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The naval history of England, in all its branches;

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Frontispiece engraved title page, with author's portrait.

Paged continuously.

Head- and tail-pieces, historiated, factotum, decorative initials.

Errata, volume 1, prelimary leaf [12]

With sideglosses.

Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"

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Includes index.

With: Map of King Haakon VII Coast and Queen Maud's Sea, and of Lieut. Hansen and Sergt. Ristveldt's sledge expedition 1905 (compiled by Lieut. Hansen)

With: Route of the Gjöa through the North West Passage.

Hudson Bay, or, Everyday life in the wilds of North America

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Added illustrated title page; illustrations engraved by Berveiller and Morison after Forster, Bayard and Ballantyne.

"Preface to fourth edition", pages [vii]-viii.

Bookseller's ticket: "Henderson & Co., stationers, Ottawa"

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean

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Vol. 1: viii, [1], vi-xii, 370 p., [19] leaves of plates : 17 ill., 1 port., 1 chart ; v. 2: xii, 359, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : 10 ill.; v. 3: xii, 400 p., [17] leaves of plates (2 folded) : 16 ill., 2 maps (on 1 plate); v. 4: xii, 310, [64]…

The history of the bucaniers of America

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Collation: v. 1: [6], 354 pages, [9] leaves of plates (incl. 3 folded maps); v. 2: [2], 406, [24] pages.

Exquemelin's "De americaensche zee-roovers," Amsterdam, 1678, was translated into Spanish in 1681 and thence by an anonymous translator into…