19687 ALLCOT, John & THE AUSTRALASIAN PIONEERS' CLUB THE SHIPS THAT LAUNCHED A NATION
$300.00 AUD
The Australasian Pioneers' Club. Sydney. c. 1988. 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. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.
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.
40783 ANDERSON, A. T. I. DRYDOCKING AND REPAIRS (in Transactions of the Institute of Marine Engineers - Volume 81, No. 9, September 1969)
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Marine Engineers. London. 1969. Contains article P. 305 to 308 with 2 figures. Pictorial soft covers a little soiled at top, o/wise contents fine. 28 x 21.6.
65882 ANDERSON, Linda Frylink SAILING IN MY SARONG: Around the World - A 30 Year Dream
$30.00 AUD
Author. Sunshine Coast, Qld. 2011. 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.
71552 ARMSTRONG, Warren SQUARE-RIGGER DAYS
$25.00 AUD
Heinemann. London. 1964. 1st Ed. (6), 191 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Orig. cloth cover, gilt-engraved spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket frayed at head and foot of spine with a piece missing at the back and now in a clear protective sleeve. Stamp of previous owner on endpapers and outside edges. Very good copy of a scarce title. 22.2 x 14.2.
History of the square-riggers, the triumphs & tragedies which befell them: Lightning, Thermopylae & Cutty Sark. Kobenhavn lost without trace..
61827 ATKINSON, Jenni A GIRL IN SQUARE RIG - Four Months Before The Mast
$10.00 AUD
Arlington Books. London. 1977. 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".
62605 AUSTRALIA POST LIGHTHOUSES OF AUSTRALIA - Poster
$5.00 AUD
Australia Post. Melbourne. 2002. Poster in colour. Fine. Format: 84 x 59.5
Macquarie - Troubridge Island - Cape Naturaliste - Cape Bruny.
71274 BAINBRIDGE, Cyril PAVILIONS ON THE SEA: A History of the Seaside Pleasure Pier
$15.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1986. 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.
62306 BARNABY, K. C. SOME SHIP DISASTERS AND THEIR CAUSES
$25.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1968. 1st Ed. XVI, 272 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped) and in a protective sleeve. Neat stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Inc. on the front endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy. 21.8 x 14.5.
The ships: design, construction and operation. Shipwrecks, foundering, collisions; fires...
71139 BARRATT, Glynn THE RUSSIAN NAVY AND AUSTRALIA TO 1825, The Days Before Suspicion
$20.00 AUD
Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1979. 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.
19982 BASCOM, Willard DEEP WATER, ANCIENT SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Doubleday & Co. New York. 1976. 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...
70963 BASS, Gordon THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURER
$20.00 AUD
Ebury Press / Penguin Random House Australia. Sydney. 2017. 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.
68234 BAUGHMAN, James P. THE MALLORYS OF MYSTIC: Six Generations in American Maritime Enterprise
$15.00 AUD
The Marine Historical Association. Mystic Seaport. 1972. 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
42003 BAYLISS-SMITH, Tim, BEDFORD, Richard, BROOKFIELD, Harold, & LATHAM, Marc ISLANDS, ISLANDERS AND THE WORLD - The colonial and post-colonial experience of eastern Fiji
$30.00 AUD
C.U.P. Cambridge. 1988. 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
69055 BEAN, C. E. W. FLAGSHIPS THREE
$120.00 AUD
Alston Rivers, Ltd. London. 1913. 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.
22284 BEAVER, Paul MODERN COMBAT SHIPS 2 - INVINCIBLE CLASS
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1984. 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
44639 BELGRAVE, James (text) & GERARD, Bernard (photos) BAHRAIN
$25.00 AUD
Editions Delroisse. Paris. c. 1980. 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.
20595 BENCHLEY, Peter GHOSTS OF WAR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC - WRECK OF THE COOLIDGE (in National Geographic - Vol.173, No.4)
$10.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 1988. April 1988. Contains articles P. 424 to 467 with bw and colour photos. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
Wrecks of planes, and ships in the South Pacific War zone. Wreck of the President Coolidge, sunk off Santo, Vanuatu in 1942 and now a popular diving destination.
52473 BENNETT, Geoffrey NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1983. 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
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
$20.00 AUD
Fairplay Publications. London. 1988. 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
68626 BLACK, Lesley SEA GYPSY
$20.00 AUD
Author. Kettering, Tasmania. 1997. 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".
10658 BLAKE, George BRITISH SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDERS
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1946. 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.
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'
$25.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin / National Library of Australia. Sydney / Canberra. 1987 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
71225 BONNEMAISON, Joël THE TREE AND THE CANOE, History and Ethnogeography of Tanna
$40.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1994 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. Fine. Scarce. 24 x 16. 9780824815257
Resistance and resilience to Western cultural contacts.
44974 BRADBEER, Jonathan (editor) PAUL ELVSTRÖM EXPLAINS THE YACHT RACING RULES - 1989-92 Rules
$5.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1989. 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
58483 BRADBURY, Georgina, CONSOLI, Stella, COPLAND, Gordon, MATTHEWS, Shirley & SOUTHWOOD, Judith FIELD TRIP REPORT ON WHALING STATION SITES ON EYRE PENINSULA: FISHERY BAY
$30.00 AUD
School of Cultural Studies (Archaeology), Flinders University. Adelaide. 1997. 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.
32703 BROCHADO, Costa, MARJAY, Frederico, et al.. (editors) DOM HENRIQUE THE NAVIGATOR
$60.00 AUD
Executive Committee for the Quincentenary Commemorations of the death of the Infante Dom Henrique. Lisbon. 1960. 1st English edition, translated from the Portuguese original by George F.W. Dykes. 100 PP with text illustrations, plus 55 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of the Infante Dom Henrique The Navigator. Marbled hard cover, pictorial dust jacket is rubbed around edges and has a small chip at top near spine and a crease on bottom right corner. Signature of previous owner on FFEP. Internally near fine. Scarce. 30 x 21.8.
Published for the quincentenary commemoration of the death of the Infante Dom Henrique. The Portuguese Century, by Costa Brochado. The birth of Astronomical Navigation in the Atlantic, the Key to the exploration of the Ocean, by Commander Teixeira da Mota...
36344 BROWER, Kenneth (editor) GALAPAGOS: THE FLOW OF WILDNESS - Volume 1, Discovery
$15.00 AUD
Siera Club / Ballantine Book. San Francisco. 1970. 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).
17219 BROWN, Capt. Charles H. DEVIATION AND THE DEVIASCOPE, Including the Practice and Theory of COMPASS ADJUSTMENT, also a Note on the Gyro-Compass
$20.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1939. 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.
35429 BROWN, Ernest B. RADAR NAVIGATION MANUAL
$15.00 AUD
Defence Mapping Agency / Hydrographic Center Washington. 1975. 2nd Edition. Publication No. 1310. X, 224 PP with figures. Pictorial limp cover (rubbed and soiled). Foxing. Stamp of the Sea School of Queensland on front cover and title page, otherwise good. Oblong: 19.5 x 26.
32402 BROXAM, Graeme A STEAMSHIP FOR HOBART, S.S. REEMERE 1909
$20.00 AUD
Navarine. Canberra. 1992. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies (No. 423/1000). Foreword by Ken Wriedt. II, 60 PP with 1 plan, 1 map & 46 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Signed by author. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646113291
Story of small trading craft plying Tasmanian bays, rivers and inlets. The need to preserve and restore the SS Reemere, launched in 1909.
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2020. 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
31081 BRUCE, Erroll CAPE HORN TO PORT
$15.00 AUD
Book Reps (NZ) Limited. Auckland. 1978. 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.
71230 BULL, J. C. & WILLIAMS, Peter J. STORY OF GIPPSLAND SHIPPING, Discoveries of the Early Navigators, Lakes Steamers, Coastal Windjammers, Shipwrecks and Famous Captains
$30.00 AUD
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.
64793 BURNS, PHILP Wonderful Inclusive Tours to: CANADA - AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - MEXICO
$20.00 AUD
Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd / Travel Department. Sydney. 1938. 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.
20000 BURROWS, Denys CLIPPER SHIP
$10.00 AUD
Educational Press. Sydney. 1965. 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.).
71149 CABLE, Boyd A HUNDRED YEAR HISTORY OF THE P. & O. - Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company 1837-1937
$60.00 AUD
Ivor Nicholson and Watson. London. 1937. 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.
22731 CARR, Frank G.G. THE CUTTY SARK AND THE DAYS OF SAIL
$10.00 AUD
Pitkin Pictorials. London. c.1957. 1st edition of 10,000 copies. Foreword by the Earl Stanhope. 25 PP with 36 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. Small format: 20.7 x 13.7.
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
$100.00 AUD
The Inquirer and Mirror Press. Nantucket, Mass. 1928. 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.
71188 CAYLEY, Neville W. THE SOLVOL BIRD BOOK - 54 Australian Birds
$30.00 AUD
Solvol / J. Kitchen & Sons Pty. Ltd. Sydney. c.1940. 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.
74409 CHAMP, Jack THE WIND IS FREE... A History of the Royal Geelong Yacht Club 1859-1988
$25.00 AUD
Royal Geelong Yacht Club / Peter Jackson. Geelong. 1989. 1st Ed. Introduction by Peter Jackson, Commodore. Preface by Jack Champ. XVIII, 285 PP with b/w illustrations (1 chart, 4 maps and 72 photos). Fp: Chart of Corio Bay. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover an spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 18.3. 0731651391
43267 CHAUVELOT, Robert ILES DE PARADIS - CEYLAN JAVA TAHITI
$30.00 AUD
Berger-Levrault. Paris. 1925. 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.
14253 CHESTERTON, D. Ridley FOREIGN COASTAL and Short Sea FREIGHTERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1963 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.
50721 CHICHESTER, Francis THE ROMANTIC CHALLENGE
$15.00 AUD
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
Kelsey Publishing / Aeroplane Magazine. Cudham, Kent.. 2013. 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
70798 CLAMMER, Richard & KITTRIDGE, Alan PASSENGER STEAMERS OF THE RIVER DART
$20.00 AUD
Twelveheads Press. Truro, Cornwall. 1988. 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...
67828 CLAREKSON STANFIELD, William Colour Print - THE MOUTH OF THE SCHELDT, Old Holland, 1836
$5.00 AUD
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.
16440 CLEMONS, Elizabeth THE SEVEN SEAS
$10.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1971. 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.
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2001. 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.
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
$30.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. Southampton. 1961. 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.
54438 COLLINS, Dale SEA-TRACKS OF THE SPEEJACKS ROUND THE WORLD
$45.00 AUD
Doubleday, Page & Co. New York. 1923. 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.
55509 COOK, James & CLARK, John COOK'S ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL: The Inside Story
$20.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2008. 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
70995 COOKE, Arthur O. A VOYAGE ON A LINER
$80.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. London. 1936. 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.
20589 COWAN, Rex CASTAWAY & WRECKED
$10.00 AUD
Duckworth. London. 1978. 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.
41810 CRITTENDEN, Victor THE NORFOLK ISLAND PROPOSAL OF 1785
$15.00 AUD
The Mulini Press. Canberra. 1974. 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.
60384 CROPP, Glynnis M., WATTS, Noel R., COLLINS, Roger D. J. & HOWE, K. R. (editors) PACIFIC JOURNEYS: Essays in Honour of John Dunmore
$30.00 AUD
Victoria University Press. Wellington. 2005. 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...
66474 CRUISING TRAVEL FROM THE BRIDGE, Issue 3, Autumn 2005
$5.00 AUD
Tahiti and Bora Bora, by Susan Buckland. ... P&O's: Oriana, by Gil McLachlan / Aurora, by Rochelle Tubb.
71155 CUMPSTON, J. S. FIRST VISITORS TO BASS STRAIT
$40.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1973. 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
35410 CURREY, John (editor) AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. Melbourne. 1973. 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...
22040 CUTLER, Carl C. IMPORTANT TYPES OF MERCHANT SAILING CRAFT
$10.00 AUD
The Marine Historical Association, Inc. Mystic. 1958. 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.
22771 D'ALPUGET, Lou LET'S GO SAILING
$5.00 AUD
Ure Smith. Sydney. 1951. 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.
51255 DALE, Michelle TASMANIA A PLACE TO REMEMBER
$15.00 AUD
The Tasmanian Book Company. Launceston. 1996. 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
71220 DALKIN, R. Nixon COLONIAL ERA CEMETERY OF NORFOLK ISLAND
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1985. 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
71205 DALLAS, K.M. TRADING POSTS OR PENAL COLONIES, The Commercial Significance of Cook's New Holland Route to the Pacific
$25.00 AUD
Richmond & Sons. Devonport, Tas. 1969. 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. A light crease of top corner of front cover, neat stamp of previous owner on half-title page, 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.
10339 DARBY, Madge WHO CAUSED THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY ?
$25.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1965. 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...
45181 DAY, David COMING SOUTH - Australia's days of sail
$20.00 AUD
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.
37820 de BISSCHOP, Eric VERS NOUSANTARA ou l'enigme Polynésienne
$25.00 AUD
La Table Ronde. Paris. 1963. 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.
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)
$45.00 AUD
Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1968 & 1970. 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.
15800 de BROSSES, Charles HISTOIRE DES NAVIGATIONS AUX TERRES AUSTRALES (In Two Volumes)
$75.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1967. 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.
71201 DE BROSSES, Charles LE PRESIDENT DE BROSSES EN ITALIE - Lettres Familières Ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740 (in 2 volumes)
$150.00 AUD
Didier et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs. Paris. 1858. 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
19571 DE LA CROIX, Robert MYSTERIES OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
The John Day Co. New York. 1957. 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.
74479 DE LA CROIX, Robert MYSTERIES OF THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
Frederick Muller. London. 1957. 1st illustrated edition. Translated from the French original by James Cleugh. 230 PP plus 12 pages with 18 b/w photos. Hard cover with light wear, top edge tinted. Light foxing around edges, half-title page miscut with corresponding tiny piece at bottom missing in margin of title page. Contents are near fine. 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.
33003 DE LEEUW, Hendrik CROSSROADS OF THE BUCCANEERS
$15.00 AUD
J. B. Lippincott. Philadelphia. 1937. 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.
20176 DE LONG, Harriet Tracy PACIFIC SCHOONER WAWONA
$20.00 AUD
Documentary Book Publishers Corporation. Bellevue, Wa., USA. 1985. 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.
18272 DEAR, Ian THE CHAMPAGNE MUMM BOOK OF OCEAN RACING, An Illustrated History
$20.00 AUD
Severn House. London. 1985. 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.
51495 DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor) THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XIV, No.1-4
$30.00 AUD
Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1948-9. 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.
51511 DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor) THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XVIII, No.1-4
$30.00 AUD
Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1952, 1953. 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.
37489 DORRANCE, John C. (editor) AMERICA SALUTES AUSTRALIA'S BICENTENARY
$20.00 AUD
American Embassy. Canberra. 1988. 1st Ed. (2), 38 PP with 18 b/w and 24 colour photos. Pictorial soft wrappers. Fine. 27.4 x 21.
31070 DOWNS, Hugh A SHOAL OF STARS
$10.00 AUD
Doubleday. New York. 1967. 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.
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
$30.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1992. 1st Paperback edition. Translated & retold by Helen Rosenman. XXXVI, 304 PP with 1 lithograph and 26 maps, plus 20 pages with 39 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 23 x 15.5. 9780522844320
The two great voyages of Dumont d'Urville to the Pacific and the Antarctic.
68521 DURHAM, Dick THE LAST SAILORMAN
$20.00 AUD
Terence Dalton Ltd. Lavenham, Suffolk. 1989. 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. 9780861380671
49426 DUTTON, Geoffrey IN SEARCH OF EDWARD JOHN EYRE
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1982. 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.
59515 DUYKER, Edward (editor) THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA, Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne
$25.00 AUD
St.David's Park. Hobart. 1992. 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.
40606 EAMES, Aled, LLOYD, Lewis, PARRY, Bryn & STUBBS, John (editors / golygyddion) CYMRU A'R MOR / MARITIME WALES
$25.00 AUD
Gwynedd Archives Service. Gwynedd, Wales. 1980. 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...
69328 EDGECOMBE, Jean FLINDERS ISLAND and Eastern Bass Strait
$15.00 AUD
Edgekirk. Sydney. 1986. 1st paperback edition. IX, 159 PP with b/w illust. (maps & plans, draw. & photos) plus 8 pages with 20 colour photos. FEP: Chart of Southern Furneaux Is. by M. Flinders. REP: Chart of Bass Strait, 1806. Pictorial card covers. Front cover with light creases. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.6. 1862527849
Discovery & exploration, sealers.. The Furneaux Group and the group of islands South of Wilson's Promontory.
70916 ELLIS, Ken (editor) SPITFIRE 80 - Flypast Special Edition
$10.00 AUD
Key Publishing Ltd / FlyPast. Stamford, Lincs.. 2016. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Saluting Supermarine's Masterpiece.
65919 EWER, Dr. Peter WOUNDED EAGLE - The Bombing of Darwin and Australia's Air Defence Scandal
$30.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers (Australia). Sydney. 2009. 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
71167 FAZIO, Vince HMAS CONDAMINE - THE STORY OF A UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN FRIGATE
$100.00 AUD
Author. Sydney. 1997. 2nd edition (abridged). (5), III, 172, 58 (4 appendices) PP with 15 plans, plus 96 pages with b/w illustrations [newspaper clippings, 2 maps, 7 plans, 14 documents and 115 photos (photocopy quality)]. Soft covers, pictorial front, staples, cloth tape on spine. Front cover lightly rubbed and soiled. Dated and signed by the author on title page. Very good. 29.6 x 21.
This history covers the period of service of "Condamine" from commissioning on 22.2.1946 to decommissioning on 2.12.1955.
41574 LE FLEMING, H. M. ABC OF BRITISH WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1955. 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.
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
$65.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1965. 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.
71204 FOWLER, R.M. THE FURNEAUX GROUP, Bass Strait: A History
$55.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1980. 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
70901 FRADIN, Natacha LES POISSONS
$5.00 AUD
Editions Milan. Toulouse, France. 2004. 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
71185 FRENCH RESISTANCE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE SE RALLIE A LA FRANCE LIBRE / NEW CALEDONIA RALLIES FREE FRANCE - 1940
$250.00 AUD
Les Editions du Courrier Australien. Sydney. 1944. 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.
52376 FRIIS, Herman R. (editor) THE PACIFIC BASIN. A History of its Geographical Exploration
$25.00 AUD
American Geographical Society. New York. 1967. 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...
14703 FROST, Alan BOTANY BAY MIRAGES, Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings
$25.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press.. Melbourne. 1994. 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.
40092 GARRETT, K. S. R. LAPTHORN AND COMPANY LIMITED
$40.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. Preston. 2001. 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
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
$25.00 AUD
Foundation VOC ship Amsterdam / Stichting VOC-schip Amsterdam. Amsterdam. 1987. 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
11652 GEIL, William Edgar OCEAN AND ISLE
$50.00 AUD
W. T. Pater. Melbourne. 1902 1st Ed. (8), 309 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 sketch map and 9 illustrations of postal stamps, plus 94 b/w plates (6 of them on double page) for 100 engravings. Fp: Portrait of Geil. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, Title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Brief note on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.8 x 15.5.
Voyage to study the works of Protestant missions in the Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century: organization, instruction, efforts. Descriptions of the islands and states of Oceania.
20203 GIBBS, James A. PACIFIC GRAVEYARD
$15.00 AUD
Bindfords & Mort. Portland, Oreg. 1973. 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.
51788 GODDIO, Franck & GUYOT DE SAINT MICHEL, Evelyne Jay GRIFFIN, on the Route of an Indiaman
$75.00 AUD
Periplus. London. 1999. 1st English edition. Translated from the French original by Ludwig von Bomhard and Leonard Harrow. XVI, 351 PP with 10 maps, 11 diagrams, 47 b/w or colour illustrations, 145 photos and 70 plates. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj, ribbon page-marker. Fine. Large format: 34.52 x 24.5. 1902699009
The Route to India, the Griffin, from shipwreck to excavation, the Wreck, from reality to the documents, the history of a cargo, . ...
20777 GORDON, Mona THE MYSTERY OF LA PEROUSE
$45.00 AUD
Bascands. Christchurch, NZ. 1961. 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.
70858 GORSKY, Bernard EXPEDITION "MOANA" (Le Tour du Monde de l'Exploration sous-marine): Oc&an Pacifique, Océan Indien, Mer Rouge, Méditerranée
$20.00 AUD
Editions de la Pensée Moderne. Paris. 1959. 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.
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
$15.00 AUD
William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. London. 1937. 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.
43241 GRAHAM-CAMPBELL, James THE VIKING WORLD
$15.00 AUD
Frances Lincoln. London. c. 2002. Reprint of the 3rd Frances Lincoln edition . 220 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.4. 0711218005
20226 GRAY, Leonard THE ROPNER FLEET, 1874-1974
$5.00 AUD
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.
71243 GREAVES, Molly MEMOIRS OF FREYCINET, TASMANIA - A history in Images & Verse
$35.00 AUD
Author. Coles Bay, Tasmania. 2008. 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
19523 GREENWOOD, Gordon THE CONTACT OF AMERICAN WHALERS, SEALERS AND ADVENTURERS WITH THE NEW SOUTH WALES SETTLEMENT (in Journal and Proceedings of the R.A.H.S. (Volume XXIX, Part III, 1943)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1943. Contains article between P.133 and 156. Soft cover. Very good. 20.8 x 14.
37448 GUILLEUX la ROËRIE, Louis NAVIRES ET MARINS - de la Rame a l'Helice (two volumes bound into one)
$100.00 AUD
Librairie Rombaldi. Paris. 1946. 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.
56067 GUNSON, Niel THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829
$35.00 AUD
National Library of Australia Canberra. 1990. 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.
51640 HACKFORTH-JONES, Jocelyn AUGUSTUS EARLE, Travel Artist
$30.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1980. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP with 16 colour plates, and 168 b/w illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed/chipped, o/wise near 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.
16083 HACKMAN, Rowan M. B. H. THE FLEET PAST AND PRESENT OF HUNTING & SON LTD
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. London. 1969. 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.
Auckland Anniversary Regatta Committee. Auckland. 1950. 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.
37052 HAMILTON-PATERSON, James THE GREAT DEEP - The Sea and its Thresholds
$20.00 AUD
Random House. New York. 1992. 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).
22142 HANDY, Amy THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL
$10.00 AUD
Todtri. New York. 1996. 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.
43504 HARLAND, John SHIPS & SEAMANSHIP - The Maritime Prints of J J Baugean
$30.00 AUD
Chatham Publishing. London. 2000. 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.
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
$30.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1979. 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). Near fine. 24 x 16. 0850593247
43437 HAWS, Duncan CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY
$75.00 AUD
Author. London. 2001. 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.
54725 HEATHCOTE, Nina (editor) NUCLEAR DISPERSAL IN ASIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION
$20.00 AUD
Department of Political Science, Institute of Advanced Studies / Australian National University. Canberra. 1965. 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.
19801 HENDERSON, Richard THE CRUISER'S COMPENDIUM, A Complete guide to coastal, inland, and gunkhole cruising
$10.00 AUD
Henry Regnery Co. Chicago. 1973. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 188 PP with figures and 35 bw photos. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 22.2.
Hydrographer of the Navy. Wollongong / Taunton. 2012. 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.
70341 HOARE, Merval NORFOLK ISLAND, An Outline of its History 1774-1977
$15.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1978. 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...
70278 HOLLAND, Jennifer ICY UNDERWORLD: South Sandwich Islands (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 210, No.6)
$5.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 2006. 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.
20271 HOLLETT, David PASSAGE TO THE NEW WORLD, Packet Ships and Irish Famine Emigrants 1845-1851
$15.00 AUD
P.M. Heaton Publishing. Abergavenny, Gwent, UK. 1995. 1st Ed. 232 PP with 77 bw illust. (drawings, engravings, photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.6 x 15.5. 1872006086
30237 HOLMAN, Gordon CARLSEN OF THE "FLYING ENTERPRISE"
$30.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1952. 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.
70958 HOPKINS, David HMAS VAMPIRE - Daring Class Destroyer (colour print)
$40.00 AUD
Taswegia. Devonport, Tasmania. c. 1995. 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.
70726 HOPKINS, David L. THE SHIPPING HISTORY OF THE BASS STRAIT CROSSING
$35.00 AUD
Taswegia. Hobart. 2003. 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.
33166 HOWARTH, Patrick LIFEBOAT - In Danger's Hour
$20.00 AUD
Hamlyn. London. 1981. 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.
44186 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE] THE STATE VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - No. 6298, Volume 236 -16th April 1960
$15.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News and Sketch Limited. London. 1960. 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.
12793 INDIAN OCEAN Proceedings of the Pan Indian Ocean Science Congress - Section G: HUMAN ECOLOGY
$20.00 AUD
Pan Indian Ocean Science Congress. Perth. 1954. 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,...
49498 INGLIS, K. S. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONISTS. An Exploration of Social History 1788-1870
$15.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1974. 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
20211 IRELAND, Bernard WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD: Escort Vessels
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1979. 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.
71227 JACKA, Fred & Eleanor MAWSON'S ANTARCTIC DIARIES
$30.00 AUD
Susan Haynes Book / Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1991. 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.
71248 JACKSON, Robert STRIKE FROM THE SEA, A History of British Naval Air Power
$15.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1970. 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. 0213001586
From the hunt for the Graf Spee to the final assault on Japan and Kamikaze attacks on the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet.
39363 JONES, Howard MUTINY ON THE AMISTAD - The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. New York. c. 1996. 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.
40724 JONES, Noah JOURNALS OF TWO CRUISES ABOARD THE AMERICAN PRIVATEER YANKEE, by a Wanderer
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1967. 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.
65687 JOPPIEN, Rüdiger & SMITH, Bernard THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES - VOLUME II: The Voyage of the Resolution & Adventure 1772-1775
$200.00 AUD
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
44394 JORDAN, Humfrey TIDE STILL FLOWING
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1952. Paperback reprint of the 1940 original. 190 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.
Novel.
74397 KERR, Garry & McDERMOTT, Harry THE HUON PINE STORY - The history of harvest and use of a unique timber
$50.00 AUD
Mainsail Books. Portland, Vic. 2000. 1st soft cover edition. (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. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21. 0957791704
Chapter 8: The Rivermen. Chapter 9: the Piner's Punt. Chapter 10: The Riverboats.
40135 KILDUFF, Peter US CARRIERS AT WAR
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1981. 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
40964 KINNEAR, Bryce AUSTRALIA - LAND OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS
$10.00 AUD
Australian Publicity Council. Melbourne. 1957. 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.
46508 KIRKER, James ADVENTURES TO CHINA - Americans in the Southern Oceans 1792-1812
$15.00 AUD
O.U.P. New York. 1970. 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.
71235 KLEIN, Jane SAILING SPEERS POINT - 1880 onwards
$40.00 AUD
Lake Macquarie and District Historical Society. Lake Macquarie. 2007. 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.
40509 KNAPP, Arthur, Jr. RACE YOUR BOAT RIGHT
$5.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 1953. 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.
22431 KNIGHT, Captain Frank THE SEA CHEST, Stories of Adventures at Sea
$5.00 AUD
Platt & Munk. New York. 1964. 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.
50583 KNIGHT, Frank THE CLIPPER SHIP
$15.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1973. 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
49910 KRAGHT, Peter E. METEOROLOGY WORKBOOK WITH PROBLEMS
$10.00 AUD
Cornell Maritime Press. New York. 1943. 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.
47518 LASSAQUE, Jean GUERRE NAVALE EN NORVEGE. 8 Avril - 28 Juillet 1940
$15.00 AUD
Editions du Gerfaut. Paris. 2003. 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.
71273 LAVERY, Brian IN WHICH THEY SERVED : The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War
$15.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 2008. 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
69030 LAWSON, Will & The Shiplovers' Society of Tasmania BLUE GUM CLIPPERS AND WHALE SHIPS OF TASMANIA
$10.00 AUD
D. & L. Book Distributor. Launceston. 1986. 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.
35095 LENTON, H. T. WARSHIPS
$5.00 AUD
London / Melbourne. 1970. Hamlyn / Sun Books. London / Melbourne. 1970. 1st Ed., in the Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks series. 160 PP with colour illustrations by David A. Warner and Nigel W. Hearn. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 18 x 11. 0600002845
Warships from 1860 to the present day (1970).
15625 LEWIN, Roger DARWIN'S FORGOTTEN WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Bison Books. London. 1989. 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
70975 LEWIS, Dr. Tom HONOUR DENIED - Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero... and other brave warriors of the Royal Australian Navy
$35.00 AUD
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 covers with a light crease on back cover, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 17.5. 9780987151971
41795 LEWIS, Michael THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Penguin Books. London. 1957. 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.
57048 LEWIS, Stephen VOYAGES TO VIETNAM: Photographs by Australian Naval and Military Veterans of the Vietnam Conflict
$90.00 AUD
My Vietnam Trust. Adelaide. 2004. 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
19322 LEWIS, Tom WRECKS IN DARWIN WATERS
$20.00 AUD
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. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 25 x 17.5. 908031459
Stories of misadventure, war, accident & storms which sent ships & aircraft to the bottom.
70982 LLOYD, Christopher ENGLISH CORSAIRS ON THE BARBARY COAST
$25.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1981. 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.
69792 LONEY, J. K. PETERBOROUGH, PORT CAMPBELL, PRINCETON: Tourist, Historical and Fishing Guide
$10.00 AUD
J. K. Loney. Dimboola, Vic. c. 1968. 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.
17463 LONEY, Jack FAMOUS WRECKS
$30.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Geelong. c.1975. 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.
18992 LONEY, Jack SHIPS IN CORIO BAY, GEELONG, 1840-1980
$35.00 AUD
Neptune Press. Newton, Vic. 1981. 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
69784 LONEY, Jack THE LOCH ARD DISASTER
$10.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Portarlington. c. 1972. 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.
69187 LY-TIO-FANE PINEO, Huguette IN THE GRIPS OF THE EAGLE: Matthew Flinders at Ile de France 1803-1810
$110.00 AUD
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.
48138 MACDONALD, Captain K. PRACTICAL SHIP STABILITY
$30.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1953. 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.
58520 MACDOUGALL, D. G. CATALOGUE OF THE AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL EXHIBITION: AUSTRALIA'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY
$5.00 AUD
Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council. Sydney. 1938. 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 the lower ground floor of the Commonwealth Bank, Martin Place, Sydney/ 1-26 February 1938.
70969 MACKANESS, George (editor) SOME PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR JOHN AND LADY JANE FRANKLIN: (Tasmania, 1837-1845) - Part I & Part II
$70.00 AUD
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.
50364 MACLEAN DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY FISHING INDUSTRY LOWER CLARENCE RIVER. The Early Years
$30.00 AUD
Maclean District Historical Society Inc. Maclean, NSW. 2004. 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
41796 MAGUIRE, Eric DIEPPE, August 19th 1942
$15.00 AUD
Corgi Books. London. 1974. 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.
Peter Davies. London. 1945. 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.
34452 MARRINER, John THE SHORES OF THE BLACK SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1971. 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. 071830182X
Voyage of the yacht "September Tide" to modern Tunisia, and travels through its past.
31148 MASEFIELD, John A MAINSAIL HAUL
$5.00 AUD
Grafton Books. London. 1987. 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.
22363 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John LINERS TO THE SUN
$25.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1985. 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.
70993 McLACHLAN, G. W. P. FAMOUS LINERS OF THE EASTERN OCEANS
$20.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. c. 1937. 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.
41598 McLAREN, Fergus B. FERGUS - A Memoir of Fergus Blair McLaren, by His Friends
$20.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1943. 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.
52542 McMAHON, Libby and John EXPLORING THE SOUTH LAND. Tasmania emerges from Terra Australis Incognita
$15.00 AUD
Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Hobart. 2006. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Colin Denny. VIII, 68 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts, maps, plans). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. Oblong: 23 x 30. 9780975723722
71190 MELHAM, Tom (editor) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS ATLAS
$25.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2000. 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
44981 MOSENTHAL, Basil & HEWITT, Dick READY FOR SEA - A Guide to Systematic Boat Maintenance, Power and Sail
$10.00 AUD
Granada Publishing / Adlard Coles. London. 1981. 1st Ed. 128 PP with drawings. Pictorial soft covers. Faint foxing. Very good. 23.3 x 15.2. 0229116477
71168 MURE, Jo (editor) LIGHTHOUSES OF SYDNEY
$10.00 AUD
Australia Post. Melbourne. c. 2018. 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.
Maritiem Museum Prins Hendrik. Rotterdam. 1991. 1990 Report. 36 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Text in English and in Dutch. Oblong: 21 x 29.7.
47437 N/A DEATH OF THE SCHARNHORST (in War Monthly - Issue No.2)
$10.00 AUD
Marshall Cavendish Ltd. London. 1974. 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.
49914 N/A THE SWEDISH - AUSTRALASIAN TRADE JOURNAL: TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 1911 - 1931
$125.00 AUD
The Swedish-Australasian Trade Journal. Sydney. 1931. 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. Image shows the title-page. 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.
Challenge Publications / Sea Classics. Canoga Park, Ca. 1968. 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..
Challenge Publications / Sea Classics. Canoga Park, Ca. 1973. 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.
69542 N/A A PRAYER FOR NEW SOUTH WALES
$30.00 AUD
"United Australia Party" / Marchant & Co. Ltd. Sydney. 1932. 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.
65406 NAA THE LOG - Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia - Volume 3, No. 6 & Volume 4 No. 1
$15.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Limited. Melbourne. 1970 & 1971. 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.
70841 NAA THE LOG - Quarterly Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia Inc. - Volume 13, No. 2
$5.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Limited. Melbourne. 1980. 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.
The Naval Review. London. 1968. 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.
47357 NICHOLSON, John THE INCOMPARABLE CAPTAIN CADELL
$20.00 AUD
A Sue Hines Book / Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2004. 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...
15957 NORTON, Frank AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SHIPS OF TODAY
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1958. 1st Ed. 96 PP with many pen & ink illustrations by the author. Pictorial laminated boards. Spine is rubbed and a littl cracked at top and bottom, o/wise a very good clean copy. Oblong: 19 x 25.
Type of ships found in Australia & New Zealand. Their trade patterns and cargoes.
16576 OCEANOGRAPHY Proceedings of the Pan Indian Ocean Science Congress - Section F: GEOGRAPHY and OCEANOGRAPHY
$20.00 AUD
Pan Indian Ocean Science Association. Perth. 1954. 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,...
67726 OSTINI, Fritz V. THOMA (in Künstler Monographien No. 46)
$10.00 AUD
Verlag von Belhagen & Klasing. Bielefeld und Leipzig. 1925. 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.
47643 OZANNE, Nicolas LE PORT DE St. MALO, Vu devant St. Servan en face de l' Eperon
$45.00 AUD
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.
67949 P. & O. P&O: Australia - New Zealand Service
$5.00 AUD
P & O Lines of Australia. Sydney. 1967. 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.
33797 PACIFIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: A Unique Area for Scientific Investigations - Contribution No.4 of the Charles Darwin Foundation
$30.00 AUD
Charles Darwin Foundation. San Francisco. 1963. 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...
51247 PALMER, Frederick OUR NAVY AS A BILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATION. What it is doing, and What it needs from us (in World's Work)
$20.00 AUD
Doubleday, Page & Company. New York. 1927. 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.
60940 PALMER, J. F. STEAMSHIPS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND - Part 1
$30.00 AUD
J. F. Palmer Publications. A 2012 laser photocopy 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..
71156 PARSONS, Ronald SOUTHERN PASSAGES - A Maritime History of South Australia
$40.00 AUD
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.
71158 PARSONS, Ronald (compiler) SHIPPING LOSSES AND CASUALTIES CONCERNING AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (in 2 volumes)
$70.00 AUD
Author. Goolwa, S.A. 2003. 1st Ed. Volume I: (6), 200 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Volume II, (2), 201- 398 PP. Soft cover, staples, cloth tape on spine. Faint foxing. Near fine. Scarce. 29 x 21. 0909418705
Volume I: from Aagot and Aagtekerke to Juverna and J. W. Alexander. Volume II: from K9 and Kadina to Zvir and Zwarte Zwaan.
71001 PATTEN, Chris EAST and WEST - The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Sydney. 1998. 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
71144 PEISLEY, Tony (editor) ORIANA - From Dream to Reality
$20.00 AUD
The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. London. 1995. 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.
70663 PERKS, Richard-Hugh SPRITS'L - A Portrait of Sailing Barges and Sailormen
$35.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. Greenwich. 1975. 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
70678 PHILLIPS-BIRT, Douglas THE HISTORY OF YACHTING
$10.00 AUD
Elm Tree Books. London. 1974. 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. 0241890799
History of the sport of yachting & development of yacht design.
30446 PLOWMAN, Peter PASSENGER SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Volume I (1876-1912)
$20.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1981. 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.
44215 POOLMAN, Kenneth PERISCOPE DEPTH - Submarines at War
$5.00 AUD
Sphere Books. London. 1984. 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.
16601 POPE, Elizabeth & McDONALD Patricia EXPLORING BETWEEN TIDEMARKS, An Introduction to Seashore Ecology
$10.00 AUD
Australian Museum. Sydney. 1968. 4th Ed. 48 PP with b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.
20856 PORTER, Jonathan MACAU, The Imaginary City: Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present
$25.00 AUD
Westview Press. Boulder, Co., USA. 1996. 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.
66345 PRINGLE, John Douglas THE SHOREBIRDS OF AUSTRALIA
$40.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson Publishers / The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney. 1987. 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
30832 RAITT, Helen EXPLORING THE DEEP PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Staples Press. London. 1957. 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.
70619 RAN AEROGRAM - ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Public Relations, Navy Office.P.M. Line / Royal Packet Navigation Company. Canberra. c. 1972. 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.
71234 RAN NAVY - WARFARE OFFICERS CAREER HANDBOOK
$35.00 AUD
Royal Australian Navy. Canberra. 2006. 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.
70752 RATTENBURY, Kester THE ESSENTIAL EYE / British Airways London Eye
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. London. 2002. 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
42140 REID, Anthony (editor) SOJOURNERS AND SETTLERS - Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese
$35.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2001. 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
40297 RICHARDS, Joe PRINCESS - New York
$15.00 AUD
Hollis & Carter. London. 1958. 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...
70882 RIED, Walter SEGLER DER SIEBEN MEERE - eine Weltgeschichte der Segelschiffahrt mit einer Darstellung der Segelfahrzeuge aller Ozeane
$30.00 AUD
Stalling Verlag Gmbh. Oldenburg. 1981. 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.
49562 RIGBY, Nigel , Van Der MERWE, Pieter, & WILLIAMS Glyn PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC. Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810
$15.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2005. 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.
40285 RINMAN, Thorsten & BRODEFORS, Rigmor THE COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF SHIPPING
$35.00 AUD
Rinman & Lindén AB. Gothenburg, Sweden. 1983. 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.
56004 ROBINS, Nick S., & MEEK, Donald E. THE KINGDOM OF MACBRAYNE: From steamships to car-ferries in the West Highlands and Hebrides
$15.00 AUD
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
47234 ROBINSON, Richard (editor) TRAVELLERS IN TIME: Seven Epic Stories of Early Exploration
$15.00 AUD
Queen Anne Press. London. 1986. 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...
47392 RODGER, N. A. M. THE ARMADA in the Public Records
$10.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1988. 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
67304 RODGER, N. A. M. THE SAFEGUARD OF THE SEA. A Naval History of Britain - Volume one: 660-1649
$10.00 AUD
Penguin Books & National Maritime Museum. London. 2004. 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
30155 ROSE, Susan (editor) THE NAVY OF THE LANCASTRIAN KINGS. Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427
$15.00 AUD
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.
20957 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY AUSTRALIAN SEAPOWER - BATTLESHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Topmill. Sydney. 1996 ?. 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
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
$10.00 AUD
Admiralty / Ministry of Information. London. 1943. 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.
63352 ROYAL NAVY / SOVIET NAVY THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - August 25 1962
$15.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News. London. 1962. 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.
22103 SCHIAFFINO, Pro (editor) VELIERI DI CAMOGLI, La quadreria del Museo Marinaro Gio Bono Ferrari
$10.00 AUD
Sagep Editrice. Genova. 1981. 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.
42790 SCHROEDER, Robert E. SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE
$15.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1965. 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.
52219 SEAWAYS SEAWAYS' SHIPS IN SCALE - Volume XI, Numbers 1 to 6
$50.00 AUD
Seaways Publishing. San Jose, Ca. 2000. 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.
17512 SHAPIRO, H. L. THE HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY, The Story of Pitcairn through six generations
$60.00 AUD
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.
44763 SHEKHDAR, Jim & GRIFFITHS, Edward BOLD MAN OF THE SEA - My Epic Journey
$20.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 2001. 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.
71177 SHIPWRECKS 50 NAUFRAGES EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$80.00 AUD
Fortunes de Mer Calédoniennes. Nouméa. 2020. 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. Fine. 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.
50788 SMITH, Nancy & STEWART, Robert (editors) AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY - SPECIAL ISSUE NEW ZEALAND - Volume 18, No.10, June, 1976
$15.00 AUD
Australian Museum. Sydney. 1976. 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.
68896 SOMERVILLE, Janet JANET SOMERVILLE's BOTANICAL HISTORY OF TASMANIA 1642-1820
$60.00 AUD
University of Tasmania & Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 2006. 1st edition with a foreword by Winifred M. Curtis. Edited by Brad Potts, Gintaras Kantvilas and Jean Jarman. XXII, 233 PP with 2 tables, 19 maps and 60 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 23 x 16. 9781862953420
55032 SPENNEMANN, Dirk H. R. 'STEAM TO TONGA & SAMOA': The Norddeutscher Lloyd Mail Service 1886 to 1893
$20.00 AUD
Letao Press. Albury, NSW. 2002. 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
19415 SPIES, M.H. VETERAN STEAMERS, A Story of the Preservation of Steamships
$20.00 AUD
Privately published. Humlebaek, Denmark. 1965. 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).
55508 STANBURY, Myra (editor) JOURNEYS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: French Exploration of Terres Australes
$10.00 AUD
Western Australian Museum - Maritime. Perth. 2008. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Diana S. Jones. 28 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside covers: Species discovered and description. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26 x 24. 9781920843380
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Fremantle October 2008 to October 2009. The Age of Enlightenment - Le Siècle des Lumières, by Myra Stanbury. Rose de Freycinet and the Uranie, by Dr. Michael McCarthy. The Lapérouse Collection by Valérie Vattier.
21295 STANBURY, Peter & BUSHELL, Lydia (editors) SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Macleay Museum / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. (6), 130 PP with 7 tables, 3 maps, 5 figures & 53 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned, o/wise 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).
10474 STANNARD, Bruce BEN LEXCEN - The Man, the Keel and the Cup
$10.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1984. 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
71174 STANTON, Harley MY CATHEDRAL IN THE SEA - A History of the Conway
$45.00 AUD
Forty South Publishing. Hobart. 2019. 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.
56276 STEWART, A. J. MERCHANT SHIPS: WORLD BUILT, Vessels of 1000 tons gross and over completed in 1963 - Volume XII
$20.00 AUD
Adlard Coles & John de Graff. London & New York. 1964. 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.
21859 STREET, Sean THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND
$15.00 AUD
Souvenir Press. London. 1992. 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.
71175 TAYLOR, Colin TAYLORS AND THE TAMAR, Plus Surrounding Districts
$45.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 2020. 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. 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.
37656 THESIGER, Vice-Admiral Bertram S. QUERIES IN SEAMANSHIP
$35.00 AUD
Gieves. Portsmouth. 1928. 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.
36892 THIELE, Ron KETCH HAND - Life aboard the little ships of the South Australian Gulfs
$10.00 AUD
Graeme Andrews Productions. Epping, NSW. c. 1970. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 19 b/w photos. Inside front cover: The last Gulf Ketch "Annie Watt". Pictorial soft cover lightly soiled, otherwise near fine. 23 x 15.6.
Details of 43 South Australian Ketches, on pages 47, 48 and the inside of the back cover.
18615 THWAITES, Lt. RNVR Michael THE JERVIS BAY AND OTHER POEMS
$20.00 AUD
Putnam & Co. London. 1943. 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.
17901 TOGHILL, Jeff THE JAMES CRAIG - Her history, recovery and restoration
$5.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1979. 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...
70364 TROWER, Rosalie NORFOLK ISLAND, South Pacific Paradise
$15.00 AUD
Burns Philp (Norfolk Island) Ltd. Norfolk Island. c. 1975. 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
49401 UMBGROVE, J. H. F. STRUCTURAL HISTORY OF THE EAST INDIES
$25.00 AUD
University Press. Cambridge. 1949. 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.
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
$125.00 AUD
United States Fish Commission. New York. 1896. 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.
67805 VAN DE VELDE DE JONGE, Willem COLOUR PRINT - HET IJ VOOR AMSTERDAM (1686)
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Verkerke Reprodukties / Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Amsterdam. c.1990. 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.
30204 VAN KRIEKEN, G. S. Dr. CORNELIS PIJNACKER, Historysch verhael van den steden Thunes, Algiers ende andere steden in Barbarien gelegen
$30.00 AUD
Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1975. 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
21321 VENABLES, Bernard BALEIA ! BALEIA ! Whale Hunters of the Azores
$15.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1969. 1st US Ed. XII, 204, (4) PP with b/w illust. by the author (2 maps and 28 pen & ink drawings), plus XVI plates with 23 b/w photos. Decorated cloth cover & spine, dj. Fine. 21.8 x 14.6.
The survival in the late 1960's of the daring primitive techniques of New England's famous whalers.
49751 VILLIERS, Alan POSTED MISSING - The Story of Ships Lost without Trace in Recent Years
$30.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1956. 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.
66978 VOLUNTEER COASTAL PATROL OF N.S.W. SAFE BOATING
$10.00 AUD
The Sun & Volunteer Coastal Patrol of NSW. Sydney. c. 1950. 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.
57176 von PHYSTER, George PAINTINGS AND LORE OF CALIFORNIA LIGHTHOUSES
$25.00 AUD
Artista Publications. San Diego, Ca. 1963. 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.
14399 WALKER, Peter Benson (editor) THE LOG OF THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND BY CAPTAIN JAMES KELLY 1814-1815 and Other Accounts of Early Exploration of the West and North West Coast of Tasmania taken from Tasmanian Parliamentary Papers
$30.00 AUD
Caudell, A.B., Government Printer. Hobart. 1986. 1st edition limited to 2100 copies. Preface by Robin Gray, Premier of Tasmania. X, 58 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 1 large folded map (in colour) of North-West quarter of Van Diemen's Land. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Three newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Near fine. 26 x 18.7. 0724622802
Published for "Tasmania Day", 24th November, 1986.
56319 WALLACE, Robert THE SECRET BATTLE 1942-1944. The Convoy Battle off the East Coast of Australia during World War II
$20.00 AUD
Lamont Publishing. Melbourne. 1995. 1st Ed. Foreword by The Hon Con Sciacca, Minister for Veterans Affairs. 96 PP with 5 colour and 78 b/w illustrations (artworks by author). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 1875630481
38822 WALTHEW, Kenneth FROM ROCK AND TEMPEST - The Life of Captain George William Manby
$15.00 AUD
Geoffrey Bles. London. 1971. 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...
55786 WARNER, Oliver GREAT NAVAL BATTLES
$5.00 AUD
Hamlyn / Sun Books. London / Melbourne. 1972. 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
70977 WATERS, Sydney D. ORDEAL BY SEA - The New Zealand Shipping Company in the Second World War 1939-1945
$45.00 AUD
N.Z. Shipping Co. London. 1949. 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.
32109 WATTS, Anthony J. (Edit.) WARSHIPS AND NAVIES REVIEW
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1974. 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
15974 WHALE, Derek M THE LINERS OF LIVERPOOL, Part I
$10.00 AUD
Countywise Limited. Birkenhead. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Michael Stammers. 114, (1 publications) PP with 84 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0907768113
On the people (passengers and crew) who travelled on these liners.
17948 WHIPPLE, A.B.C. THE CHALLENGE
$15.00 AUD
William Morrow. New York. 1987. 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, ...
44979 WHITAKER, S. F. NIGHT SAILING
$10.00 AUD
Stanford Maritime Limited. London. 1974. 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
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
$15.00 AUD
N. Z. Government Printer. Wellington. 1982. 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.
62405 WILLIAMS, David L. CUNARD'S LEGENDARY QUEENS OF THE SEAS
$20.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 2004. 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
62407 WILLIAMS, David L. & DE KERBRECH, Richard FERRIES AND PLEASURE STEAMERS - A Colour Portfolio
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 2008. 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
71251 WILLIS, Sam SHIPWRECK, A History of Disasters at Sea
$25.00 AUD
Quercus Publishing. London. 2008. 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.
39605 WILSON, Neil GREAT SEA DISASTERS - The World's Worst Sea Disasters
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Siena Book / Parragon. Bristol, UK. 1998. 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.
21376 WILTSHIRE, J. G. CAPTAIN WILLIAM PELHAM DUTTON, First Settler at Portland Bay, Victoria. A History of the Whaling and Sealing Industries in Bass Strait, 1828-1868
$20.00 AUD
Wiltshire Publications. Melbourne. 1994. Revised reprint of the 1976 edition. 52 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Title page illustrated by whaling scenes. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.3 x 14.6. 0959186514
20515 WINSER, John de S. BRITISH CROSS-CHANNEL RAILWAY PASSENGER SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1994. 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.
70978 WOOD, Frances THE SILK ROAD
$35.00 AUD
The Folio Society. London. 2004. 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.
15162 WOODENBOAT MAGAZINE (Editors) WOODEN BOAT - An Appreciation of the Craft
$25.00 AUD
Addison-Wesley Pub. Reading, Mass. 1982. 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.
19099 WOODLEY, Arthur E. WESTERN PORT FERRIES, Past and Present, and Captain Clarke, their most notable skipper
$15.00 AUD
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.
71233 WRAY MCCANN, Hugh UTMOST FISH
$40.00 AUD
Heinemann. London. 1966. 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.
40671 ZITWER, Barbara Jane WHALES
$10.00 AUD
Warner Books. New York. 1995. 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
40672 ZITWER, Barbara Jane SEASHELLS
$10.00 AUD
Warner Books. New York. 1995. 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
