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3 December 2014 | starting at 14:00 GMT

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ARAGO (JACQUES) Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by Captain Freycine, during the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, 2 parts in 1 vol., Treuttel and Wurtz, 1823

CHURCHILL (AWNSHAM and JOHN) A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, 6 vol., Henry Lintot, and John Osborne, 1744-1746, sold not subject to return

COOK (JAMES) HAWKESWORTH (JOHN) An Account of the Voyages undertaken By The Order Of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, 3 vol. bound in 4, including Atlas of plates, first edition, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1773

COOK (JAMES) A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed ... In the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships, 2 vol.,1777; A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 3 vol., with all plates, 1784, FIRST EDITIONS (5)

MARSHALL ISLANDS Album containing 72 photographs, late 1880s

ROMANUS (ADRIANUS) Parvum theatrum urbium, sive urbium praecipuarum totius orbis brevis et methodica descriptio, first edition, Frankfurt, Nicolaus Bassaeus, 1595

SEEMANN (BERTHOLD) Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald During the Years 1845-51, Under the Command of Captain Henry Kellett... being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and Three Cruises to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, Reeve, 1853

TURNBULL (JOHN) A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; in Which the Author Visited Madeira, the Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, the English Settlements of Botany Bay and Norfolk Islands; and the Principal Islands in the Pacific Ocean, C. Chapple, 1813

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CROUCH (GEORGE JOHN) G.J. Crouch's Advertising Medium and Miscellaneous Gleaner, nos. 1-15 bound in one vol., first edition, [Sydney, Francis Mason & Co., for the Proprietor], 1 October 1858-1 May 1859, sold as a periodical not subject to return

TENCH (WATKIN) A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, Including an Accurate Description of the Sitution of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its Natural Resources, first edition, G. Nicol, and J. Sewell, 1793

THEVÉNOT (MELCHISÉDECH) Relations de divers voayges [sic] curieux qui n'ont point este' publiees; ou qui ont este' traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autres voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois... et de quelques Persans, Arabes, et autres auteurs orientaux, 4 parts in 2 vol., Paris, André Pralard, 1683, sold not subject to return owing to the complex collation

Charles Meere(Australian, 1890-1961)The Bellingen River, Northern New South Wales

Kenneth Robertson Macqueen(Australian, 1897-1960)Coastal landscape

Ewald Namatjira(1930-1984)Central Australian landscape, together with three similar works by the same hand (4)

Clifton Pugh(Australian, 1924-1990)A Sometimes River

Clifton Pugh(Australian, 1924-1990)Ibis on the Diamantina River

Attributed to William Buelow Gould(Australian, 1801-1852)Still life with hare and pheasant

Douglas Badcock(New Zealander, 1922-2009)A New Zealand landscape

Douglas Badcock(New Zealander, 1922-2009)A New Zealand landscape

William Henry Raworth(Australian, 1820-1905)Mount Bonpland, Humboldt range

William Simpson(British, 1823-1899)Fujiyama, Japan

Kinichiro Ishikawa(Japanese, 1871-1945)Figure in a Japanese landscape

Kinichiro Ishikawa(Japanese, 1871-1945)Figure in a Japanese landscape

Goseda Horyu II(Japanese, 1864-1943)Ladies bathing in a Japanese village

Frank Dillon(British, 1823-1909)Figures in a Japanese landscape

Clement Palmer(British, 1857-1952)Street scene, Japan

Clement Palmer(British, 1857-1952)River with distant mountains, Japan

Charles Wirgman Sr.(British, 1832-1891)Four observational Japanese studies (4)

KAEMPFER (ENGELBERT) The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol., for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728

KUSAKABE (KIMBEI) An album of 50 views and portraits, [1880s]

HONG KONG A four part panorama of Hong Kong looking across the harbour towards Kowloon, [c.1902]; with a two part panorama of Hong Kong looking from the harbour towards Victoria Peak, 190 x 510, [c.1900] (2)

HONG KONG, CANTON, AND MACAO A collection of 20 views, by Afong Lai, A. Chan and others, [1870s-80s]

KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS) Toonneel van China, Door veel, Zo Geestelijke als Werreltijke, Geheugteekenen, Verscheide Vertoningen van de Natuur en Kunst, Amsterdam, J. Janssonius van Waesberge and widow of E. Weyerstraet, 1668

MASON (GEORGE HENRY) The Costume of China, Illustrated by Sixty Engravings, with Explanations in English and French, William Miller, 1800

MÜLLER (ANDREAS) Opuscula nonnulla orientalia, 9 parts in 1 vol., Frankfurt ad Oderam, J. Völcker, 1695

SOUTHERN SHAANXI A collection of approximately 220 images by Leone Nani, including posed portraits of local people and dignitaries, views of the surrounding region (Hanzhong, Han river, villages) and activities (bridge building, milling, paper making, blacksmithing, street performers, musicians, acrobats, etc.), the Missionaries, their buildings and visitors, [images taken c.1904-1914]

THOMSON (JOHN) Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented, vol. 1 and 2 only (of 4), first edition, Sampson, Low, 1873

Chinese School19th CenturyFigures outside a temple

Elizabeth Keith(British, 1887-1956)'The bridge at Soo Chow'

Cho Tee Tan(born 1942)China Street, (China Town)

Cho Tee Tan(born 1942)Smith Street (China Town)

Lamqua(Chinese, active 1805-1830)Portrait of a gentleman

Attributed to George Chinnery RHA(British, 1774-1852)Portrait of a Gentleman

George Chinnery RHA(British, 1774-1852)Study of a tree

George Chinnery RHA(British, 1774-1852)Steps and wall outside the church of Sao Lourenco, Macao

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