J & SL Bonham Antiquarian Booksellers

• BYRON, Commodore. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP 'THE DOLPHIN'. J Newbery, 1767. [10609]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 187, frontispiece, 2 plates, contemporary brown calf, re-backed with original spine, some small loss of leather on upper cover. £1500
  
  

• CAMPBELL Gordon. CAPTAIN COOK RN, FRS. Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. [10594]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 320, charts, illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket. £25
  
  

• DELANO Amasa. A NARRATIVE OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, IN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; comprising Three Voyages Round the World; together with a voyage of survey and discovery, in the Pacific Ocean and oriental islands. E G House, 1817. [10512]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 599, portrait frontispiece, 2 plates (Abba Thulle and Map of Pitcairn), contemporary black half calf, re-backed using original spine, the cleanest copy I have seen, most copies suffer from foxing and browning. £1500
  "An account by an American of his three voyages to various parts of the Pacific between 1790 and 1807. He called at Van Diemen's Land and engaged in sealing in Bass Strait, of which he gives a description (pp 427-72)." Ferguson 672.
  
  

• HINCHLIFF Thomas Woodbine. WANDERINGS ROUND THE WORLD; Over the Sea and Far Away. Longmans, Green, 1876. [9874]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 416, 14 illustrations, recent brown half calf. RARE. £220
  Charles Wheatley's copy, see page 118.
  

• [KELTIE, J Scott. (Ed)] ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, JOURNAL OF Vol V, January-June 1895. Across Southern Bashan; Notes in Eastern Mashonaland; An Artistic Expedition to the North Pole; The Luchu Islands; Chitral, Hunza and the Hindu Kush. RGS, 1895. [10441]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 648, contemporary half morocco. £80
  
  

• LYNAM Edward. RICHARD HAKLUYT AND HIS SUCCESSORS. Hakluyt Society, 1946. [7364]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 192, 68, illustrations, original blue cloth. £40
  
  

• MEINERTZHAGEN Richard. DIARY OF A BLACK SHEEP. Oliver & Boyd, 1964. [10342]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 364, 24 plates, original red cloth, dust-jacket (fading to spine). £90
  Autobiography of the famous naturalist and author of Birds of Arabia and Kenya Diary.
  

• NORMAN C B. COLONIAL FRANCE. W H Allen, 1886. [10486]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 331, folding map, original purple decorative cloth, spine slightly faded, good, clean and crisp. £55
  Details of all the countries France controls.
  

• PARKER Harry, & BOWEN C Frank. MAIL & PASSENGER; Steamships of the Nineteenth Century; the Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes. Sampson Low, 1928. [5600]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xxvii, 324, 16 colour plates, numerous black & white illustrations, original beige cloth, a near fine copy. £300
  
  

• PUMPELLY Raphael. ACROSS AMERICA AND ASIA; Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China. Sampson Low, 1870. [6813]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 454, 4 maps (3 folding), 4 coloured wood cuts, 8 plates, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, inner joints cracked, but a very good clean copy. £170
  
  

• ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. GENERAL INDEX TO THE THIRD TEN VOLUMES OF THE JOURNAL. John Murray, 1867. [11287]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 228, original blue card, very good. £25
  
  

• RUSCHENBERGER W S W. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; during the Years 1835, 36, and 37, including a Narrative of an Embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam. Richard Bentley, 1838. [11362]
  First UK Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp viii, 450; viii, 472; 4 tinted lithographs, some light foxing to the fontispieces, recent half green morocco. £2250
  Ruschenberger was the Surgeon on the Expedition.
  

• SCOTT Michael. THE CRUISE OF THE 'MIDGE'. Lippincott, 1894. [10719]
  Later Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp 398; 387; 4 illustrations by Frank Brangwyn, original blue decorative cloth. £30
  
  

• SKOGMAN C[arl Johan Alfred]. FREGATTEN 'EUGENIES' RESA OMKRING JORDEN; åren 1851-1853, under Befäl af C A Virgin. Adolf Bonnier, nd [1854-55.] [7250]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols-in-1, 8vo, pp vi, (i) blank, 250; v, (iii), 224, (2); lithographic plates (18 coloured, some heightened with varnish), 6 line-engravings, 3 folding charts, textual vignettes, bound in later blue cloth with recent brown leather label, an uncommon circumnavigation. £200
  Skogman was the astronomer on board the 'EUGENIE' which visited the east and west coasts of South America and Pacific and Indian Ocean islands. Virgin commanded this first Swedish circumnavigation, which also called at Hong Kong, San Francisco, Canton, Manila, Singapore, Batavia, the Cape of Good Hope and the Azores. Only the thirty pages dealing with Honolulu were translated into English (1954).
  "The work is much sought after because of its fine color plates. In the appendices is a section on whaling in the Pacific Ocean." Hill Hill p573; Kroepelien 1196
  
  

• SYKES Percy. A HISTORY OF EXPLORATION from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Geo Routledge, 1934. [11040]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xiv, 374, coloured frontispiece, maps, illustrations, original red cloth, dust-jacket, wrap-round advertisement - work awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Empire Society, near fine. £175
  
  

• TILLEY Henry Arthur. JAPAN, THE AMOOR, AND THE PACIFIC; with Notices of other Places comprised in a Voyage of Circumnavigation in the Imperial Russian corvette 'Rynda' in 1858-1860. Smith Elder, 1861. [11077]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 405, 8 tinted lithographs, original purple decorative cloth, a.e.g, ownership label on upper pastedown. £850
  
  

• WOLFF Joseph. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF DR WOLFF. Saunders, Otley, 1860. [10224]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 2 vols, pp viii, 535; xv, 465; portrait frontispiece, small vignette on title-pages, contemporary brown half calf, small piece of leather missing at head of Vol II, a good, clean set. Scarce. £1200
  
  

• YULE Henry. GENERAL INDEX TO THE THIRD TEN VOLUMES OF THE jOURNAL OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. John Murray, 1867 [10721]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 227, original blue card covers, unopened, fine. £65