GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Postal Address: Established 1945 Electronic communications: P.O. Box 1030, (A.C.N. 005 928 503) Telephone: +61 (0)3 9459 5040 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, ABN: 68 893 979 543 FAX: +61 (0)3 9459 6787 Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 38 Voyages and Travels 2012. 1 Alexander, Caroline. THE BOUNTY. The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. Med. 8vo, First U.K. Edition; pp. xx, 492(last blank); 4 double-page maps, 8 col. & 32 b/w. plates, sources, bibliog., index; original papered boards; a nice copy in d/w. (London); HarperCollins Publishers; (2003). #18300 A$60.00 2 Amundsen, Roald. THE SOUTH POLE: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. 2 vols., thick med. 8vo (approx.; 227 mm. by 165 mm.), First U.S. Edition; Vol. I, pp. xxxvi, 392; folding tinted General Map of the South Polar Region at end, 1 other map, 57 plates; Vol. II, pp. x, 450(last blank); 2 folding and 2 full-page charts, 16 other maps & charts, 43 plates, 7 text figs., folding sectional diagrams of the “Fram”, 5 scientific appendices, index; original dark blue cloth, lettered boldly in gilt; (slight wear to spine ends; name on endpapers); top edges gilt, others uncut; a very good set; very scarce. New York; Lee Keedick; 1913. ***Spence 18. A variant of Renard 20, consisting of the sheets of the First London Edition (first impression), with the title-leaf in each volume replaced by cancel leaves with the U.S. details, and the last leaves with the English imprints neatly erased (as issued). It is identical in content to the First London Edition. #62497 A$2450.00 2 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 3 Ashley, Clifford W. THE YANKEE WHALER. With an Introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy and a Preface to the pictures by Zephaniah W. Pease. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxvi, 158; col. frontis., 15 col. & 111 b/w. plates, 12 text illusts., glossary, bibliog., index; original quarter buckram (spine faded & a little stained; some occasional minor foxing; portion of inscription on half-title blacked out); top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy; very scarce. Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge; 1926. ***Edition of 1625 copies. #9003 A$450.00 4 Barbot, Jean. BARBOT ON GUINEA. The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. Edited by P. E. H. Hair, Adam Jones and Robin Law. 2 vols., First Edition; Vol. 1, pp. cxxviii, 328(last blank); Vol. 2, pp. [ii], x, [329]-916; 1 full-page & 4 double-page maps, 46 plates, 3 full-page illusts., chronology, appendices, bibliog., index of places and peoples, index of persons, index of authors & index of select subjects; original cloth; a fine set in d/ws. London; The Hakluyt Society; 1992. #39448 A$135.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 3 5 Barrow, John. THE MUTINY OF THE “BOUNTY”. With illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. Pp. 320; 8 full-page illusts.; (name on endpaper; some partial colouring of illusts. & headpieces - not obtrusive); original cloth; a very good copy. London and Glasgow; Blackie; (1961). ***First published 1831. A most interesting account of the whole affair, compiled from original documents, and including details of the wreck of the “Pandora”, the trial of the mutineers, and the discovery of descendants of some of the mutineers on Pitcairn Island, etc. #35142 A$45.00 6 Beechey, Captain Frederick William: NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S. &c. in the Years, 1825, 26, 27, 28. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 2 vols., First 8vo Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iii]-xxviii, 472; 3 charts (2 folding), 13 plates, 1 text illust.; Vol. II, pp. iv, 330, [ii](title to appendix), 331-452; 10 plates (4 folding), 6 appendices (including Esquimaux vocabulary); bound without half-titles in full contemporary calf (rebacked); (some foxing & browning of plates, but a very good set); very scarce. London; Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley; 1831. ***Du Rietz 68; Ferguson 1419. This octavo edition was preceded by a quarto edition (the so-called “Admiralty Edition”) of the same year (see Ferguson 1418). The work includes an account of Pitcairn Island and its inhabitants (including 3 plates), also Tahiti and other Pacific islands, Kotzebue Sound, San Francisco and an account of China. #34918 A$3250.00 4 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 7 Brassey, [Annie]. A VOYAGE IN THE “SUNBEAM”. Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months. By Mrs. Brassey. With 118 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson chiefly after drawings by the Hon. A. Y. Bingham. Second Edition. Demy 8vo; pp. [ii], xvi, 512(last blank); 1 folding & 5 full-page col. maps, folding temperature chart, 9 plates, 106 woodcuts in text; binder’s half calf (rubbed; maps and plates laid down on linen; considerably foxed & soiled, but sound and complete); scarce. London; Longmans, Green, and Co.; 1878. #15929 A$135.00 8 Brassey, Annie. THE LAST VOYAGE. 1887. First Edition; pp. [ii], xxiv, 490; 2 folding col. maps, 20 fine tinted plates, numerous tinted illustrations and wood engravings in text, index; original cloth, gilt (slightly marked); top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy; scarce. London; Longmans, Green, and Co.; 1889. ***Ferguson 7361. Published posthumously, this copy is poignantly inscribed to Sir William Robinson, In Memoriam, and signed by Lord Brassey. Lady Brassey died on this voyage and was buried at sea on 14th September 1887. This work was compiled from her journals by M. A. Broome and covers her journey from India to Ceylon, Labuan, Brunei, Borneo and the Celebes, then to Australia (which the “Sunbeam” circumnavigated). Following Lady Brassey’s death off the north-west coast of Australia, the “Sunbeam” returned to Portsmouth via Cape Town. The full-page plates and the headings to the chapters are printed in “monotone” by E. Nister of Nuremberg and the wood engravings were executed by Edward Whymper J. D. Cooper and G. Pearson. #64110 A$575.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 5 9 Browne, J. Ross. ETCHINGS OF A WHALING CRUISE, with notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To which is appended a brief History of the Whale Fishery, its past and present condition. By J. Ross Browne. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood. New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. 1846. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 580, 8(adv.); 8 steel-engraved plates (incl. frontis.), numerous wood-engraved illusts. in text (incl. 5 full-page plates), appendix on the European and American whale fisheries and characteristics of various whales; original cloth (spine faded & a little worn; waterstain throughout, mostly in lower & upper inner margins; occasional foxing); a very good copy; very scarce. New York; Harper & Brothers, Publishers; 1846. ***Spence 197; Jenkins, page 84 (listing only a London edition of 1846 & a New York one of 1850); not in Forster or Forbes, although the appendix refers to whaling in the Pacific and mentions Honolulu; Hill, 2nd Edn., 197 (London edition of 1846): “The narrative provides one of the few accounts we have of what life was like in the whaling fleet of the 1840s written by an intelligent and sensitive observer.” #64880 A$1450.00 10 Campbell, Archibald. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, from 1806 to 1812; in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Island, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a Narrative of the Author’s Shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent Wreck in the Ship’s Long Boat. With an Account of the Present State of the Sandwich Islands, and a Vocabulary of their Language. Illustrated by a Chart. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company; and for Longman, Hurst, Rees Orme, and Brown, London; and John Smith and Son, Glasgow. 1816. First Edition; pp. 288, [4](adv.); folding chart, 4 appendices; entirely uncut in the original boards (spine a little worn); an excellent copy; very scarce. Edinburgh; Archibald Constable [and others]; 1816. ***Hill II, 244; Forbes 448: “Campbell’s account of his stay in Hawaii [where he resided for over a year] ... is of the greatest importance”. #57714 A$3500.00 6 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books 11 Carre, Abbe. THE TRAVELS OF THE ABBE CARRE in India and the Near East 1672 to 1674. Translated from the manuscript journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. 3 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iii]-lvi, 316(last blank); 3 folding maps, 2 plates; Vol. II, pp. [iii]-xxiv, 317-676(last blank), [2](blank); 3 folding maps, 1 plate; Vol. III, pp. [iii]-xxiv, 677-984; 3 folding maps, 3 plates, index; original cloth; a very good set in d/ws. New Delhi; Asian Educational Services; 1990. ***First published in the Hakluyt Society Second Series, Nos. XCV-XCVII, 1947-48. #17610 A$145.00 12 Christie’s: EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL INCLUDING THE BLIGH RELICS. [London], Thursday 26 September 2002. 4to; pp. 144; 129 lots, mostly illustrated in colour; original pictorial wrappers; estimates; list of prices realised loosely inserted; a fine copy. London; Christie’s; 2002. ***As well as interesting travel books, the Bligh material includes his coconut shell drinking cup, horn beaker, compass needle, a number of his watercolour sketches, etc.