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Very Early Map of the Island of Borneo – from De Bry’s account of Van Noort’s Voyages – c1602

An original and rare copper engraved map of the island of Borneo (Borneo Insula) and its neighbouring Islands published by Theodore De Bry. First issued circa 1602 from Olivier Van Noorts journal of his Voyages around the World.

Engraved by Benjamin Wright shows Van Noort’s ship in the bay at Brunei. The vessel is surrounded by local boats. Van Noort’s account mentions upwards of one hundred native proas clustered around him as he set anchor on 1st January 1601. His account of the area is only second to Pigafetta

Van Noort voyage was primarily to set to against the Spanish. It was a mistake as the Spanish came after him and his flagship was sunk and quite a few of his crew captured and executed. When he returned to Rotterdam he had only 48 crew out of 248 and one ship left the Mauritius. But he was the first Dutch circumnavigator and he did have this map.

Price $260.00 unframed

De Bry/ Van Noort famous and rare map of the Island of Borneo engraved by Benjamin Wright- c1602

$240.00

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Shelley – Poetry & Prose

Our favourite Modern Library point of reference on Percy Bysshe Shelley with Carlos Barker English Prof at Princeton’s expert view

Very good condition in a near perfect dust jacket.

Contains narrative poems and lyrical dramas including Promethues Unbound, Adonais and The Sensitive Plant … and Lyrical and reflective poems including Mont Blanc, Sonnet to the Nile and

To A Skylark ….

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest….

Shelley a large dose … makes for a lovely gift …

$50.00

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Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell – Best American Literature

A sought after Modern Library edition in very good to fine condition. With Caldwell’s interesting introduction

One of Life Magazines top 100 books. Realistic picture of the moral and physical decay among impoverished sharecroppers in the American South. A socially significant book that told the story as it really was.

Serious literature … with humour.

Caldwell Treat

$40.00

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Cape River Gold Field – Report of William Rands – 1891

William Rands was Assistant Geologist to Robert Logan Jack. This is his report to the Queensland Parliament on the Cape River Gold Field.

18 foolscap pages of the usual intense observation and detail exhibited by the Queensland geological team of the period. Covers Union Reef, General Grant Reef, Hayward Reef, The Big reef, The Just-In-Time Reef, Hughes Leader, The Mystery Reef (no Mystery!), Springs reef, Mount Remarkable, Morning Star, Martin’s, Bell-Gay, Victoria, and Governor Blackall Reefs and many many more. Crushing reports with yield from Ellen Boss, Treasure and Albion as complied by Commissioner Gill.
An appendix provides a short geological description of rocks and thin section slides of 43 samples taken in the area. The thin section slides being prepared by Clarke of Charters Towers.

The report contain a folding coloured page showing 8 geological sections the first across Mr Davenport and the cape River. And a very nice coloured Geological Sketch Map of part of the Kennedy District by William Rands (50cms by 25 cms) … note our image on the Voyager website is partly truncated because of the limitations of our scanner.

Quality Cape River Report with fine example of the Map

$90.00

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Russian Science Fiction – Destination: Amaltheia (and Others)

We love this soft cover collection of early Russian Science Fiction. Translated by Leonid Kolesnikov and published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow in 1960.

Contains – The Astronaut by Valentina Zhuravlyova; Over the Abyss by Alexander Belayev; The Maxwell Equations by Anatoly Duieprov; The Valley of the Four Crosses by Igor Zabelin; The Golub-Yavan by Kirill Stanyukovich; Flying Flowers by Mikhail Vasilyev and Destination Amaltheia by Arkady and Boris Strugatisky.

Nice condition and we like the portraits and biography placed on a foldout front and back cover.

Interesting rare Russian Science Fiction

$30.00

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Gazette du Bon Ton -1920 – “Let Jardin de L’Infante” – Charles Martin – Early Deco Influence

A beautiful and scarce hand coloured double “Pochoir” by Charles Martin (1884-1934) for the Paris Gazette du Bon Ton published in September 1920. “Let Jardin de L’Infante”.

A beautiful evening gown by designer Paul Poiret . It consists of a bodice and a full skirt in white satin lined with black satin. The skirt opens to a white gauze; and a black satin ribbon bow falls before.

The ultimate in fashion print from a perfect era.

Price unframed for $90.00.

Lovely Deco Bon Ton from the beginning of that era

$90.00

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Very Early Map of the Island of Borneo – from De Bry’s account of Van Noort’s Voyages – c1602

Shelley – Poetry & Prose

Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell – Best American Literature

Cape River Gold Field – Report of William Rands – 1891

Russian Science Fiction – Destination: Amaltheia (and Others)

Gazette du Bon Ton -1920 – “Let Jardin de L’Infante” – Charles Martin – Early Deco Influence

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