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Potts Point NSW: Hordern House, 2004. First Edition. Fine/Fine. [11.25x8.5in]; xi [introduction], 690 pp.,732 articles with 4000 names of persons and ships, index of persons, index of ships; Gray green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, all edges trimmed, three gold page mark ribbons, light gray illustration of explorers looking at map on a promontory overlooking land on front and back end papers; Pictorial color illustration on dust jacket of Gill painting of Australian "Desert Interior" circa 1846 [also on end papers], black lettering on front and spine; Publisher prospectus tipped in. Raymond Howgego (1946- ) is an independent researcher, scholar and traveler. He has been researching the history of travel and exploration for much of his adult life. His first book in this series, Encyclopedia of Exploration To 1800, was issued in 2003 was the distillation of that research that took some fifteen years to complete. This book is the second in the series and cites more than 10,000… Read More

Potts Point, NSW, Australia, Hordern House, 2004.. FIRST EDITION. Large 4º (28.8 x 22 cm.), publisher's gilt-stamped Saifu cloth with illustrated dust jacket, 3 silk place markers. As new. xi, 690 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Second volume of this massive, extremely useful publication, filling what had been a reference lacuna. It contains 732 articles in about 700,000 words, with numerous cross-references. There are indexes of ships and persons, as well as bibliographies. ***

Hordern House, 2001. Hardcover. New. First Edition thus, as good as new. Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 by Raymond John Howgego. Published by Hordern House in 2001. Hardcover ISBN:9781875567393. Collectible item in excellent condition.

Sydney: Hordern House, 2010-13. . Five volumes, quarto, bound in cloth with colour dust jackets. .xv, 1168 + xi, 690 + x, 724 + xii, 1047 pp,. and xii, 544pp. A fine unused set.. First editions. The vast scope of the Encyclopedia of Exploration makes it a work unlike any other in its combination of historical, biographical and bibliographical data. It includes a catalogue of all known expeditions, voyages and travels from the earliest times to the year 1940, as well as biographical information of the travellers themselves, which places them in their historical context. Over fifteen years in the making, the Encyclopedia of Exploration has been a massive undertaking. The five volumes include over 5100 articles in approximately 4203 pages, some 4 million words. Within the text itself there are many thousands of cross-references between articles, and the work is made even more accessible through extensive bibliographical citations to accompany the articles.Raymond Howgego is an independent researcher,… Read More