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  • A Map of the Discoveries made by Captn Willm Dampier in the Roebuck in 1699 – Nova Guinea – Emmanuel Bowen – 1744

    A Map of the Discoveries made by Captn Willm Dampier in the Roebuck in 1699 – Nova Guinea – Emmanuel Bowen – 1744

    The important Bowen map of William Dampier’s discoveries along the Papuan coastline and adjacent islands. Dampier sailed in the Roebuck in January of 1699, landing in Shark Bay, Western Australia in July of that year, before going on to explore the Papuan coastline in some detail. This map charts the path of the Roebuck from Timor to the large islands to the northeast of New Guinea named New Britain by Dampier.

    Engraved map area 31cm by 20cm, Good sized blank borders. Some age marks to near border edges, printed area clean, would frame up nicely. Strong black ink printing on wove paper.

    Engraved by Emanuel Bowen (1694-1767), one of the pre-eminent English cartographic printers of his era and geographer to both King George II and Louis XV. Published by Harris in 1744 as part of his great work Navigatorium.

    Bowen’s work was characterised by its ornate rococo engraving and detailed engaging text passages that surrounded the cartographic detail. This map of Captain Dampier’s discoveries is no exception, and features comments on the inhabitants of New Guinea and speculations of the wealth and wonders awaiting future explorers of the region. ‘The inhabitants are generally speaking Blacks, but there is a Nation of Whites seated in one part of it whom some have suspected to be a remnant of the Ten Tribes of Israel, who were carried into captivity by the Assyrians…the inhabitants of the Moluccas are known to trade with the people of this Country for Gold and Spices”.

    Price $360.00 unframed
    Rare New Guinea map by Emmanuel Bowen

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    Shipwreck and Discovery of the Pelew Islands: An Account of the Pelew Islands situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his Officers who, in August 1783, were there Shipwrecked in the Antelope … George Keate – First Edition 1788

    Published by G Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty the King, Pall Mall, Lonon in 1788. Quarto, xxvii, 378 pages. Early full polished calf binding later re-backed, spine in compartments with gilt lettered contrasting labels; unusual circular only and gilt supralibros to both boards. A little wear and a few age marks otherwise a super copy.

    Frontispiece and sixteen magnificent engravings 8 of which are folding. Frontispiece of Wilson and an important folding map of the islands and their relationship with The Philippines, also a three-fold plan or view of the islands.

    The supralibros or emblem to front and back is that of Lord George Nugent-Grenville who was the 2nd Baron Nugent (1789-1850) and Irish politician at one time Lord of the Treasury and Lord High Commissioner
    Of the Ionian Islands – living the high life in Corfu – tough gig.

    Composed from the journals and communications of Captain Wilson and his Officers who in 1783 were shipwrecked in the Antelope a packet belonging to the Honourable East India Company. They hit a reef near one of the Palau (Pelew) Island, a previously unexplored group. The entire crew managed to get ashore safely, where they were well treated by the natives and eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreck in which they reached Macao. They took Prince Lee Boo, one of King Adda Thulle’s sons, with them to England, where he made a very good impression. Unhappily despite of precautions he died of smallpox. Keate was the author of numerous books of poetry, history, and letter, and counted Captain Wilson as well as Voltaire amongst his friends.

    First Edition1788 – the plates in this edition are amongst the finest. Excellent provenance.

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  • Pearls & Savages: Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea in New Guinea – Frank Hurley -1924

    Pearls & Savages: Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea in New Guinea – Frank Hurley -1924

    Antarctic photographer Frank Hurley conceived this expedition as a motivator whilst holed up in an “ice prison” during the Antarctic winter. The result was this landmark book essential to any New Guinea collection.

    The images are exceptional in quality and Hurley managed to bring to life the proud character in the portraits of native people young and old. The writing is full and descriptive, but it is for the Hurley images that this book will be forever remembered.

    A First edition in fine condition published by Putnam, New York and London in 1924. Quarto, xiii, 414 pages with 81 plates from Hurley photographs a map and a frontispiece. A hint of age as good a copy as you will find anywhere.

    Hurley amongst the Pearls & Savages

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  • Sir John Franklin and Lady Franklin Commemorative Medal

    Sir John Franklin and Lady Franklin Commemorative Medal

    A large bronze medal produced by Emil Hafner for the Tasmanian Numismatic Society in 1987 to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the arrival of Sir John Franklin in Tasmania.

    One of 150 examples (there were 40 in silver) finely engraved by Hafner Mint founded by Czechoslovakian born Emil Hafner.

    65mm in diameter with on one side a strong image of Franklin in his regalia his ship HMS Erebus trapped in the ice. Engraved around the edge … Sir John Franklin 1786-1847 Arctic Explorer – Governor od Van Diemen’s Land 1837-1843. On the reverse, a well known yet striking image of the beautiful Jane Lady Franklin 1791-1875 Patron of the Arts in Van Diemen’s Land 1837-1845

    Franklin Connecting Tasmania with Polar Exploration and the North West Passage.

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  • Surveyor’s Prismatic Compass – Retailed by Winsor & Newton, London – Likely Manufactured by Stanley – c1900

    Surveyor’s Prismatic Compass – Retailed by Winsor & Newton, London – Likely Manufactured by Stanley – c1900

    A large working surveyor’s prismatic compass.

    Blackened brass design 11.0 cm in diameter, weighs 500gm. Engraved on the case lid “Winsor & Newton Ltd, London”. This is the famous supplier or art materials and likely relates to a foray by them into materials for surveying / cartography etc. We cannot find another example of a Winsor labelled instrument, so the initiative was likely short lived. We put the manufacturer as Stanley as there are examples of similar instruments by them in the suggested period.

    It really is a super instrument with the added element of fixtures allowing solar measurement or very high vertical objects – see more below.

    The sighting arm still contains its “horsehair” and lifts and extends stays in the vertical position. It has the added feature of the variable angled mirror on a rail that runs up and down the sighting arm for high items or solar observations. There is a “fixing” button at the bottom of the sighting ram to lock the compass for solid reading.

    The hinged prism housing can be moved to its operating position over the base plate. With the compass held steady and flat a notch on the refractor body is aligned with the horsehair on the arm. A compass reading can be taken through the magnified refractor lens. Attached to the arm are two moveable coloured glass filters in red and amber for solar work and contrast

    The silvered compass dial rotates freely, and the glass is free of scratches.

    Below the compass is a short, threaded arm for fitting to a surveyor’s pole or equivalent.

    Bar a short scratch and a little wear to the blackened cover everything is in fine condition.

    Large early prismatic compass with solar reading additions

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    $190.00

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  • The Search for the Islands of Solomon 1567-1838 – Colin Jack-Hinton.

    The Search for the Islands of Solomon 1567-1838 – Colin Jack-Hinton.

    A first edition of this substantial book [size and depth of content] published by the Clarendon [Oxford University] Press, Oxford in 1969.

    Large scale royal octavo, 411 pages, illustrated appropriately with amps and charts. Very goo condition. A heavy book not realty suitable for Overseas postage.

    Starting with the Spaniard Mendana’a expedition and taking in several later voyages of discovery the Solom Islands were finally understood from a geographical form point of view in the first half of the 19th Century.

    The author not only undertook painstaking research of manuscripts, early volumes and charts but also set out himself to understand this elusive group first hand.

    The Solomon Islands probably the best in depth book on the early adventurous explorations that put the islands on the map.

    $90.00

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