Catalogue - Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books

19687
ALLCOT, John & THE AUSTRALASIAN PIONEERS' CLUB
THE SHIPS THAT LAUNCHED A NATION: Sydney. c. 1988. The Australasian Pioneers' Club. Limited edition of 500. Set of 4 unframed reproductions of paintings by one of Australia's leading maritime artists, John Allcot (1888-1973). No.115/500, signed by Rodney Allcot, the artist's son. Each colour print around 49 cm & 65 cm. with overall size 66.4 cm x 83.6 cm. together with a 6 page descriptive booklet (pictured). Sold as a set of 4.
The ROEBUCK of Captain William Dampier, H.M. Bark ENDEAVOUR of Captain James Cook, H.M.S. SIRIUS, guardship to the First Fleet, and H.M.S. SUPPLY.
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$300

40783
ANDERSON, A. T. I.
DRYDOCKING AND REPAIRS (in Transactions of the Institute of Marine Engineers): London. 1969. Institute of Marine Engineers. Volume 81, No. 9, September 1969. Contains article P. 305 to 308 with 2 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.6.
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$20

65882
ANDERSON, Linda Frylink
SAILING IN MY SARONG: Around the World - A 30 Year Dream: Sunshine Coast, Qld. 2011. Author. 2nd edition of the 2010 original. (6), 386 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, headpieces, maps, sketches and photos) and colour illustrations (photos and watercolours). FEP: Valiam's Circumnavigation route. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Near fine. 23.5 x 16.5. 9780980875300
Circumnavigation of the yacht "Valiam": Mooloolaba, Qld: 5 November 2007 ... Palau (01/01/2008) , Philippines, Borneo, Cocos Keeling, Rodrigues, Mauritius, Reunion, South Africa (7/10/2008 to 17 Feb 2009) ... St Helena, Panama Canal ... Galapagos, Marquesas ... Mooloolaba 26 November 2009.
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$45

61827
ATKINSON, Jenni
A GIRL IN SQUARE RIG - Four Months Before The Mast: London. 1977. Arlington Books. 1st Ed. 203 PP, plus 16 pages with b/w illustrations (1 map and 34 photos). Eps: details of Brigantine "Phoenix" and Sail Plan. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 24 x 16.
Deckhand for crossing the Atlantic on the brigantine "Phoenix".
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$10

62605
AUSTRALIA POST
LIGHTHOUSES OF AUSTRALIA - Poster: Melbourne. 2002. Australia Post. Poster in colour. Fine. Format: 84 x 59.5
Macquarie - Troubridge Island - Cape Naturaliste - Cape Bruny.
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$5

71274
BAINBRIDGE, Cyril
PAVILIONS ON THE SEA: A History of the Seaside Pleasure Pier: London. 1986. Robert Hale. 1st Ed. 221 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout (photos, drawings). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 20. 0709027907
A truly British institution.
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$25

71139
BARRATT, Glynn
THE RUSSIAN NAVY AND AUSTRALIA TO 1825, The Days Before Suspicion: Melbourne. 1979. Hawthorn Press. 1st Ed. V, 118 PP with 2 maps, plus 4 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0725602287
A survey of the Russians' early visits to Australia: social, naval & scientific activities.
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$20

19982
BASCOM, Willard
DEEP WATER, ANCIENT SHIPS: New York. 1976. Doubleday & Co. 1st Ed. X, (4), 226 PP with 7 tables and 18 figures by the author, plus 16 pages with 20 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 14.2. 0385089821
The treasure vault of the Mediterranean. Wrecks of old ships on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, containing unique information and artifacts. Locating, inspecting and salvaging...
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$20

70963
BASS, Gordon
THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURER: Sydney. 2017. Ebury Press / Penguin Random House Australia. 1st Ed. (14), 365, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (2 plans of "Half-Safe" and 3 maps), plus 16 pages with 7 colour and 31 b/w photos). Pictorial soft covers. New. 23.3 x 15.3. 9781925324990
Bern Carlin's epic journey around the world by amphibious jeep.
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$35

68234
BAUGHMAN, James P.
THE MALLORYS OF MYSTIC: Six Generations in American Maritime Enterprise: Mystic Seaport. 1972. The Marine Historical Association. 1st edition. XVIII, 496, (10) PP with 5 figures and 41 tables, plus 36 pages with 53 b/w illustrations. Fp: Packet ship "Eliza Mallory". Eps: Advertisement for Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines, 1911. Cloth cover, gilt decoration (house flag) on front board, gilt title on spine. Stamps "University of Tasmania" on endpapers, outside edges and title page, and remnants of shelf number at foot of spine. Otherwise, contents are near fine. 23.5 x 15.7. 081954048X
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$15

41149
BAVIER, Robert N.
SAILING TO WIN: London. 1965. Adlard Coles. Completely revised edition, 12th printing. XVIII, (2), 203 PP with 60 figures, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.8 x 18.4.
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$10

42003
BAYLISS-SMITH, Tim, BEDFORD, Richard, BROOKFIELD, Harold, & LATHAM, Marc
ISLANDS, ISLANDERS AND THE WORLD - The colonial and post-colonial experience of eastern Fiji: Cambridge. 1988. C.U.P. 1st Ed., in Cambridge Human Geography series. XVII, 323 PP with 8 b/w photos, 32 tables and 37 figures. Eps: Map of Fiji. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 052126877X
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$30

69055
BEAN, C. E. W.
FLAGSHIPS THREE: London. 1913. Alston Rivers, Ltd. 1st edition. XVI, 340 PP with 25 head-pieces, 6 tail-pieces by the author plus 4 b/w plates. Fp: The first flagship at Gokstad. Cloth cover, gilt title and decoration on front cover & spine. Spine frayed at extremities and a little sunned and light shelf wear on corners. Gutter of front endpaper starting. Occasional light foxing, o/wise a very good bright clean copy of the scarce first edition. 22.2 x 14.5.
The creation of the Royal Australian Navy and its role, decided at the Naval Conference of 1909. Describes the settlement of England by seafarers (Vikings, Normans), the Royal Navy and its expansion (rule Britannia..), the U.S. Navy and finally, the Royal Australian Navy.
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$120

22284
BEAVER, Paul
MODERN COMBAT SHIPS 2 - INVINCIBLE CLASS: London. 1984. Ian Allan. 1st Ed., No. 2 in the Modern Combat Ships series. 96 PP with 3 organigrams, 5 figures & 117 b/w photos. Title spread: Invincible with only the Sea Dart Missile System. Half title page: Illustrious after its 1982 deployment in the South Atlantic. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 24 x 17.5. 0711013861
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$15

44639
BELGRAVE, James (text) & GERARD, Bernard (photos)
BAHRAIN: Paris. c. 1980. Editions Delroisse. 1st Ed. 144 PP with colour photographs by Bernard Gérard. FEP: Map of Bahrain Islands and legends. REP: Location map of Bahrain. Hard cover, dj. Text in English, French and German. Near fine. 27.8 x 21.6.
History, Development the People, Manama, Boat Building, Muharraq, Isa Town, Bapco, Agriculture, Pottery, Arts, Sports & Games.
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$25

52473
BENNETT, Geoffrey
NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: London. 1983. Pan Books. Reprint of the 1974 paperback edition, in the Grand Strategy series. X, 308 PP with 14 maps and diagrams, plus 8 pages with 18 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (soiled). Spine creased, ageing of paper, foxing spots on edges. Good reading copy. 19.7 x 13. 0330238620
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$5

55556
BERNAERTS, Arnd
BERNAERTS' GUIDE TO THE 1982 UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA, Including the text of the UN Convention and Final Act: London. 1988. Fairplay Publications. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Satya N. Nandan. XIV, 363 PP with tables. Soft covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 15.2. 1870093151
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$30

68626
BLACK, Lesley
SEA GYPSY: Kettering, Tasmania. 1997. Author Revised reprint of the 1997 original. (14), 221 PP with b/w illustrations (1 plan, 10 maps, 6 tailpieces and 22 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0646325655
Sailing the South West Pacific on the yacht "Thorendor".
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$20

10658
BLAKE, George
BRITISH SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDERS: London. 1946. Collins. 1st Ed., in the Britain in Pictures series. 48 PP with 29 b/w illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Decorated hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 16.5.
The development of ships, and the people who design and build them.
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$20

65226
BLIGH, William
THE BLIGH NOTEBOOK - 'Rough Account - Lieutenant Wm Bligh's voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor': Canberra. 1987. Allen & Unwin / NLA. Transcription and Facsimile, edited by John Bach. XIV, 336 with 3 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations including 2 large folded plates with plans of Bounty launch, chart from Tofua to Isle of Java (with 3 insets) and painting of Kupang about 1803, & the facsimile of the Notebook (Page 221 to 328), draft list of mutineers (pages 331 to 336). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 24.6 x 16.8. 0049090321 / 0642104042
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$30

71225
BONNEMAISON, Joël
THE TREE AND THE CANOE, History and Ethnogeography of Tanna: Honolulu. 1994. University of Hawaii Press / South Sea Books. 1st English edition of the 1986 French original: "La Dernière Ile". Translated and adapted by Josée Pénot-Demetry. XXIV, 368 PP with 10 maps & 33 b/w photos, and 3 head-pieces. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with light wear, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 24 x 16. 9780824815257
Resistance and resilience to Western cultural contacts.
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$100

62742
BOXER, Charles Ralph
THE GREAT SHIP FROM AMACON - Annals of Macao and the Old Japan Trade, 1555-1640: Lisboa. 1959. Centro de Estudos Historicos UltraMarinos. 1st Ed. XI, 361 PP, plus 1 map, 6 plates and 1 large folded map of Japan at back. Fp: The Great Ship from Macao, circa 1552. Soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of preliminary page, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 23.6 x 16.2.
The saga of the Macau-Japan trade from its beginning in 1555, to its end, in 1640. Part I: The annual Japan voyage. Part II: Privileges and duties of the Captain-Majors of the Japan voyage. Cargoes carried between Macao and Nagasaki. Hazards of navigation in the China sea...(some of the letters of part II are in Portuguese).
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$200

44974
BRADBEER, Jonathan (editor)
PAUL ELVSTRÖM EXPLAINS THE YACHT RACING RULES - 1989-92 Rules: London. 1989. Adlard Coles. Revised and reset edition of the 1965 original. 192 PP with 1 portrait of Paul Elvström and many sketches in colour, plus wallet with models. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19 x 12.5. 0229118380
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$5

58483
BRADBURY, Georgina, CONSOLI, Stella, COPLAND, Gordon, MATTHEWS, Shirley & SOUTHWOOD, Judith
FIELD TRIP REPORT ON WHALING STATION SITES ON EYRE PENINSULA: FISHERY BAY: Adelaide. 1997. School of Cultural Studies (Archaeology), Flinders University Report. 127, (90 appendix) PP (recto only) with 1 diagram, 4 tables, 10 maps, 25 drawings and 28 plates (4 of them tipped in and in colour), plus 2 large folded plans of Fishery Bay loosely inserted. Soft cover, clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Note to previous owner on content page, dated and signed by co-author Gordon Copland. Fine. 29.8 x 22.
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$30

32703
BROCHADO, Costa, MARJAY, Frederico, et al.. (editors)
DOM HENRIQUE THE NAVIGATOR: Lisbon. 1960. Executive Committee for the Quincentenary Commemorations of the death of the Infante Dom Henrique. 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...
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$60

36344
BROWER, Kenneth (editor)
GALAPAGOS: THE FLOW OF WILDNESS - Volume 1, Discovery: San Francisco. 1970. Siera Club / Ballantine Book. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Loren Eiseley. 160 PP with 1 map and 68 colour photos by Eliot Porter. Pictorial card cover. Note inside front cover and signature on half-title page, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16.5.
Galapagos by discoverers (Fray Tomas eps. Locastelli Auril), corsairs (Edward Davis), sailors (Benjamin Morrell, Herman Melville) and scientists (Darwin, Beebe).
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$15

17219
BROWN, Capt. Charles H.
DEVIATION AND THE DEVIASCOPE, Including the Practice and Theory of COMPASS ADJUSTMENT, also a Note on the Gyro-Compass: Glasgow. 1939. Brown, Son & Ferguson. 6th Ed. XII, 278 PP with 6 tables (table III with folded side), 65 b/w & 48 colour figures including 9 b/w photos, plus 1 folded diagram & 5 large folded charts. Fp: Roof Deviascope. Cloth cover, Title on front cover and spine. Corners of cover, head and foot of spine frayed. Name of previous owner on front endspaper. Light foxing, o/wise very good. 21.6 x 14.
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$20

35429
BROWN, Ernest B.
RADAR NAVIGATION MANUAL: Defence Mapping Agency / Hydrographic Center Washington. 1975. 2nd edition of the 1971 original. Publication No. 1310. X, 224 PP with figures. Pictorial limp cover (rubbed). Foxing. Stamp of the Sea School of Queensland on front cover and title page. Good. Oblong: 19.5 x 26.
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$15

62770
BROXAM, Graeme
ADMIRAL - The History, Recovery and Restoration of Tasmania's Oldest Commercial Vessel: Hobart. 2009. Navarine Publishing. 1st edition limited to 100 copies. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (line drawing at centrefold, 5 engravings, 1 plan, sketches and 30 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 21 x 14.8., 9780975133163
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$20

32402
BROXAM, Graeme
A STEAMSHIP FOR HOBART, S.S. REEMERE 1909: Canberra. 1992. Navarine. 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.
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$20

64661
BROXAM, Graeme
YACHTS ON THE DERWENT IN OLD PICTURE POSTCARDS: Hobart. 2013. Navarine Publishing First printing limited to 100 copies. 80 PP with 59 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 21 x 14.8., 9780975133194
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$35

71173
BROXAM, Graeme & NASH, Michael
TASMANIAN SHIPWRECKS - Volume 1 1797-1899: Hobart. 2020. Navarine Publishing. Revised edition of the 2nd edtion of 2012 (original of 1998. No. 51B in the Roebuck series. XIV, 318 PP with b/w or colour illustrations (charts, maps, plans, drawings, paintings and photos). FEP: Charts of Tasmania and approaches to Derwent River and Hobart-Town. REP: chart of Bass Strait with 10 insets. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and spine, dj. Signed on title page by Graeme Broxam, publisher and co-author. Fine. 31 x 24.8. 9780648725220
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$65

31081
BRUCE, Erroll
CAPE HORN TO PORT: Auckland. 1978. Book Reps (NZ) Limited. 1st New Zealand edition. 175 PP with 12 colour and 100 b/w photos, 15 sail plans and 16 maps. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25 x 19. 0473000067
The official account of the Round-the-World Race of 1977-1978 . Portsmouth - Cape Town - Auckland - Rio de Janeiro - Portsmouth.
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$15

71230
BULL, J. C. & WILLIAMS, Peter J.
STORY OF GIPPSLAND SHIPPING, Discoveries of the Early Navigators, Lakes Steamers, Coastal Windjammers, Shipwrecks and Famous Captains: Authors. Metung, Vic. 1967. 1st Ed. 110 PP with 1 map, 3 tail-pieces & 32 b/w illustrations (25 of them photos). Pictorial stiff covers. A near fine copy. 21.5 x 13.8.
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$30

38220
BURGESS, Robert H. (editor)
THE SEA SERPENT JOURNAL - Hugh McGulloch Gregory's Voyage around the World in a Clipper Ship 1854-55: Charlottesville, Newport News. 1975. University Press of Virginia/Mariners Museum. 1st Ed. Museum Publication No. 32. XVIII, 142 PP, plus 1 folded plate (sails carried by clipper ship Sea Serpent) and 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Title page: vignette with Sea Serpent. Eps: chart of the clipper Sea Serpent around the world 1854-1855. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (rubbed). Near fine. 24.2 x 16. 0813905893
New York 24 February 1854, Cape Horn 25 April 1854, San Francisco June 1854, Hong Kong and Shanghai September 1854... New York 16 February 1855.
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$15

64793
BURNS, PHILP
Wonderful Inclusive Tours to: CANADA - AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - MEXICO: Sydney. 1938. Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd / Travel Department. October 1938 edition. 16 PP with 2 b/w photos. Stapled wrappers, pictorial front (the Yosemite Valley). Slight ageing of paper with company stamp on top front. Very good. 21.5 x 13.5.
Tours to the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, commencing 18th February 1939.
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$20

20000
BURROWS, Denys
CLIPPER SHIP: Sydney. 1965. Educational Press. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 23 b/w illustrations by Graham Wade. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Note on front endpaper. Light foxing on outside page edges and endpapers, o/wise contents near fine. 22.3 x 14.2.
Adventures on the tea-clipper Dauntless of Father (Captain) and young son (Apprentice), on the run Australia to China. (Juvenile adventure based on the radio serial Tall Ships of A.B.C.).
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$10

71149
CABLE, Boyd
A HUNDRED YEAR HISTORY OF THE P. & O. - Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company 1837-1937: London. 1937. Ivor Nicholson and Watson 1st Ed. X, 289 PP with 10 pages of silhouettes of past and present ships, plus 18 plates (6 b/w & 12 colour). Fp (in colour & with tissue guard): The Armorial Bearings of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Eps: Maps of P & O routes. Cloth cover, gilt-engraved coat-of-arms on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on dust jacket and pages (some heavy on front outside edge), but not affecting colour plates. A very good copy with the scarce dust jacket. 24 x 19.
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$60

65222
CARY, William S.
WRECKED ON THE FEEJEES - Experience of a Nantucket Man, the sole survivor of crew of Whaleship "Oeno", who lived for nine years among Cannibals of South Pacific: Nantucket, Mass. 1928. The Inquirer and Mirror Press. 1st edition with a foreword by Harry B. Turner. (4), 74 PP. Contemporary card covers retaining original wrappers which are pasted down. Staples removed. Few tears repaired. Name of previous owner on rear blank page. Paper a little browned, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 19 x 14.5.
An account of the Nantucket whaling ship "Oeno" wrecked on Turtle Island on 5th April, 1825.
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$100

71188
CAYLEY, Neville W.
THE SOLVOL BIRD BOOK - 54 Australian Birds: Sydney. c.1940. Solvol / J. Kitchen & Sons Pty. Ltd. 1st Ed. Foreword S.R. Thomas, Gould League of Bird Lovers and Director of Education N.S.W. No pagination, 28 PP with 54 colour illustrations by Neville W. Cayley. Pictorial soft covers a little soiled and chipped around edges, o/wise very good. Scarce. Oblong: 12 x 18.5.
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$30

43267
CHAUVELOT, Robert
ILES DE PARADIS - CEYLAN JAVA TAHITI: Paris. 1925. Berger-Levrault. 1st Ed. XIV, 329 PP with 24 head pieces, plus 34 b/w plates with 65 photos. Illustrated soft cover (rubbed and protected). LACKS the frontispiece (planispheric map). Ageing of paper around the edges, o/wise a very good copy. French text. 23.7 x 18.8.
Reminiscences of voyages from Marseilles to the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Indonesia, the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti.
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$30

14253
CHESTERTON, D. Ridley
FOREIGN COASTAL and Short Sea FREIGHTERS: London. 1963. Ian Allan. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Finkenau). Date on front cover, o/wise very good. Small format: 15.2 x 10.2.
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$10

50721
CHICHESTER, Francis
THE ROMANTIC CHALLENGE: Cassell. London. 1971. 2nd impression of the November 1971 original. XII, 194 PP with 3 maps, 2 drawings by Charles Hurford, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Fp: The success of my romantic challenge hung on this boom and its two predecessors. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0304938696
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$15

70892
CHORLTON, Martyn (editor)
VICKERS - Company Profile 1911-1977: Cudham, Kent.. 2013. Kelsey Publishing / Aeroplane Magazine. May 2013 edition. 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos), plus a large folded plate with 2 plans (scale 1:144). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781907426629
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$10

70798
CLAMMER, Richard & KITTRIDGE, Alan
PASSENGER STEAMERS OF THE RIVER DART: Truro, Cornwall. 1988. Twelveheads Press. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 2 maps, facsimile of notices, engravings, profiles and 80 b/w photos, plus large folded plan of "P.S. Kingswear Castle" at rear of book. Inside front cover: Maps of the Rivers Dart and Fal. Pictorial card cover. Fine. Oblong: 19.7 x 21. 0906294185
Steamboats, steamtugs...
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$20

67828
CLAREKSON STANFIELD, William
Colour Print - THE MOUTH OF THE SCHELDT, Old Holland, 1836: Amsterdam. c. 1980. Frameable print tipped on support sheet (art paper) with a decorated margin. Caption in Dutch and English on lower margin. Details (Dutch and English) on Painter and Painting tipped on recto of support sheet. Faint foxing. Very good. Format: painting 20.5 x 28 & support sheet . 25 x 33.
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$5

66933
CLARK, Mary Shelley
SHIPS AND SHORES AND TRADING PORTS. A Social and Working Life of Coastal Harbours and River Towns in New South Wales: Waterways Authority of NSW. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Honourable Carl Scully. VII, 8-218 PP with 31 location maps and 125 b/w photoss. Inside covers: sketch maps of the coasts of New South Wales (North Coast & South Coast). Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.8 x 21. 0731388984
A Centenary of Federation Celebration.
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$40

16440
CLEMONS, Elizabeth
THE SEVEN SEAS: New York. 1971. Alfred A. Knopf. 1st Library edition. (14), 192, (2) PP with 4 diagrams, 12 maps and 60 b/w photos. Fp: Shore of one Aleutian islands. Decorated cloth cover. Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 21.2 x 17. 0394922921
The lure of the Seven Seas: stories and little known facts on distant seas.
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$10

71141
CLOSE, Robert S.
MORN OF YOUTH: Georgian House. Melbourne. c.1949. 1st Ed. (8), 176 PP. Cloth cover, dj (illustration by Geoffrey C. Ingleton). Dust jacket with a few small chips. Faint foxing. Near fine. 19.8 x 13.2.
The five years at sea of a young lad from Melbourne (1918-1923). Voyage on the barque "Shandon" then on steamships. He missed his Mate's ticket because he was found to be colour blind.
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$30

54909
COCKS, Graeme
'LITTLE DOVE' (Duyfken) FLIES AWAY (in Signals No. 55): Sydney. 2001. Australian National Maritime Museum. No. 55, June-August 2001. 36 PP, containing article between P. 24 and 27 with 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Voyage of the Duyfken, a VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) replica, from Australia to Texel.
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$10

70998
COLES, Adlard & DUFF, Peter
MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1962 - Volume XI: London & New York. 1963. Adlard Coles & John de Graff. 1st Ed. Volume XI, 1963, introduced by Peter Duff. 184 PP with tables & bw illust. (photos & plans). Fp: "Savannah", the world's first nuclear-powered cargo/passenger vessel. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, chipped dj (slightly rubbed and foxed). Ex library copy with stamps on endpapers and title page. Very good copy. Oblong: 15 x 22.5.
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$20

62526
COLES, Adlard & HARDY, A. C.
MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1958, With Part II for Ships of under 1000 tons gross - Volume VII: Southampton. 1959. Adlard Coles. 1st Ed., Volume VII, 1959. Introduced by A. C. Hardy. 256 PP with tables, b/w illust. (photos, plans, profiles), & 27 pages with bw adverts. Eps: Colour adverts. Fp: S.S. Brasil, photographed in New York. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Light wear, o/wise very good. Oblong: 15 x 22.5.
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$25

62528
COLES, Adlard & HARDY, A. C.
MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1960. With Part II for Ships of about 1000 tons gross and under - Volume IX: Southampton. 1961. Adlard Coles. 1st Ed., Volume IX, 1961, with an introduction by A. C. Hardy. 208 PP with tables & bw illust. (photos & plans) & 21 pages with bw & colour adverts. Eps: Colour adverts. Fp: "Oriana", the 41,923 tons gross twin-screw turbine steamship for P & O lines. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. Oblong: 15 x 22.5.
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$30

54438
COLLINS, Dale
SEA-TRACKS OF THE SPEEJACKS ROUND THE WORLD: New York. 1923. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1st Ed. Introduction by Jeanne Bouchet Gowen. LXXVI, (2), 286 PP, plus 1 map on double page and 90 pages with over 105 b/w photos. Fp: The Speejacks, the first motor boat to sail around the world, entering Sydney Harbour. Eps: Track of Speejacks. Green hard cover, gilt title on spine. Signature of previous owner on title-page, light foxing on outside edges, o/wise a very good plus copy. 24.2 x 16.8.
A 16 month voyage of a 30m yacht. She was towed between Panama and Takaroa, Tuamotu Archipelago, by the Eastern Queen of the United States Shipping Board. Papeete, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Sydney to Cooktown, New Guinea, Indonesia, Seychelles, Red Sea, Mediterranean, ... New York.
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$45

55509
COOK, James & CLARK, John
COOK'S ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL: The Inside Story: Canberra. 2008. National Library of Australia. 1st Ed. 194, (2) PP with 19 facsimile pages of manuscript and 72 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 18.7 x 18.4. 9780642276506
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70995
COOKE, Arthur O.
A VOYAGE ON A LINER: London. 1936. Oxford University Press. Reprint in the "Life at Sea" series, of the 1912 original. 110 PP with 4 colour illustrations and 36 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 4 drawings and 30 photos). Fp (in colour): "getting under weigh". Blue cloth cover with light wear, illustrations on front board. Brief note to previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise neear fine. Scarce. 17.8 x 12
Voyage in Spring 1912 to the Canary Isles.
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$80

20589
COWAN, Rex
CASTAWAY & WRECKED: London. 1978. Duckworth. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 1 map, facsimile of newspapers & 54 b/w photos. Fp: Facsimile of newspaper clippings. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped), name of previous owner on ffep, o/wise fine. 28 x 22. 0715611453
Wrecks on the Scilly Islands and the Cornwall coasts.
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$10

41810
CRITTENDEN, Victor
THE NORFOLK ISLAND PROPOSAL OF 1785: Canberra. 1974. The Mulini Press. 1st Ed. , No. 1 in the Commemoration Series "The Bicentenary of the Discovery of Norfolk Island on 10th October 1774". No pagination, 12 PP. Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 13.7.
On the instruction to the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, and their reply.
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$15

60384
CROPP, Glynnis M., WATTS, Noel R., COLLINS, Roger D. J. & HOWE, K. R. (editors)
PACIFIC JOURNEYS: Essays in Honour of John Dunmore: Wellington. 2005. Victoria University Press. 1st Ed. 232 PP with 2 tables and 4 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on title page signed by John Dunmore. Very good. 24 x 17. 0864735073
16 papers. 4 in French: France in the Pacifique during the "Restauration" (1815-1830), by Christian Huetz de Lemps... 12 in English: A French garden in Tasmania, by Edward Duyker... Patrick O'Reilly: Biographer of the Pacific, by Hugh Laracy... French Whalers and the Maori, by Peter Tremewan. French Whalers at Otago, by Ian Church...
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$40

66474
CRUISING TRAVEL
FROM THE BRIDGE, Issue 3, Autumn 2005: Sydney. 2005. Cruiseco & Edge Publishing Group. Issue 3, Autumn 2005. 32 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Tahiti and Bora Bora, by Susan Buckland. ... P&O's: Oriana, by Gil McLachlan / Aurora, by Rochelle Tubb.
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$5

71155
CUMPSTON, J. S.
FIRST VISITORS TO BASS STRAIT: Canberra. 1973. Roebuck. 1st Ed. Roebuck Society Publication No. 7. VIII, 103 PP with 5 maps, plus 12 pages with 17 b/w photos & 1 chart on double page. FEP: First chart of Bass Strait. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.8 x 18.5. 095008588X
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$60

35410
CURREY, John (editor)
AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES: Melbourne. 1973. Cassell. Reprint of the 1972 original. Juvenile edition in the "Southern Cross" series. (6), 117 PP with 20 colour and 20 b/w illustrations by Don Angus. Pictorial laminated boards. Near fine. 25.6 x 19. 304939161
Voyage of Disaster (Batavia), by Bruce Edwards. The narrow escape (Endeavour), by Lynne Stronell... The wrong ship (Investigator), by K.A. Austin...
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$10

22040
CUTLER, Carl C.
IMPORTANT TYPES OF MERCHANT SAILING CRAFT: Mystic. 1958. The Marine Historical Association, Inc. Reprint of the 1930 original. 8 PP with 22 drawings. Pict. card cover. Fine. 22.7 x 15.5.
Reprint of Vol. 1 No. 1, December 15, 1930.
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$10

51255
DALE, Michelle
TASMANIA A PLACE TO REMEMBER: Launceston. 1996. The Tasmanian Book Company. Reprint of the 1994 edition. 160 PP with 1 map and over 110 colour photos by Dennis Harding. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19 x 14.3. 1876095032
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$15

71220
DALKIN, R. Nixon
COLONIAL ERA CEMETERY OF NORFOLK ISLAND: Sydney. 1985. Pacific Publications. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1981 edition (original of 1974). 91, (5 blank) PP with 1 facsimile of a poster and 39 b/w photos (34 on gravestones), plus 1 folded plan of the cemetery tipped in on page 19. Card covers, pictorial front. Paper ageing a little, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 27. 085807057X
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$25

71205
DALLAS, K.M.
TRADING POSTS OR PENAL COLONIES, The Commercial Significance of Cook's New Holland Route to the Pacific: Devonport, Tasmania. 1969. Richmond & Sons. 1st Ed. (2), 132 PP. FEP: Sketch map of Pacific Ocean & hulk at Deptford. REP: Hulk and convicts screening ballast at Woolwich. Pictorial stiff covers with a small repair at top of spine, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
The choice of Botany Bay, the discoveries of Cook and others, fur trade of the North Pacific and whaling in the South Pacific.
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$30

22771
D'ALPUGET, Lou
LET'S GO SAILING: Sydney. 1951. Ure Smith. 1st Ed., No. 9 in the Ure Smith Miniature series. 80 PP with 5 bw illust. and 48 bw photos. Fp: N.S. Wales Anniversary Regatta Cup. Decorated card cover a little rubbed on corners. Small dedicatory note in inside front cover, o/wise very good. 19 x 12.8.
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$5

49232
DANIEL, Hawthorne
SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS: London. 1925. William Heinemann Ltd. 1st UK edition, with an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. XVI, (2), 321 PP with 108 drawings by Francis J. Rigney. Fp: The Caravels of Columbus. Blue cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Few foxing spots on outside edges, offsetting on endpapers, o/wise fine. Scarce. 23.8 x 16.
Ships through the ages: development of ships, of sails and perfection of sail: clipper ships. Development of steamships, ships of war, ports and port equipment, the art of seamanship, the science of navigation, ... very nicely illustrated.
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$35

10339
DARBY, Madge
WHO CAUSED THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY ?: Sydney. 1965. Angus & Robertson. 1st Ed. (6), 127 PP with 1head & 13 tail pieces. Vignette on title page. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket has light wear, o/wise a fine copy. 22 x 14.
Investigation into the behaviour of both Bligh & Fletcher Christian plus the role of the third person who the author thinks directed the mutiny from behind the scenes...
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$25

45181
DAY, David
COMING SOUTH - Australia's days of sail: Australia Post. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed. 40 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Special folder "The Romance of Sail" with 4 unused stamps loosely inserted. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0642281599
Early settlers: aborigines and Macassan. Explorers... Convict ships... Clipper ships.
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$20

37820
de BISSCHOP, Eric
VERS NOUSANTARA ou l'enigme Polynésienne: Paris. 1963. La Table Ronde. 1st Ed., introduced by Robert Argod. 247, (6) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos. Pictorial card covers (lightly rubbed and soiled). Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages. Contents very good. French text. Scarce. 20 x 14.
Settlement of Polynesia and voyages of the Polynesian races.
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$25

30197
DE BOOY, A. (editor)
DE DERDE REIS VAN DE V.O.C. NAAR OOST-INDIË onder het beleid van Admiraal Paulus Van Caerden uitgezeild in 1606 (in 2 volumes): The Hague. 1968 & 1970. Martinus Nijhoff. 1st Ed. Volumes LXX & LXXI in De Linschoten-Vereeniging series. Volume I: XIX, 213 PP with 1 map and 1 figure, plus 17 b/w plates and 1 folded map (voyage from Holland to Ternate) at back. Fp: The Island of Ternate. Volume II: XVI, 274, (1 errata) PP, plus 13 b/w plates and 2 folded map at back. Fp: Armed merchant ship, early 17th century. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Dutch text. Fine. 25 x 16.5.
The 3rd voyage of V.O.C. ships to the East Indies.
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$45

15800
de BROSSES, Charles
HISTOIRE DES NAVIGATIONS AUX TERRES AUSTRALES (In Two Volumes): Amsterdam. 1967. N. Israel. Bibliotheca Australiana No. 1. Facsimile reprint of 1756 original. Volume 1: (4), XIV, 464 PP, 4 errata & 4 folded charts. Volume 2: (4), 514 PP, 2 errata & 3 folded maps. Simile vellum with gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Fine. French text. 26 x 21.
History of the navigations towards the Southern Lands. Early history & discoveries in the South Seas. Sold as a set.
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$125

71201
DE BROSSES, Charles
LE PRESIDENT DE BROSSES EN ITALIE - Lettres Familières Ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740 (in 2 volumes): Paris. 1858. Didier et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs.. 2nd Ed. updated, annotated and with an essay on the life and writings of the author, by M.R. Coulomb. Vol. I: 4 adverts. (4), LX, 460 PP. Vol. II: (4), 504 PP, plus (2), 15, (3) adverts. Soft covers lightly soiled and chipped around edges with sunned spines. French text. Foxing. Very good. 22.5 x 14
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$150

13251
De CHASTELLUX, Marquis
TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE YEARS 1780, 1781 and 1782 [in Two Volumes]: Williamsburg, Virginia. 1963. Institute of Early American History and Culture. Revised translation with Introduction and Notes by Howard C. Rice, Jr. Volume I: XXIV, 362 PP with 4 maps and 2 facsimiles of documents in text plus 16 pages with 20 bw illust. Fp: Francois-Jean, Marquis de Chastellux. Volume II: XII, 363 to 688 with 4 maps and 1 facsimile of document in text plus 8 pages with 9 bw illust. Fp: General Chastellux, at the age of 48. Eps (both volumes): 2 maps. Cloth cover with lighly faded spine. Illustrated slipcase. Except for page 358 which has been creased and one small tear has been repaired, a very good set. 24 x 16.
The Marquis de Chastellux was one of the forty members of the French Academy, and Major General in the French Army, serving under the Count de Rochambeau, during the American revolution. He landed at Newport, R.I. on 11th July 1780 and sailed from Annapolis on the Frigate L'Emeraude, on 11 January 1783.
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$45

19571
DE LA CROIX, Robert
MYSTERIES OF THE PACIFIC: New York. 1957. The John Day Co. 1st US edition. Translated from the French original by James Cleugh. 252 PP. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 21 x 14.
What happened to the Comte de La Pérouse. The whaler Essex sunk by a whale... The riddle of Amelia Earhart's last flight.
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$25

33003
DE LEEUW, Hendrik
CROSSROADS OF THE BUCCANEERS: Philadelphia. 1937. J. B. Lippincott. 1st US Ed. 414 PP with 1 map, head pieces and many attractive drawings by author. Includes 9 PP for Bibliography and 4 PP for Index. Cloth cover, dj. Top edge of spine and covers worn, dust jacket with small pieces missing at top and bottom. Internally very good. 24 x 16.5.
Voyage in 1934 and 1935 through the Spanish Main and the Islands of the Caribbean. An authoritative account of life in the Leewards and Windwards extending from Florida's coast to the Northeast shores of South America.
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$15

20176
DE LONG, Harriet Tracy
PACIFIC SCHOONER WAWONA: Bellevue, Wa., USA. 1985. Documentary Book Publishers Corporation. 1st Ed. XVI, 158 PP with bw vintage photographs. Title spread: Wawona and tugboat. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 30.5 x 22.5. 0935503021
Largest three-masted schooner built in North America. Built in 1897 at Fairhaven, California. Lumber trade, cod fishing in Alaska... National Historic Site since 1970, preserved by Northwest Seaport, Seattle.
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$20

18272
DEAR, Ian
THE CHAMPAGNE MUMM BOOK OF OCEAN RACING, An Illustrated History: London. 1985. Severn House. 1st Ed. 157 PP with b/w illust. plus 16 full-page colour photos. Eps: World maps, location of races. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing. Very good. 27.8 x 24.4. 0727820311
The most prestigious, expensive & glamorous of all international sport, from its beginnings in the 19th century.
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$20

71180
DILLON, Capitaine Peter
VOYAGE AUX ILES DE LA MER DU SUD, en 1827 et 1828, et Relation de la Découverte du Sort de LA PEROUSE (in 2 Volumes): Pillet Ainé, Imprimeur du Roi. Paris. 1830. 1st edition, Dédié au Roi. Volume 1: lX, (4 Dédicace au Roi), 294, (1 content) PP, plus 1 folded plate (frontispiece): "Massacre aux Iles Fidji en Septembre 1813. Volume 2: (4), 362, (1 content) PP, plus 2 folded plates: Fp: "Naturels de l' Ile de La Perouse ou de Mannicolo" and at back of book: Carte de l'Ile de Mannicolo Levée par le Capitaine P. Dillon, Commandant le Vaisseau de la Compagnie des Indes "Le Research", 1827. Soft covers, device on front and back cover, title on front cover and spine (lightly sunned). Original paper covers have light wear and soiling, binding still tight . Label of the Jesuit College "Caousou" of Toulouse, France, on recto & verso of front covers, as well as the hand written date "1855" and stamps of "Collegium S. Marie Tolosanum Soc. Jesu" on title page. Only a few corners of pages dog eared. Occasional foxing. French text. Set in excellent condition. Rare. 21.6 x 14.
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$2800

51495
DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor)
THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XIV, No.1-4: Bristol. 1948-9. Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. No. 1 (Autumn 1948) to No. 4 (Summer 1949). No. 1: 82 PP with 33 b/w and duotone photos. No. 2: 82 PP with 33 b/w and duotone photos. No. 3: 84 PP with 38 b/w and duotone photos. No. 4: 82 PP with 43 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
No.1: Last voyage of the Illawarra under the Red Ensign, by W. R. S. Harris. The Heard Island Expedition, by Stuart Campbell. No. 2: Hero of the Lennie, by Captain R. Barry O'Brien. Phantom Fleets, in past and future warfare. No. 3: Blizzard, by Captain R. Barry O'Brien. No. 4: My third voyage, by Captain Sir James Bisset.
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$30

51511
DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor)
THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XVIII, No.1-4: Bristol. 1952, 1953. Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. No. 1 (Autumn 1952) to No. 4 (Summer 1953). No. 1: 70 PP with 46 b/w and duotone photos. No. 2: 66 PP with 38 b/w and duotone photos. No. 3: 66 PP with 44 b/w and duotone photos. No. 4: 62 PP with 1 map and 38 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
No.1: I Sailed in Illawarra, by A. J. Pazolt. No. 2: The Stars on their courses, by Captain L. R. W. Bevis. Sealing in the Arctic, by Frank Illingworth. No. 3: Coronation Naval Review, June 15th, 1953. Limejuicers and Bloodships, by Captain F. Tweedie. In the Australian Outback. No. 4: The anchor's weighed - 1859, by Harry Hine. A tale of the Islands.
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$30

37489
DORRANCE, John C. (editor)
AMERICA SALUTES AUSTRALIA'S BICENTENARY: Canberra. 1988. American Embassy. 1st Ed. (2), 38 PP with 18 b/w and 24 colour photos. Pictorial soft wrappers. Fine. 27.4 x 21.
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$20

31070
DOWNS, Hugh
A SHOAL OF STARS: New York. 1967. Doubleday. 1st Ed. 288 PP, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped). Fine. 21.5 x 14.5.
Voyage of a television personality with NBC, from Miami to Tahiti via the Caribbean Isles and Panama, on Thane a chartered 65-foot ketch.
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$10

66532
DUMONT d'URVILLE, Captain Jules S. C.
TWO VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS - Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829, Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, New Guinea, Australia, South East Asia, Tasmania, Antarctica, New Zealand, Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the corvettes ASTROLABE 1826-1829, ASTROLABE and ZELEE 1837-1840: Melbourne. 1992. Melbourne University Press. 1st Paperback edition. Translated & retold by Helen Rosenman. XXXVI, 304 PP with 26 maps plus 20 PP with 39 b/w illust. 29 maps & charts plus 44 PP with 56 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. A little light wear, o/wise fine. 23 x 15.5. 0522844324
The two great voyages of Dumont d'Urville to the Pacific and the Antarctic.
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$30

68521
DURHAM, Dick
THE LAST SAILORMAN: Lavenham, Suffolk. 1989. Terence Dalton Ltd. 1st Ed. VIII, 160 PP with 88 b/w photos. Fp: Bob Roberts aboard the smack "Stormy Petrel". Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.2 x 18. 0861380673
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$20

49426
DUTTON, Geoffrey
IN SEARCH OF EDWARD JOHN EYRE: Melbourne. 1982. Macmillan. 1st Ed. VIII, 152 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Initials of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 26.8 x 19.4. 0333338413
Overlander and explorer in Australia, Governor in New Zealand and the West Indies.
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$25

59122
DUYKER, Edward
OF THE STAR AND THE KEY - Mauritius, Mauritians & Australia: Sylvania. 1988. Australian Mauritian Research Group. 1st edition, with a foreword by Manning Clark. X, 130 PP with 50 b/w illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Dedicatory handwritten note to previous owner on title page, dated and signed by the author. Light foxing on outside edges and prelims, o/wise a fine. Scarce. 25.2 x 18. 0959088342
The association of Mauritius, with the history of European settlement in Australia.
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$120

59515
DUYKER, Edward (editor)
THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA, Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne: Hobart. 1992. St.David's Park. 1st Ed. XIV, 106 PP with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial hard cover. Few foxing spots on covers and outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.4 x 16.8. 0724622411
Transcription & translation into English of the journal extracts from the first two European expeditions to Tasmania: the Dutch with Tasman & the French with Marion Dufresne, respectively in 1642 & 1772.
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$25

40606
EAMES, Aled, LLOYD, Lewis, PARRY, Bryn & STUBBS, John (editors / golygyddion)
CYMRU A'R MOR / MARITIME WALES: Gwynedd, Wales. 1980. Gwynedd Archives Service. Issue No. 5 (1980). 168 PP, plus 12 b/w plates. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 20.7 x 14.7.
11 texts: 4 in Welsh and 7 in English. The voyage of Albion with emigrants from Caernafon to North America... Destination Australia...
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$25

70916
ELLIS, Ken (editor)
SPITFIRE 80 - Flypast Special Edition: Stamford, Lincs.. 2016. Key Publishing Ltd / FlyPast. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 2907486605
Saluting Supermarine's Masterpiece.
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$10

70915
ELLIS, Ken (editor)
WELLINGTON - Flypast Special Edition: Stamford, Lincs.. 2013. Key Publishing Ltd / FlyPast. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 2527422943
A tribute to Bomber Comand's unsung warrior.
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$10

65919
EWER, Dr. Peter
WOUNDED EAGLE - The Bombing of Darwin and Australia's Air Defence Scandal: Sydney. 2009. New Holland Publishers (Australia). 1st Ed. 240 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map of Australia, 1 plan of Darwin and 17 photos. Hard cover, illustrated front. As new. 22.5 x 18.5. 9781741108255
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$30

71167
FAZIO, Vince
HMAS CONDAMINE - THE STORY OF A UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN FRIGATE: Sydney. 1997. Author. 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.
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$100

38886
FITZGERALD, Rear-Admiral C. C. P.
BOAT SAILING AND RACING: London. c. 1900. John Hogg. 3rd edition. 158 PP with 26 figures. Blue cloth cover, illustrated front. Extremities of spine and edges a little soiled and rubbed, o/wise a near fine copy. Small format: 16.2 x 10.6.
Practical instructions for bending and setting sails, trimming, steering, and handling boats under all circumstances of wind and weather. Description of some interesting and instructive foreign rigs.
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$25

71214
FLINDERS, Matthew
OBSERVATIONS ON THE COASTS OF VAN DIEMEN's LAND, on Bass's Strait and its Islands, and on part of the coasts of New South Wales; Intended to Accompany the Charts of the Late Discoveries in Those Countries (Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 66): Adelaide. 1965. Libraries Board of South Australia. Facsimile reprint of the 1801 original. L.B.S.A. / Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 66. (2), (IV), 36 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. Image shows title-page. 32.5 x 25.
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$85

71204
FOWLER, R.M.
THE FURNEAUX GROUP, Bass Strait: A History: Canberra. 1980. Roebuck Society. 1st Ed. Publication No. 28 in the Roebuck Society series. VIII, 394 PP, plus 36 pages with 8 charts & 60 b/w illust. FEP: Chart of Bass Strait. REP: "Stokes' Chart of the Furneaux Group. Decorated boards rubbed and worn around edges. Name of previous owner on verso of front endpaper. Contents near fine. Scarce. 23.8 x 16.5. 0909434204
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$55

70901
FRADIN, Natacha
LES POISSONS: Toulouse, France. 2004. Editions Milan. 1st Ed., in Collection Milan Jeunesse "A 4 Pattes". No pagination, 20 PP with 22 colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Fine. 15.7 x 15.7 9782745915313
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$5

21373
FRANK, Stuart M.
OOOH, YOU NEW YORK GIRLS!, The Urban Pastorale in Ballads and Songs about Sailors Ashore in the Big City: Sharon, Mass., USA & Perth, W.A. Australia. 1996. Kendall Whaling Museum & Australian Association for Maritime History. 1st Ed. No.9 in the Kendall Whaling Museum Monograph series. (4), 24 PP with 10 b/w illustrations. Title page: Pastoral vignette engraved on a sperm-whale tooth, circa 1835-45. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.4. 0937853444
Sailors songs and ballads with themes such as greedy landlords, moneygrubbing crimps, boarding houses... (The 1995 Vaughan Evans Memorial Lecture of the A.A.M.H.)
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$10

71185
FRENCH RESISTANCE
LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE SE RALLIE A LA FRANCE LIBRE / NEW CALEDONIA RALLIES FREE FRANCE - 1940: Sydney. 1944. Les Editions du Courrier Australien. 1st edition. 36 PP with 38 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Call to all French by General De Gaulle, 18 June 1940. Soft cover, illustrated front. Covers soiled, with small chips and repaired at fold/spine. Slight insect damage and foxing. French and English text. Very good. Rare. 20.8 x 13.8.
French resistance in the Colonies 1940.
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$250

52376
FRIIS, Herman R. (editor)
THE PACIFIC BASIN. A History of its Geographical Exploration: New York. 1967. American Geographical Society. 1st Ed. Special Publication No. 38. Foreword by Charles B. Hitchcock. XIV, 457 PP with 42 figures, plus 44 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket with few chips. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 17.5.
Art and science of navigation, by Norman J. W. Thrower. Map compilation, by R. A. Skelton. Geographical exploration by the: Chinese, Japanese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, Russians, French, English, United States...
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$25

14703
FROST, Alan
BOTANY BAY MIRAGES, Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings: Melbourne. 1994. Melbourne University Press.. 1st Ed. X, 279 PP with tables and 25 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on lower part of margin of pages 140 to 146 , o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 13.8. 9780522844979
Questions some of the popular myths and misconceptions surrounding Britain's colonisation of New South Wales. From the supposedly overcrowded and unhealthy convict hulks to the rapid success of the European colonisation.
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$25

57504
GALBRAITH, Russell
DESTINY'S DAUGHTER, The Tragedy of R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth: Edinburgh. 1988. Mainstream. 1st Ed. 176 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 1851581790
Her building & launching at the time of the Munich Agreement. Troopship in wartime, luxury liner in peacetime. Her demise with the arrival of jet transport and her end in Hong Kong in 1972.
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$35

40092
GARRETT, K. S.
R. LAPTHORN AND COMPANY LIMITED: Preston. 2001. Ships in Focus Publications. 1st Ed. 88 PP with 95 b/w photos and 45 colour illustrations (1 house flag, 11 funnels and 33 photos). Title plage: House Flag. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.2 x 21.3. 190170341X
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$40

70970
GATES, William
RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN VAN DIEMAN'S LAND - Part I: George Mackaness / D.S. Ford, Printers. Sydney. 1961 1st edition of 150 copies, with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by George Mackaness. One of the 150 privately printed, numbered (No. 141) and signed by George Mackaness. Part I: 76 PP with 7 b/w illustrations (portrait + 6 in text). Stapled card cover, title on front. Hand numbered and signed by the editor on verso of title page. Covers lightly soiled. Near fine. 24.7 x 18.
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$50

47165
GAWRONSKI, J. H. G. (editor)
AMSTERDAM PROJECT - Jaarrapport van de Stichting VOC-SCHIP "AMSTERDAM" 1986/Annual Report of the VOC-SHIP AMSTERDAM Foundation, 1986: Amsterdam. 1987. Foundation VOC ship Amsterdam / Stichting VOC-schip Amsterdam 1st edition limited to 2000 copies. Report No. 3 by Foundation Voc Ship Amsterdam. (2),100, (10 advertisements) PP with tables and b/w illustrations (plates, drawings and plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Text in Dutch and English. 29.5 x 21. 9071690024
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$25

71262
GEE, Helen & FENTON, Janet (editors)
THE SOUTH WEST BOOK - A Tasmanian Wilderness: Melbourne. 1983. Australian Conservation Foundation / Collins. 3rd Impression of the 1978 original. Foreword by Sir Mark Oliphant. Introduction by Professor W.D. Jackson. XX, 308 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & paintings, graphs, maps, plans, photos...), plus 12 pages with colour illustrations (1 map on double page and 23 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Remainder mark on bottom outside edge. Near fine. 27.7 x 21. 0002173050
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$40

20203
GIBBS, James A.
PACIFIC GRAVEYARD: Portland, Oreg. 1973. Bindfords & Mort. Second printing of the 3rd edition. 296 PP with b/w illust. (photos, maps & draw.). Eps: Shipwreck chart of this Pacific Graveyard. Pictorial soft cover. Covers a little rubbed with one crease. Faint foxing. Very good. 21.4 x 14. 0832302252
A narrative of shipwrecks where the Columbia river meets the Pacific Ocean.
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$15

71163
GILLETT, Ross
H.M.A.S. MELBOURNE - 25 Years: Nautical Press. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear Admiral Gatacre. 128 PP with 19 colour photos and 144 b/w illustrations (cartoons & drawings, newspaper clippings, photos). Inside covers: plans of HMAS Melbourne (CVS-21). Pictorial soft covers. Light crease at lower corner of front cover, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 21 x 27.
Commemorative book for the 25 years of HMAS Melbourne (the Aircraft Carrier) - ship's movements, year by year.
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$40

20777
GORDON, Mona
THE MYSTERY OF LA PEROUSE: Christchurch, NZ. 1961. Bascands. 1st Ed. 187 PP, plus 24 pages with 1 map and 24 plates. Fp: Bust of La Pérouse by Rude. FEP: Track of La Pérouse in the Pacific. REP: De Lesseps's journey from Kamtschatka to Paris. Cloth cover, title on sunned spine. Edges of covers a little worn. Contents near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
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$45

70858
GORSKY, Bernard
EXPEDITION "MOANA" (Le Tour du Monde de l'Exploration sous-marine): Paris. 1959. Editions de la Pensée Moderne. May 1959 reprint of the 1957 original. 286 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 24 pages with 16 b/w and 14 colour photos. Soft cover. Covers with foxing spots. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. French text. Very good. 21.5 x 15.
Homebound voyage, from Tahiti to Saint Tropez, via Tonga, New Caledonia, Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea, in the forty-foot cutter Moana.
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$30

68286
GRAHAM, Commander R.D.
ROUGH PASSAGE, Being the Narrative of a Single-handed Voyage to Newfoundland, Labrador, and Bermuda in the Seven-Ton yacht Emanuel and the subsequent Return to England with a Soldier Crew: London. 1937. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 3rd impression of the 1936 original. Introduction by Claud Worth. XIII, 236 PP with tables and 2 maps on endpapers, plus 8 b/w plates (1 artwork and 7 photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front endpaper. Signature of previous owner on preliminary page. Light foxing. Very good. 20.5 x 14.
North Atlantic crossing in 1934 returning by way of Bermuda and the Azores.
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$20

43241
GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, James
THE VIKING WORLD: London. c. 2002. Frances Lincoln. Reprint of the 3rd Frances Lincoln edition . 220 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.4. 0711218005
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$30

20226
GRAY, Leonard
THE ROPNER FLEET, 1874-1974: World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1975. 1st edition. 50 PP with 36 b/w photos (35 of ships). Fp: Rudby. Pictorial soft cover (title on front cover "Ropner Shipping Company"). Very good. 22 x 14.
History & details of ships.
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$5

71243
GREAVES, Molly
MEMOIRS OF FREYCINET, TASMANIA - A history in Images & Verse: Coles Bay, Tasmania. 2008. Author. 1st Ed. Preface by Bertrand Cadart, Mayor. XXII, 138 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new). 23.8 x 16.8. 9780980562729
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$35

71176
GROSE, Peter
TEN ROGUES - The unlikely story of convict schemers, a stolen brig and an escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile: Sydney. 2020. Allen & Unwin. 1st Ed. XVIII, 229 PP with 5 headpieces and 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 4 colour and 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Article in Weekend Australian Review of 30/31 May 2020, loosely inserted. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 9781760632618
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$30

63757
GROVE, Noel
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY: Washington. 1997. National Geographic Society. Deluxe edition. Foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. 400 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, diagrams, maps & photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt device (Compass-card) on front board, gilt title on spine, all edges gilt. Foxing spots on free fly of endpapers and first and last leaf. Near fine. 28.3 x 24.2. 0792270231
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$20

37448
GUILLEUX la ROËRIE, Louis
NAVIRES ET MARINS - de la Rame a l'Helice (two volumes bound into one): Paris. 1946. Librairie Rombaldi. 2nd edition of the 1930 original. Vol. I: (4), 280, (4) PP with 200 b/w illustrations, plus 3 colour and 16 b/w plates. Vol. II: 412 PP with 332 b/w illustrations, plus 5 colour and 16 b/w plates. Marbled endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing. Ingleton book plate on front endpaper. Obituary note pasted down on rear endpaper. Near fine. Scarce. French text. 22.7 x 22.
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$100

56067
GUNSON, Niel
THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829: Canberra. 1990. National Library of Australia 1st Ed., foreword by Warren Horton. XII, 140 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Eps: Facsimile of Log Book. Hard cover, scrimshaw illustration on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on page facing title page, signed by Niel Gunson, editor. Fine. 24.8 x 17.4. 0642105057
A British account of whaling in the South Seas on board the Phoenix in 1823-25 and the Harriet 1826-29.
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$45

57647
GURNEY, Alan
COMPASS - A Story of Exploration and Innovation: New York. 2004. W. W. Norton. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 18 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. Newspaper clipping (Weekend Australian August 28-29, 2004) "Review of this title by Jennifer Moran", loosely inserted. Fine. 21 x 13.8. 0393050734
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$10

51640
HACKFORTH-JONES, Jocelyn
AUGUSTUS EARLE, Travel Artist: Canberra. 1980. National Library of Australia. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP with 16 colour plates, and 168 b/w illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Discreet signature of previous owner at top corner of half title page and title page. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 28.3 x 22.2. 064299143X
Paintings and drawings (in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia), illustrating his voyages to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and an eight months sojourn on Tristan da Cunha as a castaway.
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$25

16083
HACKMAN, Rowan M. B. H.
THE FLEET PAST AND PRESENT OF HUNTING & SON LTD: London. 1969. World Ship Society. 3rd edition. 44 PP with 42 b/w photos. Inside front cover (in colour): bow marking, funnel and house flag. Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
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$10

64455
HAINSWORTH, D. R.
THE SYDNEY TRADERS - Simon Lord and his contemporaries 1788-1821: Melbourne. 1972. Cassell Australia. 1st Limited edition (No.837/1000). XVI, 264 PP with tables, 4 maps and 4 text illust., plus 8 pages with 18 b/w plates Endpaper maps showing the "World of the Sydney Traders 1788-1821). Red hard cover (fine), dust jacket is somewhat sunned and little browned around edges with 2 repaired closed tears. An otherwise fine copy. Scarce. 23 x 15.2. 304939005
Shipping interests, sealing, Pacific frontier (pork and sandalwood)...
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$100

70974
HALL, Richard
EMPIRES OF THE MONSOON. A History of the Indian Ocean and its Invaders: London. 1998. HarperCollins. 1st paperback edition of the 1996 original. XXIII, (3), 575, (6 publications) PP with 3 head-pieces and 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 36 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Covers with small crease at lower corner of front cover and a lightly sunned spine. Very good. 19.5 x 13. 0006380832
A comprehensive narrative on the people of the Indian Ocean and on those who penetrated it. Migration of the Waqwaq from Sumatra to Madagascar. Arab navigation. Arrival of the Portuguese...
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$15

33677
HAMBLIN, Percy (editor)
AUCKLAND'S 100th ANNIVERSARY REGATTA: Auckland. 1950. Auckland Anniversary Regatta Committee. 1st Ed. 105, (3 blanks) PP with 42 pages of period advertising material and b/w illust. (engravings, maps, photos, plans...), plus 1 centrefold map Regatta Chart of Harbour Courses. Illustrated soft covers (slight insect damage), o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 18.3.
Souvenir centennial programme: 28th / 30th January 1950.
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$55

37052
HAMILTON-PATERSON, James
THE GREAT DEEP - The Sea and its Thresholds: New York. 1992. Random House. 1st US edition. (14), 300, (4) PP with 7 b/w illust. on full page. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16.5.
Charts and naming - Islands and boundaries - Reefs and seeing - Wrecks and death... Pirates and nomads (in the Sulu Archipelago).
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$20

22142
HANDY, Amy
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL: New York. 1996. Todtri. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 90 b/w & colour illust. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Foxing on first and last few pages, o/wise very good. 31.5 x 22.5. 1880908891
The magic of sail, the seafaring life, trade routes and merchantmen, the romance and terror of the sea: around Cape Horn, shipwrecks and storms at sea, great maritime battles. The arrival of the age of steam.
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$10

43504
HARLAND, John
SHIPS & SEAMANSHIP - The Maritime Prints of J J Baugean: London. 2000. Chatham Publishing. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 192 b/w plates. Fp: A lateen rigged (barque) privateer running to anchor. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 29.8 x 25.2. 1861761430
Warships (ships of the line, Frigates...). Merchant vessels (brigs, schooners, Mediterranean, Baltic and North Sea)... Ports and Harbours.
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$30

43437
HAWS, Duncan
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY: London. 2001. Author. 1st Ed. No. 39 in the Merchant Fleets series. 96 PP with 1 map "China and the Yangtse Basin" and 100 profile drawings to scale (1/1200). Pictorial card covers with a small light crease on lower front corner, o/wise a fine copy. Fine. Scarce. 21 x 14.8. 0946378428
History of the Hong Kong shipping line, started in 1872. Fleet list of 256 ships.
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$75

41249
HAWS, Duncan
MERCHANT FLEETS IN PROFILE - 2 - The ships of the CUNARD, AMERICAN, RED STAR, INMAN, LEYLAND, DOMINION, ATLANTIC TRANSPORT and WHITE STAR LINES: Cambridge. 1979. Patrick Stephens. 1st Ed., No. 2 in Merchant Fleets in Profile series 216 PP with scale profile drawings (1:1800) by author. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing on outside edges, offsetting of endpapers. Very good. 24 x 16. 0850593247
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$25

54725
HEATHCOTE, Nina (editor)
NUCLEAR DISPERSAL IN ASIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION: Canberra. 1965. Department of Political Science, Institute of Advanced Studies / Australian National University. June 1965 reprint of the February 1965 original. (2), II 101 PP typescript (recto only). Card covers. Slight ageing around edges, o/wise very good. 26 x 21.2.
Proceedings of a seminar (5 & 6 September 1964) conducted on behalf of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. ... Nuclear Forces in Australia, by A. L. Burns. Nuclear dispersal: China, India and Japan, by Nina Heathcote. A Nuclear-Free zone in South East Asia, by G. P. King.
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$20

19801
HENDERSON, Richard
THE CRUISER'S COMPENDIUM, A Complete guide to coastal, inland, and gunkhole cruising: Chicago. 1973. Henry Regnery Co. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 188 PP with figures and 35 bw photos. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 22.2.
Construction & safety features, mechanical matters & basic instruments, cruise planning & activities...
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$10

70341
HOARE, Merval
NORFOLK ISLAND, An Outline of its History 1774-1977: Brisbane. 1978. University of Queensland Press. 2nd edition of the 1969 original. (10), 185 PP, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illust. FEP: Map of Norfolk Island. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 21.4 x 14. 0702211877
Discovery by Captain Cook, convict settlements, arrival of Pitcairn Islanders...
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$15

70278
HOLLAND, Jennifer
ICY UNDERWORLD: South Sandwich Islands (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 210, No.6): Washington. 2006. N.G.S. December 2006. Includes article from P.122 to 141 with colour illustrations: 1 map, 1 location map and 10 colour photos by Maria Stenzel. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
On board the yacht Golden Fleece.
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$5

20271
HOLLETT, David
PASSAGE TO THE NEW WORLD, Packet Ships and Irish Famine Emigrants 1845-1851: Abergavenny, Gwent, UK. 1995. P.M. Heaton Publishing. 1st Ed. 232 PP with 77 bw illust. (drawings, engravings, photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.6 x 15.5. 1872006086
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$20

30237
HOLMAN, Gordon
CARLSEN OF THE "FLYING ENTERPRISE": London. 1952. Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Ed. No pagination, 32 PP with 76 b/w photos. Inside front cover: track of the "Flying Enterprise". Pictorial card cover. Spine lightly rubbed. Near fine. Scarce. 21.5 x 14.
Shifting of her pig-iron cargo, listing, towing and ultimately foundering of this vessel of Isbrandtsen Lines.
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$30

70958
HOPKINS, David
HMAS VAMPIRE - Daring Class Destroyer (colour print): Devonport, Tasmania. c. 1995. Taswegia. One of the Taswegia Fine Art Prints series, from a watercolour painting by David Hopkins. Signed by the Artist. Oblong format, illustration: 17.8 x 24.5 / print: 31.5 x 47.5.
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$40

70726
HOPKINS, David L.
THE SHIPPING HISTORY OF THE BASS STRAIT CROSSING: Hobart. 2003. Taswegia. 4th edition of the 1994 original. (2), 50 PP with b/w illustrations. FEP: Ketch Woollomai. REP: A fine collection of Maritime Memorabilia. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.5. 0646186353
History in pictures & text of the regular passenger ferries crossing Bass Strait, a treacherous stretch of water.
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$35

33166
HOWARTH, Patrick
LIFEBOAT - In Danger's Hour: London. 1981. Hamlyn. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Clare Francis. 144 PP with 1 map of the British Isles, 4 cutaways, 5 profiles, 155 b/w and 16 colour illust. Half title page: St Mary's, Scilly Isles, lifeboat on service during the Fastnet Race in August 1979. Title spread: Penzance lifeboat Dora saved the crew of Jeune Hortense, a brigantine wrecked off Eastern Green, Penzance, in 1888. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 30.2 x 22.2 0600349594
Story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, founded in 1824.
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$20

71133
HYDROGRAPHER OF THE NAVY
AUSTRALIA PILOT - Volume 2: Wollongong / Taunton. 2010. Australian Hydrographic Service & United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. 11th edition of the 1918 original, NP14. Preface by Commodore R. Nairn, RAN & Chief Executive M S. Robinson, UK Hydrographioc Office. Edited by Mr. S.C. Mason. XVI, 365, (3) PP with colour illustrations: 2 index charts [NP 14 (a) & (b)], tables, diagrams, graphs, maps and photographs (coastal views, lighthouses, ports). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 30.3 x 21.3. 9780707742243
South, south-east and east coasts of Australia from Green Cape to Port Jackson including Bass Strait and Tasmania.
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$60

71135
HYDROGRAPHER OF THE NAVY
AUSTRALIA PILOT - Volume 3: Wollongong / Taunton. 2012. Australian Hydrographic Service & United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. 12th edition of the 1916 original. NP15. Preface by Commodore R. Nairn, RAN & Rear Admiral Moncrieff, Chief Executive, UK Hydrographioc Office. Edited by Mr. W. Daniels. XVI, 476, (4) PP with colour illustrations: 1 index charts [NP 15], tables, diagrams, graphs, maps and photographs (coastal views, lighthouses, ports). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 30.3 x 21.3. 9780707742854
East coasts of Australia from North Head to Cape York... Torres Strait, South Coast of Papua New Guinea.
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$60

44186
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE]
THE STATE VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - No. 6298, Volume 236 -16th April 1960: London. 1960. The Illustrated London News and Sketch Limited. P625-672. Contains article by Arthur Bryant from P. 633 to 649 with 34 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers (crossed flags of France and the United Kingdom in colour). Near fine. 36.5 x 25.8.
The state visit of President De Gaulle, April 5-8 1960.
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$15

12793
INDIAN OCEAN
Proceedings of the Pan Indian Ocean Science Congress - Section G: HUMAN ECOLOGY: Perth. 1954. Pan Indian Ocean Science Congress. 1st Ed. 74 PP (2 blank), with tables. Soft cover. Near fine. 24.8 x 15.5.
Perth Congress of 1974. Population statistics, population trends and food resources, malaria control, leprosy,...
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$20

49498
INGLIS, K. S.
THE AUSTRALIAN COLONISTS. An Exploration of Social History 1788-1870: Melbourne. 1974. Melbourne University Press. 1st Ed. XXII, 316 PP with over 90 b/w illustrations (engravings, paintings, photos...). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in on rear endpaper. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine. 24.7 x 18. 0522840728
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$20

20211
IRELAND, Bernard
WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD: Escort Vessels: London. 1979. Ian Allan. 1st Ed. 153 PP with b/w illustrations (4 line drawings & 144 photos & paintings). Title-page: Frigate Visby of the Swedish Navy. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 15. 0711008965
Warships with displacement tonnage between 1000 & 5000 tons. Corvettes, frigates, destroyers.
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$10

71227
JACKA, Fred & Eleanor
MAWSON'S ANTARCTIC DIARIES: Sydney. 1991. Susan Haynes Book / Allen & Unwin. 1st paperback edition of the 1988 original. L, 414 PP with 2 charts, 8 maps and b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, photos, sketches), plus 64 pages with 75 b/w and 13 colour photos. Fp: Portrait of Sir Douglas Mawson. Pictorial soft covers. Spine with light creases. Neat signature of previous owner at top of half title page. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 18.5. 9781863730228
Four expeditions to Antarctica led by Sir Douglas Mawson, Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer.
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$45

71248
JACKSON, Robert
STRIKE FROM THE SEA, A History of British Naval Air Power: London. 1970. Arthur Barker. 1st Ed. 234 PP with appendices, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Ex-libris of previous owner on FFEP with remnants of sellotape marks on endpapers and flaps of dust jacket. Contents near fine. 22 x 14. 213001586
From the hunt for the Graf Spee to the final assault on Japan and Kamikaze attacks on the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet.
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$20

39363
JONES, Howard
MUTINY ON THE AMISTAD - The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy: New York. c. 1996. Oxford University Press. 5th printing of the 1988 paperback edition (1987 original). XII, 271 PP, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Fp: Map of the North Atlantic. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 20.3 x 13.5. 195038290
The saga of the Amistad. Off the Cuban coast, a slave from Sierra Leone took over the ship which drifted and was taken into custody by the US Navy. The return to Sierra Leone after protracted legal battles.
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$10

40724
JONES, Noah
JOURNALS OF TWO CRUISES ABOARD THE AMERICAN PRIVATEER YANKEE, by a Wanderer: New York. 1967. Macmillan. 1st printing, with an introduction by Admiral E. M. Eller. XXXII, 156 PP with 2 maps on double page and 6 illustrations. Fp: The brig Nancy Ann, of the same size and period as the Yankee. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 21.7 x 14.7.
The Anglo American war of 1812.
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$15

65687
JOPPIEN, Rüdiger & SMITH, Bernard
THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES - VOLUME II: The Voyage of the Resolution & Adventure 1772-1775: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Melbourne. 1985. Vol.II (reprint of the 1985 original): The Voyage of Resolution & Endeavour 1772-1775. Vol. II: XIV, 274 PP with 106 b/w or colour plates, 19 colour and 189 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 35 x 25.5. 0195544560
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$200

44394
JORDAN, Humfrey
TIDE STILL FLOWING: London. 1952. Hodder & Stoughton. Paperback reprint of the 1940 original. 190 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.
Novel.
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$10

51681
KERR, Garry & McDERMOTT, Harry
THE HUON PINE STORY - The history of harvest and use of a unique timber: Portland. 2004. Mainsail Books. 2nd edition of the 2000 original. (8), 299 PP with 4 maps, numerous b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Huon Pine (young tree), by S. Dean. Title page: Marble Cliffs, Gordon River, World Heritage Area, Tasmania. FEP: Map of Strahan/Macquarie Harbour. REP: Map of Birch Inlet / Macquarie Harbour. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.3 x 21.5. 0957791704
Chapter 8: The Rivermen. Chapter 9: the Piner's Punt. Chapter 10: The Riverboats.
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$75

35793
KIDD, Harold, ELLIOTT, Robin & PARDON, David
SOUTHERN BREEZE - A History of Yachting in New Zealand: Auckland. 1999. Viking. 1st Ed. 232 PP profusely illustrated throughout in b/w and colour. Half title page: Ariki. Title spread: Viking and Thetis. FEP: Iorangi, Little Jim, Waitangi... REP: A Class at Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 32.5 x 23.5. 0670886505
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$100

40135
KILDUFF, Peter
US CARRIERS AT WAR: London. 1981. Ian Allan. 1st UK edition. 128 PP with 164 b/w photos. Eps: map of the Pacific Ocean. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.8 x 22. 0711010773
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$15

40964
KINNEAR, Bryce
AUSTRALIA - LAND OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS: Melbourne. 1957. Australian Publicity Council. 1st Ed. 152 PP with duotone illustrations, maps, crests of states... and photos (b/w and colour). FEP: Kangaroo and Emu. REP: Koamla and Lyre bird. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Spine sunned, short note on verso of FFEP. Small biro marks on page 150 and back cover. Very good. 29.5 x 24.2.
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$10

46508
KIRKER, James
ADVENTURES TO CHINA - Americans in the Southern Oceans 1792-1812: New York. 1970. O.U.P. 1st Ed. (10), 192 PP with 2 drawings and 3 charts, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Fp: Daniel Foss, a seal hunter. Eps: A chart of the world. Cloth cover, device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Faint foxing on outside edges. Signature of previous owner at top of half title page, o/wise near fine. 20.7 x 13.8.
American ships loaded with fur skins or sandalwood from the South Seas or Southern Ocean, to China.
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$15

71235
KLEIN, Jane
SAILING SPEERS POINT - 1880 onwards: Lake Macquarie. 2007. Lake Macquarie and District Historical Society. 1st Ed. Foreword by John Kilpatrick, Mayor. 54, (2) PP with tables and b/w illustrations: 1 sketch map, club badge, 2 cartoons and 42 photos. Pictorial soft covers. As new. 29.7 x 20.8. 0959532129
"RANI", winner of the first Sydney to Hobart yacht race, was built at Speers Point.
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$40

40509
KNAPP, Arthur, Jr.
RACE YOUR BOAT RIGHT: London. 1953. Macmillan. 1st UK edition. Introduction by Harold S. Vanderbilt. XIV, 296 PP with 63 diagrams by William Burroughs, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: International One-Design Bumble Bee. Cloth cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.5 x 15.5.
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$5

22431
KNIGHT, Captain Frank
THE SEA CHEST, Stories of Adventures at Sea: New York. 1964. Platt & Munk. 1st US edition (juvenile). 206 PP with 10 b/w illustrations by William Riley. Hard cover, illustrated boardsgilt device on front cover, dj. (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22.8 x 16.
Nautical stories with facts, fiction and fascinating sea lore for young readers, such as the chapter on Australian Gold and the Foreland in 1854.
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$5

50583
KNIGHT, Frank
THE CLIPPER SHIP: London. 1973. Collins. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w illust. plus 9 colour plates (6 on full page and 3 on double page). Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 24 x 16. 001921479
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$15

49910
KRAGHT, Peter E.
METEOROLOGY WORKBOOK WITH PROBLEMS: New York. 1943. Cornell Maritime Press. 1st Ed. VIII, 148 PP with 8 weather maps and 141 figures, plus 4 pages with 19 b/w photos. Soft cover. Head of spine worn on 6 centimetres. Covers lightly soiled. Very good. 28 x 21.5.
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$10

47518
LASSAQUE, Jean
GUERRE NAVALE EN NORVEGE. 8 Avril - 28 Juillet 1940: Paris. 2003. Editions du Gerfaut. 1st Ed. 336 PP with 18 maps, 36 profiles of warships and 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.9 x 14.5. 2914622295
War at sea and on land in Norway: 8th April to 28 July 1940.
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$15

71273
LAVERY, Brian
IN WHICH THEY SERVED : The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War: Annapolis; 2008. Naval Institute Press. 1st US Ed. 384 PP with b/w illustrations and maps in text, Index, Bibliography & Notes, plus 32 pages with 58 b/w photos/plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781591144014
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$25

69030
LAWSON, Will & The Shiplovers' Society of Tasmania
BLUE GUM CLIPPERS AND WHALE SHIPS OF TASMANIA: Launceston. 1986. D. & L. Book Distributor. Facsimile reprint of the 1949 original. 261 PP, plus 30 b/w plates. Fp: Sailing ships at New Wharf in 1881. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Early whaling, trading and shipbuilding in Tasmania.
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$20

41574
LE FLEMING, H. M.
ABC OF BRITISH WARSHIPS: London. 1955. Ian Allan. 2nd Ed. 64 PP with tables, & 61 b/w photos. Title page: H.M.S. Scorpion. Pictorial card cover (Aircraft Carrier). Stamp of previous owner on title page. Near fine. 15.8 x 10.3.
Including ships of the RAN, RCN, RNZN, IN, PI, RCyN, SAN and MNF.
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$10

63436
LEE, Jiunshyan & COCHRANE, Susan
ACROSS OCEANS AND TIME - Art in the Contemporary Pacific: Kaoshiung. 2007. Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts. 1st trilingual edition in "Contemporary Austronesian Art" series, limited to 1000 copies. Prefaces by Chu Chen (Mayor of Kaoshuing City), Chin-chu Wong (Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs), Chih-cheng Wang (Cultural Affairs, Kaoshiung) and Emmanuel Kasarhérou (Agence de Développement de la Culture Kanak). 291, (5) PP with b/w and colour photos. Eps: map on Austronesian colonisation of the Pacific Ocean. Pictorial soft covers. Texts in Chinese, French and English. Fine. 30 x 23. 9789860112016
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$200

35095
LENTON, H. T.
WARSHIPS: London / Melbourne. 1970. Hamlyn / Sun Books. 1st Ed., in the Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks series. 160 PP with colour illustrations by David A. Warner and Nigel W. Hearn. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18 x 11. 0600002845
Warships from 1860 to the present day (1970).
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$5

40486
LESLIE, Mrs. Shane
GIRLHOOD IN THE PACIFIC, Samoa - Philippines - Spain: London. 1942. Macdonald. 1st Ed. IX, 10- 110 PP, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w photos. FP: The author in 1912. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Small chips to the dust jacket which is in a clear plastic sleeve. War economy paper. Foxing spots on outside edges, signature of previous owner at top of front endpaper, o/wise contents near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Reminiscences of early girlhood in the South Seas, where her father was American Commissioner then Chief Justice of Samoa. Then to the Philippines where her father established a Civil Government.
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$25

57852
LEVER, Darcy
THE YOUNG SEA OFFICER'S SHEET ANCHOR, Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship: New York. 1963. Edward W. Sweetman Co. Unabridged republication of the second edition published by John Richardson, London, 1819. XII, 124 PP, plus 114 pages with 113 b/w plates (over 604 figures). Illustrated title page (see image). Cloth cover. Covers slightly marked. Foxing spots on outside edges. Name and address of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 25.7 x 19.5.
Image shows the title-page.
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$80

15625
LEWIN, Roger
DARWIN'S FORGOTTEN WORLD: London. 1989. Bison Books. Reprint of the 1978 original. 176 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map with Inset "Galapagos Islands", 1 map of the archipelago, 1 cutaway of HMS Beagle, portraits, photos) and 189 colour plates (photography by Sally Anne Thompson). Half title page: Galapagos tortoise. Title spread: Maritime Iguanas. Eps: Map of the Galapagos Archipelago. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 31.2 x 24.2. 0861240162
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$20

70975
LEWIS, Dr. Tom
HONOUR DENIED - Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero... and other brave warriors of the Royal Australian Navy: Avonmore Books. Kent Town, S.A. 2016. 1st Ed. Foreword by Will Hodgman, Premier of Tasmania. Afterword by Keith Payne. 317 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 9780987151971

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$35

41795
LEWIS, Michael
THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NAVY: London. 1957. Penguin Books. Paperback edition. 288 PP. Soft covers a little soiled and worn. Ageing of paper, foxing. Good reading copy. 18.1 x 11.1.
The old Navy: Pre-Tudor.. to The Commonwealth. The Royal Navy: the later Stuarts... to the Napoleonic War. The New Navy.
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$5

57048
LEWIS, Stephen
VOYAGES TO VIETNAM: Photographs by Australian Naval and Military Veterans of the Vietnam Conflict: Adelaide. 2004. My Vietnam Trust. 1st Ed. Foreword by Vice Admiral David Willoughby Leach. Preface by Lieutenant Commander Rodney T Nott. (2), 206 PP with over 600 b/w and colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Signed and dated on front endpaper by the author. Fine. Scarce. Oblong: 24.8 x 27.5. 9780957970816
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$90

19322
LEWIS, Tom
WRECKS IN DARWIN WATERS: Turton & Armstrong. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. VIII, 97 PP with 45 b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: Darwin waters. Inside rear cover: Timor Sea and Van Diemen Gulf. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 908031459
Stories of misadventure, war, accident & storms which sent ships & aircraft to the bottom.
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$25

69971
LEWIS, Tom
WRECKS IN DARWIN WATERS: Sydney. 1992. Turton & Armstrong. 1st Ed. VIII, 97 PP with 45 b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: Darwin waters. Inside rear cover: Timor Sea and Van Diemen Gulf. Pictorial soft cover. Light bump at top of front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 25 x 17.5. 0908031459
Stories of misadventure, war, accident & storms which sent ships & aircraft to the bottom.
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$20

70982
LLOYD, Christopher
ENGLISH CORSAIRS ON THE BARBARY COAST: London. 1981. Collins. 1st Ed. 178 PP with 1 map and 1 chart on double-page & a facsimile of title page of "Histoire de Barbarie et de ses Corsaires", plus 12 pages with 16 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Very good. 21.8 x 14. 000216289X
Activities of European renegades and the piratical desperados of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.
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$25

69792
LONEY, J. K.
PETERBOROUGH, PORT CAMPBELL, PRINCETON: Tourist, Historical and Fishing Guide: Dimboola, Vic. c. 1968. J. K. loney. 1st Ed. 22 PP with 1 map at centrefold, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.2 x 13.7.
Tourist, historical and fishing guide to this part of the West coast of Victoria.
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$10

18990
LONEY, Jack
BAY STEAMERS AND COASTAL FERRIES - UPDATE: Sydney. 1988. Reed. Updated edition of the 1982 original. 92 PP, (4), with maps, plans & b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 18.5 x 25.5. 0909191387
Melbourne-Geelong trade, Bay excursion steamers, steamers on the West coast to the Gippsland Lakes.
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$10

17463
LONEY, Jack
FAMOUS WRECKS: Geelong. c.1975. Marine History Publications. 1st Ed. (2), 116 PP with 6 maps, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers (lightly soiled). Very good. 20.6 x 16. 0909191301
The Mahogany Ship, Schomberg, Admella, S.S. Casino ... R.M.S. Australia.
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$30

69784
LONEY, Jack
THE LOCH ARD DISASTER: Portarlington. c. 1972. Marine History Publications. 4th edition of the 1970 original. 48 PP with 2 maps & 3 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.4 x 13.8. 095998531X
Wrecked on Mutton Bird Island near Port Campbell on 1st June, 1878.
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$10

18992
LONEY, Jack
SHIPS IN CORIO BAY, GEELONG, 1840-1980: Newton, Vic. 1981. Neptune Press. 1st soft cover edition. 222 PP with 1 map and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers rubbed and a little creased. Very good. 23.5 x 17.4. 0909131775
Inter-bay trade, wrecks & fire, wharves & piers,...
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$35

49981
LOW, Gorham P.
THE SEA MADE MEN. The Memoirs of an American Sea-Captain 1826-1840: London. 1939. John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st UK edition. Foreword by James Hanley. XIV, 334, (2 publications) PP, plus 6 b/w plates. Fp: The author, aged 30. Cloth cover, device on front cover. Lower edges of covers worn. Spine sunned. Ageing of paper and foxing. Good reading copy. 20.4 X 14.
Voyages to the coasts of Sumatra for the pepper trade.
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$30

70657
LOWE, Madge (Worsley) - Editor
DAYS GONE BY IN THE CHANNEL - Volume One: Hobart. 1992. Privately published. 1st Ed. (8), 56 PP with b/w photos. Soft cover, illustrated front ("Steamer leaving Snug Jetty"). Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0646129783
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$35

69187
LY-TIO-FANE PINEO, Huguette
IN THE GRIPS OF THE EAGLE: Matthew Flinders at Ile de France 1803-1810: Government Printer. Port Louis, Mauritius. 2004. Revised edition of the 1988 original. Foreword by Robert Barnes. XXXII, 314, (1) PP with 7 maps, 11 b/w and 13 colour illustrations. Fp: The Imperial Eagle. Pictorial laminated boards. Signed by the author at top of half title page. Tiny bump along bottom edge, o/wise fine, near new condition. 24 x 17.7. 9990310084
Revised edition published for the 200th anniversary of Flinders arrival and subsequent confinement at Mauritius. Ile de France under Governor Decaen and the circumstances in which Matthew Flinders was held prisoner there from December 1803 to June 1810. Reasons for his release prior to the invasion and occupation by British forces.
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$110

48138
MACDONALD, Captain K.
PRACTICAL SHIP STABILITY: Glasgow. 1953. Brown, Son & Ferguson. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1933 (1933 original). 98 PP with 6 figures, plus large folded plate "S.S. ... Stability Data", printed on superior gloss paper. Cloth cover, dj (repaired). Faint foxing spots on outside edges and endpapers. Very good. 21.8 x 14.2.
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$30

58520
MACDOUGALL, D. G.
CATALOGUE OF THE AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL EXHIBITION: AUSTRALIA'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY: Sydney. 1938. Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council. 1st Ed., with an Introductory Note by K. R. Cramp. 63 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Soft cover, illustrated front (Captain Arthur Phillip). Covers a little soiled. Light foxing. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
Exhibition held in Sydney, 1-26 February 1938.
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$5

70969
MACKANESS, George (editor)
SOME PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR JOHN AND LADY JANE FRANKLIN: (Tasmania, 1837-1845) - Part I & Part II: George Mackaness / D.S. Ford, Printers. Sydney. 1947. 1st edition of 200 copies, with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by George Mackaness. One of the 100 privately printed for the Royal Society of Tasmania. Part I: 126 PP with 13 b/w illustrations (portrait + 12 in text). Fp: Portrait of Sir John Franklin. Part II: 107 PP with 11 b/w illustrations (portrait + 10 in text). Fp: Portrait of Lady Jane Franklin. Stapled card covers, title on front. Covers slightly soiled and rubbed, o/wise contents near fine. 24.7 x 18.
A collection of 50 letters - Part I: Letters 1 to 26. Part II: Letters 27 to 50.
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$70

70993
McLACHLAN, G. W. P.
FAMOUS LINERS OF THE EASTERN OCEANS: London. c. 1937. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 55 b/w photos. Fp: Australian Motor Liner Kanimbla. Cloth covers with light wear, title on front board and spine. Spine lightly sunned. Small piece torn in lower margin of the two last leaves. Foxing spots. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2.
Vessels which have made their names when trading East of Suez: to Australia and New Zealand, to India and Ceylon, to Burma and the Straits, to China and Japan, and across the Pacific.
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$20

41598
McLAREN, Fergus B.
FERGUS - A Memoir of Fergus Blair McLaren, by His Friends: Wellington. 1943. A. H. & A. W. Reed. 2nd Ed. 162 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: The reverend Fergus Blair Mclaren, M. A., in 1940. Cloth cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 18.5 x 12.8.
Tribute... Killed on the shores of Greece in 1941.
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$20

50364
MACLEAN DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FISHING INDUSTRY LOWER CLARENCE RIVER. The Early Years: Mclean, NSW. 2004. Maclean District Historical Society Inc. 1st Ed. (8), 146 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans, 4 drawings and 120 b/w photos. Soft cover, illustrated front cover, spiral bound. Fine. 29.8 x 22. 090932316X
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$45

52542
McMAHON, Libby and John
EXPLORING THE SOUTH LAND. Tasmania emerges from Terra Australis Incognita: Hobart. 2006. Maritime Museum of Tasmania. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Colin Denny. VIII, 68 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts, maps, plans). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 23 x 30. 0975723731
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$20

71152
McNARRY, Donald
SHIPBUILDING IN MINIATURE: London. 1982. Conway Maritime Press. 2nd revised edition of the 1955 original. 136 PP with 30 figures and 60 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edge. Near fine. 24.8 x 18.8. 0851772498
Tools and accessories, materials, research, methods and cases. Constructional and other details of 14 models (Stirling Castle, Queen Elizabeth, Cutty Sark, Caronia, HMS Prince...).
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$40

71261
McQUEEN, James
THE FRANKLIN - Not Just a River: Melbourne. 1983. Penguin Books Australia. 1st Ed., with an introduction by David Bellamy. X, 85 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps with locations maps, 17 photos) and 8 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 18 x 18. 0140068473
Story of a great Australian grass-roots movement.
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$25

41796
MAGUIRE, Eric
DIEPPE, August 19th 1942: London. 1974. Corgi Books. Paperback edition of the 1963 original published by Jonathan Cape. 185, (6 publications) PP with 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed). Ageing of paper, foxing. Very good. 18 x 11. 0552095753
Anglo-Canadian landing to test German defence, in occupied France.
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$15

67710
MARIN-MARIE
WIND ALOFT, WIND ALOW: London. 1945. Peter Davies. December 1945 reprint of the October 1945 original. VIII, 322 PP with 4 drawings and a tail piece (The Blue Water Medal), plus 24 pages with 24 b/w illustrations (5 paintings by the author and 19 b/w photos). Fp: Yacht Winnibelle. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket rubbed and chipped and small piece missing on spine. Signature on FFEP. Very good. 20.5 x 14.
Single-handed crossing of the North Atlantic on a power boat and under sail, pre WWII, by a painter commissioned by the French Navy.
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$15

34452
MARRINER, John
THE SHORES OF THE BLACK SHIPS: London. 1971. William Kimber. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (spine faded). Near fine. 24 x 16. 71830182X
Voyage of the yacht "September Tide" to modern Tunisia, and travels through its past.
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$10

31148
MASEFIELD, John
A MAINSAIL HAUL: London. 1987. Grafton Books. Reprint of the 1954 edition (reissue of the 1913 revised and enlarged edition with two new pieces), based on the 1905 original. 128 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.5. 0246131772
Exploits of ships and men.
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$5

22363
MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John
LINERS TO THE SUN: New York. 1985. Macmillan. 1st US Ed. XVI, 496 PP with 250 drawings and photos. Eps: Cruising around the world with inset. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (inside of folded dust jacket is a poster with the Cruise Ships of the late 20th century). Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. 24.2 x 17.2. 025450107
An evocative recreation of great cruises, past & present, from cruise ship conversion, construction & design, to the pleasures and occasional perils of life on board.
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$35

71190
MELHAM, Tom (editor)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS ATLAS: Washington. 2000. National Geographic Society. Deluxe edition. Foreword by Peter H. Raven. 310 PP with a large folded plate (Recto: World Map / Verso: Timeline ) and b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, diagrams, maps & photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration (Trans-Arctic expedition of 1995 led by Will Steger) on front board, gilt title on spine, all edges gilt, ribbon page marker. Foxing spots on free fly of endpapers and first and last leaf. Near fine. 28.3 x 24.2. 0792276167
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$25

40143
MITCHELL, Charles
SEAMAN'S PORTRAIT: London. c.1938. Collins. 1st Ed., in the Peacock Colour Books series. 24 PP with 8 b/w illustrations, plus 11 colour plates. Fp: Admiral Sir John Harman. Card cover, dj (chipped and rubbed). Ageing of paper, foxing on outside edges. Very good. 24.5 x 17.7.
The naval pantheon of Englishmen.
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$15

67988
MORRISON, J. S. & WILLIAMS, R. T.
GREEK OARED SHIPS 900-322 B.C.: Cambridge. 1968. C.U.P. 1st Ed. X, 356 PP with 3 maps and 9 figures, plus 31 plates with 111 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Covers a little faded with light shelf wear,. Ex-University Library copy with stamps on both endpapers, outside edges, title page and opposite Contents page. An otherwise very good clean, and probably unread, copy. 25.6 x 19.
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$30

71168
MURE, Jo (editor)
LIGHTHOUSES OF SYDNEY: Melbourne. c. 2018. Australia Post. Folder illustrated by Australia Post Design Studio, with 3 lighthouses of Sydney (Hornsby, Robertsons Point and Macquarie) and accompanied by the 3 stamps and the minisheet with 3 stamps, (caption on rear cover) Front Cover (Robertsons Point Lighthouse, Cremorne Point). Fine (mint). Oblong: 12 x 19.5.
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$10

64694
MUSEUMS
MARITIEM MUSEUM "PRINS HENDRIK" - Annual Report / Jaarverslag 1990: Rotterdam. 1991. Maritiem Museum Prins Hendrik. 1990 Report. 36 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Text in English and in Dutch. Oblong: 21 x 29.7.
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$20

47437
N/A
DEATH OF THE SCHARNHORST (in War Monthly - Issue No.2): London. 1974. Marshall Cavendish Ltd. May 1974. 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article by Richard O'Neill between pages 20 and 28 with 4 colour (1 painting, 1 map, 2 diagrams), and 12 b/w illustrations (1 set of sketch plans, 1 profiles and 10 photos). Pictorial soft cover (Scharnhorst ablaze). Near fine. 27.5 x 20.5.. 701816104
Lost in action off North Cape, 26 December 1943.
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$10

69542
N/A
A PRAYER FOR NEW SOUTH WALES: Sydney. 1932. "United Australia Party" / Marchant & Co. Ltd. Colour illustrated prospectus / hand bill. Near fine. 11 x 15.2.
On May 13, 1932, Sir Philip Game sacked Jack Lang, as Premier. "A Prayer for New South Wales", was celebrating a great and glorious victory on the 11th of June 1932, with the election of the new Premier, Bertram Stevens of the United Australia Party.
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$30

57108
N/A
SEA CLASSICS MAGAZINE - Volume 1, No.2, 1968: Canoga Park, Ca. 1968. Challenge Publications / Sea Classics. 72 PP. Edited by Robert H. GIBBONS. Contains article from P.30 to 43 with 1 colour illustration at centrefold and 18 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Staples removed. Very good. 28 x 21.4.
Voyage to Eternity - The Legend of RMS Titanic. Other articles: Jutland, Battle of the Big Guns, by Jack Dean .... Seawolves of the Mekong, by Owen Gault..
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$10

57133
N/A
SEA CLASSICS MAGAZINE - Volume 6 - No. 4 - 1973 - Special Battleship Issue: Canoga Park, Ca. 1973. Challenge Publications / Sea Classics. Edited by Ed. SCHNEPF, Jim SCHEETZ & Roy POCKETT. 68 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Staples removed. Very good. 28 x 21.4.
Showdown at Jutland, by Geo. John Geiger. The Fall of Rabaul (1914), by Charles Bogart. The Cage Mast Fleet, by Raymond Strait. Convoy to Casablanca, by Fred Everett Sollie.
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$10

49914
N/A
THE SWEDISH - AUSTRALASIAN TRADE JOURNAL: TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 1911 - 1931: Sydney. 1931. The Swedish-Australasian Trade Journal. Special Issue published in November 1931 and comprising the June, July, August, September, October and November numbers. 173- 432 PP with advertising material and b/w photos. Soft covers are a little fragile and somewhat foxed with chips around outside edges. Internally near fine on superior glossy paper. Scarce. 29.7 x 23.
20th anniversary of the foundation of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for Australasia and South Sea Islands. Includes sections on: The Swedish Commerce for Australasia and South Sea Islands; Australia's Wheat Industry by G. Boehme; Australia and the P. & O., Eighty Years of Service, by W.A. Mackay; Tasmania's Tourist Attractions, by E.T. Emmett; Islands of the Pacific, Their Trade and Commerce, by T. Southwell-Keely; Primary Industries in Western Australia, by S.J. Hayward; Agricultural Industries of Tasmania, by F.E. Ward; The All Red Route and the Canadian Pacific Railway, by John Holmes ... A mine of information on various areas of trade between Sweden and Australasia.
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$125

65406
NAA
THE LOG - Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia - Volume 3, No. 6 & Volume 4 No. 1: Melbourne. 1970 & 1971. Nautical Association of Australia, inc. Vol. 3, No. 6 (November 1970): Edited by T. S. Stevens. Background of ...: pages 113 to 116 and front cover with 2 waterline profiles. Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1971: Vessels owned by ...: pages 6 to 11, plus 1 waterline profile of Lakemba on plate I. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 21.
W.R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.
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$20

66305
NAA
THE LOG - Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia - Volume 13, No. 4: Melbourne. 1981. Nautical Association of Australia, inc. Vol. 13, No. 4 (November 1980). Edited by W.G. Volum. 99-128 PP (typescript) with 4 b/w photos, plus 2 b/w plates with 6 photos. Stapled wrappers with b/w photo of Kini on front cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 21.
Burns Philp Steamer: S.S. Titus, by B. A. Wilkinson. Pacific Far East Line, by N.J. Kirby
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$10

70838
NAA
THE LOG - Quarterly Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia Inc. - Volume 12, No. 4: Melbourne. 1979. Nautical Association of Australia, Inc. Vol. 12, No. 4, (November 1979). Edited by W.G. (Bill) Volum. 99-130 PP (typescript) with 3 drawings by Captain David Hancox and 4 b/w photos, plus 2 plates with 6 b/w photos. Pictorial soft wrappers ("Hakuna", served of the R.A.N., during WWI as "Una"), staples removed and in a clear plastic sleeve. Near fine. 26 x 21.5.
Bob Hayles of Townsville, by C. Jones. Note on "W.R. Carpenter's MANAM", by David Hancox. Una / Akuna, by R. Gillett. H.C. Sleigh Fleet List.
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$10

70841
NAA
THE LOG - Quarterly Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia Inc. - Volume 13, No. 2: Melbourne. 1980. Nautical Association of Australia, Inc. Vol. 13, No. 2 (May 1980). Edited by W.G. (Bill) Volum. 37-68 PP (typescript) with 2 drawings by David Hancox and 4 b/w photos, plus 2 plates with 6 b/w photos. Soft wrappers, pictorial front ("Alltrans Express"), in a clear plastic sleeve. Near fine. 26 x 21.5.
Pages 39 to 48: Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board, by D. Hancox & W.G. Volum. ... Burns Philp Liner M.V. Bulolo, by R. K. Willson.
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$10

61551
NAVAL REVIEW
THE NAVAL REVIEW - Vol. LVI, No. 1: London. 1968. The Naval Review. Vol LVI, No. 1, January 1968. Edited by Vice-Admiral Sir Aubrey Mansergh. (6), 105, (7) PP with 5 figures, plus 3 plates with 5 b/w photos. Soft cover. Occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 16.5.
The British Indian Ocean Territory. Yangtse Gunboats in the Early Twenties (3 plates), by Sweeper. 'Non-Event', the Channel Islands during WWII, by Onlooker.
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$5

47357
NICHOLSON, John
THE INCOMPARABLE CAPTAIN CADELL: Sydney. 2004. A Sue Hines Book / Allen & Unwin. 1st Ed. XII, 307 PP with 1 map on double page, 15 location maps, 15 head pieces and 28 b/w illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Portrait of Captain Cadell on title page. Pictorial boards, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Fine. 21.8 x 14.2. 1741141087
Paddle-steamers on the Murray river... Blackbirding and pearling days...
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$20

71206
NORMAN, L.
PIONEER SHIPPING OF TASMANIA - Whaling, Sealing, Piracy, Shipwrecks, etc. in Early Tasmania: Hobart. 1980. O.B.M. Pty. Ltd. Reprint of the 1938 original. Preface by A. G. Ogilvie. 220 PP, plus 36 pages with 61 b/w illust. Fp: Hobart in the colourful whaling days. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with small repaired tear at top of front cover, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 16.4.
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$45

15957
NORTON, Frank
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SHIPS OF TODAY: Sydney. 1958. Angus & Robertson. 1st Ed. 96 PP with many pen & ink illustrations by the author. Pictorial laminated boards. Spine has small piece missing 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.
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$20

16576
OCEANOGRAPHY
Proceedings of the Pan Indian Ocean Science Congress - Section F: GEOGRAPHY and OCEANOGRAPHY: Perth. 1954. Pan Indian Ocean Science Association. 1st Ed. 87 PP with tables and 3 charts, plus 3 folded maps. Soft cover. Near fine. 24.8 x 15.5.
Perth Congress of 1954. Papers in French and in English: hydrography, oceanography, internal waves,...
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$20

67726
OSTINI, Fritz V.
THOMA (in Künstler Monographien No. 46): Bielefeld und Leipzig. 1925. Verlag von Belhagen & Klasing. 1925 edition of Artist Monograph No. 46 in "De Luxe edition". (IV), 128, (2 list illustrations) PP with 136 b/w illustrations (2 tail pieces and 134 paintings & photos), plus 12 colour plates. Soft cloth cover, gilt title on font cover and spine, top edge gilt. Near fine. German text. 24.5 x 17.7.
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$10

47643
OZANNE, Nicolas
LE PORT DE St. MALO, Vu devant St. Servan en face de l' Eperon: Paris. c. 1980. Colour print - suitable for framing. Reprint of the 1776 original. Painting by Nicolas Ozanne, engraved by Le Gouaz and published in the Réduit de la Collection des Ports de France dessinés pour le Roi en 1776. Fine. Format: 26.8 x 35.5.
Port of Saint Malo, viewed from Saint Servan.
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$45

67949
P. & O.
P&O: Australia - New Zealand Service: Sydney. 1967. P & O Lines of Australia. Folded flyer (October 1967). 5 folds with 2 sketch maps, 3 Fares Tables, 2 Sailings Lists (Sailings from Australia to New Zealand and Sailings from New Zealand to Australia) and 11 b/w photos (including Canberra and Himalaya). Very good. Folded format: 23 x 10.
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$5

33797
PACIFIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: A Unique Area for Scientific Investigations - Contribution No.4 of the Charles Darwin Foundation: San Francisco. 1963. Charles Darwin Foundation. Contribution No. 4 of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands. Reprint from the Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 44. 154 PP with 50 figures. Fp: Colour photos of Academy Bay, Isla Santa Cruz and Sulivan Bay, Isla San Salvador. Soft cover a little browned around the edges, o/wise near fine. Fine. 25.4 x 17.1.
A Symposium presented at the 10th Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, University of Hawaii, 21st August to 6 September 1961. Bathymetry, Climate, Archaeology...
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$30

51247
PALMER, Frederick
OUR NAVY AS A BILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATION. What it is doing, and What it needs from us (in World's Work): New York. 1927. Doubleday, Page & Company. Volume LIV, No. 2, June 1927. (48 advertisements), 117-228, (64 advertisements) PP with period advertisements (some in colour). Contains article P. 157 to 169 with 1 map and 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (colour painting of the U.S.S. California, by Charles Robert Patterson). Slight ageing of paper, o/wise fine. Scarce. 24.3 x 16.7.
The US Navy after the Arms Conference / Washington Treaty.
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$40

60940
PALMER, J. F.
STEAMSHIPS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND - Part 1: 2012 photocopy of the J. F. Palmer Publications. Reprint of the 1932 original. Part 1: 32 PP (glossy paper) with 55 b/w photos. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Fine. 28 x 20.8.
Ships of the Australasian Interstate Companies: Union Steamship, Melbourne Steamship, Adelaide Steamship, Howard Smith, Huddart Parker, A.U.S.N.C., Patrick Steamship..
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$30

15550
PARRY, J.H.
THE SPANISH SEABORNE EMPIRE: London. 1966. Hutchinson. 1st Ed. in the History of Human Society series. 416 PP with 8 maps (5 on full page), plus 16 pages with 25 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.
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.
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$25

71156
PARSONS, Ronald
SOUTHERN PASSAGES - A Maritime History of South Australia: Wakefield. Adelaide. 1986. 1st Ed. XI, 417 PP with over 80 b/w illustrations and photos. Eps: Port Adelaide, circa 1910. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22 x 15.2. 0949268674
Published at the time of the 150 year jubilee celebrations of South Australia.
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$60

71158
PARSONS, Ronald (compiler)
SHIPPING LOSSES AND CASUALTIES CONCERNING AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (in 2 volumes): Goolwa, S.A. 2003. Author. 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.
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$100

71001
PATTEN, Chris
EAST and WEST - The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future: Sydney. 1998. Macmillan. 2nd printing. X, 340, (2) PP, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Eps: Royal Yacht Britannia, leaving Hong Kong. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16 9780333747872
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$20

71189
PEARSON, Mike Parker & GODDEN, Karen
IN SEARCH OF THE RED SLAVE - Shipwreck and Captivity in Madagascar: Stroud, UK. 2002. Sutton Publishing. 1st Ed. VI, 217 PP with 3 maps, plus 8 pages with 1 engraving and 14 colour illustrations (1 map and 13 photos). Hard cover, glit title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14. 9780750929387
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$25

71144
PEISLEY, Tony (editor)
ORIANA - From Dream to Reality: London. 1995. The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. 2nd edition. Foreword by Lord Sterling of Plaistow. 168 PP with b/w and colour illust. (drawings, plans, photos...). Half title page: House flags of P&O Cruises Ltd. Fp: Stern of the Oriana. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine, dj. Contained in an illustrated slipcase. Fine. 29.5 x 25.7. 0951432818
Built at Papenburg, by the German shipyard Meyer Werft, and launched 30th July 1994. The Ballad of Oriana by Michael Hanson. P&O at one with the sea by Garry Pownall. Cruising, a celebration by Tony Peisley.
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$40

70663
PERKS, Richard-Hugh
SPRITS'L - A Portrait of Sailing Barges and Sailormen: Greenwich. 1975. Conway Maritime Press. 1st Ed. 167 PP with 199 b/w plates. Eps: Map of Medway & East Swale Estuaries. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket is price clipped and has repaired tears or chips. Faint foxing. Contents near fine. 26 x 20.8. 0851770738
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$45

70678
PHILLIPS-BIRT, Douglas
THE HISTORY OF YACHTING: London. 1974. Elm Tree Books. 1st Ed. 288 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Fp: The Sappho setting balloon canvas, 1870. Eps: Yachting off the Isle of Wight 1848. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Covers worn on edges and with light sellotape marks. Ex Library copy with stamps on endpapers and recto of title page. Foxing on outside edges. Good reading copy. 30.5 x 23.5. 241890799
History of the sport of yachting & development of yacht design.
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$10

30446
PLOWMAN, Peter
PASSENGER SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Volume I (1876-1912): Sydney. 1981. Doubleday. 1st Ed. 224 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Eps: Funnels, house flags & hull colours of these passenger ships. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dj a little faded. Near fine. 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.
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$20

44215
POOLMAN, Kenneth
PERISCOPE DEPTH - Submarines at War: London. 1984. Sphere Books. 1st paperback edition of the 1981 original published by William Kimber. (6), 213, (4 publications) PP with 2 drawings, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Browning of paper around outside edges, o/wise very good. 17.7 x 10.8. 0722169140
The full story of submarines at war.
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$5

16601
POPE, Elizabeth & McDONALD Patricia
EXPLORING BETWEEN TIDEMARKS, An Introduction to Seashore Ecology: Sydney. 1968. Australian Museum. 4th Ed. 48 PP with b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.
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$10

20856
PORTER, Jonathan
MACAU, The Imaginary City: Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present: Boulder, Co., USA. 1996. Westview Press. 1st Ed., in the New Perspectives on Asian Studies series. X, (2), 240, (1 adv.) PP with 44 bw illust. Fp: Wall shrine. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0813328365
Macau, founded by the Portuguese in 1557: an enduring and changing threshold between East and West.
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$35

70920
PRICE, Nigel (editor)
LANCASTER 75 - Flypast Special Edition: Stamford, Lincs.. 2017. Key Publishing Ltd / FlyPast. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Celebrating Britain's Greatest Wartime Bomber. 75th Anniversary Souvenir issue.
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$10

70919
PRICE, Nigel (editor)
MOSQUITO - Flypast Special Edition: Stamford, Lincs.. 2009. Key Publishing Ltd / FlyPast. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780946219186
A Celebration of De Havilland's 'Wooden Wonder'.
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$10

66345
PRINGLE, John Douglas
THE SHOREBIRDS OF AUSTRALIA: Sydney. 1987. Angus & Robertson Publishers / The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ronald Strahan. (26), 692 PP with 2 figures and colour illustrations (105 location maps and over 600 photos). Hard cover, dj. Slight insect damage on edges of covers. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 29.6 x 22 0207153485
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$60

54555
PRITCHETT, Commodore J. H. (editor)
ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED YACHT CLUB, 1867 - 1967 - Centenary Year Book: Sydney. 1967. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 35 b/w photos. Title page: Seal of the Club. Inside front cover: 7 of the Flags of the Club. Illustrated stiff cover. Few foxing spots on front cover and outside edges, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 21.6 x 14.
History of the Club. List of Officers. List and Register of yachts. Annual Report...
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$30

30832
RAITT, Helen
EXPLORING THE DEEP PACIFIC: London. 1957. Staples Press. 1st UK edition. 253 PP with 11 maps & drawings, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Eps: track of the Capricorn expedition. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.
The Scripps expedition of 1952/1953, on board the Horizon and Spencer F. Baird, probing the secrets of ocean bottom, waters and air above. Calls in Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti and Marquesas.
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$10

70619
RAN
AEROGRAM - ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY: Canberra. c. 1972. Public Relations, Navy Office.P.M. Line / Royal Packet Navigation Company. 7 folds: 2 folds for address "Tracker Aircraft" and correspondence. Front fold with "skyhawk jets prepare for take-off", and 11 colour photos of vessels of the RAN. Aerogram: 76 x 15.4. Folded format: 10 x 15.3.
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$10

71234
RAN
NAVY - WARFARE OFFICERS CAREER HANDBOOK: Canberra. 2006. Royal Australian Navy. 1st edition of September 2006. Foreword by Commodore T.N. Jones. VIII, 160 PP with duotone, b/w or colour artworks and photos. Pictorial laminated boards. As new. 21.7 x 15.5.
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$35

70752
RATTENBURY, Kester
THE ESSENTIAL EYE / British Airways London Eye: London. 2002. HarperCollins. 1st Ed. Foreword by David Marks & Julia Barfield. 48 PP with 1 drawing and colour illustrations (1 location plan, 4 artworks and 43 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 20. 9780007642670
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$10

42140
REID, Anthony (editor)
SOJOURNERS AND SETTLERS - Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese: Honolulu. 2001. University of Hawai'i Press. 1st US edition of the 1996 Australian original. XXX, 216 PP with 1 graph, 2 tables, 3 maps and 6 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.6 x 14. 0824824466
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$45

19444
RENAULT, Gilbert
THE CARAVELS OF CHRIST: New York. 1959. G. Putnam's Sons. 1st US Ed. translated from 1956 French Ed. 254 PP plus 16 pages with b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 21.7 x 14.7.
Epic story of the Portuguese explorers of the 15th Century who travelled with their priests determined to bring Christianity to the people of the new worlds they discovered.
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$10

40297
RICHARDS, Joe
PRINCESS - New York: London. 1958. Hollis & Carter. 1st UK edition. (4), 258 PP with 24 drawings by the author. Hard cover, dj (chipped). Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Voyage of the sloop Princess, registered in New York, down to Southwest Key off the Honduran coast, then return to Florida...
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$15

70882
RIED, Walter
SEGLER DER SIEBEN MEERE - eine Weltgeschichte der Segelschiffahrt mit einer Darstellung der Segelfahrzeuge aller Ozeane: Oldenburg. 1981. Stalling Verlag Gmbh. 1st Ed. Introduction by Dr. Walter Ried. 239 PP with b/w illustrations (4 sketch maps on double page, and 551 drawings, engravings, etchings, paintings and photos). Cloth cover, dj. German text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 30.5 x 24. 3797915209
Sailing ships of the Seven Seas.
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$30

49562
RIGBY, Nigel , Van Der MERWE, Pieter, & WILLIAMS Glyn
PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC. Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810: Perth. 2005. University of Western Australia Press. 1st Australian edition. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts & maps, drawings & engravings, paintings & photos). Half title page (in colour): Bay on the South coast of Australia, by William Westall. Title spread: Entrance of Rio de Janeiro. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.3. 1920694641
Chapter 1: In the Wake of Cook. Chapter 2: Gentleman, Scholar and Seaman: Arthur Phillip and Australia. Chapter 3: The Spirit of Discovery: the tragic voyage of Laperouse... Chapter 5: Lost voyage of Alejandro Malaspina... Chapter 7: Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia.
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$20

40285
RINMAN, Thorsten & BRODEFORS, Rigmor
THE COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF SHIPPING: Gothenburg, Sweden. 1983. Rinman & Lindén AB. 1st English edition translated by Peter Hogg. 191 PP with 3 tables, 9 graphs, and 16 b/w illustrations (1 painting and 15 photos). Laminated boards, pictorial front is a little sunned at top, o/wise a fine copy. 21.5 x 15.3. 9197048402
Historical survey, qualified appraisals and analyses.
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$35

56004
ROBINS, Nick S., & MEEK, Donald E.
THE KINGDOM OF MACBRAYNE: From steamships to car-ferries in the West Highlands and Hebrides: Birlinn Limited. Edinburgh. 2008. New expanded edition of the 2006 original. XII, 291 with 1 map and b/w or colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): the Claymore. Pictorial soft cover. Text in English with some of the text in Scottish / Gaelic. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 22.8. 9781841586014
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$25

47234
ROBINSON, Richard (editor)
TRAVELLERS IN TIME: Seven Epic Stories of Early Exploration: London. 1986. Queen Anne Press. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 4 maps and 75 bw illust. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 21.8 x 20. 0356127982
Storm, Cape Horn: The Voyage of the Peking from Hamburg to Chile via Cape Horn, 1929-30, by Captain Irving Johnson. The Home of the Blizzard: Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14, by Sir Douglas Mawson. Under the Sea: Submarine Adventures and Undersea Film-Making, 1913, by John Williamson...
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$15

47392
RODGER, N. A. M.
THE ARMADA in the Public Records: London. 1988. HMSO. 1st Ed. 76 PP with 8 colour, 13 b/w ilustrations and 17 facsimile of documents on 26 pages. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 22. 0114402159
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$10

56936
RODGER, N. A. M.
THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN. A Naval History of Britain - 1649-1815: London. c. 2008. Allen Lane & National Maritime Museum. 11th printing of the 2004 original. LXV, 907 PP with 18 maps and 9 insets, plus 24 pages with 56 b/w illustrations. Eps. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780713994117
Sequel to The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain (Volume I).
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$30

67304
RODGER, N. A. M.
THE SAFEGUARD OF THE SEA. A Naval History of Britain - Volume one: 660-1649: London. 2004. Penguin Books & National Maritime Museum. Reprint (7) of the 1997 paperback edition. XXVI, 691 PP with 20 maps and 4 b/w illustrations, plus 24 pages with 59 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers with light creases on front and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 19.5 x 13.. 9780140297249
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$10

30155
ROSE, Susan (editor)
THE NAVY OF THE LANCASTRIAN KINGS. Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427: Navy Records Society. London. 1982. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 123. (XIV), 288, (6) PP. Fp: Folio No. 42 of the Accounts and Inventories of William Soper. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. Image shows title-page & frontispiece. 23 x 15.5. 0049421751
Accounts by the clerk of the King's ships covering the period during which the Navy built up by Henry V for the French war was largely dispersed by sale following his death.
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$15

20957
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
AUSTRALIAN SEAPOWER - BATTLESHIPS: Sydney. 1996 ?. Topmill. 1st Ed. No.3, in the Australian Seapower Photofile series. 88 PP with bw illust. (photos & plans). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 1876043156
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$10

43883
ROYAL NAVY
EAST OF MALTA, WEST OF SUEZ - The Admiralty Account of the Naval War in the Eastern Mediterranean, September 1939 to March 1941: London. 1943. Admiralty / Ministry of Information. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 1 battle diagram (Matapan), 4 paintings by Lieut.-Cdr. Rowland Langmaid, 7 maps and 40 b/w photos. Fp: The fight begins. FEP: Map The Italian Challenge. REP: The Navy holds the narrow seas. Pictorial soft cover. Front edged rubbed, o/wise very good. 23 x 17.8.
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$10

63352
ROYAL NAVY / SOVIET NAVY
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - August 25 1962: London. 1962. The Illustrated London News. No. 6421, Volume 241, August 25, 1962. 269-308 PP. Pages 287 to 291 : The British Navy today, with 5 b/w photos and 7 drawings by G.H. Davis: Soft cover. Staples removed. Very good. Large format: 37 x 26.
Page 287: Missile "Seacat". Centrefold (288/289): Decline and fall of the Royal Navy. Pages 290 & 291: comparisons between British Navy and Soviet Navy.
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$15

70962
ROYAL TASMANIAN BOTANICAL GARDENS
PEOPLE, PLACES and PLANTS - The Influence of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens on Tasmania's cultural landscape: Hobart. c. 2000. Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. 1st Ed. Text by Lexi Clark and photography by Chris Viney. No pagination, 32 PP with 14 location maps, 40 b/w and 52 colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 21.
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$15

40372
SALMON, Edward & WORSFOLD, James (editors)
THE BRITISH DOMINIONS YEAR BOOK 1920: London. 1919. Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Company. 5th edition. 315 PP, (11 advert.), plus 18 colour plates with coat of arms of the companies, coat-of-arms & seals of cities and boroughs and 8 folded maps in colour. Fp: Portrait of LLoyd George. Papered boards, illustrated front cover, cloth spine. Spine with a bump and a repaired tear in its middle. Very good. 21.5 x 14.2.
Dominions and Dependencies by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Milner... The British Fleet's Part, by Archibald Hurd...
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$15

22103
SCHIAFFINO, Pro (editor)
VELIERI DI CAMOGLI, La quadreria del Museo Marinaro Gio Bono Ferrari: Genova. 1981. Sagep Editrice. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 70 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Italian text. 24.8 x 17.7. 8870580733
Sailing ships painted by the seafarers from the small town of Camogli, a few miles from Genoa, and preserved in the Gio Bono Ferrari Maritime Museum.
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$10

42790
SCHROEDER, Robert E.
SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE: New York. 1965. Harper & Row. 1st Ed. VII, 184 PP, plus 32 pages with 19 colour and 38 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Signed by the author on half title page. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.5.
A pioneer night diver and marine biologist reveals the marvelous spectacle of underwater life, the remarkable changes between day and night.
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$15

52219
SEAWAYS
SEAWAYS' SHIPS IN SCALE - Volume XI, Numbers 1 to 6: San Jose, Ca. 2000. Seaways Publishing. 6 issues Edited by Jim Raines. 480 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, sketches and photos). Inside covers with 36 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.5.
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$50

17512
SHAPIRO, H. L.
THE HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY, The Story of Pitcairn through six generations: Simon and Schuster. New York. 1936. 1st US Ed. XV, 329 PP, plus 8 pages with 18 b/w photos. Endpapers: map of the Pacific, with insert 'Pitcairn Island". Illustrated cloth cover and spine, pictorial dust jacket. Ex-libris of previous owner on inside front cover. Covers have light wear, dust jacket has a few chips and a browned spine. Contents are clean and a near fine copy. Scarce. 24 x 15.5.
Story of a 10 day visit on the "Zaca" in 1934 and account of researches on the Pitcairn Islanders by this American anthropologist.
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$60

44763
SHEKHDAR, Jim & GRIFFITHS, Edward
BOLD MAN OF THE SEA - My Epic Journey: London. 2001. Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Ed. XVI, 255 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 16 pages with 31 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 23.4 x 15.2. 0340822759
Rowing single-handed for 274 days (29 June 2000 to 30 March 2001) across the Pacific, from Ilo in Peru to North Stradbroke Island, southern Queensland.
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$20

71177
SHIPWRECKS
50 NAUFRAGES EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE: Nouméa. 2020. Fortunes de Mer Calédoniennes. 1st edition, with a preface by Gabriel Valet. 172 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, paintings and photos) and colour illustrations (1 Index chart, 50 location maps and hundreds of photos). Laminated pictorial boards. French text. New. 27.8 x 21.5. 9782955807828
Shipwrecks on New Caledonia coasts and reefs: windjammers, nickel ore carriers, warships, and US planes during WWII... Wreck of a 40 m. long cargo freighter (drug ?, refugees? ...) on Bampton Reef discovered in April 2019.
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$80

50788
SMITH, Nancy & STEWART, Robert (editors)
AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY - SPECIAL ISSUE NEW ZEALAND - Volume 18, No.10, June, 1976: Sydney. 1976. Australian Museum. Pages 345 to 380 with 5 colour photos and 43 b/w illustrations. Inside covers: Maps of New Zealand.
Gondwana Genesis, by C. A. Fleming. From Hawaiki to Te-Ika-A-Maui, by Janet Davidson... Islands, Oceans and Marine Life Patterns by Alan Baker and John Yaldwyn.
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$15

55032
SPENNEMANN, Dirk H. R.
'STEAM TO TONGA & SAMOA': The Norddeutscher Lloyd Mail Service 1886 to 1893: Albury, NSW. 2002. Letao Press. 1st Ed. 37, (3 publications) PP with 31 b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 house flag, 1 newspaper clipping, 2 franked stamps, 7 franking stamps, 9 franked envelopes or post cards, and 10 photos). Pictorial soft cover, staples. Very good. 29.7 x 20.7. 01876940085
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$20

19415
SPIES, M.H.
VETERAN STEAMERS, A Story of the Preservation of Steamships: Humlebaek, Denmark. 1965. Privately published. 1st Ed. 140 PP with 67 b/w illust. (4 line drawings, photos & paintings). Pictorial soft cover, repaired dj. Near fine. Scarce. 21 x 15.
The Danes were the first to introduce diesel engines on seagoing ships and the first to preserve one of their small passengers steamers, the Skjelskor. Preservation in other countries (in Australia: the Lady Hopetoun, P.S. Marion, P.S. Gem).
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$20

55508
STANBURY, Myra (editor)
JOURNEYS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: French Exploration of Terres Australes: Perth. 2008. Western Australian Museum - Maritime. 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.
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$10

21295
STANBURY, Peter & BUSHELL, Lydia (editors)
SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS: Sydney. 1984. Macleay Museum / University of Sydney. 1st Ed. (6), 130 PP with 7 tables, 3 maps, 5 figures & 53 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned. Fine. 24 x 18. 0909635269
An introduction to the Pacific islands. Contributions on: European Discovery (Robert Langdon), Landforms (John Connell), Botany (Wee-Lek Chew), Languages (Darrell Tryon), Arts (Beth Dean & Victor Carell), Whaling (William Dawbin), Crops & Farming (Peter Searle), Politics and Independence (Stuart Inder).
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$15

10474
STANNARD, Bruce
BEN LEXCEN - The Man, the Keel and the Cup: London. 1984. Faber & Faber. 1st Ed. 149 PP with 7 sketch maps, 9 plans, and 37 b/w photos. Fp: Ben Lexcen. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25 x 19. 0571133967
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$20

71174
STANTON, Harley
MY CATHEDRAL IN THE SEA - A History of the Conway: Hobart. 2019. Forty South Publishing. 1st Ed. XVIII, 222 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Map UK to Australia with "The Last of England ". REP: Map UK to Australia with "Sydney Cove". Pictorial boards "Men furling sails in high seas on the Garthsnaid". New. 24.5 x 21.5. 9780648532897
Conway built 1851 in Saint John, New Brunswick ... Abandoned in the North Atlantic in 1875. 5 crossings to Australia.
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$65

56276
STEWART, A. J.
MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1963 - Volume XII: London & New York. 1964. Adlard Coles & John de Graff. 1st Ed., Volume XII, 1964. 176 PP with 1 graph, tables & bw illust. (photos & plans). Fp: Forcados, 8,150 tons d.w. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (Montreal City). Faint foxing. Near fine. Oblong: 15 x 23.
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$20

18366
STOMMEL, Henry
LOST ISLANDS, The Story of Islands that have vanished from Nautical Charts: Vancouver. 1984. UBC Press. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear-Admiral G. S. Ritchie. XXI, 146 PP & 1 folded map (67 x 117), with 11 b/w illust. & 23 charts (4 double page). Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22.2. 0774802103
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$25

21859
STREET, Sean
THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND: London. 1992. Souvenir Press. 1st Ed. XIII, 208 PP with 2 maps & 8 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0285630512
Night of 7th December 1875, the Deutschland, a German emigrant ship, off course, ran aground on the Kentish Knock, a sandbank of the Thames estuary.
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$15

71175
TAYLOR, Colin
TAYLORS AND THE TAMAR, Plus Surrounding Districts: Canberra. 2020. Navarine Publishing. 1st Ed., No. 68 in the Roebuck series. VIII, 265, (5) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (facsimile of newspaper cuttings, maps, plans, paintings and photos) and 83 b/w illust. Laminated boards, illustrated front. New. Fine. 26 x 21. 9780992366094
Up to and including transportation in the 1850's to Van Diemen's Land, Flinders Island, Serving his Time, then by decade to the 1930's and beyond plus the Taylor family tree.
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$55

37656
THESIGER, Vice-Admiral Bertram S.
QUERIES IN SEAMANSHIP: Portsmouth. 1928. Gieves. 4th edition, revised and enlarged from the 1905 original. IX, 125 PP, plus a total of 124 pages with lines facing each page printed with queries. Cloth cover. Some foxing, spine frayed at top and bottom. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, and pencilled comments on the blank pages. Very good. 21.6 x 14.5.
A collection of typical questions in the various items of a Midshipman's Seamanship Examination. 1267 potential queries, many with answers (written or drawings) pencilled by G. F. E. Knox, the previous owner. An insight into the knowledge expected of a young officer.
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$35

36892
THIELE, Ron
KETCH HAND - Life aboard the little ships of the South Australian Gulfs: Epping, NSW. c. 1970. Graeme Andrews Productions. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 19 b/w photos. Inside front cover: The last Gulf Ketch "Annie Watt". Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23 x 15.6.
Details of 43 South Australian Ketches, on pages 47, 48 and the inside of the back cover.
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$20

71238
THOMAS, Fred
BOAT-BUILDERS OF LAKE MACQUARIE AND BEYOND: Lake Macquarie. 2006. Lake Macquarie and District Historical Society. 1st Ed. Foreword by Peter Rundle. 185 PP with b/w illustrations: 2 sketches, 2 plans and over 65 photos. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 9780959532111
"RANI", winner of the first Sydney to Hobart yacht race, was built at Speers Point.
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$75

18615
THWAITES, Lt. RNVR Michael
THE JERVIS BAY AND OTHER POEMS: London. 1943. Putnam & Co. Reprint of December 1943. VIII, 59 PP. Soft covers with pictorial dj. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
The sea fight of the Scheer and the Jervis Bay, or how a small ship and gallant crew struck a great blow for King and Country, then went down in Glory.
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$20

71254
TILEY, Robert
AUSTRALIAN NAVIGATORS - Picking up Shells and Catching Butterflies in an Age of Revolution: Sydney. 2002. Kangaroo Press. 1st Ed. XI, 244 PP with 29 head pieces, 8 charts and 17 maps, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Repaired tear on FFEP, signs of old water damage on lower margin of verso of front cover and first 6 pages and last 18 pages (not affecting text). An otherwise near fine copy. 23.5 x 18. 0731811186
De Surville, Du Fresne, Saint Allouarn, Bougainville, Cook, Lapérouse, Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Matthew Flinders...
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$20

17901
TOGHILL, Jeff
THE JAMES CRAIG - Her history, recovery and restoration: Sydney. 1979. Reed. Reprint of the 1978 original. 32 PP with 1 ship profile, 1 map, 9 bw and 48 col. photos in text. Inside back cover: 2 bw photos of the James Craig under full canvas, and in her port of registry. Pictorial soft cover (painting of James Craig by Oswald Brett). Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0589500597
Launched 18 February 1874 as Clan Macleod from the Sunderland shipyard. Sold to J.J. Craig shipowner of Auckland New Zealand 15 August 1899 and renamed James Craig on 14 December 1905...
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$5

70364
TROWER, Rosalie
NORFOLK ISLAND, South Pacific Paradise: Norfolk Island. c. 1975. Burns Philp (Norfolk Island) Ltd. 1st Ed. No pagination, 24 PP with 4 b/w and 66 colour photos by Howard Hanstein. Inside back cover: 3 maps (location and Norfolk with dependencies). Pictorial soft cover. Gift inscription on inside front cover. Near fine. 28 x 21.5. 0858580411
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$15

63034
TURNER, Robert D.
THE PACIFIC EMPRESSES - An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Empress Liners on the Pacific Ocean: Victoria, B.C. 1981. Sono Nis Press. 1st Ed. X, (4), 290 PP with over 400 b/w illust. (plans, photos, maps,...) & 3 colour plates. Fp: "Empress of Russia" steaming up to the Rithet docks at Victoria in 1913. Eps: Steamship routes of the Pacific Empresses. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few rubs or creases, o/wise a near fine copy. 28.5 x 22. 0919462618
The fifty year link between Canada, Japan, China, Philippines, in peace and war.
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$30

49401
UMBGROVE, J. H. F.
STRUCTURAL HISTORY OF THE EAST INDIES: Cambridge. 1949. University Press. 1st Ed. XII, 64 PP with 68 figures, plus 9 b/w plates with 1 relief-block and 23 photos, and 1 large folded Geology map at end of the book. Cloth covers with light soiling and shelf wear, gilt title on front cover and spine. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages. A very good copy. 31.8 x 25.3.
Physical geology of the Indonesian archipelago: Shallow seas, deep-sea basins, volcanoes... Geophysics.
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$25

19703
UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION
DEEP-SEA EXPLORATION - A General Description of the Steamer ALBATROSS, her Appliances and Methods - Bulletin 1896, No.17, Part 5: New York. 1896. United States Fish Commission. Report by Z.L. TANNER. (8 blanks), P.257 to 428, (12 blanks) with b/w illustrations [76 text-cuts and 1 photo, plus 40 plates (37 on full-page & 3 large folded)]. Fp: The Albatross. Bound in modern dark cloth, gilt-engraved spine. Near fine. 27.5 x 19.5.
The author was Captain of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross from Nov. 1882 to May, 1894.
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$125

67805
VAN DE VELDE DE JONGE, Willem
COLOUR PRINT - HET IJ VOOR AMSTERDAM (1686): Amsterdam. c.1990. Verkerke Reprodukties / Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Reprint of the original paintings by Willem van de Velde (1633-1707). Colour painting (20.5 x 35) on stiff art paper. Fine condtion. Format: 26.5 x 41.
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$10

30204
VAN KRIEKEN, G. S.
Dr. CORNELIS PIJNACKER, Historysch verhael van den steden Thunes, Algiers ende andere steden in Barbarien gelegen: The Hague. 1975. Martinus Nijhoff. 1st Ed. Volume LXXV in De Linschoten-Vereeniging series. X, 206 PP, plus 7 b/w plates. Fp: Dr. Cornelis Pijnacker. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. Dutch text. 25 x 16.5. 9024717914
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$30

71208
VEITCH, Michael
THE FORGOTTEN ISLANDS - A Personal adventure through the Islands of Bass Strait: Melbourne. 2011. Penguin. Paperback edition of the 2011 original. (6), 297 PP with 6 maps of Bass Strait Islands on double page, plus 16 pages with 30 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 19.7 x 13. 9780670071814
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$30

49751
VILLIERS, Alan
POSTED MISSING - The Story of Ships Lost without Trace in Recent Years: London. 1956. Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 8 figures & 9 maps, plus 16 pages with 23 b/w photographs. Fp: In a Heavy Sea. Eps: World map with position of ships posted missing. Hard cover, dj (price clipped and with piece missing at head and foot). Foxing, o/wise very good. 21 x 14.5.
Chapters 9 & 10: The mystery of the Waratah.
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$30

66978
VOLUNTEER COASTAL PATROL OF N.S.W.
SAFE BOATING: Sydney. c. 1950. The Sun & Volunteer Coastal Patrol of NSW. 1st Ed. 36 PP with b/w sketches. Soft cover, pictorial front, staples removed. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
... safe operation of boats by amateur enthusiasts ... to be read in conjunction with the official Rules and Regulations issued by the Maritime Services Board of N.S.W.
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$10

57176
von PHYSTER, George
PAINTINGS AND LORE OF CALIFORNIA LIGHTHOUSES: San Diego, Ca. 1963. Artista Publications. 1st Ed. Preface by Captain Robert T. Alexander, USCG, Pharologist. 40 PP with 1 colour painting, 1 b/w photos, 20 b/w illustrations ( 6 drawings & 14 paintings). Pictorial soft cover. Lower corner of front cover with a crease, o/wise near fine. 22.5 x 17.5.
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$25

32060
WALKER, Commodore George
THE VOYAGES AND CRUISES of Commodore Walker: London. 1928. Cassell. Reprint of the 1760 original, in The Seafarer's Library series, with an Introduction and Notes by H.S. Vaughan. LI, 220 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 half-tone plates. Fp: The Glorioso, Spanish man-of-war of seventy-four guns, after her capture. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing of pages, foxing spots on edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
Voyages to Carolina in 1739-40. Voyages to Russia and Scandinavia... Attacks on Spanish shipping off the West coast of Spain, Portugal and Barbary...
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$30

16816
WALKER, Dora M.
THEY LABOUR MIGHTILY - A Tale of Inshore Fishing in War and Peace: London. 1947. A. Brown & Sons. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Charles W. Domville-Fife. XVI, 84 PP plus 44 pages with 68 b/w plates. Fp: Sea harvest, Skipper J.R. Storr, D.S.M. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, dj. A near fine copy in a slightly soiled and rubbed dust jacket. Scarce. 22 x 14.5.
Fishing out of Whitby, patrols during WWII.
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$30

38822
WALTHEW, Kenneth
FROM ROCK AND TEMPEST - The Life of Captain George William Manby: London. 1971. Geoffrey Bles. 1st Ed. 175 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with small rub at top corner of front part. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 713802871
The Manby apparatus projects a life-line to stranded ships, then uses the breeches buoy...
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$15

55786
WARNER, Oliver
GREAT NAVAL BATTLES: London / Melbourne. 1972. Hamlyn / Sun Books. 1st Ed., in the Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks series. 160 PP with colour illustrations by Bill Stallion. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18 x 11. 0600338509
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$5

70977
WATERS, Sydney D.
ORDEAL BY SEA - The New Zealand Shipping Company in the Second World War 1939-1945: London. 1949. N.Z. Shipping Co. 1st Ed. XII, 263 PP with 1 map, plus 5 b/w plates. Fp: M/V Rangitata under attack in July 1940. Cloth cover, gilt title on vignette on spine, dj (repaired). Renewed dust jacket with remaining parts of original pasted down on front and spine. Contents in fine condition and overall a very good copy. Scarce. 20.5 x 13.4.
The war years for the ships & seamen of the NZ Shipping Co. and its associated Federal Steam Navigation Co. The loss of 19 owned and 4 operated ships.
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$45

32109
WATTS, Anthony J. (Edit.)
WARSHIPS AND NAVIES REVIEW: London. 1974. Ian Allan. 1st Ed. 96 PP with tables, 1 map, 3 graphs, and 71 b/w photos. Title page: A Soviet H-11 submarine. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with small pieces missing. Very good. 24.2 x 18. 0711003858
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$10

15974
WHALE, Derek M
THE LINERS OF LIVERPOOL, Part I: Birkenhead. 1986. Countywise Limited. 1st Ed. 114, (1 publications) PP with 84 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Small creases on covers. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 09077681113
On the people (passengers and crew) who travelled on these liners.
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$10

17948
WHIPPLE, A.B.C.
THE CHALLENGE: New York. 1987. William Morrow. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 13 b/w illustrations. Eps: World map of winds and routes. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (price-clipped). Occasional foxing. Note at lower part of front endpaper. Near fine. 24.2 x 16. 0688071120
The life of Robert Waterman, the preeminent clipper ship captain and the race in 1851 to beat the record of the Flying Cloud. Story of this era: designer of clipper ships, oceanographers, ...
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$25

44979
WHITAKER, S. F.
NIGHT SAILING: London. 1974. Stanford Maritime Limited. 1st Ed. 94 PP with 1 table and 19 b/w illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 13.8. 0540071374
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$10

50359
WICKS, Sir James, BIRD, Captain R. & McINTYRE, Captain A. F.
M.V. PACIFIC CHARGER, Shipping Casualty, 21 May 1981. Report of Court and Annex Thereto: Wellington. 1982. N. Z. Government Printer. 1st Ed. (4), 184 PP with 3 b/w photos. Soft cover. Small tears on the 2 first leaves, o/wise very good. 24 x 15.5.
Shipwrecked on Baring Head, near Wellington, New Zealand. Investigation held in Wellington 7 July to 9 October 1981.
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$15

62405
WILLIAMS, David L.
CUNARD'S LEGENDARY QUEENS OF THE SEAS: London. 2004. Ian Allan. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: Queen Mary 2, in Southampton waters, on 26th December 2003. Pictorial laminated boards. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. Oblong: 19.2 x 24.5. 0711029938
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$25

62407
WILLIAMS, David L. & DE KERBRECH, Richard
FERRIES AND PLEASURE STEAMERS - A Colour Portfolio: London. 2008. Ian Allan. 1st Ed. 80 PP with colour photos. Title page: Jubilee Queen, in the River Camel estuary. Pictorial laminated boards. Faint foxing. Fine. Oblong: 19.2 x 24.5. 9780711032729
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$25

71251
WILLIS, Sam
SHIPWRECK, A History of Disasters at Sea: London. 2008. Quercus Publishing. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Fp: The Battle of Camperdown (1799), Contents page: Wreck of the steamship SS Santa Rosa off Point Arguello, California, 7 July 1911. Hard cover, dust jacket. As new. 30 x 26. 9781847247629
Chapters on: Ancient and Dark Age Wrecks, Galleons and Gold, Broadsides, Pirates and Whales, Iron, Steam and Steel, World Wars, Nuclear Power, Oil and the Atomic Bomb.
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$25

39605
WILSON, Neil
GREAT SEA DISASTERS - The World's Worst Sea Disasters: Bristol, UK. 1998. Siena Book / Parragon. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 30 colour and 48 b/w illustrations. Half title page: White Star Liner Atlantic, aground on Meagher Island, Nova Scotia, 1873. Fp: The Endurance trapped in the pack ice, Weddell Sea, 1915. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. Oblong: 23.5 x 29.7. 0752527436
Galleons, guns and East Indiamen... Passenger Liners... Ferries and Riverboats... Survival and Rescue.
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$20

20515
WINSER, John de S.
BRITISH CROSS-CHANNEL RAILWAY PASSENGER SHIPS: London. 1994. Patrick Stephens Limited. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 map, 1 silhouette, 3 plans and 126 b/w photos. Title spread: Dieppe Harbour, 15th August 1937. Half title page: the 1445 tons Brittany. FEP: View of St Helier Harbour with Falaise in port. REP: The 1949 Strait of Dover steamer Maid of Orleans. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28 x 22. 185260459X
53 ships which joined the railway-owned fleets from 1920 to 1963.
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$15

70978
WOOD, Frances
THE SILK ROAD: London. 2004. The Folio Society. 3rd printing of the 2002 original. 270 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread (in colour): Lady Wen-Chi's departure from China - see image. FEP: Map of the Silk Road in Central Asia. REP: Map of the Silk Road (Eastern Mediterranean Sea to China). Covers bound in silk, gilt decorations on covers by Neil Packer, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 26 x 19.
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$35

33124
WOODCOCK, George
SOUTH SEA JOURNEY: London. 1976. Faber and Faber. 1st Ed. 341 PP with 4 maps. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0571102573
Voyage in 1971 to Samoa, Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Island Colonies, Fiji, New Caledonia (the giant pebble), Vanuatu then New Hebrides (three fellow government), Solomon Islands.
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$10

15162
WOODENBOAT (Editors)
WOODEN BOAT - An Appreciation of the Craft: Reading, Mass. 1982. Addison-Wesley Pub. 1st Ed., with an introduction by John Wilson. (8), 311 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Fp: the Gokstad ship, Oslo. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 28.5 x 22. 0201092808
A selection of the best essays, articles, and photographs from WoodenBoat magazine.
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$25

19099
WOODLEY, Arthur E.
WESTERN PORT FERRIES, Past and Present, and Captain Clarke, their most notable skipper: Hill of Content. Melbourne. 1973. 1st Ed. XIV, 125 PP with 1 map, 1 cartoon & 47 b/w illust. in text. Fp: S.S. Oscar then owned by C.U.B. Pictorial soft covers a little soiled. Contents near fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 855720522
Story of the ferries plying the waters of Western Port: heyday and decline.
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$15

70742
WOOLEY, Charles & TATLOW, Michael
A WALK IN OLD HOBART: Hobart. 2007. Walk Guides Australia. 1st Ed. (10), 86 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 folded map at rear of book. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.6.
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$15

71233
WRAY MCCANN, Hugh
UTMOST FISH: London. 1966. Heinemann. 1st edition. (12), 324 PP. Hard cover, glit title on spine, dj (price clipped). Signature of previous owner on FFEP, a few foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 22 x 15
Historical novel on: The Naval African Expedition of 1915-1916. 2 Royal Navy motor-boats "Mimi" and "Toutou" epic journey through Africa, from Capetown to the Belgian fort of "Lukuga" by train, non-existent roads and rivers, to attack 3 German gunboats on Lake Tanganyka. Title "Utmost Fish": the command term used to launch all torpedoes simultaneously at the target.
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$40

71169
WRIGHT, Charles & FAYLE, C. Ernest
A HISTORY OF LLOYD'S, from the Founding of LLoyd's Coffee House to the Present Day: London. 1928. Corporation of Lloyd's / Macmillan and Company. 1st Ed. (4), XXI, 475 PP with 3 b/w illustrations in text, plus 44 plates: 4 in colour and 40 in b/w (1 on double page and 2 folded). Fp: Portrait of John Julius Angerstein, 1735-1823, Chairman. Cloth covers with light shelf wear, gilt crest on front board, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Faint foxing (occasional). Near fine condition. Scarce. 25.6 x 17.5.
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$80

40672
ZITWER, Barbara Jane
SEASHELLS: New York. 1995. Warner Books. 1st printing, in Magic of the Ocean series. (2), 55 PP with 30 colour illustrations by Robbin Gourley. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 15.4 x 11. 0446910066
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$10

40671
ZITWER, Barbara Jane
WHALES: New York. 1995. Warner Books. 1st printing, in Magic of the Ocean series. (2), 54 PP with 27 colour illustrations by Robbin Gourley. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 15.4 x 11. 0446910112
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$10