Other Navies & General Sea Warfare

12372
ADAMS, Thomas A.
IRISH NAVAL SERVICE
$30.00 AUD

World Ship Society. Kendal, Cumbria. 1982. 1st Ed. Monograph No. 4. 72 PP with 1 graph, 1 map, 4 plans, 12 bw photos and 2 pages with Naval Service Flags and Insignia of the Irish Naval Service. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0905617215

History of the Republic of Ireland Navy, since the birth of the Irish Free State on 15th January 1922.

30738
ANDREWS, Phillip & ENGEL, Leonard (editors)
NAVY YEARBOOK
$20.00 AUD

Duell, Sloan and Pearce. New York. 1944. 1st Ed. (VIII), 376 PP with 435 photos between pages 25 and 192) and 42 pages of advertising material in the data section (between pages 193 and 365). Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and worn. Near fine. Oblong: 23.5 x 31.

In words and photographs: a vivid, memorable picture of the navies of the world in 1944. Pages 1-24: Naval chronology WWII. Pages 25-104: 167 b/w photographs of the US Navy... Pages 193-365: Data section. Pages 366-376: Index.

34847
ARPS, Th., GADOW, R., HEYE H., & Ritter von NIEDERMAYER, D.
KLEINE WEHRGEOGRAPHIE DES WELTMEERES - Eine Einführung in Beiträgen
$10.00 AUD

Verlag von E.G. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1938. 1st Ed., Volume 6 in the Das Meer series. VIII, 136 PP with 23 maps, plus 8 plates with 15 b/w photos. Cloth cover. Very good. German text in gothic script. 22.8 x 15.

Brief history of world power and geography (in a military perspective).

65295
AUGEY, Capitaine de Vaisseau Pierre
SOUVENIRS D'UN MARIN DE CINQ "REPUBLIQUES"
$10.00 AUD

Rennes. 2002. Editions du Gerfaut. 1st Ed. 378, (6) PP with drawings by Capitaine de Vaisseau Max-Pierre Moulin., and 5 b/w photos by the author. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Very good. 22 x 14.5. 291462204X

Joined in 1939 the French Navy of the (3rd) French Republic, World War II with Etat Français / Vichy France, and the Free French, then 4th and 5th (French) Republic.

55488
BACHMANN, Hans R.
DE POLSKE UNDERVANDSBADE og deres indflydelse pa den tyske sokrigsforelse i Ostersoen under septemberfelttoket 1939
$10.00 AUD

Fr. G. Knudtzons Bogtrykkeri A/S Copenhagen. 1969. Extract from Tidsskrift for Sovaesen. 281-292 & 329-350 PP with 1 diagram, 2 maps and 8 b/w photos. Soft cover. Dedicatory note to Jürg Meister, historian dated and signed by the author. Danish text. Near fine. 20 x 12.5.

Submarines of Poland during WWII.

37244
BACKER DIRKS, F.C.
DE GOUVERNEMENTS MARINE, In Het Voormalige Nederlands-Indie 1861-1949 (in haar verschillende tijdsperioden geschets, I)
$30.00 AUD

De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1985. 1st Ed. Volume I: 336 PP with 6 maps and 198 b/w illust. Many facsimiles of documents in texts. Hard cover, dj (closed tears). Near fine. Dutch text. 30 x 23. 9022818829

The government Navy in the former Dutch East Indies between 1861 and the end of the 19th century. Various administrations and services such as hydrography and transport. Chapters on former Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya).

37245
BACKER DIRKS, F.C.
DE GOUVERNEMENTS MARINE, In Het Voormalige Nederlands-Indie 1861-1949 (in haar verschillende tijdsperioden geschests, II)
$30.00 AUD

De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1986. 1st Ed. Volume II: 359 PP with 6 maps and 281 b/w illust. Many facsimiles of documents in texts. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Dutch text. 30 x 23. 9022818837

The government Navy in the former Dutch East Indies between 1894 and 1925. Various administrations and services such as hydrography and transport. Chapters on former Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya).

65239
BARNETT, Joel
"RISE OF THE GERMAN NAVY AFTER 1918" - Data Notes
$5.00 AUD

World Ship Society - Queensland. Brisbane. 1969. Special publication 1/69, April 1969. (2), 10 PP (typescript) with 2 tables. Soft cover, staples. Ageing of paper. Very good. Foolscap: 32 x 20.8.

71139
BARRATT, Glynn
THE RUSSIAN NAVY AND AUSTRALIA TO 1825, The Days Before Suspicion
$20.00 AUD

Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Ed. V, 118 PP with 2 maps, plus 4 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0725602287

A survey of the Russians' early visits to Australia: social, naval & scientific activities.

56205
BATEMAN, Sam (editor)
MARITIME COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: Current Situation and Prospects
$20.00 AUD

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1999. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 132. XXII, 193 PP with 2 maps and 3 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731527593

Papers presented at the 5th meeting of the working group held in Kuala Lumpur, 17 & 18 november 1998.

56206
BATEMAN, Sam and BATES, Stephen (editors)
REGIONAL MARITIME MANAGEMENT & SECURITY
$20.00 AUD

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 124. XXIV, 209 PP with 3 maps and 4 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731527305

Papers presented at the 3rd meeting of the working group held in Bangkok, 30 May - 1 June 1997.

56150
BATEMAN, Sam and SHERWOOD, Dick (editors)
STRATEGIC CHANGE AND NAVAL ROLES: Issues for a Medium Naval Power
$30.00 AUD

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 102. (10), 216 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731518624

Proceedings of the Maritime Strategic issues workshop held at HMAS Creswell, November 1992.

35130
BATHE, Dr. Rolf
DER KAMPF UM DIE NORDSEE - Chronik des Luft= und Seekrieges im Winter 1939/40 und des Norwegischen Feldzuges
$15.00 AUD

Gerhard Stalling. Berlin. 1941. 1st Ed. 310, (2) PP with 7 maps, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w photos. FEP: Map of the North Sea. Hard cover. Ageing of paper, stamp of previous owner on half title page. Very good. German text in Gothic script. 20.5 x 13.

German chronicle of the war at sea and in the air during the Winter 1939/40 and the campaign in Norway.

34341
BAYER v. BAYERSBURG, Heinrich
SCHIFF VERLASSEN! 1914-1918
$5.00 AUD

Bergland Verlag. Wien. 1965. 1st Ed. Volume 316/318 in the Osterreich-Reihe series. 132, (4 adv.) PP, plus 10 pages with 14 b/w illust. Soft cover. German text. Foxing. Near fine. 17.8 x 11.5.

The forsaken Fleet 1914-1918.

44141
BEKKER, C. D.
SWASTIKA AT SEA - The Struggle and Destruction of the German Navy, 1939-1945
$5.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1953. 1st Ed. 207 PP with 1 map, plus 28 pages with 48 b/w photos. Fp: 2 views of the ramming of Leipzig by Prinz Eugen. Cloth cover. Spine sunned and foxed, hinge of back cover starting. Lacks the free fly of front endpaper. Foxing. Good reading copy. 22 x 14.

The war at sea, seen through German eyes.

38047
BENNETT, Geoffrey
NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
$5.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1974. 1st paperback edition, in the Grand Strategy series. X, 308 PP with 14 maps and diagrams, plus 24 pages with 54 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed). Spine creased, ageing of paper, foxing spots on edges. Good reading copy. 19.7 x 12.8. 0330238620

52473
BENNETT, Geoffrey
NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
$5.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1983. Reprint of the 1974 paperback edition, in the Grand Strategy series. X, 308 PP with 14 maps and diagrams, plus 8 pages with 18 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19.7 x 13. 0330238620

47508
BENOIST, Marc
MARINE ET MARINS DE FRANCE
$10.00 AUD

J. De Gigord. Paris. c. 1939. 1st Ed., in the Tout pour Tous series. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (1 cut-away, 11 profiles, drawings, engravings, sketch plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Name of previous owner inside front cover, o/wise very good. French text. 18.5 x 13.8.

French Navy prior World War II.

43829
BEQUIGNON, Jean-Yves & ROZEN, André
L'ETOILE ET LA BELLE POULE
$30.00 AUD

Institut Océanographique. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 5 facsimile of documents, 17 b/w photos, and colour illustrations (diagrams, 1 map, 1 chart, 8 pages of plans and cutaway, photos), plus 1 folded plan (recto: sailing plan, and verso: line drawngs). Laminated pictorial stiff covers. Fine. French text. 28 x 21.3. 2903581258

Training schooners of the French Navy, built 1932.

18125
BISHOP, Chris (editor)
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD SEA POWER
$10.00 AUD

Temple Press/Aerospace. London. 1989. Reprint of the 1988 original. 319 PP with 14 3-view and cutaway drawings, 250 colour profiles and over 500 photographs in text. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 30.2 x 23. 0600332748

35170
BLOHM + VOSS
MEKO 360 Frigate, Short Description
$5.00 AUD

Blohm + Voss A.G. Hamburg. 1983. 1st Ed. Brochure: 4 PP with 1 plan, 1 profile, and 4 colour photos. Pictorial cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

34868
BOELEN, Vice-Admiral J. Jzn
HET MERKWAARDIG DAGBOEK VAN EEN NEDELANDSCH ZEEMAN 1795-1860, Naar het Memoriaal van Vice-Admiraal J. BOELEN Jzn - De Napoleontische Tijd
$15.00 AUD

J. H. De Bussy. Amsterdam. 1942. 1st edition, adapted by Kapt. J. Oderwald. 216 PP with 6 text illustrations, plus 1 b/w plate (Portrait of Jacobus Boelen). Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, illustrated front cover. Signature on front endpaper, ageing of paper, o/wise very good. Dutch text. 23.5 x 15.8.

Diaries of a remarkable Dutch seamen, Vice Admiral Jacobus Boelen, during the Napoleonic period.

44112
BOOTH, Ken
LAW, FORCE AND DIPLOMACY AT SEA
$10.00 AUD

George Allen & Unwin. London. 1985. 1st paperback edition. XIV, 231 PP with 4 maps and 7 tables, plus 1 folded map. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on half title page, small chip on lower front cover, o/wise fine. 23.4 x 15.4. 0043410286

32766
BRADFORD, James C. (editor)
ADMIRALS OF THE NEW STEEL NAVY: Makers of the American Naval Tradition 1880-1930
$25.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1990. 1st printing. XXII, (2), 427, (3) PP with 44 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A little browning of paper around edges, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 0870210033

Biographies of 13 American Admirals. Stephen B. Luce: Intellectual leader of the new navy, by John B. Hattendorf. Alfred Thayer Mahan: Christian expansionist, navalist and historian, by Rober Seager II...

42526
BREYER, Siegfried & POLMAR, Norman
GUIDE TO THE SOVIET NAVY
$10.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1977. 2nd edition of the 1970 English original. X, 610 PP with tables and b/w illust. (maps, plans, profiles, photos...). Fp: VTOL Carrier of the Kiev class. Eps: Naval review. Cloth cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 16 x 23.5. 0870212389

22515
BROWNLEE, Walter
WARRIOR, The First Modern Battleship
$15.00 AUD

Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1990. 4th printing of the 1985 original, in the "Cambridge Introduction to the History" series. 48 PP with b/w illustrations by John E. Wigston (engravings, photos, sketches & plans). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new). Oblong: 20.2 x 21.2. 0521275792

Launched 1860 as a reply to the previous building of "Gloire" designed by Dupuy de Lome as a threat to the Royal Navy. Her brief career (1871-1884), her demise, and her restoration from 1979.

12064
BRUCE, Robert H.
INDIAN OCEAN NAVIES, Technological Advances and Regional Security
$15.00 AUD

Centre for Indian Ocean Regional Studies. Perth. 1990. 1st Ed. No. 4 in Studies in Indian Ocean Maritime Affairs series. VIII, 150 PP with tables. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0908155638

13216
BRUCE, Robert H. (editor)
THE MODERN INDIAN NAVY AND THE INDIAN OCEAN, Developments and Implications
$20.00 AUD

Centre for Indian Ocean Regional Studies. Perth. 1989. 1st Ed. No. 2 in Studies in Indian Ocean Maritime Affairs series X, 168 PP with 1 map and 6 tables in text. Card cover. Fine. 20.5 x 14.5. 0908155638

India and its Ocean, foundations of India Naval power, sources of this expansion, implications for Pakistan and Australia.

18648
CARRISON, Daniel J.
THE NAVY FROM WOOD TO STEEL 1860-1890
$10.00 AUD

Franklin Watts. New York. 1965. 1st Ed. in the Watts Histories of the United States Navy series. (6), 186 PP plus 16 pages with 34 bw illust. Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped and rubbed. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24 x 16.4.

The Civil War and the actions of the Union and Confederacy Navies. Subsequent changes in naval strategy and rise of steel hulls in combat.

40511
CHACK, Paul
LA ROUTE DES INDES SAUVEE PAR LA FRANCE
$10.00 AUD

Les Editions de France. Paris. 1937. 1st Ed., in the Marins à la Bataille series. (4), 122 PP with 2 maps and 12 drawings by Haffner. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, few foxing spots on edges. Very good. French text. 19 x 14.

In February 1915, the guns of 2 French warships Requin and d'Entrecasteaux repelled an attack by Turkish forces on the Suez Canal (The Way to India).

56188
CHACK, Paul
PETITS NAVIRES GRANDES LUTTES
$10.00 AUD

Les Editions de France. Paris. 1938. 1st Ed., in collection Marins à la Bataille. 117, (3) PP with 1 battle diagram, 3 maps and 15 b/w illustrations by Haffner. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper. French text. Very good. 19 x 14.

52721
CHANTRAIN, J. P., PIED, R. & SMEETS, R.
THE GERMAN SAILOR IN WORLD WAR TWO
$5.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1995. 1st Ed., in the Fotofax series Soldiers. No pagination, 48 PP with 84 b/w photos and 10 pages with over 34 drawings (uniforms, insignias, badges). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 18.8. 1854090380

42438
CHAPELLE, Howard I.
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SAILING NAVY - The Ships and their Development
$50.00 AUD

Bonanza Books. New York. c. 1970. Reprint (H) of the 1949 original published by W. W. Norton. XXII, 558 PP with 155 text figures, plus 16 plates with half-tone reproduction and 64 pages with 32 double-page plans. Fp (in colour): Painting of President & Endymion. Hard cover with cloth spine, decorated front cover, dj a little rubbed. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26 x 19.5.

Full story of the building of the U.S. sailing navy from colonial times to the last all-sail man-of-war, prior to the Civil War.

43535
CHEEMA, Pervaiz Iqbal
CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: Pakistan's Interests and Choices
$10.00 AUD

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1980. 1st Ed., No. 23 in the Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence series. (10), 80 PP with 1 map. Soft cover. Fine. 20.3 x 14.2. 0908160836

45540
CHEEMA, Pervaiz Iqbal
THE ARMED FORCES OF PAKISTAN
$15.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. in The Armed Forces of Asia series. XX, 220 PP with 3 tables and 4 maps. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 1865081191

Defense administration. Evolution of the Army, Navy, Air Force...

16894
COINDREAU, Roger
ECOLE NAVALE
$60.00 AUD

Livre d'Or. Casablanca. c.1959. 1st Ed., in the series Livres d'Or des Grandes Ecoles Françaises. 162 PP with 190 b/w illust. (photos, paintings, cartoons, ...). Marbled eps. Gilt-engraved hard cover & spine. Spine damaged at foot and repaired, o/wise internally near fine. French text. 31.8 x 24.5.

Story of the different colleges which have, since 1627, prepared the officers to serve the King's and later the Nation's Navy. The French equivalent to Dartmouth or the Annapolis Naval Institute.

67686
CORRE, Bruno
MARINES, L'Album de Photos d'un Medecin de Marine du Second Empire
$45.00 AUD

Editions de la Presse de la Manche. Cherbourg. 1990. 1st Ed. 152 PP with b/w photos & drawings. Blue cloth cover with dj Dust jacket is a little soiled, o/wise near fine. French text. 32 x 23.5. 2878070445

The author was a doctor with the French Navy. Between 1858 & 1869, he took photos of the dockyards, shipyards, ports, vessels and the people manning them.

43836
CORSINI, Capitano di Vascello Andrea & RESTANY, Pierre
AMERIGO VESPUCCI
$40.00 AUD

Dante Bigji. Milano. 1986. Revised edition of the 1983 original. 173 PP with colour photographs between pages 27 and 171. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, dj. Fine. Italian and English text. 30.5 x 24.5.

Three-masted sailing ship (with auxiliary engine power) of the Italian Navy. Launched 22 February 1931 at the Italian naval dockyard of Castellammare di Stabia.

22619
COSTELLO, J. & HUGHES, Terry
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
$10.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (6), 314 PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos, tables). Title-page: Convoy. FEP: Mappemonde of WWII. REP: Type VIIc U-Boat. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 26 x 19.6. 00021604810

The battle which spanned all the war years in European waters.

22872
COSTELLO, J. & HUGHES, Terry
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
$5.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (6), 314 PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos, tables). Title-page: Convoy. FEP: Mappemonde of WWII. REP: Type VIIc U-Boat. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Sellotape marks on endpapers, and stamp of previous owner on title page. Very good. 26 x 19.6. 021604810

The battle which spanned all the war years in European waters.

22873
COSTELLO, J. & HUGHES, Terry
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
$10.00 AUD

Book Club Associates. London. 1977 Reprint of the 1977 original. (6), 314 PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos, tables). Title-page: Convoy. FEP: Mappemonde of WWII. REP: Type VIIc U-Boat. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 26 x 19.6.

The battle which spanned all the war years in European waters.

44692
CRAWFORD, Steve
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WARSHIPS - Surface Combatants of Today's Navies
$10.00 AUD

Brown Partworks. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 90 colour photos, and 90 detailed specifications tables. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22.4. 184044097X

Each of these 90 warships with displacement, dimensions, performance and summary of career.

46602
DARRIEUS, Amiral Henri & QUEGUINER, Capitaine de Vaisseau Jean
HISTORIQUE DE LA MARINE FRANCAISE (Novembre 1942 -Aôut 1945)
$20.00 AUD

Editions l'Ancre de Marine. St. Malo. 1994. 1st Ed. (2), VI, 335, (5) PP with tables, 1 facsimile of document, and 12 maps, plus 48 pages with 76 b/w illustrations (drawings, photos). Pictorial stiff cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. French text. 22 x 15.5. 2905970804

The French Navy between 1942 (Anglo-American landing in North Africa) and 1945 (Victory - Japan).

12067
DAVIS, Ralph
ENGLISH MERCHANT SHIPPING AND ANGLO-DUTCH RIVALRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
$30.00 AUD

HMSO / National Maritime Museum. London. 1975. 1st Ed. (4), 36 PP with 24 b/w illustrations (charts, paintings ...). FEP: Dutch whale ships in the Arctic. REP: Fitting out. Stiff covers, Illustrated front cover. Fine. Oblong: 18.2. x 24.2. 0118807617

England's maritime expansion. The ships, the seamen, the politics.

46031
DE BOER, G. J. (editor)
MARITIEM JAARBOEK - 1e Editie
$10.00 AUD

Uitgeverij De Alk. Alkmaar. 1985. 1st Ed. 208 PP with tables, plans and b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Dutch text. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2. 9060139364

Dutch Merchant Navy. Royal Dutch Navy...

72985
DE GRAMONT, Sanche
THE FRENCH - Portrait of a People
$10.00 AUD

G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 1969. Book of the Month Club, Inc.. 480 PP. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22 x 15.5.

30755
DE KAY, James Tertius
THE BATTLE OF STONINGTON - Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of 1812
$15.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1990. 1st printing. XI, (5), 216, (6) PP with 4 maps and 15 b/w illust. Fp: The Battle of Stonington from an English commemorative water jug. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0870212796

August 1814: attempt by the British to destroy the seaport of Stonington, Connecticut.

59157
DE MONFREID, Henry
ILES ET CÔTES DE FRANCE
$55.00 AUD

Editions IMA. Paris. 1957. 1st Ed. 103, (1) PP with 58 b/w text illustrations and 51 colour illustrations tipped in. Fp (in colour): Le phare d'Armen, sentinelle avancée de la France Maritime. Hard cover, gilt title and decoration on front cover, gilt title on spine. Spine and top of front cover, sunned. Few foxing spots, o/wise near fine. 29 x 20.5.

18739
DELAGE, Edmond
SUR TOUS LES OCEANS 1939-1943
$15.00 AUD

Arthaud. Paris. 1943. 1st Ed. 218 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Soft cover. Very good. French text. 18.7 x 12.6.

Unusual view of the first 3 years of WWII, written in occupied France & giving the point of view of the Germans or Japanese.

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.

66362
DESTREMAU, Maxime
REGARDS PACIFIQUES: Campagne de Polynésie (1913-1915)
$25.00 AUD

A La Frontière. Lardy, France. 2014. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 1 b/w photos, 1 facsimile of a letter to his wife and 12 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches) by the author. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 22 x 15 9782918665038

32 letters (never published) to his wife. Crossing from France to Sydney, via Suez Canal, on the passenger ship Calédonien. Joining the French warship Zélée. Crossing: Sydney, Nouméa, Wallis Island, Tahiti. Cruising French Polynesia. WWI and defence of Papeete against the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau ...

46710
DO, Kiem & KANE, Jane
COUNTERPART, A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War
$20.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1998. 1st printing. (14), 233, (5) PP, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.8. 1557501815

Ecole Navale in Brest. Fights in South Vietnam against communists ... Exodus after the fall of Saigon in April 1975.

16957
DU MOULIN DE LABARTHETE, Jean
DES MARINS DANS LA TOURMENTE (Temoignages)
$10.00 AUD

N.E.L. Paris. 1990. 1st Ed. 155 PP, plus 4 pages with 5 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with a light crease. Faint foxing. French text. Near fine. 21 x 14.

The tragic experiences of a French Naval Officer caught during WWII between the Vichy regime, the Free French and the war against the Germans.

65762
DUVIC, G.-O.
SUFFREN ET LA CAMPAGNE DES INDES
$20.00 AUD

Librairie Larousse. Paris. 1952. 1st Ed. in "Contes et Gestes Héroiques" series. 144 PP with 58 b/w illustrations (head pieces, tail pieces, text), plus 4 plates with 4 colour illustrations. All illustrations by Maurice Toussaint. Hard cover, illustrated front. Copy lacking the free fly of front endpaper and with name of previous owner on half title page. French text. Very good. 19.5 x 14.2.

Anglo French wars in India and the Indian Ocean.

32739
DYALL, Valentine
A FLOOD OF MUTINY
$10.00 AUD

Hutchinson. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 222 PP. Cloth cover, dj (chipped). Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper and short dedicatory note. Faint foxing, o/wise very good. 20.4 x 13.5.

The Indian Mutiny of 1857. Battleship Potemkin. Mutiny on the Bounty...

44362
DÖNITZ, Karl
DEUTSCHE STRATEGIE ZUR SEE IM ZWEITEN WELTKRIEG - Die Antworten des Grossadmirals auf 40 Fragen
$5.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe. Frankfurt am Main. 1970. 1st German translation of the 1963 French original La Guerre en 40 Questions. 230, (2) PP. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. German text. 20.5 x 13. 3763751009

German strategy at sea during World War II, in 40 questions/answers.

74274
EDWARDS, Peter J.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE
$40.00 AUD

Pen & Sword Aviation. Barnsley, Yorkshire. 2010. 1st Ed. (6), 346 PP with tables and 10 maps, plus 32 pages with 60 b/w photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (mint condition). 24 x 16. 9781848843073

18659
FAIRHALL, David
RUSSIA LOOKS TO THE SEA - A Study of the Expansion of Soviet Maritime Power
$10.00 AUD

Andre Deutsch. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 287 PP with 6 figures (5 maps) & 42 tables, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Hard cover. Image shows title-page. Light foxing mostly around page edges. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.6. 0233962247

Expansion of merchant shipping, fishing fleets, oceanographic research, as well as naval operations with overseas bases or floating support.

53138
FINAMORE, Daniel & TROMPARENT, Hélène
RENDEZ-VOUS WITH THE SEA. The Glory of the French Maritime Tradition
$10.00 AUD

Peabody Essex Museum. Salem, Mass. 2002. 1st Ed. Introduction and acknowledgments by Dan L. Monroe. Foreword by Contre-Amiral Georges Prud'homme. X, (2), 76 PP with 90 colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Bateaux de Pêche (Fishing Boats), 1840. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 32.3 x 24. 0883891239

44078
FISHER-BLANCHET, Inez & LARA, Oruno D.
CAPITAINE DE VAISSEAU MORTENOL - Croisières et Campagnes de Guerre 1882-1915
$40.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. & Centre de Recherche Caraïbes-Amériques. Paris, 2001. 1st Ed. 442, (2) PP with tables, plus 52 pages with 5 maps and 47 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2747515540

French naval officer of West Indian origin, born in Guadeloupe, and his career in the French Navy. Actions in West Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean, Indochina... Between 1915 and 1919, in charge of the Anti Aircraft defence of Paris...

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.

68914
FRANCE LIBRE
AU SERVICE DE LA FRANCE - 1940 / 1944
$25.00 AUD

Comité Français de la Liberation Nationale. Algiers. 1944. 1st edition. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, flags and insignias, photos ...). Inside front cover: facsimile message of Charles de Gaulle of 18th June 1940. Pictorial soft cover. Covers rubbed and with small part missing at top of back cover. French text. Very good. Scarce. Oblong: 17.8 x 24.

Last entry relating the capture of Belvedere, on the Gustav Line.

35499
FRENCH NAVY
MARINE NATIONALE
$10.00 AUD

Service Presse Information de la Marine. Paris. c. 1964. 1st Ed. 124 PP with b/w and colour illust. (sketches, plans, photos of warships & planes, drawings of flags & uniforms). Illustrated card cover. Small rubbed patches on front cover, o/wise near fine. French text. Oblong: 12 x 20.5.

State of the French Navy in 1964.

47723
FRENCH NAVY
LA MARINE NATIONALE - Dossier d'Information Marine 1995
$25.00 AUD

Etat-Major de la Marine. Paris. c. 1995. 1st Ed. (2), 77 PP with colour illustrations (10 graphs, 6 tables, 8 maps and 27 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.7 x 21.

The French Navy of 1995. Naval forces in European waters, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific.

72614
GANNON, Michael
OPERATION DRUMBEAT - The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II
$15.00 AUD

Harper Perennial. New York. 1991. 1st paperback edition of the 1990 original. XXII, 490 PP with 1 cutaway on double page of type IXB U-Boat and 3 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 34 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 20.3 x 13.6. 97800609208832

52011
GARDINER, Robert & PRESTON, Antony (editors)
CAMERA AT SEA 1939-45
$15.00 AUD

Bay Books. Sydney. 1978. 1st Australian 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 few pages. Near fine. 31.2 x 22. 0858352400

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

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

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

72768
GARNERAY, Louis
SEAMAN GARNERAY - Voyages, Aventures et Combats
$40.00 AUD

Argyll Publishing. Argyll, Scotland. 2003. 1st English edition, translated by Roland Wilson. 285, (3) PP with 43 b/w illustrations (1 map of Mauritius, 1 facsimile of a document, 3 portraits & 18 diagrams in margin, and 20 engravings). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781902831633

Voyages in the Indian Ocean, naval war with corsairs such as Surcouf while based at Ile de France (Mauritius)... Marine painter... Prisoner of war on British pontoons...

52309
GAYTAN, Jose Fernandez
BANDERAS DE LA MARINA DE ESPAÑA
$20.00 AUD

Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval / Museo Naval. Madrid. 1985. 1st Ed. 40 PP with 1 b/w and 22 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spanish text. Fine. Oblong: 15.2 x 20.8.

Published for the Bicentennial of the Flag of the Spanish Navy (28th May, 1785).

32135
GERLACH, A. J. A.
NEERLANDS HELDENFEITEN IN OOST-INDIË, Bewerkt Naar Les Fastes Militaires des Indes Orientales. (Three volumes bound in one)
$150.00 AUD

Joh Ijkema. The Hague. 1876. 1st Ed. Volume I: (4), 395, 34 PP, plus 2 plates. Volume II: (4), 322, 48 PP, plus 1 plate. Volume III: (4), 302, 48 PP, plus 2 plates. Four large folded maps at the end of book. Half bound, raised bands, gilt title on spine. Some foxing. Near fine. Dutch text. 24.6 x 16.2.

Military events and feats by Netherland troops (V.O.C. or National) in their East Indies (Indonesia).

35147
GERMAN NAVY
MARINE KALENDER DER DDR 1974
$5.00 AUD

Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Berlin. 1973. 1st Ed. Edited by Klaus KRUMSIEG & Reiner WACHS. 240 PP with maps, tables and b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. German text. 20 x 14.

The Naval Calendar of the German Democratic Republic. Red Navy. 25 years of People Mercantile Marine. The Battle for Heligoland...

35148
GERMAN NAVY
MARINE KALENDER DER DDR 1978
$5.00 AUD

Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Berlin. 1977. 1st Ed. Edited by Klaus KRUMSIEG & Reiner WACHS. 240 PP with maps, tables and b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. German text. 20 x 14.

The Naval Calendar of the German Democratic Republic. The Battle of the Falklands. The French Navy. Icebreakers under the hammer and sickle flag....

35149
GERMAN NAVY
MARINE KALENDER DER DDR 1979
$5.00 AUD

Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Berlin. 1978. 1st Ed. Edited by Klaus KRUMSIEG. 240 PP with maps, tables and b/w & colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. German text. 20 x 14.

The Naval Calendar of the German Democratic Republic. Merchant ships under sail. The Italian Navy. The port of Rotterdam. War at sea and Vietnam...

35150
GERMAN NAVY
MARINE KALENDER DER DDR 1980
$5.00 AUD

Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Berlin. 1979. 1st Ed. Edited by Klaus KRUMSIEG. 240 PP with maps, tables and b/w & colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. German text. 20 x 14.

The Naval Calendar of the German Democratic Republic. Russian seamen and Stalingrad. Sail training in Socialist countries. Operations in April 1940 against Norway...

53970
GERMAN NAVY POSTER
SCHIFFE UND FLUGZEUGE DER MARINE
$15.00 AUD

Bundesministerium der Verteidigung. Köln. 1964. Folded poster (oblong: 68 x 93) of September 1964, by Soldat und Technik. 6 colour illustrations (German Navy Ensign and 5 photos), 6 b/w illustrations of flags or pennants and 28 windows with plans and details of warships and planes of the German Navy. Folded format: 34 x 23.5.

Ships and Planes of the German Navy.

51432
GILLBANKS, Captain R. J., Hydrographer
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY - INTERNATIONAL NAVAL REVIEW AT AUCKLAND OCTOBER 1991
$20.00 AUD

Hydrographic Office of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Auckland. 1991. Chart in colour, Auckland Harbour; RNZN 50 with with track of Naval Review. Fine. 55.5 x 70.

International Naval Review... to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

31748
GOLDRICK, James
NO EASY ANSWERS - The Development of the Navies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka 1945-1996
$20.00 AUD

Lancer Publishing. New Dehli. 1997. 1st Ed., No. 2 in the Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs series. XIII, 225 PP with 5 tables, 1 plan and 1 map, plus 26 pages with 26 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 1897829027

Evolution of their naval forces structures... Chapter 4: The Indo-Pakistan war at sea.

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.

74196
GORDON, Yefim & KOMISSAROV, Sergey
ILYUSHIN IL-2 AND IL-10 SHTURMOVIK
$30.00 AUD

The Crowood Press. Marlborough, UK. 2004. 1st edition in the "Crowood Aviation Series". Introduction by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. 192 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on spine. dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.5.. 9781861266255

At the end of WWII, 42 330 of these planes had been built.

20720
GROVE, Eric & THOMPSON, Graham
BATTLE FOR THE FIORDS, NATO's Forward Maritime Strategy in Action
$15.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 128 PP with tables, 2 organigrams, 13 maps and plans, and 154 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.1 x 17.5. 0711019223

Exercise Teamwork, September 1988, in the Norwegian Sea. Reasons, strategy, and lessons gained by NATO forces.

37622
GRUPPE, Henry E.
THE FRIGATES
$15.00 AUD

Time-Life. Amsterdam. 1982. 2nd European English edition of the 1979 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title page: Woolen banner with the last words of Captain James Lawrence of the doomed frigate Chesapeake. FEP: Map of North Atlantic & Western Mediterranean Sea. Simile leather covers, colour illustration pasted down on front cover. Near fine. 28.7 x 24. 705406369

The birth of the US Navy. Battles against the Barbary corsairs. Quasi war with France and Anglo-American War of 1812-1814.

54188
GRUPPE, Henry E.
THE FRIGATES
$15.00 AUD

Time-Life. Alexandria, Virginia. 1980. Second printing (revised) of the 1979 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title page: Woolen banner with the last words of Captain James Lawrence of the doomed frigate Chesapeake. Eps: Map of North Atlantic & Western Mediterranean Sea. Simile leather covers, colour illustration pasted down on front cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 28.7 x 24. 0809427176

The birth of the US Navy. Battles against the Barbary corsairs. Quasi war with France and Anglo-American War of 1812-1814.

65623
GUILLIATT, Richard & HOHNEN, Peter
THE WOLF: How one German Raider terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War
$15.00 AUD

William Heinemann. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. XIII, (3), 366 PP with 1 cutaway of SMS Wolf and 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 45 b/w illustrations (2 documents, 3 newspaper clippings and 40 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 23.2 x 15.2. 9781741666243

46729
GUIOT, Capitaine de Vaisseau (R) Pierre
LE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE ET LA MARINE DE SON TEMPS
$30.00 AUD

Musée de la Marine. Paris. 1953. 1st edition, with a preface in French by Amiral Lacaze (with Portuguese translation). 108, (30 advertisements) PP with 67 b/w illustrations, plus 1 folded plate with 3 genealogical trees. Fp: L'Amiral Prince de Joinville. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. French text. 27 x 21.

Catalogue of an exhibition held November 1953 to February 1954: French navy during the reign of Louis-Philippe 1, King of the French.

18613
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, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 432063706

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.

31526
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. Note on front enpaper blocked out. 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.

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.

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

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

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

18305
GUY, Noël
LA MARINE FRANCAISE
$5.00 AUD

Fernand Nathan. Paris. 1937. 1st Ed. 159 PP with 148 b/w photos, plus 4 colour plates. Hard cover, colour illustration pasted down on front cover. Plate facing page 64 is a laser print. Note on front endpaper. Hinges weakened, o/wise a very good copy. French text. 21.5 x 15.5.

History of the French Navy and its mercantile marine.

41190
GUY, Noël
LA MARINE FRANCAISE
$10.00 AUD

Fernand Nathan. Paris. 1937. 1st Ed. 159 PP with 148 b/w photos, plus 4 colour plates. Rebacked copy retaining original boards and the colour illustration pasted down on front cover, renewed endpapers. Covers lightly soiled, o/wise a very good copy. French text. 21.5 x 15.5.

History of the French Navy and its mercantile marine.

54593
H.M.S.O.
SUMMARY OF GERMAN WARSHIPS - B.R. 642 (G)
$45.00 AUD

Naval Intelligence Division / Admiralty. London. 1942. October 1942 edition. B.R. 642 (G). IV, 52 PP with b/w illustrations (silhouettes, sketch plans, profiles and photos). Soft cover. Back cover with pieces missing. Two last leaves with pieces missing. Covers soiled. Staples removed. Occasional foxing spots. Very good. A scarce item. 24.5 x 15.5.

Pages 47 to 52: Silhouettes of Danish, Netherlands & Norwegian Vessels believed to have been captured or taken over by the German Navy.

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

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

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...

44293
HANSEN, Admiral A. D. (editor)
NAUTICUS 1942 - Jahrbuch sür Deutschlands Seeinteressen
$20.00 AUD

E. S. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1942. 1st Ed. XX, 482, (70 adv.) PP with graphs, tables, maps and drawings, plus 48 plates with 87 b/w photos. Fp: Heldengedenflag. Rebacked copy retaining original cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Spine lightly sunned. Renewed endpapers. Occasional foxing and slight ageing of paper. Near fine. German text in Gothic script. Rare. 23.3 x 16.

The Bismarck (sunk 27 May 1941), by Admiral Günther Lütjens. The Kriegsmarine against Denmark and Norway, in 1940.

72529
HARBRON, John D.
THE LONGEST BATTLE - The Royal Canadian Navy in the Atlantic: 1939-1945
$40.00 AUD

Wanwell Publishing Ltd. St. Catharines, Ontario. 1995. 1st paperback edition. Foreword by Rear Admiral P.D. Budge. X, 11-132 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, ephemeras, scores of music, portraits & photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous wner on half title page, o/wise fine. 28 x 21.5. 9781551250182

32558
HENDERSON, James
THE FRIGATES - An Account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815
$5.00 AUD

Wordsworth Editions. London. 1998. Paperback reprint of the 1970 original, in the Wordsworth Military Library. 192 PP with 1 plan, 2 tables and 8 maps, plus 16 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 21.5 x 13.6. 1853266930

Not only the fights, victories, defeats, mutinies, but also the social, political and naval scene.

18344
HMSO
COMBINED OPERATIONS 1940-1942
$10.00 AUD

His Majesty 's Stationery Office. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 7 maps & 32 pages with 44 illust. FEP: Sea-borne assault troops. REP: Air-borne assault troops. Pictorial soft cover (creases), signature on front endpaper, o/wise a very good copy. 21.3 x 13.6.

Assault in the Mediterranean, Atlantic (Norway to France), Indian Ocean (Diego Suarez in Madagascar).

76064
HOLFORD, Ingrid
THE YACHTSMAN'S WEATHER GUIDE
$10.00 AUD

Ward Lock Ltd. London. 1979. 1st paperback edition. 88 PP with b/w illustrations (sketches and 30 photos) and 12 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21.4 x 13.7. 0706358457

20301
HORN, Daniel
MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS, The Imperial German Naval Mutinies of World War One
$15.00 AUD

Leslie Frewin. London. 1973. 1st UK edition of the 1969 US original. XIII, 347 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0856320595

Revolts of August 1917, and October-November 1918. Origins: Social conflict within the Navy. Evolution of a conflict between the adherents of the old order (feudalized naval officers), and the proponents of a new, and more democratic system (enlisted men).

12071
HOUGH, Richard
THE GREAT ADMIRALS
$10.00 AUD

William Morrow. New York. 1977. 1st US Ed. 271 PP with 7 maps, 18 colour and 105 bw illust. Title spread: HMS Superb, flagship of the C-in-C Mediterranean. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a few chips. Occasional fxing. Very good. 25.5 x 20.5.

Careers of 21 of the great commanders in maritime history.

53660
HOUGH, Richard
DIE MEUTEREI AUF PANZERKREUZER POTEMKIN
$5.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen. Frankfurt. 1961. Proof copy of the German edition. Translated from the 1960 English original The Potemkin Mutiny, by Walter Grabmann. 176 PP. Soft cover. German text. Foxing, o/wise good. 20.5 x 13.8.

Two weeks of June/July 1905, on the Black Sea, a month after the battle of Tsu-Shima.

64148
HOUGHTON, John
THE NAVIES OF THE WORLD 1835-1840
$30.00 AUD

Author. Melbourne. 2012. 3rd edition. XXIII, 140 PP with tables. Fp: H.M.S. Asia. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14. 9780646577609

The Navies of Britain, France, Russia, Ottoman (Turkish, Egyptian, North Africa), United States of America... Two Sicilies... Austria, Brazil... Muscat.

38298
HOWARD, Grant
THE NAVY IN NEW ZEALAND, An Illustrated History
$20.00 AUD

A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1981. 1st Ed. VI, 170 PP with b/w illust. (maps, paintings, photos, ...). Title-page: Cruiser Royalist. Hard cover, dj (partly faded). Note on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 24.8 x 19. 0589013556

Two hundred years of navy in New Zealand (Royal Navy, then Royal New Zealand Navy), in war and peace.

16891
HOWARTH, Stephen
TO SHINING SEA, A History of the United States Navy 1775-1991
$15.00 AUD

Random House. New York. 1991. 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 620 PP with 12 maps in text plus 32 pages with 49 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0394576624

From the War of Independence to the Gulf War of 1990/91. An extensive work.

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

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

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

43994
HYTHE, Viscount (editor)
THE NAVAL ANNUAL 1913
$25.00 AUD

Arco Publishing. New York. 1970. Reprint of the 1913 original. Library edition. (4), VIII, 520 PP with tables & b/w illustrations, plus 1 diagram and 9 b/w plates. Fp: H.M.S. King George V. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 25.4 x 16. 0668022671

The state of various navies prior to WWI. British and foreign navies. Personnel of the German Navy... The Turco-Italian war. The Dominion and Imperial defence.

34854
HÖPKER, Wolfgang
DIE OSTSEE EIN ROTES BINNENMEER? - Eine Politisch-Strategische Studie
$5.00 AUD

E.S. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1958. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 4 maps, plus 3 maps (Kiel Canal, Danemark inland sea and gulf of Finland). Pictorial laminated cover. Fine. German text. 24.5 x 17.5.

The Baltic Sea: A Communist (Red) inland sea?

34855
HÖPKER, Wolfgang
DAS MITTELMEER - Ein Meer der Entscheidungen - Eine Politisch-Strategische Studie
$5.00 AUD

E.S. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1961. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 9 maps. FEP: Colour map of the Mediterranean Sea. REP: Map of Scandinavia, and Map of Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean. Pictorial laminated cover. Near fine. German text. 24.5 x 17.5.

The Mediterranean Sea, a vital sea for the free world.

44359
HÖPKER, Wolfgang
WIE ROT IST DAS MITTELMEER - Europas gefährdete Südflanke
$5.00 AUD

Seewald Verlag. Stuttgart. 1968. 1st Ed., with an epilogue by Hans Speidel. 164 PP with 1 colour map on double page and 3 b/w maps. Pictorial soft cover (slightly rubbed). Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Dedicatory note to Naval Historian Jürg Meister on title page, signed by the author. Near fine. German text. 24.5 x 17.5.

44360
HÖPKER, Wolfgang
WELTMACHT ZUR SEE - Die Sowjetunion auf allen Meeren
$15.00 AUD

Seewald Verlag. Stuttgart. 1971. 1st Ed. 212 PP with 20 maps (1 on double page). Pictorial soft cover (slightly rubbed). Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Dedicatory note to Naval Historian Jürg Meister on title page, signed by the author. Very good. German text. 24.5 x 17.5.

68648
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE]
PICTURE RECORDS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR / SOUVENIRS DE LA GUERRE EUROPEENNE
$10.00 AUD

Newspaper Illustrations / The Illustrated London News & Sketch. London. 1917. 1st Ed. 12 b/w photographic plates selected from the Official Photographs of the French Government 1914-1917. All captions in English and French. Soft cover, illustrated front "The Soldier's Divertisements / Les Divertissements du Soldat". Plates and covers bound with a tie. Covers with a little light wear/soiling, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 16.2 x 22.7.

Selection of Official photographs of the French Government, 1914-1917 : ... Sabot Wood, Somme Battles ...

68649
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE]
PICTURE RECORDS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR / SOUVENIRS DE LA GUERRE EUROPEENNE
$10.00 AUD

Newspaper Illustrations / The Illustrated London News & Sketch. London. 1917. 1st Ed. 12 b/w photographic plates selected from the Official Photographs of the French Government 1914-1917. All captions in English and French. Soft cover, illustrated front "Another One: Shells ... / Encore Un: Obus ...". Plates and covers bound with a tie. Covers with light wear/soiling, o/wise near fine. Oblong. 16.2 x 22.7.

Selection of official photographs of the French Government, 1914-1917 : Midnight Mass at Fort Douaumont, 24th December 1916 ... Verdun. Somme Front ... Destroyed Churches (Betheny, Arras, Reims).

72975
INGOLD, François & MOUILLESEAUX, Louis
LECLERC DE HAUTECLOCQUE
$45.00 AUD

Editions Littéraires de France. Paris. 1948. 1st Ed. Forewords by G. d'Argenlieu and General Koenig. Introduction by Charles Goulois. 184 PP with b/w illustrations: 7 facsimile of manuscript lettres, 7 maps, 8 sketches of Tanks, 14 Badges or Crests and 144 photos. Title page: Coat of Arms of 1218 "Guy de Hauteclocque. Fp: photo of General Leclerc " Souvenir de trois annees de lutte, 19/11/43". Hard covers, gilt title on front cover and spine, gilt device "Coat of Arms: Hauteclocque. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Small insect damage on front endpaper and 2 first leaves. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. French text. Very good. 28 x 22.5.

57303
INRO
WARSHIP INTERNATIONAL - Volume XXVIII, No. 3, 1991
$5.00 AUD

INRO / International Naval Research Organization. Toledo, Ohio, USA. 1991. Edited by Allan C. HARRIS & Christopher C. WRIGHT. 211-314 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (sketches, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover in colour. Occasional foxing. Very good. 28 x 21.5.

The Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), by Christopher P. Cavas. The evolution of Battleship Gunnery in the U.S. Navy, 1920-1945, by W. J. Jurens.

57308
INRO
WARSHIP INTERNATIONAL - Volume XXXVI, No. 2, 1999
$5.00 AUD

INRO / International Naval Research Organization. Toledo, Ohio, USA. 1999. Edited by Allan C. HARRIS & Christopher C. WRIGHT. 111-206 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (sketches, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover in colour. Previous owner's address label on front cover, o/wise near fine. 28 x 21.5.

Battleship Development in Russia, from 1905 to 1917, by Sergei E. Vinogradov. ...

16800
IRELAND, Bernard
SEA POWER 2000
$10.00 AUD

Arms & Armour. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illust. (photos, sketches). Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 25 x 19.5. 0853689792

Current state & future trends in international sea power: naval aviation, submarine warfare (nuclear, conventional), mines ...

16801
IRELAND, Bernard
NAVIES OF THE WEST
$10.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w illust. (3 line draw. & 174 photos & paintings). Title-page: Destroyer Broadsword. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 17.5. 071101339X

Vessels of NATO's fleets and Sweden.

43832
JENSEN, Ole Lisberg
ORLOGMUSEET- INTRODUKTION TIL FLADENS HISTORIE
$10.00 AUD

Orlogmuseet. Copenhagen. 1994. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 17 b/w and 15 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Danish text. Oblong: 17.5 x 22.5. 8789322142

On the Navy of Denmark.

37587
JI, You
THE ARMED FORCES OF CHINA
$15.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. in The Armed Forces of Asia series. XXIII, 288 PP with 6 tables and 10 figures (1 map, organigrams, graphs). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 1864487992

Organisation, roles and functions of each branch of the armed forces of China (People's Liberation Army). Historical background.

16859
JOINVILLE, Prince de ...
VIEUX SOUVENIRS 1818-1848
$10.00 AUD

Musées de la Marine. Paris. 1980. Reprint of 1894 edition. Introduction by Capitaine de Vaisseau Jacques Vichot. (4), 152 PP with 10 charts & numerous b/w drawings, plus 24 colour illustrations (23 watercolours by the Prince de Joinville). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 27 x 21.

The souvenirs of the son of the King of the French, an admiral at 26, exiled in 1848 after an upheaval and who returned to France after the fall of Napoleon III in 1871.

62083
JONES, Torpedo-Man T. M. & IDRIESS, Ion. L.
THE SILENT SERVICE - Action Stories of the ANZAC Navy
$35.00 AUD

Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1944. 1st Ed., with foreword by the Hon. Norman J. O. Makin. XII, 338 PP. Fp: H.M.A.S. Australia. Front endpaper: World map with localities in which the "Anzac" navies were in action. Blue cloth cover. Stamp of bookshop on half title page. War economy paper with signs of ageing and foxing. Contents are near fine. 22 x 15.

Anzac navies in the War.

16858
JULLIEN, Commissaire Général
MARINE ET IMAGERIE du 17è au 20è Siècle
$10.00 AUD

Musée de la Marine. Paris. N.D. c.1975. 1st Ed. No pagination, 112 pages with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 27 x 21.

Pictorial history of the French Navy through popular illustrations (uniforms & costumes of the personnel, life on board in cartoons by Gervèse).

32969
KAMMERER, Albert
LA PASSION DE LA FLOTTE FRANCAISE - De Mers El-Kebir à Toulon
$25.00 AUD

Librairie Arthème Fayard. Paris. 1951. 1st Ed. 572 PP with facsimile of a hand written letter. Soft cover, dj. Ageing of paper, o/wise very good. French text. 22 x 13.8.

France and her Navy between the 1940 armistice with Germany and the attack at Oran by British forces, to the Anglo-American landing of 1942 in North Africa followed by the scuttling of the Fleet at Toulon.

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.

43582
KIELER, Kommandor Svend Schack von Fyren
MARINEAKVARELLER - Glimt fra Orlogsfaden i Nyere Tid / MARINE PAINTINGS 1938-1992
$30.00 AUD

Naval Museum. Copenhagen. 1998. 1st Ed. (4), 52 PP with 25 watercolours. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Danish text and English summary for each watercolours. Oblong: 21 x 29.7.

Glimpses of Danish Naval Life and History between 1938 and 1992.

76068
KLOPMAN, Jonathan K.
MOSQUITO BOATS: Design and development of the PTs (in WoodenBoat Magazine No. 129)
$10.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Publications. Brooklin, Maine. 1996. No. 129, March / April 1996. 160 PP. Contains article pages 37 to 43 with 1 colour illustration (advertisement for Elco Pt BoatCo.) and b/w illustrations (1 insigna for PT Ron (squadron) 29, 1 body plan, 6 sketch plans of 3 types, 4 profiles of PT boats and 8 photos). Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 27.6 x 21.7.

Patrol / Torpedo boats of WWII.

35732
KROSCHEL, Günter & EVERS, August-Ludwig
DIE DEUTSCHE FLOTTE 1848-1945 - Geschichte des Deutschen Kriegsschiffbaus in 437 Bildern
$10.00 AUD

Verlag Lohse-Eissing. Wilhelmshaven. 1966. 4th corrected impression of the 1962 original. XXVIII PP with tables, plus 160 pages without pagination containing 437 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, gilt title on front cover and spine. Bookplate and front of dust jacket tipped in on front endpaper. Near fine. German text. 26.5 x 20.5.

Photographic history of the various German navies (Prussia, North Germany) from 1848 to 1888, Imperial of the Kaiser (1888-1918), Reichsmarine of the Weiman Republic (1919-1935) and the Kriegsmarine of the Third Reich (1935-1945).

31881
KUNTZE, Korvettenkapitan Paul H.
VOLK UND SEEFAHRT
$15.00 AUD

Georg Dollheimer. Leipzig. 1939. 1st Ed. 364, (4 adv.) PP with 335 drawings, plus 62 plates with 178 b/w Illust (paintings and photos). Fp: Der Führer on bord "Deutschland" in Memel. FEP: Map Deutsche Kreuzerfahrten im Weltkriege. REP: Map Die Grofzen Entdeckungsfahrten. Cloth cover, decorated front. Near fine. German text in Gothic script. 24 x 16.5.

History of Germany, the German People, and the Sea, up to the start of World War II.

60995
KUNTZE, Korvettenkapitan Paul H.
VOLK UND SEEFAHRT
$5.00 AUD

Georg Dollheimer. Leipzig. 1940. Reprint of the 1939 original. 364, (4 adv.) PP with 335 drawings, plus 62 plates with 178 b/w Illust (paintings and photos). Fp: Der Führer on bord "Deutschland" in Memel. FEP: Map Deutsche Kreuzerfahrten im Weltkriege. REP: Map Die Grofzen Entdeckungsfahrten. Cloth cover, decorated front. Covers damaged and split at spine. Endpapers split at gutter. Ageing of paper. Frontispiece is a facsimile reprint. Good copy in need of rebacking. German text in Gothic script. 24 x 16.5.

History of Germany, the German People, and the Sea, up to the start of World War II.

67697
LABAYLE, Eric
DE LA REVANCHE A LA LIBERATION - L'ECOLE DES ELEVES-ASPIRANTS DE CHERCHELL-MEDIOUNA (1942-1945)
$100.00 AUD

Author. Paris. 1996. 1st edition limited to 1250 copies (No. 222/1200). Preface by Colonel Pierre Carles. 717 PP with b/w illustrations (badges, graphs, tables, maps & plans, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title and decoration on covers and spine, ribbon bookmark. All edges gilt. French text. Fine. 30.5 x 23.5.

66320
LABAYLE-COUHAT, Jean
LA MARINE FRANCAISE EN 1953
$25.00 AUD

Editions Ozanne. Paris. 1953. 1st edition in "Collection du Navigateur". Preface by Amiral Castex. 56 PP with 5 colour plates (2 on Flags, 2 on Ranks, 1 on Badges) and b/w illustrations (19 photos, 32 profiles of warships and 8 sets of sketches of warplanes). Centrefold: Battleship Richelieu. Pictorial soft cover by Pierre Peron (Marine artist). Near fine. French text. Small format: 16 x 12.

47672
LACABANNE, Sonia
BASE WALLAHS - L'Armée Néo-Zélandaise en Nouvelle-Calédonie 1942-1944, stories of the Units of the Base Organisation, NZEF IP
$35.00 AUD

Sonia Lacabanne. Nouméa. 2004. 1st French edition of the 1946 New Zealand original, translated by Sonia Lacabanne & François Planche. 184 PP with 5 drawings, plus 32 pages with 3 maps and 53 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 15.

Story of the units remaining at the bases of the 3rd N.Z. Division, in New Caledonia, during the Pacific campaign of World War II.

49543
LAMBERT, André
SILLAGES DE FRANCAIS
$50.00 AUD

ADDIM. Paris. 1996. Folder containing a 48 page book with 46 b/w illustrations (23 drawings and 13 portraits), and 17 colour plates (drawings and watercolours by the author). French text. Fine. Format: book, 28.5 x 23, and plates, 40 x 30. Hard cover art folder, cloth spine, secured with ties. Large format: 45 x 32. 2907341405

Warships of the French Navy between 1870 and 1990: their names and origin, and their wakes. Very colourful plates.

69928
LAMING, Tim
THE VULCAN STORY 1952-2002
$30.00 AUD

Silverdale Books. London. 2002. Revised edition of the 1993 original. 231 PP with b/w illustrations: sketches, plans, cutaways and photos. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28 x 22.5. 1856057011

38023
LARSEN, Kay
VORE ORLOGSSKIBE - Fra Halvfemserne Til Nu
$25.00 AUD

Nyt Nordisk Forlag - Arnold Busck. Copenhagen. 1932. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 112 b/w illustrations. Card cover, illustration on front cover. Front edge of covers with closed tears. Signature of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. Danish text. 23.4 x 16.3.

Danish Navy.

47518
LASSAQUE, Jean
GUERRE NAVALE EN NORVEGE. 8 Avril - 28 Juillet 1940
$10.00 AUD

Editions du Gerfaut. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed. 336 PP with 18 maps, 36 profiles of warships and 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.9 x 14.5. 2914622295

War at sea and on land in Norway: 8th April to 28 July 1940.

69929
LEINBURGER, Ralf
FIGHTER
$15.00 AUD

Parragon. Bath, UK. 2011. 1st English edition, translated from the German original By Richard Elliot and Penny Hewson. 320 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (sketches, plans, photos). Stiff covers with flaps, pictorial front. Fine. 20 x 16.5. 9781445424347

Fighter / Technology - Facts - History.

67146
LENTON, H. T. & COLLEDGE, J. J.
WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II
$30.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1970. 4th impression of the 1964 original. 638 PP with many tables & hundreds of b/w photos. Fp: H.M.S. Warspite in Malta Habour. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket has a few small chips or closed tears, o/wise near fine. 19 x 13. 711002029

A complete record of all known vessels of the Royal and Dominion Navies which participated in WWII. Capital ships, destroyers, submarines,... coastal forces and landing craft.

65771
LEPOTIER, Contre-Amiral (R)
BREST, PORTE OCEANE
$10.00 AUD

Editions France - Empire. Paris. 1968. 1st Ed. 428, (2) PP with 1 plan and 3 maps (2 on double page), plus 12 pages with 13 b/w illustrations (drawings, paintings, photos). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips at head of spine. French text. Very good. 19.4 x 14.

67705
LOTI, Pierre
UN JEUNE OFFICIER PAUVRE - Fragments de Journal Intime rassemblés par son fils Samuel Viaud (in La Petite Illustration)
$20.00 AUD

Editions de l'Illustration. Paris. 1923. 1st published in "La Petite Illustration", No. 143, 28 April 1923. 92 PP with 3 b/w photos, 17 drawings and 3 watercolurs tipped in by the author. No. 143 bound together with 5 other issues (Nos. 141, 142, 147, 148 ... for a total of 188 more pages) of La Petite Illustration. Hard cover, half bound with marbled boards and gilt title "Romans et Théatre" on a cloth spine. Covers slightly rubbed. A few small stamps of previous owner on first page of the issues. A few small dog-ears, but overall, a very good copy. French text. 29.5 x 20.5.

34851
LÜTZOW, Konteradmiral Friedrich
SKAGERRAK
$10.00 AUD

Georg Müller. Munchen. 1936. Edition for young adults in Die Junge Reihe series. 82 PP, with 6 maps, plus 4 b/w plates (portraits of the British and German protagonists). Illustrated soft cover. Name of previous owner on the inside of the front cover. German text in Gothic script. Very good. Scarce. 17.5 x 10.5.

The Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916.

72487
MACINTYRE, Donald
THE NAVAL WAR AGAINST HITLER
$30.00 AUD

Charles Scribner's. New York. 1971. Book Club edition. 478 PP with 21 maps (20 on full page), plus 24 pages with 70 b/w photos. FEP: Map of the English Channel & the Mediterranean. REP: The Arctic area of operations. Cloth cover, nice dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Neat name stamp on FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. 21.5 x 14.

74194
MACPHERSON, Ken & BURGESS, John
THE SHIPS OF CANADA'S NAVAL FORCES 1910-1985
$35.00 AUD

Collins Publishers. Toronto. 1985. Updated edition of the 1981 original - ."75th Anniversary Edition". Foreword by Rear Admiral H. F. Pullen. 240 PP with close to 400 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 35.5 x 26.5. 002174693

74335
MANNING, G. C. & SCHUMACHER, T. L.
PRINCIPLES OF WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION AND DAMAGE CONTROL
$45.00 AUD

United States Naval Institute. Annapolis. 1939. Corrected reprint of the 1935 edition (original 1924). XV, 396 PP plus 10 b/w full-page photos & 15 folded plans. A total of 144 figures and 3 plates. Fp: U.S.S. Relief, Hospital Ship Leaving the Ways. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Front endpaper with stamp and name of previous owners, o/wise a very good clean copy. 23.5 x 16.

A treatise on the fundamental principles of Naval architecture, warship design and construction, and the control of hull damage.

42190
MANSEL, Philip & WINKS, Robin W.
THE LILY AND THE LION - Royal France / Great Britain
$10.00 AUD

Boston Publishing Company. Boston. 1987. 1st Ed. in the Empires: Their Rise and Fall series. Preface by Peter Stansky. 168, (6 index) PP with over 300 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj (chipped and with closed tears). Near fine. 30.2 x 23. 0150040326

47501
MARINE-EMPIRE
FEVRIER 1944 - LA MARINE FRANCAISE DEPUIS L' ARMISTICE. LE COMBAT DU VENGEUR EN PRAIRIAL AN II. LE NAUFRAGE DE LA MEDUSE... (in Marine - Empire)
$20.00 AUD

Editions du Secrétariat Géneral de l'Information / Marine-Empire. Lyon. 1944. Issue for February 1944. 64 PP with b/w illustrations Pictorial soft cover (le combat du "Vengeur" 13 prairial An II by Charles Fouqueray). Near fine. French text. 31 x 23.5.

French Navy (Vichy) since the Armistice of June 1940. First naval battle between the French Republic and the British Navy, 13 Prairial An 2 (1st of June 1793), or the Glorious First of June. Shipwreck of La Méduse.

18067
MARSHALL, Chris
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHIPS - The History and Specifications of over 1200 Ships
$10.00 AUD

Blitz Editions. London. 1996. Reprint of the 1995 original. Edited by Chris Marshall. 288 PP with 1 b/w photo, 2 colour photos, 3 colour paintings and over 1200 full-colour illust. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30.7 x 23.8. 1856052885

From the first British submarine A1 to the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku.

30397
MARSHALL, Chris
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHIPS - The History and Specifications of over 1200 Ships
$15.00 AUD

Blitz Editions. London. 1995. 1st English edition of the 1994 Italian original Navi e Velieri. Edited by Chris Marshall. 288 PP with 1 b/w photo, 2 colour photos, 3 colour paintings and over 1200 full-colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30.7 x 23.8. 1856052885

From the first British submarine A1 to the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku.

67154
LE MASSON, Henri
THE FRENCH NAVY, 1
$25.00 AUD

Macdonald. London. 1969. 1st Ed. in the "Navies of the Second World War" Series. 174 PP with b/w illust. (photos, profiles). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Front cover of dust jacket with a repaired tear. Near fine. Oblong: 10.7 x 15.2. 0356023842

16782
MATRAT, Jean
HISTOIRE DES RELATIONS FRANCO-ANGLAISES
$20.00 AUD

Nouvelles Editions Latines. Paris. 1953. 1st Ed. 126 PP. Pictorial card cover. Pages uncut. Occasional foxing and paper ageing. Very good. French text. 18.7 x 12.

History of the links between France and England. The numerous wars leading to the Entente Cordiale and the birth of the European Union.

35528
MAX, Dr. Alphonse
WETTERLEUCHTEN AM SUDATLANTIK - Neuer Krisenherd der Weltpolitik zwischen Karibik und Feuerland
$5.00 AUD

Grabert-Verlag. Tübingen, Germany. 1983. 1st Ed. 124 PP. Card cover. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. German text. 20 x 12.4. 3878470681

Political crisis in the South Atlantic, between the Caribbean and Tierra del Fuego.

43530
MccGWIRE, Michael (editor)
SOVIET NAVAL DEVELOPMENTS - Context and Capability
$20.00 AUD

Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1973. 1st Ed., Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Department of Political Science. X, 467 PP. Soft cover. Covers somewhat sunned, o/wise near fine. 27.5 x 21.5.

A collection of 31 papers relating to Russia's maritime interests presented at a seminar in October 1972.

35103
MccGWIRE, Michael, BOOTH, Ken & McDONNELL, John (editors)
SOVIET NAVAL POLICY - Objectives and Constraints
$20.00 AUD

Praeger. New York. 1975. 1st Ed., in the Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government. XXVI, 665 PP with 17 tables and 21 figures. Hard cover. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 16.2. 027509720X

34 papers: Soviet Military's Influence on Foreign Policy - Soviet Defense Policies and Naval Interests... Command of the Sea in Soviet Naval Strategy...

42293
McLEAN, Gavin
CAPTAIN'S LOG - NEW ZEALAND'S MARITIME HISTORY
$15.00 AUD

Hodder Moa Beckett. Auckland. 2001. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w illustrations. Inside covers: Map of the coast of New Zealand. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.8 x 18.2. 9781869588816

66203
McNAB, Chris
Order of Battle: GERMAN KRIEGSMARINE IN WWII
$40.00 AUD

Amber Books. London. 2009. 1st edition in the "Order of Battle" series. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Neat name stamp on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 24.8 x 19.6. 9781906626198

35512
MEISTER, Jürg
DER ARGENTINISCH-CHILENISCHE STREIT UM DEN BEAGLE -KANAL (in Marine-Rundschau - No.81, Issue 7, July 1984)
$5.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe Verlag. München. 1984. Contains article from P.318 to 326 with 3 maps. Pictorial soft cover (A Tornado). Near fine. German text. 29.8 x 21.

Problems between Argentina and Chile on the sovereignty of the Beagle canal.

35516
MEISTER, Jürg
500 JAHRE SEEKRIEG AUF SCHWEIZERISCHEN SEEN (in Deutsche Werft)
$15.00 AUD

Krogers Buch- und Verlagsdruckerei. Hamburg. 1967. Issue 5, 1967. Contains article from P.28 to 35 with 1 map and 14 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover (Fleet from Zurich in 1444). Fine. German text. 29.8 x 21.

500 years of Naval wars on the Swiss Lakes.

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

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

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

54793
MESSENGER, Charles
HITLER'S GLADIATOR. The Life and Military Career of Sepp Dietrich
$5.00 AUD

Brassey's. London. 2001. Paperback edition with revisions of the 1988 original. New Introduction of May 2000. XVI, (2), 245 PP with 14 maps, plus 36 pages with 38 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 1857533658

72494
MILLER, Nathan
WAR AT SEA - A Naval History of World War II
$20.00 AUD

Scribner. New York. 1995. 1st Ed. 592 PP with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 34 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Dust jacket is in a protective sleeve. A few stamps/signatures of previous owners on FFEP. Traces of old damp at bottom edges near spine on first and last pages, not affecting text. An otherwise very good clean copy. 24.2 x 16. 0684803801

From the sinking of the British passenger ship Athenia on the 3rd September 1939 to the Japanese capitulation on USS Missouri on the 2nd September 1945.

67023
MINISTERE DES ARMEES
REVUE HISTORIQUE DES ARMEES - No. 4, 1980
$10.00 AUD

Revue Historique de Armées. Vincennes, Paris. 1980. No. 4, 1980. Edited by Colonel Villaume 264 PP with 12 badges in colour and b/w illustrations (maps, plans and photos), plus 1 colour plate. Soft cover, illustrated front. Covers lightly rubbed. French text. Near fine. 24 x 16.

Defence of the Port of Sète, by Alain Degage. ... 1921 Sojourn in the Levant (Syria), by Capitaine de Vaisseau Archambeaud. Activities of French submarines in 1943, by Capitaine de Vaisseau C. Huan.

34666
MOORE, Captain John (editor)
JANE'S NAVAL REVIEW 1982-83 - Second Year of Issue
$20.00 AUD

Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (cutaways, maps, plans, photos and ship profiles). Pictorial laminated boards. Light foxing on prelims, o/wise fine. 27.5 x 20.5. 0710601270

The lessons of the Naval War in the Falklands, by Captain John Moore. Latin America: a patchwork of strengths and capabilities by Captain Frans de Blocq van Kuffeler... Conflict and commerce by Andrew Ambrose...

34667
MOORE, Captain John (editor)
JANE'S NAVAL REVIEW - Fourth Year of Issue
$20.00 AUD

Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 175 PP with b/w illustrations (maps, plans and photos). Pictorial laminated boards. Near fine. 27.5 x 20.5. 0710603355

Counterbalancing the Soviet Navy East of Suez, by Admiral William J. Crowe... Britain's Merchant Navy: down by the bow and sinking fast by Nigel Ling. The French Navy in the year 2000, by Pierre Lachamade. 4 articles on the Soviet Navy, by Captain John Moore.

73777
MOOREHEAD, Alan
THE DESERT WAR, The North African Campaign 1940-1943
$35.00 AUD

Hamish Hamilton. London. 1965. 1st Ed. (7), 250 PP with b/w photos throughout, including a fold-out map of the Mediterranean. Hard cover, price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has some chips and small pieces missing and is in a protective sleeve. Dedicatory note to "Sir Charles, In appreciaiton of your interest and hospitality, from the Rhodes Scholar representatives on the 1965 Selection Committee".

Abridged edition (text) of the African Trilogy: Mediterranean Front, A Year of Battle and The End in Africa.

16797
MORGAN, John S.
ROBERT FULTON
$10.00 AUD

Mason/Charter. New York. 1977. 1st Ed. XII, 236 PP plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illust. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0884054381

Biography of the American inventor, known for the invention of the steamboat, but also submarines which he called plunge boats, torpedoes, ... His stays in France and England.

38352
MORIZE, André (editor)
FACTS ABOUT FIGHTING FRANCE
$100.00 AUD

Fighting France Publications / Société des Editions de la France Libre Ltd. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 36 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Inside front cover: To All Frenchmen.. France has lost a Battle! (in colour). Inside back cover: Ultimatum sent by Rommel to General Koenig, June 3rd, 1942 (Battle of Bir Hacheim). Illustrated soft cover with a few small chips, spine repaired, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 21.6 x 14.

The Leader: Général De Gaulle - his life, his thoughts, his military doctrine. Fighting France: When? Where? Why? What it's done, what it's doing, what it wants to do. Administration Organization of Fighting France. The Trustee of French Democracy.

49172
MOULTON, Major-General (editor)
BRASSEY'S ANNUAL 1973. Defence and the Armed Forces
$20.00 AUD

William Clowes. London. 1974. 84th year of publication. VI adv., XVI, 346 PP, plus 1 folded map, 2 folded charts and 16 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Occasional foxing. Internally near fine. 24.3 x 16.

68670
MUMBY, Frank A. (editor)
THE GREAT WORLD WAR - A HISTORY (complete set of 9 Volumes with 27 Issues)
$450.00 AUD

The Gresham Publishing Company. London. 1915 /1922. 1st edition. Set of 9 Volumes in 27 Issues for a total of 3126 pages with b/w illustrations, plus a 4 pages "Roll of Honour" (in colour), 27 b/w portraits (some with tissue guard paper) and 35 coloured maps and plans (few folded) . Vol. I (issues I to III), 1915: (6), 336, (10 "Title page, Preface, Contents, List of Plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 b/w portraits and 9 coloured maps and plans. Vol. II (issues IV to VI), 1916: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 b/w portraits and 2 coloured maps. Vol. III (issues VII to IX), 1916: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of Plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 b/w portraits and 4 coloured maps and plans). Vol. IV issues X to XII), 1916: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List opf Plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 4 coloured maps and plans. Vol. V (issues XIII to XV), 1917: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 4 coloured maps and plans. Vol. VI (issues XVI to XVIII), 1917: (6), 336, (8 " Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits, 4 coloured maps and a 4 pages coloured "Roll of Honour 1914 - 191. Vol. VII (issues XIX to XXI), 1919: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 3 coloured maps. Vol. VIII (issues XXII to XXIV): (2), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits (misbound) and 2 coloured maps. Vol. IX (issues XXV to XXII), 1920: (6), 344, (10 "Title page, Preface, Contents, List of plates") with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 3 coloured maps (1 portrait and 1 map are misbound). Card covers, illustrated front in colour, cloth spine with Title and No. of Issue. Except for a small sticker on front cover of issues XXV and XXVII, and 5 misbound plates, this set is complete and in a very fine condition. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25 x 18.5.

Preface of Volume IX starts: "The present volume completes a task ...". Front covers with the Coat of Arms of France, Great Britain, Russia, Serbia, Japan and Belgium.

76324
MUNRO, Neil
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD: Electronic Combat and Modern Warfare
$20.00 AUD

St. Martin's Press. New York. 1991. 1st Ed. XII, 324 PP with 7 figures. Hard covers, dj. Library stamps on outside edges, front endpaper and verso of title page. An otherwise near fine copy. 21.5 x 14.5.

50826
MUNSON, Kenneth
GERMAN WAR BIRDS FROM WORLD WAR 1 TO NATO ALLY
$10.00 AUD

New Orchard Editions. Poole, UK. 1986. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 12 b/w photos and hundreds of artworks in colour by John W. Wood. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 25.4 x 19.5. 1850790442

44703
MUUSFELDT, Kaptanjnlojtnant H.
FLADENS NYE KORVETTER (in Tidsskrift for Sovaesen)
$15.00 AUD

Tidsskrift for Sovaesen. Copenhagen. 1979. Issue, March 1979. Contains article pages 61 to 103 with 2 tables, 3 coat of arms, 7 plans and 13 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Danish text. 20 x 13.

New Corvettes of the Danish Navy.

22737
N/A
JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS OF WORLD WAR I
$30.00 AUD

Studio Editions. London. 1990. Reprint of the 1919 original with a supplement by Captain John Moore. 320 PP with over 1000 b/w illustrations: 86 maps and plans of ports, naval bases and Dockyards - Hundreds of ships (plans, line drawings, profiles and photos) - Flags, Ensigns and details of uniforms. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 32 x 25.5. 1851703780

The 1919 original has been supplemented by extracting entries on significant ships from the 1914 edition.

38797
N/A
GUERRE ECLAIR DANS LE GOLFE - La Défense du Droit
$20.00 AUD

Jean-Claude Lattès - ADDIM. Paris. 1991. 1st Ed., in Les Armes et les Hommes series. 215 PP with colour illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. French text. 29.2 x 23.5. 2709610493

France and the Gulf War of 1990/1991.

45999
N/A
CHANSONS BAILLE
$65.00 AUD

Association des Anciens Elèves de l'Ecole Navale. Paris. 1952. 1st Ed., limited to 2000 numbered copies (No. 1527/2000). Introduction by Bourragué. (8), 162 PP with 48 sketches by Capitaine de Corvette Luc-Marie Bayle, and 16 pages for 17 musical scores by Capitaine de Frégate Jean Belin. Hard cover, cloth spine. Foxing spots by stiching points (gutter). Near fine. French text. Scarce in this condition. 24.6 x 15.8.

60 songs from the Ecole Navale at Brest (equivalent to the Annapolis of the US Navy or the Dartmouth of the Royal Navy).

47503
N/A
REVUE NAVALE DE TOULON, 14 Juillet 1958. Passée par le Général DE GAULLE
$30.00 AUD

Imprimerie des Constructions et Armes Navales. Toulon. 1958. 1st Ed. No pagination, 56 PP with 1 map at centrefold and 76 b/w illustrations (7 profiles of planes, 15 profiles of ships, and 54 photos). Pictorial soft cover (lightly rubbed). Fine. French text. Scarce. 26.8 x 20.8.

General De Gaulle was then Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the French Republic.

48376
N/A
CORVETTE ASM TYPE GEORGES LEYGUES
$20.00 AUD

Direction Technique des Constructions Navales. Paris Naval. 1979. 1st Ed. September 1979, 3000 copies. 24 PP with 1 b/w drawing and colour illustrations (1 cutaway at centrefold, 1 sketch plan, 2 diagrams and 24 photos). Pictorial soft covers. Text in French, English and Spanish. Rear cover has slight damage (lifting of laminate), o/wise near fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.6.

Type of Anti-Submarine Corvette of the French Navy.

50764
N/A
GUIDA CATALOGO MUSEO STORICO NAVALE DI VENEZIA
$10.00 AUD

ATEL / Ufficio Storico della Marina Militare. Roma. 1965. 1st Ed. 54 PP with 10 b/w photos, plus 10 pages with 9 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Italian text. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.2.

Catalogue of the Maritime Museum of Venice.

51206
N/A
MISTRAL & TONNERRE - Ships of Tomorrow
$5.00 AUD

Musée National de la Marine. Paris. 2005. Brochure with 4 folds and colour illustrations. Very good. 21 x 15.

Latest Projection & Command Ships of the French Navy.

52903
N/A
MARINE ET MARINS
$20.00 AUD

Service Presse-Information de la Marine. Paris. 1960. 1st Ed. 152 PP with 150 b/w photos. Illustrated soft cover. Very good. French text. 26.5 x 21.8.

French Navy in 1960.

60464
N/A
NAVAL FORCES - International Forum for Maritime Power - Vol. I, No. III, 1980
$10.00 AUD

Mönch Publishing Group. Aldershot, UK. 1980. Edited by Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch. 116 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (A Grumman F-14 TOMCAT taking off). Near fine. 30 x 23.5.

The struggle for the domination of the Persian Gulf, by J. Meister. ... Aircraft in Naval Warfare, by E. D. G. Lewin. ... Naval Air Defence for NATO, by Norman Friedman ....

60465
N/A
NAVAL FORCES - International Forum for Maritime Power - Vol. VI, No. I & Special Supplement, 1985
$10.00 AUD

Mönch Publishing Group. Aldershot, UK. 1985. Edited by Admiral Sir James Eberle & John Llewellyn. 112 PP & 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.2.

Supplement: GNM (van der Giessen-de Noord Marinebouw B.V.) Naval Construction.

60466
N/A
NAVAL FORCES - International Forum for Maritime Power - Vol. VI, No. II, 1985
$10.00 AUD

Mönch Publishing Group. Aldershot, UK. 1985. Edited by Admiral Sir James Eberle & John Llewellyn. 104 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.2.

Interview with the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse. Navies of North and South Korea, by Professor J. K. Park. The Chinese Navy, by Professor I. P. G. S. Cosby. ...

60467
N/A
NAVAL FORCES - International Forum for Maritime Power - Vol. VI, No. IV, 1985
$10.00 AUD

Mönch Publishing Group. Aldershot, UK. 1985. Edited by Admiral Sir James Eberle & John Llewellyn. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.2.

Naval situation in the Baltic, by Admiral P. Y. Rudberg. ... The Tomahawk Cruise Missile, by A. M. Bowen and R. O'Rourke. ...

60468
N/A
NAVAL FORCES - International Forum for Maritime Power - Vol. VII, No. II, 1986
$5.00 AUD

Mönch Publishing Group. Aldershot, UK. 1986. Edited by Admiral Sir James Eberle & John Llewellyn. 124 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a few creases. Very good. 29.7 x 21.2.

60469
N/A
NAVAL FORCES - International Forum for Maritime Power - Vol. VII, No. IV (Supplement 1986)
$10.00 AUD

Mönch Publishing Group. Aldershot, UK. 1986. Edited by Manfred Sadlowski. 112 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.2.

Supplement: HDW (Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft) Naval Construction yard in Kiel. Frigates for Turkey and Portugal. Corvettes for the Royal Malaysian Navy.

60470
N/A
NAVAL FORCES - International Forum for Maritime Power - Vol. VII, No. V, 1986
$10.00 AUD

Mönch Publishing Group. Aldershot, UK. 1986. Edited by Admiral Sir James Eberle & John Llewellyn. 156 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.2.

Naval Developments in the Persian Gulf, by A. Taha. The French Navy in 1986, by Rear-Admiral H. Moineville.

63778
N/A
EU Common Security and Defence Policy - CSDP newsletter (issue 12)
$10.00 AUD

Council of the European Union. Strasbourg. 2012. Issue No. 12, Winter 2012 / 2013. Editorial by Catherine Ashton. 36 PP with colour illustrations (maps & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Text in either French or English. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

75826
N/A
ARMADA NACIONAL, A TRAVES DEL TIEMPO
$45.00 AUD

Imprsora Lagomarsino. Montevideo, Uruguay. 1999. 1st Ed., November 1999. Foreword by Julio Maria San,Guinetti, President of the Republica Orientazl del Uruguay. (5), 155 PP with 85 b/w illustrations (1 chart, 1 page with newspaper clippings, 2 plans & 80 photos), and colour illustrations (1 sketch map of Uruguay; 20 paintings and 130 photos). Hard covers, dj. Spanish text. Fine. Oblong. 25 x 33.

Navy of Uruguay. WWII: with call of German Cruiser "Admiral Graf Spee" and the Battle of Rio de la Plata against the Royal Navy cruisers "Ajax", "Achilles" & "Exeter", on 17th December 1939.

35513
NASSAES, José Luis Alcofar
DIE PORTUGIESISCHE MARINE SEIT 1945 (in Marine-Rundschau - No. 78, Issue 2, February 1981)
$10.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe Verlag. München. 1981. Contains article from P.73 to 80 with 3 tables and 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Deck of Italian Destroyer Audace). Fine. German text. 29.8 x 21.

The Portuguese Navy since 1945.

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.

60845
NAVY
NAVAL SHORE ESTABLISHMENT - PHILIPPINE NAVY (3 issues)
$15.00 AUD

Naval Shore Establishment, Cavite/Public Relations Office. Cavite City. 1970, 1971 & 1972. Issues: 23rd Anniversary, 24 October 1970 with 24 PP. - 24th Anniversary, 24 October 1971 with 8 PP. - Issue April 1972 with 12 PP. A total of 44 pages with b/w illustrations (plans, photos, portraits). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5.

50488
NAVY LEAGUE
THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1953
$15.00 AUD

Navy League. London. 1952. Yearly edition. 236 PP with many adverts, b/w photos, and 7 colour plates (1 on double page). Diary between pages 173 and 235. Soft cover, gilt device and title on front cover, dj (chipped). Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine internally. 24 x 18.5.

An annual review with articles including: The Queen and her Crown - World front-pages Royal Navy - Review of Naval Aviation - The Fishing Fleets by David Divine. Thomas Neill, by Taffrail...

50489
NAVY LEAGUE
THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1951
$15.00 AUD

Navy League. London. 1950. Yearly edition. 208 PP with many adverts, b/w photos, and 4 colour plates on double page. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover. Faint foxing on outside edges, front cover has a few small marks, o/wise near fine internally. 24.2 x 18.5.

An annual review with articles including: Royal Families and the Sea - Sea Power of the Empire - Sea Power against world communism - Ships that pass in the night, by Godfrey Winn...

50490
NAVY LEAGUE
THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1949
$15.00 AUD

Navy League. London. 1948. Yearly edition. 240 PP with many adverts, b/w photos, and 4 colour plates on double page. Diary between pages 187 and 240. Soft cover, gilt device and title on front cover. Lower corner of leaf 7/8 damaged. 3 leaves of the article Commonwealth Navies with lower part 77/78 or upper part 81/82 , 83/84 cut. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine internally. 24 x 18.5.

An annual review with articles including: Royal Progress - Royal Marines in the Atomic Age - Commonwealth navies by Lt. Commander Kemp... The Bus that went to France, by Bartimeus.

50491
NAVY LEAGUE
THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1948
$15.00 AUD

Navy League. London. 1947. Yearly edition. 230 PP with many adverts, b/w photos. Diary between P.179 and 230. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover. With compliments note from the South Australian Branch of the Navy League. Faint foxing on outside edges, rear cover a little soiled, o/wise near fine internally. 24 x 18.5.

An annual review with articles including: The Mountbatten Tradition - The Navy and the Atom Bomb - Air and the Atom... Drama at Westminster, by Beverley Baxter...

72496
OGDEN, Graeme
MY SEA LADY - The Story of H.M.S. Lady Madeleine, from February 1941 to February 1943
$20.00 AUD

Hutchinson. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 201, (3) PP with 16 b/w illustrations by Richard Elsden. Hard cover, dj. Ex Library copy with stamps on endpapers and a few pages with pen marks. Very good reading copy. 21.5 x 14.5.

A personal narrative of the author's escort duty on the Arctic convoys. The Lady Madeleine was the largest of the fishing trawlers converted for anti-submarine duties in WWII.

18625
PACINI, Eugene
LA MARINE, Arsenaux, Navires, Equipages, Navigation, Atterrages, Combats
$50.00 AUD

Edition des 4 Seigneurs. Grenoble. 1981. Reprint of the 1844 original. (6), 240 PP with 119 b/w illust., plus 23 b/w plates and colour plates (8 of uniforms, 1 of flags). Dark blue simile vellum, gilt title on spine, ribbon book-mark. French text. Light foxing on covers and prelims, o/wise near fine. 27 x 17.

The Navy: shipyards and ships, crew, flags, navigation and landfalls, sea battles. Illustrations by Morel-Fatio.

31599
PACK, S. W. C.
SEA POWER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - A study of the struggle for sea power in the Mediterranean from the seventeenth century to the present day
$20.00 AUD

Arthur Barker. London. 1971 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral Sir John Hamilton. X, 260 PP with 10 maps and figures, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with some chips and tears and in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0213003945

45848
PADFIELD, Peter
DÖNITZ ET LA GUERRE DES U-BOOTE
$10.00 AUD

Le Grand Livre du Mois. Paris. 1986. 1st French edition translated from the 1984 original Dönitz, the Last Führer, by Gilberte Marchegay. 468 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges and endpapers. Near fine. French text. 24.7 x 15.6. 2857042094

72528
PARKER, Mike
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET - An Oral History of Canadian Merchant Seamen in World War II
$45.00 AUD

Nimbus Publishing. Halifax, NS. 1994. 1st Ed. Foreword by Honourable Jack Marshall, Senator. XII, 344 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map, documents, portraits, photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Front cover with a light crease and shelf wear. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous owner at top corner of half title page, o/wise near fine. 25.4 x 18.. 9781551090689

44077
PASCALLON, Pierre (editor)
LES ARMEES FRANCAISES A L'AUBE DU XXIe SIECLE - Tome I: La Marine Nationale
$50.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2002. 1st Ed., in Collection Défense, with an introduction by Alain, Oudot de Dainville, Vice-Amiral d'Escadre. 460 PP, (6 advertisements) with maps, graphs, diagrams and b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747525341

The French Navy at the turn of the 21st century.

18229
PASQUELOT, Maurice
LES DOSSIERS SECRETS DE LA MARINE, Londres-Vichy 1940-1944
$10.00 AUD

N.E.L. Paris. 1977. 1st Ed. 298 PP, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spine creased. Faint foxing. French text. Near fine. 22.3 x 14. 2723300226

A history of the French Navy Secret Service during WWII: sinking of the Bismark - An unknown aspect of Captain Cousteau who helped secure the secret Italian code.

30851
PAWLOWSKI, Gareth L.
FLAT-TOPS AND FLEDGLINGS - A History of American Aircraft Carriers
$20.00 AUD

A. S. Barnes. New York. 1971. 1st Ed. 530 PP with over 400 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (closed tears). Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. 28.8 x 22.2. 0498076415

Part I: the flat-tops. Part II: the fledglings (early planes, fighter aircraft... Early Warning aircraft). Part III: medals and commendations.

34843
PEILLARD, Léonce
GESCHICHTE DES U-BOOTKRIEGES 1939-1945
$5.00 AUD

Verlag Buch und Welt. Wien. c.1970. 1st German edition translated from the 1970 French original Histoire Genérale de la guerre Sousmarine 1939-1945. 472 PP with 2 maps, 4 graphs and 10 tables, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Cloth cover. Faint foxing. German text. Fine. 21.3 x 13.2.

General history of submarine warfare during World War II.

49542
PERCHOC, Michel & FUCHS, Jean-Virgile
PAGES D'HISTOIRE NAVALE
$30.00 AUD

Editions du Gerfaut. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 75 colour illustrations (32 details and 43 on full page), all watercolours by André Lambert. Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Fine. Oblong: 26.2 x 30.5. 291462249X

A pictorial history of the French Navy: The fight of La Cordelliere in 1512... Trafalgar in 1805... to: Herackles Mission (Afghanistan, October 2001 to June 2002) on board the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

47510
PIVET, Ingénieur Principal de l' Armement
FREGATE DUGUAY-TROUIN, Construite par la Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales de Lorient
$25.00 AUD

Direction Technique des Constructions Navales. Lorient. 1973. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 1 cutaway in colour at centrefold (frigate type Tourville), 13 b/w illustrations and 8 colour photos. Title page: Crest of Duguay-Trouin. Soft cover, copper crest attached on front cover. Near fine. French text. Oblong: 21 x 27.

Frigate of the Tourville Class, launched 1st of June 1973.

47509
PIVET, Ingénieur Principal de l'Armement
FREGATE DUGUAY-TROUIN, Construite par la Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales de Lorient
$10.00 AUD

Direction Technique des Constructions Navales. Lorient. 1973. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 1 cutaway in colour at centrefold (frigate type Tourville), 13 b/w illustrations and 8 colour photos. Title page: Crest of Duguay-Trouin. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. French text. Oblong: 21 x 27.

Frigate of the Tourville Class, launched 1st of June 1973.

48242
PIVET, Ingénieur Principal de l'Armement
FREGATE DUGUAY-TROUIN, Construite par la Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales de Lorient
$10.00 AUD

Direction Technique des Constructions Navales. Lorient. 1973. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 1 cutaway in colour at centrefold (frigate type Tourville), 13 b/w illustrations and 8 colour photos. Title page: Crest of Duguay-Trouin. Original soft cover without the copper crest. Near fine. French text. Oblong: 21 x 27.

Frigate of the Tourville Class, launched 1st of June 1973.

73411
POLAK, Christian
SABRE ET PINCEAU, par d'autres Français au Japon
$250.00 AUD

Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française au Japon. Tokyo. 2005. 1st bilingual edition. Foreword by Hiroshi Ueki. Preface by Philippe Pons. Note on the author by Florence Ogawa. 248 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Peinture sur soie. Hard cover, title in French and Japanese (calligraphy by Kiyoe Fujimori) on front board and spine, dj. Text in French and Japanese. Fine (as new condition). A scarce item. 31 x 23.5.

Sabre and Paint Brush. Sabre / Sword - When France was helping Japan to modernize: the Imperial Army (pages 10 to 61) / Imperial Navy (pages 62 to 75) / Japan and French Air Force (pages 77 to 151). Pinceau / Paint Brush - French arists in Japan: Félix Régamey, painter and traveler) / Paul Jacoulet, the other Utamaro / Noël Nouët, the other Hiroshige.

34191
POLMAR, Norman
SOVIET NAVAL POWER - Challenge for the 1970s
$10.00 AUD

Macdonald and Jane's. London. 1974. 1st UK revised edition of the 1972 original. XI, 126 PP with 12 b/w photos. Hard cover. Very good. 23.5 x 17. 0356081583

20387
POLMAR, Norman (Editor)
SOVIET NAVAL DEVELOPMENTS
$10.00 AUD

The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co. Annapolis. 1979. Revised and updated 1974 original. (6), 119 PP with tables, graphs, plans and 106 bw photos. FEP: profiles of Soviet warship classes. REP: Profiles of Soviet submarine classes. Cloth cover, dj. Owner stamp in blind on lower corner of front endpaper. Foxing spots. Very good. 25.7 x 18. 0933852010

72829
POOLMAN, Kenneth
ARK ROYAL
$5.00 AUD

NEL / New English Library. London. 1978. June 1978 reprint of the 1975 NEL paperback edition (of the 1956 original). 173, (3 publications) PP. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner on half title page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good reading copy. 17.8 x 10.8. 0450039536

Pursuit of the "Graf Spee" - Against Vichy battleships at Oran - Fight against the Bismark - Torpedoed off Gibralter in Nov. 1941.

20905
PREGER, W.
THE HUMBLE DUTCH HERRING
$40.00 AUD

F.W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1944. 1st Imprint of 4000 copies. 62 PP with 2 head pieces, 7 tail pieces in text plus 32 bw plates. Fp: The Herring packers by Cees Bolding, 1939. Eps: Map of the North Sea. Soft cover, pict. dj. Very good. 25 x 19.

A history of Holland, her Empire and their seafaring people up to the Pacific War. Dedicated to all Dutch seafarers "To you who for four long and homeless years have courted death that others might live."

18756
PRESTON, Antony
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE NAVIES OF WORLD WAR II
$10.00 AUD

Hamlyn / Bison Books. London. 1976. 1st Ed. 224 PP with maps, b/w photos, as well as artworks in b/w or colour by John Batchelor. Illustrated title-page and half title-page. FEP: Map of the European theater of operations. REP: Map of the Pacific theater of operations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large format: 30.2 x 22.7. 0600365697

52681
PRESTON, Antony
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE NAVIES OF WORLD WAR II
$5.00 AUD

PRC. London. 1998. Reprint of the 1982 edition (original of 1976). 224 PP with b/w illustrations (maps, photos, and artworks by John Batchelor), plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Illustrated title-page and half title-page. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. Large format: 30.2 x 23. 1856484718

72625
RAEDER, Erich
GRAND ADMIRAL
$35.00 AUD

Da Capo Press. New York. 2001. 1st paperback republication of the 1960 English original "My Life". Translated from the German original by Henry W. Drexel. Foreword by H. Kent Hewitt, Admiral USN. XVII, 430 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Neat Ex Libris stamp on half title page, o/wise as new condition. 23 x 14.8. 9780306809620

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

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

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

18767
RIMINGTON, Critchell
FIGHTING FLEETS - 1943 Edition
$20.00 AUD

Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1943. 1st Ed. XII, 312, 8 (Addenda, up to 15th July 1943) PP with hundreds of b/w illust. (maps, plans and photos). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on ffep. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 18.

The Naval warfare in 1942, Naval constructions, portfolio of capital ships, aircraft carriers... United States Fleet list, Checklist of the principal combat ships of the world's navies. Corrected to July 15th 1943.

42452
RIMINGTON, Critchell
FIGHTING FLEETS 1942
$20.00 AUD

Dodd, Mead and Co. New York. 1942. 5th Printing (October 1942) of the March 1942 original. XII, 240 PP, plus 4A PP (Appendix added to 5th Printing), with tables, 18 b/w illust. (drawings, profiles, sketches) and 300 b/w photos, index of ships, etc... Blue cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise a near fine copy. 22.5 x 17.

A comprehensive picture of the ships and plans of the fighting fleets of the world. This 6th printing of November 1942 gives the ship casualties after 10 months of US involvement in an appendix of 4 pages at back of book.

44346
RIMINGTON, Critchell
FIGHTING FLEETS - A Survey of the Navies of the World - 1944 Edition
$20.00 AUD

Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1944. 1st Ed. XII, 348 PP with hundreds of b/w illust. (maps, cut aways, plans and photos). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and spine. Covers slightly marked, and hinges rubbed. Lacks the free front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 18.

The Naval warfare in 1943, Naval constructions, portfolio of capital ships, aircraft carriers... United States Fleet list, Checklist of the principal combat ships of the world's navies. Loss as of June 15 1944.

60473
RIMINGTON, Critchell
FIGHTING FLEETS - 1943 Edition
$20.00 AUD

Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1943. 1st Ed. XII, 312 PP with hundreds of b/w illust. (maps, plans and photos). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on a sunned and rubbed spine. Name of previous owner on ffep. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 18.

The Naval warfare in 1942, Naval constructions, portfolio of capital ships, aircraft carriers... United States Fleet list, Checklist of the principal combat ships of the world's navies.

55792
RITTMEISTER, Wolfgang
DIE SCHIFFSFIBEL
$5.00 AUD

L. Staackmann Verlag. Leipzig. 1940. 1940 edition. 120 PP with illustrations by Alfred Malhau. Hard cover, illustrated front board. Spine repaired and reinforced. Slight ageing of paper. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. German text, gothic script. Good. 19.4 x 12.4.

72443
ROBERTS, John
THE BATTLECRUISER HOOD
$60.00 AUD

Conway Maritime Press. London. 1982. 1st Ed., in the "Anatomy of the Ship" Series. 127 PP with 11 tables, 24 b/w photos and up to 300 perspective and 3-view drawings. Title spread: H.M.S. Hood. Hard cover, dj. Errata slip pasted down on verso of title page. Neat stamp of previous owner on FFEP and another signature at top corner of title-page. Paper ageing a little around edges, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Oblong: 25 x 26. 0851772501

42528
ROHWER, Jürgen
DIE U-BOOT-ERFOLGE DES ACHSENMÄCHTE 1939-1945
$20.00 AUD

Munich. 1968. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag. 1st Ed. XXIV, 376 PP, plus 3 folded plate in rear pocket with 10 maps. Cloth cover. Discreet scoring in front of a few names of ships sunk, o/wise fine. Image shows title-page. German text. Oblong: 14.8 x 21.2.

U-Boat successes during World War II.

55487
ROHWER, Jürgen
DIE SOWJETISCHE FLOTTE IM ZWEITEN WELTKRIEG. Ein Bericht über die sowjetische Literatur
$5.00 AUD

Dernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen. Frankfurt/Main. 1960. Reprint from Jahresbibliographie Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte Weltkriegsbücherei, Volume 32, 1960, pages 383 - 410. 30 PP. Soft cover (reinforced at spine). Slight ageing of paper. German text. Very good. 21 x 15.

Soviet Fleet during WWII.

72441
ROHWER, Jürgen
WAR AT SEA 1939-1945
$20.00 AUD

Caxton Editions. London. 2001. Reprint. 192 PP with 252 b/w photos. Fp: German Battleship Schleswig-Holstein entering the harbour of Dantzig on the 25th of August 1939. Hard cover, dj (in a mylar sleeve). Neat ex-libris name stamp on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 30.5 x 24.5. 1840673621

The Naval arms race from 1922 to the outbreak of the second World War. Battles on the oceans and seas of the world between 1939 and 1945.

21918
ROSIGNOLI, Guido
BADGES AND INSIGNIA OF WORLD WAR II: Air Force - Naval - Marine
$10.00 AUD

Exeter Books. New York. 1983. 1st US Ed. as a combined volume of Air Force Badges and Insignia of WWII, and Naval and Marine Badges and Insignia of WWII. 363 PP with 6 bw, and 144 colour plates. Decorated hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.3 x 14.2. 0671060082

Over 2500 colour illustrations of badges, insignia, shoulder straps, cap tallies...

68743
ROSIGNOLI, Guido
BADGES AND INSIGNIA OF WORLD WAR II: Air Force - Naval - Marine
$5.00 AUD

Peerage Books. London. 1983. 1st Ed. as a combined volume of Air Force Badges and Insignia of WWII, and Naval and Marine Badges and Insignia of WWII. 363 PP with 6 bw, and 144 colour plates. Decorated hard cover. Stamps of University of Tasmania on endpapers, top outside edge and title page, library No. at foot of spine. No other marks and still a very good clean copy. 21.3 x 14.2. 0907408346

Over 2500 colour illustrations of badges, insignia, shoulder straps, cap tallies...

36623
ROY-CHAUDHURY, Rahul
SEA POWER AND INDIAN SECURITY
$30.00 AUD

London. 1995. Brasseys. 1st Ed. 222 PP with 2 maps, 4 graphs and 9 tables Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 23.5 x 15. 1857530500

35524
RUGE, Friedrich
SEEMACHT UND SICHERHEIT - Eine Schicksalsfrage für alle Deutschen
$5.00 AUD

Fritz Schlichtenmayer. Tübingen, Germany. 1955. 1st Ed. 78 PP with 2 tables and 3 maps. Card cover (rubbed). Very good. German text. 20.2 x 12.5.

Naval Power and Security - fate of Germany.

35525
RUGE, Friedrich
POLITIK UND STRATEGIE - Strategisches Denken und Politisches Handeln
$5.00 AUD

Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 1967. Bernard & Graefe. 1st Ed. VII, 319 PP. Soft cover (rubbed). German text. Faint foxing. Very good. 20.5 x 13.4.

Policy and Strategy: Strategic thoughts and Political acts.

35526
RUGE, Friedrich
SEEMACHT UND SICHERHEIT
$5.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe. Frankfurt am Main. 1968. 3rd expanded edition of the 1955 original. 164 PP with 5 maps and graphs. Soft cover. German text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 20.5 x 13.

Naval Power and Security - fate of Germany.

60298
RUIZ, Flag Officer In Command Hilario M.
PHILIPPINE NAVY DAY - 34th Anniversary: February 9, 1973
$10.00 AUD

Naval Public Relations Office Manila. 1973. 1st Ed. 20 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.5.

A Seafaring Nation: historical synopsis. Philippine Coast Guard. Naval Shore Establishments. Marine Brigade. ... Naval Construction Battalion.

60846
RUIZ, Flag Officer In Command Hilario M.
PHILIPPINE NAVY ANNIVERSARY ISSUE - 33rd Anniversary: February 9, 1972 (in Philippine Navy Log)
$5.00 AUD

Naval Public Relations Office. Manila. 1972. Vol. IV, No. 1, January 1972. 10 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 26.5 x 20.

18357
RUTTER, Owen
RED ENSIGN, A History of Convoy
$5.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1942. 1st Ed. 214 PP, plus 18 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Fp: They bring their food from afar. Red cloth cover is lightly soiled and worn around edges, war economy paper, foxing on outside edges, o/wise internally, a very good clean copy. 22 x 14.

The convoys of merchant ships in history: Tudor, Stuart, Napoleonic wars, WWI and early days of WWII.

16761
SAHIB, & VICHOT, Jacques
MARINS & NAVIRES - ANCIENS & MODERNES, PAR SAHIB (1890)
$10.00 AUD

Musée de la Marine. Paris. 1977. 1st Ed. (4), 68 PP with many b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 27 x 21.

Reprint of a history of ships & sailors of the navies through cartoons, published by Sahib (a sort of Pooh-Bah) in 1890.

43816
SAHIB, (LESAGE, Louis Ernest & GOURDON, Christian )
LA FREGATE L'INCOMPRISE, Voyage autour du Monde
$30.00 AUD

Voiles / Gallimard. Paris. 1980. Reprint of the 1881 edition published by Librairie Léon Vanier, (original of 1876). (4), 212 PP with hundreds of drawings by Louis Ernest Lesage (a.k.a. Sahib). Red cloth cover, gilt title on an illustrated front cover. Near fine. 31.5 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.

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.

69223
SAJIMA, Naoko & TACHIKAWA, Kyoichi
JAPANESE SEA POWER: A Maritime Nation's Struggle for Identity
$25.00 AUD

The Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2009. 1st Ed. Volume No. 2, in the Foundations of International Thinking on Sea Power series. Preface by Gregory P. Gilbert. 202 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780642297051

46748
SCHIRMANN, Jacques (editor)
IPHIGENIE. Journal de bord de l'Aspirant Charles Millot, dernière campagne 1899-1900
$25.00 AUD

Editions Marcel-Didier Vrac. Le Touvet, France. 2001. 1st Ed. 102, (2) PP with b/w illustrations (sketches, plans, 85 photos...), plus 12 pages with 1 b/w postcard, and 17 sketches (coastal views) in colour. Title page: Iphigenie, training ship of the French Navy, rod of Funchal, Azores. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. French text. 33.6 x 21.5 2910821404

Aspirant Millot is better known in the French Navy as "Gervèse" the illustrator of daily life in the navy... Last cruise of Iphigenie, to train cadets of the French Navy.

72600
SCHMALENBACH, Paul
KM BISMARCK / BATTLESHIP
$20.00 AUD

Profile Publications. London. 1972 May 1972 edition. No. 18 in the Warship Profile series. 24 PP (P.121 to 144) with 1 colour double length centrefold (badge, profile), 4 plans, and 47 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near name stamp of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise very good. 25.2 x 18.7.

Sunk 27th May 1941.

38549
SCHONEFELD, Dr.-Ing. Helmut (editor)
DEUTSCHER KRIEGSSCHIFFBAU HEUTE
$10.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe Verlag. München. 1982. 1st Ed. (14 adv.), 132 PP with 144 figures (illustrations, tables and graphs). Pictorial laminated boards. Signature of previous owner on verso of FFEP, o/wise fine. German text. 24.5 x 17.5. 3763756019

11 papers on the German Navy Today (military technology and warships). Seminar held in Bremen 18 and 19 February 1982.

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.

61329
SELIGMAN, Adrian
NO STARS TO GUIDE
$15.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1951. Reprint of the June 1947 original. 332 PP with 2 facsimiles of documents, 7 head-pieces & 33 b/w other decorations, plus 6 maps on double page. All illustrations by Konstance Pares. FEP: Map of Anatolia and the Aegean Sea. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and repaired tears. Occasional foxing. A very good reading copy. 22.8 x 15.

Escape of a Russian convoy from the Dardanelles to Syria in late 1941, through islands occupied by Germany or Italy. The author was Commanding Officer of the Levant Schooner Flotilla during WWII.

72987
SENGUPTA, Prasun K. (editor)
ASIAN DEFENCE YEARBOOK 1999-2000
$40.00 AUD

Syed Hussain Publications / Asian Defence Journal. Kuala Lumpur. 2000. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dato' Seri Mohd Najib, Minister of Defence Malaysia. 196 PP (5 of them with advertising material) with Organisation Charts and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 23 x 21.5.

The Sri Lankan Civil War. ... The Fifth India - Pakistan War: Kargil-Drass-Batalik sectors in Kashmir. ...

34846
SIEWERT, Wulf
DER ATLANTIK - Geopolitik eines Weltmeeres
$10.00 AUD

Verlag und Druck von B. R. Teubner. Leipzig. 1940. 1st Ed. in the Macht und Erde series. VI, 98 PP with 10 maps. Illustrated card cover. Near fine. German text in gothic script. 21.5 x 14.8.

The Atlantic Ocean. Geopolitics and world power.

39615
SNYDER, Gerald S.
THE ROYAL OAK DISASTER
$25.00 AUD

Presidio. San Rafael, Ca. USA. 1978. 1st US edition of the 1976 UK original. 261 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 24 pages with 42 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 21.4 x 14.6.

On 13/14 October 1939, U-Boat 47 penetrated the Royal Navy base of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and sunk the Royal Oak: 833 dead, 424 survivors.

44356
SORENSEN, Paul Bjorn
DIE DÄNISCHE MARINE IN DEN 80er JAHREN (in Marine-Rundschau - No.78, Issue 3, March 1981)
$10.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe Verlag. München. 1981. . Contains article from P.130 to 139 with 2 organigrams, 4 maps and 18 b/w photos. Soft cover. Near fine. German text. 29.8 x 21.

The Danish Navy.

46677
SPIRIDONOVA, Lioudmila, LOFFE, Alexandre, et al.. (editors)
LA FLOTTE DE L'EMPIRE DE RUSSIE
$20.00 AUD

Romain Pages Editions. Paris. 1996. 1st French edition, translated from the Russian original by Vladimir Maximoff. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. French text. 28.7 x 20.6. 2908878798

The Imperial Russian Navy 1696 to 1917. Published for the 300 years anniversary of its founding. Chapter V: Explorations and Scientific voyages.

63023
STEWART, I. G.
LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME, and Their Contribution to World Shipping History
$120.00 AUD

Ian Stewart Marine Publications. Rockingham Beach, W.A. 1992. 1st edition limited to 500 numbered copies. (2), 322 PP profusely illustrated with b/w & colour photos. Fp: "Pacific Nomad". Pictorial laminated boards. Certificate pasted down on front endpaper, hand numbered (054/500), dated and signed by the author. A tiny bump to top front corner, o/wise a fine copy. 30 x 21.5. 0646059874

The standard tramp vessel designed to last a few months & its contribution to the Allied Forces' war effort.

72555
STRATHERN, Paul
NAPOLEON IN EGYPT
$25.00 AUD

Bantam Dell. New York. 2008. 1st US edition of the 2007 UK original. XVI, 480 PP with 11 maps, plus 8 pages with 7 colour and 13 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, graffiti, paintings, portraits). Title spread: Savants measuring the Sphinx. Hard cover, dj. Fine (mint condition). 23.5 x 16. 9780553806786

57374
STRUCKMANN, Kommandör A. C.
DIE KÖNIGLICH DÄNISCHE MARINE-AKADEMIE / THE ROYAL DANISH NAVAL ACADEMY (in Marine-Rundschau - No. 79, Issue 5, May 1982)
$10.00 AUD

Bernard & Graefe Verlag. München. 1982. Contains article (in German and English) from P.228 to 233 with 9 b/w photos. Soft cover. Near fine. German text. 29.8 x 21.

The Danish Navy.

32658
SWEETMAN, Jack (editor)
THE GREAT ADMIRALS - Command at Sea, 1587-1945
$20.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1997. 1st printing of the 1997 original. XXVI, (2), 535 PP with 18 prints and photos, and 31 maps and charts. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Top corner of rear jacket clipped. Some underlining in blue or red biro, o/wise a very good clean & bright copy. 23.4 x 15.8. 087021229X

Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, father of Naval tactics, by J.J.A. Wijn. Niels Juel, the good old knight, by Hans Christian Bjerg. Pierre-Andre de Suffren de Saint-Tropez, Admiral Satan, by Philippe Masson. Horatio Nelson, a man to be loved, by Gerald Jordan...

72546
TAYLOR, Stephen
STORM AND CONQUEST - The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809
$30.00 AUD

W. W. Norton & Co. New York. 2008. 1st US edition. XX, 380 PP with 23 b/w illustrations (1 map on double page with 2 insets, 2 maps, drawings, paintings, porraits ..), plus 8 pages with 14 illustrations (3 b/w and 11 in colour). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780393060478

16635
TERZIBASCHITSCH, Stefan
KREUZER DER U.S. NAVY, Von der OMAHA-Klasse (1922) bis zur LONG BEACH (1962)
$5.00 AUD

Koehlers. Herford, Germany. 1984. 1st Ed. (2), 348 PP, (2 adv), with tables, 49 plans and profiles and 402 bw photos. Fp: USS Columbus (CA-74). FEP: USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) in August 1935. REP: Plans of USS Wichita (CGN-9). Hard cover, dj. German text. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 27.5 x 21.5. 3782203488

The cruisers of the U.S. Navy, from the Omaha Class to the Long Beach.

40045
THOMAZI, A.
MARINS BATISSEURS D'EMPIRE - I - ASIE - OCEANIE - Visages de la Marine Volume 2
$20.00 AUD

Horizons de France. Paris. 1946. 64 PP with 75 b/w illustrations. Fp: Map of the French colonies in Asia and the Pacific. Soft cover, dj (lightly soiled). Notes on endpapers and Page 5. Ageing of paper and covers a little soiled. Very good. French text. 23.2 x 18.5.

India, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Cochinchina, Indochina.

40046
THOMAZI, A.
MARINS BATISSEURS D'EMPIRE - III - AMERIQUE
$20.00 AUD

Horizons de France. Paris. 1947. 1st Ed. Volume 5 in the Visages de la Marine series. 64 PP with 68 b/w illustrations. Fp: Map of the French colonies in America. Soft cover, dj with gilt title on front . Fine. French text. 23.2 x 18.5.

Nouvelle France / Canada - French West Indies - South America.

43767
THE TIMES (editors)
THE RUSSIAN NAVY: 1914-1918 (in The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War)
$30.00 AUD

The Times Publishing Company. London. 1918. Part 204, Vol. 16, July 16, 1918. (II), 289-324 PP with 2 maps and 39 b/w photos. Soft cover. Staples removed. Near fine. 30 x 20.3.

The Russian and the Revolution.

43768
THE TIMES (editors)
THE BLOCKADES, 1915-17: BRITISH AND GERMANS METHODS (in The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War)
$20.00 AUD

The Times Publishing Company. London. 1917. Part 158, Vol. 13, August 28, 1917. (II), 37-72 PP with 39 b/w photos. Soft cover (rubbed). Sellotape marks on covers and on first and last page. Staples removed, o/wise very good. 30 x 20.3.

German crimes at sea.

74267
TREADWELL, Terry C.
GERMAN AND AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS 1908-1918
$45.00 AUD

Amberley Publishing. Gloucestershire. 2010. 1st Ed. 283, (5) PP with b/w illustrations (2 documents and 121 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. As new. 24.5 x 17. 9781445601021

43204
TRUFFERT, A.
AUX POSTES DE COMBAT
$20.00 AUD

Editions G. P. Paris. 1945. 1st Ed. (4), 112 PP with watercolours by C. Le Baube. Title page: Badge of the Free French. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover. Front cover with small stains. Sellotape marks on endpapers, slight ageing of paper. Envoi de l'auteur (dedicatory note on front endpaper signed by the author). Near fine. Scarce. French text. 31.3 x 24.

French Navy during WWII.

52230
TRUFFERT, A.
AUX POSTES DE COMBAT
$10.00 AUD

Editions G. P. Paris. 1945. 1st Ed. (4), 112 PP with watercolours by C. Le Baube. Title page: Badge of the Free French. Hard cover, title and gilt device on front cover. Few foxing spots. Near fine. Scarce. French text. 31.3 x 24.

French Navy during WWII.

16791
TYE, Lt. Lawrence
1991 COMMEMORATION - THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY
$15.00 AUD

Bruce Mountain. Tauranga. 1991. Official Souvenir Magazine. 116 PP with b/w & colour illustrations, and advertisments. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 28 x 21.2.

Brief history: HMNZN dockyard - women of the RNZ Naval Service - hydrography - naval training.

75659
VAN DER KUIJL, Drs. Arjen
DE GLORIEUZE OVERTOCHT - De Expeditie van Willem III naar Engeland in 1688
$50.00 AUD

De Bataafsche Leeuw. Amsterdam. 1988. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 2 tables and 56 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note (in English) to John Anderson, Australian Historian, Latrobe University, Victoria, on title page, dated and signed by the author. Dutch text (with English summary: pages 77 to 80). Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9067071870

Dutch expeditionary force landing at Torbay, November 1688, when the Dutch Stadholder Prince Willem III, became William III, King of England.

48709
VAN VLIET, Adri P.
VIJFTIGJAAR "NIEUWE HAVEN" 1954 - 2004
$20.00 AUD

Institut voor Maritieme Historie. Den Haag. 2004. 1st Ed. 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings & engravings, maps & plans, and photos). Pictorial boards. Dutch text. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 21.8. 9071957373

Fifty years of a new Naval Base for the Dutch Navy.

75086
VERNE, Jules
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
$100.00 AUD

The World Publishing Co. Cleveland, Ohio. 1946. 2nd printing in the "Rainbow Classics" series, of September 1946. Introduction by May Lamberton Becker. 376 PP with b/w illustrations (16 on full page and 18 in text, plus 4 colour plates, endpapers and covers. All illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Fp (in colour): shark and divers. Illustrated endpapers: divers from Nautilus working on sea bottom. Illustrated cloth covers rubbed around edges, black spine a little soiled. Gutter of front endpaper split. Top outside edge tinted (sunned). Slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents are near fine. 21.7 x 14.8.

75087
VERNE, Jules
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
$15.00 AUD

Octopus Books Ltd. London. 1987. 1st Octopus Books edition. 219 PP. Hard covers, dj. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise fine. 24.2 x 15.5. 0706430239

A classic novel with factual details of early attempts to explore the ocean floors.

19285
VILLIERS, Alan
THE NETHERLANDS: Nation at War With the Sea [in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 133, No.4]
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1968. April 1968. Contains article between pages 530 and 571 with 2 plans, 5 maps, 2 b/w & 43 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

18786
VON DER PORTEN, Edward P.
THE GERMAN NAVY IN WORLD WAR TWO
$5.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1972. 2nd printing of the 1972 Pan Books edition, (original UK of 1970). XVI, 286, (2 adv.) PP with 6 maps & diagrams, plus 16 pages with 17 bw photos. Paperback. Covers with a few creases, light foxing of edges, o/wise a good copy. 17.8 x 11. 0330232355

The development of the new German Navy, following Scapa Flow (June 1919), her pre-war years (secret building programmes...).

37963
VON DER PORTEN, Edward P.
THE GERMAN NAVY IN WORLD WAR TWO
$10.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1972. 1st paperback edition of the 1970 UK original published by Arthur Barker. XVI, 286, (2 adv.) PP with 6 maps & diagrams, plus 16 pages with 17 bw photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges. Ex-libris stamp of previous owner on half-title page. Very good copy. 17.8 x 11. 0330232355

The development of the new German navy, following Scapa Flow (June 1919), her pre-war years (secret building programmes...).

40376
VON DER PORTEN, Edward P.
THE GERMAN NAVY IN WORLD WAR II
$5.00 AUD

Thomas Y. Crowell Co. New York. 1969. 2nd printing of the first U.S. edition. XIV, 274 PP with 6 maps & diagrams & 40 b/w photos in text. Fp: Scuttling of the Graf Spee. Cloth cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Note on half title page. Very good. 23.2 x 15.5.

The development of the new German navy, following Scapa Flow (June 1919), the pre-war years (secret building programmes...).

72485
VON DER PORTEN, Edward P.
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN NAVY IN WORLD WAR II
$35.00 AUD

Thomas Y. Crowell Co. New York. 1976. Revised Edition of 1969 first edition. XIV, 368 PP with more than 300 b/w photos and Appendices and Index. Hard cover with light shelf wear, nice dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Neat name stamp of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. 28.5 x 22. 069001080X

Contents: The New Navy, The First Battles, Norway, Sea Lion, Grand Strategy (The Mediterranean), Surface forces, The North Atlantic (The Submarine Offensive), Surface Forces, The North Atlantic (The Submarine Defensive).

55589
VON IMHOFF, Christoph
DUELL IM MITTELMEER - Moskau greift nach dem Nahen und dem Mittleren Osten
$5.00 AUD

Verlag Rombach. Freiburg, Germant. 1968. 1st paperback edition. 434, (2) PP with 11 maps. Soft cover. German text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 20.5 x 13.

35129
VON TROTHA, Adolf
SEEGELTUNG - WELTGELTUNG, Gedanken eines Admirals
$10.00 AUD

E.S. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1940. 1st Ed. XII, 139, (5 publications) PP, plus 7 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. German text in Gothic script. 23.5 x 15.8.

Thoughts of German Admiral Adolf von Trotha on sea power and world domination.

50529
VORSTELMAN, Carel
VAN DE ZEE EN DE ZEEMAN
$20.00 AUD

Hollandia Drukkerij N. V. Baarn. 1941. 1st Ed., in the Uit Onze Gouden Eeuw series. 79 PP with illustrations by B. Mohr. Hard cover, gilt device and title on front cover and spine. Covers rubbed. Top corner of 2 first leaves with old water stain, slight ageing of paper. Dutch text. Good. 15.3 x 10.8.

Sea and seamen during the Dutch golden age.

72489
WADE, Frank
A MIDSHIPMAN'S WAR, A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943
$30.00 AUD

Cordillera. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. 1994. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 5 plans, 7 maps, 8 drawings and 93 bw photos in text. Hard cover, dust jacket. Small neat name stamp of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 23.5 x 145.5. 189559006X

38243
WARD, John
SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II
$10.00 AUD

Brown Partworks. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 96 PP with over 90 b/w photographs. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 22.3. 1840440686

Main warships. Design, development and service history for each ship.

35455
WARSHIPS
THE GATEFOLD BOOK OF THE WORLD'S GREAT WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD

Sandstone Books / Brown Books. Sydney. 1998. Reprint of the 1994 UK original. (8) PP with 4 colour photos, plus 36 pull-out gatefolds. Each gatefold (29.5 x 86) with a cut-away in colour, and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, spiral bound. Some foxing, o/wise very good. 30.7 x 26. 1897884028

From the Roman Galley and the Viking Longship, to the Dreadnought, the Nimitz etc...

53833
WARSHIPS
THE GATEFOLD BOOK OF THE WORLD'S GREAT WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD

Brown Books. London. 1994. 1st Ed. (8) PP with 4 colour photos, plus 36 pull-out gatefolds. Each gatefold (29.5 x 86) with a cut-away in colour, and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, spiral bound. Fine. 30.7 x 26. 1897884028

From the Roman Galley and the Viking Longship, to the Dreadnought, the Nimitz etc...

70977
WATERS, Sydney D.
ORDEAL BY SEA - The New Zealand Shipping Company in the Second World War 1939-1945
$30.00 AUD

N.Z. Shipping Co. London. 1949. 1st Ed. XII, 263 PP with 1 map, plus 5 b/w plates. Fp: M/V Rangitata under attack in July 1940. Cloth cover, gilt title on vignette on spine, dj (repaired). Renewed dust jacket with remaining parts of original pasted down on front and spine. Contents in fine condition and overall a very good copy. Scarce. 20.5 x 13.4.

The war years for the ships & seamen of the NZ Shipping Co. and its associated Federal Steam Navigation Co. The loss of 19 owned and 4 operated ships.

32089
WATSON, Bruce W.
THE CHANGING FACE OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES: 1945 to the Present
$10.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 281 PP with 77 tables, plus 48 pages with 96 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 1854090178

36331
WATSON, Bruce W.
THE CHANGING FACE OF THE WORLD'S NAVIES: 1945 to the Present
$5.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1991. 1st Ed. 281 PP with 77 tables, plus 48 pages with 96 b/w photos. Hard cover. Fine. 24 x 16. 1854090178

72845
WATT, Commander Frederick B.
IN ALL RESPECTS READY - The Merchant Navy and The Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945
$10.00 AUD

Totem Books. Toronto. 1986. 1st paperback edition of the 1985 original. Introduction by Gerald A. Morgan. XVIII, 222 PP. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Remainder mark on top outside edges. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 17.8 x 10.7. 06077100595

The Royal Canadian Navy and the help given to keep afloat the Allied Merchant Navy during the darkest days of the Battle of the Atlantic.

18755
WEBSTER SMITH, B.
THE WAR AT SEA 1941-1943
$10.00 AUD

Blackie & Son. London. c.1944. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 8 full-page b/w plates. Fp: Ordeal of Penelope. Cloth cover (rubbed). War economy paper (ageing), o/wise very good. 20 x 13.5.

Crete and the Middle East in 1941. Japanese attacks, Malta, Atlantic battles.

59125
WEBSTER SMITH, B.
THE NAVAL WAR 1943-1945
$10.00 AUD

Blackie & Son. London. c.1946. 1st Ed. 207 PP with 1 diagram and 2 maps, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: H.M.S. Magpie. Cloth cover, dj (worn and chipped). War economy paper (ageing), o/wise very good. 20 x 13.5.

Invasion of Italy. ... Battle of the Atlantic. The Navy in the Pacific. ...

34898
WEGENER, Edward
MOSKAUS OFFENSIVE ZUR SEE - Eine Untersuchung der seestrategischen Rolle de sowjetischen Marinestreitkräfte im Ost-West-Konflikt
$10.00 AUD

Deutsches Marine-Institut. Bonn-Bad Godesberg. 1972. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 7 maps, plus 14 pages with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. German text. 20.5 x 13.6.

Soviet Navy: strategy and sea power.

53014
WEGENER, Edward
THE SOVIET NAVAL OFFENSIVE
$5.00 AUD

Annapolis. c. 1975. Naval Institute Press. 1st US edition of the 1972 original Moskaus Offensive zur See. VIII, (2), 135 PP with 7 maps. Hard cover, dj. Lacks the title page. Very good. 23.5 x 16.

An examination of the strategic role of Soviet naval forces in the east-west conflict.

16795
WHITEHOUSE, Arch.
AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS
$15.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1964. 1st UK Ed. 351 PP with 10 maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 15.

Amphibious action: Caesar landing in Britain, Louisbourg and Quebec to WWII and Inchon landing in Korea.

72439
WHITLEY, M. J.
DESTROYERS OF WORLD WAR TWO - An International Encyclopedia
$70.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 2002. Reprint of 1988 1st Ed. 320 PP with tables and over 480 b/w illust. (photos and line drawings). Half title page: "Janus" as completed. Title spread: "Casque" in August 1942. Hard cover, dj in a protective sleeve. Neat small ex-libris stamp on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 25.2 x 24.8. 0870213261

72478
WHITLEY, M. J.
GERMAN CAPITAL SHIPS OF WORLD WAR TWO
$50.00 AUD

Arms & Armour Press. London. 1990. Reprint of the 1989 original. 224 PP with b/w illustrations (ship plans & sketches, maps & photos & tables). Title spread: Trondheim, 11 June 1940 with Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Kondor, Lody. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Neat "Ex-Libris" stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 24.5. 9780853689706

The design, construction and operational history of German Capital Ships: Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, Admiral Graf Spee...

72587
WILLIAMSON, Gordon
GERMAN DESTROYERS - 1939-45
$25.00 AUD

Osprey Publishing. Oxford. 2003. 1st Ed. 48 PP with b/w photos and artwoks in colour by Ian Palmer on covers, title page and on pages 25 to 32. Pictorial stiff covers. Neat name stamp of previous owner on title-page, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 18.5. 9781841765044

76038
WINCHESTER, Clarence (editor)
SHIPPING WONDERS OF THE WORLD (Volume 1 only of the 4 Volume set)
$30.00 AUD

The Waverley Book Company. London. c.1937. Edition de Luxe. Volume I: (2), 1-390 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings, aketches and photos (including 23 photographic plates), plus 8 colour plates. Fp (in colour): The "Ariel" of 1865. Cloth cover, title and decoration in blind on front cover, gilt title on a faded spine. Covers with shelf wear, frayed at head and foot of spine. Gutter of Frontispice and Title page with old sellotape marks. Offsetting of endpapers and ageing of paper. Otherwise contents are very good. 28.2 x 22.

Covers all maritime subjects with many chapters written by Frank C. Bowen & A.C. Hardy (consulting editors) and other well-known maritime authors.

74304
WINN, Godfrey
'P.Q.17'
$20.00 AUD

Hutchinson. London. 1953. Collected edition (September 1953) of the 1947 original. (4), 219 PP, plus 14 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: The Captain. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, with track of the convoy. Cloth cover. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Signature of previous owner on half-title-page. Very good reading copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 21.8 x 14.5.

Story of the Northern route of the convoys from the British Isles and Iceland to Murmansk and Archangel. Convoy P.Q. 17.

18731
WINTON, John
AIR POWER AT SEA 1939-45
$15.00 AUD

Hutchinson of Australia. Melbourne. 1976. 1st Australian edition. 185, (2 index) PP with 12 drawings and 128 b/w photos. Title spread: Douglas SBD Dauntless on an auxiliary aircraft carrier in the Atlantic. FEP: Map of Europe and the Mediterranean sea. REP: Map of the Pacific war theatre. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 25.5 x 19. 0283983132

The influence of air power: successes and failures. The use of aircraft: torpedo strike, fighter defence over fleets and convoys, support to assault troups landing, mine-laying, air-sea rescue...

35934
WINTON, John
AIR POWER AT SEA 1939-45
$15.00 AUD

Thomas Y. Crowell. New York. 1977. 1st US Ed. 185, (2 index) PP with 12 drawings and 128 b/w photos. Title spread: Douglas SBD Dauntless on an auxiliary aircraft carrier in the Atlantic. FEP: Map of Europe and the Mediterranean sea. REP: Map of the Pacific war theatre. Hard cover, dj. Neat name stamp of previous owner on FEP. Near fine. 25.5 x 19. 0690012225

The influence of air power: successes and failures. The use of aircraft: torpedo strike, fighter defence over fleets and convoys, support to assault troups landing, mine-laying, air-sea rescue...

21012
WINTON, John (editor)
THE WAR AT SEA 1939-1945 - An Anthology of Personal Experience selected and edited by John Winton
$5.00 AUD

Pimlico. London. 1994. Reprint of the 1967 original. Volume I in the Freedom's Battle series. XX, 416 PP, plus 16 pages with 17 bw photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise very good. 23.3 x 15.2. 071266064X

The contributors: Winston Churchill, John Masefield, C.S. Forester, ..

37142
WOODWARD, David
THE RUSSIANS AT SEA
$15.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 254 PP with 3 maps. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing on outside edges and some pages, closed tear to the dust jacket. Very good. 24 x 16.5.

The expansion from the Baltic & Black Seas towards the Far East.

62759
WOODWARD, David
THE TIRPITZ
$5.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1955. 1st paperback "Kimber Pocket" edition of the 1953 original. XII, 13-190, (2 publications) PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Soft covers with wear and light ageing and foxing of paper. Good reading copy. 17.6 x 11.