Maritime Catalogue #99

70379
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE, Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History (Vol. 5 to 8)
$100.00 AUD

The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1983 to 1986. Edited by BROEZE, Frank & BACH, John. Bound copies of 4 Volumes. 8 issues for a total of 584 PP with b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, red buckram with gilt title on spine. Fine copy. 24.5 x 17.

73240
ABRAHAM, Stuart
JERSEY MEMORIES
$15.00 AUD

Rocco Publishing. St Helier, Channel Islands. 1991. 1st Ed. 60 PP with 51 colour photos by the author. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 22.3 x 21. 0951725203

One of the Channel Islands / Iles Anglo-Normande.

72758
ACERRA, Martine
VOILES ET VOILIERS AU DEBUT DU XIXEME SIECLE, Peintures, Aquatintes et Gravures de Louis Garneray
$45.00 AUD

Editions du May. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. 142 PP with paintings, aquatints & engravings (23 in colour and 66 b/w). Fp (in colour): Port of Bordeaux. Hard cover, gilt-engraved title on spine & front cover. Occasional foxing spots. French text. Fine. 29.2 x 24. 9782906450851

Sails and sailing ships at the beginning of the 19th Century, as seen by Louis Garneray. (He sailed with the French privateer 'Surcouf' and stayed away from France for 18 years, some as a prisoner on a pontoon at Portsmouth 1806-1814). Harbour & sailing scenes: North Sea, Atlantic Coast, Mediterranean Coast.

58464
AHS
THE AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Journal and Proceedings: Vol. 2, Part 10 - 1909
$25.00 AUD

The Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1914. Vol. II, Part X, 1909. Edited by E. A. Ancher. 229- 256 PP. Soft cover. Back cover missing. Staples removed. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21.4 x 13.6.

Paper read before the Society in 1909: Mosman' Bay, The Romance of an old Whaling Station, by Edward A. Ancher, read 28th September 1909.

71770
ANMM
Submerged Secrets (beneath Sydney's waterways), by Justin Gilligan / Dancing with Cook, by Dr. Heather Blasdale Clarke / Nautical School Ships "Vernon" and "Sobraon", Sarah Luke. (in SIGNALS, Quarterly - No. 131)
$15.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2020. Issue June to August 2020. Edited by Janine Flew. Bearings (foreword), by Kevin Sumption. 78 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Discarded motorbike wreck). Fine. 30 x 23.

Other articles: Tasmania's spotted handfish, by Jane Bamford & Dr Tim Lybch. ...

71771
ANMM
"Spitfire", Australia's first homegrown warship, by Dr James Hunter / Alan Villiers & the Sons of Sindbad, by Lindsey Shaw (in SIGNALS, Quarterly - No. 132)
$15.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2020. Issue September to November 2020. Edited by Janine Flew. Bearings (foreword), by Kevin Sumption. 76 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Lab's digital Art Museum, Tokyo). Fine. 30 x 23.

Other articles: Behind Barbed Wire, remembering the Dunera boys, by Curator Kim Tao. ...

72076
ANMM
Botany, Art and Culture: Daniel Solander's legacy, by Daina Fletcher. Wartime Windjammers, by Robert Carter. The Celestial Trek, Chinese miners in Victorian goldfields... (in SIGNALS, Quarterly - No. 133)
$15.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2020. Issue December 2020 to February 2021. Edited by Janine Flew. Bearings (foreword), by Kevin Sumption. 76 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (A Captive Audience/Beach Culture). Fine. 30 x 23.

Other articles: Anchors, Chains ...: Identifying the Boot Reef shipwreck, by Dr. James Hunter.

52078
BALLARD, Robert
THE DISCOVERY OF THE BISMARCK
$30.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton / Madison Press. London/Toronto. 1990. 1st Ed. 232 PP with b/w & colour illust. (charts, maps, plans, photos) and 2 full-page fold-outs. Half-title page: The Bismarck and her sister ship Prinz Eugen silhouetted on the horizon in May of 1941. Title-page: The Bismarck preparing to depart on her maiden voyage. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note on the verso of front endpaper. Near fine. 28.6 x 22. 0340529768

History of the pride of the German Navy. The chase of May 1941, and the discovery/exploration of her wreck.

73245
BALLARD, Robert D., SIDES, Hampton, SWEENEY, Michael ...
TITANIC - Exploring the Discovery of a Lifetime / National Geographic
$15.00 AUD

National Geographic Partners. Washington. 2020. Special Publication 2020. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 27.5 x 20.5.

A compilation of articles published in National Geographic Magazine.

57622
BARRATT, Glynn
RUSSIA IN PACIFIC WATERS 1715-1825, A Survey of the Origins of Russia's Naval Presence in the North and South Pacific
$75.00 AUD

University of British Colombia Press. Vancouver. 1981. 1st Ed. XVIII, 300 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edge. Fine. 22.7 x 15. 0774801174

69886
BARRIE, David
SEXTANT - A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
$15.00 AUD

William Collins. London. 2015. 1st printing of the 2015 paperback edition (original of 2014). XX, 348 PP with 5 maps (4 on double page) and 9 figures (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 23 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.6 x 12.8. 9780007516582

51160
BARWIL GIBRALTAR
BARWIL SERVICES IN THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR
$5.00 AUD

Barwil Agencies Ltd. Gibraltar. c. 2000. 12 PP with colour illustrations: 2 maps, 9 colour photos. Soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

72020
BECKE, Louis & JEFFERY, Walter (editors)
A FIRST FLEET FAMILY - A hitherto unpublished Narrative of certain remarkable adventures compiled from the papers of Sergeant William Dew of the Marines
$75.00 AUD

T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1896. 1st Ed. XVI, 271 PP. Fp: folded chart "part of the Sea Coast of New South Wales". Cloth covers a little soiled with light wear, gilt title on spine. Bookplate of previous owner "Tremearne" on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. Scarce. 20.5 x 13.5.

73366
BEISER, Arthur
THE PROPER YACHT
$25.00 AUD

Adlard Coles. London. 1978. 2nd Ed. X, 364 PP with numerous b/w illust., photos & plans. Orig. cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, o/wise contents near fine. 28.5 x 22. 0229115845

Contains designs & information on construction, rigging, sails, etc. for sloops, ketches, cutters, ...

73144
BERTRAND, John & ROBINSON, Patrick
BORN TO WIN - A Lifelong Struggle to Capture the America's Cup
$250.00 AUD

Bantam Books. Sydney. 1982. Leather bound "Collector's edition" limited to 250 copies hand numbered (No. 60/250) and signed by the author. (2 "Collector's edition"), XXIV, (2), 385 PP with 3 diagrams and 45 b/w photos. Leather bound, spine with raised band, gilt decoration and title. Gilt outside edges which have a hint of light foxing when pages are fanned. Contained in a leather bound slipcase. A fine and scarce collector's item. 24 x 16.5 0553051180

73351
BICHENO, Hugh
ELIZABETH'S SEA DOGS: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas
$20.00 AUD

Conway. London. 2013. 1st paperback edition of the 2012 original. 399 PP with tables and 48 b/w illustrations (1 graph, 1 plan, 2 armorial crests, 2 engravings, 8 charts and 16 maps, 18 drawings of "ship types"), plus 16 pages with 1 b/w and 20 colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9781844862146

55548
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel
AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR - An Epitome of Navigation (Volumes I & II)
$35.00 AUD

Defence Mapping Agency Hydrographic Center. Washington. 1977 & 1975. 1977 edition of D.M.A. publication No. 9 . Volume I: XIV, 1386 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 folded plate with 2 identical charts with soundings in fathoms & feet/in meters. Volume II: X, 716 PP. Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front cover and spine. Gilt lettering on volume II is faded. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 26 x 18.

This epitome of navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch, has been continuously updated and revised since it was first published in 1802.

16889
BOWEN, Frank C.
WOODEN WALLS IN ACTION
$15.00 AUD

Halton & Co. London. 1951. 1st Ed. VIII, 144 PP with 64 full-page b/w paintings, plus 4 colour plates. Fp (in colour): The last fight of the Revenge, 1591. Cloth cover, engraved vignette on front board, dj (price clipped and in a protective sleeve). Sellotape marks on dj & endpapers, faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. 25.2 x 18.5.

Brief account of many naval engagements in the days of wooden hulls and iron men.

57700
BOWN, Mark & SIMMONS, Roger
R.M.S. "TITANIC", A Portrait in Old Picture Postcards
$15.00 AUD

Brampton Publications. Loggerheads, UK. 1987. 1st Ed. Foreword by Donald Smith. (6), 98 PP with numerous b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Small rub on front cover, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 15 x 21.5. 0951146955

White Star offices - Shipyard of Harland and Wolff - Accommodation - Sea trials - Sailing - Sinking and aftermath.

42914
BOYCE, James & HAYE, Pete / BOYLES, Warren & WILSON, Lyn
NICOLAS BAUDIN - The Bicentenary of the expedition to Van Diemen's Land of an extraordinary French Explorer / THE EXPEDITION - An artist's perception of Baudin's voyage (in 40° South Tasmania)
$20.00 AUD

40 Degrees South Pty Ltd. Hobart. 2002. Issue 24, Autumn, March 2002. Contains article pages 16 to 23 with 1 b/w portrait and 8 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.

73576
BRIDGE, L. J. (Jim)
BOATS, NETS, POTS & HOOKS - Untold Tales of Fish and Fishermen of South-Eastern Tasmania
$80.00 AUD

L.J. Bridge. Hobart. 2007. 1st Ed. (5), 139 PP with c. 25 b/w photos. Laminated soft covers, pictorial front, spiral bound. Fine. Scarce. 29.7 x 21.

73502
BRIGHAM, William T.
An INDEX to the ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN
$250.00 AUD

Martinus Nijhoff / Bishop Museum. 'S-Gravenhage / Honolulu, H.I. 1900. 1st Ed. Memoirs B.P. Bishop Museum, Vol 1, No. 2. Over 170, (2) PP with tables (some with list of smaller islands) and 12 figures, plus 24 plates with sketch maps of archipelagoes. Soft covers with chips around the edges and fragile at spine, title and illustration on front cover. Title page with short repaired tear. Contents are near fine. Scarce. 31 x 24.5.

A handbook to the Chart on the walls of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History.

16951
BROCK, Rear Admiral P.W. & GREENHILL, Basil
STEAM AND SAIL: IN BRITAIN AND NORTH AMERICA
$10.00 AUD

David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1973. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 80 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 19.5. 0715359673

Eighty photographs, mainly from the National Maritime Museum, depicting British & North American naval, merchant & special purpose vessels of the period of transition from sail to steam.

56073
BROXAM, G. & NICHOLSON, Ian
SHIPPING ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES - SYDNEY - Vol. III: 1841 TO 1844 AND GAZETTEER
$35.00 AUD

Roebuck. Canberra. 1989. 1st Ed. Publication No. 34 by Roebuck Society . 324 PP, with 159 PP Index & 20 PP illust. & maps. Eps: Map of Australasia, New Zealand, East India Islands. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 25.6 x 18.2. 0909434352

73457
BULKELEY, John & BYRON, the Hon. John
THE LOSS OF THE WAGER - The Narratives of John Bulkeley and The Hon. John Byron
$25.00 AUD

The Boydell Press. Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2004. Paperback reprint of the 1743 and 1785 editions. Introduiction and epilogue by Alan Guerney. XXVI, 240 PP. Fp: The wreck of the Wager. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21.5 x 13.8. 9781843830962

Shipwrecked in the Patagonia channels, Chile, in 1741. A voyage to the South Seas in the Years 1740-1, by John Bulkeley and John Cummins was first published in 1743. The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron was published in 1768.

73225
BURGESS, Commander C. R.
METEOROLOGY FOR SEAMEN
$15.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1954. Revised edition of the 1950 original. XI, 252 PP with tables and figures, plus 4 folded analysis charts (figures 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, & 20.6). Cloth cover with light soiling, gilt title on front cover and spine. Head of spine slightly damaged. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 21.5 x 14.5.

42920
CAMPBELL, Tony
EARLY MAPS
$40.00 AUD

Abbeville Press. New York. 1981. 1st Ed. 148 PP with 68 colour plates (4 double-page). Fp: Early plan of New York (New Amsterdam). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. Large format: 38.8 x 30.8. 0195543513

Earliest maps: Psalter world map with Jerusalem as centre of the world, to charts of the explorers.

70016
CASSELLS, Vic
FOR THOSE IN PERIL ...
$15.00 AUD

Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1995. 1st Ed. 269 PP with 99 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Light bump on lower corner of book, o/wise fine. 22.5 x 15.2. 9780864177346

A comprehensive listing of the ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy who have paid the supreme sacrifice in the wars of the twentieth century.

73342
CHAPMAN, Brainerd
DREAM CRUISE - From the Fjords of Norway to the Caribbean Islands
$30.00 AUD

International Marine Publishing. Camden, Maine. 1980. 1st Ed. XVI, 174 PP with 1 map on double page, 2 maps, 2 plans of "Gabbiano" and 44 b/w photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 26 x 18. 0877421196

43612
CHAPUIS, Olivier
A LA MER COMME AU CIEL - Beautemps-Beaupré & la naissance de l'hydrographie moderne (1700-1850)
$125.00 AUD

Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed., in Histoire Maritime series. 1062 PP with 31 colour and 111 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear and 2 creases on the spine. Outside edges a little soiled. Contents near fine. French text. Scarce. 24 x 16. 9782840501572

Beautemps-Beaupré, French hydrographer and the coming of modern hydrography. Chapter 1 of Part 2 (pages 323 to 388): the laboratory of the South Seas (Voyage with d'Entrecasteaux, to Tasmania, then to New Caledonia in search of La Pérouse).

72899
Chef der Hydrografie
HYDROGRAFISCHE KAART, voor Kust-en Binnenwateren, voor Beroeps-en Pleziervaart - 1811: Waddenzee (westblad) en Aangrenzende Noordzeekust
$15.00 AUD

Dienst der Hydrografie van de Koninklijke Marine. s-Gravenhage. 1986. 1986 edition. 12 PP with front cover with flap and 9 charts in colour. Inside front cover: index of small craft charts, details (Habour facilities, traffic signs...) with text in Dutch and English. Very good. Oblong: 37.5 x 62.

Charts for coast and inland waterways.

72900
Chef der Hydrografie
HYDROGRAFISCHE KAART, voor Kust-en Binnenwateren, voor Beroeps-en Pleziervaart - 1805: Oosdterschelde, Veerse Meer en Grevelingenmeer
$15.00 AUD

Dienst der Hydrografie van de Koninklijke Marine. s-Gravenhage. 1987. 1987 edition. 12 PP with front cover with flap and 9 charts in colour. Inside front cover: index of small craft charts, details (Habour facilities, traffic signs...) with text in Dutch and English. Very good. Oblong: 37.5 x 62.

Charts for coast and inland waterways.

72901
Chef der Hydrografie
HYDROGRAFISCHE KAART, voor Kust-en Binnenwateren, voor Beroeps-en Pleziervaart - 1801: Noordzeekust oostende tot Den HelderOosdterschelde, Veerse Meer en Grevelingenmeer
$15.00 AUD

Dienst der Hydrografie van de Koninklijke Marine. s-Gravenhage. 1987. 1987 edition. 12 PP with front cover with flap and 8 charts in colour. Inside front cover: index of small craft charts, details (Habour facilities, traffic signs...) with text in Dutch and English. Very good. Oblong: 37.5 x 62.

Charts for coast and inland waterways.

72902
Chef der Hydrografie
HYDROGRAFISCHE KAART, voor Kust-en Binnenwateren, voor Beroeps-en Pleziervaart - 1801: Noordzeekust oostende tot Den HelderOosdterschelde, Veerse Meer en Grevelingenmeer
$15.00 AUD

Dienst der Hydrografie van de Koninklijke Marine. 's-Gravenhage. 1992. 1992 edition. 12 PP with front cover with flap and 8 charts in colour. Inside front cover: index of small craft charts, details (Habour facilities, traffic signs...) with text in Dutch and English. Very good. Oblong: 37.5 x 62.

Charts for coast and inland waterways.

72903
Chef der Hydrografie
HYDROGRAFISCHE KAART, voor Kust-en Binnenwateren, voor Beroeps-en Pleziervaart - 1803: Westerschelde Vlissingen to Antwerpen en Kanaal van Terneuzen naar Gent
$15.00 AUD

Dienst der Hydrografie van de Koninklijke Marine. 's-Gravenhage. 1992. 1992 edition. 12 PP with front cover with flap and 8 charts in colour. Inside front cover: index of small craft charts, details (Habour facilities, traffic signs...) with text in Dutch and English. Very good. Oblong: 37.5 x 62.

Charts for coast and inland waterways.

72871
CLARK, Alan
THE FALL OF CRETE
$15.00 AUD

Cassell Military Paperbacks. London. 2001. 1st paperback edition of the 1962 original. 211 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 19.7 x 12.8. 9780304353484

72812
CLODE, Danielle
IN SEARCH OF THE WOMAN WHO SAILED THE WORLD
$35.00 AUD

Picador / Pan Macmillan Australia. Sydney. 2020. 1st Ed. (16), 335 PP with b/w illustrations (21 headpieces and 1 map on double page "The Voyage of Jeanne Barret"). Pictorial stiff covers. New. 23 x 15.2. 9781760784959

Jeanne Barret, first woman to circumnavigate the world.

33793
CLUTTERBUCK, R. J.
ONE MAN'S LIST OF NAUTICAL WORDS, with a few notes on seamanship and some reminiscences of the Royal Navy
$30.00 AUD

Author. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. 108 PP with sketches by the author and 5 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

From "Afterguard" a word helping to differentiate between yacht owner and the paid skipper and crew living forward, to "Yarn" and "Yawl".

73066
COMPTON, Nic
SAILBOATS - The World's Best Sailboats in 500 Great Photos
$25.00 AUD

Salamander Books. London. 2003. 1st edition. 400 PP with 10 b/w illustrations and arouind 500 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers with light wear around edges. Number at top of half-title page, otherwise contents are near fine. Oblong: 24.7 x 21. 9781840654875

Chapter 8: Work boats. Chapter 9 Tall Ships (windjammers), ...

38465
COOK, A. M.
MEN OF LINCOLN WHO SAILED WITH COOK (in Journal and Proceedings of the RAHS - Volume XXXV, Part II, 1949)
$10.00 AUD

RAHS / Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1949. 81 -144 PP. Contains article by A.M. Cook from P. 116 to 130 with 3 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.

Read before the Society on April 26, 1949. Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.

73122
CORNELL, Jimmy
WORLD CRUISING ESSENTIALS: the Boats, Gear, and Practices that Work Best at Sea
$35.00 AUD

International Marine. Camden, Maine. 2002. XIV, 242 PP with 2 maps, 20 tables and 50 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 19.

Guide to around 400 cruising routes with information on winds, currents, regional & seasonal weather.

63175
COTTER, Charles H.
THE ELEMENTS OF NAVIGATION AND NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY - A text-book for cadets
$30.00 AUD

Maritime Books, Tapes & Gifts Co. Keelung, Taiwan. 1981. 1st Taiwanese edition of the 1977 original by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. XVII, 437 PP with tables and figures. Errata on front endpaper. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner on endpapers. Four pages with underlining of text (2 to 3 lines) and 1 pencil annotation, o/wise near fine. Scarce, even in this edition. 26.5 x 19.5.

67068
COUPE, Sheena
THE HOME FRONT FAMILY ALBUM - Remembering Australia 1939-1945
$15.00 AUD

Weldon Publishing. Sydney. 1991. 1st edition with an introduction by Nancy Keesing. 208 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 28.7 x 232.5. 1863021159

17172
CREIGHTON, Rear-Admiral Sir Kenelm
CONVOY COMMODORE
$35.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1956. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet, The Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. 205, (3 adv.) PP, plus 6 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir Kenelm Creighton. Eps: Maps of the approaches to Newfoundland and to the British isles. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, nice dust jacket. A little light foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.

Five years after his retirement, called back by the Admiralty for service as Commodore of ocean convoys.

62150
CROOKE, Ray
AN EPISTLE FROM OBEREA with decorations by Ray Crooke
$450.00 AUD

The Rams Skull Press. Ferntree Gully, Victoria. 1955. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. 5th edition based on 4th edition of 1774 "An Epistle from Oberea, Queen of Otaheite, to Joseph Banks, Esquire". 21 PP, (1 colophon), with 7 decorations by Ray Crooke. Cloth cover, tapa design. Copy No. 28/250, hand numbered and signed by Ray Crooke, on the colophon "Here ends the Epistle". Fine. 29 x 20.5.

47038
D'ALPUGET, Lou
SUCCESSFUL SAILING, From Beginner to Expert in Forty Classic Lessons
$5.00 AUD

Thomas Nelson. Melbourne. 1970. 1st Ed. Foreword by R. C. (Bob) Miller. 80 PP with 34 b/w photos and 40 figures by Jack Earl. Pictorial boards. Near fine. 28.5 x 21. 170019369

The boat, the sails, the wind... Major knots. Glossary.

46989
DALRYMPLE, Alexander
A HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF THE SEVERAL VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN (Two volumes bound in one)
$200.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1967. Reprint of the 1770 & 1771 editions. No. 11 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series (Volume 1/2). Volume I: (2), XXX, (II), 24, 24, 204, (3 errata) PP, plus 1 plate (natural history) and 3 folded charts. Volume II: (IV), 124, 20, (8 vocabulary of languages), (12 Chronological table of discoveries), (40 index) PP, plus 1 folded chart, and 11 plates (4 folded). Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette, front cover & spine, glassine protection (with chips/tear). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. Scarce. 26 x 21.

Volume 1: Spanish voyages of Magalhanes, Alvaro Mendana de Neyra, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. Volume 2: Dutch voyages of Lemaire and Schouten, Abel Tasman, Jacob Roggewein.

71979
DANDY & BEANO
FIFTY GOLDEN YEARS: The DANDY and The BEANO
$40.00 AUD

D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. London. 1991. Reprint of the 1987 edition. No pagination, 136 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Hard covers with a few light marks, title on front board. Near fine. 30 x 20.5. 085116384X

The Dandy Comix: first published 4th December 1937. The Beano Comic: First published 30 July 1938.

45923
DANIELSSON, Bengt
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BOUNTY
$10.00 AUD

Readers Union / George Allen & Unwin. London. 1963. 2nd edition of the first English edition of 1962, translated from the Swedish original by Alan Tapsell. 224 PP with 1 portrait of Captain William Bligh, 1 plan of the Bounty and 2 maps. Top outside edge tinted. Cloth covers, device on front cover, dj. Covers lightly soiled. Contents near fine. 21 x 13.

Another account of the famous mutiny shedding a different light on Bligh, revealing him to be a seaman of genius but lacking the perception and patience which could have avoided the mutiny.

49437
LE DANOIS, Edouard
MARINE LIFE OF COASTAL WATERS (Western Europe)
$20.00 AUD

George G. Harrap. London. 1957. 1st English edition, translated and adapted from the French original by N. A. Holme. 192 PP with 21 text illustrations, 24 colour photos and 80 photogravures plates. Fp: Brightly coloured plants and animals covering rocks on the sea floor. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing spots. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine. 29.3 x 22.5.

62144
DAVIES, Ken
SOLENT PASSAGES AND THEIR STEAMERS
$15.00 AUD

Isle of Wight County Press. Newport, IOW. 1982. 1st Ed. 179 PP with 1 map, diagrams and tables, plus 40 pages with 80 b/w photos. Fp: Varos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 21.7 x 14

63114
DAY, Thomas Fleming (editor)
THE RUDDER - 1897 - Volume VIII, January to December, 1897
$100.00 AUD

The Rudder Publishing Company. New York. 1897. 1st edition. (4), 362 PP with b/w illustrations throughout (burgees, maps, drawings, plans, photos), plus 18 b/w photos/plates. Blue cloth cover, gilt device and title on front board and spine, top edge gilt. Book slightly bowed but binding tight. Blue cloth cover soiled and marked, mostly at back with some wear around edges and corners. Small stamp of previous owner on both endpapers and at top of title page. Printed on superior gloss paper with only occasional light foxing. Title page with repaired tear. Lower corner of 20 first leaves with creases (dog-eared). Pages 125 to 150 with old water marks on upper part of front margin. Internally very clean. Rare. 29.4 x 22.5.

A mine of information with articles and designs for cruising schooners, knockabouts, catboats, yawls, sketches, verses...

56076
DE BRUNI D'ENTRECASTEAUX, A.-R.-J. and DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore
EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND JOURNALS WRITTEN ON SHIPS UNDER THE COMMAND OF D'ENTRECASTEAUX AND DUPERREY - 1793 AND 1824
$50.00 AUD

Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust & Indosuez New Zealand Limited. Wellington. 1986. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. Nos. 3 and 4 in the Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life series. Transcription and translation by Isabel Ollivier. Preface by L. A. Cameron. Foreword by Anne Salmond. 220 PP with 9 charts and coastal views, and 30 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on black label on front cover and spine. French and English text. Fine. Oblong: 26 x 30.5. 0908702051

Extracts from the Journals of the ships Recherche and Espérance in 1793, and Coquille in 1824.

22608
de CHABRILLAN, Céleste
THE FRENCH CONSUL'S WIFE - Memoirs of Céleste de Chabrillan in Gold-rush Australia
$20.00 AUD

Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1998. 1st limited (1000) edition, No. 18 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. Translated with introduction and notes by Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen, from the 1877 French original 'Un Deuil au bout du monde'. XI, 304 PP, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.6 x 16. 0522847757

A former prostitute and courtesan from Paris married to the first French Consul sent to Melbourne, lived in Victoria between 1854 and 1856 giving an account of life in this state.

73565
DE LA PEROUSE, Jean F.G.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1785, 1786, 1787 AND 1788 BY THE BOUSSOLE AND ASTROLABE (Volume I, Volume II and ATLAS)
$300.00 AUD

N. Israel / Da Capo. Amsterdam / New York. 1968. Reprint of 1799 English edition. Translated from the French original published by order of the National Assembly and L. A. Milet-Mureau. Volumes Nos. 27, 28 & 29 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (2), VIII, LVI, 539 PP. Volume II: (2), VIII, 532 PP (14 Index), (2 errata). Atlas: (6), 69 plates (views, plans, charts, engravings). Simile vellum, gilt title on blue label on front board and spine of each volume. Labels on front board rubbed in parts, and on spine with gilt lettering sunned. Very light foxing. A near fine set. Vol. I & II: 26 x 20. Atlas: 40 x 27. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.

Voyage of exploration towards "What Captain Cook had not discovered". Calls: Easter Island, California, Alaska, Macau.. Botany Bay.

73476
DE MARIGNY, Alfred & HERSKOWITZ, Mickey
A CONSPIRACY OF CROWNS
$25.00 AUD

Bantam Press. London. 1990. 1st Ed. X, (2), 308 PP, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, git title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16.5. 9780593015360

The true story of the Duke of Windsor and the murder of Sir Harry Oakes.

39472
DELEGATE GENERAL FOR ARMAMENT
THE FRENCH TECHNOLOGICAL SHIELD
$10.00 AUD

DGA. Paris. 1991. 1st Ed., June 1991. 12 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft covers with light foxing. Very good. 29.8 x 21.

DGA is responsible for all French arms programmes and contributes to the policy of overall deterrence.

72875
DICKENS, Captain Peter
NIGHT ACTION - MTB Flotilla at War
$20.00 AUD

Seaforth Publishing. Barnsley, UK. 2008. 1st Seaforth paperback edition of the 1974 original. Introduction by Captain Trevor Robotham. XIII, 242 PP with 1 map on double page and 25 maps of operations, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on preliminary page. Near fine. 19.8 x 11.7. 9781848320123

Account of a young naval officer in charge of the 21st Flotilla of motor torpedo-boats.

51508
DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor)
THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XVI - Nos.1-4
$30.00 AUD

Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1950, 1951. Volume XVI, No. 1 (Autumn 1950) to No. 4 (Summer 1951). No. 1: 78 PP with 46 b/w and duotone photos. No. 2: 74 PP with 46 b/w and duotone photos. No. 3: 74 PP with 45 b/w and duotone photos. No. 4: 74 PP with 39 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.

No.1: Round the world in sail in the Winterhude, by Michael Norris. Full Aback in the Elingshire by Catain Waddell. Ice Hazard in Chefoo II, by Captain Archer-Wayth. No. 2: The Leicester Castle Affair, by Captain R. Barry O'Brien. Alaska: Polar Star of the Stars and Stripes, by Charles W. Stokes. No. 3: Tragedy on the high seas: barque Hinschenlefde to Australia, by J. Lyster. No. 4: Sailortowns of yesterday...

72837
DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor)
THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XVII, No. 1
$10.00 AUD

Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1951. Volume XVII, No. 1 (Autumn 1951). 74 PP with 54 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover has a rubbed patch on front. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.

No.1: Bound for the East in "Tippoo Sahib", by Harry Hine. Hunting Sea Elephants in the Auckland Islands in 1889.

72990
DUGAN, Des, BUTCHER, Philip (editors)
CORAL SEA "50" COMMEMORATION, 1942-1992 - Official Souvenir Publication
$20.00 AUD

Rutland Cowling-Smith Associates / Australia-United States Coral Sea Commemorative Council. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed, with Messages from Paul Keating, Prime Minister of Australia and George Bush, President of the United States of America. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 29.7 x 21. 9858848319

Official Souvenir Publication, including the National program of events. The Australian American Alliance: The War in the Pacific, The Battle of the Coral Sea, The Battle of Midway... Qantas Flies to War ...

72771
DUYKER, Edward & TINGBRAND, P. (editors)
DANIEL SOLANDER, Collected Correspondence 1753-1782
$45.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies, No. 2 in the Miegunyah Press series. Foreword by Alan Frost. XVIII, (2), 466, (2) PP with 3 maps, plus 36 pages with 39 illustrations (12 colour and 27 b/w). Half-title page: Dr. Solander engraving & his signature. Hard cover, dj, ribbon page-marker. Foxing spots on top outside edges, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 052284636X

The Swedish naturalist who accompanied Joseph Banks on the first voyage of James Cook on the Endeavour (letters 90 to 106). Contains 188 letters from or to Solander in their original language with their English translation. (Letter 115 and others - Voyage of "Omai").

73427
ELBOROUGH, Travis
ATLAS OF FORGOTTEN PLACES - Journey to Abandoned Destinations from around the World
$50.00 AUD

White Lion Publishing. London. 2021. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 4 b/w illustrations (1 engraving, 3 photos) and colour illustrations: maps, sketch maps and plans, by Martin Brown and photos. Decorative hard covers. Fine. 26.5 x 19. 9780711263307

Vacant properties: orphanages, lighthouses, mining towns ... dilapidated destinations: hotels, palaces, theme parks ... obsolete institutions: submarine bases, seaside sanatorium, Alcatraz prison....

38442
ELLIS, William
POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES - Hawaii
$20.00 AUD

Charles E. Tuttle. Rutland, Vermont. 1974. 2nd printing of the 1969 edition. New Edition, Enlarged and Improved with a foreword by Edouard R. L. Doty. XIV, 471 PP with b/w illustrations. Half title page: Swimming in the Surf. Fp: Volcano of Kirauea. Pictorial card cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Lacks the chart of the Sandwich Isles, o/wise near fine. Small format: 15.4 x 10.7. 0804804761

73449
ESTIVAL, Dominique, FARRIS, Candace & MOLESWORTH, Brett
AVIATION ENGLISH - A Lingua Franca for Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers
$125.00 AUD

Routledge / Taylor & Francis. Abingdon, Oxon. 2016. 1st Ed. XVIII, 197, (9) PP with 5 tables, 9 figures, and 12 tables. Laminated boards, illustrated front. Fine. 24 x 16.5.. 9781138022386

51047
FABRE, David
SEAFARING IN ANCIENT EGYPT
$60.00 AUD

Periplus. London. 2004/2005. 1st English edition, translated from the French by Andrew Brown. XXII, (2), 278 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine/as new condition. 32.7 x 26.5. 9781902699332

Part I: Egypt and the sea. Part II: The professionals of Maritime Voyaging.

57705
FARRINGTON, Karen
VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC - The Fight for the Pacific Islands 1942-1945
$20.00 AUD

Selectabook Ltd. London. 2005. 1st edition. 144 PP with b/w illustrations (10 maps & plans, and 90 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 9781841933351

60th Anniversary Special Edition.

73106
FIELD, Nicola and WALKER, Chris
WALSH BAY, Harbourside Renaissance
$40.00 AUD

Hardie Grant Publishing / Walsh Bay Publishing. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. Foreword by Bob Carr, Premier of New South Wales. (6), 126 PP with b/w and colour illustrations and Feature Photography by Tim Georgeson. A 2 pages of "Awards" won as at March 2004 loosely inserted. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 28 x 30.

49271
FINNIS, Bill
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, Seaman and Scientist
$30.00 AUD

Chaucer Press. London. 2003. 1st Ed. 252 PP with b/w and colour illustrations on superior glossy paper. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 27.6 x 20.8. 190444914X

73423
FISHER, Stuart
CANALS OF BRITAIN - A Comprehensive Guide
$45.00 AUD

Adlard Coles Nautical. London. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by Chris Coburn. 304 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (including 60 location map insets). Inside front cover: index map (in colour) of "Canals of Britain". Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781408105177

54031
FITZHARDINGE, Verity
RUSSIAN NAVAL VISITORS TO AUSTRALIA, 1862-1888 (in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society - Vol.52, Part 2)
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1966. 81-168 PP. Article between pages 129 and 158. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.8.

Image of front cover lists other contents.

73503
FITZPATRICK, Gary L.
THE EARLY MAPPING OF HAWAI'I - Volume I / Palapala'aina
$120.00 AUD

Editions Limited. Honolulu. 1986. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 90 b/w or colour illustrations: 9 portaits, coastal views, views, maps and charts). Title spread: Hawai'i, by Harrison, 1784. Cloth cover, title on front and spine. Small stain on top outsise edge. Dust jacket is a little sunned and has a few chips, repaired closed tears and is in a protective sleeve. Still a near fine copy. Large format: 36 x 26. 0915013053

71904
FLEMING, Fergus
BARROW'S BOYS
$15.00 AUD

Granta Books. London. 1999. 1st paperback edition of the 1998 original. XX, 489 PP with 4 maps and 34 headpieces, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 19.5 x 12.7. 9781862072862

John Barrow, elder statesman of exploration: Arctic and the North West Passage, Africa and search for Timbuctoo, Niger ... Antarctica.

64141
FLEW, Janine (editor)
SIGNALS, Quarterly - No. 106
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2014. No. 106, March - May 2014. Foreword (Bearings), by Kevin Sumption. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine.. 30 x 23.

Olympic Gold 2012: 470 Class ..., by Daina Fletcher. Return to the Reef: the Far North Queensland wreck project 2013, by Kieran Hosty. In the beginning: looking back at a busy bicentennial year, by Bruce Stannard. Queenscliffe Maritime Museum, by Greg Wane.

68348
FORNASIERO, Jean, MONTEATH, Peter & WEST-SOOBY, John
ENCOUNTERING TERRA AUSTRALIS: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders
$40.00 AUD

Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2004. 1st Ed. XII, 412 PP with 2 head pieces and 130 b/w illustrations (maps and plans, charts and coastal views, drawings and engravings), plus 16 pages with 2 b/w and 35 colour illustrations. Title page: Portrait of Ouriaga (Bruny Island). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.8 x 17.5. 9781862546257

73084
FORSTER, Harley, W. (editor)
THE DILLINGHAM CONVICT LETTERS
$15.00 AUD

Cypress Books & Victorian Historical Association. Melbourne. 1970. 1st Ed. in the "Cypress Historical Backgrounds No. 4". 27 PP . Stiff covers, title on front cover. Near fine. 21.2 x 13.7

Richard Dillingham was transported to Van Diemen's Land on board the Catherine Stewart Forbes. Assigned to David Lamb of Sandy Bay. ...

57507
FRAME, Tom
HMAS SYDNEY, Loss and Controversy
$30.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. XVI, 300 PP with 14 figures, plus 24 pages with 38 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0340584688

Mysterious & controversial action between HMAS Sydney & the German auxiliary raider HSK Kormoran on 19th November, 1941.

36705
FRITH, Henry
THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION - A brief record of Maritime Discovery from the earliest times to the 18th Century
$15.00 AUD

Ward, Lock and Co. London. c. 1900. 1st Ed.? VIII, 312 PP with head pieces, tail pieces and text illustrations, plus 4 b/w plates. Fp: Columbus on his first voyage. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Edges of covers lightly rubbed. Occasional foxing with spots on outside edges. Dedicatory note dated 1901 on FFEP, otherwise very good. 19.5 x 13.

40632
FULLERTON, Laurie, LOGAN, Leanne & COLE, Geert
NEW CALEDONIA - A Travel Survival Kit
$20.00 AUD

Lonely Planet. Melbourne. 1994. 2nd edition of the 1990 original. 282, (6 publications) PP with b/w illustrations (maps, plans, sketches), plus 12 pages with 39 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.5 X 12.8. 0864422016

72846
GANNON, Michael
BLACK MAY - The Epic Story of the Allie's Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943
$15.00 AUD

Dell Publishing / Random House. New York. 1999. 1st Paperback edition of the 1998 original. XXXI, 541 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 pages with 23 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Name and stamp of previous owner on prelim, o/wise near fine. 17.5 x 10.5. 9780440235644

The epic story of the Allies defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943.

43415
GARDINER, Robert & FRIEDMAN, Dr. Norman (editors)
NAVIES IN THE NUCLEAR AGE - Warships since 1945
$50.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1993. 1st edition limited to 2000 numbered copies ( No. 1844), in the "Conway's History of the Ship" series. 224 PP with tables, plans and b/w photos. Fp: The American cruiser Yorktown, firing a standard MR-SM2 surface-to-air missile. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 25.2. 0851776264

Warship design, development and technology (weapons systems, naval radars, naval electronic warfare, propulsion).

72746
GARDINER, Robert & PRESTON, Antony (editors)
CAMERA AT SEA 1939-45
$20.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 1978. 1st US edition. 192 PP with 24 colour and 250 b/w photos. Title spread: Illustrious, a C class AA cruiser and Valiant steam at about 20 knots. FEP: A view of the American destroyer Butler. REP: Albacores on the flight deck of HMS Indomitable, March 1943. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with short closed tears. Foxing spots on outside edges and a few pages. US Naval Institute bookplate on verso of half-title page together with stamp of previous owner. Contents near fine. 31.5 x 22. 0870218239

75454
GEEVES, Lance
SOUTHWARD HO! - A Southland Argosy which sought and found the golden fleece of freedom in the Huon, Tasmania
$70.00 AUD

Lance Geeves / Huon Newspaper Co. Ltd. Geeveston, Tasmania. 1988. 1st edition of July 1988. 232 PP with 28 b/w illustrations. FEP: Sketch map of Tasmania and map of Southern Tasmania. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.8 x 14. 0731645847

The author was a former editor of the weekly newspaper "Huon News". The sub-title on front cover is: A history of the origin, culture and characteristics of people who settled the Great South Land.

73109
GIBSON, Gregory
DEMON OF THE WATERS. The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe
$10.00 AUD

Hodder Headline. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. (10), 308 PP with 37 head pieces (silhouettes by Erik Ronnberg) and 3 drawings on double page by Gary Tonkin, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Fp: Mutiny. Pictorial stiff covers. Creases on covers and spine and light foxing, o/wise very good. 19.8 x 13.5. 0733615252

72552
GILL, G. Hermon
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY, 1942-1945 - Volume II
$50.00 AUD

Australia War Memorial. Canberra. 1968. 1st edition, in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, series two: Navy, Volume II. XVIII, 752 PP with 44 maps and sketches, plus 44 pages with 84 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a light shelf wear and is in a clear protective sleeve. A few light foxing spots on outside page edges, otherwise a fine copy.23.5 x 13.2

17627
GILLMER, Thomas
A HISTORY OF WORKING WATERCRAFT OF THE WESTERN WORLD
$20.00 AUD

International Marine. Camden, Maine, USA. 1994. 2nd edition of the 1974 original Working Watercraft. XII, 276 PP with 302 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24.2 x 19.2. 007023616X

Their origins - Northern European watercraft - Traditional working boats of the British Islands - Mediterranean boats: lineage and style - The Iberian influence - The North American maritime heritage.

41227
GIORGETTI, Franco
SAILS & SAILING - A Selection of Great Nautical Photographs from Mystic Seaport's Rosenfeld Collection
$30.00 AUD

Mystic Seaport. Mystic. 1999. 1st US edition, translated from the Italian original by David Steven Talbot. VIII, 178 PP with 79 b/w plates (4 of them folded) and 79 b/w photos for notes on plates. Title spread: Tender Vara and J-class Ranger of the Vanderbilt family. Hard cover, glt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 34 x 24.2. 0913372889

34082
GOLOVKO, Admiral Arseni G.
WITH THE RED FLEET - The War Memoirs of the Late Admiral Arseni G. Golovko
$15.00 AUD

Putnam. London. 1965. 1st English edition, translated from the 1960 Russian original Vmeste s Flotom by Peter Broomfield. Edited and introduced by Sir Aubrey Mansberg. 248 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Fp: The author at Northern Fleet Head Quarter. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has a rubed patch on top front corner, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.

73583
GORDON PUGH, P. D.
NELSON AND HIS SURGEONS / Nelson Chirurgiique
$30.00 AUD

E. & S. Livingstone Ltd. Edinburgh. 1968. 1st hard cover edition. Foreword by H. Jackson Burrows. (86), 68 PP with 47 plates (3 colour and 44 b/w), printed on superior gloss paper. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is a little soiled, o/wise a near fine copy. 25.3 x 19. 2. 0443006067

Monograph based on an Exhibition held at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, on 15 April 1967.

38733
GORSKY, Bernard
MOANA (Vastness of the Waters)
$15.00 AUD

Elek Books. London. 1956. 1st English edition of the 1955 French original. 239 PP with 1 map, plus 4 pages with 3 colour photos and 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Eps: Maps with top outside edges of covers speckled. insets between Saint Malo and Papeete. Cloth cover, dust jacket with chips and a few small pieces missing and now in a protective sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.5.

Outbound voyage, from Saint Malo to Tahiti, via the Canaries Islands, the West Indies, Panama Canal, Galapagos, and the Marquesas, in the forty-foot cutter Moana.

73204
GRANT, G. A. A. & KLINKERT, J.
THE SHIP'S COMPASS Including General Magnetism; Theory, Practice and Calculations relating to Magnetic and Gyro Compasses
$60.00 AUD

Routledge & Kegan. London. 1981. Reprint of the revised 2nd edition of 1970 (original of 1952). XII, 603 PP with 269 figures (drawings, sketches, photos), plus 6 b/w plates (figures 47, 48; 49, 64 & 65)in text. Fp: Magnetic Compass. Cloth cover, gilt device on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. A near fine copy. 22.2 x 14. 0710065221

73418
GREEN, Colin
SEVERN TRADERS - The West Country Trows and Trowmen
$60.00 AUD

Black Dwarf Publications. Lydney, Glos. 1999. 1st Ed. Foreword by Edward Paget-Tomlinson. 180 PP with b/w illustrations (4 maps, drawings, sketches, plans, paintings & photos), and 6 pages with colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Quay at Gloucester with trows, by Edward John Niemann. Hard covers, gilt title on front board and spine. dj. Fine/as new. 28.2 x 22.. 0953302822

15814
GREENFELL-PRICE, A.
FRENCH EXPLORATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1802-1803, A Review
$20.00 AUD

R.G.S.A. Adelaide. 1952. Extract from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Vol. 53. 4 PP (P.47 to 51) with 1 map, plus 1 plate with 2 b/w illust. Soft cover. Very good. 21 x 14.

Review of the book French Exploration in South Australia, 1802-1803, published privately by H.M. Cooper.

76140
GREGORY, Alexis
THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL - 1880-1939
$40.00 AUD

Cassell. London. 1991. 1st English edition of the 1990 French original. 220 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0304340375

The Menu and the Cure, The Railroads, The Grand Tour, The Orient Express, To Russia and the Steppes, Egypt, Across the Pond, The Birth of the Modern Liner, ..

73017
GREY, Lyn
BASS STRAIT ADVENTURES
$15.00 AUD

Lyn Grey / Printing Department, University of Tasmania. Hobart. c. 1993. 1st Ed. (2), 26, (1) PP with 16 b/w photos, plus 1 map on double page at centrefold. Card cover, illustrated front. Few foxing spots at top of front cover. Fine. 20.5 x 14.5.

Through the Furneaux group, on the Whiskas, a 13 ft Hawk Catamaran.

31527
GUTTRIDGE, Leonard & SMITH, Jay. D.
THE COMMODORES - The Drama of a Navy under Sail
$5.00 AUD

Peter Davies. London. 1970. 1st UK Ed. X, 340 PP, plus 16 pages with 35 b/w illust. Eps: Maps. Cloth cover. Top corner of free front endpaper clipped. Very good. 24 x 16. 0432063706

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

66940
H.M.S. EURYALUS (Cruiser)
CROSSING THE LINE AGAIN, or why Sailors put in for shore Jobs - Thursday, 1st February 1945
$100.00 AUD

On board. 1945. Edited for Thursday, 1st February 1945. 16 PP with 1 illustration by Tanner. Inside front cover: Master of Ceremonies "Lieutenant John Gordon Baskcomb, R.N.R". Soft cover, illustration on front cover by Tanner. Dedicatory note inside front cover "To Mavis with Love" dated 6 November 1945 and signed John. Covers reinforced at spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 18.5 x 12.5.

HMS Euryalus, Cruiser of 5,450 Tons, built Chatham Dock Yard in 1939. Crossing the line ceremony between Trincomalee and Australia. Original crossing of the Equator at 88° East, on 19th January 1945. The ceremony of this crossing was held on 1st February 1946 by 19° South & 102° East, following 2 successful Air Raids on the Japanese held oil refinery at Palembang, Sumatra. A scarce item.

72876
HALL, Timothy
TOBRUK 1941 - The Desert Siege
$15.00 AUD

Methuen Australia. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 2 maps and 41 b/w photos. Hard cover. Ex library copy with dust jacket pasted down on boards (laminated), library stamps on half title page, verso of title page and rear endpaper. Pages 28 & 29 with some underlining of around 6 lines and short notes. Copy lacking the free fly of the front endpaper. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Good reading / working copy. 21.6 x 14.2. 0454006675

55084
HANNING, Hugh (editor)
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION - Vol. CXIII, No. 651
$15.00 AUD

Royal United Service Institution. London. 1968. August 1968. (10), 189 -278 PP with 1 graph and 4 b/w photos. Fp: Professor Arthur Marder. Soft covers. Very good. 26.5 x 20.5.

Lectures (4) on the Navy and Defence. Sea Power and Modern Strategy, by Professor L. W. Martin. The Royal Navy in the next decade, by Rear-Admiral T. T. Lewin. The greatest single factor: The Officer and the Rating, by Rear-Admiral G.C. Crowley. ... The Soviets against the Germans at sea: 1941-45, by Donald W. Mitchell. The High Seas Fleet 1917-18, by David Woodward...

72454
HARRIS, John
THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM
$10.00 AUD

Readers Book Club. Melbourne. 1956. Reprint of the original published by Hurst & Blackett. 288 PP, plus 20 pages with 28 b/w photos (taken from the film of the book). Cloth cover with light wear, chipped dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. Neat name stamp of previous owner on FFEP. Contents near fine. 18.8 x 12.8.

With the Air-Sea Rescue High-Speed Launch Flotillas, in 1944.

73308
HASWELL MILLER, A. E. & DAWNAY, N. P.
MILITARY DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS IN THE COLLECTION OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN - Volume One: Plates
$40.00 AUD

Phaidon Press. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 187 plates with 478 illustrations (22 in colour tipped in and 4550 in b/w. Cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine, top edge tinted, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has a few repaired chips or closed tears. Errata slip tipped in on page 21. Contents near fine. 30 x 23.

73137
HAY, Peter & MALES, Nathan
RECHERCHE BAY / ESPERANCE CAMP (in 40° South Tasmania)
$10.00 AUD

40 Degrees South Pty Ltd. Hobart. 2006. Issue No. 41, Winter / June 2006, edited by Warren Boyles and Lyn Wilson. 80 PP. Contains 2 articles pages 57 to 65 with 3 b/w illustrations (prints) and 14 colour illustrations (1 print and 13 photos), and a 2 pages advertisement "Recherche Bay needs your help". Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 27.4 x 21.

Securing our heritage with TLC (Tasmanian Land Conservancy): Esperance Camp / Recherche Bay. Sequel to the Bruny d'Entrecasteaux expeditions of 1792 and 1793.

52918
HENDERSON, Graeme
UNFINISHED VOYAGES - Western Australian Shipwrecks, 1622-1850
$60.00 AUD

University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2007. 2nd edition of the 1980 original. XII, 340 PP with 4 location maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 29.2 x 25.2. 0920694883

73339
HERRESHOFF, L. Francis
THE COMPLEAT CRUISER, The Art, Practice and Enjoyment of Boating
$20.00 AUD

Sheridan House. New York. 1991. Reprint of the 1st paperback edition of 1987. XII, 372 PP with b/w illustrations by the author. Pictorial stiff covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 22.8 x 14.8 9780911378672

14782
HEYERDAHL, Thor
THE TIGRIS EXPEDITION
$10.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. London. 1980. 1st Ed. 333 PP plus 64 pages with 140 colour photos. Eps: Route of "Tigris" through the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea & Gulf of Aden. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25 x 15. 0045720231

Search of a sea route used 5000 years ago by the Sumerians on a reed raft.

53446
HILDER, Captain Brett
WHALING AT NORFOLK ISLAND (in Walkabout Magazine - Vol. 24, No. 9)
$25.00 AUD

Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1958. Volume 24, No. 9, September 1958. 40 PP. Contains article P. 10 to 13 with 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 30.2 x 24.2.

73105
HMSO
ADMIRALTY MANUAL OF NAVIGATION - Volume II - 1922
$50.00 AUD

H.M.S.O. London. 1922. New edition superseding the 1914 edition. Compiled by SHEARME, Commander Francis N. & SMART, Dr. W. M. VII, 289 PP with tables and over 140 figures, plus 1 folded plate with 3 sounding sheets. Cloth covers (decorated in blind), gilt title on spine. 3 errata slips tipped in on title page and its verso. Covers with light shelf wear and soiling, o/wise contents near fine. 24.8 x 16.

73226
HMSO
THE SHIP CAPTAIN'S MEDICAL GUIDE 1952
$20.00 AUD

HMSO. London. 1957. Reprint of the 1952 edition. VII, 339 PP with tables (2 of them folded plates) and over 126 illustrations (drawings, sketches and photos), plus 1 folded chart (in colour) ad 8 pages with 13 colour illustrations (5 sketches and 8 photos). Amendments ... in rear pocket. Cloth covers, gilt title on sunned spine. Hinge of front cover starting. Otherwise contents very good. Image shows title-page. 24.6 x 15.5.

First aid, toxic hazards, communicable diseases, STD's, female disorders & pregnancy, childbirth, dying and the dead, ...

71958
HOARE, Philip
LEVIATHAN, or The Whale
$20.00 AUD

Fourth Estate. London. 2009. 2nd reprint in paperback of the 2008 original. (10), 454 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, sketches, drawings, paintings and photos) and a 20 pages index. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 19.6 x 12.8. 9780007230143

69285
HOPKINS, David L.
THE HISTORY OF THE D'ENTRECASTEAUX WATERWAY
$35.00 AUD

Peregrine Publishing. Kettering, Tasmania. c. 2016. 1st Ed. Foreword by Will Hodgman, Premier of Tasmania. (10), 54 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. New. 29.7 x 21. 9780975716649

63586
HOPKINSON, Tom (editor)
PICTURE POST 1938-50
$15.00 AUD

Penguin Books. London. 1970. 1st paperback edition, with an introduction by Tom Hopkinson. 288 PP with b/w illutrations. Fp: the Happy Elephants. Picorial soft cover. Cover slightly rubbed. Name of previous owner on first page. Very good reading copy. 29.8 x 21. 140031154

70869
HORDERN, Marsden
MARINERS ARE WARNED ! John Lort Stokes & H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843
$100.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1989. 1st edition, limited to 1250 copies, No. 4 in the Miegunyah Press series. XXII, (2), 360 PP with 8 figures & 9 maps, plus 7 lift-out charts inside back cover, and 24 Pages with 43 plates (4 in colour). Newspaper clipping loosely inserted. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 052284376X

The third surveying voyage by the British Hydrographical Office around the coasts of Australia, undertaken on board the HMS Beagle.

73364
HOWELL, William
WHITE CLIFFS TO CORAL REEF. A classic small boat voyage
$25.00 AUD

Odhams Press Ltd. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by Humphrey Barton. 224 PP with 1 sketch of Wanderer II, and 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Fp: The author near mast of "Wanderer II". Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with repaired tear and rubbed patches (now in a protective sleever. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 14.5.

Passage of an Australian dental surgeon on a 24 feet long gaff cutter. Falmouth, Straits of Gibraltar, West Indies, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti, Penrhyn, Hawaii and Vancouver.

22198
HOWLETT, R. & ADAMS, Bruce
BATTLEGROUND SOUTH PACIFIC
$50.00 AUD

A.H. & A. W. Reed. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Fp.: Australian Administration Headquarters, Kieta. Eps: Map of tropical South-West Pacific. Cloth cover, dj. Very good. 29 x 23. 0589070746

Looking back twenty five years, to the battlegrounds of the Allied and Japanese Forces. A vivid reminder of the War in pictures: wrecks, anti-aircraft weapons, tanks, pontoons, machinery, strewn throughout the islands.

58806
JARMAN, Robert
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE "JAPAN", employed in the Sperm Whale Fishery, under the Command of John May
$650.00 AUD

Edition Renard. Melbourne. 2009. Reprint of the 1838 original, in a limited edition of 30 numbered copies (No. 21). Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Chronology, and Index by Robert M. Warneke. X, (2 blank), VI, 318 PP. Fp: Portrait of Robert Jarman in 1877. All edges tinted. Marker ribbon. Full grey goatskin, gilt title on spine, cloth slipcase with title on labels. Fine. 24.3 x 17.

Voyage: June 1831 to August 1834. London, Cape of Good Hope, St Paul Island (Indian Ocean), Indonesia, Japan, Hawai'i, Tonga, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati ... New Zealand, Cape Horn, Azores, London.

54514
JONES, Noreen
NORTH TO MATSUMAE: Australian Whalers to Japan
$50.00 AUD

University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2008. 1st Ed. XXIX, 208 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w and 24 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on prelims and last few pages and on outside page edges. Very good. Scarce. 23 x 15. 9780980296518

Voyage of the Lady Rowena, November 1830 to end of June 1832: Port Jackson, Solomon Islands, Minami Tori Shima (Marcus Island), Japan with return to Sydney via Guam, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Wallis Island and Tonga. Voyage of the Eamont in 1850, shipwrecked in May 1850 off Akkeshi, Hokkaido Island.

73405
KEARNEY, Bob
FISHING IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS - Was it really better?
$45.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2022. 1st Ed. 304 PP, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Aerial colour photo of Kingscliff Rocks, Northern New South Wales. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Signed by the author on title page. New. 23.4 x 15.3. 9780522879117

72186
KEITH, Sir Arthur
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN (in Two Volumes)
$100.00 AUD

Williams and Norgate, Ltd. London. 1925. 2nd edition (Revised, Reset, and Enlarged) of the 1915 original. Vol. I: XXXII, 376 PP with 1 time chart and 133 figures. Fp: Geneological tree "Recent & Pleistocene to Eocene". Vol. II: XIV, 377-753 PP with figures 134 to 266. Fp: Genealogical tree "Pleistocene to Miocene". Navy cloth covers, gilt device "Piltdown Fragments" on front board. Gilt title on spine. Offsetting of endpapers, foxing spots on outside edges. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper of each volume. A near fine set. 22.7 x 15.5.

11802
KEMP, P. K. & LLOYD, Christopher
THE BRETHREN OF THE COAST, The British and French Buccaneers in the South Seas
$25.00 AUD

Heinemann. London. 1960. 1st Ed. VIII, 248 PP plus 2 maps on double-page & 12 pages with 15 b/w illustrations and the frontispiece. Fp: Title-page of the South Sea Wagoner by Bartholomew Sharp, 1682. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.5.

First inroads across the Panama Isthmus in 1680, capturing Spanish treasure ships and plundering the Spanish West coast. Cowley's first voyage round the world, Dampier, Woodes Rogers, Clipperton, Shelvocke,...

30421
KEMP, P.K. & LLOYD, Christopher
THE BRETHREN OF THE COAST, The British and French Buccaneers in the South Seas
$10.00 AUD

Heinemann. London. 1960. 1st Ed. VIII, 248 PP plus 2 double-page maps & 12 pages with 15 b/w illust. Fp: Title-page of the South Sea Wagoner by Bartholomew Sharp, 1682. Hard cover. Ex-library copy with renewed endpapers. Outside edges with foxing spots and library stamp. Otherwise contents clean and still a very good copy. 21.5 x 14.5.

First inroads across the Panama Isthmus in 1680, capturing Spanish treasure ships and plundering the Spanish West coast. Cowley's first voyage round the world, Dampier, Woodes Rogers, Clipperton, Shelvocke,...

43327
KENNEDY, Ludovic
PURSUIT - The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck
$10.00 AUD

Book Club Associates. London. 1975. Reprint of the 1974 original. 239 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Name and neat ex-libris stamp of previous owner on FFEP, paper ageing around edges, o/wise near fine. 20 x 13.5.

The tracking & pursuit of the German battleship Bismarck which sailed from Gdynia on 18/5/41, sunk HMS Hood on 24/5, was disabled by torpedoes from the obsolete Swordfish of the Fleet Air Arm and was sunk on 27/5/41.

71662
KERR, George F.
BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS, The War History of the P. & O. (1939-1945)
$30.00 AUD

Faber & Faber. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 196 PP, plus 2 colour plates, 6 pages with 13 photos & 1 large folded photo (panoramic view of Table Bay Harbour in April 1941). Fp: The North African Landing 1942. Cloth cover, chipped dj. Light foxing on edges. Very good. 20.5 x 14.

The world's greatest merchant fleet during WWII. Armed merchant cruisers, troopships ...

73498
KILVINGTON, Patrick
THE LAST LANC'
$120.00 AUD

Boolarong Publication. Brisbane. 1982. 1st Ed. XX, 162 PP with b/w illustrations: 11 portraits and 40 photos. Hard cover, dust jacket with a few small chips and is now in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy. Scarce. 24.5 x 17. 0908175329

The last flight of "Spirit of Surfers Paradise" in 1965 from Sydney to Biggin Hill, Kent, United Kingdom. List of the 7,376 other Lancasters built between P.120 and 162.

61907
KING, Jonathan
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST FLEET - The Voyage and the Re-enactment 1788/1988
$15.00 AUD

Fairfax / Robertsbridge & Australia Post. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w sketches & colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj (Bounty with flag of Australia Post). FEP: Stamps of previous owner and the Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 32.2 x 23. 0947178163

Copy prepared for Australia Post (proud sponsors of Bounty). Official story of the re-enactment setting the proper historical perspective against the events of 1788.

19685
LEVER, Darcy
THE YOUNG SEA OFFICER'S SHEET ANCHOR, Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship with An Appendix containing several figures illustrative of novelties and improvements in rigging, &c&c&c.
$900.00 AUD

John Richardson. London. 1835. New Edition and probably 3rd English edition. XII, (II), 124 PP plus 113 plates (printed back to back) with 687 figures plus 3 plates (printed back to back) with 17 figures (In Appendix), followed by a Dictionary of Sea Terms (Pages 117 to 124). Rebacked copy retaining original morocco covers, raised bands, gilt lettering ("Rigging & Seamanship") on spine, lettering on foot of spine a little faded/rubbed. Signature: Wm. St. John Hornby, 1854, on original endpaper. Title-page has a repaired closed tear. Light foxing, otherwise a very good complete copy of a scarce item. Image shows title-page. 27.5 x 22.5.

Darcy Lever was born around 1760 and as a young man he went out to India where he acquired his nautical skills. On his return to England he settled first of all in Leeds and later at Pontefract. He died at Edinburgh in 1837. His book was very successful and for almost 40 years remained the text book on the subject within both the Royal Navy and in the merchant service. It remains one of the principal sources of information on the subject today. Illustrated with over 600 drawings and diagrams engraved onto 113 plates, the book explains in clear and easy terms every aspect of the art of seamanship, rigging and ship-handling from the days of wooden ships and sail. The book is invaluable to the ship model-maker but it is also of prime importance for the study of masts, spars, rigging, blocks, ropes, knotting, braces, sails, shrouds, ....

62535
LEWIS, Dr. Tom
DARWIN'S SUBMARINE I-124
$30.00 AUD

Avonmore Books. Adelaide. 2010. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Honourable Austin Asche, AC, QC. 182 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, documents, maps, plans and sketches and photos). Pictorial stiff cover. Neat ex-libris stamp of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise fine. 25 x 17.7. 9780957735194

Sunk by HMAS "Deloraine" 20th January 1942 in 150 feet of water off Darwin. Early salvage attempts (for the code books). Historic shipwreck since 28th June 1977.

65280
LOCKWOOD, Kim
D-DAY LANDINGS - 70th Anniversary Edition
$15.00 AUD

Wilkinson Publishing. Melbourne. 2014. 1st Ed., in the WP Discovery series. No pagination, 88 PP with 6 maps in colour, b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 32 x 24. 9781922178350

14461
LONEY, J. K.
WRECK OF THE FIJI
$15.00 AUD

J.K. Loney /Ken Jenkin. Geelong. c.1975. 1st Ed. No. 6 in the "Famous Shipwreck" series. 16 PP with 1 location map, plus 8 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 20.2 x 14.2. 0909244154

Wrecked on 6th September, 1891, near Moonlight Head, 14 miles West of Cape Otway.

18038
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS IN THE FURNEAUX GROUP (Flinders Island)
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1970. 1st Ed. 16 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5.

18829
LONEY, Jack
WRECKERS, SMUGGLERS AND PIRATES, In South Eastern Australian Waters
$15.00 AUD

Marine History. Portarlington. 1989. 1st Ed. VI, 106 PP with 4 maps & 80 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spine is sunned, o/wise a near fine copy. 24 x 17.8. 0909191395

64960
LONEY, Jack K.
WARRNAMBOOL: The Graveyard of Ships - Wrecks and Strandings in and around Lady Bay
$10.00 AUD

J.K. Loney. Geelong. 1968. 1st edition. No pagination, 20 PP with 7 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, front with title and illustration. Crease on lower part of front cover, slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21.5 x 13.8.

Wrecks of Lady Bay near the City of Warrnambool.

72716
LUCAS PHILLIPS, C. E. and HASLER, H.G.
COCKLESHELL HEROES
$10.00 AUD

Bantam Books. New York. 1979. March 1979 paperback edition in the "Bantam War Book" series. A reset copy of the 1956 original. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. (10), 244 PP with maps by Benjamin F. Klaessig and 16 line drawings by Robert Blanchard, plus 1 folded plate as frontispiece: painting in colour by Uldis Klavins. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Outside edges tinted. Faint foxing. Very good. 17.7 x 10.7. 0553126646

18258
LUCAS, Alan
CRUISING AUSTRALIANS
$25.00 AUD

Horwitz Grahame. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. III, 268 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, sketch maps, photos, plus 12 pages with 28 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 25 x 16. 9780725521493

A fascinating insight into the life of the Cruising Australian: the people, the boats, the places they visit...

47020
MACDONNELL, J. E.
VALIANT OCCASIONS
$20.00 AUD

Constable. London. 1952. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral Sir John Collins. (12), 262 PP. Hard cover, title on spine. Top edge of spine and back cover is browned, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22 x 14.5.

Some of the naval engagements during WWII, involving the Royal Australian Navy. Fate of the HMAS Sydney, HMAS Stuart at the Battle of Matapan, the Battle of the Java Sea.

73115
MARTIN, Ken
WALKS OF THE SHIPWRECK COAST & VOLCANO COUNTRY
$20.00 AUD

Bas Publishing. Seaford, Vic. 2010. 2nd edition, completely revised and updated. 205, (3) PP with colour illustratons: maps, plans an photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 21 x 14.8. 9781921496080

19424
MARX, Robert F. & Jenifer
THE SEARCH FOR SUNKEN TREASURE - Exploring the World's Great Shipwrecks
$20.00 AUD

Random House. Sydney. 1993. 1st Australian edition. 192 PP profusely illustrated with mostly colour photos. Fp: A diver with a pot recovered form a sixth-century Etruscan shipwreck. Title page: A Chinese ocean-going trading ship. Half title page: Gold and silver coins washed ashore off the Panama coast. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22. 0091828147

The discovery of famous wrecks from around the world, the HMS Bounty, the Andrea Doria, the Titanic and the Mary Rose, etc.. Salvage operations and recovery of artifacts, many of them priceless pieces of jewellery, pottery, coins...

73460
MATTHEWS, Owen
GLORIOUS MISADVENTURES - Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
$40.00 AUD

Bloomsbury. New York. 2013. 1st Ed. XIV, 384, (2) PP with 2 maps and 29 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches), plus 16 pages with 5 b/w and 31 colour illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Top outside edge with a rermainder mar, o/wise fine. 24 x 16.2. 9781620402399

16600
MAWSON, Vivienne, TRANTER, David J. & PEARCE, Alan F.
CSIRO AT SEA, 50 YEARS OF MARINE SCIENCE
$30.00 AUD

CSIRO Marine Lab. Hobart. 1988 1st Ed. (4), 216 PP with b/w illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 25.5 x 18.2. 0643048359

Early years of marine science in Australia. The men and women who contributed to the fisheries research and oceanography.

73130
McCALL, Bernard
SIETAS AND ITS SHIPS (Part 2)
$40.00 AUD

Bernard McCall / Gomer Press. Portishead, UK. 2021. 1st Ed. 132 PP with 141 colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. Oblong: 24.5 x 19.5. 9781913797058

Shipyard of J.J. Sietas / Pella Sietas Werf.

20887
McLEAN, Gavin
CANTERBURY COASTERS
$50.00 AUD

NZ Ship & Marine Society. Wellington. 1987. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. 96 PP with numerous b/w illust. (photographs & line drawings by S.V. Lampard). Half title page: Funnel of a Canterbury coaster. Title spread: M/V Calm Ashore Waiweranui Pt. Inside front cover: sketch map of New Zealand. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 26 x 18.5. 0959783407

Signed copy No. 213/1000. The "Canterbury Steam Shipping Company".

31966
McMANUS, Michael
A TREASURY OF AMERICAN SCRIMSHAW - A collection of the useful and decorative
$25.00 AUD

Penguin Studio. New York. 1997. 1st printing. X, 150 PP with 7 b/w headpieces and 200 colour photos. Fp: Jagging wheel in Walrus ivory. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22.2. 9780670862344

21085
MEAR, Roger & SWAN, Robert
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT
$15.00 AUD

Jonathan Cape. London. 1987. 1st Ed. XIV, 306 PP with 106 b/w, col. photos. Fp: Ice cliffs of Barne Glacier. FEP: Antarctic continent. REP: Routes of Shackleton, Scott & Southern Journey of 1985. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5. 0224014183

The polar march by three scientists, following the 883 miles of Scott's route of 1912 and climbing Mount Erebus.

45335
MELLEFONT, Jeffrey
PÂRIS IN INDIA (in Signals No. 64)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2003. No. 64, September - November 2003. Contains article between P.24 and 27 with 3 b/w and 5 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Maritime heritage on the southern coasts (Malabar in the West and Coromandel in the East) of India recorded by Vice Amiral François Edmond Pâris during the first half of the 19th century.

73313
MIDDLEMISS, Norman
Memorable Ships: EMPRESS OF JAPAN / Feature: THE TANKER FLEETS OF THE OIL MAJORS / Forgotten Fleets: HEAD LINE OF BELFAST & Ulster Steamship Co. Ltd. (in SHIPPING TODAY and YESTERDAY, No. 338)
$10.00 AUD

Tandy Media Publishing. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 2018. Edited by Nigel Lawrence. 68 PP. Contains 3 articles between pages: 18 to 21, 22 to 31, 54 to 59 with b/w and colour illustrations (House-Flag & Funnel and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Other article - Through the eyes of the artist by David Eeles: The Railway Steamers, Part Two.

73314
MIDDLEMISS, Norman
Memorable Ships: CITY OF MELBOURNE / Feature: HORN LINE OF HAMBURG: 140 Years of a German Family of Shipowners / Forgotten Fleets: HULL GATES SHIPPING Co. Ltd. (in SHIPPING TODAY and YESTERDAY, No. 339)
$10.00 AUD

Tandy Media Publishing. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 2018. Edited by Nigel Lawrence. 68 PP. Contains 3 articles between pages: 18 to 21, 22 to 31, 54 to 59 with b/w and colour illustrations (House-Flag & Funnel and photos), plus a 16 page "CRUISE SHIP GUIDE 2018", with 15 colour photos, loosely inserted. . Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Other article - Through the eyes of the artist by David Eeles: The Railway Steamers, Part Three.

73315
MIDDLEMISS, Norman
Memorable Ships: EMPIRE WINDRUSH: Immigrant Ship and Trooper / Feature: CHINESE PASSENGER AND CONTAINER/PASSENGER (CONPAX) SHIPS / Forgotten Fleets: HARRIS & DIXON Ltd. / Port of Call: Papeete (in SHIPPING TODAY and YESTERDAY, No. 340)
$10.00 AUD

Tandy Media Publishing. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 2018. Edited by Nigel Lawrence. 68 PP. Contains 4 articles between pages: 18 to 32, and 52 to 63 with b/w and colour illustrations (House-Flag & Funnel and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Other article - Through the eyes of the artist by David Eeles: The Railway Steamers, Part Four.

73317
MIDDLEMISS, Norman
Memorable Ships: BENLOYAL: Ben Line Cargo-Liners / Feature: OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE INSTALLATION VESSELS / Forgotten Fleets: CHAPMAN & WILLAN: Carlton Steamship Co. / Port of Call: OSAKA and KOBE (in SHIPPING TODAY and YESTERDAY, No. 342)
$10.00 AUD

Tandy Media Publishing. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 2018. Edited by Nigel Lawrence. 68 PP. Contains 4 articles between pages: 18 to 32 and 46 to 59 with b/w and colour illustrations (House-Flag & Funnel and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Other article - Through the eyes of the artist by David Eeles: The Port of Hamburg, Part One.

73318
MIDDLEMISS, Norman
Memorable Ships: KRISTIANIAFJORD and BERGENSFJORD: Norwegian Amerika Line / Feature: WESTFAL-LARSEN A/S: A Bergen Shipowner / Forgotten Fleets: WATTS, WATTS & Co. Ltd, The Britain Steamship Co. / Port of Call: BERGEN (in SHIPPING TODAY and YESTERDAY, No. 343)
$10.00 AUD

Tandy Media Publishing. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 2018. Edited by Nigel Lawrence. 68 PP. Contains 4 articles between pages: 18 to 32 and 46 to 59 with b/w and colour illustrations (House-Flag & Funnel and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Other article - Through the eyes of the artist by David Eeles: The Port of Hamburg, Part Two.

73319
MIDDLEMISS, Norman
Memorable Ships: THE INTER-WAR P.& O.'C' CLASS PASSENGERS LINERS / Feature: PACIFIC CARRIERS LIMITED (PCL) OF SINGAPORE; The Kuok family Shipping Empire / Forgotten Fleets: THE EFFOA OF FINLAND / Port of Call: WELLINGTON (in SHIPPING TODAY and YESTERDAY, No. 344)
$10.00 AUD

Tandy Media Publishing. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 2018. Edited by Nigel Lawrence. 68 PP. Contains 4 articles between pages: 16 to 33 and 46 to 60 with b/w and colour illustrations (House-Flag & Funnel and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Other article - Through the eyes of the artist by David Eeles: The Port of Hamburg, Part Three.

73320
MIDDLEMISS, Norman
Memorable Ships: PORT JACKSON, of 1937 / Feature: MATSON LINES: The Hawaiian Shipping Company / Forgotten Fleets: THE HOG ISLANDERS: The Emergency American Ships of World War I / Port of Call: JACKSONVILLE AND FERNANDINA BEACH (in SHIPPING TODAY and YESTERDAY, No. 345)
$10.00 AUD

Tandy Media Publishing. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 2018. Edited by Nigel Lawrence. 68 PP. Contains 4 articles between pages: 18 to 30 and 48 to 60 with b/w and colour illustrations (House-Flag & Funnel and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Other article - Through the eyes of the artist by David Eeles: ELDER DEMPSTER - Part ONE; 1852-1930.

71969
MIGOT, André
THE LONELY SOUTH
$20.00 AUD

Travel Book Club. London. 1956. Reprint of the 1956 original published by Rupert Hart-Davis. 206 PP with 3 maps, plus 26 pages with 38 b/w photos. Fp: Author with Penguins. Hard cover. Occasional foxing. A very good copy. 22.3 x 14.5.

The author, a doctor attached to the French Polar expeditions, stayed for a year (in 1953) in Kerguelen and travelled to the Australian Antarctic base of Mawson in early 1954. Image shows the Title-page and Frontispiece.

73466
MOORE, Peter
ENDEAVOUR - The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
$20.00 AUD

Vintage Books / Penguin Random House. Sydney. 2018. 1st paperback edition. XII, 420 PP with 2 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 7 b/w and 25 colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780143780267

73431
MORRIS, Kenneth
GEORGE BASS IN WESTERN PORT, incorporating Geoge Bass & the convicts
$20.00 AUD

Bass Valley Historical Society. Bayswater, Vic. 1997. Hand numbered edition (No. 333). (2), 34 PP with 7 b/w illustrations by Libby Skidmore (1 portrait, 1 sketch and 5 maps). Stiff covers, illustration and title on front cover, staples. Near fine. 21 x 14.8.. 0959178724

50262
MOUROT, Suzanne & JONES, Paulette
THE GREAT SOUTHLAND, Treasures of the Mitchell and Dixson Libraries and Dixson Galleries
$25.00 AUD

Sun Academy Series. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5. 0725103345

Over 100 b/w or colour reproductions showing the extensive range of these magnificent collections.

31094
MUNDLE, Robert
SIR JAMES HARDY, An Adventurous Life
$15.00 AUD

Margaret Gee. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. VIII, 287 PP with Sir James Hardy's personal coat of arms E Moribus Sit Homo, plus 16 pages with 34 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 15.7. 1875574220

Sportsman, outstanding yachtsman, businessman, vigneron...

65729
MUNDLE, Robert
BLIGH: Master Mariner
$25.00 AUD

Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. XXXII, 368 PP with 6 maps (3 on double page), plus 8 pages with b/w and colour illustrations (facsimile of documents, etchings, paintings & watercolours). FEP: Point Venus, Tahiti. REP: The Providence and her tender Assistant. Hard cover, device and title in blind on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780733625060

71909
MURRAY ISLES
1991 CATALOGUE OF SERVICES & STOCK PLANS, Including complete plans for a 4.8 metre Plywood Rowing Dory
$20.00 AUD

Murray Isles Small Craft Designs. Kettering, Tas. 1991. 1991 edition. 59 & 18 ("Mullet Creek" Stitch & Tape Dory) PP with b/w illustrations: 14 set of plans and 16 "stock plans" on folded page. Soft covers, illustrated front, clear plastic front, spiral bound. Very good. 29.7 x 21.

73291
MUSKETT, Philip E.
THE ILLUSTRATED AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL GUIDE (in Two Volumes + special "Envelope")
$300.00 AUD

William Brooks & Co. Ltd. Sydney. 1903. 1st edition. Vol. I: LXXII, 506, (14 pages for the purpose of recording dates and particulars of sickness...) PP with 83 figures, plus 2 plates in colour: Frontispiece "Front view of the organs withinn the Chest and Abdomen" with transparency details / at end of Vol. I: Position of the Principal Arteries, Veins and Nerves of the body. Vol. 2: LVI, 558, (16 pages for records...) PP with 29 figures (84 to 113), plus 2 colour plates - Frontispiece: Back view of the organs with transparency details / at end of books: Mannequin or Coloured Figure showing position and shape of different organs. Booklet "The Female Organs of Generation ..." (2), 34 PP with 16 figures (114 to 130), plus FP (colour plate): "Internal View of a Woman with child" with transparency details. Soft covers, stitches, contained in a sealed envelope, loosely insertd. All illustrations by D. H. Souter. Modern binding: Half bound, Marbled boards, gilt devices and title on a leather spine with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine condition. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26.2 x 18.

71808
N/A
NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN CARGOES
$20.00 AUD

South Australian Stevedoring Company Ltd. Adelaide. c. 1930. 1st ed. 64 PP. Soft leather covers gilt title on front, thumbnail index. Covers with light wear and soiling, signature at top of page 1 and a few hand-written relevant notes on some pages, o/wise very good. Small format: 12 x 8.

From Apples & Alunite ... to...Zinc.

73505
N/A
THE YACHTING MONTHLY [Illustrated] - Volume I - Nos. 1 to VI - May to October
$200.00 AUD

The "Field" Office. London. 1906. 1st Ed. (IV) No.1: P. 1 to 84. Colour Fp: H.M. King Edward VII, Admiral of the Royal Yacht Squadron (drawn by Cecil Cutler). No.2: P. 85 to 160 and colour Fp: H.M. the Emperor William II, Commodore of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club. No.3: P.161 to P.242. Colour Fp: H.M. King Alfonso XIII, Patron of the Real Club Nautico. No.4: P. 243 to 328. Fp: The Marquis of Ormonde and the Duke of Leeds, Commodore and Vice-Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron. No.5: P. 329 to P. 414. Fp: Mr. Robert W.N. Young. No.6: P. 415 to P.496. Fp: Mr. W.P. Burton. All issues with b/w photos and illustrations, folded plans, sketches, some full-page, printed on superior quality paper. Includes an Index to the contents of all six numbers, listing Special Articles, Portrait Studies, Supplements, Chronicles of the Ancient Britons, New Yachts described and illustrated, Designs and Plans. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. A near fine copy of the scarce first Volume. 29 x 23.

73506
N/A
THE YACHTING AND BOATING MONTHLY [Illustrated] - Volume II - Nos. VII to XII - November 1906 - April 1907
$150.00 AUD

The "Field" Office. London. 1906-1907. 1st Ed. (IV), No.7: P. 1 to 78. Fp: Sir James Pender, Bart., Vice-Commodore R.T.Y.C. No.8: P79 to P.156. Fp: Mr. Myles B. Kennedy. No.9: (Now as The Yachting and Boating Monthly) P.157 to P.242. Fp: Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, Bart. No.10: P. 243 to P. 328. Fp: M. Albert Glandaz, Vice-President Y.C.F. No.11: P. 329 to P. 414. Fp: Mr. Augustus Manning, Vice-President Y.R.A. No.12: P. 415 to P.496. Fp: H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco. All issues with b/w photos and illustrations, folded plans, sketches, some full-page and printed on superior quality paper. Includes an Index to the contents of all six numbers, listing Special Articles, Portrait Studies, Supplements, Designs and Plans. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. A near fine copy of early editions. 29 x 23.

73561
N/A
THE YACHTING AND BOATING MONTHLY [Illustrated] - Volume III - Nos. XIII to XVIII - May 1907 - October 1907
$150.00 AUD

The "Field" Office. London. 1907. 1st Ed. (IV), 546 PP. No.13:: P. 1 to 82. Fp: Mr. R. E. Froude. No.14: P 83 to P.168. Fp: Mrs Turner-Farley. No.15: P.169 to P.262. Fp: Captain R.T. Dixon. No.16: P. 263 to P. 358. Fp: The Royal Yacht Squadron Sailing Committee. No.17: P; 359 to P. 452. Fp: The Earl of Dunraven, K.P. No.18: P. 453 to P.546. Fp: The Earl of Crawford, K.T. All issues with b/w photos and illustrations, folded plans, sketches, some full-page and printed on superior quality paper. Includes an Index to the contents of all six numbers, listing Special Articles, Portrait Studies, Supplements, Designs and Plans. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. A near fine copy of early editions. 29 x 23.

73562
N/A
THE YACHTING AND BOATING MONTHLY [Illustrated] - Volume IV - Nos. XIX to XXIV - November 1907 to April 1908
$150.00 AUD

The "Field" Office. London. 1908. 1st Ed. (IV), 456 PP. No.19: P. 1 to 82. Fp: Colonel R.G. Sharman-Crawford, DL. No.20: P 83 to P.164. Fp: Sir Thomas Lipton. No.21: P.165 to P.238. Fp: Mr. Kenneth M. Clark. No.22: P. 239 to P. 308. Fp: The Marquis of Ailsa. No.23: P; 309 to P. 382. Fp: Lord Howard de Walden. No.24: P. 383 to P. 456. Fp: Lord Desborough. All issues with b/w photos and illustrations, folded plans, sketches, some full-page and printed on superior quality paper. Includes an Index to the contents of all six numbers, listing Special Articles, Portrait Studies, Supplements, Designs and Plans. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title on front cover and spine. A near fine copy of early editions. 29 x 23.

73608
[NAVAL]
MEMORIA DAS ARMADAS / (CHUAN TUI PEI WANG LU) / MEMORANDUM OF THE FLEETS
$400.00 AUD

Instituto Cultural de Macau / Museu Maritimo de Macau / Comisão Territorial de Macau para as Comemoraçoes dos Descobrimentos Portugueses. Macau. 1995. 1st tri-lingual edition (Portuguese / Chinese / English) limited to 3500 copies. Introduction by Luis de Albuquerque, October 1979. 154 PP with 79 pages of facsimile of the manuscript and illustrations belonging to the Lisbon Academy of Science. Title page in b/w and 78 illustrated pages in colour of original Fleet List with accounts of the India Fleet in Portuguese. Cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine, contained in an illustrated slipcase. Fine. Scarce. 45.5 x 30.2 9723501724

73626
NAVANTIA
NAVANTIA PROFILE - Pacific 2010
$25.00 AUD

Navantia / c. Velasquez. Madrid. 2010. 1st Ed. Foreword by Aurelio Martinez Estévez, Chairman. 32 PP with Colour illustrations: 1 sketch map of Spain, 3 photos of Navantia shore establishements, 4 illustrated tables, 3 photos of personnel and 28 of Navy ships. Plus 7 laminated files with colour photo (7 on recto and 21 on verso) with characteristics. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 30 x 21.

File prepared for the PACIFIC 2010 Exhibition.

73523
NESDALE, Iris
ACTION STATIONS! - Tribal Destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy
$50.00 AUD

HMAS Warramunga Veterans' Association, South Australian Branch. Adelaide. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Vice-Admiral M. W. Hudson. X, (2), 206 PP with 3 maps, 9 line drawings and 145 b/w photos, plus 1 folded plan on general arrangement of the HMAS Arunta, at rear of book. Cloth cover, dj. A fine copy. Scarce. 25.3 x 17.5. 0949552011

Origin of this class of destroyer: HMAS Arunta, Warramunga, Bataan. Their WWII operations: Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Leyte Gulf, Lingayen & Suriago.... Post WWII.

30984
NIGHTINGALE, Tony
THE PACIFIC FORUM LINE - A commitment to regional shipping
$10.00 AUD

Clerestory Press. Christchurch, N.Z. 1998. 1st Ed. XVIII, 142 PP with 1 diagram, 3 maps, 5 ship's profiles and 64 b/w illustrations, plus 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Eps: Map of Pacific Forum Line world, We run the Pacific regularly. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0958370648

Published to mark PFL's first twenty years of regular and efficient shipping to the Pacific Island Nations.

51933
NOBLE, Captain John
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
$15.00 AUD

Currey O'Neil. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed. IX, 118 PP with 98 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Signed by the author on half-title page. Fine. 25 x 25. 0859021947

Collection of maritime photographs capturing the glorious and romantic days when sailors relied on wind and currents.

41508
NOBLE, Denis L.
LIFEBOAT SAILORS - The U.S. Coast Guard 's Small Boat Stations
$15.00 AUD

Brassey's. Washington. 2001. 1st Ed. XVI, 247 PP with 16 head pieces, 2 maps and 31 b/w photos. Title page: crossing the bar. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.8 x 15. 1574883364

72721
NORDHOFF, Charles & HALL, James Norman
THE BOUNTY TRILOGY
$20.00 AUD

Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1962. Wyeth edition, reprint of the 1940 original. (2), VI, 633 PP, plus 7 colour plates by N.C. Wyeth. Fp (in colour): H.M.S. Bounty. cover. FEP: The route of the "Bounty's Launch. REP: The route of the "Bounty". Hard covers, device on front cover, top edge tinted. Covers slightly soiled and with a piece missing at head of a repaired spine. Foxing spots on some pages and outside edges. Very good. 21.6 x 14.5.

Comprising the 3 volumes: Mutiny on the Bounty - Men against the Sea - Pitcairn's Island.

73407
O'DRISCOLL, Gerald
A DICTIONARY OF NAVAL SLANG
$30.00 AUD

Swift Press. London. 2021. 1st edition of the 1943 original publication by W.H. Allen. Foreword dated July 2021, by Richards Humphreys. 122 PP. Hard covers, pictorial front. New. 20.5 x 13.5. 9781800750654

72357
O'HARA BOOTH, Charles
THE JOURNAL OF CHARLES O'HARA BOOTH - Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement
$80.00 AUD

Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Sandy Bay, Tas. 1981. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. Edited with an Introduction by Dora Heard. XV, 298 PP with 1 map, plus 24 pages with 3 colour and 12 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Captain Charles O'Hara Booth. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 24.2 x 15.7. 0909479119

34093
O'NEILL, Richard
SUICIDE SQUADS OF WORLD WAR II. Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II: their Development and their Missions
$10.00 AUD

Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1981. 1st Australian edition. 296 PP with 6 maps, 18 tables, 60 diagrams and sketch-plans, and 130 b/w photos. FEP: Map of Japanese waters. REP: Map of the Channel and North Sea. Hard cover, dj. Foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 23.8 x 15.5. 0701816104

61896
OLIJNYK, Elynor Frances
CHARLES ROBBINS RN 1782 - 1805 - His Place in Maritime History
$40.00 AUD

Photographic Art Gallery. Adelaide. 2004 1st Ed. Preface by Jonathan Scott Wallis, Master Mariner. XVIII, 91 PP with portrait of the author on last page, 1 facsimile of manuscript, 2 maps and illustrations (3 tail pieces, 10 headpieces, and 6 drawings) by Rolf Christiansen. FEP: Crossing of Bass Strait. REP: Map of N/W corner of Tasmania. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 21.8 x 15.5. 0646434861

Raising the British flag on King Island.. Survey of Port Phillip Bay and King Island.

68805
ORIENT LINE
R. M. S. ORONSAY, 20,000 Tons
$35.00 AUD

Orient Line. London. c. 1925. Travel brochure. No pagination, 16 PP with 8 b/w illustrations (1 with Oronsay under steam , 1 of boat deck and 6 of accommodation). Soft cover, Crest and title on front cover, staples. Fine. 16.3 x 17.2.

Built 1925. Maiden voyage to Australia started 7 February 1925.

72197
ORIENT LINE & ANNAND, Douglas
S.S. "ORONTES" - Menus "Impressions of Racecourses" (set of 7)
$120.00 AUD

Orient Line. London. 1957. Complete set of 7 folded Menus, on board S.S. Orontes, November 1957. "Impressions of Racecourses". Front cover, colour illustrations by Douglas Annand / details on back cover / inside, Dinner Menu. Very light foxing. Near fine. 25.3 x 17.

Front covers - Aintree (The Grand National) / Ascot (Royal Ascot) / Flemington (Melbourne Cup) / Picnic Meeting (bush festival throughout Australia) / Point to Point (English equivalent to the Australian Picnic Race) / Racing at Sea (Epsom) / Randwick (Sydney).

72989
[PACIFIC WAR]
CORAL SEA "50" COMMEMORATION
$20.00 AUD

The Australia-United States Coral Sea Commemorative Council, Inc. Sydney. 1992. Illustrated folder containing 9 Items: " The Battle of the Coral Sea" - a short history " / "Logo", / "Charter" / "' Media background" (2 pages), "Program of Events": 20 pages / Message from the Prime Minister of Australia and the Ambassador of the United States of America / President Bush addresses Australian Parliament / Map of Sydney Harbour for the RAN / USN Sail Pass / Folded poster (Recto: HMAS Australia under attack in the Coral Sea, May 1842 / Verso: Mapin colour). Fine condition. Format folder: 31 x 21.5.

69083
PADFIELD, Peter
THE TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN
$25.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 318 PP with table & diagrams, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, Typescript note pasted down on inside front cover indicating details of the Californian and it's position when torpedoed. Covers lightly soiled with light shelf wear, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.

The author disproves the theory upheld by two Courts of Inquiry, that the Leyland liner "Californian" was within sight of the disaster which 'beset' the Titanic.

71905
PARKASH, Samuel & RIGBY, Malcolm (editor)
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
$35.00 AUD

American Meteorological Society. Washington, DC. 1965. June 1965 edition, in the Meteorogical and Geoastrophysical Abstracts series. (4), XIII, 122 PP. Soft covers, title on front cover, staples. Covers have a few light marks and initials. Initials at top of Title Page and Contents Page. Near fine. 27.7 x 21.5.

474 entries.

68569
PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE
MACQUARIE ISLAND
$20.00 AUD

Parks & Wildlife Service. Hobart. 2001. 1st Ed. 36 PP with 1 map with location map (in colour), 4 b/w and 50 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Rear cover with a crease, o/wise contents fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.7. 0724662731

68502
PETERSWALD, Rob and Rosemary
BEYOND THE SHORE: Sailing, Seafood, Wine ... East Coast Australia
$15.00 AUD

Maroceania II Enterprises. Hobart. 2004. 1st Ed. 252 PP with b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.7 x 25.2. 9780646435619

Yacht "Oceania II", on the East coast of Australia: Port Davey in Tasmania to the top of Cape York Peninsula.

66460
PHILLIPS, Alan
AROUND-THE-WORLD CRUISING GUIDE - A Detailed Three to Seven Year Itinerary for your Voyage around the Globe
$75.00 AUD

Coral Coast Printers. Brisbane. 2006. 1st Ed. (2), 346 PP with colour illustrations (From experiences gained on "Wallaby Creek"maps & sketch maps, plans & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 20.7. 0977587908

From his experience gained cruising his "Wallaby Creek".

68721
PLOWMAN, Peter
ACROSS THE SEA TO WAR - Australian and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through two World Wars to Korea and Vietnam
$15.00 AUD

Rosenberg. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed. 504 PP with 188 b/w photos. Fp: Moravian departs Woolloomooloo wharf on 17 January 1900. Card covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 22.5 x 15. 9781877058066

73533
POOLMAN, Kenneth
THE KELLY
$30.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1954. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. XII, 13-219, (5 adv.) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 18 bw photos. Fp: "More Like a Submarine", H.M.S. Kelly returning to harbour after being torpedoed in the North Sea. Eps: Map of the Mediterranean Sea. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has part of the spine missing and is in a protective sleeve. Foxing on prelims and on outside page edges, o/wise contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.

The record of HMS Kelly by her only captain. A destroyer which fought on many fronts: North Sea, Norwegian waters, Malta, then Crete where she was sunk on 23rd May 1941.

69058
POTTER, Bill (editor)
THE MAHOGANY SHIP: Relic or Legend? - Proceedings of the Second Australian Symposium on the Mahogany Ship
$25.00 AUD

Mahogany Ship Committee / Warnambool Institute Press. Warrnambool. 1987. 1st Ed. X, 130 PP with tables, figures and bw photos. Pictorial soft cover. Newspaper clipping: "The MLahogany Ship Mystery, by Bernard Wallace, in "Western District Visitor's News" (Autumn 1992), Warnambool, loosely inserted. Fine. 29.6 x 20.8. 0949759090

Symposium organized in September 1985. 13 papers on Java la Grande, coastal science and the Mahogany ship, remote sensing in shipwreck archaeology...

70556
POUSI, Eveliina (editor)
DISCOVER HELSINKI 2002
$10.00 AUD

Sterling Julkaisut Oy Ltd. Helsinki. 2002. 5th edition. With a message from Eva-Riitta Siitonen, Lord Mayor. 96 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 25 x 25.

Visitor information ... Historic Suomenlinna... Museums & Art Treasures ...

57160
PREBBLE, John
THE DARIEN DISASTER
$10.00 AUD

Secker & Warburg. London. 1968. 1st Ed. (X), 366 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 b/w plates. Eps (in colour): A large draught of the Gulf of Dazrien. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0436380062

The Colony of Darien on the Isthmus of Panama.

16144
QUARM, Roger & WILCOX, Scott
MASTERS OF THE SEA, British Marine Watercolours
$15.00 AUD

Phaidon Press. Oxford. 1987. 1st Ed. 95, (1 index) PP with 87 b/w & colour paintings. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 28 x 24. 9780714824918

Catalogue published for the exhibition: Masters of the Sea. British Marine Watercolours 1650-1930. Watercolours from Alexander through Chambers, Constable, Cooke, Moore, Turner... to Van de Velde.

41176
R.A.N., Serving Personnel of the
H.M.A.S. MK II
$20.00 AUD

Royal Australian Navy / Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 1954. Reprint of the 1943 original. 200 PP with 3 maps, 44 b/w line drawings, 32 pages with b/w photos & 31 colour illust. Fp: HMAS Australia, Guadalcanal, 8th August, 1942. Illustrated endpapers. Decorated cloth cover, dj (scarce). Near fine. 28 x 22.

71949
RAHS
JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol. V, Part V, 1919
$20.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1919. Edited by S. H. Smith & William Dixon. 201-248 PP, plus frontispiece: portrait of William Timothy Cape. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 20.8 x 13.

Paper read before the Society, 26th November 1918: William Timothy Cape and other Pioneers of Secondary education in Australia, by S. H. Smith. Other article: Notes on Australian Artists (Part I), by William Dixon. Image lists all contents and illustrations.

72912
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Volume X, Part IV, 1924
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1924 P. 169-232 with 1 plan of Orange. Stapled soft covers. Rust marks on staple holes, o/wise near fine. 21.2 x 13.5.

Rare pictures relative to Australasia, by William Dixson. Sydney and district in 1824, as described by a French visitor on board "La Coquille". Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

72914
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Volume X, Part II, 1924
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1924. P. 57-120 with 8 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers. Rust marks on staple holes, o/wise near fine. 21.2 x 13.5.

The Valley of the Tank Stream, by J. F. Campbell. First British Flag Unfurled at Sydney, .. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

72918
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part V, 1931
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P.289- 336 with 1 map of New Britain. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.

Notes and Comments on "New Light on the Discovery of Australia", by Henry N. Stevens, by William Dixon. William Dampier on New Britain, by Bertram Calcutt. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

72919
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part II, 1931
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P. 89-144 with 2 plans. Stapled soft covers a little browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.

Centenary of the Sydney Morning Herald. Historical Notes on Government House Domain, Sydney . History of Sydney Botanic Garden, by J.H. Maiden. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

72921
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVIII, Part II, 1932
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1932. P.49-100 plus 1 map. Soft covers are fragile and reinforced. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.

Development of an Australian Social Type. The Kunderang Ravines of New England, by J.F. Campbell. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

72922
RAHS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVIII, Part V, 1932
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1932. P. 209-272 with 4 b/w photo, plus 1 folded map. Stapled soft covers a littled browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.

Hartley - The Gateway to the West, by William Foster. Early Settlement on the Lower Nepean River - Penrith to the Hawkesbury River by J.F. Campbell. Excursion to Cockatoo Island.. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.

72835
REYNOLDS, L. C.
GUNBOAT 658
$5.00 AUD

New English Library. London. 1974. 1st NEL paperback edition of the 1955 original. 192 PP with 4 maps. Pictorial soft covers. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Very good. 17.8 x 10.8.

Operations of a motor gunboat in the Mediterranean from the fall of Tunisia to the German surrender.

58288
RHSV
THE VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL - Volume 52
$25.00 AUD

Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1981. Volume 52, Nos. 1 (February 1981) to 4 (November 1981), Issues 203 to 206. (1 content), 288 PP. Edited by G. FEATHERSTONE. Soft cover. Volumes 1 and 2 with signs of dampness on lower margin. Very good set. 21.6 x 14.8.

40258
RICE, Dr. Tony
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY - Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration
$50.00 AUD

Scriptum Editions / The Natural History Museum. London. 2000. 1st Ed., foreword by Dr. Neil Chalmers, and introduction by Dr. David Bellamy. 335 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, device in blind on front cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 32.2 x 27.8. 9781902686028

Voyage to Jamaica 1687-1689, by Sir Hans Sloane... Pacific crossing 1768-1771, by James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks & Sydney Parkinson. Return to the South Seas 1772-1775, by James Cook, Johann and George Forster... Fathoming the Deep 1872-1876, the Challenger expedition.

66268
RICHARDS, Rhys
CAPTAIN CHARLES BAYLEY: Whaling Master 1813-1857
$20.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2014. 1st Ed. No. 65 in the Roebuck series. VI, 54 PP with 5 tables, 5 b/w illustrations (1 portrait, 2 paintings, 2 maps with insets and 4 photos) and colour illustrations (1 graph, 2 photos and 6 paintings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 9780992366025

72532
RICHARDS, Rhys
SEALING IN THE SOUTHERN OCEANS 1788-1833
$70.00 AUD

Paremata Press. Wellington. 2010. 1st Ed. 278 PP with 7 tables, & facsimile of log book page, 1 b/w photo, 2 engravings and 18 maps (some with insert). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.9 x 17.5. 9780473164805

Collection of 12 articles, chapters and notes written from 1977 to 2006. Chapter 2: Prince Edward, Marion and Crozet islands. Chapter 3: St.Paul and Amsterdam Islands. Chapter 4: Desolation Island. Chapter 5: Kerguelen and Heard Islands. Chapter 6: Macquarie Island and Antipodes Islands. Chapter 7: First foreign sealing in New Zealand waters. Chapter 8: Murihiku and the Southern Islands of New Zealand. Chapter 9: The Auckland Islands. Chapter 10: Foreign sealing at the Chatham Islands. Chapter 11: Searching for Nimrod Islands. Chapter 12: Sealing in the Antarctic in 1821.

69193
RICHARDSON, Garry
SAIL & STEAM: Trading Vessels to Georges Bay, 1833-1958
$75.00 AUD

Forty South Publishing / Bay of Fires Images and Publishing. Hobart. 2014. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Colin Denny. 311 PP with b/w, duotone and colour illustrations (documents, sketches, plans, paintings and photos). Fp (in colour): The Ketch "St Helens", by Bill Mearns (2013). Laminated pictorial boards. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 9780992551360

68703
RIESENBERG, Felix
CAPE HORN
$20.00 AUD

Readers Union. London. 1950. Reprint of the 1941 edition. (8), 240 PP with 1 map, plus 12 b/w plates. FEP: Drake's Course from the Strait of Magellan to Elizabeth Is. REP: Strait of Magellan, Tierra de Fuego and Cape Horn. Decorated cloth cover with a few light fleck spots on front, o/wise near fine. Small format: 19.7 x 12.

Sub-title: "The story of the Cape Horn regions from the days of the first discoverers through the glorious age of sail including the author's own experiences; wherein an important geographical discovery is made".

64795
ROBINSON, Bill
A BERTH TO BERMUDA
$20.00 AUD

D. Van Nostrand. New York. 1961 1st Ed. XV, 120 PP with b/w photos throughout. Eps: Plans and sail plan. Hard cover, title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 25 x 19.8.

16333
RONALD, Peter
EXPLORING SHIPWRECKS OF WESTERN VICTORIA
$15.00 AUD

Author / Osburne Group. Warrnambool. c. 1990 1st Ed. 52 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 18.8 x 24. 0731619226

Pictorial records of the wreck sites of: La Bella, Falls of Halladale, Schomberg, Loch Ard, ..

20958
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
AUSTRALIAN SEAPOWER - CRUISERS
$20.00 AUD

Topmill. Sydney. 1996 ? 1st Ed. No.4 in the Australian Seapower Photofile series. 80 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial card covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 1876043601

71743
ROYAL MOTOR YACHT CLUB OF N.S.W.
OFFICIAL 1960 YEAR BOOK
$10.00 AUD

Royal Motor Yacht Club. Point Piper, Sydney. 1960. Foreword by Mrs. F.N. Hannan. 134, (2) PP with advertisiong material and b/w illustrations and 4 pages with colour illustrations: Flags (Burgees & Ensigns), Weather Forecast Signals, International Code of Signals & International Numbers & Garden Island Weather Signals. Soft covers, colour ilustration on front cover. Covers lightly soiled. Blue ink stain/smudge on part of title page, slight ageing of paper, o/wise contents near fine. 18.3 x 12.2.

RMYC NSW based in Double Bay.

50336
ROYAL NAVY
THE ROYAL NAVY TODAY (in The Illustrated London News)
$15.00 AUD

The Illustrated London News. London. 1971. No. 6869, Volume 258, 27th March 1971. 38 PP. Contains articles between P.17 to 21 with 2 b/w photos, 1 cutaway of HMS Norfolk (at centrefold), and 49 profiles. Pictorial soft cover (Bow of HMS Eastbourne). Very good. Large format: 35.5 x 27.5.

71984
RUDDER PUBLISHING
THE RUDDER - 1948 - Volume 64, No. 11
$5.00 AUD

The Rudder Publishing Company. New York. 1948. Vol. 64, No. 11, November 1948. Edited by Boris Lauer-Leonardi. 88 PP with advertising material and b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Copy lacking the soft covers. Good. 29.8 x 23.5.

Down the Mexican coast, by Miguel E. Abed. The coast to Acapulco, by R. J. Carstarphen. Some hints on Model Making, by L. Francis Herreshoff.

72169
RUSH, Philip R.
AUSTRALIAN POEMS THAT WOULD DELIGHT A DUCK
$15.00 AUD

Philip R. Rush Pty Ltd. Glen Huon, Tasmania. 2011. 1st edition November 2011, limited to 1500 copies. VI, 74 PP with 17 b/w illustrations by Syd Woon. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 21 x 14.7. 9780975813478

73193
SACKS, Margaret A. (Editor)
THE WAY 79 "WHO IS WHO" - Synoptic Biographies of Western Australians
$40.00 AUD

Crawley Publishers Pty Ltd. Nedlands, W.A. 1980. 1st Ed.. Foreword by G.C. Mackinnon. (10), 437 PP (on 2 columns) with hundreds of portraits. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. Old sellotape marks on endpapers, o/wise contents near fine. 25 x 19. 094984800X

Published at the time of the 150th Anniversary of Western Australia.

73219
SAHIB, (LESAGE, Louis Ernest & GOURDON, Christian )
LA FREGATE L'INCOMPRISE, Voyage autour du Monde
$125.00 AUD

Léon Vanier, Libraire-Editeur. Paris. 1882. Reprint of the 1876 original. (4), 212 PP with hundreds of drawings by Louis Ernest Lesage (a.k.a. Sahib). Vignette illustrating half title page and title page. Marbled endpapers. Half bound with marbled boards, and gilt devices and title on leather spine with 5 raised bands. Foxing. Contents near fine. French text. Image shows the title-page. 33 x 25.

Life on board a French warship in the 1860s. L'Incomprise sailed from Brest on the Atlantic Ocean to Toulon on the Mediterranean Sea, via Lisbon, Gibraltar, Toulon, Algiers, Canary Islands, Senegal, Rio de Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope ... India, China, Japan, New Caledonia, Tahiti and Cape Horn.

72973
SAYERS, Ken W. and POLMAR, Norman
ANCHORS AND ATOMS - The United States Navy Today
$15.00 AUD

David McKay Co. Inc. New York. 1974. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral E. R. Zumwalt, Jr. XIV, 177 PP with 5 figures (tables) and b/w illustrations: 13 headpieces, 6 sketch plans, 7 artworks, paintings and photos. Cloth covers, title on a lightly sunned spine. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 23.3 x 15.5. 0679202781

73003
SCHEELITE MINE
KING ISLAND SCHEELITE MINE: SAFETY RULES - UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS
$30.00 AUD

King Island Scheelite Mine. Grassy, King Island. 1977. 2nd revised edition in May 1977, of the July 1972 original Introduction by C. E. C. Wearne, Manager of Operations. (2), 83 PP with 22 b/w illustrations / cartoons. Stiff covers, staples. Fine. Small format: 14.3 x 10.2.

67989
SCHILDER, Gunter (editor)
VOYAGE TO THE GREAT SOUTH LAND, Willem de Vlamingh 1696-1697
$50.00 AUD

Royal Australian Historical Society / The Australian Bank. Sydney. 1985. 1st English edition of the 1976 Dutch original, translated by C. De Heer. X, 259 PP, plus 28 pages with 38 b/w & colour illustrations. Fp (folded): Outline chart of the Western Coast of the South Land. FEP: Atlantic & Indian Ocean with route of Willem de Vlamingh in 1696-97. REP: First printed chart referring to De Vlamingh's Voyage, 1753. Hard cover (simile leather), gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 16.5. 0909954097

Last large scale voyage of exploration undertaken by the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) to Tristan da Cunha, St. Paul, Amsterdam and the West Coast of Australia.

41694
SCHÖN, Heinz
OSTSEE' 45: Menschen - Schiffe - Schicksale
$20.00 AUD

Motorbuch Verlag. Stuttgart. 1985. 1st Ed. 696 PP with 200 b/w illustrations (most of them photographs). Hard cover, gilt device on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. German text. 23.5 x 15.5. 3879438560

1945 in the Baltic Sea: People - Ships - Destiny.

73070
SCOTT, Keith
The Australian Geographic book of ANTARCTICA
$15.00 AUD

Australian Geographic Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dick Smith. 153 PP, (7 bibliography, picture credits & Index) with close to 200 illustrations: 32 b/w (menus, drawings and photos) and around 1650 colour illustrations (6 maps, 11 "whale" artworks and 148 photos). Pictorial stiff wrappers. Copy lacking the "detailed map lift-out" called for on front cover, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 28. 1862760101

16758
SEARS, Lieutenant J. S. (editor)
AUSTRALIA'S NAVY 1993-94
$10.00 AUD

R.A.N. / Dept. of Defence. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. 124 PP with b/w & colour illust. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21.

The R.A.N. in Cambodia and Somalia. W.A. Base., development, exercises..

72686
SHAPIRO, H. L.
THE HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY, The Story of Pitcairn through six generations
$30.00 AUD

Simon and Schuster. New York. 1936. 2nd printing. XV, 329 PP, plus 8 pages with 18 b/w photos. Endpapers: map of the Pacific, with an insert of Pitcairn Island. Illustrated cloth cover and spine. Covers soiled and speckled. Spine sunned. Slight ageing of paper. Contents are clean and still a very good reading copy. 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.

51633
SHINEBERG, Dorothy
THEY CAME FOR SANDALWOOD
$20.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. 299 PP with facsimile of the title page of the Log of the Louisa and 2 maps, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Andrew Cheyne's plan of the Isle of Pines, 1842. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 22 x 14.5.

A study of the sandalwood trade in the South West Pacific 1830-1865.

64647
SHIPLOVERS' SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
THE ANNUAL DOG WATCH - No. 22
$10.00 AUD

Shiplovers' Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1965. Issue No. 22 of The Journal of the Shiplovers' Society of Victoria. Edited by STRÖM, S.A.E. & GOLDFINCH T.E.. Foreword by Captain S. J. Benson. 136 PP with 25 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover with rubbed and chipped spine, o/wise near fine. 21 x 14.5.

The Rhine port of both Basels, by S.A.E. Strom.

32579
SLOCUM, Captain Joshua
SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD

Dover. New York. c. 1975. Reissue of the 1956 Dover original (reprint of the 1900 edition by Century Co). Introduction by Geoffrey Mott-Smith. XXIV, 294, (2 blank), (16 publications) PP with 1 head piece & 65 b/w illustrations by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Fp: The Spray in Australian waters. Pictorial stiff covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 20.2 x 13.6. 0486203263

20914
SMYTH, Dacre
HISTORIC SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA - A Third Book of Paintings, Poetry and Prose
$15.00 AUD

Author. Melbourne. 1982. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral Lionel Lockwood. 139 PP comprising 82 col. paintings. Eps: Location map of historic Australian ships. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Signed on title page by the author. 20.8 x 22. 0959519831

73478
SOBEL, Dava
LONGITUDE - The true Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
$10.00 AUD

Fourth Estate. London. c. 2000. 12th printing of the 1996 UK edition. (VIII), 184 PP with 15 chapter openers (headpieces). Fp: Chronometer H-4, A.D. 1759. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 19.5 x 12. 9781857025024

67332
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH
MARINER'S MIRROR [THE] - The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 88, 2002, Nos. 1 to 4
$20.00 AUD

Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 2002. Edited by Professor Richard Harding. (2), VIII, 512 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.2.

No. 1: Anchor Stone from Baga Waters, Goa, by Sila Tripati. Nelson and the Nile, by Marianne Czisnik. No. 2: Type of Ships on the Indian Ocean, by Norbert Weismann. No. 3: Dutch whaling after WWII, by Jaap R. Bruijn. No. 4: The West Indian Sailing Canoe, by Michael F. Doran.

22766
SOUTER, Gavin
MOSMAN, A History
$35.00 AUD

Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1995. Reprint of the 1994 original. XII, 378 PP with 4 plans, and 18 b/w illust., plus 16 pages with 48 b/w plates, and 4 pages with 7 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 15.8. 9780522845914

Whaling and careening of ships in the early years to a modern suburb on north shore, Sydney.

51174
STANHOPE, The Right Honourable Earl, ANDERSON, R. C. et al. (editors)
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM - CATALOGUE
$20.00 AUD

The Trustees, National Maritime Museum. Greenwich. 1947. 1st Ed. VII, 230 PP, plus 2 folded plans of the museum and 24 b/w plates. Soft cover. Very good. 24.2 x 18.

33483
STARZECKA, Dorota Czarkowska & CRANSTONE, B. A. L.
THE SOLOMON ISLANDERS
$20.00 AUD

British Museum. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 2 maps, 7 drawings and 26 b/w photos. Half title page: Wood food bowl in the form of a frigate bird, Ugi. Fp: figure representing a sea spirit, San Cristobal. Pictorial card covers (slightly rubbed on back cover). Near fine. 21 x 21. 071411358X

72891
STREPP, Hans G.
HOW TO USE RADAR
$15.00 AUD

A Sailmate Book / Nautical Books. London. 1990. 1st English edition. 128 PP with over 60 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 9780713633245

73356
STROBEL, Dietrich & DAME, Günter
MIT MTW ZUR SEE: Schiffbau in Wismar
$25.00 AUD

Hintstorff Verlag. Rostock. 1996. 1st Ed. Foreword (in Geman and English) by Oswald Müller. 220 PP with tables, b/w illustrations (artworks, plans of shipyards, documents, photos ...) and 74 colour photos. Captions of the illustration in German and English). Afterword and conclusions (in German and English) by the authors. Eps: plans of the shipyard in colour (FEP: in 1991 / REP: in 2000). Hard covers, dj. German text. Fine (mint condition). 27 x 21. 3356006606

Shipbuilding on the river Wismar with MTW / Mathias - Thesen - Werft Gmbh., shipyard..

73540
SWINTON, Stuart
P.G. TAYLOR - The Last of the Great Air Pioneers
$25.00 AUD

Australian Military History Publications. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. X, 116 PP with b/w illustrations (7 maps and 40 documents & photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 9781876439415

50494
SYME, Marten Adlington
SHIPPING ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES - VICTORIAN PORTS - Vol. 2 - 1846-1855
$45.00 AUD

Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1987. 1st Ed., No. 39 in the Roebuck series. X, 830 PP with 12 charts & maps, and 27 b/w illustrations. FEP: Western approach to Bass Strait. REP: Bass Strait. Hard cover, dj. Errata slip loosely inserted. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 0909434328

37076
TAYLOR, Leighton, TRICAS, Timothy C., DEACON, Kevin, et al.. (editors)
SHARKS & RAYS
$15.00 AUD

Reader's Digest (Australia). Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. 288 PP with a few b/w and hundreds of colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 16.8. 9780864490940

73596
TAYLOR, Mike (editor)
WORLD ATLAS OF TRAVEL
$45.00 AUD

Thomas Cook Publishing / Columbus Press Ltd. Peterborough, UK. 1998. 1st Ed. VIII, 216 PP with colour illustrations: graphs (pages IV to VII) and maps (pages1 to 168). Hard covers, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 1900341557

First atlas ever published by Thomas Cook, after 125 years of existence.

19236
THOMAS, David A.
WITH ENSIGNS FLYING, The Story of H.M. Destroyers at War 1939-1945
$50.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 216 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 15 bw photos. FEP: maps of the Narvik Fiords, and of Eastern Mediterranean. REP: maps of the Russian convoy route and of the Battle of the Java Sea. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, nice price-clipped dust jacket. A few small rubs on endpapers and a little light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise contents near fine. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.2.

73472
TOLL, Ian W.
SIX FRIGATES - The Epic History of the Funding of the U.S. Navy
$25.00 AUD

W. W. Norton & Co. New York. 2006. Paperback edition. 6th printing of the 2006 original. XII, (4), 560 PP with 3 head-pieces, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Title spread: USS President entering the port of Marseille. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0780393330328

42020
TOOLEY, R. V. & BRICKER, Charles
LANDMARKS OF MAPMAKING - An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers
$45.00 AUD

Phaidon. Oxford. 1976. 1st UK edition of the 1968 original published by Elsevier-Sequoia. Preface by Gerald Roe Crone. 276 PP with over 350 illustrations, including 6 illustrations in four colours, 4 fold-out maps printed in two colours and 10 fold-out maps in facsimile printed in six colours. FEP: Decoration of the title page of a Dutch edition of the Mariners Guide (1592). REP: Engraving from Theory and Practice of the Geometric Quadrant (1594), by Levinus Hulsius. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title and devices on a cloth spine, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 40 x 28. 0714817589

55841
TOOLEY, Ronald Vere, SCOTT, Valerie G.,
THE MAP COLLECTOR - Issues Nos. 1 to 74
$900.00 AUD

Map Collector Publications Ltd. Tring, UK. 1977 to 1996. Complete run of the 74 issues published. Issue No. 1: December 1977 with 42 PP to issue No. 74: Spring 1996 with 72 PP. 74 issues with a total of 5430 PP, plus 5 index (1-20 , 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, & 51-60) with 90 PP. Each issue with original illustrated soft covers. Spine of 4 issues with minor damage, o/wise a fine set. 29.9 x 21. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.

73166
TOYNBEE, Arnold
MANKIND AND MOTHER EARTH - A Narrative History of the World
$15.00 AUD

Book Club Associate / Oxford University Press. London. 1979. 1st BCA edition of the 1976 original. XII, 641, (18) PP with 15 maps. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Very good. 23.4 x 14.5.

72194
TRETHEWIE, Harold, GREY, Pat & MAGUIRE Gill (editors)
CIRCULAR HEAD "Local History Journal" Vol. 3, No. 2
$15.00 AUD

Circular Head Historical Society. Smithton, Tasmania. 1990. January 1990 edition. 44 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, photos). Pictorial stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 14.8.

The Advance Party / Van Diemen's Land Company by Helen M. Dunford. The wreck of the "Kermandie", by W.H. Pelling. ... Locomotives used on the Circular Head Tramways. ...

35454
US NAVY
UNITED STATES NAVAL CHRONOLOGY, WORLD WAR II - Prepared in the Naval History Division Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department
$15.00 AUD

U.S.G.P.O. Washington. 1955. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral D. B. Duncan. Preface by Rear Admiral John B. Hefferman. VII, 214 PP. FEP: Map of Pacific War Theatre. REP: North Atlantic Ocean and European Theatre. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing. Very good. 23 x 14.6.

73497
VACHER, Polly
WINGS AROUND THE WORLD
$70.00 AUD

Grub Street. London. 2006. 1st Ed. Foreword by Charles Swithinbank, and Appreciation by Queen Noor of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. 160 PP with colour illustrations: 4 maps and 88 photos. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note to previous owner on title page, dated and signed by the author. Fine. 25 x 18. 9781904943549

The exhilarating story of one woman's epic flight from the North Pole to Antarctica.

18762
VAN DER VAT, Dan
THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN, World War II, The U.S.-Japanese Naval War 1941-1945
$15.00 AUD

Touchstone Book. New York. 1992. Paperback reprint of the 1991 original. 430 PP with 8 maps, plus 24 pages with 57 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 23.4 x 15.5. 0671792172

73100
Van Der WAL, Onne
WIND AND WATER: Boating Photographs from around the World
$40.00 AUD

Bulfinch Press. New York. 2004. 1st Ed. 168 PP with 112 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Repaired small tear at lower part of back cover of dust jacket, o/wise a near fine copy. Oblong: 28.5 x 30.5. 0821228447

73379
van DISHOECK, Evert (compiler)
STAD AMSTERDAM - Sailtraining Clipper "Stad Amsterdam" : November 2016 - January 2017
$25.00 AUD

Rederij Clipper Stad Amsterdam. Amsterdam. 2016. 2016 edition. 66 PP with 22 b/w illustrations (1 map, diagrams, 4 pages with pinrail diagrams, prints, paintings and plans) and 38 colour illustrations (colour plans and photos). Soft covers, illustrated front cover with clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Front cover and first leaves with small stain. Copy signed by the Compiler/Director of Rederij Clipper Stad Amsterdam. Contents very good. 29.5 x 21.

Manual of practical information for sail training on board.

72372
VAN KEULEN, Gérard
2 "Hempel" reprints: Carte de la Nouvelle France / Carte de Curaçao
$10.00 AUD

Hempel Peintures Marine France S.A. Paris. c. 1990 2 frameable charts. Reprints from the 1734 original by Gérard Van Keulen, published in 1734 in "Lichtende Zee-Fackel" in Amsterdam, and held at "La Biblothèque Royale, Copenhague, Danemark". Oblong format: 31 x 35.5.

Nouvelle France: Canada and Louisiana- Curaçao, Netherland West Indies.

73514
WAKE-WALKER, Edward
LOST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
$65.00 AUD

Lifeboats / Sutton Publishing. Stroud, Gloucestershire. 2004. 1st Ed. XIV, 176 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map of the British Isles with location of Lifeboat stations, 1 drawing ""Rocket and Breeches buoy equipment", 2 sets of plans of lifeboats and 134 b/w photos. Inside back cover: profiles of 15 Lifeboats in the RNLI Fleet. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 25.5. 9780750937184

73536
WALSH, Barbara
FORGOTTEN AVIATOR: HUBERT LATHAM, A High-Flying Gentleman
$30.00 AUD

Tempus Publishing. Stroud, UK. 2007. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 100 b/w illustrations: cartoon, documents, drawings, photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Note to previous owner at top of half title page. Near fine. 24.6 x 17. 9780752443188

French aviator, crossing of the Channel on "Antoinette" in 1909 ... Death in French Equatorial Africa in June 1912 ??

53119
WARD, R. Gerard (editor)
AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC 1790-1870, A history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers, etc. [in 8 volumes]
$450.00 AUD

The Gregg Press. Ridgewood, N.J., USA. 1966 & 1967. 1st edition with b/w illustrations. Introduction by Ernest S. Dodge. Vol. 1: (4), 316 PP with 35 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Advertising sailing card of the clipper ship "Robin Hood". Vol. 2: XIII, 596 PP with 56 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: U.S. Sloop of war "Portsmouth". Vol. 3: XIII, 655 PP with 59 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Advertising card of the clipper ship "Anglo Saxon". Vol. 4: XIII, 695 PP with 52 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: A Marquesan Chief. Vol. 5: XIII, 578 PP with 41 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Man of the New Hebrides. Vol. 6: XI, 572 PP with 32 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Chief of Rarotonga. Vol. 7: XIII, 545 PP with 31 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Chief Poulaho, from Tonga. Vol. 8: VII, 295 PP. Fp: Barque "Mermaid". Volume 1 in a slipcase containing also 8 large folded charts. All volumes in original decorated cloth cover. Occasional foxing. Very good complete set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26.5 x 17.5.

Volume 1: Abaiang to Baker. Volume 2: Bampton reefs to Futuna. Volume 3: Gaferut to Kwajalein. Volume 4: Ladd's Island to Motu Iti. Volume 5: Namoluk to Pingelap. Volume 6: Pitcairn to Tabiteuea. Volume 7: Tahiti to Zephyr shoal. Volume 8: Appendix and Index. 8 Charts: Cape Horn to Cape Corrientes. Pacific Ocean: S.E. sheet (Cook Island to Easter Island). Pacific Ocean / S.W. sheet (New Guinea/Australia to Tonga). Pacific Ocean / N.W. sheet (Japan to Philippines). Archipel des Tuamotu. Tonga or Friendly Islands. Fiji Islands. Cape Corrientes to Kodiak Island.

43665
WARRING, R. H.
THE NEW GLASS FIBRE BOOK
$5.00 AUD

Model & Allied Publications. London. 1975. 4th impression of the 1971 original. 128 PP with over 9 graphs, 15 tables and 110 figures. Illustrated soft covers with a lithe insect damage near spine. Bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover, o/wise contents near fine. 21.6 x 15.. 0853440484

73047
WAWN, Andrew (editor)
THE ICELAND JOURNAL OF HENRY HOLLAND, 1810
$10.00 AUD

Hakluyt Society. London. 1987. 1st Ed., No. 168 in the Second series. XVIII, 342 PP with 1 portrait, 3 maps, and 26 field drawings and maps by Henry Holland. Cloth cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Signature of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 0904180220

20490
WHALL, W. B.
THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION
$25.00 AUD

Benjamin Blom. New York. 1972. Reissue of the 1930 original. Edited by Francis E. McMurtrie, with a foreword by Rear-Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans. XII, 244 PP with 16 Sea Flags, plus 64 pages with 72 b/w illustrations. Fp: After Trafalgar, from a painting by Frank Brangwyn. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Very good. 21.2 x 13.7.

Prince Henry and the early Portuguese navigators, the Elizabethan navigators... Development of the ship: sail & steam. Sea flags, aids to navigation.

72865
WHINNEY, Bob
THE U-BOAT PERIL - A Fight for Survival
$10.00 AUD

Cassell Military Classics. London. 1999. Reprint of the 1998 paperback edition of the 1986 original. 160 PP with 1 Insignia of U-305, 1 map on double page, 7 maps and 2 plans of HMS Wanderer, plus 32 pages with 59 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page, o/wise fine. 19.7 x 12.8. 9780304351329

67235
WILSON, Andrew
OLD SEA DOGS OF TASMANIA
$60.00 AUD

Paul County / Sunny South Publishing. Hobart. 2013. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 1 coloured postcard and b/w photos. Pictorial hard covers, title on front board and spine, ribbon page-marker. Signed by the author on page 3. Fine. 26.7 x 22. 9780980635508

68240
WILSON, Andrew
OLD SEA DOGS OF TASMANIA - Book 2
$75.00 AUD

Everything Pty. Ltd. Hobart. 2016. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sean Langman, and introduction by Peter Campbell. 260 PP (5 of these pages are double-folded) with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial hard covers, title on front board and spine. Signed by the author on page 3. Fine. 26.7 x 22. 9780992303631

73549
WILSON, David M.
THE LOST PHOTOGRAPHS OF CAPTAIN SCOTT
$30.00 AUD

Little, Brown and Company / Hachette UK Company. London. 2011. 1st UK edition. 192 PP with 1 map and b/w illustrations (sketches, photos). Title spread: On the Ferrar Glacier: Spring Journey, September 1911. Eps: Writing from Captain Scott's diary. Hard cover, dj. Small bump on dust jacket near spine, o/wise book and jacket in fine (as new) condition. 28.7 x 26. 9781408703007

Previously unseen images from the legendary Antarctic Expedition.

62311
WINTER, Barbara
H.M.A.S. SYDNEY - Fact, Fantasy and Fraud
$30.00 AUD

Boolarong. Brisbane. 1984. 1st Ed. VIII, 282 PP with 4 maps, 4 line drawings and 32 b/w photos. REP: Map of the Indian Ocean. Pictorial laminated boards. Occasional foxing. Name and address of previous owner on title-page, o/wise a fine copy. 24.5 x 15.5. 0908175728

A complete investigation on the sinking of HMAS Sydney by the Kormoran on 19th November 1941, off the WA Coast.

53736
WOOD, Dr. Elizabeth M.
REEF CORALS OF THE WORLD: Biology and Field Guide
$30.00 AUD

T. F. H. Neptune City. N.J. 1983. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w illustrations, 90 colour photos, and 110 distribution maps. Pictorial. laminated boards. Faint foxing on endpapers, o/wise fine. 28.4 x 22.2. 0876668090

Formation and forms of coral reefs, geological aspects, biology of coral,...

20456
YONGE, C.M.
THE SEA SHORE
$15.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1949. 1st Ed. in The New Naturalist series. XVI, 311 PP with 87 text figures plus 32 plates with 62 bw photos and 40 plates with 61 colour photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket (price-clipped and chipped and in a protective sleeve). Dedicatory note on FFEP. A little light foxing on first and last pages, o/wise contents near fine. 22.2 x 15.5.

72825
ZIEGLER, Oswald (editor)
AUSTRALIA 200 - The Official Book of the New South Wales Celebrations commemorating the Bi-Centenary of the Landing of Lieutenant James Cook, R.N., at Botany Bay on 29th April 1770
$70.00 AUD

Oswald Ziegler Enterprises Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed. Forewords by John Gordon, Prime Minister of Australia and R. A. Askin, Premier of New South Wales. 424 PP with over 500 illustrations maps, pictures, facsimiles of documents (250 of them in full colour). Cloth cover, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 30.5 x 25.

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ZIEGLER, Philip
MOUNTBATTEN - The Official Biography
$5.00 AUD

Fontana / Collins. Glasgow. 1986. 1st paperback edition of the 1985 original. Ed. 786 PP with 1 family tree, 1 Organization of Command and 2 maps, plus 24 pages with 53 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front. Spine sunned and with creases. Faint foxing. Name of previous owners on inside front cover and ex libris stamp on half title page. Very good. 19.5 x 13. 9780006370475