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Lot 31

FORREST, Thomas.

A Voyage to New Guinea,
£1500 - £2000

A Voyage to New Guinea, 98500
and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: including an Account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other Islands; and illustrated with thirty Copperplates, performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the Honourable East India Company, during the Years 1774, 1775, and 1776, by ... To which is added, a Vocabulary of the Magindano Tongue.
London, Scott, 1779

Lot 32
£4500 - £5500

A Voyage round the World, 98311 in His Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution. [with] Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on physical Geography, natural History and ethic Philosophy. London, I. B. White, J. Robson, P. Elmsly, and G. Robinson; II. G. Robinson 1777 & 1778.

Lot 33

FORSTER, Georg; KOZLOV, Nikolai (translator).

[The Journey to the Southern Sea of the Captain of the French Fleet Jean François Surville taken by him in 1769...]
£2500 - £3500

[The Journey to the Southern Sea of the Captain of the French Fleet Jean François Surville taken by him in 1769...] 98615
Путешествие в Южное Море Французкого Флота Капитана Жан Франсуа Сюрвилля.
St. Petersburg, 1797

Lot 34

FORSTER, Georg.

Von Brodbaum.
£2500 - £3500

Von Brodbaum. 98420 Kassel, privately printed, 1784

Lot 35

FORSTER, Georg.

Kleine Schriften:
£2000 - £3000

Kleine Schriften: 98515 Ein Beytrag zur Völker- und Länderkunde, Naturgeschichte, und Philosophie des Lebens. Leipzig, Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1789 [–1797].

Lot 36

FORSTER, Johann Reinhold.

Characteres generum plantarum,
£2500 - £3500

Characteres generum plantarum, 98576
quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis MDCCLXXII-MDCCLXXV. Joannes Reinoldus Forster, LL.D. Societ. Reg. Scient. ut & Antiq. ap. Lond. Sodalis. et Georgius Forster.
London, prostant apud B. White, T. Cadell, & P. Elmsly, 1776

Lot 37

FORSTER, Johann Reinold.

Enchiridion historiae naturali inserviens.
£2000 - £3000

Enchiridion historiae naturali inserviens. 98475 Halle, Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1788

Lot 38

GIANETTI, Michelangiolo.

Elogy of Captain James Cook.
£2500 - £3500

Elogy of Captain James Cook. 98460
Comprised and publickly recited before the Royal Academy of Florence. Translated into English by a Member of the Royal Academy of Florence.
Florence, for Gaetano Cambiagi, 1785

Lot 39

HALL, Joseph.

Mundus Alter et Idem ... Authore Mercurio Britannico ...
£3000 - £4000

Mundus Alter et Idem ... Authore Mercurio Britannico ... 98543
[Bound with] CAMPANELAE, Thomas. Civitas Solis [with] BACON, Francis Bacon. Nova Atlantis.
Utrecht, Johannes Waesberg, 1643

Lot 40

HAMILTON, George.

A Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora.
£4000 - £6000

A Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. 97377
Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards In the Years 1790, 1791, and 1792. With the discoveries made in the South-Sea; and the many Distresses experienced by the Crew from Shipwreck and Famine, in a Voyage of Eleven Hundred Miles in open Boats, between Endeavour Straits and the Island of Timor.
Berwick, W. Phorson; B. Law & Son, 1793