Voyages Pacific Travel & Voyages South America VOC
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Extremely rare 1788 Russian edition of Zimmermann's account of Cook's third voyage

ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Posliednee puteshestvie okolo svieta Kapitana Kuka s obstoiatel'stvami o ego zhizni i smerti ...
St Petersburg, P.B. [= Peter Bogdanovich], 1788. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [4], 211, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 28,500
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