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The Long Voyage Home – Eugene O’Neil

Great Modern Library edition published 1946 in very if not better good condition, albeit with a simple ownership mark “H” on free end paper.

Seven short plays by Eugene O’Neil. Includes … The Moon of the Caribees; Bound East for Cardiff; Ile; Where the Cross is Made; The Rope and our favourite “In the Zone” and of course the title play The Long Voyage Home.

Nautical Plays for Salty Dogs

$40.00

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Captain Henry Byam Martin R.N. – Polynesian Journal

Published by the Peabody Museum in 1981, Octavo 192 pages beautifully illustrated. A very good copy in a complete dust jacket.

Captain Martin’s first command, H.M.S. Grampus with orders to sail for Hawaii to await further orders which were to sail for Tahiti the French planning to subjugate the island, which they did by “bloody force”.

The actual journal was in the bowels of the British Museum … it is characterised by in the moment observations and a sense of humour regarding the struggle between the French and the British and the oft hopeless position the islanders found themselves in.

The text of an important one time “lost” journal .

$40.00

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James Mario Matra – Alan Frost

His precarious life magnificently presented by Alan Frost and The Miegunyah Press. A fine edition 1995 first. Large octavo, 264 pages printed on Pageantry text cream paper and limited to 1,000 copies.

Matra sailed with Cook on his first voyage on the Endeavour and famously published the account of that voyage anonymously before the official account. He lost his inheritance in the American war of Independence but was helped out by Joseph Banks. He had grand plans of his own for NSW which did not come to fruition .. he saw out his later years as Consul at Tangier.

Matra the first to report Cook’s Voyage

$60.00

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The Journal of Philip Gidley King: Lieutenant RN 1787-1790

Published by Australian Documents Library, Sydney 1980. Hard cover in good condition with good dust jacket. Quarto 401pages with 17 black and white plates.

The first publication of the private journal purchased by the Mitchell Library from the King family in 1933. The journal of his time at Norfolk Island and New Zealand has an immediacy lacking other accounts

Philip Gidley King – First Hand

$70.00

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North West to Fortune (The Discovery of the North West Passage) – Stefansson – First UK Edition 1960

Prolific explorer and writer Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s last book on the history of solving the North West passage. A first British edition published by Allen & Unwin in 1960 … Stefansson died in 1962 at 83 years of age. Octavo, 356 pages after preliminaries, end paper maps, very good condition.

Given his exploration record and the many years spent within the Arctic Circle who better to write this book. Starting the primary objectives of Columbus and Cabot to find route west to the Far East. The first recorded note of the concept is that of Robert Thorne, merchant of Bristol who produced two papers preserved by Hackluyt one addressed to Henry VIII … “I know it to be my bounden duty to manifest this secret to your Grace, which hitherto, I suppose, has been hid”. The proof was more difficult and many lives were lost.

Stefansson’s record goes well beyond the broader list of adventurers Cook, Franklin, McClure (in search of Franklin) and John Rae and later Amundsen. He covers in detail the efforts of the Fur Traders and finally the epoch-making achievement” of the US submarine, Nautilus.

North West Passage complete by Stefansson

$60.00

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Unusual Microscope Slide – Foraminifera from East Pacific

A modern equivalent of the HMS Dart slide from scientific research conducted in the Eastern Pacific. Multiple location grid style slide and a note of the number and position of samples on the Ocean floor with a record of depth surveyed and summary of findings. Excellent condition.

Unusual example significant number of forams.

$60.00

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