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[PACIFIC TRAVEL--AUSTRALIA]. BENNETT, George. Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes, 8o. Engraved frontispieces. 19th-century half calf. FIRST EDITION of Bennett's observations on the natural history of Australia and surrounding regions. Abbey Travel 527. -- NICHOLAS, John Liddiard. Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815. London: Printed for James Black and Son, 1817. 2 volumes, 8o. Engraved frontispieces, 2 maps (one folding) and 2 plates (one folding) (folding plate with repaired tear). (A few leaves repaired.) Contemporary half calf. FIRST EDITION. Ferguson 690. -- SCORESBY, William. Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World for Magnetical Research. Edited by Archibald Smith. London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1859. 8o. Frontispiece portrait and folding chart. Original cloth (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Ferguson 15510. -- STOKES, John Lort. Discoveries in Australia; With An Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. London: T. and W. Boone, 1846. 2 volumes. 8o. 24 plates, 6 (of 8) folding maps, 4 loose in pocket of vol. II, and illustrations in text. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. Ferguson 4406. Together 4 works in 7 volumes, condition varies. (7)