Pacific voyages before 1770, including collections -- Cook's first voyage -- Cook's second voyage -- Cook's third voyage -- Cook's collected voyages, and general works -- The settlement of Australia -- Blight and the breadfruit voyages -- La Perouse,
and the search for him -- The Northwest Coast -- The missionaries -- English voyages after Cook -- French voyages after La Perouse -- Russian voyages of the nineteenth century -- Voyages of other nations -- The United States Exploring Expedition.
"The Carlsmith family collection of Pacific voyages was carefully assembled over a 40 year period, beginning in the 1940s. Wendell Carlsmith was a man of the Pacific; born in Hawaii in 1904 he was educated at Stanford University. After graduating from Stanford Law School he joined his father in his Hilo law firm... In the course of the firm's expansion Wendell, who was in time joined by his son Donn, travelled widely: they became regular visitors to leading booksellers of San Francisco, London and Paris. Together they build an outstanding library of voyage and travel books, always with an emphasis on fine condition... This catalogue details the Carlsmith family collection of Pacific coyages, with some additions from other sources, where appropriate..."--From introduction.
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