Maritime Catalogue #107

18430
ABRANSON, Erik
SHIPS OF THE HIGH SEAS
$5.00 AUD

Cassell. Melbourne. 1977. 1st Australian edition. 124 PP with b/w & colour illustrations, including 20 paintings by Edward Mortelmans. Title spread: Steamship Ruatehu & sailing ship Turakina. Eps: Plans of a ship of 74 guns. Pictorial laminated boards. Very good. 28 x 21.5. 0726900060

The gradual evolution of vessels dependent upon manpower, wind & weather, to the modern vessels using computer technology & nuclear power.

69007
ACE - CRC
ANTARCTIC CLIMATE & ECOSYSTEMS CRC - Year in Review 2010
$15.00 AUD

Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. Hobart. 2011. 1st edition with a foreword by A.J. Press, CEO. 52 PP with colour illustrations: 1 map and 50 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21

52206
ANDERSON, David
THE SPANISH ARMADA
$15.00 AUD

Macdonald & National Maritime Museum. London. 1988. 1st edition (juvenile). 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: English chart of 1590 with route of The Armada. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 27 x 21.5. 0356136213

75644
ANDERSON, Romola & R. C.
THE SAILING-SHIP, Six Thousand Years of History
$20.00 AUD

George G. Harrap. London. 1947. Reprint of the 1926 original. 212 PP with b/w illustrations: 134 figures, plus 16 plates with 20 half-tone photos and 10 plates on full page. Fp: Clipper-ship Benjamin F. Packard. Cloth cover, gilt-title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears and small chips. Contents near fine. 20.8 x 14.

History of the sailing ship: from the Egyptian to the last tall ships and the last working sails.

18060
ANGELUCCI, Enzo & CUCARI, Attilio
SHIPS
$15.00 AUD

Macdonald and Jane's. London. 1977. 1st UK edition, translated from the 1975 Italian original Le Navi. 336 PP with over 1000 b/w & colour drawings. Glossary P. 256 to 271. Technical data P. 272 to 331. Decorated cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Front endpaper repaired at fold. Faint foxing. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.5. 0354011480

From tree trunk to nuclear-propelled ships. The great navigators and captains, and their vessels...

61120
APPLEYARD, H. S. & HEATON, P. M.
THE BARON GLANELY OF ST. FAGAN'S AND W. J. TATEM LTD.
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1980. Monograph No.2. 48 PP with 4 drawings (House Flag and Funnels) and 24 b/w photos. Soft cover. Note and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on inside front cover. Very good. 21 x 15. 0905617142

68378
AUBREY-REES, Captain W. C.
SHIPMASTER'S BUSINESS COMPANION AND BUSINESS GUIDE
$10.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1937. 3rd edition of the 1930 original. XI, 401 PP with tables, figures and 11 copies of documents, plus 1 folded map of the world, 10 documents tipped in and 7 folded documents in rear pocket. Fp: Vessel Final Port Clearance. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5.

59276
AusAid
PACIFIC PROGRAM PROFILES 2000-01
$10.00 AUD

AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2001. 1st ed. Foreword by Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs. VI, 80 PP with tables and colour illustrations (graphs, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0642455686

Australia's overseas aid program for: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.

61358
AUSTRALIAN NAVAL INSTITUTE
JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN NAVAL INSTITUTE - 2003 (Nos. 107 to 110)
$30.00 AUD

Australian Naval Institute, Inc. Canberra. 2003. No. 107 (Summer 2003) to No. 110 (Spring 2003). Edited by Andrew FORBES. 4 issues for a total of 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (image shows cover of Winter issue). A fine set. 29.8 x 21.2.

No. 108: Australian Naval Medicine and the Boxer Uprising 1900-1901, by Commander Neil Westphalen. No. 109: Clearance Diving Three's contribution to Operation Falconer, by Lieutenant Commander Scott Craig.

71387
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
THE GREAT WAR - 1918: The Final Year (in Wartime - Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, issue 82)
$10.00 AUD

Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 2018. Issue No. 82, Autumn 2018. Edited by Andrew McDonald. 72 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

1918: the Final Year of WWI. Saving Amiens, by Peter Burness. The inner Monash, by Peter Pedersen. ... The last roll of the Dice German spring offensives of 1918), by Steven R. Welch.

75076
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
WARTIME - Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial - Issue 104
$10.00 AUD

Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 2023. Spring 2023. Edited by Andrew McDonald & Reflections by Matt Anderson, Director. 72 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Fighting Other People's Wars. Australians in the Spanish Civil War, by Duncan Beard. ... Echoes of INTERFET (International Force East Timor), by Craig Stockings. Out in the Cold: Australians in the Empire Air Training Scheme in Canada, by Hannah Max Billington.

38269
BACH, John
THE AUSTRALIA STATION - A History of the Royal Navy in the South West Pacific, 1821-1913
$75.00 AUD

NSW University Press. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. XI, 259 PP with 3 maps & 53 b/w illust. Fp: HMS Wolverene. Eps: Boundaries of Australia Station. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 18.7. 0868403938

Royal Navy in Australian waters since 1821 when it was decided to detach a ship from the East Indies Station.

75456
BAILEY, Lieutenant-Colonel F. M.
MISSION TO TASHKENT
$40.00 AUD

The Folio Society. London. 1999. 1st Folio edition, (reprint of the 1992 amended edition, 1946 original). Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. XXIV, 270 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Fp: Author as a Russian soldier. Quarter bound, gilt title on cloth spine, illustrated covers, slipcase. Fine. 25 x 17.

Collapse of the Russian Empire in 1918: aftermath in central Asia.

56849
BAKER, Simon
THE SHIP - RETRACING COOK'S ENDEAVOUR VOYAGE
$15.00 AUD

Hydra Publishing. Irvington, NY. 2003. 1st US edition of the 2002 UK original. 224 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Endeavour under sails. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.7 x 20. 1592580041

Book published to accompany the television series The Ship, first broadcast on BBC in 2002.

68045
BALLARD, Robert & ARCHBOLD, Rick
EXPLORING THE "BISMARCK"
$10.00 AUD

Madison Press Book. Toronto. 1991. 1st Ed. 64 PP with bw and colour illust. Title spread: "Bismarck". Half-title page: Stern of the "Star Hercules". Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards, dj (inside: "Bismarck" poster). Near fine. 28.8 x 22.2. 0340549076

Life of the "Bismarck", search and discovery of the wreck. Exploration by the "Argo", a deep-sea camera sled.

10199
BANKS, M. R. & SMITH, S. J. (editors)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON MACQUARIE ISLAND (in Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania - Volume 122, Part I.)
$25.00 AUD

Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart. 1987. IV, (2), 318 PP with tables, b/w figures (graphs, maps) & b/w photo plates. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 25 x 17.2.

Thirty-three papers presented at this Symposium (May 11-15, 1987) covering all aspects of the island: history/discovery (sealing), earth sciences (geology, vegetation), meteorology, biological sciences (flora & fauna) and physics...

74912
BARTON, Robert
ATLAS OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD

Heinemann. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 128 PP with full-colour artworks by David Nockels and maps by Geographical Projects. Title spread: Tunas. Hard cover. Front endpaper with bookplate and stamp / with chop of previous owner. Very good. Image shows title-page. 30.7 x 21.6. 0434048003

15031
BASSETT, Jan (editor)
GREAT SOUTHERN LANDINGS, An Anthology of Antipodean Travel
$10.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st Ed. XVI, 328 PP. hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14. 0195535820

Writings on Australia by dreamers such as Jonathan Swift and his Gulliver's Travels, sailors and explorers, artists, scientists, missionaries... and sightseers.

10800
BAUMBER, Michael
GENERAL-AT-SEA - Robert Blake and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution in Naval Warfare
$15.00 AUD

John Murray. London. 1989. 1st Ed. (X), 284 PP with 18 maps & battle plans, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 24 x 16. 0719547067

Biography of this soldier, turned sailor: actions during the English Civil War, the Dutch, the Spanish in the Mediterranean.

75125
BEAVIS, Bill
BOWS AMIDSHIPS
$10.00 AUD

Granada Publishing / Adlard Coles. 1984. 1st Ed. (4), 108 PP with over 70 cartoons. Fp: Bowser!/Midships! Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 19.4 x 12.7. 0229117171

39638
BEER, Maggie
IF WE WERE FRENCH - Gallic Prawns on the Barbie (in The Australian Magazine)
$10.00 AUD

Nationwide News. Sydney. 2001. Issue July 7-8, 2001. Contains article P. 20 to 23 with illustrations by Michael Perkins. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 31 x 25.5.

If the English had sailed the other way and France had colonised Australia, or on the Voyage of Nicolas Baudin on Australian shores in 1801/1802.

61697
BELFAST
HMS BELFAST - Guide
$5.00 AUD

Imperial War Museum. London. 1982. No pagination, 16 PP with 16 colour photos. Inside front cover: sketch plan on HMS Belfast. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.7 x 16.5. 09018627216

Floating museum, Symons Wharf, London.

30236
BENCHLEY, Peter & GRADWOHL, Judith (editors)
OCEAN PLANET: Writings and Images of the Sea
$15.00 AUD

Harry N. Abrams & Smithsonian Institution. New York. 1995. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 28 b/w illust. and 84 colour photos. Title spread: storm cloud off the coast of Maryland. Pict. card cover. Fine. 28 x 23. 0810926040

An anthology of powerful writings and illustrations. Companion volume to a travelling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution to promote the celebration, understanding, and conservation of the world's oceans.

19564
BENSTEAD, C.R.
SHALLOW WATERS
$10.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 304 PP, plus 18 pages with 28 b/w illust. Fp: The "Royal Sovereign". FEP: Map of the "Shallow Waters", British Isles. REP: Maps of the East Coast of England and of the Orkneys Islands. Hard cover. Ex-library copy with label at foot of spine, and stamp on title-page and its verso. Flap of dust jacket pasted down on half-title page. Three other stamps in the margins, not affecting text. A very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.

A maritime history of the British Isles: fishermen, life-boatmen, smugglers, pilots of Trinity House, men of the Royal Navy and the Merchant service...

73499
BETHUNE, Gordon & HULER, Scott
FROM WORST TO FIRST - Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback
$30.00 AUD

John Wiley & Sons. New York. 1998. 1st Ed. Foreword "Letter from a customer and friend" by George Bush. 294 PP. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.8. 9780471248354

Continental Airlines.

75683
BIBBY, Sir Derek James
"GLIMPSES"
$30.00 AUD

Bibby Bros & Co. (Management) Ltd. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 101 PP with 91 b/w illustrations. Half title page: Coat of Arms. Card covers, pictorial front. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on half title page. Very good. Oblong: 20.6 x 21. 0950159123

Biography of the chairman of Bibby Lines.

40431
BISSET, Sir James & STEPHENSEN, P. R.
TRAMPS & LADIES - MY EARLY YEARS IN STEAMERS
$35.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1959. 1st Ed. XVI, 315 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): The champion Cunard liner, SS Mauretania. Eps: Chart of the North Atlantic steamer tracks. Hard cover. Spine sunned. Neat name and address of previous owner at top of FFEP. An otherwise near fine copy. 22.2 x 14.

The memoirs of Sir James Bisset in the early days of steamships with recollections of his arrival on board the SS Carpathia, at the scene of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

75457
BLAINEY, Geoffrey
THE RUSH THAT NEVER ENDED - A History of Australian Mining
$25.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1964. Reprint with corrections of the 1963 original. X, 369 PP with 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Australia showing the chief mining districts. Hard covers, gilt title on spine. dj (price clipped). Light foxing, o/wise a fine copy. 22 x 14.5.

75656
BLAKE, John
THE SEA CHART - The illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
$40.00 AUD

Conway/Anova Books Ltd. London. 20O9. Paperback edition of the 2004 original. Foreword by HRH The Duke of York. 164 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Illlustrated stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 30 x 28. 9781844860630

75750
BOLT, Andrew (editor)
OUR HOME FRONT 1939-1945
$20.00 AUD

Wilkinson Books / Herald Sun. Melbourne. 1995. 1st Ed. Foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. Afterword by Joan Kirner. 287 PP with b/w illustrations: front page and extracts of Melbourne daily newspapers "The Sun" and "The Herald", plus 16 pages with colour illustrations (artworks by Roy Hodginkson, comic strips ("Bib and Bub" and "Ginger Meggs"), and 8 pages of "War Posters". Laminated pictorial boards. Fine (as new condition). 34.2 x 24.5. 9781863502030

75780
BONE, David W.
MERCHANTMAN REARMED
$50.00 AUD

Chatto & Windus. London. 1949. 1st Ed. XX, 332 PP with 1 tailpiece, 16 head pieces and 16 plates (drawings by Muirhead Bone). Fp: Sir David W. Bone. Cloth cover, gilt lettering on spine. Light foxing. Upper and lower edges of covers a little worn/frayed. Copy lacking the half title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.

The records of his WWII services: Master of "Cameronia", "Circasia" or landing ships. Convoy duties, troop carrying... The last chapter tells of the repatriation of Australian soldiers, former POW from Changi, to Australia, where the author spent his early days in windjammers.

61043
BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline, BUSTARRET, Claire & BRETON, Gérard
ETUDE CODICOLOGIQUE DES MANUSCRITS ET DESSINS DE MEDUSES DE FRANCOIS PERON ET CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR
$35.00 AUD

Editions du Muséum du Havre. Le Havre. 1995. Volume 82, part 2, 2nd term 1995 of Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Géologique de Normandie et des Amis du Muséum du Havre. Contains article P. 5 to 97 with 41 b/w illust. and 6 b/w plates, plus 4 pages Addenda & Errata loosely inserted. Lacks the original soft cover, o/wise fine. "Hommage des Auteurs" inscribed and signed at top of page 5. French text. 29.5 x 20.8.

Material analysis of the documents as supports of texts and drawings drafted by Péron and Lesueur for their study on jelly-fish during a determined period of time (1800-1810). Comparison with other manuscripts contemporary with their work.

12453
BONNER-SMITH, D. (editor)
THE BARRINGTON PAPERS, Selected From the Letters and Papers of Admiral The Hon. Samuel Barrington - Volume I
$25.00 AUD

Navy Records Society. London. 1937. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, volume 77. Vol. I: X, 464, (14 members) PP, plus 1 b/w plate and 1 folded plate on the state and condition of the forts and settlements on the coast of Africa. Fp: Admiral The Hon. Samuel Barrington. Includes a folded table on the state and condition of the forts and settlement on the coast of Africa Navy blue/cream buckram buckram, gilt device on front cover and gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.2 x 15.5.

Towards the peace of 1748 followed by his various commands: HMS Seahorse, 1748, HMS Crown, 1753, HMS Norwich, 1754, the war with France, HMS Achilles 1757...

75824
BONSOR, N.R.P.
NORTH ATLANTIC SEAWAY, An illustrated history of the passenger services linking the old world with the new
$30.00 AUD

T. Stephenson & Sons. Prescot, Lancashire. 1955 1st Ed. Foreword by A. C. Hardy, President of the World Ship Society. XXXII, 639 PP with 30 pages containing 150 silhouettes (illustrations by J.H. Isherwood), plus 30 pages with 54 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): R.M.S. Caronia. FEP: Western Europe. REP: The Eastern Seaboard of North America. Bookmark with "Principal Chapters" and "Fleet List Abbrerviations", loosely inserted. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with clear plastic protection, pasted down on endpapers. Occasional foxing, heavy on outside edges. A very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.

33544
BORTHWICK, Mark (editor)
PACIFIC CENTURY - The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia
$10.00 AUD

Westview Press / Allen & Unwin. Boulder & Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed., published by the Pacific Basin Institute. XVIII, 590 PP with figures, graphs, tables and 36 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Fine. 25.5 x 17.8. 1863732802

An age of commerce in Southeast Asia, by Anthony Reid. Seaborne bartbarians: Incursions by the West. Meiji: Japan in the Age of Imperialism.... Siberian Salient: Russia in Pacific Asia...

75153
BOWDEN, Tim
ONE CROWDED HOUR - Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman 1934-1985
$10.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1994. 1st paperback edition in the A&R Classics series. XII, 436 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (1 map and 1 newspaper cutting), plus 16 pages with 56 photos (including mementos of Foreign Correspondent and 20 portraits of "Children of the Dust"). Soft covers, pictorial front. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Very good reading copy. 19.8 x 13. 9780207187636

Combat cameraman / photographer, born in Tasmania ... Killed in Thailand while filming an attempted Coup (September 1985).

12040
BRADDON, R., DODWELL, C. et al
RIVER JOURNEYS
$15.00 AUD

B.B.C. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 208 PP with maps, b/w & colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25 x 19.5. 0563202041

Based on the television series on the Rivers: Congo, Mekong, Nile, Sepik & Waghi, Sao Francisco & the Murray.

75757
BRAY, Maynard
THE BOOK OF WOODEN BOATS - Volume III
$45.00 AUD

W. W. Norton. New York. 2010. 1st Ed. Foreword by John Rousmaniere, introduction by Maynard Bray (author) and acknowledgments by Benjamin Mendlowitz (photographer). 192 PP with 217 colour photos by Benjamin Mendlowitz. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 28.5. 9780393080117

62384
BRAYNARD, Frank O.
"WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP", THE STORY OF THE LEVIATHAN - Volume 2
$70.00 AUD

South Street Seaport Museum. New York. 1974. Volume II: 382 PP with b/w illustrations (over 200 photos), plus large folded "cut out plan" (in colour) of the S.S. Leviathan, United States Lines. Eps: Eight plans "General Arrangement" as the Leviathan. Cloth cover, gilt-title on spine and front cover, dj (painting by Albert Brenet). Signed by the author on the verso of the free fly of the front endpaper. Dust jacket with corners of inside flaps trimmed. Fine condition. 28.5 x 22.

Her life as the "Leviathan" of the United States Lines.

75688
BRETT, Henry
WHITE WINGS - Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade, 1850 to 1900 - Volume I
$30.00 AUD

The Brett Printing Co. Auckland. 1924. 1st Ed. 366 PP with b/w illust. throughout and and one page of Index. Lacks the half-title page, title-page and 2 pages of the Index at rear. Blue cloth covers have some wear, otherwise a very good clean copy. 25 x 16.

Ships and shipping history of New Zealand through anecdotes, gossip, extracts from diaries and newspapers...

74017
BRIGGS, Amy (editor)
National Geographic " HISTORY" - July / August 2021
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Partners. Washington, DC. 2021. July / August 2021 issue. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 27.4 x 21.5. 9315291519133

Sacred rites at Karnak, by Elisa Castel. Hannibal's Alpine Assault: War Elephants of Carthage, by Fernando Quesada Sanz. The rise and fall of the Aztec, by Jose Luis de Rojas.

75825
BRINNIN, John Malcolm
THE SWAY OF THE GRAND SALOON, A Social History of the North Atlantic
$50.00 AUD

Arlington Books. London. 1986. 2nd revised edition. XXII, 599 PP, plus 48 pages with 55 b/w illustrations. Endpapers: A Grand Salon. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 24 x 16.5.

Splendours and miseries make up the marvellous story of the glorious age of passenger ships.

75289
BRISTOW, John & HINTON, Anthony (editors)
GREAT TRUE ADVENTURES IN ICE AND SNOW
$20.00 AUD

Arco Publications Ltd. London 1958. New edition of the 1957 original. 224 PP. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and repaired tears and in a protective sleeve. Paper browning, otherwise near fine. 22.2 x 14.2.

Adventures: 10 in the Arctic (Sir John Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen ...) and 5 in the Antarctic: Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir Douglas Mawson, ...

30035
BROWN, Bruce
GATTY: Prince of Navigators
$40.00 AUD

Libra. Hobart. 1997 1st Ed. VIII, 275 PP with 24 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.2. 0909619174

Tasmanian-born aviator, nicknamed "the Prince of Navigators" by Charles Lindbergh for inventing the navigational instruments he used. Author of: "The Raft Book" and "Nature is your Guide". Navigation research work with the Army Air Corps during WWII. Opening of Pan Am South Pacific route. The birth of Air Pacific...

50878
BROWN, Ernest B.
RADAR NAVIGATION MANUAL
$20.00 AUD

Defence Mapping Agency/Hydrographic Center Washington. 1971. 1st Ed. Publication No. 1310, with a foreword by Captain F. L. Slattery. No continuous pagination, XII, 178 PP with 122 figures. Stiff plastic covers. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 20.5 x 27.

74724
BROWN, James R. & BROWN, Captain Chas H. (editors)
BROWN'S NAUTICAL ALMANAC 1937
$20.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1936. 60th year of publication. 763 PP with tables and advertising material, plus 40 pages of advertisements (4 for Lilley & Reynolds Ltd, 8 for B. Cooke & Son Ltd, 8 for Thos. Walker, 16 for Kelvin Bottomley & Baird, Ltd, and 4 for The Navigators & General Insurance) ... Card cover, cloth spine. Covers soiled. Copy lacking pages 97 to 126 (Moon Astronomical Ephemeris for October and November 1937). Ageing of paper. Very good. 21.3 x 14.

Tables: Astronomical Ephemeris, Interpolation, Tide tables... Lists: Lights, Beacons and Buoys of the United Kingdom.

21146
BROWN, Paul
THE LAST WILDERNESS - Eighty Days in Antarctica
$20.00 AUD

Hutchinson. London. 1991. 1st UK Ed. (6), 250 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 pages with 16 colour photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 16. 091744237

The 1988 expedition by Greenpeace to the various scientific bases on the Antarctic continent.

74214
BRUCE, Erroll
DEEP SEA SAILING
$10.00 AUD

David McKay Co. New York. 1978. 2nd printing of the 1st paperback edition of the 1973 US original. 6-246 PP with 20 tables, 8 maps and 28 diagrams, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w photos. Fp: H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh with the author aboard "Samuel Pepys". Pictorial soft covers. Signature of previous owner on half-title page. Very good. 20.8 x 13.7. 0679508538

Planning a cruise, fitting and equipment, maintenance... Safety at sea... Storm at sea.

68096
BRUEMMER, Fred
THE NARWHAL - Unicorn of the Sea
$15.00 AUD

Toronto. 1993. Key Porter Books. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large size: 32 x 26.5. 1550131877

36874
BULLOCKE, J. G. (editor)
THE TOMLINSON PAPERS - selected from the correspondence and pamphlets of Captain Robert Tomlinson, R.N., & Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson
$20.00 AUD

Navy Records Society. London. 1935. 1st Ed., Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 74. XXIX, 400 PP, plus 2 folded tables. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Pages trimmed. Occasional foxing. Very good. 23.2 x 15.

Essay on manning the Royal Navy without recourse to Impressment. Essay on Timber Preservation.

35627
BURDICK, Eugene
THE BLUE OF CAPRICORN
$15.00 AUD

Victor Gollancz. London. 1962. 1st Ed. X, (2), 322 PP with over 20 illustrations by W. Hofman. Fp: Coconut grove. Eps: Map of the Western Pacific. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.5.

An impression of the Pacific and the people who live there.

74957
BURN, Gavan & PIELOW, Colin (editors)
THE SHIPS ATLAS
$15.00 AUD

Shipping Guides Ltd. Reigate, UK. 1986. 2nd edition of the 1984 original. Preface of February 1994 by Robert Pedlow. No pagination, 204 PP with 108 pages for 3 world maps and 51 regional maps (in colour) some with distance tables and 96 pages for "Index - Alphabetical by Port Name, etc. and including Islands, Seas, Rivers, Canals ... Stiff covers, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers laminated. Stamps of "Research Library, Ministry of Transport, Tasmania" at top of title page. Very good. 30.5 x 23.

75622
BURNET, Ian
WHERE AUSTRALIA COLLIDES WITH ASIA: The Epîc Voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Origin of "On the Origin of Species"
$30.00 AUD

Rosenberg Publishing. Sydney. 2017. 1st Ed. 206, (2 publications) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Alfred Russell Wallace. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 24.6 x 18.2 9780994562784

18135
BURNS, Lt. Cdr. K. V.
DEVONPORT BUILT WARSHIPS SINCE 1860
$5.00 AUD

Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. 1981. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 3 silhouettes and 60 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Very good. 20.6 x 14.8. 0950632376

From the Royalist of the Rosario Class, launched 1861, to the Scylla of the Leander Class, launched 1968.

75290
CAIRNS, Joan & JOHNSTON, W. T.
PORT DOUGLAS - "A Born Again Port"
$20.00 AUD

Joan Cairns & W.T. Johnston / Tableland Printing Service. Atherton, Qld. 1986. 1st Ed. 28 PP with b/w illustrations (1 location map and and 28 sketches). Soft covers, illustrated front. Near fine. Oblong: 17 x 24.5. 1862525072

A History-Sketch Record.

32786
CALLAHAN, Raymond
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND ARMY REFORM, 1783-1798
$20.00 AUD

Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass., USA. 1972. 1st edition, No. 67 in the Harvard Historical Monographs series. XIV, (2), 242, (4 publications) PP. Cloth cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on half title page. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 20.2 x 14.2. 674224108

Attempt by the British Government to reorganise the East India Company's army.

68561
CAMPBELL-JONES, Susan
WELSH SAIL - A Pictorial History
$20.00 AUD

Gomer Press. Dyfed, Wales. 1976. 1st edition with an introduction by Alun Richards. 103 PP with 6 figures and 77 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine copy. 21.7 x 18.7. 850883067

65814
CARLYON, Les
THE GREAT WAR
$15.00 AUD

Picador / Macmillan. Sydney. 2007. Paperback edition of the 2006 original. XIV, 863 PP with 1 key to maps and 25 maps (1 on double page), plus 48 pages with 76 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.4 x 15.6. 9781405037990

75860
CARR, Tim & Pauline
ANTARCTICA OASIS: Under the Spell of South Georgia
$50.00 AUD

W.W. Norton & Co. New York. 1998. 1st Ed. Foreword by H.R.H. Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. 256 PP with b/w and colour illustrations: 14 maps, 3 plans of "Curlew", and photos by the authors. Fp (in colour): Yacht Curlew. Eps: Island of South Georgia and location map. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dedicatory note on title page, dated and signed at Grytviken by the authors. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. 28.7 x 25.8. 9780393046052

18072
CARSE, Robert
THE SEAFARERS, A History of Maritime America 1620-1820
$10.00 AUD

Harper & Row. New York. 1964. 1st Ed. XI, (3), 306 PP with 12 bw illust. by Ray Houlihan. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 21.7 x 14.5.

From the Mayflower and its shipload of farmers and tradesmen, how they were forced to turn to the sea for survival, and how they soon discovered there was a fortune to be earned in fishing and in trading.

68205
CASSON, Lionel
THE ANCIENT MARINERS - Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times
$20.00 AUD

Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ. 1991. 2nd edition. XVIII, 246 PP with 2 maps and 7 figures, plus 28 plates with 54 b/w illust. Fp: The Mediterranean & Black Seas. Cloth cover. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page. Very good. 24.2 x 15.7.

From the dim beginnings of sea conquest to the great maritime empires of antiquity: Egyptian, Cretian, Mycenian & Grecian, Phoenician.

47468
CHAMONAL, François
MARINE GEOGRAPHIE VOYAGES
$20.00 AUD

François Chamonal. Paris. c. 1963. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 11 b/w illustrations, plus 11 b/w plates (1 folded). Library binding, illustrated hard cover, cloth spine. Signature on front cover, library stamps and numbers on spine, front endpaper and verso of title page. Very good. French text. 23.5 x 15.5.

Catalogue of 641 books, manuscripts... on Maritime subjects, Voyages and Geography together with prices.

74666
CHASE, Owen
THE WRECK OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX - A First-Hand Account of One of History's Most Extraordinary Maritime Disasters by Owen Chase, First Mate
$10.00 AUD

Review / Headline Book. London. 2000. 1st paperback edition of the 1999 edition, with an introduction by Gary Kinder. XVI, 208 PP with tail pieces, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9780747263630

42619
CHATTERTON, E. Keble
GALLANT GENTLEMEN
$15.00 AUD

Hurst & Blackett. London. 1934. 6th impression of the 1931 original. 296 PP with 1 plan, 1 sketch, 4 maps, plus 16 b/w plates with 31 photos. Fp: After the Falklands Battle. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, occasional foxing in text, o/wise a near fine copy. 22 x 14.5.

42793
CHENEVIERE, Alain
TRAVELS IN THE ORIENT, IN MARCO POLO'S FOOTSTEPS
$30.00 AUD

Konecky & Konecky. New York. 1997. Reprint from the 1997 edition published by Vilo Diffusion. 288 PP with 1 colour map and hundreds of colour photos. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing on a few pages, o/wise fine. Large format: 32.5 x 27.7. 156852238X

Retraces the steps of Marco Polo who, in the 13th century, trekked eastward across the continent of Asia before finally arriving at the court of Kubla Khan. Accompanied by modern day photography.

74015
CLASSIC BOAT
CLASSIC BOAT - Issue No.279 - September 2011
$10.00 AUD

ClassicBoat / Chelsea Magazine Company. London. 2011. Issue No. 279, edited by Dan Houston. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations.. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with a light crease. Very good. 30 x 23.

Remaking "Mischief", by Alice Driscoll. Elizabeth Meyer, Queen of the J Class, by Dan Houston. Sun, Sea and Speedboat, by Mike Taylor.

75269
CLISSOLD, Peter
ELEMENTARY SEAMANSHIP
$10.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1944. Reprint of the 2nd edition (enlarged) of 1939. VIII, over 183 PP with tables, and over 37 figures (1 with colour), plus colour plates for (National Flags, International Code of Signals, Royal Naval Code alphabetical Flags, Rule of the Road). Hard covers, title on front board. Covers soiled and with sellotape marks. Renewed cloth spine. War economy paper, page 69/70 with a repaired tear. A good copy. 18.5 x 12.5.

75730
COAD, David
LYMINGTON - Southern Tasmania
$100.00 AUD

David Coad. Battery Point, Tasmania. 2023. 1st Ed. (6), 376 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 29.7 x 20.8 9780980692389

61336
COCKCROFT, John
MELANESIA: Isles of the South Pacific
$10.00 AUD

Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1969. 1st Ed. 120 PP with 7 maps, 21 drawings by Faye Owner, 48 b/w and 16 colour photos. Hard cover, dj (slightly rubbed). Dust jacket with short tears at head and foot of spine. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 28.7 x 22. 207951X

Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Norfolk.

74512
COLLINGRIDGE, Vanessa
CAPTAIN COOK - Obsession and Betrayal in the New World
$20.00 AUD

Ebury Press. London. 2002. 1st Ed. VIII, 376 PP with 36 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map "The Voyages of Captain Cook". Hard covers, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780091879136

75487
COLLS, Keith & WHITAKER, Richard
THE AUSTRALIAN WEATHER BOOK
$20.00 AUD

Child & Associates Publishing. French Forest, NSW. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers. 175, (1) PP with b/w illustrations (over 95 figures and 16 photos) and 38 colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Ex Library copy with renewed endpapers and stamps on half title page, title page (recto & verso). Good reading copy. 23.5 x 17.5. 9780867773033

Understanding our climate and how it affects us, includes the Greenhouse Effect and Ozone Layer Depletion.

75751
COMPTON, Nic
VOICES FROM THE SEA - Remarkable Encounters with the World's Oceans
$30.00 AUD

Cassell Illustrated. London. 2007. 1st Ed. Foreword by Alex Thomson. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings & plans, paintings & prints, photos). Hard covers, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, otherwise fine. 28.5 x 24.5. 9781844035557

Atlantic Ocean: Liberdade, by Joshua Slocum / L'Heretique by Alain Bombard... Indian Ocean: Suez TF1, by Raphaela Le Gouvello ... Southern Ocean: Endurance & James Caird, by Ernest Shackleton/Leigh II, By Vito Dumas. Joshua, by Bernard Moitessier... Arctic Ocean: Fram, by Fridtjof Nansen Gjoa, by Roald Amundsen... / Pacific Ocean: Kon Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl...

39140
COOK, Graeme
NONE BUT THE VALIANT - Stories of War at Sea
$10.00 AUD

Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 154 PP, plus 16 pages with 1 painting and 26 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Small felt mark at top of front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 13.7. 0246105399

Submarine Patrol. U-Boat Attack... Raider at Large... Raid on St Nazaire...

40602
COOMBS, William H.
THE NATION'S KEY-MEN
$15.00 AUD

J. D. Potter. London. 1925. 1st impression of December 1925. XII, 232 PP. Fp: The keystone of Empire. Blue cloth cover with light shelf wear, gilt title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, slight ageing of paper. Spine lightly sunned. Signed by the author, Christmas 1935. Two neat stamps of previous owner on inside front cover and FFEP. Very good. 18.8 x 12.5.

Key-Men of Empire: the Officers of the British Mercantile Marine.

75120
COOTE, Jack (editor)
DOWN THE WIND - A Yachtsman's Anthology
$10.00 AUD

Barnacle Marine, Ltd. Colchester. 1988. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 7 line drawings head of Parts) by Trevor Ridley. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21.5 x 13.3. 0948788259

Hammond Innes / Arthur Ransome / Claud Worth / Hilaire Belloc...

73445
COULTMAN SMITH
PORT ARTHUR through the Artist's Eyes: A Collection of Twenty Photo-Lithographic Etchings of Port Arthur by I. G. Anderson
$15.00 AUD

Coultman Smith / Mercury Press. Hobart. 1948. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 20 etchings presented and annotated by the author. Stapled card covers, illustrated front and back. Signature of previous owner at top of title page and date at bottom. Near fine. 24.6 x 18.6.

52900
COURTENAY, Bryce
MATTHEW FLINDERS' CAT
$10.00 AUD

Viking / Penguin Books Australia. Melbourne. 2002. 1st Ed. (10), 611 PP. Eps: Investigator. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.8 x 16. 0670910619

Novel.

75274
CROCOMBE, Ron
THE SOUTH PACIFIC, An Introduction
$20.00 AUD

University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1989. 5th Ed. (8), 279 PP with b/w photos, maps. FEP: Sketch map of the Pacific Ocean. REP: 200 Miles EEZ of the Pacific Islands. Soft covers, pictorial front. Very good. 21 x 13.5. 0582718139

Cover the indigenous traditions of the past and the impact of changes to the way of life. Future trends & developments.

16081
CROWDY, Michael
THE EAGLE TANKERS
$15.00 AUD

World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1966. 1st Ed., March 1966. 12 PP with 11 b/w photos. Soft covers, stapled. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.

Short history & fleet list.

75476
CUNLIFFE, Tom
CUNLIFFE ON CRUISING
$25.00 AUD

Waterline Books. Shrewsbury, UK. 1991 1st Ed., in the Tips from the Top series. (2), 126 PP with 28 sketches. Fine (as new condition). 21.5 x 13.5. 9781853103018

18049
D'ENTRECASTEAUX
LE VOYAGE DE D'ENTRECASTEAUX (1791-1793)
$25.00 AUD

Comité d'Entrecasteaux. Nouméa. 1993. No pagination. 24 pages with b/w & colour illust. Pict. stiff cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

In 1792 & 93, the French explorer's voyage of discovery of the New Caledonian coasts (West then North-east) during his search for the vanished La Pérouse.

74327
DADDS, Jane and Keith
THE NARROW BOATS
$10.00 AUD

E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd. Leeds. 1965. 1st Ed. 158 PP with 8 b/w illustrations by David Kidger. Hard covers, title on front board and a sunned spine. Very good. 18.8 x 12.5.

19837
DANIELSSON, Bengt & Marie-Thérèse
POISONED REIGN - French Nuclear colonialism in the Pacific
$10.00 AUD

Penguin. Melbourne. 1986. Second revised edition of the 1977 English first edition,(French original of 1974). Foreword on the Rainbow Warrior Affair, by Chris Masters. XIV, 324, (4 adv.) PP with 3 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Lower corner front cover repaired. Foxing. Very good. 19.7 x 13. 0140081305

75255
DARBY, Andrew
HARPOON - into the Heart of Whaling
$20.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2007. 1st paperback edition. XVI, 296 PP with b/w illustrations (6 headpieces on double page by Uko Gorter and c. 22 harpoons by Guy Holt). Eps: b/w photo by Frank Hurley, "A blue whale and whaling men flensing..., Grytviken, South Georgia. Pictorial soft covers. Light water stain in margin of 15 last leaves (not affecting text). Very good copy. 23 x 15.5. 9781741146110

67443
DAVIES, Gary
MARITIME BRITAIN - The UK Shipping Scene 1990-2015 (in Ships Illustrated, No. 9)
$20.00 AUD

Ships Monthly / Kelsey Publishing. Cudham, Kent, UK. 2016. 1st Ed. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 23. 9781909786790

32207
DAVIES, Nigel
VOYAGERS TO THE NEW WORLD
$15.00 AUD

William Morrow. New York. 1979. 1st US Ed. XIV, (2), 287 PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 24 x 16. 0688039962

Origins of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of America: China, Indonesia, Vikings, Phoenicians...

61320
DAWSON, Major A. J.
BRITAIN'S LIFE-BOATS - The Story of a Century of Heroic Service
$25.00 AUD

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1923. 1st Ed., with an Introduction by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and a Foreword by Joseph Conrad. XIII, 279 PP with 1 plan, plus the Introduction, 1 large folded chart and 32 pages with 82 b/w photos. Hard cover with wear around edges and light soiling, device on front cover (RNLI Flag). Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.6 x 14.2.

49239
DAY, David
SMUGGLERS AND SAILORS, The Customs History of Australia 1788-1901
$15.00 AUD

AGPS / Australian Customs Service. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. XXXVI, 528 PP with 9 maps or plans & 107 b/w illustrations, plus 24 pages with 49 colour illustrations. FEP: Queensland border Customs patrol on the Barwon River at Mungindi. REP: Passing the Customs at Wodonga, 1881. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped and now in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 25.8 x 18. 0644247517

Story of European civilization carved onto the Australian continent as observed through the eyes of Customs officers.

74839
DERRICK, David
BOAT MAINTENANCE
$10.00 AUD

David & Charles. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches & photos). Hard covers, dj. Fine. 25.3 x 17.3. 0715384120

20645
DIVINE, David
THE OPENING OF THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 272 PP with 6 maps, 160 b/w illustrations & 28 colour plates. Eps: Orbis Terrae. Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped). Very good. 25.2 x 19.5. 0002111691

From the first attempt by primitive man to cross the unfordable river, through Sumerian, Nile, Minoan civilisation, to the Portuguese, Spanish explorers of the Renaissance.

73220
DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L.
OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie (in Three Volumes)
$500.00 AUD

Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs. Paris. 1836, 36 & 38. 1st edition in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 1: (4), 399, (1 errata) PP on 2 columns, plus 100 b/w plates on full-page and 2 folded maps "Océanie" & "Malaisie". Vol. 2: (4), 397, (3 position of plates and errata) PP on 2 columns, plus 100 b/w plates (101 to 200) and 1 folded map "Polynésie et Micronésie". Vol. 3: (4), 632, (8 errata and position of plates) PP on 2 columns, plus 104 b/w plates (201 to 304) and 2 folded maps "Kalémantan ou Bornéo" and "Mélanésie". Quarter bound, marbled boards, leather spine with gilt lines and title. Spine of the 3 volumes affected by the light / sun, lettering damaged. Ageing of paper. Still a very good set. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 21.5 x 14.

Vol.1: General description plus Malaisia (Indonesia, Malaya, Philippines) & Micronesia. Vol.2: Mariana in Micronesia, Polynesia (Hawaii, Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti). Vol.3: Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Melanesia (PNG, Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia), Australia, Kerguelen or Desolation Island.

22420
DOUGLAS, John Scott
THE STORY OF THE OCEANS
$15.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1953. 1st Ed. 272 PP, plus 16 pages with 2 maps and 28 bw illust. Fp: H.M.S. Challenger, the first ocean-going research ship. Hard cover. Signature on FFEP, a few foxing spots, o/wise contents are near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 20.3 x 13.2.

Early oceanography, voyages of Darwin then of the Challenger...

75548
DU-PLAT-TAYLOR, F. M.
THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF DOCKS, WHARVES & PIERS
$150.00 AUD

Ernest Benn, Ltd. London. 1934. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged from the 1928 original. Introduction by Joseph G. Broodbank. XXVI, (2 Bibliography & Errata), 521 PP with tables and 481 figures (93 of them b/w photos), plus 8 folded plates for 8 of these figures. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj (in a protective sleeve). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 26 x 21.

74911
DUCHE, Jean
THE GREAT TRADE ROUTES
$15.00 AUD

McGraw-Hill Book Co. New York 1969. 1st UK Ed., in the International Library series. 128 PP with b/w and colour illust. Eps: Colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26 x 18.5. 0001001132

From the days of barter through to the New World and the transport revolution of modern times.

64112
DUFF, Peter (Editor)
MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1962
$20.00 AUD

Adlard Coles. London. 1963. 1st Ed., Volume XI, 1963. 184 PP with tables & bw illust. (photos & plans). Fp: "Savannah", the world's first nuclear-powered cargo/passenger vessel. Hard cover, gilt title on sunned spine, top edge tinted. Neat stamp of Maritime Museum of Tasmania Inc. on endpapers, otherwise contents are near fine. Oblong: 15 x 22.5.

75657
DUFFY, M., FISHER, S, GREENHILL, B. ... (editors)
THE NEW MARITIME HISTORY OF DEVON, Volume I: From Early Times to the Late Eighteenth Century
$75.00 AUD

Conway Maritime Press & University of Exeter. London. 1992. 1st Ed. Introduction by Michael Duffy and Joyce Youings. 256 PP with 14 maps, 62 tables and 217 figures in text. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 25. 9780851776118

History of Navigation, by Alan Stimson. Shipbuilding, fishing, dockyards... Naval events, by J. D. Davies. Prince William's landing in Torbay, by J L Anderson ...

17645
DUNMORE, John (editor)
THE JOURNAL OF JEAN-FRANCOIS DE GALAUP DE LA PEROUSE 1785-1788 - Volume I
$30.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 1994. 1st Ed., Volume 179 in the Second series. CCXL, 232 PP plus 10 plates of illustrations & maps. Fp: View of Port des Français. Cloth cover, dj a little rubbed. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14. 0904180387

The expedition: background, participants, the ships, the instructions... then the Journal (56 pages) from Brest (August 1785) to Manilla Bay (February, 1787).

75686
DUNN, Laurence
FAMOUS LINERS OF THE PAST: Belfast Built
$70.00 AUD

Adlard Coles, Ltd. London. 1964. 1st Ed. 238 PP with b/w illustrations (photos & line drawings) printed on superior gloss paper. Fp: The White Star Line "Baltic". Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Endpapers with stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, and old sellotape marks. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. Oblong: 19 x 26.

Illustrated review of bygone liners built at Belfast for Aberdeen Line, Allan Line ... White Star (North Atlantic) and White Star (Australasian).

44285
DUYKER, Edward
CITIZEN LABILLARDIERE - A Naturalist 's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834)
$45.00 AUD

Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2003. 1st edition, limited to 1000 copies. XX, 383, (3) PP with 12 maps, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.3 x 16.5. 0522850103

Naturalist with the Bruny d'Entrecasteaux expedition with calls in Van Diemens Land, New Holland, the Friendly Islands, New Caledonia...

70465
DUYKER, Edward
AN IMPETUOUS LIFE. François Péron, Naturalist and Voyager
$100.00 AUD

The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2006. 1st edition, No. 75 in the Second series of the Miegunyah Volumes. XXIV, 350 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy and scarce in this condition. 24.3 x 16.0. 0522852602

Naturalist with the Nicolas Baudin expedition to Australian waters 1801.

75684
DYSON, John
SPIRIT OF SAIL - CLIPPERS, WINDJAMMERS, AND TALL SHIPS
$15.00 AUD

William Heineman Ltd. London. 1987. 1st Australian edition. Originally purblished in Canada by Key Porter Books. 176 PP, profusely illustrated with plans, b/w & colour photos. Eps. Hard cover, device in blind on front cover, dj (price clipped). A little light foxing on prelims, o/wise near fine. 31.2 x 23.5. 9780434981189

The call of the sea and the exaltation sailors experience as they brave wind and wave.

48114
EARL, Captain G. E. & BOYLAN, Captain C. C.
RADAR
$15.00 AUD

James Munro & Company Ltd. Glasgow. c. 1960. Part 4 of the Munro's Modern Navigational Aids. 64 PP with 45 figures. Limp cover. Very good. 23 x 15.

Contents: Cathode Ray Tube, Radar - the Set, Radar Terms, Radar Waves, Radar Plotting..

41891
EDWARDS, Mike
THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO - (Three Parts, in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 199, No.5, No. 6 & Volume 200, No. 1, 2001)
$30.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 2001. Part I: Volume 199, No. 5, May 2001. Pages 2 to 31 with 1 map and 19 colour photos. Part II: Volume 199, No. 6, June 2001. Pages 20 to 45 with 1 map and 14 colour photos. Part III: Volume 200, No. 1, July 2001 with 1 map and 12 colour photos. Photographs by Michael Yamashita. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

Part I: Venice to China. Part II: in China. Part III: Journey home.

65285
Endeavour Reading
BENNELONG
$10.00 AUD

The Jacaranda Press. Brisbane. 1983. Reprint of the revised edition of 1980 (original of 1970). Stage 9b in the Endeavour Reading Programme. 48 PP with 1 musical score and 24 illustrations by Victoria Sullivan. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.8 x 13. 0701613912

74412
EVANS, Admiral Sir Edward
BRITISH POLAR EXPLORERS
$10.00 AUD

Collins of London. London. 1943. 1st Ed. in the "Britain in Pictures" series. 48 PP with 19 b/w illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Hard cover, decorated front cover, dj. War economy paper. Spine damaged at head and foot, o/wise contents good. 23 x 16.5.

Martin Frobisher. Sir John Franklin. James Cook. Scott. Mawson.

53303
EVANS, Vaughan, COOK, Malcolm, and HENNING, G. R.
THE LIGHTNING COLOMNE, OR SEA-MIRROUR (in The Great Circle - Volume 12, No. 2)
$10.00 AUD

The Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH). Armidale, NSW. 1990. Vol. 12, No. 2, 1990: 73-141 PP. Contains article P. 103 to 108 with 5 figures. Soft cover, illustrated front. Very good. 24 x 16.3.

Lightning Colomne: " A Short Instruction in the Art of Navigation", and use of 53 instruments.

75360
EVANS, Wilson P. (editor)
A GUIDE TO HISTORIC WILLIAMSTOWN
$10.00 AUD

Williamstown Historical Society. Williamstown, Vic. 1982. Reprinted and revised edition of the 1972 original. 34 PP with 10 b/w illustrations with painting "Williamstown Lighthouse and Signal Station" at centrefold. Pictorial stiff covers (Williamstown in 1852). Near fine. 22 x 14.

42776
FAIRBAIRN, Sqn Ldr Tony
ACTION STATIONS - OVERSEAS
$15.00 AUD

Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1991. 1st Ed., in the Action Stations series. 192 PP with hundreds of b/w photos. Eps: Map with principal British Military Overseas Airfields. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 1852603194

60 of the most prominent overseas stations: WWII, Palestine... Berlin airlift... Falkland conflict.

75291
FIGUEROLA, Carmen
FAMILY ON PHILLIP ISLAND
$25.00 AUD

Whitcombe & Tombs Pty. Ltd. Melbourne. 1955 1st Ed. No. 576 in the "Whitcombe's Story Book" series. 128 PP with 4 b/w illustrations (family, Seals, Fairy Penguins, Koala) by Mahood. Soft covers a little browned around edges with light wear, illustrated front, staples. Date stamp and a number on half-title page, o/wise contents near fine. 18.2 x 12.

75690
FILDES, Robert
SHIPS WORLDWIDE: What Ship is That?
$75.00 AUD

Shipsworldwide Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2007. 1st Ed. IV, 205 PP with colour illustrations (111 hHouse Flags and Funnels, 4 Signal Flags, 24 National Flags and c. 180 photos). Pictorial laminated boards. Discreet stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper, otherwise fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 9780980333404

75668
FINDLAY, Alexander George.
A DIRECTORY FOR THE NAVIGATION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN; with description of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from the Strait of Magalhaens to Panama, and those of New Zealand, Australia, etc. Its Winds, Currents, and Passages
$350.00 AUD

Richard Holmes Laurie. London. 1871. 3rd edition of the 1851 original. LVI, 966 PP, plus 4 b/w plates with 14 coastal views, and 4 folded charts (with colour) "Chart of the Pacific Ocean shewing the Surface Currents and Ice Drifts", "Chart of the Pacific Ocean shewing the Prevalent Winds", "The South Pacific Ocean shewing the Lines of Equal Magnetic Variation and Dip", and "The South Pacific Ocean Track Chart". Rebacked copy. Half bound leather/cloth covers, leather spine with gilt title and 4 raised bands. Fp: Chart "Currents of the South Pacific has been reinforced, Chart Magnetic variation and dip is misbound. Slight ageing of paper, and light foxing, o/wise near fine. Complete. Scarce. 25.4 x 16.

35007
FIRTH, Raymond
MALAY FISHERMEN - Their Peasant Economy
$35.00 AUD

Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 1966. Revised and enlarged reprint of the 1946 original. XVIII, 398, (14 adv.) PP with 24 tables, 27 fig. (3 maps, 1 boat type in Kelantan & Trengganu, 1 prow & stern-pieces...), plus 16 plates with 31 b/w photos plus 2 large folded maps at rear. Fp: Line fishermen at work. Cloth cover, dj. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.

Survey of the fishing industry, analysis of a community of the peasant fishermen on the coast of Kelantan, Malaysia.

46383
FISHER, Peter R. & BATHGATE, Kathryn (editors)
LLOYD'S NAUTICAL YEAR BOOK 1981
$10.00 AUD

Lloyd's of London Press. London. 1981. Yearly edition. 608 PP with figures (plans, sketch maps and photos), graphs, tables and illustrated advertising materials. Eps: Year Planner 1988. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Lacks the first leaf (advertisement I & II). Name of previous owner at top of Page 1, o/wise a very good clean copy. 20.8 x 13.5. 0904093850

Maritime Organisations: IMCO, Baltic Exchange, Maritime Welfare Organisations... Lloyd's and Insurance. Legal/International Regulations. Safety at sea. Pages 309 to 324: Famous Names in Nautical History: Sir Westcott Stilme ABELL to Joseph Havelock WILSON..., by A. W. H. Pearsall.

54460
FISHER, Peter, MAYER, Christopher & SANDERS, David (editors)
NAUTICAL REVIEW: The International Journal of Ship Operation and Management - Volume 2 - 1978
$30.00 AUD

Nautical Institute & Lloyd's of London Press. London. 1978. Annual publication (10 issues). Volume 2, No. 1 (January/February 1978) to No. 10 (December 1978). A total of 612 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good.

Joint Nautical Institute and Lloyd's of London Press Publication. From issue 5, the title changed to: Nautical Review - The International Journal of Ship Operation and Management.

67376
FITCHETT, T. K.
THE VANISHED FLEET, Australian Coastal Passenger Ships 1910-1960
$20.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1976. 1st Ed. 112 PP with colour illustrations by author. Fp: MV "Manoora". Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with light wear. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on the FFEP, otherwise contents are near fine. Oblong: 22.5 x 28.5. 0727002104

From the arrival of the tiny "Express" during the Victorian gold rush to the departure of the "Manoora" on 9/8/1961.

75930
FITCHETT, T. K.
THE LONG HAUL - Ships on the England-Australia Run
$15.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1980. 1st Ed. 95 PP with colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips. Neat stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on FFEP together with a library reference no. An otherwise near fine copy. Oblong: 22.5 x 28.5. 0727010271

Passenger ships running the longest sea route in the world.

75752
FITZSIMONS, Peter
VICTORY AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX - Why a French Town will Never Forget the ANZACS
$25.00 AUD

William Heinemann. Sydney. 2016. 1st Ed. XX, 737 PP with b/w illustrations: 2 sketch plans of British and German tanks and 44 maps, plus 16 pages with 35 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.8 9781742759524

38816
FLACK, Jeremy
TODAY'S ROYAL NAVY IN COLOUR
$15.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 395 colour photos. Title spread: Fleet aircraft carrier. Half title page: At the periscope. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). 25.2 x 19.5. 185409162X

Submarines, Aircraft Carriers... Shore Establishements, Royal Marines, Royal Naval Reserve.

40559
LE FLEMING, H. M.
OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1955. 64 PP with tables and 69 b/w photos. Title page: R.M.S. Pretoria Castle. Pictorial card cover (Saxonia). Signature of previous owner at bottom of title-page. Very good. 15.3 x 10.2.

41575
LE FLEMING, H. M.
ABC BRITISH WARSHIPS
$5.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1956. 3rd Ed. 64 PP with tables, & 51 b/w photos. Title page: H.M.S. Vanguard. Pictorial (Light cruiser) soft cover. Stamp of previous owner on title page. Near fine. 15.3 x 10.3.

Including ships of the RAN, RCN, RNZN, IN, PI, RCyN, SAN and RMN.

21285
FORSTER, Honore (compiler)
THE SOUTH SEA WHALER - An Annotated Bibliography...
$30.00 AUD

Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Mass. 1985. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP. Fp: South Sea Whaling by W.E. Norton. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 26 x 17.5. 0937854220

... bibliography of published historical, literary and art material relating to whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century.

18086
FOSTER, Simon
HIT THE BEACH !, Amphibious Warfare from the Plains of Abraham to San Carlos Water
$15.00 AUD

Arms & Armour Press. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 9 maps, plus 48 pages with 90 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 1854092685

Study of four amphibious campaigns: Quebec in 1759, Dardanelles in 1915-16, Inchon, South Korea in 1950, and San Carlos, Falkland Islands in 1982.

54443
FOSTER, Sir William (editor)
THE RED SEA AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES, at the close of the Seventeenth Century as described by Joseph Pitts, William Daniel and Charles Jacques Poncet
$40.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 1949. 1st Ed. No. C in the Second series. XL, 192 PP, plus 3 plates (1 on full page and 2 folded). Fp: Pitts's plan of the temple at Mecca(folded). Cloth cover, gilt devices on front cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, other wise near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.

Pitts was the first Englishman to penetrate into the holy cities of Islam. Daniel's journey from England to India took him through the Red Sea. Poncet gives a first hand account of Abyssinia at the end of the 17th century.

68347
FOX, Uffa
UFFA FOX'S SECOND BOOK - A Companion Volume to "Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction"
$80.00 AUD

Peter Davies. London. 1950. Reprint of the 1935 original. XII, 376 PP with over 350 plans, photos and diagrams. Fp: The author at work on the design of Wishbone. Blue cloth cover, silver device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. Light foxing on top outside edge, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce.. 28 x 21.5.

75312
FOX, Uffa
SAIL AND POWER
$100.00 AUD

Peter Davies. London. 1948. 3rd reprint of the 1936 original. VIII, 388 PP with over 400 plans, photos and diagrams. Fp: Roland Von Bremen, winner of this year's Transatlantic Race from Bermuda to Cuxhaven. Blue cloth cover, gilt device on front cover. Hinges lightly rubbed. Slight ageing of the paper around the edges. Still a near fine copy. Image shows title page and frontispiece. 27.8 x 21.5.

A companion volume to "Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction" and Uffa Fox's Second Book.

74817
FRANCIS, Clare & TUTE, Warren
THE COMMANDING SEA
$15.00 AUD

Book Club Associates. London. 1981. BCA reprint of the 1981 original (BBC & Pelham Books) . 280 PP, profusely illustrated. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 28.7 x 21.5.

Six Voyages of Discovery. The edge of the unknown, the world encompassed by discoverers, cargoes and evolution of the ships, sea power, harvests, from oil to aquaculture.

45206
FRANTZ, Douglas & COLLINS, Catherine
DEATH ON THE BLACK SEA - The untold story of the Struma and World War II's holocaust at sea
$10.00 AUD

HarperCollins. Sydney. 2003. 1st Australian edition. XIV, 352 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 23 b/w illustration. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 0732278244

Sailed from Constanta, Romania on the 12th December 1941... Torpedoed on the 24th February 1942, 1 survivor, around 800 dead.

20734
GARDINER, Robert (editor)
NAVIES AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783
$35.00 AUD

Chatham & National Maritime Museum. London. 1996. 1st Ed., in the Chatham Pictorial History series. 192 PP with bw contemporary illustrations. Title spread: Battle at sea. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.5 x 25. 1861760175

22419
GASKELL, T.F.
UNDER THE DEEP OCEANS, Twentieth Century Voyages of Discovery
$10.00 AUD

The Scientific Book Club. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 8 figures. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Light foxing on prelims and outside page edges, o/wise contents are near fine. 20.8 x 14.3.

Seismic prospecting, The Moho (Mohorovicic discontinuity), Coral atolls...

21349
GATENBY, Greg (Editor)
WHALES: A CELEBRATION
$30.00 AUD

Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1983. 1st Ed. XVIII, 234 PP with 11 musical scores, 150 bw illust. & 75 colour paintings & images. Title page: Detail of a 12th Century English bestiary. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing on prelims and inside of dust jacket, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 28.5 x 30.5. 0316305103

Tribute to whales and dolphins by leading artists, painters & sculptors, novelists & poets, composers. A vivid protest against their slaughter...

67571
GIBBS, Jim
TWILIGHT ON THE LIGHTHOUSES
$35.00 AUD

Schiffer. Atglen, Pa. 1996. 1st Ed. 152 PP with 4 sketch-maps, b/w & colour illust. (drawings, engraving, photos & plans). Decorated endpapers. Cloth cover, dj. Title page with a dedicatory note on its recto signed by the author, and a note on its verso. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 28.7 x 22. 088740930X

History of the sentinels of the sea from California to British Columbia, at a time when the jobs of the lighthouse keepers are being phased out.

75701
GIFFARD, Edward
DEEDS OF NAVAL DARING - Anecdotes of the British Navy
$25.00 AUD

John Muray. London. 1910. Reprint. X, 410 PP. Cloth covers with light wear, illustration in blind on front cover and gilt title on lightly faded spine. Previous owner's signature and date on title-page (see image). Rear gutter repaired, otherwise contents are near fine. 19.5 x 13.

93 anecdotes. Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 of them (... Battle of the Nile or Aboukir) / Bonaparte: 7 of them (from Invasion of British India to Interference with English trade). .

16734
GILLETT, Ross
AUSTRALIA'S NAVY, Past, Present and Future
$20.00 AUD

Child & Henry. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 72 PP with b/w photos. Half title page: HMAS Stalwart leads 2 FFGs and 2 DEs. Fp: HMAS Darwin. Pictorial laminated boards. Near fine. 29.2 x 22.2. 086777178X

67468
GLASCOCK, William Nugent / An Officer
NAVAL SKETCH-BOOK: or, The Service Afloat and Ashore; with characteristic reminiscences, fragments and opinions, by An Officer (Volume I)
$40.00 AUD

E.L. Carey. Philadelphia. 1835. Volume I (only): (IV), XV-XXIII, 24-212 PP. Papered boards, cloth spine with paper label for title "The Naval Sketch-Book, in two volumes - Vol I" pasted down on spine. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed. Ageing of paper and light foxing. Very good. 20.7 x 12.2.

11489
GLYN, Anthony
THE SEINE
$15.00 AUD

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1966. 1st Ed. XII, 204 PP with 1 double-page map plus 24 pages with 35 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tear on back. Dedicatory note on front endpaper, to d'Arcy Hayman, from one islander to another ... signed by the author. Very good. 22 x 14.2.

From its spring near Dijon to the estuary at Le Havre. History, places of interest, people, ...

68645
GOODFELLOW, J.
CASE CUBE MEASUREMENT RECKONER - The Merchant's and Shipmaster's Ready Calculator ... in the Freight of Goods
$15.00 AUD

Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd. / Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd. London. c. 1920. 1st Ed. IV, 5-200 PP with 43 accurate set of tables. Cloth cover, label for title pasted down on front cover, dj (price clipped). Stamp of "Lloyd's Agents, Northern Tasmania" on endpapers and top of dust jacket. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 11.

... Ready Calculator and complete pocket assistant for all persons concerned in the Freight of Goods, comprehending an accurate set of tables showing at one view the solid contents of all kinds of packages and casks.

58244
GRAY, Philip J.
THE BARQUENTINE 'LA BELLA'
$15.00 AUD

Author & Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village Authority. Warrnambool, Vic. 1976. 1st Ed. (2), 18 PP with 12 b/w illustrations (sail plan at centrefold, 1 map, 1 facsimile of document, 2 drawings by author, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.

45547
GREENHILL, Basil (editor)
THE SHIP (set of 10 volumes)
$50.00 AUD

HMSO & National Maritime Museum. London. 1980 & 1981. 1st Ed. Series of 10 volumes with a total of 628 PP and 419 b/w illustrations in text. Illustrated endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 20.5 x 21.2.

The development of merchant vessels and specialized vessels of war, from the earliest times to the present day by: Sean McGrail, John Morrison, Alan McGowan, Robin Craig, John M. Maber, Basil Greenhill, Antony Preston, and Ewan Corlett.

74704
GREENLAW, Linda
THE HUNGRY OCEAN - A Swordboat Captain's Journey
$10.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1999. 1st UK edition. XIII, (3), 271 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map and 16 headpieces. Hard covers, dj. Near fine. 22 x 14.3. 9780340728956

62258
GROOM, Linda
A STEADY HAND: Governor Hunter & His First Fleet Sketchbook
$50.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2012. 1st Ed. Foreword by Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. VI, 229 PP with 19 b/w illustrations, 16 maps or plans, 57 colour illustrations and 100 plates in colour. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales. Pictorial boards, dj. New. 29 x 24. 9780642277077

39127
GURNEY, Alan
THE RACE TO THE WHITE CONTINENT
$15.00 AUD

W. W. Norton. New York. 2000. 1st printing. XII, 320 PP with 24 b/w illustrations and 11 maps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0393050041

45456
GUTTRIDGE, Leonard & SMITH, Jay. D.
THE COMMODORES
$10.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1984. Reprint in Classics of Naval Literature series of the 1969 original. Introduction by James C. Bradford. XXIII, (3), 340, (2) PP, plus 16 pages with 15 portraits and 20 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, ribbon page-marker. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 14.5. 0870211331

The drama of a Navy under Sail. Chronicles the economic & political currents in the young nation, as well as the story of the men who commanded and fought during the U.S. Navy's early years.

45878
H.M.S.O.
A SEAMAN'S POCKETBOOK, B.R. 827 (52)
$10.00 AUD

H.M.S.O. London. 1952. 1st Ed. VII, 136 PP with 73 figures, plus 5 colour plates. Fp: Advertisement for Player's Navy Cut. Eps: 6 advertisments. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Previous owner's stamp on advert prelim, and signature on verso of title-page, o/wise very good. 18.8 x 12.6.

Sea terms, steering the ship, boatwork... A.B.C.D. (Atomic, Biological and Chemical protection and Damage control).

47017
HADFIELD, Robert L.
MUTINY AT SEA
$10.00 AUD

Earl M. Coleman. New York. 1979. Facsimile reprint of the 1938 original, in the Seafaring Men: Their Ships and Times series. (4), VIII, 246 PP, plus 8 plates with 9 b/w illustrations. Fp: An East Indiaman Earl Balcarres. Eps: Map of North East Canada / USA. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.2 x 14.5. 0930576276

75710
HADLEY, Michael L.
COUNT NOT THE DEAD: The Popular Image of the German Submarine
$35.00 AUD

McGill-Queen's University. Montreal & Kingston. 1995. 1st edition. XIV, 253 PP, plus 26 pages with 35 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. 3 pages Review in "International Journal of Maritime History, 1996", by Lars U. Scholl, loosely inserted. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 9780773512825

74411
HALEY, Nelson Cole
WHALE HUNTER
$15.00 AUD

Seaforth Publihing. Barnsley, London. 2011. 1st Ed. No. 6 in the "Seafarers' Voices" series. Abridged edition with a new introduction by Vincent McInerney. XII, 194, (1 publications) PP with 1 map + an inset, on double page. Hard cover, dj. Fine (mint condition). 18.5 x 12. 9781848320963

Sperm whaling in the South Pacific.

75482
HAMPSHIRE, A. Cecil
THEY CALLED IT ACCIDENT
$100.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Light foxing on outside edges. Ex- library copy with number at foot of spine of dust jacket, and stamps on front endpaper, half title page and title page and lending slip pasted down on rear endpaper. A very good and clean reading copy. Scarce. 24 x 15.2.

The untold mystery of the destruction of HMS Natal, 30th December 1915 while at anchor in Cromarty Firth.

75679
HARDY A.C. (editor)
MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Volume III, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1954
$30.00 AUD

Adlard Coles. Southampton. 1955. 1st Ed., with an introduction by A. C. Hardy. 264 PP with tables, b/w illustrations (plans, profiles, photos), & 32 pages with b/w adverts. The P. & O. liner "Iberia". Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, top edge tinted. Renewed endpapers. Covers with light wear otherwise a very good clean copy. Oblong: 15 x 22.5.

31826
HARLAND, John
SEAMANSHIP IN THE AGE OF SAIL - An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-of-War 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources
$100.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 320 PP with b/w illust. (paintings, photos & over 350 line drawings by Mark Myers). Fp: 2 engravings by Pierre Ozanne. Eps: French Corvette "Galatée" under sail in Brest Roads. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 25.2. 9780851771793

Historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world.

10782
HARPER, Vice-Admiral J.E.T.
THE ROYAL NAVY AT WAR
$15.00 AUD

John Murray / Pilot Press. London. 1941. 2nd impression in August 1941 of the July 1941 original. 72 PP with 2 maps, 26 silhouettes of ships, and 79 b/w photos. Fp: Warships anchored in the road. Soft cloth cover, gilt device and title on front cover, dj (price clipped). Small ink stains in the margins of P8 and 9. Very good. 27 x 21.5.

The role & history of the Royal Navy. Life in the Navy. Battleships to submarines, aircraft carriers, ... Training, shipbuilding.

55480
HASSELBALCH, Kurt, OVERCASH, Frances & REDDIN, Angela
GUIDE TO THE HAFFENREFFER-HERRESHOFF COLLECTION: The Design Records of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island - The Francis Russel Hart Nautical Collections
$60.00 AUD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1997. 1st printing of the first edition. 218 PP with 18 b/w illustrations and 83 facsimile pages of the "Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Construction Record". Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 0917027051

46751
HAYES, Edmund (editor)
LOG OF THE UNION. John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and around the World 1794-1796
$20.00 AUD

The Massachusetts Historical Society and The Oregon Historical Society. Portland, Oregon. 1986. 1st soft cover edition. XXXVIII, 136, (2 colophon) PP with 12 maps (2 on double page), and 1 colour and 36 b/w illustrations (plans, drawings, facsimile of log book...). Soft cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 24.7 x 27.8. 0875950892

Boston 1st September 1794. Cape Horn 1st February 1795. Northwest coast of America: 16th May to 11th September 1795 . Hawaii, 12th October 1795... Macao, 3rd December 1795... Cape of Good Hope, 24th April 1796... Return to Boston 8th July 1796.

63761
HAYET, Armand
CHANSONS DE BORD: recueillies et présentées par le Capitaine au Long Cours Armand Hayet, harmonisées par Charles Bredon
$250.00 AUD

Editions EOS. Paris. 1927. Limited 1st edition ((No. 1933 on 2000). (10), 148, (2) PP with musical scores and 14 b/w drawings by André Lhote. Marbled endpapers. Half bound vellum covers, raised bands on spine, gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper with a few marks around outside page edges, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. French text. 28.4 x 23.5.

... Sea Shanties.

20666
HEATON, P.M.
TATEMS OF CARDIFF
$20.00 AUD

Starling Press. London. 1987. 1st Ed. 67 PP, plus 48 b/w full-page plates. Fp: Colour painting of a Tatems Vessel. Hard cover, dj (water colour by Laurence Dunn). Fine. 22 x 15.5. 0950771473

History of this fleet from its creation in 1897, its expansion and its end in 1973. Contains 18 pages of fleet list.

75247
HEINEY, Paul & PURVES, Libby
THE SAILING WEEK-END BOOK
$15.00 AUD

Nautical Books. London. 1985 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w illusrations by Trevor Ridley. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 085177346X

75611
HICKS, Zachary
THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL OF ZACHARY HICKS, Lieutenant / 13 April 1770 - 22 August 1770; With notes by Frank Murcott Bladen
$100.00 AUD

Banks Society / Colony Press. Melbourne. 2006. Limited edition of 100 copies printed for private sale by John Currey. 23, (3) PP, plus 1 large folded chart "Point Hicks to Smoky Cape" and 2 b/w plates (1st page and entry for 22 August 1770). Fp: First page of Hick's Journal. Half title page with signature of Zachary Hicks. Soft covers, label with title pasted down on front cover. Fine. Scarce. 21 x 15.

Lieutenant Hicks was the first on board the "Endeavour" to sight the Australian coast, by 37° 48' S 149°16' E. Hence Point Hicks.

53398
HMSO
PACIFIC ISLANDS PILOT - Volume III
$25.00 AUD

Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1969. Ninth edition of the 1885 original, N.P. 62. Edited by Captain S.J. HENNESSEY. 4), XV, 362 PP with tables and 40 coastal views, plus 1 folded Index to Charts, 1 colour plate (United States Buoyage System) and 13 maps. FEP: Notations of supplements and Annual Summaries of Notices to Mariners. Cloth cover. Supplement No.8-1975 by Lieutenant-Commander D. T. Watts, with 74 pages and the folded index to charts loosely inserted. Very good. 24.8 x 15.5.

Comprising the Eastern Groups, including Iles Australes, The Cook Islands, and Iles de la Société; Archipel des Tuamotu; Iles Marquises; the Line Islands and Scattered Islands near the Equator; and the Hawaiian Islands.

54712
HMSO
EAST COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA AND GULF OF MEXICO PILOT. East coasts of Central America from Punta Tirbi to Cabo Catoche - Coasts of Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi Delta to Cape Sable and Florida Bay - Islands in the western Caribbean Sea, Northward
$30.00 AUD

Hydrographer of the Navy. London. 1970. 1st Ed. Preface of the 1st edition, by Rear-Admiral G. S. Ritchie. Edited by XIV, 490 PP with figures, 32 coastal views (20 lighthouses) and 25 tables, plus 8 plates (2 folded) with maps, 1 colour plate on U.S. Buoyage and 1 folded Index Chart FRENCH, Captain G. A. N.P.69A. Supplement No. 2-1973 with folded Index Chart and 37 pages loosely inserted. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Spine lightly faded. Foxing. Very good. 24.7 x 15.

75248
HODSON, A.
INTRODUCTION TO TRAWLING
$20.00 AUD

Fishing News (Books) Ltd. London. 1964 Revised edition of the 1948 original. (6), 78 PP with 37 b/w illustrations (4 sketches and 33 photos), plus 3 folded plates with 5 illustrations of a "North Sea Trawl". Fp: Compass Rose. Stiff covers a little soiled and dust jacket with some wear and soiling. Name of previous owner at top of half-title page and a few hand-written relevant notes on last page. Very good. 21.6 x 14.

64681
HOGBEN, Rick & GREY, Michael (editors)
SEASCAPE: International Maritime Magazine - Introductory Issue
$10.00 AUD

Seascape Publications Ltd. London. 1987. Introductory Issue, 1987. 44 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Dar Pomorza in the English Channel) . Very good. 29.6 x 21.

Introductory Issue. Rebirth of the Battleship, by John Jordan. ... The Dhows of Islam, by Michael Grey.

48383
HORE, Captain Peter, R.N. (editor)
SEAPOWER ASHORE. 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land
$15.00 AUD

Chatham Publishing / National Maritime Museum. London. 2001. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral Sir Jock Slater. 288 PP with tables, 7 maps, and 60 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 17.2. 1861761554

14921
HORNELL, James
WATER TRANSPORT - Origins and Early Evolution
$30.00 AUD

David & Charles. Newton. 1970. Reprint of the 1946 original, with an introduction by Basil Greenhill. XXVI, 308 PP with 69 text figures, plus 48 pages with 45 plates containing 87 b/w photos. Hard cover with dust jacket which has a lightly sunned spine. Small neat stamp of previous owner at top of front endpaper, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 24.2 x 16.2. 0715348604

The development of water craft from the earliest times to the days of the sailing ship.

68406
HORTON, Edward
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE SUBMARINE
$20.00 AUD

Sidgwick & Jackson. London. 1974. 1st edition. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans & photos). Title-page: Morning exercises on a Russian Pacific Fleet submarine in 1955. Hard cover, dj. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front endpaper and versof title page. Endpapers reinforced at gutter. Contents near fine. 25.5 x 19.5. 0283979720

74815
HOWARD-WILLIAMS, Jeremy
SAILS
$10.00 AUD

Adlard Coles. London. 1969. 2nd (revised) edition of the 1967 original. 411 PP with graphs146 figures in text & 32 figures in Appendices, plus 32 pages with 54 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.8 3 x 14.5. 022997368X

The use and care of sails for the owner, the helmsman, the sail-maker.

75651
HOWARTH, David
DHOWS
$100.00 AUD

Quartet Books. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 4 drawings & plans, 13 paintings, 104 b/w photos, and 88 colour illustrations (4 paintings and 84 photos). Title page : Dhow under sail. Eps: Wooden hull caulked. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in on verso of half title page and recto of rear endpaper. Bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton pasted down on front endpaper. Hand written note, by Geoffrey Ingleton on half title page. Foxing on top outside edge. Near fine. 31.5 x 21.5. 0704321483

Pictorial and graphic story of the ancient sailing ships of Arabia : their trade routes, the types of dhows, their construction.

55489
HUBATSCH, Walther
ERÖVRINGEN AV ÖSEL OCH DAGÖ 1941
$10.00 AUD

Aktuellt Och Historiskt. Stockholm. 1955. Reprint. 37-68 PP with 2 maps and 4 b/w photos, plus 1 folded map. Soft cover. Swedish text. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.7.

Baltic Sea, off Estonian coast: September / October 1941.

46495
HUNDLEY, Paul
SCRIMSHAW - Art of the Whaler (in Signals No. 66)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2004. No. 66, March-May 2004. 36 PP, contains article from P.8 to 11 with 9 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.

The craft and the craftsmen.

75587
Il'ina, M. A. (Editor) & KOZINTSEV, A. G., CHISTOVA, A. Yu. (English Editors)
KUNSTKAMERA MUSEUM 290 YEARS - Peter The Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
$100.00 AUD

Kunstkanera / MAE. Saint-Petersburg. 2004 1st English edition. Foreword by Zhores Alferov, Academician. 352 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside covers "bird's eye view" of Saint-Petersburg and location of the Kunstkamera Museum. Illustrated stiff covers with flaps. Printed on glossy paper. Light wear around cover edges, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce edition. 23 x 13.5. 5884311109

Museum celebrating its 290 years of existence: History / Collections / Studies.

31507
JAMES, Wendy, BAUMANN, Gerd & JOHNSON, Douglas H. (editors)
JUAN MARIA SCHUVER'S TRAVELS IN NORTH EAST AFRICA 1880-1883
$15.00 AUD

The Hakluyt Society. London. 1996. No. 184 in the second series. CVII, 392 PP with 16 b/w illust., plus 2 colour plates . Fp: Juan Maria Schuver, photographed in Philippopolis, 7 November 1877. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 090418045X

Exploration voyages between the two Niles (Blue and White) and in Abyssinia.

75528
JOHNSON, Irving & Electa
YANKEE'S WANDER WORLD - Circling the Globe in the brigantine "Yankee"
$45.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1956. 1st UK edition. IX, 10-278, (2) PP with 1 map on double page (& inset) "Brigantine Yankee World Cruise", 2 sketches and 3 plans, plus 60 pages with 58 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Occasional foxing spots, offsetting of endpapers, otherwise near fine. 22.3 x 14.5.

4th World Cruise. Sailing from Gloucester 2nd November 1947 ... 40.000 miles to encompass the world and return 1st of May 1949.

75527
JOHNSON, Irving & Electa, & EDES, Lydia
YANKEE'S PEOPLE AND PLACES
$70.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1956. 1st UK edition. 332, (2) PP with 2 maps: "Galapagos" & "New Hebrides to Cocos Keeling Islands", and 2 pages with plans and sketches, plus 1 map on double page "6th World voyage - Brigantine 'Yankee' - 1953-1955" and 32 pages with 45 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Occasional foxing spots, otherwise near fine. 22.3 x 14.5.

Chronicle of the 6th world cruise:

75062
KAEPPLER, Adrienne L. (editor)
POLYNESIA - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art
$500.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 2010. 1st limited slipcased edition of 300 copies with an illustrated flyleaf, hand numbered and signed by Adrienne Kaeppler (No. 252/300). Greetings from HRH Princess Salote Pilolevu Tuita. Foreword by Mark Blackburn. Preface by Adrienne L. Kaeppler. (Flyleaf), XXXVI, 412 PP with 804 b/w or colour illustrations. Eps: Watercolour "L'habitation du Roi des Sandwich", by Adrien Aiomé Taunay. Cloth covers, colour illustration "Patuone, Chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe" pasted down on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Contained in an illustrated slipcase. Fine/as new condition. 32 x 14.5. 9781883528409

41298
KEATES, J. S. (editor)
THE WORLD BOOKS ATLAS OF THE WORLD
$10.00 AUD

The Reprint Society. London. 1957. Reprinted of the 1956 original published by Penguin Books. XVI, 76, 80 PP with 79 pages of maps in colour. Eps: Maps with key to the Atlas. Cloth cover, device on front cover. Lettering on spine and device on front cover rubbed. Foxing spots on outside edges. Errata page: Developments since publication, tipped in between P. II and III. Bookplate of previous owner pasted down on half title page. Contents near fine. 38.6 x 26.5.

80 pages for Maps. 76 pages of Index.

75675
KEMP, Christopher
FLOATING GOLD
$20.00 AUD

Fourth Estate/HarperCollins. Sydney. 2012. 1st printings of the 1st Australian paperback edition. XVI, 304 PP with 20 b/w illustrations (1 newspaper clipping, 1 letter and 18 photos), plus 8 pages with 12 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper and foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 20.8 x 13.5. 9780732291914

19052
KENNY, John
BEFORE THE FIRST FLEET, Europeans in Australia 1606-1777
$20.00 AUD

Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1995. 1st Ed. 184 PP with b/w illust. (maps, engravings, ...) plus 16 pages with 31 colour illust. Eps: Mappemonde, 1630. Hard cover, dust jacket. Minimal light foxing on prelims otherwise a fine copy. 24.7 x 18.6. 0864176457

Details of the early European contacts with Australia. Landfalls, exploration, sojourns. Thoughts of the explorers on the coastline, plants, animals... encounters with aborigines.

75865
KERR, Garry
CRAFT AND CRAFTSMEN OF AUSTRALIAN FISHING 1870-1970 - An Illustrated Oral History
$60.00 AUD

Main'sl Books. Portland, Victoria. 1985. 1st Ed. 261 PP with 24 plans & around 250 photos. FEP: Sail plan of fishing ketch "Myrtle Burgess". REP: Sail plan of "Elsie Jargen". Hard cover, simile leather, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears, rubbed patches, and a sunned spine, now in a protective sleeve. Small sellotape marks on endpapers. Name of previous owners at top corner of the verso of FFEP. An otherwise near fine copy. 25 x 18.5. 0949583553

The evolution of Australian fishing craft: cray fishing ketches and yawls, pearling luggers, oyster cutters, couta boats ...

75928
KERR, Garry
THE TASMANIAN TRADING KETCH - An Illustrated Oral History
$50.00 AUD

Main'sl Books. Portland, Victoria. 1987. 1st Ed. (4), 179 PP with 15 plans (hull, sail, construction) and many b/w photos (most full-page). Fp: "Evaleeta" under sail. Eps: Map of Tasmania and an inset of S.E. Tasmania. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24.5 x 18.5. 0731608879

Development and evolution of Tasmania's trading craft (construction, sailing and handling techniques, living conditions).

48997
KERR, Glenn & SNUSHALL, Barry (editors)
FUTURE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY TRENDS TO 2020: Impact on Ship Design & Operations
$20.00 AUD

Sea Power Centre / Royal Australian Navy / University of Wollongong. Canberra. 2005. 1st edition, in Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs No. 13. XVIII, 244 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0642295867

16811
KERR, J. Lennox & GRANVILLE, Wilfred
THE R. N. V. R. - A Record of Achievement
$10.00 AUD

George G. Harrap. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear-Admiral G. Thistleton-Smith. 304 PP with 1 line drawing, plus 24 pages with 47 b/w photos. Fp: M.L. 282 at Zeebrugge. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Ex-Library copy with 1 stamp on front endpaper and dust jacket blurb pasted down on FFEP. A very good clean copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 21.5 x 14.5.

History of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve since its inception in 1903. Its organization and some of its valorous deeds.

75767
KLUDAS, Arnold
GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD (Set of 6 Volumes)
$100.00 AUD

Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1986. 1st English edition. Total of 1346 pages with hundreds of b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Volumes 1, 2 & 4 have price-clipped dust jackets. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 24.5 x 20.3. 085059: 1740 - 2429 - 2453 - 2534 - 2658 - 7471

70879
LACROIX, Louis
LES DERNIERS VOILIERS-CABOTEURS FRANCAIS
$25.00 AUD

Editions Maritimes & d'Outre-Mer. Paris. 1978. New edition of the 1946 original "Les Ecraseurs de Crabes sur les derniers Voiliers Caboteurs". Foreword by Jean Randier. 294, (2) PP, plus 32 pages with 36 b/w photos (postcards). Pictorial card cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, spine lightly sunned. French text. Very good. 20.8 x 14.5.

75453
LANCE, Kate
ALAN VILLIERS: Voyager of the Winds
$40.00 AUD

University of New South Wales Press. Sydney. 2009. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. XII, 307 PP with 4 graphs, plus 24 pages with 63 b/w photos. Hard cover. Fine. 24 x 16.5. 9781742230191

Biography of this prolific author and seafarer.

75011
LAROUSSE
ATLAS COLONIAL ILLUSTRE - Géographie / Voyages & Conquêtes / Productions / Administration
$225.00 AUD

Librairie Larousse. Paris. c. 1903. 1st Ed. 280, (1 Modification & Errata) PP with b/w illustraztions (70 maps and 741 photos), plus 23 plates 7 with maps in colour (1 on double page) and 16 plates with 27 b/w photos. Marbled endpapers reinforced at the gutter. Rebacked copy retaining the original marbled boards and spine with gilt title. Note on the verso of the front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper. French text. Near fine. 32 x 24.5..

71864
LAST, P. R., SCOTT, E. O. G. & TALBOT, F. H.
FISHES OF TASMANIA
$120.00 AUD

T.F.D.A./Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority. Hobart. 1983. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dr. T. G. Dix. VIII, 563 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 profile "Zones of the Sea", drawings, sketches, artworks and photos). Illustrated cloth cover with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has a few small chips/rubs and a lightly sunned spine and is in a protective sleeve. An otherwise fine copy of a scarce item. 25.5 x 18. 0724611266

75779
LAWSON, Will
PACIFIC STEAMERS
$50.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1927. 1st Ed. XX, 244 PP, plus 72 plates with 114 b/w illustrations. Fp: The "Kaikoura" in 1866. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Gilt lettering on spine lightly dulled. Light foxing on outside edges. Very good. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.

The pioneer passenger & mail lines which survived up to the 1920's between the West Coast of America, Australia & New Zealand.

10895
LEATHER, John
THE SALTY SHORE, The Story of the River Blackwater
$20.00 AUD

Terence Dalton. Lavenham, U.K. 1979. 1st Ed. XVI, 200 PP with 2 plans, 8 engravings & 86 b/w photos. Eps: Map Maldon & River Blackwater. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with a few nicks/rubs and in a protective sleeve. An otherwise fine copy. 23 x 18. 0900963522

Essex seafaring: fishermen, bargemen, boatbuilders, sailmakers, wildfowlers, smugglers,...

69253
LEPINE, Mike
DUNKIRK - The Disaster ... and the Miracle
$25.00 AUD

Dannan Publishing Ltd. London. 2017. 3 items: 1 magazine: 1st edition. 80 PP with 10 maps in colour and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. New. 29.5 x 23. Together with 2 DVD: "Little Ships" (60 minutes) by Dan Snow, published in 2010 / "Churchill, a Giant in the Century" (90 minutes), published in 2013. 9780995479494

May & June 1940.

75715
LIVERMORE, John
TRANSPORT LAW IN AUSTRALIA
$75.00 AUD

Wolters Kluwer. Alphen aan den Rijn, NL. 2023. 5th Ed. 256 PP with Selected Bibliography, Table of Cases, Table of Statutes and Index at rear. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 9789403513270

I - Background information on the Country. II - Maritime Law: Carriage by Sea / Shipping Law. III - Other transports: Road / Rail / Air.

75282
LIVERSIDGE, Douglas
THE LAST CONTINENT
$15.00 AUD

Jarrolds. London. 1958. 1st edition. 248 PP with 1 map, plus 1 large folded "General Map of Antarctica" and 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Cloth covers a little soiled, occasional foxing. Very good. 21.6 x 14.5.

74493
LLOYD'S
LLOYD'S CALENDAR 1955
$10.00 AUD

Lloyd's. London. 1954. Yearly edition. XVIII, 738 PP with figures (plans, sketch maps and photos), graphs, tables and illustrated advertising material, plus b/w plates and a thumbnail index . Eps: Adverts. Blue cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine. Near fine. 20.8 x 13.5.

Tide and tidal tables (pages 30 to 179). Sea distances tables (pages 19 to 29) ... Salvage operations at sea. Pulling Vessels off Coral Reefs, by Captain Brett Hilder.

68674
LLOYD, Christopher
CAPTAIN MARRYAT AND THE OLD NAVY
$25.00 AUD

Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1939. 1st Ed. XIII, 286 PP with 1 map, plus 8 plates with 9 b/w illustrations. Errata slip tipped on page 1. Fp: Portrait of Frederick Marryat. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers slightly rubbed and soiled. Bookplate on front endpaper and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page, remainder mark on bottom outside edge. Occasional foxing. Overall, contents very clean and still a very good copy. 22.3 x 14.5.

Joined the Royal Navy a year after Trafalgar... Retired from the Navy in 1830, after his last command on H.M.S. Ariadne, after the first Burmese war. Then a novelist.

69266
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S SOUTHERN COASTLINE
$20.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. 1972. Revised and enlarged reprint of the 1971 original Wrecks on South Australia's South East Coast. 40 PP, plus 24 pages with glossary and index and 26 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 19.8 x 13.9.

Shipwrecks and strandings from Victor Harbour to Port MacDonnell.

15115
LONEY, Jack
OLD DAYS AND WAYS ALONG THE SOUTH COAST, Tales From the Surf and Shipwreck Coasts
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1992. 1st Ed. 78 PP with 1 map & 4 b/w photos, plus 2 pages with 4 colour photos & 28 pages with 57 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 17.5. 0909191484

Stories and incidents between Queenscliff and Warrnambool.

20800
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ON THE NEW SOUTH WALES COAST
$20.00 AUD

Oceans Enterprises. Yarram. 1993. 1st Ed. 166, (12 Indexes) PP with 56 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22 x 15. 0646110810

57977
LONEY, Jack
WRECK - 1891, and Other Maritime Memories
$25.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1992. 1st Ed. 121 PP with 1 map & 2 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 69 b/w illustrations (including 6 maps). Pictorial soft cover. Signed on title page by the author. Fine (mint condition). 21.5 x 17.5. 0909191492

Major wrecks on the South Western Victorian coast in the year 1891: W.D. Godfrey, Joseph H. Scammell, Gambier, Fiji,...

75703
LUBBOCK, Basil
THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS
$40.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1948. New edition of the 1914 original. XVI, 384 PP, plus 60 pages with 81 b/w photos and 4 plans, 1 plate with 12 House Flags (in colour) tipped in facing page 88. Fp: Emigrant fleet in Hobson's Bay. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Initial and date on inside front cover at top, otherwise a fine copy. 24.8 x 18.5.

The wooden clippers, the composite wool clippers & iron sailing ships serving Australia & New Zealand up to the end of the 19th century.

75526
LUCAS, Alan
RED SEA AND INDIAN OCEAN CRUISING GUIDE
$100.00 AUD

Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd. London. 1985. 1st Ed. VIII, 174 PP with maps, plans, line drawings. Hard cover, dj. 2 supplements: 6 pages (12/1985) and 2 pages (12/1987) loosely inserted. Fine. Scarce. 30.5 x 21.5. 0852880960

A yachtsman's guide from the Suez Canal to Southern India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia and Northern Australia.

70349
MACKANESS, George (editor)
FRESH LIGHT ON BLIGH - Being Some Unpublished Correspondence of Captain William Bligh, R.N. and Lieutenant Francis Godolphin Bond R.N. ...
$150.00 AUD

Author / Privately Printed. Sydney. 1953. Limited edition of 135 copies & 15 Presentation copies. "One of the Presentation Copies signed by George Mackaness". Volume XXIX in the Australian Historical Monographs series. 84 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Stapled card covers with light wear and sunned spine. Contents fine. Scarce. 24.5 x 18.

... with Lieutenant Bond's Manuscript Notes made on the Voyage of H.M.S. Providence 1791-1795. Correspondence between Captain William Bligh and John & Francis Godolphin Bond.

62972
MACKENDRICK, Lt.-Col. W. G.
GOD'S PLAN FOR FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
$35.00 AUD

Commonwealth Publishers Ltd. Toronto. 1935. 2nd edition of the 1929 original. XVI, 207, (4) PP, plus frontispiece and 2 folded charts. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Dedicatory note on front endpaper signed by the author. Lettering lightly faded. Some underlining and annotations with pencil. Occasional foxing. Very good. 19.6 x 13.5.

73971
MADDEN, Anne (editor)
THE BEST OF SAIL CRUISING
$10.00 AUD

Granada Publishing / Adlard Coles Ltd. London. 1982. Reprint of the 1979 original. 280, (8 blank) PP with figures (drawings, graphs, sketches and b/w photos). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0229116299

An anthology on the arts and practices of cruising under sail.

53070
MAITLAND, Derek
SETTING SAILS - A Tribute to the Chinese Junk
$40.00 AUD

South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. 1981. 1st Ed. 174 PP with b/w & colour illust. (colour photos by Nik Wheeler). Eps. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 31 x 24.5.

The Chinese junk: its history, its triumph as a naval and trading vessel ...

33675
MALSTER, Robert
SAVED FROM THE SEA - The story of life-saving services on the East Anglian coast
$20.00 AUD

Terence Dalton. Lavenham. 1974. 1st Ed. 296 PP with 138 b/w illust. FEP: Map of the Suffolk & Essex lifeboat stations. REP: Map of the Norfolk lifeboat stations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.2 x 17.8. 0900963328

75682
MASTERS, David
WHEN SHIPS GO DOWN - More Wonders of Salvage
$30.00 AUD

Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936. Reprint of the 1932 original. 356 PP with 1 map, plus 16 plates with 18 b/w photos. Fp: Wreck of the Norwegian timber ship "Hansy". Cloth cover, title on spine, dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Tiny stamp of previous owner at top of FFEP and small piece missing at top of blank rear endpaper. A nice copy in the scarce dust jacket. 22 x 14.5.

Lloyd's underwriter, famous wrecks, salvage.

64820
MATSON LINES
S.S. MARIPOSA - MENU
$10.00 AUD

Kia Ora Dinner menu, 1st November, 1965. Captain M.C. Stone, USNR. En route Rarotonga to Auckland. Colour illustrated cover. Near fine. 30.5 x 23.

Front cover: Maori village with carved images and shrine, New Zealand (watercolour by L. Macouillard).

75693
MAYS, Nicole & PAYNE, David
WALTER REEKS
$55.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2023. 1st edition. (5), V, 378, (4 blank) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (caricatures, drawings, newspaper cuttings, plans, photos, portraits) and colour photos. Fp: Taipo (recto) / Walter Reeks at the helm of Thelma. Laminated pictorial boards. New. 28.5 x 22.3. 9780645708622

75600
McCALL, Grant
RAPANUI, Tradition and Survival on Easter Island
$30.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1994. 2nd edition of the 1981 original, 1st paperback printing. 205, (2) PP with b/w illustrations: 2 maps "Peopling of the Pacific" & "Physical and Cultural map of Rapa Nui", and 19 photos. Fp: An Easter Islander, 1853. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 21.5 x 14. 9781863736688

Ancient days - trade, slavery and colonialism ...

75525
McGREGOR, Alasdair
FRANK HURLEY: A photographer's life
$70.00 AUD

Viking / Penguin Group (Australia). Melbourne. 2004. 1st Ed. (VIII), 460 PP with 3 maps, 1 sketch plan of the "Snuggery", 25 head pieces, over 100 b/w photos and 15 colour plates. Fp: Russell waterfall, Mt Field National Park, Tasmania. Eps: entries of diary. Hard cover, dj. Review by Steve Meacham in "Sydney Morning Herald", 1/12/2007. Fine. 24.6 x 20. 0670888958

64417
McINNES, Allan
THE WRECK OF THE "CHARLES EATON"
$20.00 AUD

Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1983. Reprint. 21- 50 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map and 3 photos). Soft covers a little soiled and reinforced, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 13.5.

Paper read to the RHSQ on 24 February 1983. Shipwrecked , 15 August 1834, on Detached Reef, Torres Strait, on a passage from Australia to Canton.

75837
McKEE, Alexander
BLACK SATURDAY, The Tragedy of the "Royal Oak"
$30.00 AUD

Souvenir Press. London. 1959 1st Ed. 220 PP with 2 plans & 2 sketches, plus 12 pages with 24 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine. 22 x 14.5.

The loss of the battleship "Royal Oak" on 14th Oct. 1939, sunk by the German submarine U.47 while at anchor inside the Home Fleet base of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.

74560
McKENDRICK, Joe & BROWN, Leslie
PADDLE STEAMERS OF THE ALPS
$10.00 AUD

Ferry Publications. London. c. 2004. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 13 sketch maps, b/w illustraytions (including 45 photos of paddle steamers and 13 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. Oblong: 15 x 21. 9781871947199

74972
McKINLAY, William Laird
KARLUK. The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration and Survival
$10.00 AUD

Panther Book / Granada Publishing. London. 1978. 1st paperback edition of the 1976 original. Foreword by Magnus Magnusson. 205, (3 publications) PP, plus 32 pages with 2 maps, facsimile of 2 pages of journal, 2 prints ands 40 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with a few creases, ageing of paper. Very good reading copy. 17.8 x 11. 058604745X

64732
McLAREN, Verne
THE CAPE JAFFA LIGHTHOUSE STORY
$20.00 AUD

Author / Kingston National Trust. Kingston, S.A.. 1977. 1st print. Foreword by G. W. Toogood. 60 PP with 28 b/w photos. Inside covers: Cape Jaffa chart. Soft cover, illustrated front. Very good. 18.4 x 11.8. 0958067600

35297
MCLAUCHLAN, Gordon
AUCKLAND
$20.00 AUD

Reed. Wellington. 1978. 1st Ed. (6), 122 PP with colour photos by Martin Barriball. Title spread: Rangitoto, Waitemata Harbour. Half title page: Queen Street, Auckland. FEP: City landscape and harbour. REP: Auckland Harbour Bridge. Fine. 26 x 18.8. 0589011987

75609
McNEICE, Roger
FLAMES OF FEAR - A Photographic and Documentary History of the Fear and Devastation caused by Bushfires in Tasmania since 1820
$90.00 AUD

Wellington Bridge Press / Roger McNeice, OAM. Hobart. 2017 1st Ed. Foreword by Chris Arnol, Chief Officer, Tasmania Fire Service. VIII, 370 PP with b/w and colour photos throughout. Laminated pictorial boards. As new. 30.5 x 21.5. 9781921767227

Published on the 50th anniversary of the devastating bushfires of February 1967.

42743
McNIVEN, Ian J., RUSSELL, Lynette &, SCHAFFER, Kay (editors)
CONSTRUCTIONS OF COLONIALISM - Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck
$20.00 AUD

Leicester University Press. London. 1998. Paperback edition. VIII, (2), 192 PP with 3 maps and 8 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 0718501713

Wreck of the Stirling Castle.

34867
MEINSMA, J. J.
GESCHIEDENIS VAN DE NEDERLANDSCHE OOST-INDISCHE BEZITTINGEN (three volumes bound in one)
$25.00 AUD

Joh. Ijkema. Delft, Netherlands. 1872, 1873 & 1875. 1st Ed. Volume 1: (2), 254, (2) PP. Volume 2, part 1: (2), 258, XIV PP. Volume 2, Part 2: (2), 170, (2 errata) PP. Rebacked copy, cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Part of margin of page 17/18 of volume 1 and of volume 3 damaged with small loss of text, page XIII/XIV of volume 2, part 1 misbound. Light insect damage on first and last pages, o/wise contents near fine. Dutch text. 22 x 14.2.

History of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies.

40501
MEISTER, Jürg
UNSICHERE ZUKUNFT DER COCOS-INSELN (in Marine-Rundschau - No.78, Issue 12, December 1981)
$10.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe Verlag. München. 1981. Contains article from P.642 to 644 with 3 maps and 2 b/w photos. Soft cover. Near fine. German text. 29.8 x 21.

Is there a future for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island, as Australian territories.

75748
MERTZ, Xavier & LUCAS, Anna
SWISS ALPS TO ANTARCTIC GLACIERS - The Journals of Dr Xavier Mertz
$75.00 AUD

Fineline Studios / Swiss Club of Victoria. Melbourne. 2015. Reprint of the 2014 original. (4), XIV, 206 PP with 1 colour illustration (flags of Switzerland & Australia and c. 62 b/w illustrations (3 maps, ephemera and photos). Stiff covers with illustrations. Fine. Scarce. 21 x 14.8. 9780992562311

... On Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.

75129
MEYERS, Col
TRAWL TALES & TRUE
$45.00 AUD

Col Myers & Rees Campbell / Print Domain. Burnie, Tas. 2016. 1st Ed. 205 PP with over 30 colour illustrations (1 prawn trawl rig, 2 maps and photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780980285314

Fishing for mackerel or trawling for prawns in Queensland waters, during the last quarter of the 20th Century.

75216
MILLER, Dorcas S. (editor)
RESCUE - Stories of Survival from Land and Sea
$15.00 AUD

Thunder's Mouth Press / Avalon Publishing. New York. 1999 1st Ed., in the Adrenaline Book series. (8), 376 PP with 21 b/w illustrations (frontispiece and 20 headpieces). Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Faint foxing. Remainder mark on lower outside edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.5. 9781560252580

21915
MILLER, Harry
PIRATES OF THE FAR EAST
$25.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1970. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 3 maps, plus 12 pages with 20 bw pictures. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with small part torn at top of front cover of the dust jacket. Date stamp on first few pages, otherwise very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 070911429X

75866
MILLER, Nathan
THE U.S. NAVY - An Illustrated History
$25.00 AUD

American Heritage Publishing / United States Naval Institute Press. New York / Annapolis. 1977. De Luxe edition. 407, (9 index) PP with b/w and colour illust. Title spread: The return of the conquerors. Half title page: The Ocean, The Highway of All Nations. Eps: Officers and men of the USS Georgia, April 1907. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, illustrated slipcase. Spine faded. Stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on endpapers, o/wise a near fine copy. 29.6 x 24. 0671229850

43049
MILLER, William H.
THE LAST BLUE WATER LINERS
$10.00 AUD

Conway Maritime Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 224 PP with numerous b/w illust. Fp: The Arcadia at Suva, Fiji. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 19. 0851774008

A stimulating, factual & nostalgic account of the post-war era of intercontinental liner traffic.

62691
MITCHELL, Barry
SUPERFERRIES
$10.00 AUD

Coastline Press. Bridlington. 1987. 1st Ed. 65 PP with 104 b/w and 4 colour photos. Inside front cover: Map of the South west part of the North Sea (in colour). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21. 0951253107

74902
MOLDENHAUER, Joseph J. (Editor)
CAPE COD
$10.00 AUD

Princeton University Press. 1993. 1st Paperback ed. (8), 235 PP including an Index. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 20.2 x 13. 069100076X

75646
MORRIS, Roger
ATLANTIC SAIL, Ten Centuries of Ships in the North Atlantic
$30.00 AUD

David Bateman Ltd. Auckland. 1992. 1st edition. 184 PP with b/w and colour illust. (drawings, maps, plans, paintings) by the author. Illustrated frontispiece, half title page and endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing on top outside edge, otherwise a fine copy. Oblong: 22 x 28.6. 9781869530852

The Norse voyagers, Christopher Columbus, Bristol merchants... to the demise of commercial sail.

34450
MORSE, Robert
AFTER EIGHT YEARS, WORLD'S SHIPPING IS MOVING THROUGH SUEZ CANAL (in Smithsonian, Volume 6, No. 7)
$15.00 AUD

Smithsonian Institution. Washington. 1975. Volume 6, No. 7, October 1975. Contains article from page 60 to 67 with 1 b/w engraving and 7 colour photos by Dmitri Kessel. Soft cover. Near fine. 28.2 x 21.

Cleared of the debris of two wars, the Suez Canal once again is open to world's shipping.

63305
MORT, S. W.
POINTS NORTH - Points of General Interest between Cairns and Torres Strait
$20.00 AUD

Torres Industries Pty. Ltd. Thursday Island. 1993. 1st Ed. VI, 70 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map "Explorers' Routes", 10 maps, 5 drawings and 9 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Discreet name of previous owner at lower corner of title page. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646134396

58323
MOSES, John & EARNSHAW, Arnold
THE AUSTRALIAN - RETROSPECTIVE 1964 - 1984
$20.00 AUD

The Australian. Sydney / Melbourne. 1984. Special issue, 14-15 July 1984. 126 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Very good. 27.5 x 21.

1964-1965: The complacent years. 1966-1967: Years of change... 1984: Society starts to open up.

75836
MOYSE-BARTLETT H.
A HISTORY OF THE MERCHANT NAVY
$35.00 AUD

George G. Harrap. London. 1937. 1st Ed. 303 PP with 53 illustrations (drawings, engravings & maps), plus 31 b/w plates. Fp: The West Indiaman Medina under sail. Cloth cover, device and title in blind on front cover, gilt device and title on spine, dj price clipped). Dust jacket with tears and pieces missing, now in a protective sleeve. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, otherwise contents are fine. 20 x 13.7.

Concise and comprehensive story of discovery, exploration, expansion of shipping and trade... relationship between Merchant and Royal Navies.

30876
N/A
FAIRPLAY: 1883 - 1983, CENTENARY ISSUE (Volume 286, No. 5202)
$30.00 AUD

Fairplay Publications. London. 1983. Issued 19th May 1983. Edited by R.J.M. GREY & D. TINSLEY. 228 PP with advertising material, b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.2.

A special centenary celebration of Fairplay: Friday May 18th 1883 - Thursday May 19th 1983: Charter parties. Setting standards. British tramps...

63382
N/A
CRUISE TRAVEL MAGAZINE - Volume 12 (5 issues)
$15.00 AUD

World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1990/1991. Volume 12, No.1 (July/August) 1990 & No. 2 (Sept/October 1990), No. 4 (Jan/February 1991) to No. 6 (May/June) 1991. 5 issues for a total of 388 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine run. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5.

Volume 12. Each issue with following : Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Antigua. - Ship: "Mississippi Queen" of Delta Queen Steamboat Co. - Cruise: Canada & New England. No. 2 - Port: Mazatlan. - Ship: "Star Princess". - Cruise: Mexican Riviera. ... No. 4 - 1991 Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: San Francisco. - Ship: "Westerdam". - Cruise: Alaska. No. 6 - Port: San Juan - Ship: "Constitution" of American Hawaii Cruises. - Cruise: Canadian Arctic.

67746
N/A
VINTAGE MAPS - Petite Parcel Set
$25.00 AUD

Cavallini & Co. San Francisco. 2013. Set for packaging special gifts. 12 assorted gift bags, 4 of each size. 12 glittered gift tags with tie, of of each different model. 12 sheets of assorted stickers. Contained in a sellophane envelope. New condition. 9781619921832

This delightful set has everything needed to package a special gift, including gift bags, decorative stickers, and glittered gift tags. Vintage imagery from the Cavallini archives.

72361
N/A
TASMANIA, The Isle of Scenic Beauty
$20.00 AUD

Nucolorvue Productions. Mentone, Vic. c. 1965. Enlarged and revised edition. No pagination, 36 PP with 1 map of Tasmania (inside back cover) and 57 colour photos. Stiff covers, front with colour illustration (wheat field). Very good. Oblong: 18 x 24.5.

Colour photos of the Princess of Tasmania and M.V. Empress of Australia.

74910
N/A
SEA BREEZES - The Ship Lovers' Magazine No. 222, Vol. XXIII
$10.00 AUD

Charles Birchall. London. 1938. May 1938. P.41 to 80 with b/w illust. Pictorial soft wrappers, staples removed, o/wise very good. 24.8 x 15.5.

Articles include: A City Packet (W.H. Miller), 800 Miles under Jury Rig (Capt. J.C. Page), Flying "P" Liners (Jens Malling & E.A. Woods).

75164
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas ( Vol. 2, No.4, February 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The Lace Lizard "Goanna"). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

Articles include: Picnic Racing in the "Outback", by Jim McCarter. Islands in the Sun (Great Barrier Reef), by G. Rogers. Laying the Bass Strait Telephone Cable, by A. B. Haines. A Native Fish-Hunt in New Ireland, by William C. Groves. Water in the Desert (W.A.'s 350-mile Pipe-Line to the Kalgoolie goldfields), by John K. Ewers.

75165
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.5, March 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The "Joseph Conrad"). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

The "Joseph Conrad" A Full-Rigger in the South Seas, by A. J. Villiers. The Unveiling of a Continent (the Kennedy Expedition: 2nd part), by Russell S. Clark. Ambergris, by Richard Ross. A Nullarbor Sheep Station, by D. R. Nicholls. The Dugong, by G.H. Sunter.

75166
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.6, April 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Launching the Lifeboat at Queenscliff). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

Australia's Flying Doctors, by Dr. George Simpson. Whaling at Point Cloates (700 miles North of Perth, W.A.), by John K. Ewers. Storm Warriors (shipwreck! Life-boat ...), by Lorenzo Robertson. The Unveiling of a Continent (Part 3) : with Burke and Wills to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by Russell S. Clark.

75167
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.8, June 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (A Young Wedge-tailed Eagle). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

Cape York Peninsula, (1) The civilised foreground, by Ursula H. McConnel. Below Zero, Life on a Ross Sea Whaler, by Henrik Brammall. Roving the Coral Seas, by C.B. Christesen. Unveiling of a Continent (Part 5): with Eyre along the Great Australian Bight, by Russell S. Clark. The Kanaka Mercantile Marine, by F. A. Hood. Headlands and History, by T. Dunbabin.

75168
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.10, August 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Mustering, Dargo High Plains, Victoria). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

Hoof-Beats on Bogong, by Lorenzo Robertson. Does Lasseter's Reef Exist?, by Michael Terry. New Guinea Jewellery, by F. A. Hood. Cape York Peninsula (part 3): Development and Control, by Ursula H. McConnell. Native surgery in the South Seas Islands (Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain), by G. McLaren.

75169
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.12, October 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Competitor at the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

Australia's Antarctic Dependency, by John K. Davis. Fighting the Prickly Pear, by Edward Samuel. Hobart, the City by the Mountain, by C. C. D. Brammall. A Native Feast in Melanesia, by W. C. Groves. "Wilgie-Mia": an Aboriginal Red Ochre Mine, by W. H. Kretchmar.

75170
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 3, No.1, November 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The "Cathedral", Tawong Station, Corryong). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

Lazy Days in Crocodile Land (North Australia), by Ion L. Idriess. In Wild New Guinea, Up the Sepik River, by Brian Stirling. Water Conservation in Australia, by Lewis R. East. My Island Home,: Whitsunday Passage, Qld, by H. G. Lamond.

75171
N/A
WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 3, No.2, December 1936)
$50.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Turtle Riding at Heron Island, G.B.R.). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.

Heron Island, a Fairy Isle of Romance, by Colin Roderick. The River Murray Steamers, a Romance of Australian transport in the early days, by L. D. Mackay. New Zealand's Thermal Regions, by Edward Samuel. South Seas Withchery: notes from a Tahitian Journey, by J.K. Stone. Digging for Kauri Gum in New Zealand, by Ronald Vine.

75506
N/A
WOODENBOAT - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers - 1988, issue 84
$10.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Magazine. Brooklin, Maine. 1988. No. 84, September-October 1988. Edited by Jonathan Wilson. 152 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front (Cabin of the Herreshoff Bar Harbor 31-footer "Desperate Lark"). Fine. 27.7 x 20.8.

Heydays at Herreshoff's: A Photographic review, by Maynard Bray. The Legacy of Howard Chapelle, by Peter H. Spectre.

55142
NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW - 1974
$20.00 AUD

Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1974. 4 issues for 1974, March, June, September and December. Edited by Lewis J. LIND & Alan PAYNE. A total of 204 pages with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise a fine set. 24.3 x 18.6.

March 1974: Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the Happy Warrior, by L. J. Lind. Centrefold: British Fleet Memorial. Australian Naval Aviation (Part 3), by Group Captain Keith Isaacs. June 1974: Admiral Sir G. Francis Hyde - The First Admiral, by Lieutenant Commander A. W. Grazebrook. The loss of H.M.S. Auckland. H.M.A.S. Encounter finds the raider Seeadler, by L. J. Lind. Australian Naval Aviation (Part 4). Perth died bravely, by Hon. Norman J.O. Makin. September 1974: Ordinary Seaman A. Gee, the Ship's Bugler, by L. F. Holmes. HMAS Parramatta - first born of the Commonwealth Navy. Action in the Solomons, by Major W. F. M. Clemens. December 1974: For Valour - Naval Victoria Crosses of World War II, by L.J. Lind. A century of Japanese Intelligence, by Lieutenant-Commander W. N. Swan.

56869
NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW - 1983
$20.00 AUD

Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1983. Vol. 5, Nos. 1 to 4, New series. Edited by Harry ADLAM & L.J. LIND... 4 issues for 1983, March, June, October and December. A total of 152 pages with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise a fine set. 24.3 x 18.6.

No.191 and the Tasmanian Engineer Torpedo Corps and TB191, HMAS "Una", a Work Horse, The Royal Yacht Britannia, The J Class Submarines, The Loss of HMAS Armidale, HMAS Barcoo, The Chequered Career of HMAS Penguin..

59786
NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW - 2002
$20.00 AUD

Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 2002. Vol. 23, Nos. 1 to 4, New series. Edited by Lieutenant-Commander R. J. Francis. 4 quarterly issues for 2002. A total of 104 pages with b/w illustrations. Issues (1, 2 & 3) of "The Buzz" loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Soft cover of issue 1 with rubbed patch, o/wise a fine set. Format: issues 1 & 2: 28 x 21 - issues 3 & 4: 24 x 17.

Fall of Singapore, The Moth that was called a Bee, HMS Byron and U.1009, Figureheads, Service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1940-1946,

65120
NAVIGATION
ADMIRALTY NAVIGATION MANUAL 1938 - Volume I
$15.00 AUD

H.M.S.O. London. 1943. Reprint of the 1939 edition. IX, 446 PP with 170 b/w or colour figures and 8 pages with 34 colour illustrations (Rules of the Road), plus 16 pages for 17 b/w photos, 5 plates (1 in colour) and 10 folded plates (3 in colour). Fp: Bridge of a modern battleship. Eps: Advertisements. Cloth covers speckled on front with worn patches on back cover, top of spine frayed and worn. Contents are clean and complete and still a good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 24.8 x 16.

22340
NEILL, Peter, & KROHN, Barbara Ehrenwald (editors)
GREAT MARITIME MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD
$75.00 AUD

Balsam Press & Harry N. Abrams. New York. 1991. 1st Ed. 304 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title spread: Gloucester Inner Harbour. Half title page: Model of the American built "Flying Cloud". Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 29.2 x 23.2. 9780810933620

Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. The Nova Scotia Maritime Museums in Canada... The Yokohama Maritime Museum in Japan... The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.

75669
NICHOLS, Dr. Robert & WOODS, Dr. Martin (editors)
MAPPING OUR WORLD: Terra Incognita to Australia
$55.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2013. 1st Ed. Forewords: by Andrew Smith, Shell Australia / Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, National Library of Australia. XXX, 256 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine (as new condition). Oblong: 27 x 30. 9780642278098

Catalogue accompanying exhibition " Mapping our World...", held at the National Library of Australia: 7 November 2013 to 10th March 2014.

66800
NICHOLSON, Ian Hawkins
SHIPPING ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES - SYDNEY : VOLUME II: 1826-1840, PARTS I, II and III
$35.00 AUD

Roebuck. Canberra. 1981. Reprint of the 1977 original. Roebuck Publication No. 23. VI, 258 PP with 5 maps and 10 b/w illustrations, plus 76 pages of index (Part II: 1-36 & Part III: 53-93). FEP: Port Jackson. REP: Discoveries in Australia in 1834. Pictorial card cover. Covers slightly rubbed, o/wise very good. 26 x 18.3. 090943414X

74873
NOLL, Terrie
THE JOINT BOOK - The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery
$30.00 AUD

Gary Allen / Quarto Book. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. 192 PP with hundreds of coloured illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, sqpiral bound. Fine (mint condition). 20.2 x 17. 1877082090

12315
NORTHCOTE PARKINSON, C.
PORTSMOUTH POINT, The British Navy in Fiction 1793-1815
$15.00 AUD

Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1949. 1st US Ed. 154 PP with 20 b/w illustrations (plans & tail-pieces), plus 12 pages with 8 b/w photos. Fp: Portsmouth Point, c.1799. Eps: Maps of Spithead and Portsmouth/Portsea. Cloth cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 22 x 14.

An anthology of naval fiction, giving a picture of naval life afloat and ashore during the Napoleonic Wars. (All the writers had firsthand experience of the sea).

75283
NOËL, Bernard
DICTIONNAIRE DE LA COMMUNE (in 2 volumes)
$40.00 AUD

Flammarion. Paris. 1978. 1st edition in the "Flammarion Champ Historique" series. New edition of the 1971 original, with 73 new entries and a Thematic Index. Vol. I (No. FH 1035): 327, (5) PP. Vol. II (No. FH 1054): 291, (3) PP. Soft covers, illustrated front. French text. Slight ageing of paper. Sold as a set. Very good. 17.8 x 11.

Upheaval in Paris, following the surrender in Sudan of the French Army to the victorious Prussians. End of Empire, 3rd French Republic... first Communist government in Paris.

43689
O'BRIAN, Patrick
THE HUNDRED DAYS
$10.00 AUD

HarperCollins. London. 1999. 1st paperback edition of the 1988 original by Harper Collins. (6), 281 PP with 1 sail plan of a square-rigged ship. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 19.7 x 13. 9780006512110

Actions in the Western Mediterranean Sea after Napoleon's escape fom Elba Island.

67066
P&O ORIENT LINES
MELBOURNE
$10.00 AUD

P&O Orient Lines. London. c. 1962. Folded brochure (5 folds) with general information, hotels and restaurants, dancing and dining, expeditions, bathing, sea, air and rail services. Includes a colour map of Melbourne with inset of the Port Melbourne. Fine. Folded format: 19.5 x 13.

Gives places of interest and information for passengers.

69095
P. & O.
S.S. CANBERRA - Luncheon Menu "Mediterranean Weather - P&O Pencillings"
$10.00 AUD

On Board. 1990. Folded dinner menu, 14th October 1990, illustrated by W.W. Lloyd. Front (in colour) "Mediterranean Weather - A Sunny bit of the Hurricane Deck". Back (Pen and Ink): A sketch on the Hurricane Deck. Fine. 24.8 x 17..

Covers with 1 colour and 1 pen and ink illustrations from "P&O Pencillings" published in 1890, by William Whitelock Lloyd.

69098
P. & O.
S.S. CANBERRA - Luncheon Menu "Sports: or, a P&O Race Meeting - P&O Pencillings"
$10.00 AUD

On Board. 1990. Folded dinner menu, 5th October 1990, illustrated by W.W. Lloyd. Front (in colour) "Sports: or a P&O Race Meeting". Back (Pen and Ink): 1 "Cricket". Fine. 24.8 x 17.

Covers with 4 colour (Obstacle Jump - Barrels - Cock-fighting - A score for Blue) and 1 pen and ink illustrations from "P&O Pencillings" published in 1890, by William Whitelock Lloyd.

74146
PAGE, Roger
A HISTORY OF TASMANIAN CRICKET
$20.00 AUD

L.G. Shea, Government Printer. Hobart. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by The Hon. Rex C. Townley. 144 PP with tables and 1 drawing of C. L. Badcock, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w photos. Card covers, staples, dj. Small name stamp at top of title-page, o/wise fine. 21.6 x 13.8.

64704
PARKIN, Dean
A MARITIME MISCELLANY - Volume 1: Whitby to Great Yarmouth
$15.00 AUD

Tyndale + Panda Publishing. Lowestoft, Suffolk. 1989. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Arthur G. Credland. 112 PP with b/w illustrations (1 set of plans, 1 facsimile of documents, 3 diagrams, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft covers. Signed by the author on title page. A few small spots on front cover, o/wise fine. 25 x 20.3. 1870094115

75670
PARRY, Dr David
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE EAST INDIAN ISLANDS - Insulae Indiae Orientalis
$100.00 AUD

Countrywide Editions Ltd. London. 2005. 1st Ed. 241 PP with b/w and colour illustrations: 1 map in colour, 10 headpieces and c. 150 charts. Eps: Chart "Borneo, Java, Sumatra' (tiny tears in gutters). Hard covers, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. Scarce. Oblong: 27.3 x 31. 9780955170119

64430
PARSONS, Ronald & PLUNKETT, Geoff
SCUTTLED AND ABANDONED SHIPS IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS
$15.00 AUD

Ronald Parsons. Lobethal, S.A. 1998. Revised edition of the May 1995 original. Typescript monograph. IV, 55 PP, plus 1 plate with 5 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers. Stamp of previous owner on front cover and title page. Very good. 21 x 14.5. 0909418616

12088
PEARS, Commander Randolph
YOUNG SEA DOGS, Some Adventures of Midshipmen of the Fleet
$15.00 AUD

Putnam. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 252 PP, plus 8 pages with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: A gunroom of Napoleonic days. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.

Early days at sea of Fisher, Jellicoe, Lord Charles Beresford,... Midshipman Heywood of the Bounty,..

75426
PERRY, Roland
RED LEAD - The Naval Cat with Nine Lives
$30.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2020. 1st Ed. XII, 332 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. New. 23.3 x 15.3. 9781760297145

The legendary Australian Ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth, Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway.

75625
PERRYMAN, John
KIT MUSTER - Uniforms, Badges & Categories of the Australian Navy 1865-1953
$35.00 AUD

Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2012. 2nd edition of the 2011 original. Introduction by Rear Admiral Allan du Toit. VIII, 305, (7 blank) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial hard covers. Bookmark of the Sea Power Centre - Australia, loosely inserted. Fine (as new condition). 25.2 x 17.5.. 9780980777468

75636
PHILLIP, Captain Arthur
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of PORT JACKSON & NORFOLK ISLAND; compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments
$125.00 AUD

Georgian House / Australiana Society. Melbourne. 1950. Facsimile reprint of the 1789 edition. Volume I in The Australiana Facsimiles edition limited to 1000 hand numbered copy (No. 524/1000). (2 colophon), (4), VIII, (8 subscribers), X, 298, LXXIV, (2 publications) PP, with vignette on title page, plus 54 b/w plates (including frontispiece and 8 folded charts). Fp: Head of Governor Phillip. Hard cover, gilt decoration and title on spine, top edge gilt. Explanatory note "Aboriginal design on spine", by Norman B. Tindale, Ethnologist, tipped in on front endpaper. Foxing spots on front and bottom outside edges. A near fine copy. Scarce. 29 x 22.

...To which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall with an account of their new discoveries.

46467
PHILLIPS, William D., Jr., & PHILLIPS, Carla Rahn
THE WORLDS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
$20.00 AUD

Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1992. 1st Ed. XII, 322 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, drawings, engravings, maps...). Fp: Departure of Columbus from the Port of Palos. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.6 x 15.8. 0521350972

75033
PICKTHALL, Barry & PEAKE, Rob
RYS CELEBRATES - 200 Years of the Royal Yacht Squadron
$10.00 AUD

Classic Boat. London. 2015. Classic Boat, Special Souvenir Issue. 36 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (paintings and photos). Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.9 x 23.

The first 100 Years: 1815 - 1915. Distinguished Cruisers. The second 100 years: 1914-2015. The RYS Bicentennial International Regatta.

16309
PIDGEON, Harry
AROUND THE WORLD SINGLE-HANDED, The Cruise of the "Islander" (No.12 in the Mariners Library series)
$30.00 AUD

Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1951. 2nd Impression. 215 PP with 1 map & 6 inset maps plus 30 pages with 24 bw photos. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with a few chips and in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 19 x 12.5.

The 34-foot yawl "Islander" around the world between 1921 and 1925. Breakdown cruise to Hawaii, then single-handed Los Angeles, Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides Torres Strait...

66647
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. XXXII, No. 2, September 1962 - The Joyita Tragedy
$10.00 AUD

Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1962. Edited by Judy TUDOR & Stuart INDER. 168 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24.3 x 18.5.

The News Magazine of the South Pacific. ... Pages 25 to 36: Spotlight on the Samoan Islands, by Stuart Inder. Joyita, the ship should not have been allowed to leave, by Peter Plowman. ... Suwarrow atoll buried treasure, by Robert Langdon.

67482
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 42, No.8, August, 1971
$10.00 AUD

Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1971. Edited by Stuart INDER. 132 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24 x 18.5.

The News Magazine of the South Pacific. Norfolk's scandalous abuse of democracy. ... Behind Japanese Lines on Wartime Guadalcanal (pages 71 to 77), by Ken Dalrymple-Hay.

20780
PITTARD, Brenda, HOWARD, Ann, LEAVER, Jane & RUSSELL, Roslyn
AUSTRALIA COMES OF AGE. Rebellion, independence, war and the worker
$15.00 AUD

Bay Books. Sydney. 1990? 1st Ed. 280 PP, with bw and colour illustr. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26 x 18. 0858359146

74936
POCKNELL, David
COASTAL WATERS: A Small Appreciation
$10.00 AUD

Lennard Publishing / Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Oxford. 1990. April 1990 edition of the December 1989 original. No pagination, 40 PP with 3 b/w illustrations (1 photo and 2 drawings) and 20 colour paintings/watercolours illustrating poems. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. Small format: 15.5 x 1.5.5. 185292081X

Delightful illustrations.

68346
PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY
P.L.A. MONTHLY - Vol. 43, No. 514 - AUSTRALASIAN NUMBER
$50.00 AUD

Port of London Authority. London. 1968. Magazine of the Port of London Authority. Edited by Alan Cameron. Issue No. 514, Volume 43, August 1968. Forewords by Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand and John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia. XXVI (advertisements), 257 to 310 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, maps, photos...). Pictorial wrappers with light creases, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.8 x 18.2.

Transport Links with Australasia, by Sir Alan Westerman. "That Untravell'd World..." (Part 2 - Cook's Voyages in the Pacific, by Alison Lockett). From London to the South Sea, by Garth Roydhouse. The PLA in Australasia, by Cyril Webb. The Port of London's trade with Australia and New Zealand. The Freeze that brought New Zealand Prosperity. Captain Cook's debt to Tahiti and the Tahitians, by Robert Langdon.

50278
PORTS
COASTAL POLICY FOR NSW. Draft Revised
$10.00 AUD

Coastal Committee of New South Wales. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Professor Bruce Thom. IV, 106 PP with tables and figures (including 5 maps). Soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0731030222

55209
PORTS
PORT OF BALTIMORE, Handbook 1983-84
$15.00 AUD

Maryland Port Administration. Baltimore. 1984. 1st Ed. Preface by Gregory W. Halpin and Lowell K. Bridwell. IV, 80 PP with tables, and b/w or colour illustrations (sketch maps, plan and photos). Inside front cover: message from Harry Hughes, Governor of Maryland. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.7.

74626
POUND, Reginald
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC
$10.00 AUD

World Books. London. 1968. New edition of the 1966 original. VIII, 9-304 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 20.3 x 13.

Biography of Scott: early life, navy days, leadership of the Discovery expedition.

37968
PRESTON, Diana
A FIRST RATE TRAGEDY - Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions
$15.00 AUD

Constable. London. 1999. Reprint of the 1999 paperback edition of the 1997 original. XVI, 269 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23.3 X 15.5. 094795304

75038
PULLINGER, Phill
TARKINE TRAILS - Takayana Makuminya
$30.00 AUD

The Bob Brown Foundation. Hobart. 2016. January reprint of the 2015 original. with an introduction by Greg Irons, 256 PP with colour illustrations (8 location maps, 31 maps with inserts and photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 21 x 15. 9780994466907

75124
PURVES, Libby
ONE SUMMER'S GRACE - A Family Voyage around Britain
$10.00 AUD

Coronet Books/Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1997. 1st paperback edition of the 1989 original. Introduction by Libby Purves. (271 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 21 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Faint foxing. Near fine. 19.8 x 13.. 9780340707852

74682
QUARRELL, Avis
PORT FAIRY - Past and Present
$20.00 AUD

Covell Publications. Warrnambool. 1983. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map inside back cover, and 33 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 15 x 15. 0959366717

67375
R.A.N., Serving Personnel of the
H.M.A.S. MK. III
$10.00 AUD

Royal Australian Navy / Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1944. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral Sir Guy Royle. 200 PP with 50 b/w illust., 25 colour plates & 32 pages with b/w photos. Fp: The Oerlikon Gunners. Eps: Convoy. Decorated cloth cover with fade spots. Front cover of dust jacket loosely inserted. Light foxing. Very good. 28 x 22.

The past year of WWII conflict.

72924
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XXII, Part IV, 1936
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1936. P. 229-316 with 2 b/w illustrations, plus 2 folded plans. Stapled soft covers with a closed tear on front cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.

Pages 239 to 246: Early voyages to Terra Australis, by Thomas Dunbabin. ... Charles Grimes: the second surveyor general of NSW. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

72926
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part III, 1931
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P.145-208 with 2 b/w illustrations, plus 1 folded map. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.

History of Sydney Botanic Garden, by J.H. Maiden. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

67802
RAN
AUSTRALIAN WARSHIP - No. 94
$10.00 AUD

Australian Warship / Topmill. Sydney. 2016. Issue No. 94 (4 /2016). Edited by Ross Gillett. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (HMAS Hobart). Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

A future course for the RAN. Missile Destroyer HOBART at sea.

74642
RANDIER, Jean
NAUTISCHE INSTRUMENTE
$20.00 AUD

Stalling Verlag. Oldenburg & München. 1979. 1st German edition translated from the 1978 French original. 220 PP with 244 b/w & colour illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. German text. Near fine. 28.x 21.8. 379791895X

Navigation told through the nautical instruments used by seafarers: from magnet to compass, from sandglass to chronometer, from astrolabe to sextant...

34114
RAVEN, Alan & ROBERTS, John
ENSIGN 6 - WAR BUILT DESTROYERS O TO Z CLASSES
$45.00 AUD

Bivouac Books Ltd. London. 1976. 1st Ed. 48 PP with tables, 76 b/w photos, 4 plans and 1 double length centrefold with 12 colour plans. Pictorial card covers. Near fine. Scarce. 25.5 x 20.2. 0856800104

74775
READER'S DIGEST
GREAT TALES OF THE SEA - Volume 2
$10.00 AUD

Reader's Digest Association. London. 1979. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Douglas Reeman. 430, (2) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.2.

Capitain Cook, the Seamen's Seaman, by Alan Villiers. A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord. The Ra Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl.

35715
REYNOLDS, Quentin
ONLY THE STARS ARE NEUTRAL
$35.00 AUD

Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1942. 1st Australian edition. XI, 277 PP. Cloth cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, ageing of paper, some foxing, fold of front endpaper split. Very good. 22.2 x 14.

A year's roving from one theatre of war to another (Britain / Russia) by one of America's most famous Foreign Correspondents.

75348
RICE, Fiona (compiler)
PORT DAVEY MARINE RESERVE - Visitors' Guide / Map and Notes / CD "Port Davey Marine Reserve ... Wild and Pristine"
$40.00 AUD

Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. Hobart. 2010. 3 items: Booklet 2008 edition, with a Message by Peter Mooney, General Manager. 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Large folded poster in colour (2008): Verso with map of the Reserve, location map, inset map for the Davey River and 6 colour photos. Recto: Map of Tasmania, notes for "Walking and Camping" / Biosecurity (with 6 colour photos) / Water Activities / Threats / Contacts. Booklet and Map (5 folds), contained in a clear plastic folder. CD / (2010 edition): running time 32 minutes. Fine set of 3 items. 22.5 x 16.

75711
RIPLEY, Stuart (compiler)
BELIEVE IT OR NOT - The Bill Ripley Story (in 2 volumes)
$125.00 AUD

WHO Printing. Mayfield, NSW. 2020. May 2020 edition. Volume One: (2), X, 305 PP. Volume Two: 306- 800 PP. Books with hundreds of b/w illustrations (sketch maps, diagrams, plans, documents, newspaper clippings, photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Flyer / Bookmark and manuscript note to prervious owner, signed by Stuart Ripley, the compiler, loosely inserted in Volume One. Each volume: 29 x 22. 9780646817354

Vol. 1: Foundations of the Ripley Family in Australia / Professional Sculling. / War in the South West Pacific, with Establishing the United States Army Small Ships Section. Vol. 2: War Diary of Captain D. W. (Bill) Ripley: September 1942 to October 1943 / Interim Placement Townsville 1943-1944 / Mainland Operations... / Resettling into coastal Village Life.

75850
RIVINGTON, R. T.
PUNTING - Its History and Techniques
$25.00 AUD

R. T. Rivington. Oxford. 1983. 1st Ed. (XII), 223, (5 index) PP with b/w illustrations (4 sketch maps, drawings, line drawings & plans), plus 32 pages with 64 b/w illustrations (drawings, paintings, photos). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, other wise fine. 21.5 x 15.2. 0950804525

64113
ROBERTSON, Scott
HISTORIC MODEL SHIPS FROM SCRATCH
$30.00 AUD

Nexus Special Interests Ltd. London. 1998. 1st soft cover ed. IX, 127 PP plus plus 4 pages for Notes. Illustrations throughout (b/w and a few colour photos), line drawings, sketches, etc... Pictorial card covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 1854861875

21040
ROBINSON, Willian Morrison
THE CONFEDERATE PRIVATEERS
$20.00 AUD

University of South Carolina Press. Columbia, S.C., USA. 1990. Reprint of the 1928 original by Yale University Press. 372 PP with 2 bw illust., plus 7 bw plates. Fp: A Confederate Letter of Marque. Title page: vignette with the Private-Armed Schooner Savannah. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.6 x 15.7. 0872496910

75756
ROBSON, John
CAPTAIN COOK'S WORLD - Maps of the Life and voyages of James Cook R. N.
$50.00 AUD

Random House New Zealand. Auckland. 2000 1st edition. 212 PP with 128 maps and insets by author. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Minimal shelf wear, otherwise fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 30.2. 1869414098

Captain Cook's World: an atlas, chronology and biography of the life and voyages of this explorer.

72364
ROWNTREE, Fearn
HOBART TOWN - Van Dieman's Land
$20.00 AUD

Fearn Rowntree / Mercury Press. Hobart. c. 1967. 1st Ed. No pagination, 64 PP with 96 drawings by the author/artist. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Covers lightly soiled, staples removed. Stamp of previous owner inside front cover. Very good. Oblong: 18 x 24.5.

35477
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
AUSTRALIA'S NAVY 1995
$25.00 AUD

Department of Defence / AGPS. Canberra. 1995. 1st Ed. Edited by Lt. R.C.A. LEAHY. VI, 114 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 064435996

HMAS Sydney visit to Vladivistok. All Australian submarine training...

72598
ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA
REPORT OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA, for the Year 1889
$15.00 AUD

William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer. Hobart. 1890. 1st Ed. Edited by J. W. Agnew (Honorary Secretary). 16 PP with 5 pages "Lists: Officers of the Society, Honorary Members, Fellows" and 7 pages for the Yearly report. Soft covers, title on front cover. Fine. 21.3 x 13.7.

Read at the Annual General Meeting, held 4th March 1890.

75619
RUSDEN, G. W.
THE DISCOVERY, SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT OF PORT PHILLIP
$150.00 AUD

George Robertson. Melbourne. 1871. September 1871 edition. (III-VIII: Dedication to Anthony Trollope, Esq.), 56 PP. Colophon: Walker, May and Co., Printers, 99 Bourke Street West, Melbourne. Pages stitched without the original wrappers. Slight ageing of paper. A very good copy of a scarce item. 22 x 14.2.

Address delivered 22nd July, 1869, at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, at a performance in aid of the Old Colonists' Homes. Dedication dated September 1871. Ferguson Ref: 15214.

65070
RYAN, Jenny
FORCEFUL'S PROUD DAY
$15.00 AUD

Burbank Productions. Brisbane. 1988. 1st Ed. (1), 36 PP with 1 b/w photo of the Forceful, 6 b/w & 13 colour illustrations by Andrea Smith. Pictorial soft cover. A 20 page booklet "The Forceful Story", by Brian Martin and Rod McLeod loosely inserted. Fine. 23.5 x 16.8. 0958798303

Coal-fired steam tug built in 1925 in Glasgow, and now part of the Queensland Maritime Museum, South Brisbane.

75716
SAGNIERES, Hubert
DARING FRENCH EXPEDITIONS - Trail Blazing Adventures Around the World: 1714 - 1854
$130.00 AUD

Editions Flammarion, S.A. Paris. 2024. 1st English edition translated from the 2023 French original by Florence Brutton. Foreword by Edward Duyker. 400 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, including 16 "General reference map" on double page, relating to the 16 voyages of exploration. Hard covers, illustrated front and back covers. New. 33 x 27.5. 9782080428455

16 of these voyages by French Explorers - Le Gentil de La Barbinais 1714-1718 to ... Gaston de Roquemaurel 1850-1854: Including:: Louis Antoine de Bougainville / Jean-François de Galaup de Lapérouse / Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (2 voyages) / Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville.

75719
SAWYER, L. A. & MITCHELL, W. H.
THE LIBERTY SHIPS - The History of the "Emergency" type Cargo ships constructed in the United States during the Second World War
$55.00 AUD

Lloyd's of London Press Ltd / National Liberty Ship Memorial, the SS "Jeremiah O'Brien". London / San Francisco. 1985. Second edition of the 1970 original (revised in 1973). VIII, 253 PP with b/w photos. Fp: The "Patrick Henry", the first Liberty ship, on trials 26 December 1941. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on FFEP and title-page, otherwise contents are near fine. 25.2 x 19. 1850440492

Story of more than 2700 of these "Liberty" ships.

49584
SAYERS, C. E.
BY THESE WE FLOURISH. A History of Warrnambool
$15.00 AUD

William Heinemann. Melbourne. 1969. 1st Ed. (12), 190 PP, plus 28 pages with 56 b/w photos. Eps: Plan of township Warrnambool Bay. Illustrated hard cover, dust jacket tipped in. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Very good. 23.5 x 15.5.

75317
SCANLON, Andrew (editor)
THE POWER OF NATURE - Tasmania's Renewable Energy from Water and Wind
$15.00 AUD

Hydro Tasmania. Hobart. c. 2005. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 4 b/w photos and colour illustrations (sketches, plans, graphs, artworks and photos). Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

75704
SCHAFFER, Irene & McKAY, Thelma
EXILED! THREE TIMES OVER. Profiles of Norfolk Islanders exiled in Van Diemen's Land 1807-13
$50.00 AUD

St. David's Park. Hobart. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Barbara Valentine. XII, 244 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (HMS Lady Nalson, & HMS Porpoise). Laminated hard covers, illustrated boards. Stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on endpapers, o/wise near fine. 25 x 18. 0724621695

39780
SCHUBERT, Paul
SEA POWER IN CONFLICT
$15.00 AUD

Coward-Mccann. New York. 1942. 1st Ed. VI, 252 PP with 3 maps. Fp: Map of the Pacific Ocean with principal bases (Axis & American-British). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of cover worn at foot, piece missing from spine of dust jacket. Paper ageing a little. Very good. 21 x 14.

Authoritative account of seapower in the past and present (to the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harour and the Philippines).

74771
SCOTT, Captain R. F.
SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION - Extracts from The Personal Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, C.V.O., R.N.
$10.00 AUD

John Murray. London. 1950. 9th reprint of the November 1923 edition. 188 PP with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Scott, wearing the wallet... Eps: Map of British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13, Track chart of main southern journey. Cloth cover. Light foxing. Minute hole on front cover and 20 first leaves. Very good. 19 x 12.5.

40986
SCOTT, Nuala
SEKAR AMAN - An Indonesian Prahu in Australia
$25.00 AUD

Scott and Scott Publishing. Perth. 1988. 2nd edition of the 1988 original. (2), (VII), 34 PP with 17 figures (photos and sketches) including 4 ships line of drawings on folded double page. Soft cover with illustrated front. Near fine. 22.5 x 17.5. 0731626165

Typical Madurese Letti Letti Prahu held in the Australia National Maritime Museum, Sydney.

75558
SELLARS, Avril
"GONE WITH THE WIND" IN MADAGASCAR - A Cruise to an Indian Ocean Paradise
$20.00 AUD

Writers Club Press / iUniverse.com.Inc. Lincoln. 2001. 1st Ed. XXVII, 105 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 sketch map of Madagascar and 16 photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23 x 15. 9780595192625

Sailed from Durban 15 June 2000 ...Madagascar, ... Comoros archipelago and back on 13th of October 2000, ...

30075
SEVERIN, Tim
THE JASON VOYAGE - The Quest for the Golden Fleece
$15.00 AUD

Hutchinson. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 263 PP with drawings by Trondur Patursson, plus 32 pages with 77 colour photos. Illustrated Fp. & Eps. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0091618808

Re-enactment of the voyage of a twenty-oar galley, Argo, in search of the Golden Fleece. From Greece to present day Georgia, through the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus, then the Black Sea.

70687
SHARP, Andrew
ANCIENT VOYAGERS IN POLYNESIA
$50.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1963. 1st Ed. 159 PP with 1 map on double page and 5 figures, plus 8 b/w plates. Eps: Map of the Pacific Area. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few small chips and a small piece missing at top of spine. A near fine copy signed by the author on title-page. 22.4 x 14.4.

Settlement of the islands by the Polynesians: achieved by one-way voyagers, blown off course.

71305
SHAW SAVILL
SHAW SAVILL Line introduce you to CAPE TOWN
$10.00 AUD

Shaw Savill Line. London. c. 1957. Booklet, 8 PP with 1 plan at centrefold. Soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14.

Short history & description of Cape Town issued for passengers going ashore.

71306
SHAW SAVILL
SHAW SAVILL Line introduce you to LAS PALMAS
$10.00 AUD

Shaw Savill Line. London. c. 1957. Leaflet, 2 PP. Fine. 21.5 x 14.

Short history & description of Las Palmas, Canary Islands Archipelago.

74962
SHIPLOVERS' SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
THE ANNUAL DOG WATCH - Volume 14
$10.00 AUD

Shiplovers' Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1957. 1st Ed. Edited by S.A.E. Ström. Foreword by the Hon. Sir Thomas White. Vol. 14: 144 PP with 10 b/w photos (3 of them of tall ships).. Illustrated soft covers (front cover: Training Ship Medway). Covers slightly rubbed. Very good. 21.5 x 14.

Contents include: More about about the "Annie Larsen", by Captain John F. Moodie Heddle. "Falls of Clyde", by Captain F. Klebingat... Hobby at sea: Speleology (Cave Exploration) by Captain Brett Hilder.

40627
SHIPWRECKS
VICTORIA'S SHIPWRECK DISCOVERY TRAIL
$35.00 AUD

The Maritime Archaeology Unit / Victoria Archaeological Survey. Melbourne. 1992. 1st Ed. Ring folder containing 42 information sheets under plastic sleeves with b/w illustrations (plans, sketches, photos). Large folded flyer and a guide to maritime terminology in front pocket. Plastic folder with illustrated front cover. Fine. 31.4 x 26.

Contains individual sheets on 21 wrecks of the coasts of Victoria and Port Phillip Bay. Includes: SS Blackbird, Casino, Clarence, Coogee... Victoria Tower, SS Wauchope, William Salthouse.

75738
SIMPSON, Howard R.
DIEN BIEN PHU: The Epic Battle America Forgot
$20.00 AUD

Potomac Books, Inc. Washington, D.C. 2005. 1st edition in "Potomac's, The History of War" series. Foreword by Stanley Karnow. XXV, 193, (3) PP with 1 map of "French Indochina", and sketch map of Dien Bien Phu, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 19.6 x 12.7. 9781574888409

73329
SINCLAIR, James
BALUS - The Aeroplane in Papua New Guinea - Volume I: The Early Years
$150.00 AUD

Robert Brown & Associates. Bathurst, NSW. 1986. 1st edition. X, 296 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map, 5 documents (Pilot's licence, pages of logbooks and record of flights) and 258 photos. Title spread: DH84 Dragon. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket has a small nick at top corner, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 29.6 x 22. 0949267503

75489
SINGE, John
CORAL SEA STORY - An Epic Tale of Adventure on the Queensland Frontier (1859-70)
$35.00 AUD

John Singe / Xlibris Corporation. 2012. 1st paperback edition. 296, (6) PP. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 9781477109670

Tale inspired by historical events and characters.

75615
SMITH, Keith Vincent
BENNELONG - THE COMING IN OF THE EORA SYDNEY COVE: 1788-1792
$35.00 AUD

Rosenberg. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. X, 182 PP with 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Fine. 22.3 x 14.8. 9780731809691

Collectively the Port Jackson clans called themselves EORA, or "The People".

74877
SMITH, Peter L.
CANAL BARGES & NARROW BOATS
$10.00 AUD

Shire Publications. London. 1979. 2nd edition of the 1975 original. No.8 in Shire Album series. 32 PP with 45 b/w illustrations (3 drawings and 42 photos). Inside front cover: engraving of a Yorkshire keel. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Very good.. 21 x 15. 0852634633

Their history, description...

63666
SMYTH, Dacre
GALLIPOLI PILGRIMAGE - A Eighth Book of Paintings, Poetry and Prose
$25.00 AUD

Author. Melbourne. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by Bruce Ruxton.. 95 PP with 46 colour plates (42 on full page). Eps: map of Western Turkey and the Aegean Sea. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 21.8 x 22.5. 0959519590

75th anniversary of allied landings at the Dardanelles.

75633
SMYTH, Herbert Warington
MAST AND SAIL IN EUROPE AND ASIA
$75.00 AUD

William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh. 1929. New edition of the 1906 original. XXIV, 536 PP with 430 sketches, plus 50 pages with 34 diagrams and 13 full-page b/w plates. Fp: Thames Barges by W. L. Wyllie. Blue cloth cover, title (black letters) on spine. Two short tears (1 cm) at head of spine. Small signature at top of FFEP. Slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents are near fine. A scarce item. 22.5 x 14.5.

A wonderful study. Glossary between P.515 and 528.

75519
SOBEL, Dava & ANDREWES, William J. H.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONGITUDE
$90.00 AUD

Fourth Estate. London. 1998. 1st Ed. (VIII), 216 PP with 178 Illustrations. Fp: John Harrison, portrait by Thomas King. Eps: Chronometer made by John Harrison in 1775. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 26.2 x 23.4. 1857027140

The "Illustrated" true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time.

12951
SPATE, O. H. K.
LET ME ENJOY - Essays, Partly Geographical
$20.00 AUD

Australian National University. Canberra. 1965. 1st Ed. XII, 304 PP with b/w illust. Eps: Map of 1602. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.

Essays by Prof. Spate of the Chair of Geography, ANU. Under two laws (Fiji). Geography & racism. Manuel Godinho de Erédia: Quest for Australia. Terra Australis - Cognita?

75318
ST. CLAIR, Archer
CARVING AS CRAFT - Palatine East and the Greco-Roman Bone and Ivory Carving Tradition
$30.00 AUD

The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. 2003. 1st Ed. (2), XII, 228 PP with b/w illustrations: 15 figures in chapters 1 to 4, 47 sets of figures on pages 121 to 163 and 58 photgraphic plates on pages 165 and 193. Cloth covers, dj. Two neat Tasmanian state library stamps on FFEP and preliminary page, otherwise a near fine copy. 28.6 x 22. 9780801872617

75635
STANNARD, Bruce
THE BLUE-WATER BUSHMEN - The Colourful Story of Australia's Best and Boldest Boatmen
$60.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. VIII, 42 PP with 2 photos, plus 134 pages with 130 full-page b/w photos. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note to Peter Campbell dated and signed by the author on title page. Address of previous owner on verso of front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 28.5. 0207146411

Photos of the open boats (Six-Footers, Canvas Dinghies, Twelve & Fourteen-Footers) and boatmen on Sydney Harbour, from 1880 to 1940.

75685
STANNARD, Bruce
STARS & STRIPES - The Official Record
$25.00 AUD

Dennis Conner Sports, Inc. San Diego. c. 1987. 1st Ed. 156 PP with colour illustrations (burgees and photos). Hard covers, gilt title on front cover, dj. Renewed front endpaper, stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on preliminary page, otherwise contents are near fine. 31 x 24.8.

The Louis Vuitton Cup / America's Cup fought off Fremantle in February 1987.

38562
STEPHEN, Ann (editor)
VISIONS OF A REPUBLIC - The Work of Lucien Henry - Paris * Nouméa * Sydney
$20.00 AUD

Powerhouse Publishing. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Dedication plate, 1890. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note signed by the editor. Fine. 30.3 x 24. 1863170847

The work of a French - Australian artist, Lucien Henry. Born in France. Member of the 1871 uprising La Commune de Paris. Deported to New Caledonia as a Communard (communist) up to the 1879 amnesty to political deportees. Artist in Australia...

74695
STEPHENSON, Pamela
TREASURE ISLANDS. Sailing the South Seas in the Wake of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
$10.00 AUD

Headline Book. London. 2005. 1st paperback edition. (XVI), 399 PP with b/w illustrations (10 maps, 17 headpieces and 17 photos), plus 24 pages with 77 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise very good. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780755314058

30384
STEVENS, David (editor)
MARITIME POWER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Australian Experience
$15.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. XXI, 329 PP with 1 figure, 7 maps and 39 b/w photos. P. 276 to 290: Chronology of Australasian maritime operations 1901-97. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 1864487364

17 papers in an expanded and enhanced form, presented at a conference in Canberra, July 1997. Australasia and Germany before 1914 - HMAS Adelaide and the punitive expedition to Malaita in 1927 - HMAS Adelaide in Noumea in 1940 ...

75068
STEWARDSON, Carolyn L.
MAMMALS OF THE ICE
$25.00 AUD

Sedona Publishing. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by Phillip Law. 183 PP with over 25 tables, 13 maps of sightings, graphs, illustrations by Peter L. Child and colour photos. Erratum slip tipped in on last page. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Lower corner of front cover and first 4 leaves with a crease, o/wise near fine. 24 x 21. 0958744912

Guide to the mammals of the Southern Ocean.

41132
STEWART, Desmond
THE ARAB WORLD
$10.00 AUD

Time-Life International. Amstersdam. 1967. 1st European edition, in the Life World Library series. 160 PP with 1 graph, 3 maps, 38 colour and 70 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Arab World (Morocco to Arabian Peninsula). Hard cover, pictorial front. Near fine. 28 x 21.5.

46375
TAYLOR, Jan
EVOLUTION IN THE OUTBACK
$10.00 AUD

Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Whaleback Creek. Hard cover, dj. A few old insect marks at bottom of the front board, o/wise contents near fine. 24.8 x 19. 0864171056

69192
TAYLOR, Joely
BACKTRACKS: Recollections of remarkable Australians
$15.00 AUD

Billycan Press / Well Writ. Melbourne. 2015. 1st Ed. (6), 90 PP with 26 b/w illustrations: 1 cartoon, 8 portraits and 17 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780994237026

4 remarkable Australians: Captain Donald L. Garnham, Cape Horner. Jean Nysen (McKenzie), WRANS. ...

61879
TAYLOR, Nancy M. (editor)
THE JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST 1837-1843
$40.00 AUD

Government Printer. Wellington. 1966. 1st Ed. 645 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): Ocean Bay, Port Underwood, in Cloudy Bay (1848). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed and with a lightly sunned spine. Foxing spots on edges. Near fine. 25.2 x 15.7.

Voyage to New South Wales on the "James Pattison", where he arrived 25/10/1837. Sojourn on Norfolk Island August 1838 to April 1839. New Zealand up to January 1843.

75161
TAYLOR, Valerie
CORAL WONDERLAND - Rowley Shoals: Natural Treasures off the Western Australia Coast (in Australian Geographic No. 11)
$10.00 AUD

Australian Geographic Society. Sydney. 1988. July/September 1988. 128 PP. Contains article from P.52 to 71 with 32 colour illustrations (1 map with location map, 4 diagrams and 27 photos, (2 on a large folded page). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.

A shoal 300 kilometres off the Western Australia coast.

19236
THOMAS, David A.
WITH ENSIGNS FLYING, The Story of H.M. Destroyers at War 1939-1945
$50.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 216 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 15 bw photos. FEP: maps of the Narvik Fiords, and of Eastern Mediterranean. REP: maps of the Russian convoy route and of the Battle of the Java Sea. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, nice price-clipped dust jacket. A few small rubs on endpapers and a little light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise contents near fine. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.2.

72729
THRA
TASMANIAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, Papers and Proceedings - Volume 62, No. 2
$15.00 AUD

Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Inc. Hobart 2015. Volume 62, No. 2, August 2015. Edited by Alison Alexander. 84 PP with b/w ilustrations. Inside back cover: map and photo of Liverpool Street, Hobart. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 15.5.

The rise and fall of Edward Lord and Maria Riseley. The Cotton brothers and their Tasmanian Legacy, by Peter Roberts-Thomson.

72730
THRA
TASMANIAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, Papers and Proceedings - Volume 62, No. 3
$15.00 AUD

Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Inc. Hobart 2015. Volume 62, No. 3, December 2015. Edited by Alison Alexander. 76 PP with b/w ilustrations. Inside back cover: poster for "The Bushranger's Lover. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 15.5.

Two 1838 armed incursions of Upper Canada resulting in transportation to Van Diemen's Land, by John C. Carter.

72731
THRA
TASMANIAN HISTORICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, Papers and Proceedings - Volume 68, No. 1 -"EPIDEMIC ISSUE"
$20.00 AUD

Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Inc. Hobart 2021. Volume 68, No. 1, April 2021. Edited by Alison Alexander. 80 PP with b/w ilustrations. Inside covers: maps centred on Hobart and Launceston. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 15.5.

Epidemic Issue: Examples of Tasmania's Experience with Epidemics since 1837. Human quarantine in early 19th Century Tasmania, by Rosemary Sharples. The Foundation of King Island's medical service and the 1919 influenza epidemic. ... The Vaucluse Infectious Diseases Hospital.

69934
THRESH, Peter
TITANIC
$10.00 AUD

Bison Books. London. 1992. 1st edition. 80 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 31 x 23.7. 0861249445

The short but eventful life of this great ship: drawing board to the sinking and the rediscovery of the wreck.

74819
TOGHILL, Jeff
KNOTS & SPLICES
$10.00 AUD

Fernhurst Books. Brighton, UK. 1992. Reprint of the 1979 original. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (2 drawings and 142 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 11.4 x 18.5. 0906754119

75760
TORRANCE, William
MOTOR SHIPS OF THE THIRTIES
$30.00 AUD

The Estate of Wm. Torrance. Brisbane. 1988. 1st Ed. VII, 132 PP with b/w illust. (photos & drawings). Title page: M.V. Limerick. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket and covers with light shelf wear, otherwise a fine copy. 30.5 x 21.5. 0959144919

A cross-section of the motor ships seen on the Brisbane River during the 1930's.

45066
TORRENCE, Robin, SPECHT, Jim & FULLAGAR, Richard
POMPEIIS IN THE PACIFIC (in Australian Natural History)
$10.00 AUD

Australian Museum Trust. Sydney. 1990. Volume 23, No. 6, Spring 1990. Includes article P. 456 to 463 with 1 map and inset, and 13 colour illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.2 x 21.

Archaeology and volcanic eruptions in West New Britain.

62087
TREDREE, H. L.
THE STRANGE ORDEAL OF THE "NORMANDIER"
$15.00 AUD

Little Brown and Company. Boston. 1958. 1st US edition. Published in the UK as "Blackwater". (6), 231 PP. Fp: Map of North Atlantic. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, dust jacket is a little rubbed, o/wise a near fine copy. 21 x 14.

A few days after the end of WWI, the rescue of SS Normandier, when all the crew were sick with Blackwater fever. Bound for Halifax, she was rerouted to Bermuda with the help of crew members from the USS Sherman and USS Antigone.

74966
The Trident
THE TRIDENT, incorporating "Blue Peter" - (Magazine of the Sea - Vol. 10 No. 115)
$10.00 AUD

The Trident. London. 1948 November 1948 issue. 437- 476 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft covers, front ("Morning Mist", by Guy Silhouette). Spine reinforced (clear plastic acid free tape). Contents near fine. 30 x 22.

Some Naval Portraits, by Oliver-Warner. The Antarctic Dispute: British Administration in the Falkland Islands. Among the rigging, by A. Seaman. ... Launch of the Himalaya, largest and fastest P. & O. Liner.

74967
The Trident
THE TRIDENT, incorporating "Blue Peter" - (Magazine of the Sea - Vol. 12. No. 133)
$10.00 AUD

The Trident. London. 1950. May 1950 issue. 181- 224 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft covers, front ("barges", by Winston Mergoran). Spine reinforced (clear plastic acid free tape). Contents near fine. 30 x 22.

Sailing the "Warspite" pages 190 to 193), by Alan Villiers. Fisheries of the Indian Ocean, by E.R. Yarham. ...

74969
The Trident
THE TRIDENT, incorporating "Blue Peter" - (Magazine of the Sea - Vol. 14. No. 158)
$10.00 AUD

The Trident. London. 1952. June 1952 issue. 209- 252 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft covers, front (yacht "Samuel Pepys". Spine reinforced (clear plastic acid free tape). Contents near fine. 30 x 22.

Bermuda Race, by Peregrine. Shipwrights of Buckler's Hard, by Alan C. Jenkins.

74970
The Trident
THE TRIDENT, incorporating "Blue Peter" - (Magazine of the Sea - Vol. 14. No. 162)
$10.00 AUD

The Trident. London. 1952. October 1952 issue. 389- 432 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft covers, front (A Halcyon Sea"). Spine reinforced (clear plastic acid free tape). Contents near fine. 30 x 22.

A salvage job, with the deep-sea tug "Turmoil" and "Empire Dolphin". Among the Lotus Eaters (Island of Djerba, Tunisia)), by Reg Butler.

75504
TUCKWELL, Frank
OSCAR 'W' STORY
$20.00 AUD

Signal Point, River Murray Interpretative Centre. Goolwa, 1988. 1st Ed. (2), 26 PP with 4 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front, staples. Fine. 21.3 x 15. 0958796418

Echuca built paddle steamer, launched in 1908. Trading on the River Muray. Permanent home at the Signal Point Wharf, Goolwa, South Australia since 1988.

73908
US COAST GUARD
THE TEXAS SKIPPER'S COURSE
$10.00 AUD

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Austin, Texas. c. 1960. 1st Ed. IV, 100 PP with b/w illustrations (cartoons, drawings and sketches. Siff covers, illustrated front. Very good. 26.5 x 21.

Contents: Prelude to Boating, Safety Afloat, Underway, Returning to Port, Aids to Safe Boating, and Appendices.

71545
VAGNON, Henri
VAGNON CARTE DE PLAISANCE - Pour Naviguer sur les canaux de France / How to navigate on the French canals / Wie fährt man auf den Kanälen Frankreichs
$10.00 AUD

Vagnon / Les Editions du Plaisancier. Caluire, Rhone, France. 1993. 1st tri-lingual edition. 32 PP with colour illustrations: 1 map of France, 2 photos and navigation signs. Laminated stiff cover, illustrated front, staples. Text in French, English and German. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 9782857250852

75659
VAN DER KUIJL, Drs. Arjen
DE GLORIEUZE OVERTOCHT - De Expeditie van Willem III naar Engeland in 1688
$50.00 AUD

De Bataafsche Leeuw. Amsterdam. 1988. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 2 tables and 56 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note (in English) to John Anderson, Australian Historian, Latrobe University, Victoria, on title page, dated and signed by the author. Dutch text (with English summary: pages 77 to 80). Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9067071870

Dutch expeditionary force landing at Torbay, November 1688, when the Dutch Stadholder Prince Willem III, became William III, King of England.

16526
VAN DORN, William G.
OCEANOGRAPHY AND SEAMANSHIP
$50.00 AUD

Cornell Maritime Press. Centreville, Maryland. 1993. 2nd edition of the 1973 original. XIV, 440 PP with 170 figures & 28 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj. Fine (as new condition). 28.5 x 22. 9780870334344

Ocean origins, nature, life at sea, meteorology, ocean currents, wave motion, ship dynamics.

75732
VAN LEUVEN, Susan
Illustrated Guide to WOOD STRIP CANOE BUILDING
$75.00 AUD

Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen, Pa. 1998. 1st Ed. 160 PP with c. 70 b/w illustrations (plans and sketches) and c. 490 colour photos. Marbled endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Oblong: 22 x 28.5. 9780764305375

75733
VAN LEUVEN, Susan
WOODSTRIP ROWING CRAFT - How to Build, Step by Step
$85.00 AUD

Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen, Pa. 2007. 1st Ed. 288 PP with b/w illustrations (plans and sketches) and c. 830 colour photos. Pictorial endpapers. Picorial laminated boards, dj. Fine (as new condition). Obong: 28.5 x 22.3. 9780764325533

66288
VAN WYCK, Susan & GRANT, Kirsty
FOLLOW THE FLAG: Australian Artists and War 1914-1945
$45.00 AUD

National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne. 2015. 1st Ed. Message from The Hon. George Brandis, Australian Government Minister for the Arts. Foreword by Tony Ellwood. X, 134 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Card cover, stiff dust jacket. Fine. 27 x 24 9780724104055

47714
VILLIERS, Alan
I SAILED WITH COLUMBUS (in Ships and the Sea Magazine - Volume 3, No. 5, October 1953)
$15.00 AUD

Kalmbach Publishing Co. Milwaukee. 1953. 60 PP. Contains article from P.16-19, and 38-41 with illustrations by David A. Strassman and Marion M. Morris (1 map, 3 profiles and 3 drawings). Pictorial wrappers, staples removed. Near fine. 28.8 x 21.

74984
VILLIERS, Alan
THE INDIAN OCEAN
$65.00 AUD

Museum Press. London. 1952. 1st Ed. 255 PP with 9 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Fp: Square rigger in the Indian Ocean. Eps: Map of the Indian Ocean. Cloth cover, top edge tinted, nice price-clipped dust jacket with just a few small chips. A near fine copy of the scarce first edition. 23 x 16.

18696
VILLIERS, Alan (compiler)
OF SHIPS AND MEN, A Personal Anthology
$15.00 AUD

Newnes. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 206 PP with 40 b/w illust. FEP: Deck of a square-rigger awash. REP: Deck of a cargo ship in rough seas. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket partly faded and with sellotape marks on the edges. Very good reading copy. 25.4 x 15.8.

62339
WALKER, Colin
Memory of a Queen: R.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH - A Personal Tribute by
$25.00 AUD

Oxford Publishing. Oxford. 1972. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commodore G. T. Marr. No Pagination, 96 PP with 90 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dj a little sunned. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 30.3 x 21.5. 0902888137

A pictorial tribute to the "working" ship and not to the glamorous liner, published after the fire that destroyed her in Hong Kong in January 1972.

69368
WALKER, David A. & BARRETT, Wayne
SMALL WOODEN BOATS OF THE ATLANTIC
$15.00 AUD

Nimbus Publishing Ltd. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1990. 1st Ed. Introduction by Marven E. Moore. VII, (3), 94 PP with 90 colour photos by Wayne Barrett. Fp: Small outboard-powered round bilge boat, Tidnish River, N.S. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 22.2 x 28. 0921054548

72166
WALKER, James Leonard (Chairman)
REPORT OF ROYAL COMMISSION ON UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
$40.00 AUD

D.E. Wilkinson, Acting Government Printer. Hobart. 1955. Report No. 18, signed 26th May 1955. 56 PP (on 2 columns) with 10 tables. Soft covers, title and device on front cover, staples. Old water stain affecting the lower corner of covers and pages. Still a very good reading copy. Folio: 33.5 x 21.

19652
WALL, Robert
OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD

New Burlington. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Fp: A poster of 1929 of the Statendam III. Eps: Lusitania at Liverpool. Hard cover, dj. Happy Birthday notes on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 30 x 23. 0906286204

The rise and fall of the ocean liner and its final capitulation to the aeroplane.

51278
WARNER, Oliver (editor)
AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF TAHITI, From the Journal of George Robertson, Master of H.M.S Dolphin
$20.00 AUD

Folio Society. London. 1992 Reissue of the 1955 edition. 127 PP with 10 wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Fp: Map of the island of Tahiti. Hard cover, gilt decorated boards, gilt title on cloth spine. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Light foxing. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 046004141X

The account of the experiences of the sea-weary crew of the HMS Dolphin on the discovery of Tahiti in 1767.

52744
WATT, Vice-Admiral James, MILTON-THOMPSON, G.J. & DAVIES, D.M.
PROBLEMS OF MEDICINE AT SEA - Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 12
$20.00 AUD

National Maritime Museum. London. 1974. Introduction by Basil Greenhill. 35 PP with 3 tables and 16 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 30.7 x 21.

3 papers read at a 1973 symposium. The burns of sea battle. The changing character of the sailor's diet and its influence on disease. The environment of the nuclear submarine.

75483
WATTS Alan
WEATHER FORECASTING Ashore and Afloat
$40.00 AUD

Adlard Coles Ltd. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 239 PP with b/w illustrations: 48 and 34 diagrams, plus 16 plates with 28 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Top corner of the last 2 photo plates damaged without affecting the photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. Very good. 25.3 x 19.

21014
WATTS, Anthony J.
THE ROYAL NAVY: An Illustrated History
$15.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1994. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 10 tables, 36 plans & 249 b/w illust. Fp: Cruiser Lion. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 25.3 x 19.5. 1854091247

From wooden sailing ships to nuclear-powered submarines.

75629
WATTS, Gordon Payne, Jr.
SHIPWRECKED- Bermuda's Maritime Heritage
$100.00 AUD

Nationam Museum of Bermuda Press. Old Naval Dockyard, Bermuda. 2014. Deluxe edition. Foreword by Dr. Edward Cecil Harris. 276 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, ephemera, paintings, posters, photos ...). Eps: Map of the Bermuda with Key Sites on the Island's reefs. Cloth covers with gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Short tear in the gutter of front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. Olong: 26 x 33.5. 9781927750704

55320
WEGE, Juliet, GEORGE, Alex, GATHE, Jan, LEMSON, Kris & NAPIER, Kath (editors)
MATTHEW FLINDERS AND HIS SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMEN: The Expedition of HMS Investigator to Australia, 1801-05
$65.00 AUD

Western Australian Museum. Perth. 2005. 1st Ed. VIII, 184 PP with 90 b/w and colour illustrations. Decorated end papers. Vignette on title page (in colour): Matthew Flinders, ca. 1800. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 31 x 22.8. 1920843205

14 papers presented at the Investigator 200 Symposium held in Albany, W. A., in December 2001. Matthew Flinders: the man and his life, by Miriam Estensen. ... Flinders' place in the coastal exploration of Australia, by Robert T. Sexton... Robert Brown on HMS Investigator, by David T. Moore... Ferdinand Bauer..., by Janette Gathe & Ellen Hickman. William Westall, by Kay Stehn & Alex George. Peter Good, by Mark Webb ...

64153
WHEELER, Edward
THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD WHEELER - His account of his travels on the Rock Island Pacific Rail Road 1874
$25.00 AUD

Peter Fox / Cranbrook Press. Toowoomba. 2011. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Peter Fox. 213 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Scanned copy of his original handwritten journal between pages 63 and 213. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780987142429

74821
WHITE, Dr. Paul D. & MATTHEWS, Samuel W.
HUNTING THE HEARTBEAT OF A WHALE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD

NGS. Washington. 1956. Volume CX, No.1, July 1956. 140, (24 adverts) PP. Contains article from P.49 to 64 with 2 maps, 2 b/w and 13 colour photos. Soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.

A Scientific expedition sails a lonely Mexican lagoon in search of clues ...

74546
WIDDOWS, Nick
STENA LINE - The fleet
$10.00 AUD

Ferry Publications. Isle of Man. 2009. 1st Ed. 48 PP with colour photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. Oblong. 21 x 15. 9781871947953

71390
WILKINSON, Roni (editor)
ROYAL AIR FORCE - A Century in the Sky 1917-2017
$10.00 AUD

Wharncliffe History Magazines / Blitz Publications. Barnsley, UK. 2009. 1st Ed. Commemorative Collector's series - Part Two. 00 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 22 9781925618020

36889
WILLIAMS, Neville
THE SEA DOGS - Privateers, Plunder and Piracy in the Elizabethan Age
$15.00 AUD

Macmillan. New York. 1975. 1st US Ed. 278 PP with 15 colour plates and 154 b/w illust. Title spread: A 16th-century merchantman. Eps: Mappemonde. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in, Ingleton bookplate. Near fine. 25.4 x 19.

Collective achievements and daring exploits of: Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh.., who helped estabish England as The Maritime and Colonial Power in the 1500's.

75206
WILLIS, Clint (editor)
ROUGH WATER - Stories of Survival from the Sea
$15.00 AUD

Thunder's Mouth Press / Avalon Publishing. New York. 1999. 1st Ed., in the Adrenaline Book series. X, 354, (4 publications) PP with b/w illustrations (16 headpieces). Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Faint foxing. Remainder mark on lower outside edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.5. 9781560251743

34021
WITHEY, Lynne
GRAND TOURS AND COOK'S TOURS - A History of Leisure Travel, 1750 to 1915
$15.00 AUD

Aurum Press. London. 1998. 1st UK edition. XIV, 401 PP with 3 head pieces, plus 16 pages with 36 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 1854105485

Travels initially within Europe then towards exotic shores: Egypt, India, Japan, the Far West... Stories of the entrepreneurs who made these possible: Karl Baedecker, George Pullman, César Ritz, and, above all, Thomas Cook.

74886
WOOD, Thomas
COBBERS, A Personal Record of a Journey from Essex, in England, to Australia, Tasmania and some of the Reefs and Islands in the Coral Sea, made in the years 1930, 1931 and 1932
$10.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. London. 1936. 9th Impression. XIII, 3, 256 PP plus 9 b/w plates and Fp: Koala (Native Bear) and Cub. Eps: Map of Australia. Note with best wishes on half-title page. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers with light wear and soiling. Contents clean and overall, a very good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 20.5 x 13.5.

67253
WOODMAN, Richard
THE VICTORY OF SEAPOWER - Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814
$15.00 AUD

Caxton Editions & National Maritime Museum. London. 2001. Reprint of the 1998 original, in the Caxton Pictorial Histories series. 192 PP with 300 b/w illust. Title spread: Return of the Bourbon King Louis XVIII to France aboard the British royal yacht Royal Sovereign, 24 April 1814. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Near fine. 29.6 x 25. 1840673591

75749
WRIGHT, Anthony
AUSTRALIAN CARRIER DECISIONS - The acquisition of HMA Ships "Albatross", "Sydney" and "Melbourne"
$20.00 AUD

Maritime Studies Program / Royal Australian Navy. Canberra. 1998. 1st edition. No. 4 in Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs. Preface of the 1998 edition by David Stevens. XII, 176 PP with 4 tables and 18 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0642295034

68216
YOUNG, John
A DICTIONARY OF SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY of the Second World War
$15.00 AUD

Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1975. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Pages 177 to 192 misbound. Sellotape marks on covers. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Very good. 22 x 14. 0850591856