Exploration

Rondoy – An Expedition in the Peruvian Andes – David Wall – First 1965

Published by John Murray, London. A very good copy of a special climbing book.

The LSE expedition to climb 19,300 foot Rondoy in the Peruvian Andes in 1963. Bebbington (the leader) and Sadler lost their lives. A well told and emotional story with special photographs of the breath-taking Mountain scenery.

Exceptional Climb

$40.00

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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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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 1915 September – Exploration in the Northern Japanese Alps – Walter Weston

An exceptional mountaineering report detailing explorations in the wild and unfamiliar regions of the northern Japanese Alps, featuring the ‘Great Lotus Peak’ (O Renge), Shirouma, Shiro-Uma-Dake, Yari-Ga-Take, Akashina, Nakabusa, Yarigatake, Hodaka and the Shirasawa ravine, illustrated with photographic plates and a fold-out colour map. With interesting remarks on ancient customs practiced in remote high altitude villages.

Weston (1861-1940), is regarded as the father of mountaineering in Japan. It is largely due to him that Japanese Alpine Club was created. The map to illustrate this paper was based on the latest maps of the Topographical Survey of Japan, with alterations and additions, as existing maps needed many corrections in the mountain regions.

Weston’s post in Japan was that of a Chaplain at Yokohama, but he found leisure to go off into the interior of the country, and particularly these mountain districts, of which he knew more than any other European.

The remainder of this complete edition includes the exploration of the Itari River, Forest and their Pygmies by Cuthbert Christie

$90.00

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This Accursed Land – Lennard Bickel

Published by MacMillan, Melbourne 1977. 210 pages with good photographic illustrations and good end paper maps. Very good condition.

Lennard Bickel’s well written account of Mawson’s epic and tragic journey of the “Australian Party” across 600 miles of unexplored frozen waste.

Mawson had declined Scott’s invitation to join the party to the South Pole to lead this eparate expedition. Sadly Ninnis died at the extremity of their effort. Failing supplies required Mawson and Mertz to partly live off their dogs. Mertz died half way back leaving Mawson to complete what Sir Edmund Hillary to later describe as “the greatest story of lone survival in Polar exploration”

Mawson’s epic journey – well documented

$25.00

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The Identity of Captain Cook’s Kangaroo – Morrison-Scott & Sawyer – British Museum -1950

Card cover Bulletin Volume 1 No 3 from the British Museum … brief 10 pages in total … nice images.

Captain Cook took back three kangaroo specimens all from the Endeavour River. The skull of one was in the Royal College of Surgeons, London until it was destroyed by a bomb in WWII. The only figure of original material is the plate in Hawkesworth, this was later copied even though it is a poor depiction (it was a skin after all). Then there is the painting of a skull by Nathaniel Dunce most likely one of Cook’s. And then a photograph (reproduced here) of the R.C.S. bombed skull.

Unusual kangaroos certified

$25.00

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Papers – Royal Society Tasmania – 1890

The Papers and Proceeding printed at the Mercury, Hobart 1891.

An important journal including James Backhouse Walker’s paper on the discovery and Occupation of Port Dalrymple and Baron Von Mueller’s report on the discovery of new Tasmanian plants with a nice engraved plate. A large folding facsimile of the rare chart of Van Diemen’s Land (the South Extremity) by Captain John Hayes (1798) is of considerable interest to the cartographic collector.

Nice chart and important papers.

$90.00

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Rondoy – An Expedition in the Peruvian Andes – David Wall – First 1965

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

The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 1915 September – Exploration in the Northern Japanese Alps – Walter Weston

This Accursed Land – Lennard Bickel

The Identity of Captain Cook’s Kangaroo – Morrison-Scott & Sawyer – British Museum -1950

Papers – Royal Society Tasmania – 1890

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