Exploration & Travel

First editions throughout, together 9 volumes, comprising 8 volumes 4to text, and folio atlas. Occasional light spotting, late eighteenth/early nineteenth century polished calf gilt, sometime neatly rebacked preserving spines, morocco labels, atlas bound to match, a fine set. [FIRST VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes. 52 engraved maps, charts and views, of which 44 folding; includes 'Streight of Magellan' plate (short tears and repairs to folds). [SECOND VOYAGE] First edition. 2 volumes. 64 engraved plates, maps, and charts (large chart with short tear to fold). [THIRD VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes text plus atlas, 87 engraved plates, charts, and maps. Beddie 650, 1216, 1543; Hill 782, 358, 361; Holmes 5, 24, 47; Mitchell Library Cook 648, 1216, 1552; Sabin 30934, 16245, 16250; Hill, 782, 358, 361; Printing and the Mind of Man 223, Rosove 77 & Taurus 1 (Second voyage); Forbes 62 and Lada-Mocarski 37 (3rd voyage). Height of text: 30 cm Overall width of set: 39 cm; Atlas Height 57cm, Depth 41cm.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lxxxiv, 357; vi (but iv, mispaginated, complete); 509 pp., 2 large folding maps, large folding plate of inscriptions, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked preserving spines, rubbed, internally clean and fresh.

First edition in English. 2 volumes, 4to, complete with half-titles, xlii, 339; ix, 373 pp., 2 pages ads at end, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 folding maps, 86 plates and plans by Michallon after Badia (a number folding or double-page), a little light foxing, occasional neat repairs to large folding maps, modern half calf gilt, a very good set.

First edition. 4to (27.5 x 22 cm)., xvi, 596 pp., folding engraved frontispiece, folding firman, 2 maps (1 large folding), 20 plates (including 16 hand-coloured aquatints), contemporary half calf, marbled boards,neatly rebacked, a large, well-margined copy.

First edition. 4to, xvi, 287 [i] pp., two engraved folding maps, 11 aquatint plates (2 in colour), several folding, glossary at end, scattered light foxing, offsetting from plates, contemporary tree calf, sometime rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, a very good copy.

Second edition of first work, first edition of second, 2 volumes, 4to, xxii, viii, 615; xxi, [iii], 603, 8 pp., first work with 14 engraved plates including the 4 folding plates that form a panorama of Athens, second work with 13 engraved plates and an engraved vignette, uncut, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines in five compartments, morocco labels to second and fourth, others richly gilt, broad raised bands, scattered light foxing, a very handsome set.

First edition. 2 volumes, 4to, folding engraved map and 66 engraved plates (2 hand-coloured, 6 double-page), illustrations in text, uncut in original grey boards, original paper labels, neat extensive restoration to spines, an excellent set.

First edition. 8vo, [viii], 123 pp., original green cloth blocked and lettered in black, light toning, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

First edition, 8vo, xvi, 397 pp., original blue cloth gilt, pictorial gilt vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, neat repairs to hinges and spine extremities, lightly soiled. a very good copy.

First edition. 8vo., viii, 322 pp., folding map frontispiece, 8 full-page wood-engraved plates, illustrations in text, original pebble-grained blue cloth gilt, neat repair to lower joint, an excellent example.