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De Natura locorum
librum mira eruditione.
Strassburg, L. & L. Alantse for Matthias Schurer, 1515
Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca:
or, a compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick Writers; beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English; ... Also, an Appendix, of ... Accidents at Sea; ... To which is prefixed, a History of the Peopling of the several Parts of the World, and particularly of America.
London, printed for Thomas Bennet; John Nicholson; and Daniel Midwinter, 1705
Mundus Alter et Idem ... Authore Mercurio Britannico ...
[Bound with] CAMPANELAE, Thomas. Civitas Solis [with] BACON, Francis Bacon. Nova Atlantis.
Utrecht, Johannes Waesberg, 1643
BUNZO, Maekawa & JUNZO, Sakai (compilers).
[In Japanese] Kaigai ibun [A Strange Tale from Overseas].
Ichimei Amerika Shinwa [A new account of America].
Seifuen Juō, 1854
![W[illiam]. An ode to the memory of the late Captain James Cook. By W. Fitzgerald](https://mayfairbookauctions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MBA006-1-27-300x423.jpg)
An ode to the memory of the late Captain James Cook. By W. Fitzgerald, Of Gray's Inn.
London, printed for G. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; W. Flexney, Holborn; J. Sewell, Cornhill; and R. Faulder, New Bond Street, 1780
![Captain James]. Unveiling of the Cook Statue.](https://mayfairbookauctions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MBA006-1-18-300x231.jpg)
Unveiling of the Cook Statue.
Procession and ceremony, Tuesday 25th February, 1879. Order of procession and programme of proceedings. Sydney, Thomas Richards, Government printer, [1879].
MARCHAND, Etienne; FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret de.
Voyage autour du monde, pendant les années 1790, 1791, et 1792.
Paris, l'Imprimerie de la Republique, [1798-1800].
LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von.
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807.
Frankfurt, Friedrich Wilmans, 1812
Scenery of the East India Islands, Etc.
A series of views of the most remarkable localities, celebrated for picturesque beauty or historical and other associations.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Aug. 1, 1811 - Dec. 1, 1813.
![Gaishi. [In Japanese] Bankoku Tokai Nendaiki [A Chronicle of Foreign Relations].](https://mayfairbookauctions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MBA006-1-39-300x606.jpg)
[In Japanese] Bankoku Tokai Nendaiki [A Chronicle of Foreign Relations].
Edo, Goshudo, n.d. circa 1854.
Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt
unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817, und 1818.
Weimar, Gebrudern Hoffmann, 1821