70290 AAMH WHALING - SEALING - Special Issue of THE GREAT CIRCLE, Volume 40, No. 2, 2018
$40.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth, W.A. 2018. Special Issue: Vol. 40, No. 2, 2018, edited by Michael McCarthy. X, 155 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 24 x 16.3.
The role of Sealers, Whalers and Aboriginal People in the Exploration of Western Australia, by Ross Anderson. Findings from an Analysis of Data in the British Southern Whale Fishery, by Dale Chatwin. Foundations of the British South Sea Whale Fishery 1763-1785, by Jane Clayton. Three Sydney Whaling Captains of the 1830, by Mark Howard. Australian Sealers in the Antarctic Region 1820-1822, by Michael Pearson. The Whaling Career of Captain Robert Newby: A British Master Whaler in the Pacific, by Rhys Richards & Jocelyn Chisholm.
48831 ADAMS, Richard (editor) ANTARCTICA - Voices from the Silent Continent
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1990. 1st edition. 80 PP with 2 sketches of penguins, and 55 colour illustrations (1 map, 9 artworks of whales and 45 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.6 x 18.8. 0340542551
Compilation of celebrated quotes & reports on/for protection of this continent.
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1968. 1st Ed. X, 58 PP with 16 portraits and 77 b/w photos, and 1 map at centre fold. Inside front cover: MS Fernlake New York. Pictorial soft covers with light wear and "Norwegian Shipping Line" on front cover, newspaper clipping pasted down on title page, otherwise very good. 21.5 x 14.
Cromarty Press. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. 88 PP with 92 b/w photos. Title-page: Polly Woodside. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24 x 17. 0949675105
List of groups preserving & restoring Australia's maritime heritage together with details of the vessels preserved.
70203 ANTARCTIC AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC Magazine - 9
$10.00 AUD
Australian Government / Australian Antarctic Division. Hobart. 2005. Issue 9, Spring 2005. Edited by Wendy Piper. Foreword by Tony Press, Director. 36 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Issue No. 9: "A window on Climate Change".
75021 ATKIN, William and John HOW-TO-BUILD PLANS FOR SIMPLE, SPEEDY SEAWORTHY CRAFT - Volume 38
$100.00 AUD
Motor Boating. New York. 1954. 1st edition,. Volume 38 - Motor Boating's Ideal series. Edited by Charles F. Chapman and F.W. Horenburger. 208 PP printed on superior gloss paper, with b/w illustrations: 10 photos and hundreds of sketches, drawings, line drawings and plans, by William and John Atkin. Cloth covers, title on decorated front cover and spine. Attractive bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Covers with minimal shelf wear. Contents are near fine. Scarce. 29.5 x 22.
Designs, plans and building descriptions for a great variety of practical small boats: fishing skiff, catboat, catamaran, motor sailer, runabout, yacht club tender, plywood cruiser, ...
61508 AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM NATURE AUSTRALIA - Volume 25, Number 1
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Museum Trust. Sydney. 1995. Winter 1995. Edited by Jennifer Saunders. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.4 x 21.
The Wandering Albatross, by Harry Battam. Irian Jaya's New Tree-Kangaroo: just the tip of the Ertzberg, by Tim Flannery.
38739 AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING AUSTRALIAN SYMPOSIUM ON SHIP TECHNOLOGY, The Impact of 200 Mile Economic Zones (Vol.I & II)
$25.00 AUD
University of N.S.W. Sydney. 1979-1981. 1st Ed. Vol I: VII, 454 PP. Vol II: (Discussion) X, 246 PP. Both volumes with many b/w figures, graphs, tables & photos. Illustrated card covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Bookplate of previous owner on inside of front covers with signature. Very good. 24.7 x 18.1 09598299X & 090
Symposium sponsored by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Institute of Marine Engineers & the University of New South Wales held from 5-7 November 1979. Covers exploration, exploitation (fishing & oil/gas), surveillance. Sold as a set.
Mortons Media Group / Aviation Classics. Horncastle, Lincs. 2016. 2nd edition in the Aviation Classics. Edited by Jarrod Cotter. 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781909128910
Special 2nd edition to celebrate 80 years of the Spitfire.
75935 BADGE, Peter CORACLES OF THE WORLD
$30.00 AUD
Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. Llanrwst, Wales. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by John Williams-Davies. 216 PP with 38 b/w illustrations and 42 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 97818452782555
37677 BAER, George W. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SEA POWER - The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990
$10.00 AUD
Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca. 1994. 1st Ed. (12), 554 PP. Hard cover, dj (closed tear). Near fine. 23.4 x 15.6. 0804722730
75040 BAIRD, Duncan Passions... SAILING - Dream Places you'd Rather Be
$25.00 AUD
Duncan Baird Publishers. London. 2006. 1st Ed. Foreword by Brian Steel. 112 PP with 50 colour photos (29 on double page). Laminated pictorial hard covers. Fine (as new condition). Small format: Oblong: 11.7 x 13.8. 0781844633368
45033 BAKER, Simon THE SHIP - RETRACING COOK'S ENDEAVOUR VOYAGE
$10.00 AUD
BBC. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Endeavour under sails. Eps: Chart of part of the Sea Coast of New South Wales. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.7 x 20. 056353463X
Book published to accompany the television series The Ship, first broadcast on BBC in 2002.
68750 BARKO, Ivan (editor) FRENCH LIVES IN AUSTRALIA - A collection of biographical essays ...
$45.00 AUD
Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd. Melbourne. 2015. 1st edition by Ivan Barko, conceived and introduced by Eric Berti. XVI, 453, (3) PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23 x 15.3. 9781925333039
Explorers: Lapérouse, Baudin ... Pioneers ... Diplomats ... French Artists in Australia ...
31506 BARR, William & WILLIAMS, Glyndwr (editors) VOYAGES TO HUDSON BAY IN SEARCH OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE 1741-1747 (in two volumes)
$30.00 AUD
The Hakluyt Society. London. 1994 & 1995. Nos. 177 & 181 in the Second series. Volume I: XII, (2), 333 PP with 11 b/w plates. Fp: Inscription on rocks at Sloop Cove, Churchill. Volume II: XV, 393 PP with 20 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Arthur Dobbs (1755). Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner at top of FFEP of Volume I. Dust jackest a little rubbed, o/wise a fine set. 22.2 x 14.2. 0904180360 / 417
Volume I: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton in 1741-1742 on the Furnace and the Discovery. Volume II: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747 on the Dobbs Galley and the California..
51636 BATESON, Charles THE CONVICT SHIPS 1787-1868
$100.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1959. 1st Ed. XI, 355 PP, plus 22 pages with 21 b/w plates. Fp: 2 pencil sketches of the first "Surrey". Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has light wear around edges and is in a protective sleeve. An otherwise fine copy of the scarce first edition. 23 x 17.
The voyages, the administrative system...
39602 BEKEN OF COWES THE AMERICA'S CUP - 1851 to the Present Day
$35.00 AUD
The Harvill Press. London. 1999. Revised edition of the 1990 original. Foreword by Peter Blake. Introduction by Olin Stephens. 200 PP with 100 b/w illustrations (paintings and photos) on full or double page, with their description by Keith Beken (updated by Tim Jeffery) pages 178 to 195. Fp: The America's Cup. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 36 x 26.8. 1860463045
First Cups: 1851-1920. The J Class 1930-1937. The Twelve Metre Class 1958-1987.
63915 BEKEN, Frank and Keith BEKEN OF COWES 1, 1897-1914 - With an historical introduction and colour plates from the Macpherson Collection in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
$40.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1966. 1st UK edition. Text by John Chamier. Foreword by Alain Gliksman. 184 PP with 89 b/w photos (24 on full page and 29 on double page), plus 8 large folded plates with 8 colour paintings. Cloth cover, title in blind on front board and spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with repaired tears, o/wise near fine. 29.7 x 22.
Development of yachts, yachting and yacht racing between 1897 & 1914, seen through the lenses of the Bekens.
44714 BEKEN, Keith THE BEKEN FILE
$20.00 AUD
Channel Press. London. 1980. 1st UK edition of the 1979 French original "Beken, Ma Vie". 192 PP with 6 drawings, 57 b/w and 16 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 25 x 18.8. 0906781027
42939 BENHAM, Hervey ONCE UPON A TIDE
$25.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1971. Revised edition of the 1955 original. 240 PP with 15 illustrations in line by Roger Finch, plus 30 pages with 85 b/w illustrations. Fp: The Mersey oyster smack Boadicea. FEP: 3 maps of the North Sea and 12 traditional craft. REP: The traditional gear of the East coast fisherman. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dj with repaired short tears. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 024550804X
Ships and seamen of England's East Coast seaboard.
69320 BENNETT, A. S. US BARGEMEN
$15.00 AUD
Meresborough Books. Rainham, Kent. 1980. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 plan, 1 painting, 5 maps (4 on endpapers) and 55 photos. Fp: Barge Henry under sail. FEP: The Medway from Sheerness to Rochester / from Rochester to Maidstone. REP: The Swale / From Tower Bridge to Gravesend and Tilbury. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 22 x 15.5. 0905270207
A story of life on the sailing barge "Henry" ...
75431 BENNETT, John BIG-GAME ANGLING
$10.00 AUD
Faber and Faber. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 220 PP with tables, plus 38 pages with 35 b/w photos. Fp: Angling boats leaving Bimini, Cat Cay, Bahamas. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine (faded). Head of spine rubbed. FEP with a small patch of white-out. Faint foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.5 x 14.5.
75593 BENNETT, Richard RICHARD BENNETT'S HUON VALLEY
$25.00 AUD
Richard Bennett. Geeveston, Tasmania. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Honourable John Peter Hodgman. 96 PP with colour illustrations: 1 map and 97 colour photos. Hard cover, simile leather, title on front board and spine, dj. Name of previous owner and rubbed patches on front endpaper. Very good. 30.8 x 23.6. 0731633067
30734 BERTRAND, Rasa Padgurskis ONE AUSTRALIA - The Power of a Vision
$10.00 AUD
Heinemann. Melbourne. 1995. 1st Ed. No pagination, 204 PP with 4 b/w and hundred colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (portfolio). Fine. 30 x 24.7. 0855616385
Story of a man and his dream: John Bertrand and his yacht One Australia, before the 1995 America's Cup race off San Diego.
38409 BIVAR, A. D. H. (editor) THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA, A.D. 1325-1354 - Volume V - Index to Volumes I-IV
$20.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. London. 2000. 1st Ed. Publication 190 of Hakluyt Society second series. X, 153 PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Letter from Hakluyt Society loosely inserted. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed around edges, o/wise a fine copy. 22.3 x 14.2. 0904180670
16950 BLACKMAN, Raymond V.B. THE WORLD'S WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1963. 3rd and completely revised edition of the 1955 original. 256, (7 Index) PP with b/w photos. Cloth cover speckled around edges, dj (price clipped). Chipped and repaired dust jacket. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. Oblong: 12.5 x 19.
Aircraft carriers, battleships, battle cruisers, ... frigates and submarines.
11607 BLAINEY, Geoffrey THE BLAINEY VIEW
$10.00 AUD
ABC & Macmillan. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. 156 PP with numerous b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket slightly sunned, otherwise fine. 28 x 21.5. 0333338855
History of Australia and its people. Chapter 1: Footprints (Australian Aborigines). Chapter 4: Yellow Dragon (Chinese, yellow peril and White Australia Policy)... Chapter 7: Invasion (World War II on doorstep)...
71493 BLAINEY, Geoffrey SEA OF DANGERS: Captain Cook and his Rivals
$30.00 AUD
Viking. Melbourne. 2008. 1st Ed. XI, 420 PP with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 10 b/w and 14 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dust jacket with llight shelf wear. 4 newspaper cuttings (The Sydney Morning Herald) loosely inserted. Discreet stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper. Near fine. 24 x 15.7. 9780670072231
1768 to 1771: quest of the great Southland by Captain Cook on the Endeavour and Jean de Surville on the St. Jean Baptiste.
44191 BLUNT, Wilfrid THE GOLDEN ROAD TO SAMARKAND
$10.00 AUD
The Viking Press. New York. 1973. 1st. US edition. 280 PP with 2 family trees, 5 maps, 32 colour plates and 96 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Near fine. 25.5 x 20.5. 670344389
Alexander the Great. William of Rubruck. Marco Polo. Ibn Battuta...
43282 BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline, BUSTARRET, Claire & BRETON, Gérard ETUDE CODICOLOGIQUE DES MANUSCRITS ET DESSINS DE MEDUSES DE FRANCOIS PERON ET CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR
$30.00 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. 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.
21941 BONSALL, Thomas E. GREAT SHIPWRECKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$15.00 AUD
Gallery Books. New York. 1988. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 176 b/w & 32 colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 29.5 x 21.5. 0831777818
Recollection of the important passenger ship disasters of this century from the General Slocum to the Mikhail Lermontov, including Titanic, Lusitania, Normandie, Andrea Doria, ...
36281 BONSALL, Thomas E. TITANIC - The Story of the Great White Star Line Trio: The Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic
$15.00 AUD
Gallery Books. New York. 1989. 1st printing of the 2nd edition of 1989 (original of 1987). 64 PP with 19 colour and 64 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 23.5 x 29.2. 0831787740
15065 BOYD-SMITH, Peter & Jan SOUTHAMPTON IN FOCUS
$15.00 AUD
Steamship Publications. Southampton. 1996. 1st Ed. VIII, 86 PP with b/w period illustrations (photos, engravings, drawings). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signed by the author on title page. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0952369656
Southampton between 1850 and 1960. The town centre, the waterfront, St Mary's, Chapel & Northam...
75845 BOYER, Marie-France SPIRIT OF THE SEA
$20.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. New York. 2003. 1st US edition, translated from the French by Barbara Mellor. 120 PP with 16 b/w and 131 colour photos. 9780500511039
75762 BRADSHAW, Todd E. CANOE RIG: The Essence and the Art: Sailpower for Antique and Traditional Canoes
$80.00 AUD
Todd Bradshaw/Addiction Sailmakers. Madison. WI. 2000 Reprint. XII, 262, (4) PP with b/w illustrations (artworks, sketches, plans). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. Oblong: 22 x 29. 9780937822579
62319 BREW, Steve GREYCLIFFE - STOLEN LIVES
$30.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. limited to 1200 copies, No. 58 in the Roebuck Society series. XII, 211 PP with b/w illustrations (1 painting and 3 sketches by the author and 53 photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26 x 18.3. 0975133101
Sinking of the Sydney ferry Greycliffe by the Royal Mail Steamer Tahiti, 3rd November 1927.
32703 BROCHADO, Costa, MARJAY, Frederico, et al.. (editors) DOM HENRIQUE THE NAVIGATOR
$60.00 AUD
Executive Committee for the Quincentenary Commemorations of the death of the Infante Dom Henrique. Lisbon. 1960. 1st English edition, translated from the Portuguese original by George F.W. Dykes. 100 PP with text illustrations, plus 55 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of the Infante Dom Henrique The Navigator. Marbled hard cover, pictorial dust jacket is rubbed around edges and has a small chip at top near spine and a crease on bottom right corner. Signature of previous owner on FFEP. Internally near fine. Scarce. 30 x 21.8.
Published for the quincentenary commemoration of the death of the Infante Dom Henrique. The Portuguese Century, by Costa Brochado. The birth of Astronomical Navigation in the Atlantic, the Key to the exploration of the Ocean, by Commander Teixeira da Mota...
71786 BROWN, Capt. Charles H. DEVIATION AND THE DEVIASCOPE, Including the Practice and Theory of COMPASS ADJUSTMENT, also a Note on the Gyro-Compass
$20.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1943. Reprint of the Sixth Edition. XII, 278 PP with 6 tables (table III with folded side), 65 b/w illustrations (including 9 photos) & 48 coloured figures, plus 1 folded diagram & 5 large folded charts. Fp: Roof Deviascope. Red cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. A few pencil notes on formulae on FFEP and a hand drawn diagram on the verso of the frontispiece. Covers have light wear around edges and a little fraying at extremities of spine. Previous owners' signature and stamp on inside front cover. A very good copy. 21.6 x 14.
Navarine Publishing / Roebuck Book. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society Publication No. 45. XIV, 603 PP with 2 graphs,and 65 b/w illust. FEP: Map of Tasmania, c. 1850s. REP: An 1830s engraving of the Paddle steamer Seahorse. Hard cover, dj. Copy signed by the author on title page. Fine. 25.8 x 18. 0958656134
32402 BROXAM, Graeme A STEAMSHIP FOR HOBART, S.S. REEMERE 1909
$25.00 AUD
Navarine. Canberra. 1992. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies (No. 423/1000). Foreword by Ken Wriedt. II, 60 PP with 1 plan, 1 map & 46 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Signed by author. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646113291
Story of small trading craft plying Tasmanian bays, rivers and inlets. The need to preserve and restore the SS Reemere, launched in 1909.
69074 BROXAM, Graeme THE BASS STRAIT FERRY "CITY OF MELBOURNE', Pioneer Australian Screw Steamship
$20.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2008. 1st edition limited to 259 Ccopies. VI, 54 PP with 2 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (chart of Bass Strait at centrefold, 4 engravings, 2 plans, and 8 photos). Pictorial stiiff covers. Signed on title page by author and publisher.. Fine. 21 x 14.8., 9780975133132
73139 BROXAM, Graeme SHIPWRECKS OF TASMANIA'S WILD WEST COAST
$75.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. No. 44 in the Roebuck Books series. Foreword by Jack Loney. XXX, 471 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, maps, portraits, photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Creases on the lower corner of the front cover, and spine. Back cover rubbed. Title page with name of previous owner at top and signed by the author. Very good. 24.8 x 17.6. 0646163817
Includes the wreck of the schooner Grondy late 1815, a study of the total wrecks, strandings, boating disasters... the hulks at Strahan, flotsam & jetsam.
75467 BRUCE, Erroll THIS IS ROUGH WEATHER CRUISING
$10.00 AUD
Nautical Books. London. 1981. Reprint of the 1980 original. Foreword by Adlard Coles. 136 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (diagrams, maps and photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20.5 x 19.5. 0333320905
54950 BRYANT, Arthur (editor) THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - April 29, 1950
$15.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News. London. 1950. No. 5793, Volume 216, 29 April 1950. 645-684 PP with advertisements and b/w illustrations (cut-aways, drawings & photos). Soft cover. Near fine. 37 x 26.
Madame Tussaud. The Royal Academy 1950: pictures by Mr. Winston Churchill. Escape from the twentieth century, by raft The Kon-Tiki expedition, by Thor Heyerdahl. Centrefold: A 20-knot Electric submarine. Marine Art at Greenwich.
53991 BUCHANAN, Stuart LIGHTHOUSE OF TRAGEDY: the Story of Bustard Head Lighthouse Queensland 's First Coast Light
$40.00 AUD
Coral Coast Publications. Brisbane. 2004. Reprint of the 1999 original. VIII, 243 PP profusely illustrated with b/w & colour plates, maps and diagrams. Illustrated card covers with a small light stain on bottom edge of inside front cover, otherwise a fine copy. 24.8 x 17.5. 095864330X
Built 1867/1868. Started 29th June 1868.
15786 BURKE, Iris & Keast (editors) THE SPANISH AT PORT JACKSON, THE VISIT OF THE CORVETTES DESCUBIERTA & ATREVIDA 1793
$60.00 AUD
Australian Documentary Facsimile Society. Sydney. 1967. Edition of 275 copies, of which 250 are signed. Preface by Dr. A. Grove Day, translations by Virginia M. Day. 48 PP printed on Glastonbury antique paper with 2 panoramas by Brambila tipped in, 8 pages of Viana's Journal, 2 pages holographs. Fp: Portrait of Malaspina. Eps: Sketches made by the expedition's artists. Hard cover, title on front board and spine. Fine. 28.6 x 22.2.
A stay of one month in 1793, at Port Jackson, during the Spanish scientific expedition to survey the Pacific, led by Malaspina and Bustamante Y Guerra.
14832 BURNS, Ross WAR IN THE PACIFIC 1937-1945
$10.00 AUD
Bison Group. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 18 maps, 33 colour photos & 196 b/w photos. Title-page: Men of the 27th Marines on the beach at Iwo Jima. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large format: 31 x 23.5. 0861248724
75835 CALLENDER, Sir Geoffrey & HINSLEY, F. H. THE NAVAL SIDE OF BRITISH HISTORY 1485 - 1945
$15.00 AUD
Christophers. London. 1954. Reprint of the 1952 original. XI, 12-395 PP, plus 20 b/w plate with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Nelson. Eps: The Globe, after the map made by Martin Behaim of Nuremberg 1492. Cloth cover, gilt vignette and title on front cover and spine. Spine slightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Library stamps on front endpaper and half title page and verso of frontispiece. Occasional foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 19.8 x 14.2.
Genesis of British sea-power, the Royal Navy...
76049 CAMARATA, Justin F. WATERLINE DIORAMAS - A Modelbuilder's Artform
$350.00 AUD
SeaWatch Books. Florence, Oregon. 2009. 1st Ed, first printing. 228 PP with tables, 56 b/w illustrations (sketches, plans, photos), and 115 colour photos. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). Scarce. 28.5 x 22 9780982057926
13840 CAMERON, Ian LODESTONE AND EVENING STAR, The Saga of Exploration by Sea
$20.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 41 drawings & maps, plus 16 pages with 8 colour photos & 13 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Signature and date on FFEP, o/wise contents near fine. 23 x 14.5.
The seamen who mapped the world. From Queen Hatshepsut's expedition of 1493 B.C. to the exploration of Antarctica.
74948 CAMERON, Roderick SHELLS
$20.00 AUD
Universal Books Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1972. 1st Australian edition. 100 PP with 94 b/w illustrations and 33 colour photos. Title page (in colour): Lambis Rugosa, from the Red Sea. Illustrated hard covers, dj. Spine of dust jacket lighly sunned. Near fine. 24.5 x 21. 0706400968
Shells in art, collectors, etc...
75965 CAMPBELL, Rear-Admiral Gordon NUMBER THIRTEEN, being the autobiography of...
$40.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1936. Reprint of 1932 1st edition. (2), 352 PP, plus 16 plates with 19 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of Gordon Campbell. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine., price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing on outside edges, small neat stamp of previous owner on FFEP and title-page, otherwise contents are near fine. Scarce with the dust jacket. 23.2 x 15.
59145 CARLISLE, Rodney WHERE THE FLEET BEGINS - A History of the David Taylor Research Center 1898-1998
$35.00 AUD
Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy. Washington. 1998. 1st Ed. Foreword by Richard E. Metrey. XVIII, 662 PP with 1 map, 1 organigram, over 10 tables, 65 portraits and 108 b/w illustrations. Eps: Photos of the center in 1898, 1908 and in 1198. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt seal on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 18. 0160494427
58870 CARLTON, Mike CRUISER: The Life and Loss of HMAS PERTH and Her Crew
$20.00 AUD
William Heinemann. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. XIV, 706 PP with 1 plan and 4 maps, plus 24 pages with 10 colour illustrations and 64 b/w photos. Eps: White Ensign, Royal Navy. Hard cover, dj. Neat ex-libris stamp of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 16. 9781741668391
32194 CARR, Frank G. G. LESLIE A. WILCOX, R.I., R.S.M.A.
$40.00 AUD
F. Lewis. Leigh-on-Sea. 1977. Limited edition to 600 copies. VI, 7-47 PP, plus 38 pages with 2 colour plates tipped in and 72 b/w plates. Title page: Colour plate of the American clipper Blue Jacket pasted down. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dust jacket tipped-in on front endpaper. Ingleton bookplate. Fine. 29.2 x 22.6.
Catalogue of 267 of his works.
75687 CHAPELLE, Howard I. YACHT DESIGNING AND PLANNING For Yachtsmen, Students and Amateurs
$50.00 AUD
Norton. New York. 1936. 1st Edition. IX, P.11 to 319 with many figures, line drawings & plans. Fp: A Modern Cruising Yacht Malabar X, designed by John Alden, N.A. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers with light soiling and wear and 2 pages with traces of old watermarks at top edge, not affecting any text and otherwise contents are near fine. Scarce. 24.5 x 16.
Tools and materials, preliminary designs, etc ...
19634 CHAPMAN, Charles F. PILOTING, SEAMANSHIP AND SMALL BOAT HANDLING. A Practical Treatise Dealing with Those Branches of Motor Boating with Which Every Yachtsman Should Be Familiar
$15.00 AUD
The Hearst Corporation / Motor Boating. New York. 1958. 1958-59 edition. Volume V - Motor Boating's Ideal series. X, 11- 500 PP with 10 colour plates and over 500 b/w illustrations, plus 68 pages of addenda. Cloth cover (slightly speckled), dj (slightly rubbed). Very good. 30 x 22.
Equipment and regulations - Rules of the Road... Compass - Charts - 17 pages of illustrated nautical dictionary.
15845 CHARLWOOD, Don SETTLERS UNDER SAIL
$10.00 AUD
Government Printing Office. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 1 map, 2 plans, 1 colour photo, and 43 bw illust. Inside back cover: tall ship. Pictorial soft cover. "Compliments Card" by Premier of Victoria loosely inserted. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
Published by the "Loch Ard Centenary Commemoration Committee". Sunk off on the reef of Mutton Bird Island, Cape Otway. .
74664 CHATTERTON, E. Keble FORE & AFT CRAFT AND THEIR STORY - An Account of the fore & aft rig from the earliest times to the present day
$25.00 AUD
Seeley, Service and Co. London. 1922. New and cheaper edition of the 1911 original. 348 PP, (4 publications) with 59 figures, plus 42 plates with 70 b/w illustrations (line drawings, plans, photos). Cloth cover, device on front cover, title on front cover and spine. Covers rubbed, worn on lower corner of front cover. Copy lacking 6 plates called for: the colour plate of the frontispiece and 5 b/w plates: 19, 22, 90, 91 and 92. As is. Good reading / working condition. 24.3 x 18.5.
35501 CHEVIGNY, Hector LOST EMPIRE - The Life and Adventures of Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov
$15.00 AUD
Binford & Mort. Portland, Oregon. 1979. 6th printing of the 1965 original. (12), 356 PP. Fp: Portrait of Rezanov, 1803. Pictorial card cover. Covers lightly rubbed. Very good. 20.3 x 13.3. 0832303453
The west coast of North America, from Alaska to California.
75698 CHILDERS, Erskine THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS - A record of Secret Service Recently Achieved
$30.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 2008. 1st edition in the Macmillan Collector's Library series of the 1903 original. Afterword by Ned Halley. 397, (3) PP with 1 "rough sketch", 2 drawings and 4 maps on double page. Illustrated endpapers, gilt edges and ribbon page marker. Cloth cover, bespoke illustrated front cover, dj. Fine. 15.6 x 10. 9781509843152
Spying and small boat cruising in the South East of the North Sea, a decade before the Great War.
37511 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. CLOCKS AND CULTURE 1300-1700
$15.00 AUD
Walker & Co. New York. 1967. 1st US Ed. 192 PP with 5 figures, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing on endpapers and outside page edges, otherwise fine. 22 x 14.5.
Development of the mechanical clock.
68353 CLARK, Gerry THE TOTORORE VOYAGE
$25.00 AUD
Homelands Publications. Kerikeri, NZ. 2000. 1st paperback edition by Homelands Publications (an updated edition of the 1988 original). Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. (12), 374 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, head and tail pieces) and 29 maps, plus 24 pages with 74 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Light bump on lower corner of back cover and around 30 pages, o/wise near fine. 23 x 15.2. 0780473064310
Circumnavigation of the Antarctic Ocean on the Sailing Research Vessel Totorore, between 1983 and 1986. Gerry Clark was lost with his "Totorore" on the Antipodes Island in June 1999.
75604 CLARK, Julia THIS SOUTHERN OUTPOST - Hobart 1846-1914
$20.00 AUD
Corporation of the City of Hobart. Hobart. 1997. Reprint of the 1988 original. Forewords by Alderman Doone Kennedy, Lord Mayor 1988 and Alderman Dr. J.W. Freeman, Lord Mayor 1997. Introduction by Dr. Kay Daniels. 88 PP with 1 location map, 2 coloured plans and over 240 b/w photos. Half title page: aerial view of the harbour. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong: 23 x 30. 0731642392
69844 CLARKSON, John, HARVEY, Bill & FENTON, Roy BLUE FUNNEL LINE
$40.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. Preston, UK. 1998. 1st Ed., in the "Ships in Focus" series. 192 PP with 430 b/w and 18 colour photos. Title page: "Alcinous", in 1973. FEP: "Calchas" in Saigon, and "Telemachus" at New York. REP: "Centaur" in Malacca Straits, and "Neleus" at Brisbane in January 1958. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 30.5 x 21.4. 1901703010
45055 CLAYPOLE, Yvonne LIVING ON THE EDGE - Our Personal Antarctic Story
$20.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. (8), 262 PP with 1 map, plus 12 pages with 36 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.4 x 15.3. 0732269156
33043 CLEGG, W. Paul SHIPS 'SIXTY-EIGHT
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. c. 1967. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w illust. (16 drawings & 96 photos). Fp: Grain being unloaded from a Four Master. Laminated pictorial board. Lower part of front hinge split, o/wise very good. 25 x 18.2.
An anthology of the shipping scene in 1968. Blue Riband, containerisation, lifeboats in action, Thames sailing barges.
62067 CLEGG, W. Paul & STYRING, John S. STEAMERS OF BRITISH RAILWAYS AND ASSOCIATE COMPANIES
$20.00 AUD
T. Stephenson. Prescot, UK. 1962. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 140 PP with 7 b/w photos in text of Part I plus 109 photos accompanying 108 descriptions of ships. Fp: The "Cerdic Ferry". Ep: Map of the regular passenger services of British Railways and Associate Companies. Hard cover, dust jacket (price-clipped with a few small chips). Offsetting of endpapers. A near fine copy. 22 x 14.
75313 COEN, A. J. (Tony) RIVER & COASTAL VESSELS TRADING OUT OF HOBART 1832-2015
$120.00 AUD
Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd. Hobart. 2017. 1st Ed. Foreword by Hon. Craig Farrell. XII, 372 PP with hundreds of b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Shipping Apples from Huonville. REP: ... A Way of Life. Pictorial laminated boards. Dedicatory note to previous owner on title page, signed by the author. Fine (as new condition). 30.2 x 21.5. 9780995408258
70597 COLEMAN, Patrick J. (editor) THE WESTERN PACIFIC: Island Arcs - Marginal Seas - Geochemistry
$30.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 1973. 1st edition with a foreword by Patrick J. Coleman and introduction by C.C. Von der Borch. XVIII, 675 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, diagrams ...). Fp: map of the Western Pacific. Hard cover, decoration on front cover, title on front cover and spine, all edges tinted. Front endpaper with bookplate of previous owner (name blocked out). Very good copy. 24.8 x 18. 085564060X
A total of 45 Papers. 10 on Features of the Pacific Ocean Basin. 18 on Island arcs and related structures of the Western Pacific region. 5 on Marginal areas of the Western Pacific. 12 on Petrology and Geochemistry of island arcs in relation to tectonic environment.
19855 COLEMAN, Terry THE LINERS - A History of the North Atlantic Crossing
$10.00 AUD
Penguin. London. 1977. Reprint in paperback edition of the 1976 original. 232 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Poster of Normandie. Half-title: Shopping on Aquitania. Pictorial card cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 19. 0140043985
When these liners had style: in their design, in the men who sailed them or travelled on them.
40315 COLLINGRIDGE, J. H. & EDE, J. R. CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF NAVAL RECORDS AT THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
$10.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1950. 1st Ed. Introduction by Hilary Jenkinson. 53 PP, with 1 head piece, 3 tail pieces, and facsimile of 7 signatures, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w illustrations. Soft covers a littl foxed, some marginal scoring, staples removed, o/wise very good. 21.2 x 13.5.
Historical notes and description of 71 items, from King John's Galleys (1212) to Bombardment of Alexandria (1882).
75547 COLSON, C. NOTES ON DOCKS AND DOCK CONSTRUCTION
$70.00 AUD
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1894. 1st Ed., in the "Longmans' Civil Engineering" series. X, 425 , (16 publications) PP with tables and 365 figures, plus 2 folded plates with respectively 2 and 3 of these figures. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Name & signature of previous owners on front endpaper and stamp & signature on title page. Occasional foxing spots on few pages and outside edges. Outside edge of top outside edge slightly soiled. Near fine. 25 x 16.
Includes sections on Dams, Water in foundations, Dock and Quay walls, Dry or Graving docks, Dredging, Floating docks, Slipways, etc ....
71360 COOK, John, BAUER, Jon THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER, a memoir
$35.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2020. 1st Ed. X, 339, (3) PP, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. As new. 25 x15. 9781760875381
John Cook is known in Tasmania as "The Keeper of the Flame" and is one of Australia's longest-serving lighthouse keepers. Tales of his 26 years tending Tasmania's well-known kerosene 'lights' at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island.
70929 COOLANGATTA A SHIPWRECK GAVE ITS NAME - The Story of the "Coolangatta"
$10.00 AUD
Shoalhaven Historical Society. Nowra. 1982. 2nd printing of the 1977 original. No pagination, 8 PP with b/w illustrations: sketch plans, 2 photos and 3 drawings. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 20 x 13.2. 0959968024
Built in 1843 on the Estuary of the Shoalhaven River, NSW. Wrecked 18th August 1846 at the mouth of the Tweed River.
68565 COOMBE, Derek THE BAWLEYMEN - Fishermen and Dredgermen of the River Medway
$40.00 AUD
Pennant Books. Rainham, Kent. 1979. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps and 6 tailpieces), plus 32 pages with 48 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Name of previous owner on FFEP. Spine lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 24 x 15.5. 0950641308
11 chapters, including: "Trawling", by Leonard J. Wadhams (No. 7) and "Notes on the Sailing Bawley Susannah", by Leslie H. Hill (No. 9).
16452 COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves & DIOLE, Philippe GALAPAGOS, TITICACA, THE BLUE HOLES, Three Adventures
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1973. 1st edition, in the Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau series. 304 PP with 8 maps, 16 drawings, 22 b/w and 119 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 26.5 x 18.5. 0304292591
Probing the secrets of the marine iguanas in the Galapogos, exploring Lake Titicaca high in the Andes, diving in the Blue Holes off Belize and the Bahamas...
67441 COWLEY, Terri & ROZYCKI, Jack (editors) AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC, No. 68, 0ct - Dec 2002
$10.00 AUD
Australian Geographic. Sydney. 2002. 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.
... Flinders Island, by Andrew Bain. No Turning Back, retracing Sir Ernest Shackleton' s treacherous 1916 route across South Georgia Island, by Colin Monteath. ...
74747 CREAGH-OSBORNE, Richard THIS IS SAILING. A Complete Course
$10.00 AUD
Nautical Publishing Co. Ltd. London. 1975. 4th impression of the 1972 original. (6), 220 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings & photos) by Peter A. G. Milne. Hard covers, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped) Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 20.7 x 19.5. 0245509259
17172 CREIGHTON, Rear-Admiral Sir Kenelm CONVOY COMMODORE
$45.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1956. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet, The Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. 205, (3 adv.) PP, plus 6 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir Kenelm Creighton. Eps: Maps of the approaches to Newfoundland and to the British isles. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, nice dust jacket. A little light foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.
Five years after his retirement, called back by the Admiralty for service as Commodore of ocean convoys.
76135 CRICHTON, Tom SAILBOAT TRAMP
$50.00 AUD
Robert Hale Ltd. London. 1954. 1st Ed. 187, (3), with 1 sketch map on double page at the rear of the book, plus 12 pages with 19 b/w photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, price-clipped dust jacket with a few chips and in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy. Scarce. 22.5 x 14.5.
From Sweden to Israel on the Rozinante for more than three years with an abundance of adventures along the way.
68064 CRITCHLEY, Mike BRITISH WARSHIPS & AUXILIARIES (1984/5 edition)
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. 1983. 1st Ed. 112 PP with tables, silhouettes, 12 colour & 93 b/w photos. Title page: RFA Blue Rover. Pictorial soft cover. Outside edges lightly soiled. Very good. 21 x 14.8. 0907771092
Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service, Army Vessels and Fleet Air Arm.
75847 CUNNINGHAM, Christopher BUILDING THE GREENLAND KAYAK: A Manual for its Construction and Use
$25.00 AUD
Ragged Mountain Press / McGraw-Hill. Camden, Maine. 2003. 1st Ed. X, 193 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings, sketches and (step by step) photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23.3 x 18.7. 9780071392372
75617 DALTON, Trent BY SEA & STARS - The Story of the First Fleet
$35.00 AUD
The Australian / Fourth Estate. Sydney. 2018. 1st Ed. Foreword by Paul Whittaker, Editor-in-Chief, The Australian. XX, 140 PP with 1 portrait of the author, 1 map "Voyage of the First Fleet" on double page and 21 b/w illustrations (9 on full page and 12 on double page). Eps: Stars of the Southern Hemisphere. Pictorial hard covers. Fine. 20 x 14. 9781460757413
Lothian Publishing. Melbourne. 1979. 1st paperback edition. Foreword by Gerhard H. Heyen. XXIV, 141 PP with 24 tables, plus 40 pages with 67 b/w illust. (plans, maps, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 21.5 x 14. 0909706646
Her history: as a barque, as a windjammer, in port as a coal hulk and lastly, as a floating museum.
75999 DAVIES, Kenneth THE CLYDE PASSENGER STEAMERS
$20.00 AUD
Kyle Publications Ltd. Ayr, Scotland. 1980 1st Ed. 280 PP with 1 map "Firth of Clyde", 10 tables, 27 profiles "House Flag, Funnel and Hull colours", plus 32 pages with 87 b/w photos. Fp: R.M.P.S. "Columba". Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Near fine. 22 x 14.3. 090695505X
35156 DE BLIJ, Harm J. (editor) EARTH '88 - Changing Geographic Perspectives - Proceedings of the Centennial Symposium
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1988. 1st Ed. 392 PP with 109 maps, charts & graphs, and 92 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on half title page and title page, o/wise near fine. 28 x 24. 0870447637
Record of a week-long symposium held in Washington, D.C., in January 1988, to commemorate the centennial of the National Geographic Society. 22 papers: The spirit and impact of exploration by George Kish... The Oceans by William A. Nierenberg.
43273 DE BOER, G. J. 125 JAAR HOLLAND-AMERIKA LIJN 1873-1998
$70.00 AUD
De Alk b.v. Alkmaar. 1998. 1st Ed. 256 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations (ephemera, cut-aways, plans, photos and silhouettes). Half title page: Potsdam, may 1900. Title Spread: the Noordam. Laminated pictorial boards. Dutch text. Fine. 30.2 x 21.3. 906013074X
The 125 years of the Dutch shipping line: Holland-America.
75215 DENOON Donald, FIRTH Stewart, LINNEKIN Jocelyn, MELEISEA Malama & NERO Karen (editors) THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS
$60.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1997. 1st Ed. XXVIII, 518 PP with tables, 23 maps and 2 figures. Eps: The Pacific Ocean showing Exclusive Economic Zones. Hard cover, dj. Review copy slip pasted down on half-title page. A fine/as new copy. 23.5 x 15.5. 9780521441957
Prehistoric settlement, land use and production, first contacts with Europeans... Post-colonial economic and political status of the region...
71004 DICK, Howard, STEVERSON, Iain, CAROLIN, Mike, PEMBERTON, Barry, REX, Lindsay, COX, Rex & PRIEST, Russell ANL - A Fleet History of AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL LINE, 1957-1999
$85.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Inc. Melbourne. 2020. 1st Ed. X, 349 PP with b/w illustrations (3 plans & 93 photos) and lavish colour illustrations (1 cut-away, 3 house-flags, 4 funnels and 245 photos). Vignette on title page (in colour): Funnel of Empress of Australia . FEP: Australian Venture arriving Sydney. REP: Flinders Range arriving Risdon / Hobart. Pictorial laminated boads. New. 30.2 x 21.5. 9780975689646
A fleet history, written and informed by the knowledge, experience and insight of those who sailed on and worked with the ships. Covers the complex forty-year transition from conventional shipping to modern bulk-handling and containers along with the nation-building role of the ANL, whose flag still flies across the region as a subsidiary of French CMA CGM.
30301 DICKSON, Rod THEY KEPT THIS STATE AFLOAT: Shipbuilders, Boatbuilders and Shipwrights of WA 1829-1929
$40.00 AUD
Hesperian Press. Perth. 1998. 1st Ed. XVIII, 328 PP with b/w illustrations: plans, facsimiles of advertising material & letters, and 116 photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 23.8 x 15.5. 0859052141
When sea transport provided the only link between Perth and the rest of this huge state (1/3 of the Australian continent), these tradesmen and their workers were the backbone of West Australia.
15740 DUCKER, Sophie C. THE CONTENTED BOTANIST, Letters of W.H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific
$35.00 AUD
MUP. Melbourne. 1988. No. 3 in the Miegunyah Press series. 1st limited Ed. (1000 copies). XVI, 414 PP with 1 plan, 8 maps and 2 facsimiles of letters in text, plus 16 pages with 7 colour & 13 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing around outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 24.4 x 16. 0522843417
Letters from a Professor of Botany to some of his colleagues during a voyage between 1853 & 1856 to Australia via Ceylon and the return via South America. Description of the islands of Tonga and Fiji (P.233-270), problems between 3 nations (England, France & U.S.A.) and two religions (Protestant & Roman Catholic). Professor Harvey was a specialist in marine plants and algae and the author of Phycologia Australica in 5 volumes.
22093 DUDER, Tessa WAITEMATA, Auckland's Harbour of Sails
$15.00 AUD
Century Hutchinson. Auckland. 1989. 1st Ed. (4), 124 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (colour photos by Gil Hanly). Eps: Yachts and power boats of the Waitemata escort the New Zealand down Rangitoto Channel, on her launching day, 27th March 1988. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 26 x 18.4. 9781869410551
The islands, beaches and volcanoes of the Waitemata. History of the harbour since the discovery and settlement by the Maori...
37335 DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, & AROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS 1826-1829
$25.00 AUD
University of California Press. Berkeley. 1999. 1st University of California Press printing. Translated and edited from the French original Voyage autour du monde, principalement a la Californie et aux Iles Sandwich, pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829, by August Frugé and Neal Harlow. XXX, (2), 254 PP with 12 b/w illustrations (4 of them by the author). Title spread: View of Monterey, as seen from the harbor, by Auguste Duhaut-Cilly. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0520217527
Chapter 7 to 18: on the coast of California (USA) and Baja California (Mexico), between 1826 and 1828. Hawaii: September to November 1828...
67678 DUNCOMBE, Kathy BRUNY ISLAND'S QUARANTINE STATION IN WAR AND PEACE
$35.00 AUD
55169 DUNMORE, John FROM VENUS TO ANTARCTICA: The Life of Dumont D'Urville
$45.00 AUD
Exisle Publishing. Auckland. 2007. 1st Ed. 252 PP with 7 maps, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 9780908988716
76257 DUNMORE, John FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC (in two volumes)
$350.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1965 & 1969. Volume I: 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. VIII, 356 PP with 13 maps, plus 2 b/w plates (charts). Volume II: 1st edition limited to 2000 copies. VIII, 428 PP with 12 maps. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jackets laminated with clear plastic. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges of Volume I. Set in an excellent condition. 22.2 x 14.5.
Volume I, The Eighteenth Century : Bougainville, De Surville, Marion Dufresne, Kerguelen, La Pérouse, D'Entrecasteaux, and Marchand. Volume II, The Nineteenth Century: Baudin, Freycinet, Duperrey, Bougainville, Dumont d'Urville, Laplace, Vaillant, Dupetit-Thouars.
76279 DUNN, Laurence PASSENGER LINERS
$50.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1965. Revised edition of 1961 original. Foreword by C. M. Squarey. 496 PP with b/w photos throughout, 6 pages for 120 funnels in colour, comprehensive index and addenda, and 10 pages of advertisements. Fp: The Queen Mary at Las Palmas, December 1963. Endpaper maps showing major passenger ports. Hard cover (simile leather). Sellotape marks on endpapers. A little light foxing, otherwise contents are fine. 25.5 x 19.
A comprehensive work with sections on Great Britain, the Americas, Europe, Mediterranean, Asia and Australasia, Russia and the Communist Bloc. Contains an extensive index of companies, shipbuilders, ship names, changes, etc...
75960 DURUZ, Rosamund CAMPBELL COUNTRY - Sensational Story: Russian descent on coast / Invasion of Victoria
$20.00 AUD
Photo Art Printers. Warrnambool, Victoria. 1977. Reprint of the 1971 original. 80 PP with 27 b/w illustrations: drawings by Robert Ulmann and photos, and including the centrefold "Map of Port Campbell & Scenes of Wrecks". Illustrated stiff covers. Fine. Scarce. 19.7 x 14. 0959978909
75961 DURUZ, Rosamund (compiler) HISTORY OF TIMBOON 1875-1975 - Centenary Booklet
$20.00 AUD
Photo Art Printers. Warrnambool, Victoria. 1977. 1st Ed. Foreword by Cr. A. W. Drayton. 52 PP with 29 b/w illustrations (1 map of Timboon and district and 28 photos). Illustrated stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 0959978925
76225 DUYKER, Edward (Editor) & DUYKER Maryse (Translator) VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC 1791-1793 : Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
$115.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2001. 1st edition, limited to 1250 copies. XLIV, 392, (2) PP with 7 maps, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Hard cover with light shelf wear at bottom edge, dj. Dust jacket with a small hole at top of front and light wear at bottom rear edge of dust jacket. Otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 24.3 x 16.5. 0522849326
"In 1791 Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed with two ships from France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La Pérouse, who was missing in the Pacific".
76222 EARL, Jack KATHLEEN'S VOYAGE, The Log Book of Kathleen Gillett written and illustrated by ... during his 1947-48 voyage around the world
$10000.00 AUD
Weldon. Sydney. 1991. Limited facsimile edition (No.78 of 200 copies). Introduction by Bruce Stannard. (X), No continuous pagination, but 12 log books with a total of 328 pages plus one very large fold-out map (59cm x 1m.20). Illustrations made up of the author's sketches both in colour and b/w, b/w photos, facsimiles of documents, stamps, etc.. Fp: Kathleen Gillett off the Marquesas 1948. Endpapers: Sail plan of the Kathleen Gillett. Half-bound, gilt title on front cover, spine has raised bands and gilt title. Very small (1cm) round dark spot on back cover. Hand numbered and signed by the author on half-title page. A fine copy of this very scarce item. Large format: 59cm. x 41cm. 1863021752
A round the world voyage post WWII. From Australia through the Indian Ocean, calling at Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling, Rodgrigues and Mauritius, Reunion, South Africa. Then calls at St.Helena, Brazil, the Caribbean, Panama, Galapagos and across the Pacific: Marquesas, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand and return to Sydney. A magnificent book with extraordinary illustrations. More images available upon request.
68449 ELDRIDGE, F.B. THE BACKGROUND OF EASTERN SEA POWER
$10.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1945. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral Sir Guy Royle. (10), 386 PP with 2 drawings and 16 sketches of ships and 20 sketch maps, plus 12 pages with 14 b/w illustrations. Fp: Action between Centurion & Neustra Senhora del Caba Donga (tipped in). Eps: Pacific Ocean with routes of Drake, Anson, Mendana, Magellan. Hard cover. Stamps of State Library of Tasmania & The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum on front endpaper, and title page. Free fly of rear endpaper trimmed. Very good reading / working copy. 21 x 14.
The history of the development of sea power in both the Indian & Pacific Oceans.
62335 EMMONS, Frederick THE ATLANTIC LINERS 1925-70
$30.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1972. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 238 b/w illustrations (ships' profiles). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 25.2 x 19. 0715354574
Ships engaged in passenger services on the North Atlantic. Over 286 ships illustrated.
75008 Endangered Species Advisory Committee An Australian National STRATEGY FOR THE CONSERVATION OF SPECIES AND HABITATS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. Canberra. 1989. Draft for public comment. Foreword by Graham Richardson. 28 PP with 52 colour photos. Card covers, with flaps. Near fine. 29.6 x 20.8. 0642141908
13903 ENTERLINE, James Robert VIKING AMERICA, The Norse Crossings and their Legacy
$10.00 AUD
New English Library. London. 1973. 1st Ed. XX, (2), 217 PP with 2 maps in text plus 8 pages with 15 bw illust. Eps: Map of the North polar region and the North Atlantic Ocean. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Ageing of paper around outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.6 x 14.5. 450014797
On the Viking explorations and settlements of North America.
69211 ESSO WHEN WILL THE WELLS DRY ?
$10.00 AUD
Corporate Affairs Department, Esso Australia Ltd. Sydney. 1988. February 1988 edition. 8 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
76296 ESTENSEN, Miriam THE LIFE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. XXII, 538 PP with 5 maps and 19 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 15 colour plates. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner at top of half-title page, dust jacket with light wear, otherwise a fine copy. 23.7 x 16. 1865085154
46876 FAIRLEY, John & WELFARE, Simon ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS
$15.00 AUD
Guild Publishing / Book Club Associates. London. 1987. Reprint of the original published by Wm. Collins. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. 191 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.5 x 19.2.
Includes chapters: Strange Tales from the Lakes, Of Monsters and Mermaids ...
11750 FALLON, Judy PACIFIC PANTOMIME
$15.00 AUD
Andrew Melrose. London. 1952. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w vignette at end of each chapter. Eps: Map of New Caledonia drawn by Geoffrey Frazer. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Small pieces missing from dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.8 x 14.5.
A pleasant and diverting account of life in New Caledonia after WWII.
18539 FARQUHAR, I. J. UNION FLEET 1875-1975
$15.00 AUD
N.Z. Ships & Marine Society. Wellington. 1976. 2nd revised edition of the 1968 original. VIII, 61 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illust. by J. E. Hobbs. Stapled pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 16.5.
A list of ships owned by the Union Steam Ship Company of N.Z. since its inception in 1875 in Dunedin.
76268 FARRAR, Derek & CRUISING YACHT CLUB OF TASMANIA (compiler) D'ENTRECASTEAUX WATERWAYS - A Guide to the Waterways of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and its tributaries
$25.00 AUD
Tasmanian Government Publication. Hobart. c. 1998. 1st Ed. 78 PP with b/w illustrations: 2 drawings by Neil Lamont & 6 figures, 1 location map and 27 maps/plans (in colour). Inside back cover: 9 colour illustrations "Common Channel Fish". Pictorial stff covers, spiral bound, title on front cover and the plastic spiral spine. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Includes anchorages, list of boat ramps, list of lights, ...
71167 FAZIO, Vince HMAS CONDAMINE - THE STORY OF A UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN FRIGATE
$100.00 AUD
Author. Sydney. 1997. 2nd edition (abridged). (5), III, 172, 58 (4 appendices) PP with 15 plans, plus 96 pages with b/w illustrations [newspaper clippings, 2 maps, 7 plans, 14 documents and 115 photos (photocopy quality)]. Soft covers, pictorial front, staples, cloth tape on spine. Front cover lightly rubbed and soiled. Dated and signed by the author on title page. Very good. 29.6 x 21.
This history covers the period of service of "Condamine" from commissioning on 22.2.1946 to decommissioning on 2.12.1955.
19376 FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe COLUMBUS, And the Conquest of the Impossible
$20.00 AUD
Saturday Review Press. New York. 1974. 1st US Ed. 224 PP with 2 maps, 100 b/w and 17 colour illust. Fp: A portrait of Columbus by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. Title page: A sixteenth-century ship's compass. Eps: Natives of Hispaniola. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on front edge. A near fine copy. 25.5 x 18.5. 0841503303
21908 FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe COLUMBUS
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1992. Paperback edition of the 1991 original. XXVII, 218, (10 adv.) PP with 5 maps. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 19.6 x 12.9. 0192852604
A brilliant biography of Christopher Columbus.
34291 FIRSTBROOK, Peter THE VOYAGE OF THE MATTHEW - John Cabot and the Discovery of North America
$10.00 AUD
KQED Books. San Francisco. 1997. 1st US edition. 192 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title spread: the Matthew. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 19. 0912333227
John Cabot, his landing on the North American continent 500 years ago. The re-enactment voyage from Bristol in 1997. Chapter 3: designing Cabot's caravel.
75250 FISH, John A. THE BOUNTY AND BEYOND: A textual and bibliographical investigation of William Bligh's journals of the first breadfruit expedition
$225.00 AUD
Australian Scholarly Publishing & Ancora Press. Melbourne. 2023 1st edition. XIII, 303, (3) PP with 17 illustrations (Image of Bligh at Coupang in July 1789 and 16 facsimile pages of the manuscripts held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney or the National Archives, London). Fp: Image of Bligh at Coupang in july 1789 by Laurence Irving. Cloth cover, gilt decoration and title on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (new condition). 28.8 x 22. 9781922952783
Scholarly investigation between the Bligh's Private journal held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney and its Official version held at the National Archives in London, as well as other manuscripts related to the "Narrative of the Mutiny" (1790).
75681 FITZGERALD, Lawrence JAVA LA GRANDE, THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
$25.00 AUD
The Publishers Pty. Ltd. Hobart. 1984. 1st Edition. XV, (5), 140 PP with 79 maps & b/w illustrations. FEP: Dauphin map. REP: Desceliers map. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Dust jacket has a few rubs & nicks and is in a protective sleeve. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania Inc. on FFEP and half-title page along with a (presented by) signature. Otherwise a near fine copy. 27.8 x 20. 0949325007
The story of the Portuguese discovery of Australia, circa 1521.
31305 FLEMING, Dr. Rex J. THE TROPIC OCEAN GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE PROGRAMME
$15.00 AUD
International T.O.G.A. Boulder, Colorado. 1985. 1st Ed. (2), 30 PP with 9 maps in colour, and 8 colour photos. Pict. card cover. Lower corner front cover with a small creas, light foxing, otherwise fine. 25.5 x 16.5.
A ten year study on the El Nino current.
41524 LE FLEMING, H. M. ABC OF COASTAL PASSENGER SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 56 PP with tables, and 53 b/w photos. Title page: S.S. Cote d'Azur, S.N.C.F., & S.S. Canterbury, British Railways, Southern Region. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 15.6 x 10.4.
15655 FLEURIEU, Charles P.C. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 1790-1792 PERFORMED BY ETIENNE MARCHAND (In Two Volumes)
$60.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of 1801 original English edition. Nos. 23 & 24 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (VIII), CXXVIII, 361 PP, plus 8 plates including 4 folded charts. Volume II: XII, 504 PP, plus 105 PP comprising the journal of the route of the ship 'Solide' in 1790, 1791 & 1792. Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26 x 21.
53069 FOLEY, Captain John C. H. REEF PILOTS - The History of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service
$15.00 AUD
Banks Bros. & Street. Sydney. 1882 1st Ed. Foreword by Norman Rogers. XIX, 202 PP, plus 64 pages with b/w and colour photos. Fp: Chart of Torres Strait. Title page: Seal of the Torres Strait Pilot Service. Eps: Charts of Queensland Coasts. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0959335803
History of the Queensland Coast & Torres Strait Pilot Service.
68348 FORNASIERO, Jean, MONTEATH, Peter & WEST-SOOBY, John ENCOUNTERING TERRA AUSTRALIS: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders
$50.00 AUD
Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2004. 1st Ed. XII, 412 PP with 2 head pieces and 130 b/w illustrations (maps and plans, charts and coastal views, drawings and engravings), plus 16 pages with 2 b/w and 35 colour illustrations. Title page: Portrait of Ouriaga (Bruny Island). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.8 x 17.5. 9781862546257
70609 FOX, Thomas W. THEY REIGNED SUPREME
$45.00 AUD
Thomas W. Fox. Hobart, Tasmania. 1964. 2nd edition in July 1964 of the June 1964 original. (4), 55 PP (typescript) with 1 sketch-map, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos. Card cover (now laminated). Near fine. Scarce. 21 x 16.8.
Steamers on the Derwent and the Tamar. Shipowners, shipbuilders...
75987 FRAME, Chris & CROSS, Rachelle QM2: A Photographic Journey
$35.00 AUD
The History Press. Brimscombe Port, UK. 2017. Remastered edition of the 2009 original. Foreword by Dr Stephen Payne. Afterword by Captain Chris Wells. 120 PP with 1 b/w and 205 colour photos. Laminated pictorial stiff covers. Fine. Oblong: 22.6 x 25. 9780750907303
54618 GAMBLE, David P. & HAIR, P. E. H. (editors) THE DISCOVERY OF RIVER GAMBRA (1623), BY RICHARD JOBSON
$15.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. London. 1999. 1st Ed. Series III, No. 2. XVI, 341 PP with 6 maps, 8 line drawings, 1 b/w and 2 colour plates, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): River Gambia near Basse, July 1979. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180646
71555 GARDEN, Donald S. SOUTHERN HAVEN - A History of the Port of Albany, Western Australia
$25.00 AUD
Albany Port Authority. Albany. 1978. 1st Ed. Foreword by Eric N. Stene. (VI), 70 PP with 4 maps and 21 b/w illust. (paintings, photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, dj. Neat stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0959634703
Published for the sesquicentenary of the State of Western Australia.
75111 GARDER, Michel A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET ARMY
$10.00 AUD
Pall Mall Press Ltd. London. 1966. 1st UK edition. Translated from the 1959 French original. VI, 226 PP. Hard covers, dj. Ex Library copy with neat stamps on endpapers and title page. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. A very good clean reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
October Revolution to the fall of Khrushchev on 14th October 1964.
69360 GARDNER, John CLASSIC SMALL CRAFT YOU CAN BUILD
$30.00 AUD
Mystic Seaport Museum. Mystic, Connecticut. 1993. 1st Ed. (10), 195 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, line drawings, plans, sketches & photos) and 18 headpieces. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 0913372668
How to build 16 traditional boats: from Skiff and Bateau to 20-Foot outboard Oyster Skiff.
54527 GASCOIGNE, John CAPTAIN COOK: Voyager Between Worlds
$30.00 AUD
Hambledon Continuum. London. 2007. 1st Ed. XVI, 288 PP with 7 maps and 42 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781847250025
75454 GEEVES, Lance SOUTHWARD HO! - A Southland Argosy which sought and found the golden fleece of freedom in the Huon, Tasmania
$70.00 AUD
Lance Geeves / Huon Newspaper Co. Ltd. Geeveston, Tasmania. 1988. 1st edition of July 1988. 232 PP with 28 b/w illustrations. FEP: Sketch map of Tasmania and map of Southern Tasmania. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.8 x 14. 0731645847
The author was a former editor of the weekly newspaper "Huon News". The sub-title on front cover is: A history of the origin, culture and characteristics of people who settled the Great South Land.
75934 GERAINT JENKINS, J. THE CORACLE
$20.00 AUD
Golden Grove Editions. Carmarthen, Wales. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Raymond Rees. XIV, 129 PP with tables and 48 b/w illustrations (drawings and sketches, diagrams, plans of rivers, photos). Fp: Raymond Rees, secretary of the Towy Coracle Fishermen's Association at Carmarthen, 1987. Soft covers, illustrated front. Fine. 18.4 x 12.3. 9781870876032
51119 GIDLEY, Charles THE RAGING OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD
Andre Deutsch. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 543 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 15.5. 0233976477
Novel. Royal Navy and Naval life at sea.
57901 GILBERT, John CHARTING THE VAST PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Aldus Books. London. 1971. 1st Ed. Volume 7 in "Encyclopedia of Discovery and Exploration". 191 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread (in colour): Dutch merchant ships arriving home. Hard cover, illustrated front, gilt title on cloth spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 26.7 x 19.2.
66787 GILL, G. Hermon AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY (in 2 volumes)
$120.00 AUD
Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1957 & 1968. 1st edition in the "Australia in the War of 1939-1945" series, Series Two (Navy). Volume I: XVIII, 686 PP with 49 maps, plus 44 pages with 83 b/w photos. Volume II: XVIII, 752 PP with 44 maps and sketches, plus 44 pages with 84 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket of Volume II is price clipped and with small piece missing at head of spine. Signature on front endpaper of Vol. II. Occasional foxing. Still a very nice set. 23.5 x 13.2.
Volume I: 1939-1942. Volume II: 1942-1945.
35868 GILLE, Bernard & TOULLELAN, Pierre Yves DE LA CONQUETE A L'EXODE - Histoire des Océaniens et de leurs migrations dans le Pacifique (in two volumes)
$120.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 1999. 1st Ed. Volume I: 346, (2) PP with tables, maps, graphs. Volume II: 296, (4) PP with 6 maps and 24 tables. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 22.6 x 14.5. 2909790592 & 29
Volume I: The forced migrations in Oceania, lands of colonization and settlement. Volume II: Contemporary migrations in Oceania, lands of exile.
11991 GILSON, R. P. SAMOA, 1830-1900, The Politics of a Multi-cultural Community
$50.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1970. 1st Ed. Introduction and conclusion by J. W. Davidson. XVIII, 457 PP with 4 maps in text. FEP: Map of the Pacific. REP: Map of Western Samoa. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. A near fine copy. Scarce. 25 x 14.5. 0195503015
The first general history of this archipelago: Samoan structure, discovery & mission settlement, to the implementation of the three power conference on Samoa, held in Berlin in April, 1889.
66541 GIORGETTI, Franco HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF SAILING YACHTS
$15.00 AUD
White Star. Vercelli, Italy. 2006. 1st edition, translated from the Italian by Neil Frazer Davenport. 312 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Near fine. 30 x 22. 9788880954460
A lavish publication full of information.
42693 GLIKSMAN, Alain, CHAMIER, John & BARRAULT, Jean-Michel BEKEN OF COWES 2, 1919-1939 - With the 12-Metres and the America's Cup and One Designs and the Metre Boats
$40.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1969. 1st UK edition of the 1968 French original "Les Géants de la Voile". 188 PP with 77 b/w photos (18 on full page, 23 on double page, and 8 on double length centrefold), plus 2 folded colour plates. All photographs by Frank and Keith Beken. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket rubbed and in a protective sleeve. Near fine. Scarce. 29.3 x 22.2. 0304934291
75981 GRAAE, Pool HUNDREDE AR PA HAVENE - Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab 1866-1966
$40.00 AUD
DFDS. Kobenhavn. 1966. 1st Ed. Foreword by Erik Reinhard. 317, (11 "DFDS' flade gennen de hundred ar") PP with b/w illustrations (prints, portraits and photos). Eps: DFDS rutenet. Pictorial hard covers, gilt title at top and bottom of front board. Small stain at lower part of front board, otherwise fine. Danish text. 30 x 21..
22141 GRACE, Eric S. WHALE: Giant of the Ocean
$30.00 AUD
Sandstone Books. Sydney. 1996. 1st Australian edition. 128 PP with colour photos. Fp: Diver meets humpback whale. Title page: A humpback flips its tail into the air. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 26 x 28.5. 1875986375
76203 GRAEME-EVANS, Alex OF STORMS AND RAINBOWS: The Story of the Men of the 2/12th Battalion A.I.F. - Volume One: October 1939 - March 1942
$125.00 AUD
Southern Holdings Pty. Ltd. Hobart. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Major-General C.A.E. Fraser. (6), VI, 258, (1) PP with b/w illustrations (maps, 7 drawings and cartoons, 8 portraits and over 100 photos). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Birthday note at top of front endpaper. Contents near fine. 30.3 x 21.5. 0949089117
32690 GRAY, Edwyn HITLER'S BATTLESHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Leo Cooper. London. 1995. Reprint of the 1992 original. (8), 195 PP, plus 8 pages with 20 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 050523028
68893 GREEN, P. H. THE ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL COASTAL NAVIGATION
$10.00 AUD
Hadley Publications. Hawthorn, Vic. 1969. 2nd edition of the 1967 original. VI, 7-80 PP with 76 figures, plus large folded chart at rear of book. Soft cover, illustrated front with previous owner's number on top, spiral bound. Occasional foxing. Very good. 28.6 x 22.5.
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.
33163 GRIBBINS, Joseph CLASSIC SAIL
$15.00 AUD
Friedman / Fairfax. New York. 1998. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 96 colour Illust. Fp: Restored Endeavour. Title page: wooden block. Sps: New York sand-baggers race at Robbins Reef, by Fred Cozzens. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.3 x 29.3. 1567994512
Ancient sail. Nineteenth-Century sail. Cruising classics... Luxury Yachts.
75758 GRIBBINS, Joseph WOODEN BOATS - From Sculls to Yachts
$30.00 AUD
Grove Press. New York. 1991. 1st Ed. Introduction by Jon Wilson. 128 PP with colour photos. Fp: Collection of boats, part of the fleet of Seattle's Center for Wooden Boats. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 29.3 x 29.3.
History of Wooden Boats / Rowing and Paddling Boats / Sailboats / Speedboats / Luxury Yachts.
42663 GRIFFITHS, Maurice THE FIRST OF THE TIDE
$20.00 AUD
Nautical Books. London. 1988. Reprint of the 1979 original, in the "World of Cruising" series. 157 PP with 5 maps and 14 drawings. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21.6 x 13.8. 9780713658200
67237 GRIFFITHS, Simon BOAT
$60.00 AUD
Lantern / Penguin. Sydney. 2015. 1st Ed. 206, (2) PP with colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Hard covers, illustrated front and back. Fine. 23.5 x 18.5.
Row: Derwent skiff, Taroona .. Sail: Storm Bay, Patterson Lakes, Nerida, Janus ... Boatbuilders, motor: Erica, Blackbird, Vigilant .. Steam: S.Y. Preana, S.L. Huon, P.S. Marion ... Festivals: Wooden Boat, South Australian & Geelong Wooden Boat Festivals..
74925 GRIFFITHS, Tim ENDURANCE
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2015. 1st Ed. (6), 354, (8) PP. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.4. 9781760111540
Novel on the life of Frank Hurley: Australian Hero, adventurer, photographer and explorer
40946 GROCOTT, Terence SHIPWRECKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY & NAPOLEONIC ERAS
$25.00 AUD
Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, Pa. 1997. 1st US edition. XVI, 430 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0811715337
Chronicle of maritime tragedies (from contemporaneous publications) listing 1500 ships and covering: the Revolutionary Era 1793-1801, the Era of the Peace of Amiens 1801-1803, and the Napoleonic Era 1803-1816.
75974 GUILER, Eric R. GONE AND ALMOST FORGOTTEN - Jetties in Southern Tasmania
$130.00 AUD
Eric R. Guiler. Sandy Bay, Tas. 1998. 1st Ed. (10), 469 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: (1 plan, 22 sketch maps with insets for location of jetties). Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note to previous owner, dated and signed by the author on title page. Light crease on front cover with a small rubbed patch at bottom, otherwise a fine copy. Only 300 copies were printed so it has become a scarce item. 21 x 14.7. 0646348043
69128 GUNN, George SHIPS & SHORT SPLICES
$20.00 AUD
Gomer Press. Llandysul, Ceredigion. 2002. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commodore R.C. Hastie. 120 PP with over 70 b/w illustrations: documents, ephemera, sketch maps and photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 17 x 24.5. 1859029361
44323 H.M.S.O. SIGHT REDUCTION TABLES FOR AIR NAVIGATION - Volume 1 - Selected Stars Epoch 1975.0
$15.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1972. 1st Ed. A.P. 3270. XII, 324 PP. Eps: Tables. Cloth cover. Very good. 30.8 x 25. 0117714100
75955 HACKETT FISCHER, David WASHINGTON'S CROSSING
$20.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. New York. 2006. 1st paperback edition of the 2004 original in the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series. XII, 564 PP with 19 maps with 6 inserts and c.100 b/w illustrations: drawings and sketches, paintings, portraits, prints. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 9780195181593
47140 HALSTEAD, Bill (editor) OUR WORLD: INTERNATIONAL IMAGES OF NATURE / NOTRE MONDE: REFLETS DE LA NATURE MONDIALE / UNSERE WELT: INTERNATIONALE BILDER AUS DER NATUR / VAR VÄRLD: INTERNATIONELLA NATURBILDER
$15.00 AUD
U.S. Postal Service / Australia Post. Melbourne. 1989. 1st Ed. 16 PP with colour illustrations (photos and images of stamps), plus stamp folder in pocket inside front cover. Title page: Mountain goat. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 24.5.
Nature related stamp issues of 6 postal administrations: Australia, Canada, Sweden; United Kingdom, United Nations, and U.S.A.
75214 HAMILTON, Dora & Bruce IN THE QUEST OF THE GREAT SOUTHLAND - An Account of the Origin of the Bligh Museum of Pacific Exploration
$15.00 AUD
Bligh Museum / Mercury. Adventure Bay, Bruni Island. 1963. 1st Ed. 15 PP. Soft covers, decoration and title on a lightly soiled front cover. Contents near fine. 22.2 x 15.8.
Recorded during 1963.
76302 HAMMOND, David MARITIME AUSTRALIA - Volume 1 - THE PORT OF HOBART, TASMANIA - A Pictorial Record
$15.00 AUD
Southern Holdings. Huonville, Tasmania. 1996. 1st Ed. 154 PP with b/w illustrations (plans and photos) and 6 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers a little rubbed, otherwise a near fine copy. 29.8 x 20.9. 0949089400
A pictorial insight into Hobart's waterfront history, the ketches, sailing ships, ocean liners, ferries and river steamers, the whalers, explorers, scientists and watermen, the wharves, piers, shipyards and slipways, with landscapes of yesterday and today.
73952 HARCOURT BURRAGE, E. THE VANISHED YACHT
$10.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson and Sons , Ltd. London. c. 1925. Reprint. (VIII), 358, (10 publications) PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Fp. Cloth covers, title and illustration on front cover and spine. Prize plate (1929) on front endpaper. Light foxing. Very good. 19.4 x 14.
73027 HARRISON, J. N. D. (editor) COURT IN THE COLONY - Hobart Town, May 1824
$20.00 AUD
The Law Society of Tasmania. Hobart. 1974. 1st Ed. Foreword by G. S. M. Green. 44 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. 21 x 13.5.
To mark the Sesquicentenary of the Supreme Court: 10th May 1824 - 10th May 1974.
76256 HAWKINS, Cathy RETURN IN THE WAKE - The True Story of a Woman's Adventures at Sea
$100.00 AUD
John Ferguson. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 188 PP with b/w illustrations (2 headpieces, 2 sketch plans and 30 photos), plus 24 pages with 38 colour photos. Eps: Mappemonde with tracks and insert with British Isles. Hard cover, attractive device on front cover, dj. Name blocked at top of free fly of front endpaper and "best wishes" note on recto of FFEP, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. 23 x 15. 0949118222
Thousands of nautical miles logged, while racing in the trimarans "Twiggy" and "Balena". The difficulties in obtaining funds to realise her dreams...
75853 HAYCOX, Stephen, BARNETT, James K. & LIBURD, Caedmon A. (editors) ENLIGHTENMENT AND EXPLORATION IN THE NORTH PACIFIC, 1741-1805
$40.00 AUD
Cook Inlet Historical Society / University of Washington Press. Seattle. 1997. 1st Ed. XII, 220, (4) PP with 25 b/w illustrations: 2 maps, 8 charts, portraits, prints and photos. Pictorial soft covers with light wear around edges, otherwise a fine copy. 25 x 17.5. 9780295975832
75334 HEALEY, Tim THE WORLD'S MOST MYSTERIOUS PLACES
$15.00 AUD
The Reader's Digest Association. Sydney. 1996 1st Australian edition, in "The Earth, Its Wonders, Its Secrets" series. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial boards. Fine. 29.8 x 23.5. 0864389612
Lost Realms, Fabled Treasures: ... Nam Madol, Pohnpei / Oak Island, Canada ... Strange Relics: Easter Islands. Ancient of Days: Angkor, Cambodia.
75272 HEINTZELMAN, Donald S. A WORLD GUIDE TO WHALES, DOLPHINS, AND PORPOISES
$15.00 AUD
Winchester Press. Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1981 1st Ed. XX, 156 PP with tables, 7 maps, 25 "Artist's Plates" by Rod Arbogast, and 24 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21 x 12. 0876913230
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1987. 5th edition, revised by Brendan O'Friel. VII, 136 PP with 1 map, 1 portrait and 47 b/w illust., plus 1 b/w plate Lady of Mann departing Douglas. Pictorial soft cover (small crease on front cover). Very good. 18.3 x 12.2. 0851745113
51386 HERALD & WEEKLY TIMES THE FIRST 80 YEARS. A Look at the 20th Century in Words and Pictures from THE HERALD and THE SUN News-Pictorial
$10.00 AUD
The Herald and Weekly Times. Melbourne. 1980. 1st Ed. 96 PP with hundreds of b/w photos. Inside back cover: For the Record. Pictorial soft cover. Covers rubbed. Faint foxing. Very good. 29.7 x 21. 0909917329
15626 HERRMANN, Paul THE WORLD UNVEILED, The Story of Exploration from Columbus to Livingstone
$15.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1958. 1st English edition. Translated from the 1956 German original by Arnold Pomerans. XX, 508 PP with 44 b/w illust. & 42 maps, plus 20 pages with 30 half-tone plates. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Some foxing. Very good. 25 x 15.5.
On the voyages of explorers and their comments on what they saw: Christopher Columbus and his will to discover China, Vasco da Gama and the sea-route to East India... the South Seas, the exploration of Africa..
71118 HILDER, Brett Copy of a STEEL ENGRAVING showing Torres sighting Cape York, August 1606
$250.00 AUD
No date. c.1979. Original wooden framed reproduction of the 1888 original. Oblong: 38 x 53cm.
Reproduction of engraving commissioned by Brett Hilder and used on page 90 of his "The Voyage of Torres".
55227 HILDER, Captain Brett REPORT ON AN INTENSE HURRICANE (in Australian Meteorological Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
Bureau of Meteorology. Melbourne. 1959. Issue No. 25, June 1959. (4), 90 PP. Contains article P. 81 to 85 with 1 map. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 25.4 x 20.2.
Cyclone encountered on board M. V. Tulagi in March 1959, between Loyalty Islands and New Hebrides.
69397 HILL, Gordon & Jan, TITMUS, Grahan & McCASKILL, Ian EXPLORE VICTORIA'S WATERWAYS, including Bass Strait & Northern Tasmania
$25.00 AUD
George Philip & O'Neil Pty Ltd. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed. 176 PP with colour illustrations (figures, maps & plans, and photos). Title spread: Yachts off Williamstown. Half title page: Newhaven boathaven. Eps: Map of Victorian coast, Bass Strait and Northern Tasmania. Laminated pictorial boards. A fine copy. 28.5 x 21.5. 085550708X
68478 HMSO ADMIRALTY MANUAL OF NAVIGATION - Volume III, B.R. 45(3)
$25.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1955. New edition. Volume III, B.R. 45 (3): X, 437 PP with 280 b/w or colour figures. Front endpaper: "Amendments" columns, with stamp for the change made. Cloth cover, gilt anchor in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Covers soiled and rubbed. Light foxing on top outside edge. Near fine internally. 24.8 x 16.
B.R. 45 (3): 1958 reprint of the 1955 edition , incorporating amendments 1 and 2.
75746 HODGES, Ian & PAGE-ALLEN, Courtney AUSTRALIAN FLYING CORPS - Australians in World War I
$20.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 2010. December 2010 edition. 140 PP with c. 100 b/w photos and 12 colour illustrations (2 maps, paintings, photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Huon RSL written at top of title-page, otherwise a fine copy. 23.5 x 23.5. 9781877007606
76014 HOEG, Anton & PETERSEN, Hjalmar SKIBSFARTENS - HVEM - HVAD - HVOR
$40.00 AUD
Politikens Forlag. Kobenhavn. 1955. 1st Ed. No. 54 in the Politikens Handboger series. 320 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations (drawings, profiles, silhouettes, sketches, plans and photos) , plus a large folded "cut-away" in colour of the DFDS "Kronprinsesse Ingrid" tipped in on page 81. Illustrated hard covers. Damaged spine with part missing (1.5 cm) at head, and reinforced with clear sellotape at hinges. Business Card / Carte de Visite of Anton Hoeg, skibsreder loosely inserted. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. Danish text. 17 x 12.
75673 HOFMANN, Catherine, RICHARD, Hélène & VAGNON, Emmanuelle THE GOLDEN AGE OF MARITIME MAPS - When Europe Discovered the World
$40.00 AUD
Firefly Books Ltd. New York. 2013. 1st English edition of the 2012 French original, 1st printing. Foreword by Bruno Racine. 256 PP with 9 b/w illustrations ( documents and sketch maps), and over 150 colour illustrations (sea charts and details, and 2 navigation instruments). Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine (as new condition). Oblong: 26 x 28.5. 9781770852389
47137 HOGARTH, Christine (compiler) BOTANY BAY - Australia 's Heritage in Stamps
$20.00 AUD
Australia Post. Melbourne. 1986. 1st Ed., Book 3 in the Australian Bicentennial Collection. 40 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (maps, charts, engravings, painting photos and images of stamps), plus stamp folder in pocket inside front cover. Title page: Banksia serrata. Fp: Heads of a Plan, 18 August 1786. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 25. 0642099138
55123 HOGBEN, Rick & CLARK, Giles (editors) SEASCAPE: International Maritime Magazine - No. 25
$10.00 AUD
Fairplay Publications Ltd. London. 1989. No. 25, May 1989. 44 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (At the helm of Dar Pomorza). Near fine. 29.6 x 21.
Last issue of this Magazine. Pages 8 to 10: The Raider Alabama, by John Winton. Pages 25 to 27: Slate from the roof of Wales, by Roy Fenton. Pages 28 to 30: The best days of their lives - B.I. ships Uganda and Nevasa, by Brian Faulkner.
32297 HOLLAND, Francis Ross jr. AMERICA'S LIGHTHOUSES - An Illustrated History
$15.00 AUD
Dover. New York. 1988. Unabridged and slightly corrected republication of the third printing of 1981, published originally in 1972 as America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History since X, 226, (4 index) PP with 8 maps, 16 b/w line illustrations and 100 b/w photos. Title spread: Boon Island Light Station, Maine. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.4 x 20.3. 048625576X
16280 HOLLANDER, Neil & MERTES, Harald THE LAST SAILORS, The Final Days of Working Sail
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. London. 1984. 1st UK Ed. XIV, 142 PP with charts & b/w photos, plus 16 pages with 30 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 24 x 19.5. 0207150001
The vanishing breed of sailors & craft, harnessing wind & sea to gain their livelihood. The Nile, Chilean Coast, Brazil, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia...
19867 HOOPER, R.H. THE KING ISLAND STORY
$20.00 AUD
Fullers Bookshop. Hobart. 1980. 2nd edition in paperback form, of the 1973 original. XV, 153 PP plus 16 pages with 30 bw illust. Fp: Map of King Island. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine. 24 x 17.
69214 HORNER, Frank LOOKING FOR LA PEROUSE, D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793
$90.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. No. 7 in the Second Miegunyah Press series. XIV, 318, (2) PP with 4 pages ship plans, and 11 maps, plus 12 pages with 10 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj. Copy dated and signed by the author on half title page. Near fine. 24.3 x 16. 0522844510
The valuable discoveries made by the D'Entrecasteaux expedition while searching for the French explorer whose fate was unknown after sailing from Botany Bay in 1788. Explorations on the West and South Coast of Australia, in Tasmania, the coast of New Caledonia and in the Solomons and New Guinea.
75435 HOUGHTON, Philip THE FIRST NEW ZEALANDERS
$25.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. Auckland. 1980. 1st Ed. (VIII), 9-156 PP with 9 tables and 82 figures. Eps: Map of the Pacific with Insert of New Zealand. Hard covers, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges Near fine. 23.5 x 17.5. 0340252413
74838 HOWARD-WILLIAMS, Jeremy SAILS - IOR Mark III
$10.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1973. 2nd impression of the 3rd edition "IOR Mark III" of 1972 (1967 original). 415 PP with 146 figures in text & 39 figures in Appendices, plus 32 pages with 54 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23 x 14.8. 022997368X
The use and care of sails for the owner, the helmsman, the sail-maker.
75471 HOWARTH, David THE SHETLAND BUS
$20.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. London. 1962. 3rd impression of the 1957 "Cadet" scarce edition (1951 original). X, 228 PP with 3 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 plates with 22 b/w photos. Title spread: German plane straffing a Norwegian fishing vessel (see image). Hard covers, illustrated front. Foxing spots on outside edges, renewed front endpaper, covers rubbed and split on hinges. Internally a very good clean copy. 18.5 x 12.
Story of the Special Norwegian Naval unit based in the Shetland Islands.
44441 HOWGEGO, Raymond John ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION TO 1800: a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800
$250.00 AUD
Hordern House. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed. XV, 1168 PP. Eps: Jacques Cartier découvre et remonte le fleuve Saint-Laurent au Canada, en 1535. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 21.5. 1875567364
2327 articles/entries. From Mathias ABAD to Dmitry ZYRIAN.
47831 HOWGEGO, Raymond John ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION 1800 TO 1850: a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850
$200.00 AUD
Hordern House. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. XII, 690 PP. Eps: Surveyor. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 21.5. 1875567399
A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850. 701 articles/entries. From Antoine Thomson d' ABBADIE Laurentii A. ZAGOSKIN.
18499 HUMBLE, Richard THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Queen Anne Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 256 PP with tables, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 15. 0356122271
From the Tudor Navy to victory against Japan, the Royal Navy fought and survived. Since then, it has diminished and lost its importance as a naval force.
68747 HUMBLE, Richard BATTLESHIPS AND BATTLECRUISERS
$10.00 AUD
Connoisseur / Winchmore Publishing Services. London. 1983. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 20 maps & battle plans, b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Salvo fired by the USS New Jersey. Half title page: Bow of the USS Missouri. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tear. Donation plate to and stamp of "Devonport Maritime Museum & Historical Society" on front endpaper. Contents near fine. 30.7 x 23.5.
74837 INNES, Hammond THE MARY DEARE
$10.00 AUD
The Companion Book Club. London. 1983. Book Club edition of the 1956 original published by Collins. 288 PP. FEP: map of the Gulf of Saint Malo. REP: map of Plateau des Minquiers. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Ageing of paper around outside edges. Near fine. 19 x 13.
Novel.
75582 INNES, Hammond GREAT SEA NOVELS : Wreckers Must Breathe / The White South / The Mary Deare / Atlantic Fury / The Strode Venturer
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1978. 1st Omnibus edition, in the "Collins Collector's Choice" series. 1056 PP. Hard covers, gilt decoration on front cover and title on spine. Fine. 23 x 14.5. 0002433281
75713 IRVING, Commander. J. & SEARL, Crab KNOTS TIES AND SPLICES - A Handbook for Seafarers, Travellers, and all who use Cordage; with practical notes on wire and wire splicing, anglers' knots, etc.
$10.00 AUD
Routledge & Kegan. London. 1980. Reprint of the 1977 edition (revised & rewritten from 1884 original by J. Tom Burgess). VII, 129 PP with 235 figures. Card covers, illustrated front. Light creases on corners of front cover. Very good. 18.5 x 12. 0710086717
37541 ISELIN, Isaac JOURNAL OF A TRADING VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 1805-1808
$20.00 AUD
Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Washington, USA. 1999. 1st Ye Galleon edition of an 1897 original. (10), 110, 1 colophon PP. Illustrated endpapers. Hard case binding, decorated front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 26 x 18.4. 0877706689
Isaac Iselin, a Swiss supercargo of the brig Maryland, owned by the New York Commision House (brokerage firm) of Le Roy, Bayard & McEvers. New York, Cape Verde Islands, Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, coasts of Chile and Peru, Marquesas Islands (20/11 to 10/12/1806), coast of Mexico, Sandwich Islands (Hawai'i) 18th May to 20th July 1807...
76299 JACKSON, G. Gibbard THE BOOK OF THE SHIP
$15.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. London. c. 1927. 1st Ed. VIII, 248 PP, plus 14 colour plates and 32 b/w plates with 51 illustrations. Fp (in colour): Launch of the Great Britain in 1839. Cloth covers worn around edges, a littled soiled and frayed at top near spine. Light foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy. 22.5 x 15.5.
42405 JACKSON, Robert LINERS, TANKERS AND MERCHANT SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Grange Books. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 1 b/w, 3 colour photos and 300 colour artworks. Title page: Carrack. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. Small format. 17 x13. 9781840134773
Some 300 of the world's greatest commercial vessels.
76270 JAY, Lieutenant-Commander L. M. A. (editor) HMS VICTORY - Souvenir Guidebook
$15.00 AUD
Pitkin Pictorials. London. 1991. Reprint of the 1988 edition, (original of 1972). 20 PP with colour illustrations (1 "exploded" drawing of H.M.S. Victory, 1 sketch map of the Battle of Trafalgar and 27 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 17. 9780853724544
The pictorial story.
55979 JENNINGS, John THE SALEM FRIGATE
$15.00 AUD
Invincible Press. Sydney. 1946. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by T. Tisdall. 407 PP. Eps: Map. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine. Faint foxing. Dedicatory note on verso of FFEP, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22 x 14.
Novel with an historical background. Story of the Frigate Essex, USN: 1800-01 to Batavia, Indonesia. 1802-03 to Tripoli, Libya. 1812-14 to Eastern Pacific and the Marquesas Islands.
32011 JOHNSON, Donald S. PHANTOM ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC - The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were
$10.00 AUD
Souvenir Press. London. 1997. 1st UK printing of the 1996 revised edition. XVII, (3), 220 PP with few marginal illustrations and 35 figures. Eps: Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, Ferrando Bertelli, 1565. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21 x 15.5. 0285633953
69448 JOHNSON, Ronnie TARBERT LOCHFYNE - The Story of the Fishermen
$15.00 AUD
Ann Thomas Gallery. Tarbert, Argyll, UK. 1980. 1st Ed. (6), 41 PP with 43 b/w illustrations (1 map, and 42 illustrations by Ann Thomas). Soft cover, pictorial front. Near fine. 20.8 x 15.
68334 JOUFFROY-GAUJA, F. K., BEAULIEU, J - P. & DONATOWICZ, J. C. SECRET GARDEN AT RECHERCHE BAY - 1792
$40.00 AUD
Ancient Art of the South Seas. Hobart. 2016. 1st edition of February 2016. 96 PP with 4 sketch maps, 28 b/w and 24 colour illustrations. Title page: Lahaye's garden on chart of Port du Nord. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 21. 9782953563559
Felix Lahaye and the French Garden set on 23 April 1792 at Recherche Bay, during the expedition led by Rear-Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux.
75839 KAMPA, Theo & BAROW, Wulf THIS IS PHOTOGRAPHY AFLOAT
$15.00 AUD
Nautical Books / Macmillan London Ltd. London. 1981. 1st English edition, translated by Suzanne Platt. 152 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Fine. 20.6 x 19.5. 03333181110
16122 KEATING, Bern THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE, From the Mathew to the Manhattan: 1497 to 1969
$10.00 AUD
Rand McNally. Chicago. 1970. 1st Ed. 159 PP with 11 b/w illust. & 56 colour illust. (1 map, 1 chart, 8 engravings & 46 photos). Fp: Woman who lives in the sun. Cloth cover, gilt-decorated front, gilt title on spine, dj (lightly rubbed). Foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 28.5 x 23.5.
From John Cabot on the Mathew to the 80 day voyage of the Esso tanker/icebreaker reinforced Manhattan.
68637 KEMP, J. F., & YOUNG, Peter SEAMANSHIP NOTES
$10.00 AUD
Kandy Publications. London. 1980. Reprint of the 3rd edition of 1977. 102 PP with many figures, including 5 pages with colour for "Buoyage". Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of front cover and title page. Very good. 21 x 14.8. 0540073318
75947 KEMP, J. F., & YOUNG, Peter METEOROLOGY (for the M.O.T. Examinations)
$10.00 AUD
Kandy Publications. L)Kenley, Surrey, UK. 1961. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w and colour figures. Card covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 21 x 16.5.
75948 KEMP, J. F., & YOUNG, Peter SHIP CONSTRUCTION SKETCHES AND NOTES (for the M.O.T. Examinations)
$10.00 AUD
Kandy Publications. London. 1961. Reprint of the 1958 original. 80 PP with many figures. Card covers, pictorial front. Name of previous owner on front cover, otherwise near fine. 21 x 16.5.
75888 KEMP, Lieut.-Commander P. K. RACING FOR THE AMERICA'S CUP
$75.00 AUD
Hutchinson & Co. London. 1937. 1st Ed. 304 PP plus 32 pages with 33 b/w illustrations, followed by 16 pages advertising new books for 1937. Fp: The America's Cup. Original blue cloth cover, gilt title on spine, nice bright dust jacket which has a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. Neat stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on FFEP and a very small faint stamp of a previous owner on FFEP, half-title page and title-page. A little light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise a near fine copy with the scarce dust jacket. 22 x 14.
48874 KEMP, Lieutenant-Commander P. K. NINE VANGUARDS
$20.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 236 PP, plus 16 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Fp: H.M.S. Vanguard, 1947. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with a few chips and protected. Foxing spots on outside edges and a few pages, o/wise a very good clean copy. 23.5 x 16.
The 9 warships of the British and Royal Navy, named Vanguard.
68465 KEMP, Peter (editor) HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$25.00 AUD
Arthur Barker, Ltd. London. 1969. 1st Ed. 304 PP with 18 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (maps paintings, photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket. A few chips or closed tears to the dust jacket which is in a protective sleeve. Name of previous owner has been covered with white-out on inside front cover. Front endpaper has a vertical crease, otherwise this is a near fine copy. 28.5 x 22.5. 213179113
75461 KENDREW, W. G. CLIMATE - A Treatise on the Principles of Weather and Climate
$30.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. London. 1942. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1938 (original 1930). XII, 327 PP with tables and over 117 figures, plus 12 b/w plates with figures and photos). Fp: The Matterhorn with its Banner Cloud. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with small chips and a repaired tear and in a protective sleeve. Signature of previous owner at top of FFEP, faint foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 23 x 14.5.
75115 KERS, Marijke NEDERLAND WATERLAND - De Waterhuishouding van Nederland
$25.00 AUD
Uitgeverij Terra. Warnsveld. 1998. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ronald E. Waterman. 144 PP with colour photos by Martin Kers. Hard cover, dj. Dutch text. Fine (as new condition). 29.5 x 25.2. 9062558305
Water System in the Netherlands: Rivers, Lakes, canals... , Water level controls ... Ports: pages 118 to 127.
71551 KIRK, Allan A. ANCHOR SHIPS AND ANCHOR MEN - The History of The Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company Ltd.
$60.00 AUD
A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1967. 1st Ed. 186 PP plus 16 pages with 56 b/w photos of ships & personnel. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a small closed tear and is in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy of a scarce title. 22.1 x 14.7.
New Zealand's oldest shipping company which commenced business in the 1860's.
65794 KIRWAN, L. P. THE WHITE ROAD - A Survey of Polar Exploration
$20.00 AUD
Hollis & Carter. London. 1958. 1st Ed. X, 374 PP with 4 maps, plus 1 large folded map "The North-West Passage" and 12 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Fp: Scott's hut at Cape Evans. FEP: Map of the North Polar Regions. REP: Map of the South Polar Regions. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. 2 newspaper clippings "The Times" (16th December 1959 & 16th June 1960) loosely inserted. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 22 x 14.2.
70221 KLINK, Amyr BETWEEN TWO POLES
$25.00 AUD
Bloomsbury. London. 1995. 1st UK edition of the 1992 Brazil original "Paratti: Entre Dois Polos". XII, 203, (9 blank) PP with 2 pages of plans, plus 28 pages with 2 b/w and 39 colour photos. FEP: Paratii's Journey and map of the Pebble route. REP: 2 maps, Southern Ice, and 2 maps, Northern Ice. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 15.5. 0747519722
Voyage of the yacht "Paratii", around the Atlantic Ocean, with a stay of over a year on the Antarctic peninsula. From Paratii (between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo), Brazil to the Antarctic Peninsula, Capetown, the Faeroes, the Spitzberg, Iceland, and back.
76068 KLOPMAN, Jonathan K. MOSQUITO BOATS: Design and development of the PTs (in WoodenBoat Magazine No. 129)
$10.00 AUD
WoodenBoat Publications. Brooklin, Maine. 1996. No. 129, March / April 1996. 160 PP. Contains article pages 37 to 43 with 1 colour illustration (advertisement for Elco Pt BoatCo.) and b/w illustrations (1 insigna for PT Ron (squadron) 29, 1 body plan, 6 sketch plans of 3 types, 4 profiles of PT boats and 8 photos). Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 27.6 x 21.7.
Patrol / Torpedo boats of WWII.
75613 KNOPWOOD, Robert KNOPWOOD'S HOBART TOWN DIARY: 15 February 1804 - 28 February 1805
$40.00 AUD
Banks Society / Colony Press. Melbourne. 2007. 1st edition with an introduction by John Currey. 91, (1) PP, plus 6 b/w plates. Fp: Death mask of Robert Knopwood. Half title page with signature of Robert Knopwood. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. Scarce. 21 x 15. 0949586226
75614 KNOPWOOD, Robert KNOPWOOD'S PORT PHILLIP DIARY: 9 October 1803 - 31 January 1804
$50.00 AUD
Banks Society / Colony Press. Melbourne. 2004. Revised edition of the 2002 original with introduction and endmatter by John Currey. 48, (2) PP, plus 7 b/w plates. Fp: Death mask of Robert Knopwood. Half title page with signature of Robert Knopwood. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. Scarce. 21 x 15. 0949586129
32714 KNOX-JOHNSTON, Robin YACHTING - The History of a Passion
$20.00 AUD
Hearst Marine Books. New York. 1990. 1st US Ed. 168 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title spread: The Solent. FEP: Chart of entrance of Thames River. REP: Chart of Isle of Wight. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 24.8. 0688099912
From its beginnings in the sheltered waters of the Netherlands in the 1600's, to the open sea races, across the oceans of the world.
71436 KOHLER, Peter C. SEA SAFARI, British India S.N.Co. African Ships & Services
$20.00 AUD
P.M. Heaton Publishing. Gwent, U.K. 1995. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 1 map, & 102 b/w illustrations. Fp: R.M.S Kenyain, Kilindini harbour, Mombasa. FEP: BI postcard depicting Matiana and Dwarka in the Old Harbour, Mombasa. REP: Uganda sailing from Durban. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.6 x 15.2. 1872006051
History of the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., and her services to East and South African ports.
76043 KRIEGER, Michael J. TRAMP, Sagas of High Adventure in the Vanishing World of the Old Tramp Freighters
$30.00 AUD
Chronicle Books. San Francisco. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Peter Stanford, President, National Maritime Historical Society. 142 PP with b/w & col. illustrations (plans, photos by Judy Howard). Fp: Plans of a cargo freighter. Hard cover, dj. Back cover with a bump at top corner. Small tear repaired at lower part of front endpaper. Dust jacket with repaired tears, and a rubbed patch at top of front cover and now in a protective sleeve. Otherwise contents are fine and overall a very good copy. Oblong: 26 x 31.2. 0877013438
Around 20 of these freighters. Copra ships of the South Seas, among sampans in Chinese waters, ... Lady Jillian, carrying cattle to Tasmania.
74431 LANDSTRÖM, Björn THE SHIP - A Survey of the History of the Ship from the Primitive Raft to the Nuclear-Powered Submarine with Reconstructions in Words and Pictures
$50.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. London. 1961. 1st UK edition, translated from the Swedish original by Michael Phillips. Introduction by R. C. Anderson. 309, (11 sources & index) PP with 807 b/w and colour illustrations by author. Fp: Man of War under sail. Title page: Conning tower of a nuclear submarine. Decorated cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with repaired tear and in a protective sleeve. Bookplate of previkous owner on inside front cover. A very good clean copy. 27.5 x 21.5.
History of the ship, a journey of 6,000 years on all the waters of the world.
67615 LARSEN, Paul & COUTTS, Russell AMERICA'S CUP 2000, including the Louis Vuitton Cup
$15.00 AUD
Hodder Moa Beckett. Auckland. 1999. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w & colour illustrations, and colour photos (most by by Daniel Forster). Eps. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket a little faded, o/wise near fine. 31.3 x 24.6. 1869587170
44877 LEATHER, John THE BIG CLASS RACING YACHTS
$30.00 AUD
Stanford Maritime. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 191 PP with b/w illustrations (18 drawings & plans, and 125 photos). Fp: Astra leading Candida at Harwich regatta in 1934. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with light wear, otherwise fine. 25.4 x 19.5. 0540074179
34121 LENTON, H. T. BRITISH SUBMARINES
$25.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1972. 1st Ed., in the "Navies of the Second World War" series. 160 PP with tables, 5 plans and 65 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.5. 035603612X
76088 LENTON, H. T. BRITISH FLEET & ESCORT DESTROYERS 1
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1970. 1st Ed., in the "Navies of the Second World War" series. 136 PP with tables, some 20 sketch-plans and 76 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.5. 0356029506
59737 LEWIS, Tom BY DERWENT DIVIDED - The story of the Lake Illawarra, the Tasman Bridge and the 1975 Disaster
$35.00 AUD
Tall Stories. Darwin. 2006. 2nd edition of the 1999 original. (2), 70 PP with 2 maps, 3 cartoons and 61 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.2 x 21.6. 0957735111
21965 LIND, Lew SEA JARGON, A Dictionary of the Unwritten Language of the Sea
$20.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illust. in text. Fp: Figurehead of steam yacht Consuelo at Sydney. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.6 x 14.1. 0949924229
The language of the sea in its glory, vulgarity and humour.
36521 LLOYD, Harvey, LEWIS, Tom et al. VOYAGES - The Romance of Cruising
$15.00 AUD
Dorling Kindersley / Tehabi Books. London. 1999. 1st UK edition with a foreword by John Maxtone-Graham. 284 PP with maps and colour illust. (photos, posters...). Title spread: The Windtar cruises off St. Kitts on the way to Nevis. Eps: World map. Hard cover, title in blind on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. Large format: 31.5 x 26.3. 9780751308075
The world's 100 most exciting ports of call, selected by the world's leading travel writers.
42969 LOCK, A. C. C. RANDOM JOURNEY (Around the World)
$15.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1959. 1st Ed. 256 PP, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: A girl like Marana. Cloth cover, gilt title on a soiled spine. Faint foxing, o/wise very good. 21.8 x 14.2.
Voyage from Australia to England in late 1957, on board the liner "Southern Cross" of Shaw Savill (shipboard life, Tahiti, Panama...). His return to the battlefields of Pozières, Villers Bretonneux, Paschendale ..., where he had been fighting at the end of the Great War. Return trip by way of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan...
22844 LOCKWOOD, Douglas THE FRONT DOOR: Darwin 1869-1969
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1968. 1st Ed. (14), 288 PP, plus 20 pages with 42 bw illust. FEP: Plan of Goyder's original Darwin layout. REP: Plan of modern Darwin (1968). Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Ageing of front endpaper, signature previous owner on title page, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
20345 LOCKWOOD, Rupert HUMOUR IS THEIR WEAPON, Laugh with the Australian Wharfies
$15.00 AUD
Ellsyd Press. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. Foreword by Peter Morris. 96 PP with 22 bw photos and 28 comic strips by Mark Knight. Pictorial card covers. Front cover with small scratches. Very good. 20.9 x 13.5. 0949290068
The witticisms, anecdotes and nicknames from the waterfront, part of the Australian folk humour.
14325 LONEY, Jack WRECKS AT HELL'S GATES
$20.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1980. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 1 map & 12 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 20.5 x 13.8. 0909191212
Macquarie Harbour on the West coast of Tasmania.
21384 LONEY, Jack SEA ADVENTURES AND WRECKS ON THE N.S.W. SOUTH COAST
$15.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Geelong. c.1980. 3rd edition. 80 PP, plus 24 pages with 1 map & 44 b/w illust. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 20.4 x 14. 0909244081
Ruins of Bittangabee Bay - Ben Boyd and Twofold Bay - mutiny on the whaling ship Junior in 1857... shipwrecks.
41459 LONEY, Jack TALL SHIPS AND SAILORMEN - A Concise Survey of Victoria's Early Maritime History
$10.00 AUD
Marine History Publication. Geelong. c. 1980. 3rd Ed. 60 PP, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers a little foxed. Wreck of a windjammer on covers. Inscription on inside front cover, o/wise very good. 27.5 x 21.4. 0909244022
58095 LONEY, Jack AUSTRALIAN SEA MYSTERIES
$20.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1984. 1st edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No. 141). 112 PP with 11 maps, plus 28 pages with 33 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author. Near fine. 21.5 x 17.8. 090919128X
The Queenscliff treasure, wild white women, the Waratah,...
46323 LONG, Dwight SAILING ALL SEAS IN THE IDLE HOUR
$40.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1950. 1st edition. No. 11 in the Mariners Library series, of the 1938 original. Preface by Alan Villiers. 320 PP with 1 map on double page and 2 plans, plus 11 b/w plates. Hard cover, top edge tinted, dj (price clipped). Illustrated dust jacket "On the quayside at Ismailia". Signature of previous owner at top of FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 19 x 12.5.
On board the Idle Hour, from Seattle to London after crossing the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
75973 LUBBOCK, Basil THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS - VOLUMES I & II
$100.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1948 & 1949. Reprint of the 1927 & 1929 original. Vol. I: XIV, (2), 518 PP, plus 74 pages with 126 b/w illustrations & 17 pages with plans (12 of them folded). Fp: Quathlamba. Vol. II: XV, 448 PP, plus 100 pages with 174 b/w illustrations and 17 plans (16 of them folded). Fp: Hougomont. Eps: Chart of the world. Blue cloth covers with light shelf wear, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Front cover of Volume I with light bump, otherwise a fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 24.5 x 18.5.
The life, the personnel, the epic of the Horn, the clippers of the 70's, the medium clippers of the 80's and various trades with small fry.
42851 LUCAS, Alan CRUISING THE CORAL COAST
$10.00 AUD
Horwitz. Sydney. 1980. 4th edition revised and updated with larger scale maps. 380 PP with charts, plans and b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket sunned and chipped at head and foot. Very good. 24.8 x 16.2. 0725507896
Ports and harbours on the Queensland Coast from Southport to Torres Strait.
75265 LUCAS, Jeremy WHALE
$10.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 1981 1st Ed. 172 PP. EPS: Map of the British Isles and Map of the journey of a sperm whale between northern Greenland and West Africa. Hard covers, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x14.5. 022401921X
18420 LUCIE-SMITH, Edward OUTCASTS OF THE SEA - Pirates and Piracy
$10.00 AUD
Paddington Press. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w illustrations. eps: Map of the Pirate Round. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 26 x18.5. 0448226170
Survey of piracy, from the marauding exploits of ancient Greeks in the Mediterranean to the yacht-jacking of the 1970's.
14565 MABER, John M. NORTH STAR TO SOUTHERN CROSS
$15.00 AUD
T. Stephenson & Sons. Prescot. 1967. 1st Ed. XV, 335 PP with 5 line drawings by author, plus 48 pages with 96 b/w photos. Fp: Mariposa, built 1953. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 24.2 x 16.2.
The story of the Australasian seaways where, since the 1850's, sixty shipping lines established routes between Europe, Australasia and North America.
45727 MacGREGOR, David R. THE TEA CLIPPERS - Their History and Development 1833-1875
$40.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1988. Reprint. 256 PP with b/w illust. (plans, photos..) throughout. Fp: "Titania" in dry dock for repairs. Hard cover, dj. Small dedicatory note at top of FFEP, otherwise a fine copy. 28.6 x 22.4. 0851772560
Ships of the tea trade. Early China ships and American vessels employed in this trade.
75788 MACGREGOR, David R. SQUARE RIGGED SAILING SHIPS
$25.00 AUD
Argus Books. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w photos, plans & prints. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on free front endpaper and half-title page, o/wise near fine. 22.8 x 17.7. 0852425163
Pictorial explanation of the different types of square riggers, their development, their history and trades.
16785 MACINTYRE, Captain Donald FIGHTING SHIPS AND SEAMEN
$15.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22 x 15.5.
Accounts of decisive actions at sea: battles of Jutland, Narvick and Leyte. The role of Q ships, convoys to Malta and Russia...
20394 MACPHERSON, A.G.H. (editor) THE MACPHERSON COLLECTION, The Sea Story of the English-Speaking Race
$15.00 AUD
Gallery, Cavendish Square. London. 1927. 1st Ed. (4), 52 PP with 2 tail pieces, 4 colour and 8 b/w plates. Vignette on title page and on back cover. Soft covers chipped around edges and a little foxed, illustration on back cover (The Portuguese Ship St. Paul, wrecked off Sumatra, 1561). Very good. 24.5 x 18.5.
An impression on the Macpherson collection: Discovery, naval actions, portraits... Whaling, Atlases.
75951 MAIDEN, Peter THE SHIPWRECK OF THE NEW GUINEA GOLD EXPLORERS - The Wreck of the Brig Maria off Hinchinbrook Island in 1872
$20.00 AUD
Central Queensland University Press. Rockhampton, Qld. 2000. 1st Ed. 173, (3) PP with 3 maps, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Neat stamp of the "Centre for Public Security Research" on title page, top outside edge and inside back cover, otherwise near fine. 24.5 x 17.7. 9781875998852
Brig wrecked on 26th February 1872, with 75 souls on board, on a passage from Sydney to New Guinea.
66784 MARINE UNDERWRITERS' AND SALVAGE ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA LTD THE REGISTER OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING - 1908-1909, Including Shipping Registered at Fiji and New Guinea
$250.00 AUD
Compiled and issued by The Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria Ltd. Melbourne. 1908. 1st Ed. 203 PP. Pages 1 to 10 printed recto/verso, P.11 to 186 recto only with a thumb index. Appendix from P.187-203 printed recto/verso. Original green cloth cover, front cover with gilt device and title in blind. Covers worn around edges, spine with tears at head and foot. Stamp of Marine Board of Queensland on 3 first leaves. Paper ageing with a few old stains, not affecting any text. A very good copy of a scarce item. Oblong: 18.4 x 26.
"From Returns furnished by the Customs Authorities in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea".
22670 MARKS, Richard Lee THREE MEN OF THE BEAGLE
$10.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1991. 1st Ed. XII, 256, (2) PP with 32 bw illust. Title page: vignette with Beagle. Eps: Maps of South America. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, blind stamp of Beagle on front cover, dj (price-clipped). Remainder mark on lower outside edge, o/wise near fine. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24.2 x 15.2. 0394588185
Darwin, Captain FitzRoy and Jemmy Button, the Indian from Tierra del Fuego who was taken to England by FitzRoy.
17574 MARSDEN, Peter THE WRECK OF THE AMSTERDAM
$10.00 AUD
Stein & Day. New York. 1975. 1st US Ed. (4), 290 PP with 41 figures, plus 24 pages with 52 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (chipped & rubbed). Small white-out patch at top of FFEP, light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise very good. 24 x 15.5. 0812817605
The ill-fated voyage of the Amsterdam, wrecked near Hastings on the 23 January, 1749.
48382 MARSHALL, Michael W. OCEAN TRADERS, From the Portuguese discoveries to the present day
$25.00 AUD
New York. 1990. Facts on File. 1st US edition. 192 PP with 7 maps, and 137 bw illust. (plans, photos, paintings, engravings...). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Remainder mark on bottom outside edge, o/wise fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0816024200
The ships (caravel, carrack, galleon), building, crewing, navigating. Europeans in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Rise and fall of the sailing trader. Compound engine and containership.
51898 MARTIN, B. J. (editor) BUILT BENEATH THE BRIDGE: The History of the Shipbuilding Endeavours of Evans Deakin 1940 to 1976
$75.00 AUD
The Queensland Women's Historical Association Inc. Brisbane. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by M. Spinaze. IX, 48 PP with 3 b/w photos, plus 38 pages with 1 facsimile of document, 6 plans (2 of them folded) and 2 folded lists of vessels built by EDCO, and 83 photos (photocopy quality). Pictorial soft cover, cloth spine. Front cover rubbed and lightly soiled, otherwise near fine. Scarce. 29.7 x 21. 0959027157
Shipyard on the Brisbane River.
69531 MARTIN, Stephen THE WHALES' JOURNEY
$25.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. XII, 251 PP with 2 maps and 13 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 2 b/w photos and 10 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 1865082325
A year in the life of a humpback whale and a century in the history of whaling. Whaling at Bay of Islands and Tory Channel, New Zealand. Whaling at Twofold Bay, in West Australia, Moreton Bay (Tangalooma), Norfolk Island...
75082 MASON, Charles (Editor) THE BEST OF SAIL TRIM
$15.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1989. 1st paperback edition of the 1975 original. (8), 280 PP with 248 figures (drawings, graphs, sketches and b/w photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Name of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise near fine. 23.4 x 15.3. 0229118437
An anthology of 54 important analytical pieces by experts on the art and theory of sail handling, from the pages of Sail Magazine.
15915 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John CROSSING AND CRUISING: from the Golden Era of Ocean Liners to the Luxury Cruise Ships of Today
$35.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1992. 1st Ed. XV, (3), 314 PP with 100 b/w photos in text. Eps: Grand Salon. Hard cover, gilt title on a cloth spine, dj. The cruise-ship chart (in colour) is on the inside of the folded dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges, otherwise a fine copy. 24 x 16. 9780684191546
76300 MAY, Commander W. E. THE BOATS OF MEN OF WAR - Maritime Monographs and Reports no.15
$20.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum. London. 1974. 35 PP, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 29.8 x 20.8. 09501764
Study on subsidiary vessels employed by warships of all types from the earliest days to the beginning of the 20th century.
75123 McAULEY, R., NEWBOUND, D. & ASHWORTH, R. FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SHARKS AND SHARK-LIKE RAYS
$10.00 AUD
Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia. Perth. 2002. 1st Ed. VIII, 25 PP (waterproof paper) with 35 b/w sketches with details of sharks, and 33 location sketch maps with colour. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 1877098035
63213 McCRORIE, Ian HEBRIDEAN AND CLYDE FERRIES of Caledonian MacBrayne
$10.00 AUD
Caledonian MacBrayne. Gourock, Scotland. 1985. 1st Ed. 32 PP with fleet list, 1 map and 31 b/w photos. Inside covers: 4 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise fine. 21 x 15.
37721 McKAY, Richard C. SOME FAMOUS SAILING SHIPS AND THEIR BUILDER, DONALD McKAY
$120.00 AUD
G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 1928. 1st Ed. XXVIII, 396 PP with 25 b/w illust., plus 10 plates in colour with tissue guard, and 51 pages with 42 b/w plates and 11 plans models, maps, facsimile letters and telegrams... Fp (in colour): "Sovereign of the Seas". Eps: 4 of the packet ships and 4 of the California Clippers. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Signature and date at top of inside front cover. Near stamp of the "Shiplovers Society of Victoria" on front endpaper and title page. Bookplate of previous owner tipped in on verso of front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper. A near fine copy. 24.2 x 16.5.
A study of the American Sailing Packet and Clipper eras, with biographical sketches of America's foremost designer and master builder of ships, and a comprehensive history of his many famous ships.
76297 McKELLAR, N. L. FROM DERBY ROUND TO BURKETOWN - The A.U.S.N. Story
$20.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1977. 1st Ed. X, 682 PP with 76 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of the first Earl of Inchcape. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few rubs or nicks and is in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 070221244X
The story of the Australasian United Steam Navigation Co., closely interwoven with the history of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
75663 McLENNAN, Gerard LIFE IN A BLUE SUIT: A Saga of a Sailor Returning Home from the Sea
$20.00 AUD
Gerard McLennan. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. (6), 169 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (diagram, plan & photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 25.5 x 17.7. 9780646515816
Royal Australian Navy College, Jervis Bay, in 1963 ...
75284 McMULLEN, R. T. DOWN CHANNEL
$10.00 AUD
Grafton Books / Collins Publishing. London. 1986. Paperback reprint of the 1869 original. Introduction of the 1893 edition, by Dixon Kemp. Biographical foreword by Arthur Ransome. 328, PP with 1 map, 2 charts and 9 plans. Pictorial stiff covers. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 9780246130402
75945 MEARNS, David L. THE SEARCH FOR THE SYDNEY
$20.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. Prologue by Lieutenant John Perryman. (8), 264 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus double folded plate with art works in colour . Hard cover, device and position of wreck in latitude and longitude on front cover, dj (verso: profile and plans on H.M.A.S. Sydney). Neat stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. 30.2 x 23.5. 9780732288891
38139 MELVILLE, Herman MOBY DICK - THE CONFIDENCE-MAN - THE PIAZZA TALES - BILLY BUDD
$25.00 AUD
Exeter Books. New York. 1986. Complete and unabridged reprints of the 1851, 1857, 1856 and 1924 originals. 767 PP with 4 b/w illustrations on respective title pages. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 15.8. 671086235
Moby Dick: Whaling. Confidence-man: life on a steamer on the Mississippi.
17965 MERRY, Ian D. THE WESTCOTTS AND THEIR TIMES - Maritime Monographs and Reports No.25
$25.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum. London. 1977. (2), (X), 148 PP with 69 plates (b/w photos and facsimile of documents), plus 2 pages with Index of ships (loosely inserted). Title page: Albert Westcott as a young man. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and faint foxing of paper. Near fine. 29.3 x 20.4. 0905555023
History of the fleet of schooners, tugs, barges & smacks of the Westcott family between the 1870's and the Great Depression of 1930.
70449 MILIUS, Pierre Bernard MILIUS, Last Commander of the Baudin Expedition, The Journal 1800-1804 / MILIUS, Le Dernier Commandant de l'Expédition Baudin, Le Journal 1800-1804 (in two volumes)
$125.00 AUD
Australian Capital Equity (Kerry Stokes Collection) & National Library of Australia. Perth & Canberra. 2013. 1st bilingual edition, edited by Peter Hamly. Forewords by Kerry Stokes and Michel Rocard. Prefaces by Rear-Admiral François Bellec and Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. Introduction by Anthony J. Brown. English volume: XX, 380 PP. French Volume: XX, 348 PP. Each volume with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a folded map in rear pocket. Eps: 1808 Map of New Holland, by M.L. Freycinet. English volume with: List of Illustrations and Index. Hard covers, illustrated front and back, cloth spine. Set of 2 volumes contained in an illustrated box. Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Volumes: 24.6 x 19.5. & illustrated box: 25 x 20. 9780642277930
37611 MILLER, Russell & TIME-LIFE THE EAST INDIAMEN (The Seafarers)
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1982. 2nd European English language printing of the 1980 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title page: The Dutch Indiaman "Vryburg", on a plate of 1756. Eps: Map of the world plyed by the East Indiamen. Simile leather covers, colour vignette on front cover. Fine. 28.7 x 24. 0705406350
22225 MILLER, William H. TRANSATLANTIC LINERS 1945-1980
$25.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1981. 1st Ed. 222 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is price-clipped with a few small chips and sunned spine. A few small spots on endpapers, o/wise a near fine copy. 25.5 x 17.5. 0715380206
Information and technical details on every liner classed by shipping line. From the America Banner Lines and their "Atlantic" and "La Guardia", to the Zim Lines and their "Israel", "Jerusalem", "Shalom" & "Zion".
75954 MILLS, Derek THE FISHING HERE IS GREAT!
$20.00 AUD
Willow Books. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 153, (7 bibliography / index) PP with 178 postcards (83 in colour and 95 in b/w). Hard covers, dj. Fine. 22.7 x 21.5. 0002181770
A light-hearted discourse on the social history of angling as depicted on old postcards.
50792 MITCHELL, Andrew W. OPERATION DRAKE, Voyage of Discovery
$15.00 AUD
Severn House. London. 1981. 1st Ed. Introduction by John Blashford-Snell. 224 PP with 102 b/w & 40 col. illust. (photos, maps, draw.). Title spread: in the Jungle. Eps: Eye of the Wind at anchor. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.5 x 20. 0727820079
A two year (1978-1980) voyage to commemorate Sir Francis Drake's epic circumnavigation of 1577-1580, on board the Eye of the Wind.
43179 MITCHELL, Barry NORTH SEA FERRIES - Across Three Decades / Gedurende Drie Decennia
$15.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 2 maps, 3 cutaways, 68 b/w and 31 colour photos. Inside front cover: Norland with Royal Yacht Britannia, at Hull. Inside back cover: Norsea arriving at Hull. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Dutch and English text. Oblong: 19.6 x 21. 1871947243
69725 MITCHELL, W. H. & SAWYER, L. A. THE CAPE RUN - The Story of the Union-Castle Service to South Africa and of the Ships Employed
$30.00 AUD
Terence Dalton. Lavenham, UK. 1984. 1st Ed. X, 214 PP with b/w illust. (line drawings by Nigel V. Robinson, house-flags, photos, posters ...). Eps: Map of the continent of Africa. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.8 x 18.5. 0861380304
Amalgamation of the Union Line & Castle Line in 1900, to the last sailing of the mail service in 1977.
Ian Allan. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 64 PP with tables, and 58 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (P & O Liner Canberra). Stamp of previous owner on title page. Very good. Small format:15.3 x 10.
21211 MOODY, Bert OCEAN SHIPS - 1978
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1978. 6th edition of the 1964 original. 349 PP with tables, and 237 bw photos. Title spread: Monarch Sun of Holland America Line. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Fine. 19 x 12.8. 0711008655
Part One: Passenger Liners and Cargo Ships. Part Two: Cruise Ships. Part Three: Tankers.
73466 MOORE, Peter ENDEAVOUR - The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
$20.00 AUD
Vintage Books / Penguin Random House. Sydney. 2018. 1st paperback edition. XII, 420 PP with 2 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 7 b/w and 25 colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780143780267
76085 MORAN, Douglas (Doug) John PORTRAITS OF AUSTRALIA: The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Collection
$100.00 AUD
Tweed Shire Council. Murwillumbah, NSW. 1988. Deluxe edition, published to celebrate the Bicentenial of Australia. Forewords by Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor General / R.J.L. Hawke, Prime Minister / Douglas John Moran, Chairman of Moran Operations / Councillor Max R. Boyd, Chairman of Tweed Shire Council. Introduction by Josie Flett. 72 PP with 31 b/w illustrations (1 sketch of the Tweed River Gallery and 30 photos of the artists) and colour illustrations (11 portraits and 31 paintings (30 on full page). Title page (in colour): Portrait of Mrs Macnaughton, by Tom Roberts. Leather binding with gilt corner protection, gilt title on front cover and spine. Verso of front endpaper with c. 10, signed best wishes notes. Fine copy. Scarce. 28 x 24.5. 0959658963
31803 MUNRO, Colin SAILING SHIPS
$20.00 AUD
Pelham. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w illust. by author in text. Fp: Three-masted barque of 1870. FEP: Rigging & other details of a barque about 1760. REP: Some fishing boats & small cargo boats from the coast of Europe. Gilt-decorated hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edges and endpapers. Very good. Oblong: 19 x 25. 0720707188
Silhouettes of period sailing ships from the cog of Middle-Ages to the clippers. Ships from Europe, the near & far East.
L'Illustration. Paris. 1940. Issue No. 5060, 2 March 1940. VI (adverts.), 201-226 PP with 7 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (10 maps, 1 cartoon, 3 facsimiles of documents, 7 drawings, and 34 photos). Pictorial soft cover (Altmark trapped in Jösingsfjord). French text. Near fine copy. 38 x 28.5.
HMS Cossack and the Altmark in Joesing Fjord, Norway. War in Finland. French army on the move, by Paul-Emile Cadilhac. Ships in uniforms / Camouflage. New recruits for the French Foreign Legion.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1994 / 1995. Volume 16, No.1 (July/August) 1994 to No. 6 (May/June) 1995. 6 issues for a total of 464 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5
Volume 16. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Juneau. - Ship: "Zenith". - Cruise: Happy New Year. No. 2 - Port: Buenos Aires. - Ship: "Fantome". - Cruise: New Zealand Splendors. No. 3 - Port: Key West. - Ship: "Royal Princess". - Cruise: Jet Set Med. No. 4 - 1995, 7th Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Barbados. - Ship: "Delta Queen". - Cruise: Glorious Glaciers. No. 6 - Port: Amsterdam. - Ship: "Majesty of the Seas". - Cruise: Rail and Sail.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1997 / 1998. Volume 19, No.1 (July/August) 1997 to No. 5 (March/April) 1998. 5 issues for a total of 364 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5.
Volume 19. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Kauai, Hawaii. - Ship: "Wind Spirit". - Cruise: South America. No. 2 - Port: New York. - Ship: "Splendour of the Seas". - Cruise: Passage to India. No. 3 - Port: St. Lucia. - Ship: "Century". - Cruise: Vietnam. No. 4 - 1998, 10th Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Dubrovnik. - Ship: "Carnival Destiny". - Cruise: Alaska / Yukon.
63777 N/A WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD - A Pictorial Presentation
$10.00 AUD
Australian Warship / Topmill Pty Ltd. Sydney. c. 2012. 1st Ed. no pagination, 32 PP with over 30 full size, full colour images. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 33 x 22.5. 9781921327544
75826 N/A ARMADA NACIONAL, A TRAVES DEL TIEMPO
$45.00 AUD
Imprsora Lagomarsino. Montevideo, Uruguay. 1999. 1st Ed., November 1999. Foreword by Julio Maria San,Guinetti, President of the Republica Orientazl del Uruguay. (5), 155 PP with 85 b/w illustrations (1 chart, 1 page with newspaper clippings, 2 plans & 80 photos), and colour illustrations (1 sketch map of Uruguay; 20 paintings and 130 photos). Hard covers, dj. Spanish text. Fine. Oblong. 25 x 33.
Navy of Uruguay. WWII: with call of German Cruiser "Admiral Graf Spee" and the Battle of Rio de la Plata against the Royal Navy cruisers "Ajax", "Achilles" & "Exeter", on 17th December 1939.
76039 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Volume 6, Nos. 3 to 12 and Volume 7, Nos. 1 to 2, 1940 (January to December 1940)
$120.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1940. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. Monthly edition. Volume 6, No. 3, January 1940 to Volume 7, No. 2, December 1940, with a total of 576 PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers. All volumes have the 8 page pictorial pages in the centre. A near fine complete year of 12 issues. 30 x 24.
Volume 6, No.3: Isles of Eden (the Trobriands) by Basil Hall; When Natives go Fishing by Ewen K. Patterson; Around the Mutton-Bird Islands by Rosaline Redwood; Overlanders by Ernestine Hill. Volume 6, No.4: King of the Coral Cods by Ewen K. Patterson; Across the Empty Kimberleys by H.C. Barclay; Australia Makes Paper by Edward Samuel; Where the Diprotodon Died, by Ian Mudie; When Mars beats the Drums, A New Guinea Episode, by Allan Hood; "Thar" she Blows, Australian Whaling in the Last Century by J.J. Stewart. Volume 6, No.5: The Australian Stockwhip by Ian Westbrook; A New Guinea Mission by S. Alston Pearl; Yacca Gum, A Kangaroo Island Industry, by W.J. Tohl; Australia's Unknkown Islands by Charles Barrett; Huon Pine by M.S.R.Sharland; A Fijian's Day by D. Boyd; Where the Ibis Nests by A.S. Le Souet. Volume 6, No.6: Yampi Sound and its Iron by John K. Ewers; Australian Petrol by Edward Samuel; By Caravan to "The Centre" by Capt. C.A.S. Mansbridge; Native Life in Tahiti by W.G. Burchett. Volume 6, No.7: The Desolation that is Lake Eyre by C.T. Madigan; Lightning Ridge by Frank Hurley; Isles of the Coral Seas by Capt. C.A.S. Mansbridge; The Road to Milford Sound by Violet A. Roche; When Natives go Hunting by Ewen K. Patterson; Strzelecki by Olive Havard; New Norcia Mission by James Pollard. Volume 6, No.8: Tahitian Wedding by W.G. Burchett; Whale Hunting with bomb and wireless by Frank Hurley; Canoe Holiday, Down the Murray from Khancoban to Howlong by James Valentine; "Big Tom "- the Cassowary by Ewen K. Patterson. Volume 6, No.9: Native Labour by S. Alston Pearl; Masters of Camouflage, Birds that make themselves appear a part of their surroundings by Ronald K. Monro; Glacier Land, In New Zealand's Southern Alps by Violet A. Roche; "Creating" Crocodiles, Strange ceremony of North Queensland natives by Ewen K. Patterson. Volume 6, No.10: Through Central Australia by Bertha G. Strehlow; Fiji Gold by F.I. Ryan; Black Man's Day by Ernestine Hill; Artist's Walkabout by R. Emerson Curtis with 2 of his sketches; Flying the Tasman by Violet A. Roche. Volume 6, No. 11: Climbing in New Zealand Forests by "Cusec"; Ruins in the Far North, Port Essington To-day by Charles Barrett; The Combs of Koo-chee, The Stingless Bees of Queensland by Tarlton Rayment; Rivers of Van Diemen Gulf by John R. Finlayson; Rottnest Island by Anthony Culpeffer. Volume 6, No.12: The Red Centre, Sidelights on a motor tour from Adelaide to Alice Springs by Frank Hurley; The Huntress, An Australian Wasp that has learnt to use a tool by Tarlton Rayment; Gift of the Gods (Napier Earthquake of 1931) by V. May Cottrell; Australia's Fishing Industry by Harold Thompson; The Digger's Hat by Pat O'Neill, The Dingo Trapper by S.A. Marden. Volume 7, No.1: The Virgins of Halictus (sandbees) by Tarleton Rayment; Fishing for Trout (in the South Esk, Tasmania) by Eugene Cooper; The Night is his playtime, a Nocturnal Study of Koala at Home by Ronald K. Monro; Mighty Nullabor Buttresses by the Rev. Geo. C. Woolf; Forgotten Paradise, the Carnarvon Ranges of Queensland by C.C.D. Brammall; Ocean Toilers by Rosaline Redwood; Power from Water, Impressions of Tasmania's Hydro-electric power developments by R. Emerson Curtis with 2 sketches; The Sea-Tiger by Ewen K. Patterson. Volume 7, No.2: Branding Muster by James F. Hobden; The Fahnestock Expedition to the South Seas by H.E.L. Priday; "Philosopher Smith", Discovered Mount Bischoff (Tasmania) by A. Geoffrey Horner; Australia's Bay of Islands, Moreton Bay, Queensland by C.C.D. Brammall; Aborigines of the Great Western Desert by R.M. Berndt.
76082 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia's Geographic Magazine - Volume 11, Nos. 3 to 12 and Volume 12, Nos. 1 to 2, 1945 (January to December 1945)
$120.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1945. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. Monthly edition. Volume 11, No. 3, January 1945 to Volume 12, No. 2, December 1945, with a total of 488 PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers. All volumes have the pictorial pages in the centre. A near fine complete year of 12 issues. 30 x 24.
Volume 11, No.3: Through the Aime Pigmy Country, The Story of a Forced March through a Section of New Guinea by Three Australian Soldiers by Alan Hughes; Around Darwin Harbour by A.L. Lauder; Papuan Profiles, Inside a Prison Yard by R. Emerson Curtis with 2 sketches; South-West Coast (Tasmania) by Fred Usher. Volume 11, No.4: North-Westward Ho! and The Duracks by Ernestine Hill; Tripping and Trading on the Sepik River (New Guinea) by G.M. Read; The Baobab Tree by Ernest Philpot; Wolfram by Noel Griffiths; Buru and Copal (the Moluccas). Volume11, No.5: Sky-Lines in the Forest by H. Drake-Brockman; Across the Barkly Tablelands by Haliden Hartt; Oil of Tung by Tarlton Rayment. Volume 11 No.6: Aerial Postman (Southern section of the NT and portion of SA), by Glen Francis; Gold (W.A.) by H. Drake-Brockman; The Tasmanian North-West, Romance of the Arthur River by Bernard Cronin; New Guinea Hair Styles by G.M. Read; Merawke (Dutrch New Guinea) by Owen Campbell Mortimer. Volume 11 No.7: Penguins by L.E. Richdale; Native Walkabout by H.D. Williamson; The Reaches of the Western Sounds by Owen Campbell Mortimer; The "Brighties" (diamonds) of the Western Slopes by Tarlton Rayment; Mt. Bartle Frere, the Highest Point in Queensland by Noel Griffiths. Volume 11, No.8: East of Soerabaja (Tarlton Rayment); Forests of the Territory by James Pollard; Coloured Characters by H. Drake-Brockman; Mareeba by Noel Griffiths; The Journey North, the Overland postal service from Meekatharra to Marble Bar) by Jackson J. Doughty. Volume 11, No.9: The Captain Cook Dock, Sydney by Mary Durack; Flying Visit (Catalina in Arnhem Land) by H.D. Williamson; Fruits of Ceram (Moluccas) by Tarlton Rayment; New Hebrides by Basil Hall; Ballet at Badu by A.E. Church. Volume 11, No.10: With Eagles in the Field by David Fleay; Policing Cape York by Noel Griffiths; Tin by Marion Maude; Birds in the Swamps by C.E. Bryant; Buffalo Country by James Pollard; Tea-Tree Bees of Port Phillip by Tarlton Rayment; The Vanishing Australian by Mary Durack. Volume 11, No. 11: The Hunters by H.D. Williamson; New Old World (Australia's bush animals) by K. Woodburn; Trees that grow shipshape by Noel Griffiths; Bentonite by Robert Archer; Birds of Paradise by A.W. Lauder; The Blue Spec (gold mine) by Jackson J. Doughty; Volume 11, No.12: Wings to Borroloola by Ernestine Hill; Kite Fishing in the Solomons by A.E. Church; Rubber Mills of Papua by Arthur Hausler; Ghost Worlds of the North by James Pollard; Education in Nationhood, amongst the Pacific Peoples by Wallace Deane; The Condamine Bell by Charles Goodliffe. Volume 12, No.1: Frilled Dragon by Norman Laird; Thylungra by Mary Durack; New Britain by H.D. Williamson; Lovely Trefoil Island (N.W. Tasmania) by C. Lott; Dampier's Well by A.E. Church; Charting the Seas by Rowland G. Roberts; Volume 12, No.2: Island of Iron (Cockatoo Island) by H. Drake-Brockman; The Crocodile Hunters by E. Worrel; The Paddle-Wheelers of Echuca by F.L. Boyle; Queer Spears of the North by "Wayfarer"; Stick Insects by Norman Laird; Bringalbert by William Ruth; King Island by M.S.E. Sharland.
44962 NAUTICAL MAGAZINE THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE FOR 1932 - A Technical and Critical Journal for the Officers of the Mercantile Marine - Volume 127
$70.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson / Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Glasgow / London. 1932. 1st Ed. Volume 127 - 1932, January to June. (1), III, 656 PP with few figures and tables. Half bound, gilt title on leather spine. Hinges cracked on 2cms close to head of spine. Slight ageing of paper around the edges, o/wise very good. 22.3 x 14.5
53651 NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW - Volume 24 - 2003
$20.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia Inc. Sydney. 2003. Vol. 24, Nos. 1 (Autumn 2003) to 4 (December 2003). Edited by Bob NICHOLLS. 3 issues with 32 pages and 1 issue with 36 pages. Total of 132 pages with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.
No. 1: Australia's first warship: the torpedo boat Acheron... HMAS Queenborough: Medivac in the Southern Ocean 1966.. No. 2: Cockatoo Island: an historical Account... No. 3: Devotion to duty in Darwin: Laurance Ernest Tozer, RAN... No. 4: HMAS Sydney: an end to the controversy, by Peter Hore and David L. Mearns... The Sovereign's colours in the Royal Australian Navy 1925-2003, by Lcdr Bill Davidson...
56870 NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW - 1984
$10.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1984. Vol. 6, Nos. 1 to 4, New series. Edited by L.J. LIND, L.M. HINCHCLIFFE, ... 4 issues for 1984, March, June, October and December. A total of 124 pages with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Faint foxing, o/wise a fine set. 24 x 18.
Gunboats on the Yangtse, Lessons from the Falkland Islands War, Coastwatcher Heroine of the Pacific War, Turkish Treatment of British Naval Prisoners, ...
54359 NAVAL REVIEW THE NAVAL REVIEW - Volume: LXI - 1973 (in 4 issues)
$40.00 AUD
The Naval Review. London. 1973. Annual edition. Vol. LXI, 4 issues No. 1 (January 1973) to No. 4 (October 1973). (37 advertisements), 376 PP with occasional figures and/or plate. Original soft cover. Covers fragile at spine. A little foxing or soiling. Very good. 24.2 x 16.5.
Vol. 61. No. 1: Naval Operations in the Indo-Pakistan War : 3rd-16th December 1971. The Strategic and Diplomatic options for Australia, by Captain K. W. Bradley. No. 3: British Military Involvement in Ireland, by C. A. Piggot. Naval operations among the Dalmatian Islands, by John Colpoys Chambers. No. 4: Royal Naval College Greenwich - Centenary, by C. M. Dawson
73608 [NAVAL] MEMORIA DAS ARMADAS / (CHUAN TUI PEI WANG LU) / MEMORANDUM OF THE FLEETS
$400.00 AUD
Instituto Cultural de Macau / Museu Maritimo de Macau / Comisão Territorial de Macau para as Comemoraçoes dos Descobrimentos Portugueses. Macau. 1995. 1st tri-lingual edition (Portuguese / Chinese / English) limited to 3500 copies. Introduction by Luis de Albuquerque, October 1979. 154 PP with 79 pages of facsimile of the manuscript and illustrations belonging to the Lisbon Academy of Science. Title page in b/w and 78 illustrated pages in colour of original Fleet List with accounts of the India Fleet in Portuguese. Cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine, contained in an illustrated slipcase. Fine. Scarce. 45.5 x 30.2 9723501724
75322 NEDIC, Brian (editor) MARINE RADIO OPERATORS HANDBOOK
$25.00 AUD
Australian Communications Authority. Melbourne. 2000. Revised edition, April 2000 of the 1998 edition. III, 130 PP with illustrations: diagrams and 11 headpieces (duo tone photos). Stiff covers, spiral bound. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0644294183
75985 NEWALL, Peter UNION-CASTLE LINE. A Fleet History
$50.00 AUD
Carmania Press. London. 1999. 1st Ed. Foreword by Laurence Dunn. 256 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map "Union-Castle routes round Africa" and 342 paintings, prints & photos) and 32 colour photos. Half title page: House-Flag. Fp: Winchester Castle. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Name and address of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Covers with light shelf wear, otherwise contents are fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0953429148
34789 NEWARK, Peter THE CRIMSON BOOK OF PIRATES
$25.00 AUD
Jupiter Books (London), Ltd. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 181 PP with 88 b/w illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Eps: "Bonhomme Richard" and "Serapis". Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges and first and last pages, otherwise near fine. 25.4 x 19. 090404182
Pirates and Privateers, their Haunts and Havens. Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan, François L'Olonois, Jean Laffite... Buxom buccaneers (Anne Bonny, Mary Read).
52495 NEWBY, Eric THE LAST GRAIN RACE
$5.00 AUD
Granada. London. 1983. Reprint of the 1981 paperback edition (original of 1956). 251 PP with 1 map, 1 plan & 1 table (Beaufort scale), plus 16 pages with 23 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 17.8 x 11. 0586051171
Belfast-Port Lincoln, Port Victoria and return to Queenstown in 1938/39 as an apprentice for the last grain race under sail.
56232 NEWS LIMITED THE AUSTRALIAN 40 YEARS (Special 13-Part Anniversary series)
$30.00 AUD
News Limited & Commonwealth Bank. Sydney. 2004. 13 parts. A total of 228 pages with colour illustrations. Each issue with pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 30 x 22.
THE AUSTRALIAN: The First Truly National Newspaper, and its 40th anniversary. Part 1: 40 people of Influence, 40 Big Ideas, 40 Years of Change. Part 2: The Sexual Revolution. Part 3: Knowledge. Part 4: Politics. Part 5: World Events. Part 6: The Culture. Part 7: Cartoons. Part 8: Sport. Part 9: Identity. Part 10: Business. Part 11: The Land. Part A2: Heroes and Villains. Part 13: News in Pictures.
76139 NIMMO, Ben IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE - Coasting in Scandinavia
$15.00 AUD
Flamingo. London. 2003. 1st Flamigo "Original" edition. XXII, 279 PP with 1 map on, double page and 5 detailed maps. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Near fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9780007104758
In the footsteps of Svein Forkbeard, Britain's least-known King of Britain, on board "Peregrino" a motor boat (built in the Netherlands).
50667 NISBET, Anne-Marie FRENCH NAVIGATORS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA / Les Navigateurs Français et la Découverte de l'Australie
$45.00 AUD
School of French / University of New South Wales. Sydney. 1985. 1st bilingual edition. Foreword by Bertrand Calmy. 87 PP with 43 b/w illustrations. Fp: Details of map of Swan River. Soft covers, pictorial front. Neat signature of previous owner on half title page. English & French text. Near fine. 22 x 16.8. 0858234963
From a possible Paulmier de Gonneville in 1504 to Dumont d'Urville in 1840.
75335 NOBLE, Peter & HOGBIN, Ros THE MIND OF THE SAILOR: An Exploration of the Human Stories behind Adventures and Misadventures at Sea
$15.00 AUD
Adlard Coles Nautical. London. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Chay Blyth. XII, 148 PP with b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 22.5 x 15. 0713650257
A woman's place is at the Helm: Clare Francis / Naomi James / Ellen MacArthur. The Bligh Mutinies. ... The last Voyage and Death of Donald Crowhurst ...
65474 NORMAN, J. E. de B. & NORMAN, G. V. A PEARLING MASTER'S JOURNEY: in the wake of the schooner Mist
$80.00 AUD
Mrs. G. V. Norman. Sydney. 2007. 1st Ed. XIV, 338 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps (in colour): charts of NW and NE Australia. Pictorial laminated boards. Occasional foxing. Near fine. Oblong: 24.8 x 25.8. 9780980358100
17267 NORMAN, L. PIONEER SHIPPING OF TASMANIA. Whaling, Sealing, Piracy, Shipwrecks, etc. in Early Tasmania
$60.00 AUD
J. Walch & Sons. Hobart. 1938. 1st Ed. 220 PP, plus 36 pages with 61 b/w illustrations. Fp: Hobart in colourful whaling days. Cloth cover with some wear, colour vignette (All Sails Set) laid down on front cover, gilt title on spine. Signature of previous owner dated 1938 on FFEP. Remnants of old tape marks on endpapers, otherwise contents are near fine. The scarce first edition. 25.5 x 16.
15957 NORTON, Frank AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SHIPS OF TODAY
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1958. 1st Ed. 96 PP with many pen & ink illustrations by the author. Pictorial laminated boards. Spine is rubbed and a littl cracked at top and bottom, o/wise a very good clean copy. Oblong: 19 x 25.
Type of ships found in Australia & New Zealand. Their trade patterns and cargoes.
33879 NOVARESIO, Paolo THE EXPLORERS - From the Ancient World to the Present
$10.00 AUD
Stewart, Tabori & Chang. New York. 1996. 1st Ed. 305, (7 index & bibliography) PP with over 640 illustrations and photographs (400 in full colour). Fp: Print from a 1537 work by geographer Giovanni da Sacrobosco. Eps: Map of terra firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan (New Kingdom of Granada and isthmus of Panama). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 36 x 26. 155670495X
Ancients: Egyptians, Phoenicians... Modern exploration: Oceanography, Space.
38359 NUNN, Harry W. (editor) SELECT DOCUMENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Two volume set]
$30.00 AUD
National Australia Bank Limited. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. Volume 1: XI, 780 PP with 55 b/w illustrations. Volume 2: XI, 764 PP with 55 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 25.5 x 17.6. 090987347X
Volume 1: 1834-1872. Volume 2: 1872-1900. Eyewitness account of Australian history since the establishment of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney in 1834: pioneer outback, bushrangers, Eureka stockade, miners, leading Bankers... Publication covering select Parliamentary Committees, Royal Commissions and the origins of financial and currency legislation we live by today.
48679 O'MAY, Harry (compiler) WRECKS IN TASMANIAN WATERS, 1797-1950
$25.00 AUD
T. J. Hughes, Government Printer Tasmania. Hobart. c. 1970. Reprint. 209, (V Index) PP, plus 26 pages at rear with 45 b/w photos & 1 folded map at back. Fp: Schooner Mariner, 1925. Red cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dust jacket with a few small nicks and in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Comprehensive details of ships wrecked in the treacherous seas around Tasmania.
75943 OLSON, Wesley BITTER VICTORY - The Death of HMAS Sydney
$30.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2000. 1st Ed. X, 431 PP with b/w illustrations (1 diagram, 2 plans, 2 ship's profiles, 7 maps,1 painting, and 27 photos), plus 1 large folded plan. Hard cover, dj. Neat stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. 24.7 x 17.5. 1876268492
19 November 1941.
37910 ORTZEN, Len STORIES OF FAMOUS FIGHTING SHIPS - Volume one: In the Days of Sail
$10.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 160 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0213166704
20365 OSBUN, Albert G. TO CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS - The Diary of Albert G. Osbun 1849-1851
$15.00 AUD
The Huntington Library. San Marino, Ca, USA. 1966. 1st Ed. Edited by John Haskell Kemble. XIII, 233 PP with 2 maps and 3 drawings. Fp: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Osbun. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is a little browned around edges. A near fine copy. 23.6 x 15.8.
Unsuccessful at gold digging in California, he sailed on the brig Rodolph to Samoa, Wallis Island, Tuvalu, and Hawaii, intending to bring back pigs, chickens, yams, etc.. to San Francisco.
Pacific Logistics, S.A. / Seabridge. Hong Kong. c. 1972. 1st Ed. 16 PP with 1 map, 16 crests or funnels and 34 colour photos, plus 7 large folded plates in rear pocket (Area of Operations and Route Map in colour, Plan of a cargo freighter, Plan of a Pacific Logistics tugboat, Deadweight scale for Lusteveco Barges, Deadweight scale for Lusteveco flat barges, Lusteveco Tugboat data, Lusteveco Tanker data). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine condition. Oblong: 21.5 x 27.8.
Sea Transport in South East Asia during the Vietnam Conflict.
69801 PADFIELD, Peter MARITIME DOMINION and the Triumph of the Free World - Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1852-2001
$20.00 AUD
The Overlook Press. New York. 2010. 1st US edition. XIV, 369 PP with 4 maps and 4 battle diagrams, plus 16 pages with 41 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Remainder mark on lower outside edge. Near fine. 23.5 x 16. 9781590203323
39101 PARRY, J. H. THE DISCOVERY OF SOUTH AMERICA
$30.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Australian edition. 320 PP with 4 pages of maps and insets, and 120 b/w illustrations (sketch-maps, charts, engravings, paintings...). Fp: La Virgen del Buen Aire. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 25.5 x 19.5. 0195505735
History of the discovery and penetration of South America by Europeans adventurers. The Huexpected Continent, The Indian Empires, The Empty Spaces...
31144 PARRY, J.H. THE SPANISH SEABORNE EMPIRE
$15.00 AUD
University of California Press. Berkeley. 1990. 1st paperback printing of the 1966 original, in the History / Latin America Studies. 416, (2) PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 20.8 x 14. 0520071409
The Spanish Empire in the Americas. Motives and theories underlaying conquest and conversion. Its control by the Spanish Crown, leading to the slow decline of Spain in Europe.
41214 PARSONS, David (editor) SHIPS 'SEVENTY
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan . London. 1969. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans and 75 b/w photos. Fp: Liquid methane carrier SS Methane Progress. Pictorial laminated boards. Name of previous owner on title page, o/wise near fine. 24.8 x 18.5. 0711001049
An anthology of the shipping scene in 1970. The Ocean Tug - past present and future, by M.J. Gaston. Shipping of the Antipodes, by David Parsons...
30622 PARSONS, Ronald SAIL IN THE SOUTH
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1975. 1st Ed. (6), 209 PP with 214 b/w photos. Title page: vignette of the four-masted ship Lancing. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 22. 0851799604
A selection from the A.D. Edwardes collection of shipping photos in the State Library of South Australia.
71158 PARSONS, Ronald (compiler) SHIPPING LOSSES AND CASUALTIES CONCERNING AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (in 2 volumes)
$70.00 AUD
Author. Goolwa, S.A. 2003. 1st Ed. Volume I: (6), 200 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Volume II, (2), 201- 398 PP. Soft cover, staples, cloth tape on spine. Faint foxing. Near fine. Scarce. 29 x 21. 0909418705
Volume I: from Aagot and Aagtekerke to Juverna and J. W. Alexander. Volume II: from K9 and Kadina to Zvir and Zwarte Zwaan.
44892 PARSONS, Ronald H. (editor) GEELONG CUSTOMS REGISTER OF SHIPS - Vessels registered at the Port of Geelong Victoria before 1900.
$15.00 AUD
Australasian Maritime Historical Society. Murray Bridge, S.A. 2003. New edition of the 1969 original. (2), V, 22 PP. Stapled monograph. Soft cover. Very good. 26 x 21. 0909418691
74152 PAULL, John NOT JUST AN ANAESTHETIST: The Remarkable Life of Dr William Russ Pugh MD.
$70.00 AUD
John Paull. Launceston. 2013. 1st edition. Foreword by Dr. Tom Dunning. XII, 573 PP with b/w illustrations (documents, letters, maps, newspaper clippings, paintings, portraits and photos). Fp: Dr. William Russ Pugh, MD, at his desk. Pictorial stiff covers. Small traces of old damp stains at top edges of last pages, otherwise a fine copy. 28 x 20. 9780987604231
Shipboard diary on the crossing Gravesend to Van Diemen's Land, on the Barque "Derwent": 8th of August to 10th December 1835 ...
14563 PEARS, Chas. YACHTING ON THE SUNSHINE COAST - A Volume of Information compiled, written and illustrated by ...
$15.00 AUD
Southern Railway Co. London. 1932. 1st Ed. (6), 66 PP with 45 colour burgees of Yacht Clubs, plus 16 colour plates by the author on art paper. Cloth cover (lightly soiled and marked), colour illustration pasted down on front board. Foxing spots on outside edges. Name and stamp of previous owners on front endpaper. An otherwise very good copy. 23.7 x 15.
The various yachting centres of Southern England with Yacht Clubs Burgees and exquisite watercolours on art paper.
Thomas Reed Publications. Bradford-on-Avon. 2000. 3rd edition of the 1993 edition. (6), 170 PP with few b/w and numerous colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new). 16 x 10. Pictorial card covers. Small format: 16 x 10. 9780901281920
An aide-mémoire and quick reference guide.
75395 PEEBLES, Dave PACIFIC REGIONAL ORDER
$25.00 AUD
ANU E Press & Asia Pacific Press. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed. XVI, 322 PP with 33 tables and 8 figures. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23 x 15.3. 0731537335
... Regional integration ?? , towards a Pacific regional Community ???
11476 PEIRCE, Henry Augustus BIOGRAPHY
$10.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. 1976. Reprint of 1880 original printing by A.L. Bancroft of San Francisco. Edition limited to 240 numberedd copies (No. 236). 25 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Few stains (coffee ???) on P.11, o/wise very good. 25 x 17.5. 0877701601
Trader, shipowner and ship master on the Northwest coast of America, Hawaii Islands and the Far East.
56969 PELLY, David THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD SAILING
$15.00 AUD
Golden Press. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30 x 22. 0863078982
20818 PENNINGTON, Piers THE GREAT EXPLORERS
$10.00 AUD
Books for Pleasure. Sydney. 1979. 1st Australian edition. 336 PP with bw and colour illust. Titlespread: Sledge and dog team. Eps: Encounter in Africa. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 21.5. 0729601722
Stories of Men who discovered and mapped the unknown areas of the world.
66740 PERKINS, Mandaley TROPIC TIDE: An Adventurer's Life
$25.00 AUD
Bantam Books. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. XVI, 396, (4 publications) PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 23 x 15.3. 9780733802041
Biography of a shipowner based in Darwin, who arrived from Malaya prior to independence. His shipping line "VB Perkins" (Victor Bruce), opened new routes in far north Australia and in Asia.
58958 PERRON D'ARC, H. AVENTURES D'UN VOYAGEUR EN AUSTRALIE - Neuf Mois de Séjour chez les Nagarnooks
$55.00 AUD
Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. Paris. 1869. New edition of the 1869 original. (4), 351 PP, published without the 24 vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Quarter bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. 5 library stamps. Some offsetting and foxing. French text. Very good. 18.3 x 12
Ferguson: No. 14035.
75979 PERRY, Roland SAILING TO THE MOON: The Biography of Rolly Tasker, Australia's greatest all-round yachtsman
$35.00 AUD
Pennon Publishing. Port Melbourne. 2008. 1st paperback edition. 340 PP with c. 65 b/w photos, plus 40 pages with 10 b/w illustrations and 38 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Note to previous owner signed by the author on half title page. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5 9781920997069
38077 PETTIT, P. N. THE WELLINGTON WATERSIDERS - The Story of Their Industrial Organisation
$20.00 AUD
Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union. Wellington. 1948. 1st Ed. 157 PP with 27 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Signature on inside front and back cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.8 x 14.5.
75714 PEYROTEO PORTELA GUEDES, Henrique THE WORLD OF MARITIME PIRACY: the last two decades
$20.00 AUD
Edições Revista de Marinha. Colares, Portugal. 2014. 1st Ed. Publisher's Note by Vice Admiral Alexandre da Fonseca. VIII, 304 PP with 25 list of graphics, 26 tables, 56 figures, 5 b/w photos and colour illustrations (6 badges / crests and 6 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24.5 x 17. 9789729653544
71549 PHILP, J. E. THE HARRIET McGREGOR - A STAUNCH SHIP'S SEA STORY
$35.00 AUD
Author. Hobart. 1934. 1st Ed. Foreword by C. B. Black. 44 PP with 6 b/w photos on full page. Stapled soft covers (marbled). Near fine. Scarce. 21.8 x 14.
The record of this sturdy blue-gum clipper, the pride of the Port of Hobart, which sailed and logged 845,000 nautical miles between Hobart and London, Adelaide, Mauritius & Melbourne, between 1871 and 1895.
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1969. Edited by Stuart INDER. 152 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.
The News Magazine of the South Pacific. ... Pitcairn Island / Murder most foul: / Cook's Pacific (pages 51 to 55) Inside story of the unhappy Wilkes Expedition (pages 92 to 95).
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1973. Edited by Stuart INDER. IV, 132 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers repaired at spine. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24 x 18.5.
The News Magazine of the South Pacific. ... Ellice separatists and the GEIC (Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony). Pages 69 to 75 + 125: Captain John Moresby, R.N., the amateur - not so much a discoverer as a surveyor, by Ian Stuart. ...
69953 PLOWMAN, Peter FERRY TO TASMANIA. A Short History
$30.00 AUD
Rosenberg. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Australian Trader. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on half-title and title pages, otherwise contents are near fine. 29 x 21. 9781877058271
75953 PLOWMAN, Peter PASSENGER SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Volume I (1876-1912)
$40.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1981. 1st Aust. Ed. 224 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Eps: Funnels, flags & colours of these passenger ships. Hard cover, dj. A near fine copy, signed by the author on the title page. Oblong: 21.2 x 28. 0868240362
Covers 125 vessels placed in service from 1876 to 1912 by 21 shipping companies from Australia & 4 from New Zealand.
43106 PLUMMER, Russell SUPER-FERRIES OF BRITAIN, EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 4 maps, tables and 147 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 18 colour photos. Title spread: Koningin Beatrix. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 25.2 x 19. 0850599237
75330 PONTING, Herbert & HURLEY, Frank 1910-1916 ANTARCTIC PHOTOGRAPHS - Scott, Mawson and Shackleton Expeditions
$30.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs. Introduction by Jennie Boddington. 120 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (in a protective sleeve). Light foxing on title-page and paper rubbed near the gutter, otherwise contents are near fine. Oblong: 22.3 x 26.1. 0333299930
Photographs of Scott's Expedition 1910-13, Mawson Expedition 1922-13 and Shackleton Expedition 1914-16.
76009 POULSEN, Hanne DANSKE SKIBSPORTRAETMALERE
$120.00 AUD
Kunstbogklubben. Kobenhavn. 1985. 1st Ed. 140 PP with 46 colour illustrations (42 on full page) and 130 b/w illustrations (1 newspaper clipping, 1 on half page, 31 on full page and 97 to accompany the 131 painters found in the "Biografer" section). Cloth covers, dj. Danish text. Fine. Scarce. Oblong: 21.5 x 27.5. 8772480041
75182 POULSON, Bruce RECHERCHE BAY - A Short History
$50.00 AUD
Management Committee of the Southport Community Centre. Southport, Tasmania. 2005. Reprint of the 2004 original. V, 83 PP with b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: sketch map of Recherche Bay. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Signed by the author on title page. Near fine. 21 x 21.
Bay at the southern tip of Tasmania, first explored by Bruny d'Entrecasteaux. Garden of Recherche Bay "Jardin du Roi", by Felix Lahaie. ... Whaling.
22659 PRICE, Petty Officer Harry THE ROYAL TOUR 1901 or the Cruise of the H.M.S. Ophir
$5.00 AUD
Webb & Bower. Exeter. 1980. Facsimile edition of the 1901 manuscripts. No pagination. (8), 192 pages of manuscript with delightful watercolours of daily life at sea, ports of call, etc... Fp: Harry Price in uniform. Eps. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 19.7. 0906671108
Being a lower deck account of their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York's voyage around the British Empire.
75674 PUTMAN, Robert OUDE SCHEEPSKAARTEN en hun makers HOOGTEPUNTEN uit vijf eeuwen cartografie
$35.00 AUD
H.J.W. Becht. Amsterdam. 1983. 1st Ed. 143 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dutch text. Fine. 38.5 x 30. 902300504X
75939 PYM, Richard RICHARD PYM'S VOYAGE TO DESTINY
$15.00 AUD
Pathfinder Holdings Pty. Ltd. Lane Cove, NSW. c. 1994. 1st Ed. Book I. 275 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, drawings & prints, portraits...). Pictorial stiff covers with light wear. Near fine. 24 x 16. 9780646192130
Historical novel.
36334 RANSOME-WALLIS, P. NORTH ATLANTIC PANORAMA 1900-1976
$10.00 AUD
Wesleyan University Press. Middletown, Connecticut. 1977. 1st US edition. 192 PP with bw photos, plus 4 pages with 3 colour illust. Title spread: Queen Elizabeth 2. Half-title page: SS City of Rome of Anchor Line. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Renewed endpapers, o/wise very good. 29.8 x 22.2. 0819550167
When passenger liners were providing luxury and safety between the US and Europe.
32505 RANTZEN, Lieut.-Comdr. M. J. LITTLE SHIP NAVIGATION (COASTAL)
$10.00 AUD
Herbert Jenkins. London. 1956. 2nd printing of the original. XVIII, 19-196 PP with 1 tail piece and 53 figures by M.A. Moffat, plus 1 large folded plate (explanation of signs and abbreviations) at back of book, and 7 b/w photographic plates. Fp: Prismatic type hand bearing compass. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Few pages dog-eared, o/wise very good. 20.2 x 13.5.
72578 RAVEN, Alan & ROBERTS, John ENSIGN 5 - TOWN CLASS CRUISERS
$50.00 AUD
Bivouac Books. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 52 PP with tables, 2 large plans, 8 sketch plans, 9 b/w profiles, and 1 double length centrefold with 8 colour artworks (profile). Pictorial card covers. Small name stamp on inside front cover. Near fine. Scarce. 25.5 x 20.2. 0856800082
53382 REES, Sian THE SHIP THIEVES
$15.00 AUD
Hodder / Hachette. Sydney. 2006. 2nd edition of the 2005 original. (8), 232 PP, plus 16 pages with 4 maps and 20 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 12.7. 0733620817
The amazing tale and unfortunate life of James Porter - Australian convict, pirate and master mariner.
75745 REID, Dr Richard & PAGE-ALLEN, Courtney GALLIPOLI - Australians in World War I
$25.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 2010. April 2010 edition. 168 PP with c. 125 b/w photos and 24 colour illustrations (4 maps, paintings, photos and posters). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Huon RSL written at top of title-page, otherwise a fine copy. 23.5 x 23.5. 9781877007752
75789 RENOUF, Phil JAMES CRAIG
$15.00 AUD
Australian Heritage Fleet. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed., September 2003. 16 PP with 1 plan at centrefold, and 6 b/w photos. Inside front cover: 5 colour photos. Inside back cover: watercolour by P. Renouf. Pictorial soft cover. Letter to members of Australian Fleet, signed by Chris Stannard, President, loosely inserted. Near fine. 23 x 16.
Paper first published in the 2002 Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, International Conference. Design and Management Challenges in returning the 1874 barque James Craig to commercial operation.
36900 REYNOLDS, Earle THE FORBIDDEN VOYAGE
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1962. 1st UK edition. (8), 281 PP with 1 map, plus 6 pages with 7 b/w photos. Fp: Phoenix. Hard cover, dj (price clipped and with a few small chips and in a protective sleeve). Light foxing on outside edges, otherwise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Voyage in 1958 of the yacht Phoenix through the US Nuclear testing grounds of Micronesia. Her arrest... Aftermath.
40258 RICE, Dr. Tony VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY - Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration
$50.00 AUD
Scriptum Editions / The Natural History Museum. London. 2000. 1st Ed., foreword by Dr. Neil Chalmers, and introduction by Dr. David Bellamy. 335 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, device in blind on front cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 32.2 x 27.8. 9781902686028
Voyage to Jamaica 1687-1689, by Sir Hans Sloane... Pacific crossing 1768-1771, by James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks & Sydney Parkinson. Return to the South Seas 1772-1775, by James Cook, Johann and George Forster... Fathoming the Deep 1872-1876, the Challenger expedition.
75909 RNZN CHART CATALOGUE AND INDEX, with symbols and abbreviations for NEW ZEALAND CHARTS
$10.00 AUD
Hydrographic Office, Royal New Zealand Navy. Auckland. 1985. 1985 edition. NZ 200. (12), 39 PP with 9 index charts (coloured) and 14 pages of symbols (13 of them with colours). Stiff covers, pictorial front (Survey Ship HMNZS "Monowai" and Inshore Survey Crafts HMNZN "Tarapunga" and "Takapu"). Front cover lightly rubbed. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
51364 ROBERT, Willem C. H. CONTRIBUTIONS TO A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS (3 Volumes)
$250.00 AUD
Philo Press. Amsterdam. 1969 - 1972. Volume I (2nd edition, revised and enlarged): X, 275 PP. Volume II (1st Ed.): XII, 227 PP, plus large folded chart of Malay Archipelago and Australia at rear of book. Volume III (2nd edition, entirely revised and greatly enlarged): X, 401 PP, (2 adv.). Blue cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Ex library copy with stamp of the General Assembly Library - New Zealand in blind on front cover, gilt library number on spine, plate of the Library on front endpaper and empty library pocket on rear endpaper. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 23 x 15.5.. 9060220455, 906
Massive work compiled by Willem Carel Hendrik Robert. Volume I: Printed Material relating to Discovery, Exploration and Travel issued in the Netherlands to 1921. Volume II: Index and Bibliography of Dutch Manuscripts and Manuscript-charts relating to the Discovery. Volume III: Printed Material relating to Discovery, Exploration and Travel, issued in Europe, except the Netherlands, to 1853 with a geographical index and an index of ships cited.
70771 ROBERTSON, Terence THE SHIP WITH TWO CAPTAINS
$15.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 14 pages with 23 b/w photos. Fp: The two captains. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket is rubbed and soiled. Offsetting on front endpaper, o/wise a very good copy. 22 x 14.2.
The war records of HMS Seraph/USS Seraph. Launched in May 1942, she sunk a whale for her first patrol. Her use before the Anglo-American landing in French North Africa.
75079 RODGERS, John BLUE WATER DREAMING
$25.00 AUD
Peacock Publications. Adelaide. 2003. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w illustrations (6 maps & 26 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Name of previous owner at top of half title page, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 15. 9781876087739
A year long (1961/1962) crossing of the 27 foot yawl "Grey Dragon" from Yarmouth to East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand.
42528 ROHWER, Jürgen DIE U-BOOT-ERFOLGE DES ACHSENMÄCHTE 1939-1945
$20.00 AUD
Munich. 1968. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag. 1st Ed. XXIV, 376 PP, plus 3 folded plate in rear pocket with 10 maps. Cloth cover. Discreet scoring in front of a few names of ships sunk, o/wise fine. Image shows title-page. German text. Oblong: 14.8 x 21.2.
U-Boat successes during World War II.
57115 ROSE, Samantha, QUANCHI, Max & MOORE, Clive A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE STUDY OF THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
AAAPS / Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies. Brisbane. 2009. 1st Ed. XIV, 203 PP with 3 maps, 6 graphs, 6 tables, 8 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780646515717
21918 ROSIGNOLI, Guido BADGES AND INSIGNIA OF WORLD WAR II: Air Force - Naval - Marine
$10.00 AUD
Exeter Books. New York. 1983. 1st US Ed. as a combined volume of Air Force Badges and Insignia of WWII, and Naval and Marine Badges and Insignia of WWII. 363 PP with 6 bw, and 144 colour plates. Decorated hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.3 x 14.2. 0671060082
Over 2500 colour illustrations of badges, insignia, shoulder straps, cap tallies...
44791 ROSS, Bob & MALLITTE, John AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND COMPLETE BOOK OF BOATING
$15.00 AUD
Paul Hamlyn Sydney. 1972. 1st Ed. 543 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Chart with approaches to Port Stephens. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 28.5 x 21. 060007059X
66087 ROSS, George W. NETS HOOKS AND WHALEGUNS
$35.00 AUD
Lorraine Beavis. Bundaberg, Qld. 1998. May 1998 edition. (10), 154 PP with 14 b/w illustrations by Betsy Blears. Pictorial soft cover, stapled, cloth spine. Near fine. 20.8 x 14. 0958534446
Early experiences at sea: on fishing vessels before the end of World War II, fishing in Greenland waters and whaling in Antarctica.
75924 ROUSMANIERE, John THE AMERICA'S CUP 1851-1983
$20.00 AUD
Pelham Books Ltd. London. 1983. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w or colour illust. plus 4 double-page drawings of some contenders. Hard covers, gilt title on front board ansd spine, dj. Dust jacket with repaired chip at lower corner of front, otherwise near fine. 31 x 24.5. 0720715032
The America's Cup from the first challenge in 1851 to the conclusion of the 1983 challenge.
54347 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: XCVI, No. 1 - 1940
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1940. Vol. XCVI, issues No 1 (July 1940). Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. VI (Advertisements), 80 PP with 1 map, plus 10 pages with 2 maps and 19 b/w photos. Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. XCVI - No. 1: Botanical and Geographical Exploration in the Assam Himalaya, by F. Kingdon Ward. Primitive Tribes in Madagascar, by Olive Murray Chapman. Notes on the Northern Sea Routes, by Professor Kenneth Mason...
75697 ROYAL NAVY THE NAVY LEAGUE ANNUAL 1907-1908 (Corrected to October 10th, 1907)
$100.00 AUD
Navy League. London. 1907. 1st Ed., 1st year of issue. Edited by Alan H. BURGOYNE. 262 PP, (26 adverts.) with tables, 10 plans and 24 b/w plates (1 of them folded). Fp: H.M.S. Agamemnon. Soft cover, decoration and title on front cover. Spine lightly sunned. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.4 x 14.5.
Progress of the British Navy. Progress of Foreign Navies. La Marine Française et l'Entente Cordiale, by Capitaine Sorb. ...
66266 SALMON, Gregor NAVY DIVERS
$25.00 AUD
Ebury Press. Sydney. 2011. 1st Ed. (6), 292, (4 publications) PP, plus 16 pages with 14 b/w and 24 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Light creases on front cover. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 23.3 x 15. 9781741666571
Divers of the Royal Australian Navy, Clearance Diving Branch.
76156 SANDS, Philippe THE RATLINE - Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Hachette Group. London. 2020. 1st edition. XX, 411, (1) PP with b/w illustrations (1 map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1901, maps, plans, documents, drawings, manuscript, photos). Stiff covers, illustrated front cover with former owner's name, otherwise near fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9781474608138
69353 SATTIN, D. L. BARGE BUILDING AND BARGE BUILDERS OF THE SWALE
$15.00 AUD
Meresborough Books. Rainham, Kent. 1990. 1st Ed. 130 PP with 1 family tree, b/w illustrations (drawings by Glenn Coleman, 4 facsimile of documents and 76 photos & portraits). Pictorial laminated boards. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine. 21.5 x 15. 0948193530
60496 SATURDAY MAGAZINE Historical Sketch of the: ORIGIN, RISE, AND PROGRESS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY (in the Saturday Magazine)
$15.00 AUD
The Saturday Magazine. London. 1844. Photocopy (facsimile) of 3 Supplements to the Saturday Magazine. No. 775 for July 1844 (pages 33 to 40). No.: 786 for September 1844 (pages 121 to 128). No.: 797 for November 1844 (pages 209-216). A total of 24 PP with 5 b/w illustrations. Fine. Soft cover. 30 x 21.
75734 SCHADE, Nick THE STRIP-BUILT SEA KAYAK: Three Rugged, Beautiful Boats You Can Build
$40.00 AUD
75735 SCHADE, Nick BUILDING STRIP-PLANKED BOATS: with Complete Plans and Instructions for a Dinghy, a Canoe, and a Kayak you can build
$40.00 AUD
International Marine / McGraw-Hill. Camden, Maine. 2009. 1st Ed. Reprint. VII, 280 PP with 324 b/w illustrations (tables, photos, plans & sketches). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23.2 x 18.6. 9780071475242
74618 SCHNALL, Dr. Uwe DIE WELT DER SEEKARTEN
$20.00 AUD
Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum. Bremerhaven. 1983. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 20 b/w illustrations, plus 23 tables on glossy paper with 14 b/w and 15 colour charts. Fp: Caerte van Portugal, 1584. Pictorial stiff covers. German text. Near fine. 23 x 14.8.
57236 SEAMANSHIP HANDBOOK FOR RADIOTELEPHONE SHIP STATION OPERATORS
$5.00 AUD
A.G.P.S. Canberra. 1984. Revised edition of the 2nd edition of 1978. VI, 48 PP with tables, plus a 4 pages Distress Procedure at centrefold. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed). Signature on FFEP. Very good. 20.8 x 14.5. 0644005866
75897 SEYMOUR, John 'WILLYNILLY' TO THE BALTIC
$45.00 AUD
William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. Edinburgh. 1965. 1st Ed. X, 278 PP with 4 sketch charts, plus 24 pages with 2 charts (1 on double page) and 36 b/w photos. Eps: Sketch of the "Willynilly" and Map of North Sea and Baltic Sea. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. A near fine copy of a scarce title. 22.2 x 14.5.
A Yorkshire coble: LOA: 21 ft, hull draft: 1 ft 5 in., and her crossing UK- North Sea-Kiel Canal-Baltic Sea & Copenhagen.
75607 SHARLAND, Michael STONES OF A CENTURY
$15.00 AUD
Oldham, Beddome & Meredith Pty Ltd. Hobart. 1952. November 1952 reprint of the June 1952 original. Foreword by C. Craig. XII, 74 PP , plus 66 pages c. 127 b/w photos. Fp: Hobart Doorway, Macquarie Street. Hard covers, dj. Dust jacket with small chips, otherwise near fine. 28.3 x 21.8.
75546 SHIELD, William. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HARBOUR CONSTRUCTION
$150.00 AUD
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1895. 1st Ed., in the "Longmans' Civil Engineering" series. XIII, 299, PP with tables and 96 figures. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Gilt stamp of the "Library of Parliament of New South Wales" on front cover. Top outside edge slightly soiled. Occasional foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 25 x 16.
Contents include sections on Wind, Knowledge of Waves, Theory of Tides, Currents, Fetch, Exposure, and Wave-Power, Quarrying, Materials, Cements, Timber, Iron & Steel, Considerations affecting the General Design of Harbours, Estuary Harbours, Various types of Breakwaters, Pier-heads, Foundations, Settlement & Bond, Silting, ....
31589 SHIPPING RUDDER'S GUIDE - AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Rudder's Pty. Limited, Transport and Shipping Agents. Sydney. No date, 1937? 10th edition. 48 PP with tables. Illustrated card cover, cloth spine. Near fine. 21 x 14.
70997 SIGWART, E. E. (Compiler) MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1965 - Volume XIV
$25.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1966. 1st Ed., Volume XIV, 1966. 192 PP with tables & b/w illust. (photos & plans). Fp: Oceanic, first large ship built solely for cruising. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (M/V Benya River). Dust jacket with a few chips, with neat stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania Inc on the endpapers. Contents are near fine. Oblong: 15 x 23.
63647 SILVER, Lynette Ramsay & HALL, Major Tom KRAIT: The Fishing Boat That Went To War
$60.00 AUD
Sally Milner. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. X, 181 PP with 7 maps, 3 drawings & 1 facsimile of original log (double-page), plus 16 pages with 34 b/w illust. Inside front cover: Plan of Keppel Harbour, Singapore on 27th Sept. 1943. Inside back cover: Singapore Area, attack courses and location of shipping. Pictorial soft cover with a 2 small creases on front cover, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 23.5 x 15.5. 186351063X
14905 SIMPER, Robert BEACH BOATS OF BRITAIN
$50.00 AUD
The Boydell Press. Woodbridge, UK. 1984. 1st Ed. (8), 160 PP with 9 location maps & 72 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Bookplate of previous owner on FFEP, dust jacket with light shelf wear, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 25.2 x 19.2. 0851151957
The different types of boats found around the coast of Britain, using landing places and no-shelter harbours, needing to be hauled out and brought above the high water mark.
30290 SINCLAIR, Keith V. LAPLACE IN NEW ZEALAND, 1831
$10.00 AUD
Heritage Press. Waikanae, NZ. 1998. 1st edition with a foreword by John Dunmore. Translated with Introduction and Notes by Keith V. Sinclair. 155 PP with 11 b/w plates, notes, bibliography & index. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0908708459
The French expedition led by Captain Laplace on the Corvette Favorite during his circumnavigation.
30351 SKELTON, R.A., MARSTON, T.E. & PAINTER, G.D. THE VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION
$40.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven & London. 1995. New edition with material from the 1965 original. LXVI, 291 PP with 9 figures (maps) and 4 colour plates, plus a large folded map (figure 1), 19 plates (3 large folded) and 26 pages of the facsimile of the original manuscript. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 29.7 x 22.5. 0300065205
The Vinland Map represents the only surviving medieval example based on Norse cartography, giving evidence to the Viking discovery of North America.
48159 SLEIGHTHOLME, Des OFF WATCH WITH OLD HARRY. The funny side of sailing
$10.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1989. 1st paperback edition. 118 PP with 22 cartoons. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 17.7 x 11. 0229118569
75477 SLEIGHTHOLME, Des A FUNNY OLD LIFE - An Anecdotal Romp through the Sailing Career of Des Sleightholme
$10.00 AUD
Adlard Coles Nautical. London. 2007. Reprint of the 2001 original. (6), 186, (4) PP with b/w illustrations (line drawings and cartoons by the author and photos). Half title page: cartoon dating from the 1976 London Boat Show. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 9780713658927
50780 SLEVIN, Alan AUSTRALIAN SHIPS SKETCHBOOK
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1972. 1st Ed. 111 PP with 60 sketches by the author. Eps: Map of Australasia with sketches of ships that served Australia. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. Oblong: 19 x 26.2. 0851794211
Description and illustration of the many and various types of merchant vessels which are a part of Australia's maritime history.
75647 SMITH, Hervey Garrett THE MARLINSPIKE SAILOR
$20.00 AUD
Wren Publishing. Melbourne. 1973. 1st Australian edition. Reprint. Foreword by Boris Lauer-Leonardi. 161 PP with b/w drawings by the author. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Ex library copy with stamps and a renewed front endpaper. An otherwise very good clean copy. 24 x 16. 0858850559
How to master knots, palm & needlework, making of small objects.
75838 SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES: Tome XXI, No. 21 / Tome XXII, No. 22 / Tome XXIII, No. 23 / Tome XXIV, No. 24 / Tome XXVI, Nos. 26, 27, 28 & 29
$400.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1965 / 1966 / 1967 / 1978 / 1970. 5 bound volumes. Volume 21: (4), 246, (4) PP with b/w illustrations (1 map of Papua New Guinea and figures), plus 17 b/w plates and 2 folded plans of "Port of Papeete" in 1960 and 1966. Volume 22: (4), ,198 PP, plus 7 b/w plates with 23 photos. Volume 23: (4), 238 PP with b/w illustrations (2 drawings on "Easter Island", 26 engraved figures (bamboos from New Caledonia), plus 5 plates with 8 b/w photos, and 8 plates with 11 colour photos. Volume 24: "Hommage à Bougainville" 238 PP. Volume 26: (4), 365, (6) PP with figures and maps, plus 4 plates with 20 b/w photos, and 1 large folded map "Moorea & District of Afareaitu" at rear of book. 5 volumes bound in 1, with a total of c. 1335 pages. Cloth cover, Seal of the "New Zealand General Assembly Library on front cover, gilt title on label pasted down on spine. Plate of the New Zealand General Assembly Library pasted down on front endpaper. Most of the texts are in French. Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 27.5 x 19.
Volume 21: Gauguin, Journalist in Tahiti in "Les Guêpes", by Bengt Danielsson and Father O'Reilly. The New Harbour of Papeete, by R. Lacroix. Fishing Hooks of Oceania, by Jose Garanger. Volume 22: The Ashton Lever Museum, London, and its Tahitian collections at the end of the 18th Century. French Manuscripts referring to the Tasmanian Aborigines, by N.J.B. Plomley (English text) Volume 23: 'Ana'a, a Polynesian atoll, by K.P. Emory and P. Ottino. One week on Easter Island, by M.-Ch. Laroche. Primitive Art and "Structures", by Jean Guiart. Volume 24: Journal of Bougainville in Tahiti... and manuscripts of witness, by Etienne Taillemite. Vessels "Boudeuse" & "Etoile", by L. Denoix. Volume 26: Teaching of the Tahitian language in the schools of French Polynesia, by Robert I. Levy (English text). The reception of European voyagers on Polynesian Islands, 1568-1797, by W.H. Pearson (English text) ...Uprising of 1917 in New Caledonia, by Jean Guiart.
68576 SOMMERVILLE, Donald & SCROGGY, Adam (editors) THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I
$20.00 AUD
Citrus Media. Sydney. 2014. 1st edition. 260 PP with over 500 b/w and colour illustrations (battleplans, maps & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 21. 9781925141641
Aarhus Dockyard Ltd. Aarhus, Denmark. 1995. 1st bilingual edition (Danish / English). Forewords by Georg Poulsen, President of Danish Metalworkers Union & Arne Pedersen, Director. 192 PP with b/w illustrations (1 newspaper clipping, 2 plans, 37 portraits and 182 photos) and 83 colour photos. "Dokkens" Melodi by Ankerstjerne Bertelsen, on the free fly of the rear endpaper. FEP: Arrival of the 1st dock, ex RN. REP: Launching of the Arktis Meadow, June 1995. Illustrated hard covers. Corners of covers rubbed. Text in Danish and English. A near fine copy. Scarce. 27.5 x 25.3. 8798559001
Udgivet I Anledning af Vaerftzts 50 Ars Jubilaeum 1995 / Published on the Occasion of the Dockyard's Jubilee 1995. Ship's List by Peter Simonsen & Soren Thorsoe.
53664 SOUCEK, S. The 'ALI MACAR REIS ATLAS' and the DENIZ KITABI: Their Place in the Genre of Portolan Charts and Atlases (In Imago Mundi, a review of Early Cartography)
$10.00 AUD
Nico Israel. Amsterdam. 1971. Article removed from issue 25. Pages 17 to 27 with 5 figures (Portolan Charts). Soft cover, plastic cover, clear plastic front, spiral bound. Fine. 28.7 x 20.6.
15856 SPALDIN, B.G. & APPLEYARD, H.S. THE WEST HARTLEPOOL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED and TALISMAN TRAWLERS LIMITED
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1980. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w photos throughout. Fp: Derwenthall and Hendonhall. Soft cover (house flag on front cover). Fine. 21.5 x 14. 0905617134
History & fleet details.
21654 SPECTRE, Peter H. & LARKIN, David WOODEN SHIP, The Art, History, and Revival of Wooden Boatbuilding
$50.00 AUD
Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 1991. 1st Ed. 272 PP with magnificent colour photographs. Illustrated title spread, half title page and endpapers. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 31 x 23.7. 0395566924
Simple craft and canoes, the Vikings, the building of the "Susan Constant", flagship of the 3 first vessels bringing settlers to Jamestown on the Chesapeake, building of working sails, yachts...
64411 SPINAZE, M. P. (editor) FROM KANGAROOS TO CARGO SHIPS - A Short History of Peninsula Kangaroo Point 1823 to 1996
$25.00 AUD
The Queensland Women's Historical Association. Brisbane. 1997. 1st edition by Diana Hacker. (18), 103 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 100 pages with b/w illustrations (drawings and sketches, plans, portraits, photos...). Pictorial soft cover, cloth spine. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0959027165
60694 SPROD, Dan (compiler) AUSTRALIAN LAND EXPLORATION - Catalogue of an outstanding Library on Australian Land Explorers and related topics
$10.00 AUD
Astrolabe Booksellers. Hobart. 1997. 1st Ed. X, 109 PP with 18 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.
850 entries.
55508 STANBURY, Myra (editor) JOURNEYS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: French Exploration of Terres Australes
$10.00 AUD
Western Australian Museum - Maritime. Perth. 2008. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Diana S. Jones. 28 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside covers: Species discovered and description. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26 x 24. 9781920843380
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Fremantle October 2008 to October 2009. The Age of Enlightenment - Le Siècle des Lumières, by Myra Stanbury. Rose de Freycinet and the Uranie, by Dr. Michael McCarthy. The Lapérouse Collection by Valérie Vattier.
70090 STANFORD, Don ILE DE FRANCE, A Biography
$40.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1960. 1st Ed. (8), 185, (3) PP with 2 maps on double page The Journeys of the Ile de France: 1940-1942 and 1943-1946, plus 24 pages with 45 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Foxing throughout (heavy on a few pages). Still a very good copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.
The 32 years of this luxurious passenger ship, in peace and at war (troop transport). After joining the Free French, voyages from Australia in 1941, 1942 & 1943. Rescue of the 754 passengers of the Andrea Doria.
72938 STANLEY, Kathleen M. GUIDING LIGHTS - Tasmania's Lighthouses and Lighthousemen
$45.00 AUD
St. David's Park. Hobart. 1991. 1st Ed. IX, 181 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Covers with light creases and rubbed at hinges of spine. Brief note to previous owner on back of front cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.6. 0724625607
A vital record of the lives of the personnel keeping the lights shining and of the lighthouses they manned.
45901 STANNARD, Bruce THE BLUE-WATER BUSHMEN - The Colourful Story of Australia's Best and Boldest Boatmen
$30.00 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. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine internally. 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.
70232 STAPLETON, Air Vice Marshal D.C. & DONOVAN, Wing Commander E. (editors) WINGED PROMISES - A History of No. 14 Squadron, RAF 1915-1945
$25.00 AUD
The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund Enterprises. Fairford, UK. 1996. 1st Ed., with a foreword by King Hussein I of Jordan. Preface by The Lord Deramore. (10), 310 PP with 4 colour and 83 b/w illustrations (1 cartoon, 5 maps and 77 photos). Title page with colour illustration of The Squadron Queen Standard. FEP: Map of the World War I, Middle East Arena. REP: Map of the Mediterranean - North Africa. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16.5. 1899808450
75815 STARKEY, David J. (editor) DEVON'S COASTLINE AN COASTAL WATERS - Aspects of Man's Relationship with the Sea
$25.00 AUD
University of Exeter. Exeter, Devon, UK. 1988. 1st Ed., Exeter Maritime Studies, No. 3. Foreword / Frontispiece by William Ravenhill. (2), VI, 85 PP with 1 table and 18 figures (1 document, drawings, graphs & sketches). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0859893146
69612 STARR, Arthur J. A FIRST BOOK OF METEOROLOGY
$15.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1949. 1st Ed. 87 PP with 37 figures (20 illustrations in half-tone and 17 diagrams). Cloth cover, gilt decoration on front board and gilt title on a faded spine. Light foxing of endpapers. Very good. 20.2 x 13.6.
75740 STEPHENS, Geoffrey H. THE HUTCHINS SCHOOL, Macquarie Street Years 1846-1965
$30.00 AUD
The Hutchins School. Hobart. 1979. 1st Ed. Foreword by D. B. Clarke. (10), 407 PP with 1 drawing, plus 20 pages with 45 b/w photos. Title spread: The "New" School, 1849, by Richard Bacon. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Ex Library copy, with neat stamp of the "Hutchins School Junior Library" on title page, and envelope on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy. 214 x 16. 0959525602
45713 STEPHENSON, Ralph (editor) SMALL BOATS AND BIG SEAS - A hundred years of yachting
$20.00 AUD
David McKay. New York. 1978. 1st US edition. 189 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14. 0679513523
Anthology. Fitting Out-and Setting Out, by E.F. Knight. A Risky Passage, by Claude Worth. Square Rig in the Forties, by Alan Villiers... Double Shipwreck, by Bernard Moitessier...
72132 STEVENS, T.S. & DICK, H.W. SCOTTISH HOUSE: A History of McIlwraith , McEacharn - Shipowners, Merchants and Miners 1875-1993
$70.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia, Inc. Melbourne. 2021. 1st edition. XII, 392 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside front cover: Early painting of the "Bothwell Castle". Inside back cover: Cut-away of the triple screw steamer "Katoomba". Title page with House-Flag. Pictorial stiff covers. New. 25 x 17.3. 9780975689653
75991 STEWART, I. G. BRITISH TRAMPS and their Peacetime Contribution to World Shipping History
$45.00 AUD
Ian Stewart Marine Publications. Perth. 1997. 1st Ed. VI, 514 PP with over 110 plans & profiles, and 880 b/w photos. Fp: "Imperial Valley". Pictorial laminated boards. Spine sunned. Leaf 83/84 with a repaired part. An otherwise fine copy. 30.5 x 22. 0646222716
The British tramp ship: background, development, new trends in designs during the late 1950s. British Standard tramps, and Liberty Ship replacements...
64877 STRACHAN, Shirley SILTS IN THE SIGHT GLASS: Protectors and Raiders of the SS CITY OF LAUNCESTON - 1863-1865
$10.00 AUD
Heritage Victoria. Melbourne. 2000. 1st Ed. 79 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover, folded back cover with location map and plan. Fine. 21 x 21. 0730686701
Sunk by SS Penola in Port Phillip Bay, 19th November 1865.
18084 STRATTON, Arthur THE GREAT RED ISLAND, A Biography of Madagascar
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan & Co Ltd. London. 1965. 1st UK Edition of the 1964 US original. (XIV), 368 PP with 1 map plus 8 pages with 22 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing. Very good. 22.5 x 15.
Story weaving back and forth between past and present, between personal experiences and historical events.
71492 STUBBS, Ches I REMEMBER ... The Memoirs of a Whaling Skipper
$20.00 AUD
Author. Albany. c.1980. 1st Ed. (4), 128 PP with b/w photos, printed on superior gloss. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21.5 x 16.
Memoirs spanning 18 years: A.B., Gunner, Mate on whaling ships, first with the Albany Whaling Company, then with the Cheyne Beach Whaling Company.
30325 TASMAN, Abel Janszoon THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA (24 November 1642)
$25.00 AUD
Government Printer. Hobart. 1985. Facsimile reprint of the 1942 original, in a limited edition of 3000 copies. (8), 43, (8) PP with 2 colour and 2 b/w illust., plus 3 plates (facsimile of Tasman's journal entry for December 1642 and 2 folded maps). Title page: vignette "Flag of Tasmania (in colour). Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 25.8 x 18.8. 0724622232
Extracts from the Journal of Abel Janszoon Tasman (from translation of the original manuscript in the Colonial Archives at The Hague, by Professor J.E. Heeres) and facsimiles of original maps.
31122 TAYLOR, Colin THE BROTHERS TAYLOR - A Tasmanian Maritime History
$35.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed., No. 50 in the Roebuck series. VIII, 184 PP with numerous facsimile of newspaper cuttings, 2 maps, 2 plans and 83 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.8 x 18. 0958656142
62728 THELWELL, Norman THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND - Thelwell's Manual of Sailing
$10.00 AUD
Eyre Methuen. London. 1987. Reprint of the 1982 edition. 96 PP with over 95 humourous cartoons. Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 21 x 16.3. 9780417011202
70587 THINARD, Florence EXPLORERS' BOTANICAL NOTEBOOK: In the Footsteps of Theophrastus, Marco Polo, Linnaeus, Flinders, Darwin, Speke and Hooker
$35.00 AUD
Firefly Books. Richmond Hill, Ontario. 2016. 1st English edition (1st printing). Translated from the French original "L'herbier des explorateurs" by Barb Collishaw. Foreword by Frédéric Lisak, Christina Harrison and Michel Robert. 175 PP with 68 portraits of the Botanical Explorers, b/w and colour illustrations, including 70 colour plates photographed by Yannick Fourie (61 from Herbarium at Kew and 9 from Herbarium at Montpellier). Pictorial laminated boards. As new. 35 x 22. 9781770857636
... as well as Jussieu, Commerson, La Pérouse, de la Billardière...
70152 THOMAS, Captain D. C. BULL FORT HAS BEEN LISTED and other Articles
$30.00 AUD
Author / Harbour Master Humber. Hull. 1988. August 1988 edition. Introduction by A. G. Bell, Malet Lambert High School. (8), 37, (5) PP with b/w illustrations by E. (Ted) Beaumont (covers, frontispiece and 6 tail pieces), plus 7 plates: frontispiece, 1 photo, 1 newspaper clipping, 1 plan and 3 extracts of charts (2 of them folded). Stapled card covers, illustrated front and back. Near fine. 26 x 18.5.
Fort built at the mouth of the Humber during WWI and decommissioned in 1956.
72517 THOMAS, Nicholas VOYAGERS - The Settlement of the Pacific
$45.00 AUD
Head of Zeus / Apollo Book. London. 2021. 1st edition in "The Landmark Library" series. 228 PP with 6 maps with colour on double page, 7 head pieces "Tupaia's map", b/w and colour illustrations (26 on double page). Hard cover, dj. New. 20 x 14.5. 9781838930486
53168 THROWER, Norman J. W. (Editor) THE THREE VOYAGES OF EDMOND HALLEY IN THE PARAMORE 1698-1701 - Volume II
$10.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. Glasgow. 1981. Volume 157 Second Series. Vol. II: 3 folded charts in portfolio. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. 0904180026
Halley's first two voyages were to test his geomagnetical theories and the third voyage to investigate tidal phenomena.
69334 TOGHILL, Jeff CIRCUMNAVIGATING AUSTRALIA'S COASTLINE - 2, The Ports and Anchorages, A Yachtman's Manual
$25.00 AUD
Reed Books. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. 263 PP with maps and location maps of ports. Pictorial soft cover, dj. Near fine. 26 x 16. 0730102130
75653 TOGHILL, Jeff GHOST PORTS OF AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1984. 1st Ed. VI, 186 PP with b/w illust. (maps, plans & photos). Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket a little sunned, otherwise fine. 28 x 22.4. 0333380673
The forgotten stories of over 40 ghost ports dotting the seaboard and riverbanks of Australia.
34483 TOMLINSON, H. M. (editor) GREAT SEA STORIES OF THE WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Chancellor Press. London. 1991. Reprint of the 1930 original. 896 PP. Laminated pictorial boards. Occasional foxing. Fine. 21.6 x 15.3. 1851520872
An anthology of 108 sea stories by famous authors: Defoe, Dumas, Melville, Conrad...
20439 TORRANCE, William STEAMERS ON THE RIVER - From Ipswich to the Sea
$10.00 AUD
Author. Brisbane. 1986. 1st Ed. XIV, 278 PP with bw illust. Title page: Federal steamer Devon in the Hamilton Reach. Fp: City of Brisbane. Eps: South Brisbane Reach in 1880. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0959144900
Illustrated account of the activities of steamers on the river and the bay of Brisbane between WWI & WWII.
75071 TOWNSLEY, W.A. & REYNOLDS, John A CENTURY OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT 1856-1956
$20.00 AUD
L.G. Shea, Government Printer. Hobart. 1956. 1st edition by F.C. Green. Foreword by the Hon. Robert Cosgrove, Premier of Tasmania. (26), 317, III PP with tables and b/w illustrations (6 facsimiles of documents, 5 sketches of Premiers and 3 photos). Hard covers, dj. Dust jacket with a few chips and feded spine. Contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Parliament, House of Assembly and Legislative Council... Electoral system. Premiers and political Leaders ...
58106 TRYCKARE, Tre (editor) THE LORE OF SHIPS
$30.00 AUD
Crescent Books. New York. 1978. Revised edition (a) of the 1975 original. 279 PP with over 1500 b/w & colour illustrations. FEP: Bow of the Mayflower. REP: Stern of the Mayflower. Fp: Lion figurehead. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 30.2 x 27.3.
A massive compendium describing, by means of simplified illustration & detailed drawing, the most important parts of the construction, equipment, and development of all kinds of ships. Diagrams of rigging, sail, engines, spars, fishing, flags & weapons used aboard ships through the ages.
75976 TUFFLEY, Gordon SKIPPER'S AIDE MEMOIRE - Small Ship & Pleasure Boat
$30.00 AUD
Gordon Tuffley. Winton, Qld. 2001 1st edition on "Waterproof Paper", dated June 2001.. No continuous pagination: (2), 16, 10, 10, 6, 16 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial covers, spiral bound. Near fine. Scarce. Small format: 17 x 12. 9780646415666
63041 UNDERHILL, Harold A. DEEP-WATER SAIL
$40.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1988. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1963 (original of 1952). XXIX, (3), 302 PP, plus 64 pages with 101 b/w illustrations, and 100 plates of construction, rigging, sail plans... Fp: Mediterranean schooner. FEP: 19th & 20th century fore & aft rigged craft. REP: 19th & 20th century square-rigged craft. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and gilt on spine, dj. Apart from a very small rub at top of dust jacket and a small nick, a fine copy. 25 x 18.2. 085174172X
Covers types from Tasmania to Canada, from the Pacific islands to Scandinavia.
75942 UNDERHILL, Harold A. SAIL TRAINING AND CADET SHIPS
$50.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1973. Reprint of the 1956 original. XIV, 373 PP, plus 122 pages of b/w illustrations (paintings, photos, plans), plus 45 folded plates at rear. Fp: Ship Dartford. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with repaired tear at head of spine, in a protective sleeve. .Neat stamp of "Woollahra Municipal Library" on verso of title page. Endpapers with sellotape marks, otherwise a very good clean copy. 24.7 x 18.
Histories of the vessels built or used as training ships. Training of the boys for the merchant service on merchant ships or ex-naval vessels.
75598 VALKS, Hans (editor) PACIFIC TRAVEL - FACT FILE: April 1991 - April 1992
$20.00 AUD
Braynart Group / Universal Press. Singapore. 1991. 16th yearly edition. c. 600 PP wiith c. 2000 colour illustrations (19 interpolated pages, c. 20 maps and photos) with thumbnail index by country. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 18.
Most comprehensive.
71526 Van Der DOES, Willem STORMS, ICE, and WHALES, The Antarctic Adventures of a Dutch Artist on a Norwegian Whaler
$30.00 AUD
Eerdmans Publishing Co. Michigan. 2003. 1st Ed. Translated from the 1934 Dutch original by Ruth van Baak Griffioen. Introduction by Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek. XXIV, 391 PP with 1 map "Route van de "Sir James Clark Ross", 1923/1924 and b/w illustrations by Willem van der Does. Fp: portrait of Willem van der DoesHard covers, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 16. 9780802821256
76153 VEITCH, Michael AUSTRALIA'S SECRET ARMY - The Story of the Coastwatchers, the Unsung Heroes of Australia's Armed Forces during World War II
$20.00 AUD
Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2022. 1st edition. (XII), 340 PP with 1 map "Papua New Guinea and British Solomon Islands Protectorate". Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note on half-title page, otherwise fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780733648472
18371 VERCOE, A. Guy ENGLISH WARSHIPS IN THE DAYS OF SAIL, A Brief Historical Guide for Model Makers
$10.00 AUD
Percival Marshall. London. 1933. 1st Ed. 72, (4 adverts) PP, plus 24 b/w plates. Hard cover with pictorial pasted down on front board. Spine & back cover faded and a little marked. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very good copy. 22.8 x 15.8.
22417 VERNEY, Peter ANIMALS IN PERIL, Man's War Against Wildlife
$10.00 AUD
Brigham Young University Press. Prove, Utah, USA. 1979. 1st US Ed. 186 PP with bw illust. Title spread: Tiger drive. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0842517146
The Great Whale hunt...
15310 VILLIERS, Alan VANISHED FLEETS, Sea Stories From Old Van Dieman's Land
$20.00 AUD
Cat & Fiddle Press. Hobart. 1974. Reprint of 1931 original. (XIV), 297 PP plus 16 pages with 20 b/w photos. Fp: Hobart. Eps: A chart of Tasmania. Cloth covers, gilt-engraved signature of Alan Villiers on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0858530163
A survey of the maritime history of Tasmania. Earlier days, convict ships, whalers, clippers & later days.
74462 VILLIERS, Alan VOYAGING WITH THE WIND - An Introduction to Sailing Large Square-Rigged Ships
$45.00 AUD
HMSO / National Maritime Museum. London. 1975. 1st Ed. VIII, 62 PP with 4 maps (3 on double page), 1 diagram on full page. & 1 rigging plan, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Spine lightly sunned. Ex library copy with 3 stamps on preliminary page. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise contents near fine. 18 x 11. 0118807587
76074 WALL, Don KILL THE PRISONERS!
$70.00 AUD
Don Wall. Mona Vale, NSW. 1997. 1st Ed. (2), VI, 392 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: 2 documents, 2 drawings, 3 plans, 5 maps (2 xith insets), 17 portraits and 29 photos. Laminated stiff covers. Spine sunned and with creases. A 2 page article: "Owen's final March to Farewell Mates", by Claire Harvey, The Australian, 19 March 1999, loosely inserted. Neaer fine. Scarce. 24.5 x 17. 9780646278346
71668 WARREN, C.E.T. & BENSON, James ABOVE US THE WAVES, The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes
$25.00 AUD
Harrap. London. 1953. Reprint of September 1953. 256 PP with 3 diagrams & 4 maps, plus 24 pages with 36 bw photos. Fp: King George VI aboard HMS Bonaventure in 1941. Eps: Sketch map showing X-craft and human-torpedo operations. Cloth cover, dj (with chips and small pieces missing, now in a protective sleeve). 2 small insect holes (2 cm) near spine of half-title, fp. and title-pages, not affecting any text. An otherwise very good clean copy. 21.5 x 14.2.
Development & training, attempts against the "Tirpitz", Mediterranean & Norwegian operations, attacks on Singapore, Hong Kong & Saigon.
74510 WEBSTER, E. M. AN EXPLORER AT REST - Ludwig Leichhardt at Port Essington and on the Homeward Voyage 1845-1846
$25.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1986. 1st Ed. Introduction and Annotations by E. M. Webster. X, 123 PP, With 1 map with 2 insets on double page and 1 drawing, plus 12 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 13.5. 0522843220
70354 WEIDENHOFER, Margaret MARIA ISLAND: A Tasmanian Eden
$20.00 AUD
Darlington Press. Melbourne. 1978. 2nd edition of the 1977 original. 64 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 4 pages with 10 colour photos. Eps: Chart of Marias Eyland. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned with a small chip at top, otherwise near fine. 24.6 x 19.5. 0959768905
76267 WHELAN, Howard FROM CRADLE TO NARCISSUS, Tasmania's Overland Track [in Australian Geographic, No. 29, January-March 1993]
$15.00 AUD
A.G.S. Sydney. 1993. Contains article from P. 32 to P.55 with colour photos and the large folded poster with the map and information on the history, etc. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.
Also includes: The Wreck of the Sirius, by Graeme Henderson, The Phone goes Bush by Ken Brass, Circling Everest by Dick Smith, The Lure of the Barramundi by Rory McGuinness..
16766 WILCOX, L. A. MR. PEPYS' NAVY
$15.00 AUD
G. Bell & Sons. London. 1966. 1st Ed. X, 189 PP with 74 b/w illustrations by the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Small chips to the dust jacket, foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 25.2 x 15.8.
A reconstruction of the day-to-day administration of the Navy, from the passages in his diary dealing with naval affairs.
75994 WILKINSON, B. A. & WILLSON, R. K. THE MAIN LINE FLEET OF BURNS PHILP
$45.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia. Canberra. 1981. 1st Ed. (14), 192 PP with b/w illustrations (House Flag and Funnel and 36 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Ex library copy with stamp on verso of title page, renewed front endpaper, and rubbed patch on lower part of spine of dust jacket. Light foxing, otherwise very good. 22.6 x 15.5. 0959907920
The ships of Burns Philp & Company which, for 75 years, plied the South Pacific and as far as Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong.
75616 WILLIAMS, Glyn NATURALISTS AT SEA - Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
$25.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven, USA. 2015. 1st paperback edition. XVIII, 309 PP with 1 map of "The Pacific Ocean" on double page, plus 24 pages with 39 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Faint foxing spots on endpapers and outside edges. Near fine. 19.8 x 13. 9780300205404
Philibert Commerson (Bougainville expedition) ... Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders. ...
66741 WILLIAMS, Peter BEACON ON THE ROCK - The dramatic history of Lighthouses from Ancient Greece to the present day
$35.00 AUD
Barron's / Quintet Book. New York. 2001. 1st US edition. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Winstanley's Lighthouse upon the Eddystone Rock. Eps: Fresnel lens. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 33.2 x 24.5. 0764153498
76019 WILLIAMSON, John, ROSSITER, Heather, KILLICK, David ... IN MAWSON'S FOOTSTEPS (in 3 parts)
$30.00 AUD
Mercury / Tasmanian Government / Norske Skog. Hobart. 2011 1st edition: 21, 22 & 23 November 2011. Forewords by: Part 1 & 2: Gary Bailey, editor / part 3: David O'Byrne, Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology. Each part with 16 pages, for a total of 48 PP with 34 b/w and 65 colour illustrations. Illustrated soft wrappers, staples removed. Near fine. 30 x 27.
Part 1: "Mawson's Legacy". The race to the Pole / Shackleton's courage , by John Williamson. Mawson's unremembered men / The forgotten Tasmanian, by Heather Rossiter. Mawson's incredible endurance / An Australian expedition takes shape / At home in the Blizzard / A terrible catastrophe, by David Killick. Part 2: " World of Science": Why study Antarctica / Living in Antarctica / Early Exploration / Magnificent Mawson / A Scientific hero / Hobart: a global hub for research, by Peter Boyer. ... Part 3: "Tasmanian Connections": South to Antarctica / The French Connection, by Michelle Paine. Butcher's son returns / Fine dining on the Ice / The call of nature / Life on the ice is picture perfect ..., by Jennifer Crawley.
70256 WILLIS, Sam THE STRUGGLE FOR SEA POWER - The Royal Navy vs The World, 1775-1782
$20.00 AUD
Atlantic Books. London. 2018. 1st paperback edition of the 2015 original. XXXIV, 572 PP with 18 charts and 25 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 16 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, o/wise fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9781848878471
18070 WILSON, Charles & PROCTOR, David (editors) 1688 THE SEABORNE ALLIANCE AND DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTION
$30.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum. Greenwich. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. Preface by Professor Charles Wilson. 176 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, maps, plans, paintings). Inside front cover: Mary. Inside back cover: William. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong: 20 x 21. 0948065036
13 papers presented at the International Symposium held 5-6 October 1988 to celebrate the accension of William III and Mary to the Throne of England. Anglo-Dutch maritime relations to 1702, by C. Wilson. The Dutch influence on British shipbuilding, by Alan McGowan. The World of William and Mary in Asian seas, by C. Boxer. Maps, charts and diplomacy in the Glorious Revolution, by Helen Wallis...
75664 WILSON, David (editor) ISSUES IN REGIONAL MARITIME STRATEGY
$15.00 AUD
Sea Power Centre / Royal Australian Navy. Canberra. 1998. 1st edition. No. 5 in Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs. Foreword by Commodore K. J. Scarce. X, 65 PP with 1 graph, 2 diagrams, 3 tables, 6 maps and 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0642295658
Papers by Foreign Visiting Military Fellows with the RAN Maritime Studies Program - 1998.
75650 WILSON, David M. THE VIKINGS AND THEIR ORIGINS - Scandinavia in the First Millenium
$15.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1996. Reprint of the 1989 edition. 144 PP with 15 colour and 95 b/w illustrations. Fp: Post in the form of an animal head. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 21 x 15. 9780500275429
70060 WINSTONE, John L. THE MARTINGALE CHRONICLES (in 2 Volumes: 1933-1941 / 1942-1953)
$25.00 AUD
LITC Press. Hove, UK. c. 2000. 1st Ed. Part One (1933-41): 265 PP with b/w illustrations. Part Two (1942-53): 278 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 20.5 x 14.2. 9780954318321/69
Historical novel about life at sea, before the age of modern technology.
16980 WINTON, John FOR THOSE IN PERIL - Fifty Years of Royal Navy Search and Rescue
$25.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 317 PP with 83 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.8. 070904917X
From the Air-Rescue launches of World War II, to the planes and helicopters of the Modern Search and Rescue.
69369 WYRTKI, Klaus OCEANOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE INTERNATIONAL INDIAN OCEAN EXPEDITION
$80.00 AUD
National Science Foundation / University of Hawaii. Washington, D.C. / Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1971. November 1971 edition. (4), XI, 531 PP with 36 b/w photos of Oceanographic Research Vessels, 5 tables (A to E), over 10 b/w figures and colour illustrations (diagrams & graphs, location maps & maps). Fp: Painting (in colour) of the seabed of the Indian Ocean, with illustrated protective tissue guard. Hard cover, gilt crest of the NSF and title on front board and spine. Covers with very light wear. Faint foxing. Near fine copy. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 31.5 x 40.
75338 YOUNG, John M.R. AUSTRALIA'S PACIFIC FRONTIER, Economic and Cultural Expansion into the Pacific: 1795-1885
$15.00 AUD
Cassell Australia. Melbourne. 1967. 1st edition in Problems in Australian History series. (6), 111, (3 index) PP. Library binding: hard cover with original soft wrappers pasted down, clear plastic protection. Ex-library copy with stamps on title page, and number on spine. Very good working copy. 21.8 x 14.
Sealing trade, bay and offshore whaling, beachcomber community, sandalwood, blackbirding...
41405 YSKA, Redmer AN ERRAND OF MERCY - Captain Jacob Eckhoff and the loss of the Kakanui
$20.00 AUD
Banshee Books. Wellington. 2001. 1st Ed. 106 PP with 26 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0473076993
Attempted rescue of a sealing gang stranded on Macquarie Island.
Historic Naval Ships Association of North America. Annapolis, Maryland. 1993. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dean C. Allard. VI, (2), 54, PP with 75 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 28 x 2.1.3..
A guide to more than 65 classic ships on public display.
