50913 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 19, Nos. 1 & 2 - 1997
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1997. Edited by G.R. HENNING. No. 1: 72 PP with 4 figures. No. 2: 73-142 PP with 11 tables and 10 figures. Card covers. Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 24.3 x 16.3.
No. 1: A regular and reciprocal system of commerce: Botany Bay, Nootka Sound and the isles of Japan, by Robert J. King. From Torres Islands to Dobo: the 1905 departure of the Torres Strait pearl-shelling fleets to Aru, Netherlands East Indies, by Steve Mullins. Cook's Endeavour Bark, by Mike Connell and Des Liddy. Volume 2: Productivity in the 20th century Antarctic Pelagic and shore station Whaling, by Bjorn Basberg. The Dutch East India Company: a reluctant discoverer, by Femme S. Gaastra...
54027 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 6, Nos. 1 & 2 - 1984
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1984. Edited by Frank BROEZE. 76 PP with 10 figures. No. 2, October 1984. 77-152 PP with 10 figures. Card covers, faded around edges with light foxing, o/wise very good. 24.3 x 16.3.
No. 1: Jave-la-grande, by W.A.R. Richardson. Nos 1 & 2: The Maritime Fur Trade - (part I: Bonanza Years of the Fur Trade, 1789-1809 & part II: The Second phase, 1810-1820 ..., by Rhys Richards.
54028 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 9, Nos. 1 & 2 - 1987
$20.00 AUD
Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1987. Edited by John BACH & Vaughan EVANS. No. 1, April 1987: 72 PP with 17 figures. No. 2, October 1987. 73-148 PP with tables and 3 figures. Card covers, light foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.3 x 16.3.
No. 1: Scrimshaw in Australia (Part II), by Janet West...
70290 AAMH WHALING - SEALING - Special Issue of THE GREAT CIRCLE, Volume 40, No. 2, 2018
$40.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth, W.A. 2018. Special Issue: Vol. 40, No. 2, 2018, edited by Michael McCarthy. X, 155 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 24 x 16.3.
The role of Sealers, Whalers and Aboriginal People in the Exploration of Western Australia, by Ross Anderson. Findings from an Analysis of Data in the British Southern Whale Fishery, by Dale Chatwin. Foundations of the British South Sea Whale Fishery 1763-1785, by Jane Clayton. Three Sydney Whaling Captains of the 1830, by Mark Howard. Australian Sealers in the Antarctic Region 1820-1822, by Michael Pearson. The Whaling Career of Captain Robert Newby: A British Master Whaler in the Pacific, by Rhys Richards & Jocelyn Chisholm.
70391 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 24, No. 2, 2002
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Adelaide. 2002. Volume 24, No. 2, 2002, edited by Steve Mullins. 70 PP with 1 map and 3 b/w Photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24 x 16.3.
No. 2: James Clark and the Celebes Trading Co. ... in the Netherlands East Indies, by Steve Mullins.
70395 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 36, No. 2
$15.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth, W.A. 2014. Vol. 36, No.2 - 2014, edited by Michael McCarthy. (6), 108 PP with 13 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24 x 16.3.
No. 2. A Book of Empires: the Journal of Mary Ann Friend, 1829-31, by Deborah Care. ... Ship to shore: George Grey's Epic Coastal Explorations in Western Australia, 1837-39, by Matthew Mullumby.
70705 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 15, No. 1
$15.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1993. Vol. 15, No.1 - 1993, edited by G.R. Henning. 62, (2) PP with 1 table. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24 x 16.3.
No. 1: Early Sealing in the Falkland Islands Dependencies, by A. B. Dickinson. An 18th century Conventual Franciscan Naturalist on the Lapérouse Expedition: Père Laurent Receveur (1757-1788), by F. R. L. Carleton. ...
75254 ABBEY, Lloyd THE LAST WHALES
$5.00 AUD
Doubleday / Transworld Publishers Ltd. London. 1990. Paperback edition. 319 PP with 1 world map "The Great Blue Whales" (on double page) and a 5 pages glossary. Pictorial soft covers with a few light creases. Slight ageing of paper. Very good copy. 23.3 x 14.6. 9780385401159
64109 AGASSIZ, Alexander THE CORAL REEFS OF THE TROPICAL PACIFIC - Plates II, 106 to 199: Niue to Ladrones
$100.00 AUD
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge. 1903. February 1903 edition. No. IV of Volume XXVIII "Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College", Plates No. II. (6), no pagination, 376 PP with 94 b/w plates, each with protecting page and caption. Rebacked copy, soft cover with photocopy of title page pasted down on front cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 29 x 20.5.
Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from August 1899 to March 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U.S.N., commanding.
64110 AGASSIZ, Alexander THE CORAL REEFS OF THE TROPICAL PACIFIC - Plates III, 200 to 236: Charts and 2 colored plates
$100.00 AUD
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge. 1903. February 1903 edition. No. IV of Volume XXVIII "Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College", Plates No. II. (6), no pagination, 144 PP with 34 b/w plates of charts (22 of them folded), and 2 colour plates (Bora Bora & Pinaki), each with protecting page and caption. Rebacked copy, soft cover with photocopy of title page pasted down on front cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 29 x 20.5.
Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from August 1899 to March 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U.S.N., commanding.
61574 ALEXANDER, Caroline SOUTH POLE RACE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2011. Volume 220, No. 3, September 2011. 156 PP. Contains article P. 122 to 135 with 1map in colour, 1 figure and 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
The 1911 race to the South Pole between Scott and Amundsen.
74372 ALLEN, Everett S. CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT, The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
$40.00 AUD
Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1973. 2nd printing, 10/73 of the 1973 original. XII, 302 PP with 2 maps and 17 b/w illustrations (7 on double page). Eps: Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean, September 1871. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a few small pieces missing and is in a protective sleeve. Note at top of title page blocked out (liquid ink). Otherwise a near fine copy. 24 x 16. 0316034223
Out of a fleet of 39 American whaling ships, 32 of them were trapped or crushed by the ice pack in 1871-72.
33885 ALLEN, Gay Wilson MELVILLE AND HIS WORLD
$15.00 AUD
The Viking Press. New York. 1971. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 102 b/w illust. Title spread: The Harpooner prepares to strike, by Sir Oswald Brierly. Cloth cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 23.5 x 18.3. 0670467405
55168 ALLEN, Madelene Ferguson WAKE OF THE INVERCAULD - Shipwrecked in the sub-Antarctic: A great-gand daughter's pilgrimage
$25.00 AUD
Exisle Publishing. Auckland. 2005. Reprint of the 1997 original. 256 PP with 4 maps, duotone illustrations, and 16 pages of colour photos. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 19.3. 0908988028
Shipwrecked on the Auckland Islands, 10th May 1864, during a crossing between Melbourne and Callao. Survival on inhospitable shores, rescue 20th May 1865.
44559 ALLEN, Mark (editor) WHALE HUNTERS ON WESTERN SHORES (in Mains'l Haul)
$25.00 AUD
Maritime Museum Association. San Diego. 2001. Reprint of : Mains'l Haul, A journal of Pacific Maritime History, Vol. 37 No. 1 (Winter 2001). 48 PP with b/w illustrations (map, plan, engravings, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5. 094458005X
History and Archaeology of the Ballast Point Whaling Station, by Ronald V. May. Nineteenth-Century Whaling on California shores, by Georgia Fox. Japanese Whaling at Point Lobos, California, by Sandy Lydon. Power Whaling, Industrial Shore Whaling on the West Coast 1905-1972, by Robert Lloyd Webb.
13069 ANDERSON, Commander William R. & BLAIR, Clay NAUTILUS, 90 NORTH
$15.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1959. 1st UK Ed. Foreword by Rear-Admiral G.B.H. Fawkes. 190 PP with 3 text illustrations (1 drawing & 2 facsimiles of documents), plus 16 pages with 43 b/w photos & 1 cutaway view of the Nautilus. Fp: Ship's position, 3rd August, 1958, at 19.15. FEP: Route of Nautilus, Hawaii to Portland, England. REP: Route of Nautilus, Seattle-Bering Strait-Honolulu. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Name and address of previous owner on verso of the FEP, o/wise contents are near fine. 21 x 14.
The astonishing feat of the first nuclear-propelled submarine.
71514 ARNAUD, Patrick M. & BEUROIS, Jean LES ARMATEURS DU RÊVE, Les Concessions Bossière et les Sociétés Françaises d'Exploitation des Iles Australes de l'Océan Indien (1893-1939) / THE SHIPOWNERS OF THE "DREAM", The Bossière's Leases and the Exploitations of the ...
$40.00 AUD
Patrick Arnaud & Jean Beurois. Marseille. 1996. 1st bilingual edition. English traduction by Mrs Janet Boglio. 116 PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos, ..). Card covers, pictorial front. French & English text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Story of the Bossière brothers and their whaling and sealing ventures in the Southern Indian Ocean.
72064 ARNAUD, Patrick M. & BEUROIS, Jean LES ARMATEURS DU RÊVE, Les Concessions Bossière et les Sociétés Françaises d'Exploitation des Iles Australes de l'Océan Indien (1893-1939) / THE SHIPOWNERS OF THE "DREAM", The Bossière's Leases and the Exploitations of the ...
$50.00 AUD
Patrick Arnaud & Jean Beurois. Marseille. 1996. 1st bilingual edition. English traduction by Mrs Janet Boglio. 116 PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos, ..). Card covers, pictorial front. Copy signed on title page, by Patrick Arnaud, co-author. French & English text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Story of the Bossière brothers and their whaling and sealing ventures in the Southern Indian Ocean.
72858 Australian Nature Conservation Agency REPORT OF THE WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC AND VETERINARY ACTIVITIES AT CETACEAN STRANDINGS, Jervis Bay Territory, 1996
$45.00 AUD
Wildlife and Marine Management / Biodiversity Group of Environment Australia. Canberra. 1997. Report June 1997. 207 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Soft covers, illustrated front, clear plastic protection, staples. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Workshop held 1-3 May 1996 at Jervis Bay National Park.
66483 AW, Michael, BATUNA, Dr. Hanny PLIGHTS OF OUR OCEAN (in Ocean Geographic, No. 29, 2014)
$10.00 AUD
OceanEnvironment / Ocean Geographic. Sydney. 2014. The Sustainable edition. Issue 29, July 2014. Edited by Evonne Ong. 96 PP with colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.6 x 21.5.
Fish to eat or not to eat (sustainable seafood), by Alex Rose. Killing ourselves quickly, (plights of our Ocean). ... A naturalist in Lembeh, by Mike Scotland. ...
61900 BANNISTER, John L. GREAT WHALES
$20.00 AUD
CSIRO Publishing. Melbourne. 2008. 1st Ed., in the "Australian Natural History" series. X, 142 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, graphs, maps, photos) and 15 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17. 9780643093737
71463 BARRON, Captain William OLD WHALING DAYS
$25.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1996. 2nd reprint in the Conway Classics series of the 1895 original Ed. VIII, 211 PP. Glossary (P. 207 to 211). Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note on inside front cover, o/wise a near fine copy. 22.2 x 13.8. 0851776957
Last years of the whaling fleets from Hull, Aberdeen.., operating in the Davis Strait. The author went to sea in 1849 as a cabin boy on board the "Truelove" and became her Captain in 1861...
68234 BAUGHMAN, James P. THE MALLORYS OF MYSTIC: Six Generations in American Maritime Enterprise
$15.00 AUD
The Marine Historical Association. Mystic Seaport. 1972. 1st edition. XVIII, 496, (10) PP with 5 figures and 41 tables, plus 36 pages with 53 b/w illustrations. Fp: Packet ship "Eliza Mallory". Eps: Advertisement for Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines, 1911. Cloth cover, gilt decoration (house flag) on front board, gilt title on spine. Stamps "University of Tasmania" on endpapers, outside edges and title page, and remnants of shelf number at foot of spine. Otherwise, contents are near fine. 23.5 x 15.7. 081954048X
21367 BAX, Allan E. AUSTRALIAN MERCHANT SHIPPING, 1788-1849 [in Journal and Proceedings RAHS - Volume XXXVIII, Part VI, 1952]
$25.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1952. Article from P.249 to 284 with 4 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers a littled browned around edges, otherwise near fine. 20.9 x 13.8.
Paper read before the Royal Australian Historical Society in April 1952: on bay whaling then offshore whaling, coastal and inland trade... Image shows back cover with list of contents and illustrations.
45334 BILLINGHURST, Jane (editor) THE SPIRIT OF THE WHALE - Legend, History, Conservation
$20.00 AUD
Colin Baxter. Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. 2000. 1st Ed. 135, (9 appendix, bibliography, index) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Near fine. 28.7 x 22.2. 1841070661
Part 2 (pages 39 to 66): Of Whales and Gods (legends). Part 3 (pages 67 to 104): Of Whales and Men (whaling industry).
46139 BLOND, Georges LA GRANDE AVENTURE DES BALEINES
$25.00 AUD
Editions G.P. Paris. 1955. 1st edition in Bibliothèque Super Rouge et Or. 256 PP with illustrations (depicting whaling) by Henri Dimpre: 27 in colour (including 9 on full page), and 32 in b/w (including 4 head pieces, 3 tail pieces and the colophon). Hard cover, gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on front board. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. French text. 21 x 15.
The whaling industry, from its beginning in the Bay of Biscay, to the last days in Antarctica.
43914 BONNER, W. Nigel WHALES
$15.00 AUD
Blandford Press. London. 1980. 1st Ed., in the Blandford Mammal series. X, 278 PP with tables and 73 figures, plus 8 pages with 14 colour photos. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped and a little rubbed on front) . Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 15.2. 0713708875
Editions Ouest-France. Rennes, France. 1994. 1st Ed. 116 PP with 122 b/w photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Remainder stamp on rear endpaper, o/wise fine. French text. 30.5 x 24.5. 273731464X
70723 BOWDEN, K. M. CAPTAIN JAMES KELLY OF HOBART TOWN
$30.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1964. 1st Ed. VI, 126 PP with 3 maps, plus 8 pages with 8 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 21 x 13.5.
The life of the most adventurous whaling master of Hobart Town... First man around Tasmania... Shipwreck on Macquarie.
72851 BRABYN, Mark W. AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEW ZEALAND WHALE STANDING RECORD
$25.00 AUD
Department of Conservation / Te Papa Atawhai. Wellington. 1991. 1st Ed. No. 29 in the Science & Research series. Foreword by R.M. Sadleir. (6), 47 PP with 6 tables and 17 figures (maps, graphs). Soft covers, illustrated front with a clear plastic protection. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0478012756
Australia Post Philatelic Group. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition in the "Australia's Heritage in Stamps" series. 40 PP with 2 maps, 2 b/w and 46 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0642225710
21273 BREWINGTON, M. V. & Dorothy KENDALL WHALING MUSEUM PAINTINGS
$70.00 AUD
Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Mass. 1965. 1st Ed. [XII], 137 PP, with 150 b/w illust. & 12 full-page colour plates. Fp (in colour): Whaling in the Northern Ice Sea. Red cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine condition. 29 x 21.2.
Catalogue of paintings, drawings and other pictorial material held at the museum. Classified by nationality of the scene or vessel: Dutch, British, Japanese, American, ...
21231 BROWER, Kenneth WAKE OF THE WHALE
$15.00 AUD
Friends of the Earth / Hutchinson. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w & colour photos by W.R. Curtsinger. Fp. Illustrated endpapers. Green cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Covers a littled faded around edges, light foxing on first few pages, o/wise very good. Format: 35 x 26.5. 009140360X
A pictorial plea on behalf of the whales, dolphins & other sea mammals.
73034 BROWER, Kenneth WAKE OF THE WHALE
$15.00 AUD
Friends of the Earth. San Francisco. 1979. 1st edition with an introduction by Sidney Holt. 160 PP with b/w & colour photos by W.R. Curtsinger. Fp. Illustrated endpapers. Green cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Repaired short tear at top of dust jacket. Fine. Format: 35 x 26.5. 0525229507
A pictorial plea on behalf of the whales, dolphins & other sea mammals.
21330 BROWN, Diana & Colin THE WHALER AND THE PRIVATEER, The Story of Two Ships
$25.00 AUD
Letter of Marque Press. Nantucket. 1993. 1st Ed. XXII, 275 PP with 1 folded plate "Transition Chart for Hero and Swallow", and 36 b/w figures. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23 x 15.4. 096382080X
The French whaler Hero (Héros du Havre) and the English privateer Swallow, from the journal of Wm. Morris, first mate of the former and Wm. Mann, a carpenter of the latter. The Swallow seized the Hero off Santa Catarina Island (Brazil) in December, 1803.
56086 BROWN, Diana & Colin THE WHALER AND THE PRIVATEER, The Story of Two Ships
$40.00 AUD
Letter of Marque Press. Nantucket. 1993. 1st Ed. XXII, 275 PP with 1 folded plate "Transition Chart for Hero and Swallow", and36 b/w figures. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) at top of title page, signed by the authors. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23 x 15.4. 096382080X
The French whaler Hero (Héros du Havre) and the English privateer Swallow, from the journal of Wm. Morris, first mate of the former and Wm. Mann, a carpenter of the latter. The Swallow seized the Hero off Santa Catarina Island (Brazil) in December, 1803.
70866 BROXAM, Graeme & CHATWIN, Dale (Editors) PAPERS OF THE HOBART WHALING CONFERENCE: 6 - 7 May, 2019
$30.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2020. No. 67 in the Roebuck Series. 1st limited edition, signed by both editors. VIII, 165 PP, (2), with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 25.2 x 20. 9780648725213
Papers include: British and Australian Whale Fisheries, Colonial Australasian Whaling, Tasmanian and Hobart Whaling, Sealing, Australian Whaling ...
68096 BRUEMMER, Fred THE NARWHAL - Unicorn of the Sea
$15.00 AUD
Toronto. 1993. Key Porter Books. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large size: 32 x 26.5. 1550131877
71774 BULLEN, Frank T. THE CRUISE OF THE "CACHALOT" - Round the World after Sperm Whales
$40.00 AUD
Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1928. Reprint of a 1926 edition ?. XX, 301 PP with 1 map and 27 endpieces, plus 7 colour plates and the endpapers illustrated by Mead Schaeffer. Cloth covers, gilt title and illustrations on front board and gilt title on a sunned spine. Top outside edge tinted. Copy lacking the frontispiece called for. Paper ageing but very little foxing. Covers with light shelf wear and binding a little loose. Overall still a very good copy of this illustrated edition. 24.2 x 18.5.
A whaling cruise through the Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Oceans - Japan, Hawaii, Christmas Is., Futuna (Chapter XXIII), Bay of Islands and the return to New Bedford.
21241 BURROWS, Frederika Alexander THE YANKEE SCRIMSHANDERS
$20.00 AUD
William S. Sullwold Publishing. Taunton, Mass. 1973. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2.
An introduction to scrimshaw: history & craftmanship. Brief description of whales, whaling & whalers.
21220 BURTON, Robert THE LIFE AND DEATH OF WHALES
$15.00 AUD
Universe Books. New York. 1973. 2nd printing of the 1973 original. 159 PP with 2 tables and 21 figures, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Eps: 17 species of whales. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Light foxing, mostly around page edges, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 16.4. 0876631839
Study of whales, life at sea, behaviour, birth & death. The whaling industry: founding, development, sperm whales,.. legislation & conservation.
74553 BURTON, Robert THE LIFE AND DEATH OF WHALES
$10.00 AUD
Andre Deutsch. London. 1980. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. 185 PP with 20 b/w figures and 3 tables in text, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Hard cover, dust jacket (price-clipped). Dust jacket a little creased and endpapers and some pages a little ruffled. Still a good copy. 22 x 14. 0233971300
56105 BUSCH, Briton Cooper CAPE VERDEANS IN THE AMERICAN WHALING INDUSTRY 1850-1900 (in The American Neptune)
$35.00 AUD
Peabody Museum. Salem. 1985. Offprint of Volume XLV, No. 2, Spring 1985. 103 to 116 with 2 tables. Soft cover. Dedicatory note on cover page, and manuscript letter (loosely inserted) to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist), both dated and signed by the author. Fine. 27.5 x 21.5.
17280 CARROLL, J. R. HARPOONS TO HARVEST, The Story of Charles and John Mills, Pioneers of Port Fairy
$100.00 AUD
Warrnambool Institute Press. Warrnambool. 1989. 1st Ed. XV, 286 PP with 4 maps & 3 plans, plus 12 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Half-title page: Telescope. Eps: Genealogical tree. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. A very fine copy. Scarce. 24.5 x 15.5.
Early sealing followed by whaling in Bass Strait. Land-owner, Harbour Master,..
75910 CARSE, Robert GREAT CIRCLE
$10.00 AUD
Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1956. 1st Ed. (12), 243 PP. Hard covers, dj (price clipped). A few small chips to the dust jacket which is in a protective sleeve. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper, otherwise near fine. 19 x 13.
Novel. Whaling voyage around the Horn in the 1840s.
72356 CARWARDINE, Mark, HOYT, Erich, FORDYCE, R. Ewan & GILL, Peter WHALES, DOLPHINS & PORPOISES
$20.00 AUD
Reader's Digest (Australia). Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. Foreword by Priscilla Wrubel. Introduction by James Darling. 288 PP with a few b/w and hundreds of colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Top corner of the free fly of the front endpaper rubbed, o/wise a fine copy. 28.7 x 16.8. 9780864490964
71936 CATHERALL, Arthur VANISHED WHALER
$15.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson. London. 1955. 3rd reprint of 1939 1st ed. 188 PP with b/w illustrations by S. Drigin. Lacks the front endpaper. Hard cover, price-clipped dust jacket (in a protective sleeve). Foxing on outside edges and last pages. Very good. 19 x 13.5.
A whaling adventure story set in Norway.
69753 CHASE, Owen WRECK OF THE WHALE SHIP ESSEX: The Complete Illustrated Edition: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
$40.00 AUD
Zenith Press. Minneapolis. 2017. 1st paperback edition, with an Introduction by Gilbert King. XXVIII, 196 PP with over 200 illustrations, drawings, fine-art prints and photos. Fp: The Charles W. Morgan. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.3 x 22.8. 9780760357361
74666 CHASE, Owen THE WRECK OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX - A First-Hand Account of One of History's Most Extraordinary Maritime Disasters by Owen Chase, First Mate
$10.00 AUD
Review / Headline Book. London. 2000. 1st paperback edition of the 1999 edition, with an introduction by Gary Kinder. XVI, 208 PP with tail pieces, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9780747263630
21244 CHATTERTON, E. Keble WHALERS AND WHALING
$10.00 AUD
Philip Allan. London. 1930. 2nd edition of the 1925 original. No. 16 in the Nautilus Library series. 252 PP, 4 adv. Cloth cover, gilt device (nautilus) on front cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise very good. Small format: 17.5 x 11.5.
The story of whaling which commenced in European waters, expanded and led to exploration to reach the Antarctic whaling grounds.
58986 CHERFAS, Jeremy THE HUNTING OF THE WHALE. A tragedy that must end
$10.00 AUD
The Bodley Head. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 239 PP with 9 head pieces and 2 diagrams by David Gifford. Eps: type of whales. Hard cover, dj. Paper ageing around edges, faint old tape marks on covers and a faint "cancelled" stamp on rear endpaper, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5. 0370311426
21603 CHIPPENDALE, Captain Harry Allen SAILS AND WHALES
$15.00 AUD
Andrew Melrose. London. 1953. Abridged edition of the 1951 US original. 192 PP with 13 line drawings by author. Fp: Picture of Capt. Harry Allen Chippendale. Eps: Tracks of some of the voyages of Captain H.A. Chippendale. Cloth cover, title on sunned spine. A very good clean copy. 21.8 x 14.
Short glossary of whaling and nautical terms. Sailing and whaling in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Antarctic.
21246 CHISHOLM, Jocelyn CAPTAIN CATTLIN TOWARDS NEW ZEALAND
$15.00 AUD
Author. Wellington. 1994. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, facsimile, paintings). Title-page: Facsimile of Journal of a Voyage...1827. Eps: Map of South West Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 17.5. 0959759719
Trading between Australia & New Zealand. Whaling off Kermadec, Tonga, Solomons... between 1827 & 1837.
71512 CHISHOLM, Jocelyn BRIND OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS, Some Readings & Notes of Thirty Years in the Life of a Whaling Captain
$50.00 AUD
Author. Wellington. 1979. First limited edition of 400 copies and signed by the author on half-title page. 92 PP plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illust. Fp: Silhouette of Capt. W.D. Brind. Eps: Plan of Korakera. Gilt-engraved hard cover. A little light foxing around edges and top outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 25.5 x 15.5. 0473000261
Captain Brind commanded the whaling ships Cumberland (1819-1822), Asp (1822-24), Emily (1825-1828), Toward Castle (1828-1835), then the Narwhal (1836-1840).
68079 CHRISTIANSEN, Pat & BLUFF History Group SEAL HUNTERS OF THE SOUTH
$20.00 AUD
Bluff History Group. Bluff, NZ. 2007. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (2 sketch maps, 2 genealogy trees, photos). Pictorial stiff cover. 8 lines on pages 10 & 11 highlighted, otherwise fine. 21 x 14.5. 9780473125547
An Authentic Diary of the Last Official New Zealand Sealing Season 1946.
60906 CLODE, Danielle KILLERS IN EDEN: The story of a rare partnership between Men and Killer Whales
$25.00 AUD
Museum Victoria. Melbourne. 2011 2nd edition of the 2002 original. (10), 156 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Fp (in colour): The Death Fury, by Oswald W. B. Brierly). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17. 9780980619089
The true story of killer whales and their remarkable partnership with the whalers of Twofold Bay.
72800 COLNETT, Captain James A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND ROUND CAPE HORN INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, for the purpose of extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries...
$65.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1968. Facsimile reprint of the 1798 original. No. 36 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. (2), IV, XVIII, 180 PP, plus 1 portrait of Sir Philip Stephens and 9 folded plates (2 coastal views, 6 maps & 1 of a physeter or spermaceti whale). Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine), clear plastic protection (repaired at back). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 26 x 20.
Captain Colnett, on board the "Rattler" after rounding the Horn, visited the Galapagos and explored the coasts from Mexico to Chile and the off-lying islands.
21383 COLWELL, Max PETER THE WHALER IN SOUTHERN SEAS
$5.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1978. Paperback reprint of the 1964 original. (X), 116, (2 adv.) PP with 20 illust. by G.C. Ingleton. Fp: There She Blows!. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 18.1 x 11.4. 0727002716
Whaling in the Southern Seas, from the days of Sam Enderby to the Antarctic whaling of the mid-20th Century.
32406 COLWELL, Max WHALING AROUND AUSTRALIA
$5.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1977. Paperback edition of the 1969 original. (12), 168, (10 bibliography & index) PP with 7 line drawings by Vic Hatcher, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w illustrations. Fp: Dolphins by the bow. Pictorial card cover. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.5. 0727003526
74630 COLWELL, Max WHALING AROUND AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1969. 1st Ed. (12), 168 PP, (10 bibliography & index) with 7 line drawings by Vic Hatcher, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w illustrations. Fp: Dolphins by the bow. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. An otherwise very good clean copy. 21 x 13.5.
52501 COLWELL, Max, / BROWN, Peter Lancaster WHALING AROUND AUSTRALIA / AUSTRALIA'S COAST OF CORAL AND PEARL (two books in one)
$10.00 AUD
Seal Books. Melbourne. 1995. 1st combined edition, in the "True Australian Tales" series. Whaling...: (10), 168, (10 bibliography & index) PP with line drawings (head pieces and tail pieces) by Vic Hatcher, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w illustrations. Australia's Coast...: (2), 208 PP, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Stiff cover, pictorial front. Very good. 18 x 11.
Whaling days in Australia.
37204 CONNOR, Richard C. & PETERSON, Dawn Micklethwaite THE LIVES OF WHALES AND DOLPHINS
$10.00 AUD
Henry Holt and Company. New York. 1994. 1st Ed., from the American Museum of Natural History. XIV, (2), 233, (4) PP with 9 head pieces and 36 b/w illust., plus 16 pages with 25 colour photos. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0805019502
37659 COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves & DIOLE, Philippe THE WHALE, Mighty Monarch of the Sea
$20.00 AUD
Doubleday & Co. New York. 1972. 3rd reprint, in the Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau series. Translated from the French original by J. F. Bernard. 304 PP with 1 map on double page, 4 maps, 17 drawings and engravings, 20 b/w and 124 colour photographs. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Occasional foxing. Vey good. 26.5 x 18.5.
Harry N. Abrams. New York. 1988. 1st US edition, translated from the 1986 French original "La Planète des Baleines" by I. Mark Paris. 280 PP with 283 illust. (over 200 in colour). Illustrated title page, half title page and endpapers. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 30.5 x 24. 0810910462
Comprehensive book on the realm of the whale. Superb iconography.
12207 CREDLAND, Arthur G. WHALES AND WHALING - The Arctic Fishery
$10.00 AUD
Shire Publications. London. 1982. 1st Ed., Shire Album No. 89. 32 PP with 1 map and 42 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 15. 0852635974
Origins of Arctic whaling fisheries, Greenland and Davis Strait fishery, Tragedies...
67978 CUMPSTON, J. S. MACQUARIE ISLAND
$70.00 AUD
Antarctic Division / Department of External Affairs. Canberra. 1968. 1st Ed. Publication No. 93, ANARE Scientific Reports, series A (1) Narrative. XII, 380 PP with 4 tail pieces and 6 maps, plus 34 pages with 70 b/w photos. Fp: North end of Macquarie Island. FEP: Chart & plans of anchorages at Macquarie Is. REP: Bird life at the Macquarie Is. Green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Small mark/remnants of sellotape on spine. Verso of the FFEP with dedicatory note to the Nantucket Atheneum Library dated 14 October 1970 and signed by the Author. Discreet stamp of The Nantucket Atheneum on front endpaper and at lower part of title page and on top of Chapter 1 page. An otherwise near fine copy. 25.7 x 18.5.
Discovery and story of the ships which visited the island and of the men who manned them. Research expeditions.
74396 CUMPSTON, J. S. MACQUARIE ISLAND
$100.00 AUD
Antarctic Division / Department of External Affairs. Canberra. 1968. 1st Ed. Publication No. 93, ANARE Scientific Reports, series A (1) Narrative. XII, 380 PP with 4 tail pieces and 6 maps, plus 34 pages with 70 b/w photos. Fp: North end of Macquarie Island. FEP: Chart & plans of anchorages at Macquarie Is. REP: Bird life at the Macquarie Is. Green cloth cover, gilt title on spine, nice dust jacket. A fine copy. 25.7 x 18.5.
Discovery and story of the ships which visited the island and of the men who manned them. Research expeditions.
36339 CURTSINGER, Bill DISCOVERY IN LABRADOR: A 16th-Century Whaling Basque Port and its Sunken Fleet (in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 168)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1985. July 1985. Contains article between P.40 and 71 with 2 maps, 1 b/w and 28 colour illust. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
Whaling in the Strait of Belle Isle.
35285 DAKIN, Professor W. J. WHALING AND AUSTRALIA (in Walkabout Vol. 12, No. 11)
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1946 Volume 12, No. 11, September 1946. Contains article from P.4 to 12 with 1 map and 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with a few small nicks, otherwise near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Whaling in Australian waters and the Southern Ocean from the days of sails to the days of steam.
21925 DAKIN, William John WHALEMEN ADVENTURERS
$25.00 AUD
Sirius Books. Sydney. 1963. Reprint of the 1938 revised edition (original of 1934). XXXII, 285 PP plus 16 pages with 18 bw illust. Pictorial soft cover. A near fine copy. 19.6 x 13.8.
The story of whaling in Australian waters and other Southern Seas related thereto, from the days of sails to modern times.
52675 DAKIN, William John WHALEMEN ADVENTURERS
$20.00 AUD
Sirius Books. Sydney. 1963. Reprint of the 1938 revised edition (original of 1934). XXXII, 285 PP, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illust. Decorated hard cover, dust jacket with a few chips and/or closed tears and in a protective sleeve, o/wise near fine. 20.5 X 13.5.
The story of whaling in Australian waters and other southern seas related thereto, from the days of sails to modern times.
75255 DARBY, Andrew HARPOON - into the Heart of Whaling
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2007. 1st paperback edition. XVI, 296 PP with b/w illustrations (6 headpieces on double page by Uko Gorter and c. 22 harpoons by Guy Holt). Eps: b/w photo by Frank Hurley, "A blue whale and whaling men flensing..., Grytviken, South Georgia. Pictorial soft covers. Light water stain in margin of 15 last leaves (not affecting text). Very good copy. 23 x 15.5. 9781741146110
60244 DARLING, James D. WHALES: An Era of Discovery [in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 174, No.6]
$5.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 1988. December 1988. 765-946 PP. Contains article from P. 872 to 909 with b/w and colour illustrations (photographs by Flip Nicklin). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
10972 DAVIDSON, George THE TRACKS AND LANDFALLS OF BERING AND CHIRIKOF ON THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA
$30.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash., USA. 1994. Reprint of the 1901 original. (6), 44, (7 pages bibliography), 1 colophon PP, plus 1 large folded map (50 x 105cm). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on endpapers and outside edges. Near fine. 26 x 18.5. 0877705275
June to October 1841, sailing on the St. Peter & St. Paul along the coasts of Alaska, during the first Russian Arctic Expedition led by Vitius Bering.
66927 DAVIDSON, René WHALEMEN OF TWOFOLD BAY
$30.00 AUD
René Davidson. Eden, NSW. 2004. 2nd edition. XI, 172, (3 index) PP with 2 maps and many b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings & photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. Scarce. Oblong: 21 x 29.5. 0949362026
Historical photographs on the whales, their chases, the whalemen and their family life.
71229 DAVIDSON, René (compiler) WHALEMEN OF TWOFOLD BAY
$35.00 AUD
Author. Eden. 1988. 1st Ed. XI, 172 PP with 2 maps and many b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings & photos). Pictorial soft cover with light wear, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. Oblong: 21 x 29.5. 0949362026
Historical photographs on the whales, their chases, the whalemen and their family life.
21240 DAVIES, J. L. THE WHALES AND SEALS OF TASMANIA
$15.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 1963. 1st Ed. 29 PP (2 Index) with 27 b/w figures by author. Soft cover, illustrated front. Covers foxed and with creases. Signature of previous owner (Olaf Ruhen) at top of title page. Very good working copy. 24.5 x 18.5.
Guide to the marine mammals of Tasmania. The pinnipeds (seals, sea lions & fur seals) and the cetaceans (whales, dolphins & porpoises), endemic to Tasmania or migratory.
76298 DAVIES, J. L. THE WHALES AND SEALS OF TASMANIA
$25.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 1963. 1st Ed. 29 PP (2 Index) with 27 b/w figures by author. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 24.5 x 18.5.
Guide to the marine mammals of Tasmania. The pinnipeds (seals, sea lions & fur seals) and the cetaceans (whales, dolphins & porpoises), endemic to Tasmania or migratory.
72681 DAWBIN, W. H. SURVEYS OF HUMPBACK AND SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALES OFF EAST AUSTRALIA, 1978-79
$30.00 AUD
The Australian Museum. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. 21, 6 (appendix), 8 (5 sketch maps, 1 graph and 2 sketches "whale identification") PP (recto only). Stiff covers, clear plastic front cover, spiral bound. Near fine. 30 x 21.5.
Report on consultancy carried by the Australian Museum, Sydney by Dr. W.H. Dawbin, Chief Investigator. An East coast survey with the help of Trawler fishermen, Shipping lines, Royal Australian Navy, Sailing and Motor Yacht Clubs, Scuba diving operators, charter boats and Surf Life Saving Clubs.
59538 DELANO, Amasa A NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
$30.00 AUD
Cat & Fiddle Press. Hobart. 1973. Facsimile extract of the 1817 original, limited to 500 copies. 58 PP. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, o/wise fine. 22.3 x 14. 0858530104
A facsimile extract from "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres comprising three Voyages round the World together with a Voyage of survey and discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands". Sealing in Bass Strait, calls of the ship Perseverance at Hobart and Sydney in 1804.
70959 DEPT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES Volume 39, No. 3, 1980
$5.00 AUD
Fisheries Division, Department of Primary Industry. Canberra. 1980. March 1980. 72 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings, plans and photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 17.5.
"Soela", chartered by the CSIRO for researches in the Australian Fishing Zone, by J.G.H. Maxwell. NZ albacore Tuna catch tops 800 tonnes, by G. Habib & R. Cade. Continued growth for top end prawner, by A. J. Green. ...
21341 DEXTER, Elisha NARRATIVE OF THE WRECK AND LOSS OF THE WHALING BRIG WILLIAM AND JOSEPH
$40.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. USA. 1988. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1848. 59 PP, 1 colophon with 5 full page illust. and 2 facsimiles of the title page of 2nd edition. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt illust. and title on front cover. Fine. 26 x 18.5. 0877704171
Wrecked in Oct. 1841 during a storm, on her return to Martha's Vineyard, after a successful whaling cruise (200 barrels of sperm oil & 12 barrels of black-fish oil).
50827 DICKSON, Rod (editor) TO KING GEORGE THE THIRD SOUND FOR WHALES. A voyage aboard the British Whaling Vessel KINGSTON of London, Captain Thomas Dennis 1800-1802
$55.00 AUD
Hesperian Press. Perth. 2006. 1st Ed. Transcribed from the Original Ship's Logbook. XIV, 159 PP with 1 plan, 1 illustration, 5 facsimile of logbook pages, and 9 charts. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj, ribbon page-marker. Near fine. 25 x 17.2. 0859053725
Sailed from England, January 1800... South Africa. Reached Albany, Western Australia, mid August 1800. Sailed the coast of West Australia until mid December 1800... Return via Baie de St. Augustin (Tulear), Madagascar, South Africa, St Helena...
30607 DOAK, Wade ENCOUNTERS WITH WHALES & DOLPHINS
$15.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. Auckland. 1988. 1st Ed. 250 PP, plus 48 pages with 97 colour photos. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 26.6 x 20. 0340492902
Relationship between human and cetacean creatures.
21248 DODGE, Ernest S. PEABODY MUSEUM OF SALEM. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1978
$10.00 AUD
Peabody Museum of Salem. Salem, Mass. 1979. 1st Ed. 98 PP, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Very good. 21.6 x 14.
21262 DODGE, Ernest S. NEW ENGLAND AND THE SOUTH SEAS
$20.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1965. 1st Ed. XV, (3), 217 PP with 53 b/w illustrations. Fp: Hawaiian War God. Eps: Chart of the South Seas. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket with rubbed spots and insect damage (now in a protective sleeve). Contents are near fine. 23.5 x 15.5.
The great South Seas: hunting the cachalot, sea otters, sandalwood, beche de mer and cannibals.
21290 DODGE, Ernest S. BALEINIERS A TAHITI
$20.00 AUD
Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1971. 1st Ed. Dossier No. 11 in the Dossiers Tahitiens series. 32 PP with 31 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover (pêche à la baleine by Louis Garnera]. French text. Fine. 19 x 14.
Whaling ships in the South Pacific. Calls at Tahiti.
21249 DODGE, Ernest Stanley (Director) PEABODY MUSEUM OF SALEM. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1979
$10.00 AUD
Peabody Museum. Salem. Mass. 1980. 1st Ed. 85 PP, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Very good. 21.6 x 14.
41946 DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor) THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air, Volume XX, No.4
$15.00 AUD
Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1955. Summer 1955. 58 PP with 43 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover (Taking it green). Staples removed. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
In those brave days of sail, by Captain William F. Reid (pages 6 to 19). Thirty-one day in an open boat (following torpedoing of Silver Dawn on passage Fremantle to Persian Gulf), by G. Waye (pages 20 to 24). On the Grand Banks, with the Portuguese Fishing Fleet, by Alan Villiers.
72837 DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor) THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XVII, No. 1
$10.00 AUD
Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1951. Volume XVII, No. 1 (Autumn 1951). 74 PP with 54 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover has a rubbed patch on front. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
No.1: Bound for the East in "Tippoo Sahib", by Harry Hine. Hunting Sea Elephants in the Auckland Islands in 1889.
74989 DOUGLAS, Captain A.C. (editor) SEA BREEZES, The Magazine of Ships and the Sea - Vol. 73, No. 643 - 1999
$10.00 AUD
Sea Breezes. Braddan, Isle of Man. Edited by Capt A.C. Douglas. 241- 280 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.
Antarctic Whaling Expedition 1948 - 1949, by Mike Pheby. NATO Marks 50th Anniversary with Show of Force, by Gary Davies. ...
21313 DOW, George Francis WHALE SHIPS AND WHALING, A Pictorial History
$10.00 AUD
Dover. New York. 1985. Reprint of the 1925 edition. 241 PP with 207 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 16.5. 0486248089
Pictorial history of whaling with an account of the whale fishery in colonial New England.
70629 DOWNES, M.C., EALEY, E.H.M., GWYNN, A.M. & YOUNG, P.S. THE BIRDS OF HEARD ISLAND
$45.00 AUD
Antarctic Division/Department of External Affairs. Melbourne. 1959. November 1959 edition. ANARE Reports, series B, Volume 1: Zoology. 135 PP with 16 tables and 70 b/w illustrations (2 figures, 1 photo "Laurens Peninsula and Mt Olsen, from Mt. Drygalski" and 67 photo plates). Large folded map "Distribution of Birds, Heard Island 1951" (with colour) , tipped in inside back cover. Addendum, dated July 1960 loosely inserted. Soft covers, illustrated front. Spine reinforced with cloth tape. Very good. 24.3 x 18.3.
52359 DRUETT, Joan PETTICOAT WHALERS, Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920
$25.00 AUD
Collins New Zealand. Auckland. 1991. 1st Ed. VI, 213 PP, with b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages of colour illustrations (Paintings by Ron Druett). Eps: "Northern Whale Fishery". Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on title page and note on verso of front endpaper. Near fine. 26 x 18.5. 1869500431
Experiences of women accompanying their husbands-skippers on the long and perilous voyages of the whaling ships.
56079 DRUETT, Joan (editor) SHE WAS A SISTER SAILOR - The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster 1845-1851
$50.00 AUD
Mystic Seaport Museum. Mystic, Conn. 1992. 1st Ed. Volume XIII in the American Maritime Library series. Forewords by Benjamin Labaree and Honore Forster. XX, 449 PP with 11 b/w photos & 8 maps, plus 22 Pages with 52 b/w illustrations. Fp: Mary Brewster. Orig. cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on front endpaper. Release sheet loosely inserted. Near fine. 28.2 x 19.8. 0913372609
Two whaling voyages - one in the Pacific and the second in the Arctic.
56129 DRURY, J. Linda THE BISHOP OF DURHAM'S WHALE, 1766-67: The Story behind the Skeleton in Durham Cathedral
$15.00 AUD
Durham County Local History Society. Durham. 1980. Offprint from Bulletin 25, December 1980. 39-52 PP. Soft cover protected by clear plastic cover, spiral bound. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
13987 du PASQUIER, Thierry LES BALEINIERS FRANCAIS DE LOUIS XVI A NAPOLEON
$50.00 AUD
Kronos & Henri Veyrier. Paris. 1990. 1st Ed. Volume 2, in "Collection Kronos". Preface by Ulane Bonnel. 230 PP with 1 map and 22 b/w plates. Pictorial stiff covers. French text. Few foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 24 x 15.5. 9782851995216
The French whale fishery revival after the Nantucket whalers migrated to Dunkirk and Lorient from the newly-formed United States.
74772 DUFEK, Rear Admiral George J. THROUGH THE FROZEN FRONTIER
$15.00 AUD
Harcourt, Brace & Co. New York. 1959. 1st Ed. in "The Exploration of Antarctica" series. 192 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map on double page, 1 painting and 43 photos. Cloth cover, device on front board, title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is chipped around edges and a little soiled. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise contents clean and a near fine copy. 20.5 x 14.
Operations Deep Freeze I, II, III, IV.
47345 EBER, Dorothy Harley WHEN THE WHALERS WERE UP NORTH - Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic
$15.00 AUD
University Press of Oklahoma. Norman. 1996. 1st paperback printing of the 1989 original. XVII, 189 PP with 1 map on double page, 15 colour plates and many b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Fp (in colour): Nowyook Remembers. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 21.5. 9780806128528
History of the whaling in the NE waters of the Canadian Arctic seen by the original inhabitants: the Inuit.
40983 EDWARDS, Hugh THE REMARKABLE DOLPHINS OF MONKEY MIA
$5.00 AUD
Author. Perth. 1989. 1st Ed. (6), 110 PP with 1 map , 1 colour photo and b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 66 colour photos. Title page (in colour): Dolphin. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.2. 0731679822
65252 EDWARDS, Hugh THE REMARKABLE DOLPHINS OF MONKEY MIA
$10.00 AUD
Author. Perth. 1989. 1st Ed. (6), 110 PP with 1 map , 1 colour photo and b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 66 colour photos. Title page (in colour): Dolphin. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note inside front cover signed by the author. Near fine. 24 x 16.2. 0731679822
41672 ELKING, Henry A VIEW OF THE GREENLAND TRADE AND WHALE-FISHERY
$40.00 AUD
Caedmon of Whitby. Whitby. 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1722 original. 68 PP. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 21.2 x 15. 090535513X
Urging the British government to enter the whale fishery.
32767 ELLIS, Richard DEEP ATLANTIC - Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss
$30.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1996. 1st Ed. X, 395 PP with 134 b/w illustrations. Title spread: male and female of the Avocet Eel (Avocettina infans). Hard cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on cloth cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 17. 0679433244
Exploration of the Atlantic: Gulf Stream, Ocean Floor, hydrothermal vents... Creatures of the abyss: Deep-Sea biology, Invertebrates... Whales and Whaling.
56070 ELLIS, Richard MEN AND WHALES
$40.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1991. 1st Ed. XV, 542 PP, with 292 b/w illustrations (including 15 paintings & 10 maps by the author), 3 pages of glossary terms and 22 pages of bibliography. Fp: A gam between the bark Sunbeam and the ship James Arnold. Eps: Engraving from the Nuremberg (1760) edition of the 1720 Dutch work by C.F. Zorgdrager of the Greenland whale fishery. Hard cover, device on front cover, gilt title on cloth cloth spine, dj. Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on verso of front endpaper. Near fine. 28.5 x 23. 0394558391
The complex history of men and whales, from the first commercial whaling by Basques of 10th Century France and Spain, to the International Whaling Commission and the worldwide movement to protect the whales.
70695 EVANS, Kathryn SHORE-BASED WHALING IN TASMANIA HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECT - Volume 1: A Social and Economic History
$25.00 AUD
Parks and Wildlife Service. Hobart. 1993. 1st Ed. (1), 62 PP with tables and 2 b/w illustrations, plus 9 b/w plates. All illustrations: photocopy quality. Soft cover, pictorial front (whaling station, Wineglass Bay). "Office Copy" crossed out at top of front cover, otherwise a fine copy. 29.7 x 21.
Report dealing with the historic Tasmanian bay whaling industry.
22127 EVANS, Peter WHALES
$5.00 AUD
Whittet Books. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 136 PP with illustrations by Euan Dunn. Title page: Humpback whales breaching and diving. Eps: Humpback whale and calf. Laminated pictorial boards. Near fine. 21.6 x 15.3. 0905483855
Whale: motion, breathing, diving, senses, feeding... P. 84 to 99: Hunting the whale.
21413 EWERS, John K. WHALING ON THE WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIA [in Walkabout Magazine - Vol. 19, No. 12 - December, 1953]
$25.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1953. 48 PP. Contains article pages 9 to 17 with 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers (Whale-chaser, "Carnarvon"). Very good. 30 x 24.
71919 FENTON, Tony A HISTORY OF PORT DAVEY, South West Tasmania. Volume One: Fleeting Hopes
$40.00 AUD
Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd. Hobart. 2017. 1st Ed. Foreword by Christobel Mattingley. XXII, 312 PP with 7 maps, b/w and colour illustrations (charts, drawings, engravings, maps, paintings, photos and portraits). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 24 x 17.5. 9780995408241
Landfall and first contacts... Gold Fever. Whaling. Huon Pines... Tin Rush... Shipwrecks on an inhospitable coast.
71904 FLEMING, Fergus BARROW'S BOYS
$15.00 AUD
Granta Books. London. 1999. 1st paperback edition of the 1998 original. XX, 489 PP with 4 maps and 34 headpieces, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 19.5 x 12.7. 9781862072862
John Barrow, elder statesman of exploration: Arctic and the North West Passage, Africa and search for Timbuctoo, Niger ... Antarctica.
21236 FORSTER, Honore (compiler) MORE SOUTH SEA WHALING
$20.00 AUD
ANU / Australian National University. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. 61 PP. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Lower corner with a light bump. Faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 29.3 x 20.8. 0731511611
Supplement to The South Sea Whaler. New entries: 894 to 1240.
21285 FORSTER, Honore (compiler) THE SOUTH SEA WHALER - An Annotated Bibliography...
$30.00 AUD
Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Mass. 1985. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP. Fp: South Sea Whaling by W.E. Norton. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 26 x 17.5. 0937854220
... bibliography of published historical, literary and art material relating to whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century.
56065 FORSTER, Honore (compiler) THE SOUTH SEA WHALER - An Annotated Bibliography...
$40.00 AUD
Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Mas. 1985. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP. Fp: South Sea Whaling by W.E. Norton. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Signed by the author / compiler on title page. Fine. 26 x 17.5. 0937854220
... bibliography of published historical, literary and art material relating to whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century
21340 FRANCIS, Daniel A HISTORY OF WORLD WHALING
$15.00 AUD
Viking. Markham, Ontario. 1990. 1st Ed. XVI, 288 PP with 45 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16.5. 067082447X
From the beginnings with the Basque whalers of the Bay of Biscay, to the modern whaling & the IWC moratorium & the arrival of Greenpeace on the whaling scene. Whaling in paradise, in the Arctic, the Antarctic & the Sea of Cortez.
56100 FRANK, Stuart M. CORRECTIONS TO BREWINGTON: Notes and Revisions to M.V. and Dorothy Brewington's Kendall Whaling Museum Paintings (1965)
$20.00 AUD
The Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Massachusetts. 1988. 1st Ed. No. 3 in the Kendall Whaling Museum Monograph series. (2), 8, (2 blank) PP. Pictorial soft cover (English Whaler in the Arctic). Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 0937854271
72 corrections and notes. With a comprehensive index of artists represented by original works in the Kendall Whaling Museum.
56101 FRANK, Stuart M. FAKESHAW: A Checklist of Plastic Scrimshaw
$60.00 AUD
Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Mass. 1988. 1st Ed. No. 1 in the Kendall Whaling Museum Monograph series. (2), 21 PP with 3 line drawings. Title page: Scrimshaw of The Ship Niger. Pictorial soft covers with a little soiling, (the ships Niger & Sea Fox, the Arctic Ocean). Dedicatory note on title page to Honore Forster, Australian Historian & Whaling Expert, signed by the author. Contents fine . 27.7 x 21.4. 0937854255
57343 FRANK, Stuart M. THE KWM NEWSLETTER - The Quarterly Newsletter of the Kendall Whaling Museum
$15.00 AUD
The Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Massachusetts. 1994 to 1997. 9 Newsletters (Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 1994 to Vol. 15, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 1997). Nine newsletters for a total of 112 PP. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 25.8 x 21.5.
Also, in Vol 14, No.4, an article "The Decorative Arts and Scrimshaw of Charles Durgin.
66513 FRANK, Stuart M. THE KWM NEWSLETTER - The Quarterly Newsletter of the Kendall Whaling Museum - Vol 13, No. 2/3
$5.00 AUD
The Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Massachusetts. 1995 . Newsletter: Vol. 13, No. 2/3, Summer / Fall 1995.. 16 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.5 x 20.5.
66713 FRANK, Stuart M. THE KWM NEWSLETTER - The Quarterly Newsletter of the Kendall Whaling Museum - Vol 12, No. 3
$5.00 AUD
The Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Massachusetts. 1994 . Newsletter: Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 1994.. 8 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.5 x 20.5.
58948 FROUIN, Charles JOURNAL DE BORD 1852-1856 - CHARLES FROUIN, CHIRURGIEN DU BALEINIER L'ESPADON
$30.00 AUD
Editions France-Empire. Paris. 1978. Reprint. 340 PP with 2 maps, plus 12 Pages with 13 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Very good. 19 x 14.
A world cruise by a French surgeon with calls at Albany, Akaroa, Hawaii and on the various fishing grounds of the Okhotsk and Bering.
40473 GANNIER, Alexandre BALEINES & DAUPHINS DE POLYNESIE
$35.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2001. 1st Ed, in collection Survol. 72 PP with 1 map, 71 colour photos and 16 b/w drawings for the identification guide. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text (English and French text for the identification guide of 18 pages). 20 x 13. 2909790134
Whales and dolphins of French Polynesia, with a bilingual (English & French identification guide).
59106 GARDNER, Erle Stanley HUNTING THE DESERT WHALE
$5.00 AUD
Readers Book Club / Companion Book Club. Melbourne / London. 1964. Book Club edition. 256 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Baja California, inset plan of Scammon's Lagoon. Hard cover. Ageing of paper. Good. 18.8 x 12.5.
Hunting/studying the rare grey whale, in the waters of Scammon's Lagoon.
34604 GARRIGUE, Claire & GREAVES, Jacqui NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE, UN RENDEZ-VOUS POUR LES BALEINES - New Caledonia, A Rendezvous for the Humpback Whale
$130.00 AUD
Editions Catherine Ledru. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 1 map, 1 duotone illust., and hundreds of colour photos. Includes an audio CD of Humpback whale songs recorded in the lagoon of New Caledonia. Hard cover, dj. Fine. French and English text (preface and acknowledgments in Japanese). 25.5 x 25.5. 2950578411
The humpback whale at a glimpse. Life and behaviour of the humpback whale.
21349 GATENBY, Greg (Editor) WHALES: A CELEBRATION
$30.00 AUD
Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1983. 1st Ed. XVIII, 234 PP with 11 musical scores, 150 bw illust. & 75 colour paintings & images. Title page: Detail of a 12th Century English bestiary. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing on prelims and inside of dust jacket, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 28.5 x 30.5. 0316305103
Tribute to whales and dolphins by leading artists, painters & sculptors, novelists & poets, composers. A vivid protest against their slaughter...
72749 GIBBS, Jim SHIPWRECKS IN PARADISE, An Informal Marine History of the Hawaiian Islands
$30.00 AUD
Superior Publishing Company. Seattle. 1977. 1st Ed. 184 PP with b/w illustrations. Fp: HMS Discovery. Hard cover, decorated front, title on spine and front board, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket slightly creased, rubbed, with a rough repair on the inside (now in a protective slleeve). Contents near fine. 27.5 x 22.
From the early settlers and the first European explorers, to the mid-1970's: missionaries, traders, whalers,... lighthouses.. Most informative.
65078 GIBBS, Martin CONFLICT AND COMMERCE: American Whalers and the Western Australian Colonies 1826-1888 (in The Great Circle - Volume 22, No. 2)
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 2000. Vol. 22, No. 2, 2000. No. 2: 72 PP. Contains article P. 3 to 23 with 1 graph and 5 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24 x 16.3.
31598 GIBSON, Arrell Morgan & WHITEHEAD John S. YANKEES IN PARADISE - The Pacific Basin Frontier
$15.00 AUD
University of New Mexico Press. Alburquerque. 1993. 1st Ed., in the Histories of the American Frontier series. XII, 495 PP with 5 maps and 58 b/w illust. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0826314422
Pioneers, Fur traders, Whalers... Military frontiers.
48543 GIBSON, Gregory DEMON OF THE WATERS. The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe
$15.00 AUD
Hodder Headline. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. (10), 308 PP with 37 head pieces (silhouettes by Erik Ronnberg) and 3 drawings on double page by Gary Tonkin, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Fp: Mutiny. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 0733615252
71385 GIGGS, Rebecca FATHOMS: The World in the Whale
$20.00 AUD
Scribe. Melbourne. 2020. 1st paperback edition. (10), 358 PP. Soft covers, illustrated front. Fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9781925321388
39648 GILL, Peter & BURKE, Cecilia WHALE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND WATERS
$15.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. XII, 148 PP with location maps, b/w illustrations by Ian Faulkner and colour illustrations by Pieter Folkens. Fp (in colour): Southern right whales off Head of Bight, South Australia. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 1864364726
75270 GILL, Peter & BURKE, Cecilia WHALE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND WATERS
$15.00 AUD
Australian Geographic. Sydney. 1999. 1st "Australian Geograhic " edition. (XII), 148 PP with location maps, b/w illustrations by Ian Faulkner and colour illustrations by Pieter Folkens. Fp (in colour): Southern right whales off Head of Bight, South Australia. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 15. 1862760306
30021 GILL, Peter & GIBSON, Linda WHALES DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES
$15.00 AUD
Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed., in the Reader's Digest Explores series. 160 PP with bw and colour illust. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28 x 22.5. 0864491778
Illustrated guide to 48 species. Chapter 7: Whales and People, Whale Lore, History of Whaling, Whale Products... Whale Watching.
39165 GORDON, J. & GOODMAN J. (editors) MAMMALS IN THE SEAS - Volume IV: Small Cetaceans, Seals, Sirenians and Otters
$50.00 AUD
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome. 1982. 1st Ed. FAO Fisheries Series No. 5, Volume IV. X, 531, (3) PP with tables, graphs, drawings and b/w photos. Eps: Comparative size of Mammals found in the seas. Cloth cover, device on front board, dj. Fine. 28 x 21.8. 9251005141
34 papers: 3 on sirenians and otters, 19 on seals, and 13 on small cetaceans (dolphins, porpoises).
22141 GRACE, Eric S. WHALE: Giant of the Ocean
$30.00 AUD
Sandstone Books. Sydney. 1996. 1st Australian edition. 128 PP with colour photos. Fp: Diver meets humpback whale. Title page: A humpback flips its tail into the air. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 26 x 28.5. 1875986375
70265 GRAVES, William & SCHEFFER, Victor B. WHALES OF THE WORLD: The Imperiled Giants & Exploring the Lives of Whales [in National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 150, No.6]
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1976. December 1976. Contains articles pages 722 to 767 with 1 b/w lithography, 1 graph, 3 drawings and 39 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
35506 GRAVES, William P. E. MARTHA'S VINEYARD (in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 119, No.6)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1961. June 1961. Contains article from P.778 to 809 with 1 map and 2 b/w and 34 colour photos by James P. Blair. Soft cover. Near fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
Old whaling days still flavor life on sea-swept Martha's Vineyard.
21264 GUNSON, Niel THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by Warren Horton. XII, 140 PP with 12 b/w illust. Eps: Facsimile of Log Book. Hard cover, scrimshaw illustration on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 24.8 x 17.4. 0642105057
A British account of whaling in the South Seas on board the Phoenix in 1823-25 and the Harriet 1826-29.
56067 GUNSON, Niel THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829
$35.00 AUD
National Library of Australia Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed., foreword by Warren Horton. XII, 140 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Eps: Facsimile of Log Book. Hard cover, scrimshaw illustration on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on page facing title page, signed by Niel Gunson, editor. Fine. 24.8 x 17.4. 0642105057
A British account of whaling in the South Seas on board the Phoenix in 1823-25 and the Harriet 1826-29.
21326 HAGELUND, W. A. WHALERS NO MORE - A History of Whaling on the West Coast
$10.00 AUD
Harbour Publishing. Vancouver, B.C. 1987. 1st Ed. IV, 211 PP with 68 b/w illustrations (photos, maps & sketches). Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0920080022
The reminiscences of whaling on the Pacific North-West coast between 1905 and 1972, from shore bases or steam whaling ships.
75134 HAINES, A. K., WILLIAMS, G. C. & COATES, D. (editors) TORRES STRAIT FISHERIES SEMINAR - Port Moresby, 11-14 February 1985
$40.00 AUD
Australian Fisheries Services & Fisheries Division Papua New Guinea. Canberra. & Port Moresby. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Robert Bain. VIII, 344 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, graphs, maps). Stiff covers, illustrated front cover, title on front cover and spine. Covers rubbed and creased, otherwise contents are clean and still a very good copy. 24.8 x 17.5. 0644050578
39325 HALEY, Delphine (editor) MARINE MAMMALS OF EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC AND ARCTIC WATERS
$40.00 AUD
Pacific Search Press. Seattle. 1986. 2nd revised edition of the 1978 original. 296 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps & photos), plus 16 plates with 31 colour photos. Title spread: Humpback whale slapping the water with its pectoral fin. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket wih a few small chips and in a protective sleeve, o/wise a near fine copy. 28.5 x 22.2. 0931397146
On: Blue Whale, Finner Whale, Humpback Whale... Sperm Whale, Killer Whale... Walrus, Seal. As well as other Marine-adapted species: Polar Bear, Sea Otter and Steller Sea Cow.
10431 HALEY, Nelson Cole WHALE HUNT, The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship Charles W. Morgan 1849-1853
$25.00 AUD
Robert Hale Ltd. London. 1950. 1st UK Ed. 319 PP with 16 full-page b/w illust. in text. Library binding, with number on spine, stamp on FFEP, at bottom of title-page and its verso. Contents clean and a very good copy of a scarce title. 21 x 14.
Sperm whaling in the South Pacific.
74411 HALEY, Nelson Cole WHALE HUNTER
$15.00 AUD
Seaforth Publihing. Barnsley, London. 2011. 1st Ed. No. 6 in the "Seafarers' Voices" series. Abridged edition with a new introduction by Vincent McInerney. XII, 194, (1 publications) PP with 1 map + an inset, on double page. Hard cover, dj. Fine (mint condition). 18.5 x 12. 9781848320963
Sperm whaling in the South Pacific.
74952 HARDY, Sir Alister THE OPEN SEA: ITS NATURAL HISTORY - Part II: Fish and Fisheries
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. c. 1960. 1st edition in "The New Naturalist" series. Part II: XIV, 322 PP with 114 figures (diagrams, drawings & maps), plus 16 plates with 131 watercolour drawings by author, and 32 plates with 68 b/w photos. Cloth cover with some wear and a vertical crease, gilt title on a sunned/dulled spine. Top and bottom outside edges tinted. Ex-library copy lacking the title page, with library number blocked on lower part of spine and with stamp of the Invercagill Public Library on lower margin of P.1 and P.305. A good working copy. 22.2 x 15.5.
Masterly study of the vast swarms of life inhabiting the world's oceans. Chapter 15 of part II: Whales, Walruses and Wild Men.
46947 HEBERLEY, Heather LAST OF THE WHALERS. Charlie Heberley's Story
$20.00 AUD
Cape Catley Ltd. Auckland. 2004. Reprint of the 2002 original. VIII, 9-212 PP with 1 map, 1 head piece and 2 pages with facsimile of newspaper clippings, plus 8 pages with 16 colour photos and 16 pages with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0908561903
Last days of whaling in New Zealand: Tory Channel and Great Barrier Island.
42906 HEFFERNAN, Thomas Farel MUTINY ON THE GLOBE - The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
$30.00 AUD
Bloomsbury. London. 2002. 1st Ed. XX, 280 PP with 1 map on double page and 1 sketch map, plus 16 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of Mili Atoll (inset Pacific Ocean with location map). Hard cover, dj. Paper a little browned around edges, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 0747559023
1824 mutiny on the Nantucket whaling ship Globe.
65626 HEFFERNAN, Thomas Farel MUTINY ON THE GLOBE - The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
$10.00 AUD
Bloomsbury. London. 2002. 1st paperback edition. XX, 280 PP with 1 map on double page and 1 sketch map, plus 16 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Eps: map of Mili Atoll (inset Pacific Ocean with location map). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16. 0747560986
1824 mutiny on the Nantucket whaling ship Globe.
56116 HEINES, Donald S. (editor) WHALING WITH CAPTAIN PENNIMAN. Log of Thomas Knowles
$30.00 AUD
Donald S. Heines. Orleans, Ma. 1995. 1st Ed. Foreward by Donald S. Heines. 23, (5) PP with b/w illustrations (1 portrait and silhouettes of Whales), plus 4 pages facsimile pages of original log with 3 wood block prints of whales. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.3 x 15.
Whaling in the North Atlantic Ocean on the bark Minerva of New Bedford: May/August 1860.
75272 HEINTZELMAN, Donald S. A WORLD GUIDE TO WHALES, DOLPHINS, AND PORPOISES
$15.00 AUD
Winchester Press. Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1981 1st Ed. XX, 156 PP with tables, 7 maps, 25 "Artist's Plates" by Rod Arbogast, and 24 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21 x 12. 0876913230
66292 HELLER, Peter THE WHALE WARRIORS: On Board a Pirate Ship in the Battle to Save the World's largest Mammals
$15.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2008. 1st Australian edition of the 2007 US original. (12), 303, (3) PP with 1 map on double page, plus 8 pages with 25 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 20.8 x 13.5. 9780732287320
21352 HELLMAN, Nina & BROUWER, Norman A MARINER'S FANCY - The Whaleman's Art of Scrimshaw
$40.00 AUD
South Street Seaport Museum. New York. 1992. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 126 figures (36 in colour). Fp: Pie crimpers or "jaggers". Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 22.8 x 20.2. 0295972122
The art of scrimshaw and the role of New York in the history of American whaling. (Photos & descriptions of pieces from the South Street Seaport Museum of New York).
43873 HENDRICKS, Stanley (editor) HERMAN MELVILLE: VOYAGES
$15.00 AUD
Hallmark Editions. New York. 1970. 1st Ed. 61 PP. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 19.5 x 12. 875291090
Selection from Moby Dick, Typee... and letters to Richard Henry Dana, Jr., to Thomas Melville...
53446 HILDER, Captain Brett WHALING AT NORFOLK ISLAND (in Walkabout Magazine - Vol. 24, No. 9)
$25.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1958. Volume 24, No. 9, September 1958. 40 PP. Contains article P. 10 to 13 with 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 30.2 x 24.2.
66210 HMSO FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES - Report for the Years 1954 and 1955
$20.00 AUD
Colonial Reports / Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London. 1956. 1956 edition, in the "Colonial Reports" series. 70, (2) PP with tables, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w photos at centrefold and 2 folded charts at back of book. Soft cover, staples. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Very good. 21.5 x 13.5.
71958 HOARE, Philip LEVIATHAN, or The Whale
$20.00 AUD
Fourth Estate. London. 2009. 2nd reprint in paperback of the 2008 original. (10), 454 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, sketches, drawings, paintings and photos) and a 20 pages index. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 19.6 x 12.8. 9780007230143
71469 HODGKINSON, R. EBER BUNKER OF LIVERPOOL - "The Father of Australian Whaling"
$50.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1975. 1st Ed. Roebuck Society publication No. 15. VIII, 64 PP with 1 tail piece and 2 maps, plus 12 pages with 2 sketch maps and 14 b/w illust. FEP: Errata. REP: Genealogy of the Bunker family. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small nicks, o/wise a fine copy. 26 x 18.2. 0909434050
45077 HOHMAN, Elmo Paul THE AMERICAN WHALEMAN
$30.00 AUD
Macdonald and Jane's. London. 1974. 1st UK reprint edition of the 1928 original. XIV, 355 PP, plus 32 plates with 21 b/w illustrations. Fp: Sperm whaling - The chase. Decorated hard cover, gilt title on spine. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.4 x 15.2. 0356047377
A study of life and labour in the whaling industry.
45205 HOLDEN, Robert THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA - The Life of Australian Whaling Captain William Chamberlain: A tale of abduction, adventure and murder
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed. XIV, 302 PP with 1 b/w illustration. Pictorial stiff covers with light wear, faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780732275570
Historical reconstruction.
31802 HOYT, Edwin P. THE MUTINY ON THE GLOBE
$15.00 AUD
Random House. New York. 1975. 1st Ed. X, 203 PP. Eps: Map of the voyage of the Globe. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj (closed tear). Near fine. 21.4 x 14.2. 0394493656
The events on board the US whaleship Globe which in 1824, led to an uprising, mutiny and establishment of a kingdom on Mili Atoll.
42334 HOYT, Edwin P. THE MUTINY ON THE GLOBE
$10.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1976. 1st UK edition of the 1975 US original. (10), 203 PP. Eps: Map of the voyage of the Globe. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Closed tears to dust jacket, faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2. 0213165767
The events on board the US whaleship Globe which in 1824, led to an uprising, mutiny and establishment of a kingdom on Mili Atoll.
46495 HUNDLEY, Paul SCRIMSHAW - Art of the Whaler (in Signals No. 66)
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2004. No. 66, March-May 2004. 36 PP, contains article from P.8 to 11 with 9 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.
The craft and the craftsmen.
10434 HURLEY, Frank WHALE HUNTING WITH BOMB AND WIRELESS (in Walkabout Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 8)
$25.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1940. Vol. 6, No.8, June 1940. 48 PP. Contains article pages 8 to16 with 1 map and 7 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 30 x 24.
A story of whales, their habits, and modern whaling in Australia's Antarctica. Other article: Tahitian Wedding, by Wilfred Burchett
57784 JARMAN, Robert JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE "JAPAN", employed in the Sperm Whale Fishery, under the Command of John May
$150.00 AUD
Edition Renard. Melbourne. 2009. Reprint of the 1838 original, in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies (Nos. 101 to 200). This copy No.105. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Chronology, and Index by Robert M. Warneke. X, (2 blank), VI, 318 PP. Fp: Portrait of Robert Jarman in 1877. Top edge dyed, page-marker ribbon. Cloth cover (full linen), title-labels on front board and spine. Fine/as new. 23 x 16.5. 9781920738143
Voyage: June 1831 to August 1834. London, Cape of Good Hope, St Paul Island (Indian Ocean), Indonesia, Japan, Hawai'i, Tonga, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati ... New Zealand, Cape Horn, Azores, London.
57785 JARMAN, Robert JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE "JAPAN", employed in the Sperm Whale Fishery, under the Command of John May
$300.00 AUD
Edition Renard. Melbourne. 2009. Reprint of the 1838 original, in a limited edition of 70 numbered copies 31 to 100 (number 36). Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Chronology, and Index by Robert M. Warneke. X, (2 blank), VI, 318 PP. Fp: Portrait of Robert Jarman in 1877. Top edge dyed. Marker ribbon. Quarter bound, grey goatskin with moire cloth sides, title on spine. Fine. 23 x 16.5.
Voyage: June 1831 to August 1834. London, Cape of Good Hope, St Paul Island (Indian Ocean), Indonesia, Japan, Hawai'i, Tonga, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati ... New Zealand, Cape Horn, Azores, London.
58806 JARMAN, Robert JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE "JAPAN", employed in the Sperm Whale Fishery, under the Command of John May
$650.00 AUD
Edition Renard. Melbourne. 2009. Reprint of the 1838 original, in a limited edition of 30 numbered copies (No. 21). Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Chronology, and Index by Robert M. Warneke. X, (2 blank), VI, 318 PP. Fp: Portrait of Robert Jarman in 1877. All edges tinted. Marker ribbon. Full grey goatskin, gilt title on spine, cloth slipcase with title on labels. Fine. 24.3 x 17.
Voyage: June 1831 to August 1834. London, Cape of Good Hope, St Paul Island (Indian Ocean), Indonesia, Japan, Hawai'i, Tonga, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati ... New Zealand, Cape Horn, Azores, London.
50755 JONES, A. G. E. THE SOUTH SEAS WHALING VOYAGE OF THE COMET, 1812-1815 (in The Great Circle)
$10.00 AUD
Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1983. Volume 5, No. 2, October 1983. Contains article between P.98 and 104 with 2 tables. Soft cover. Foxing spots on first and last leaves. Near fine. 24.3 x 16.3.
2980 barrels of oil on the coast of Peru.
53049 JONES, A. G. E. BRITISH SEALING ON NEW SOUTH SHETLAND 1819-1826 (in The Great Circle, Volume 7, Parts I & II)
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1985 Part I in Volume 7, No. 1, April 1985: Article P. 9 to 22 with 1 table. Part II in Volume 7, No. 2, October 1985. Article P.74 to 87 with 6 tables. Soft cover. Near fine. 24.3 x 16.3.
56072 JONES, A. G. E. SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE SOUTH SEAS TRADE 1775-1859 - Volume 2 (in 3 parts)
$100.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1992. 1st edition. Publication No. 46 of the Roebuck Society. XXIV, 720 PP with b/w illustrations, edited by Ian H; Nicholson, including 24 maps. Eps: Docks on the Thames River. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 25.7 x 18.5. 0646091832
In Three Parts: Part I: 1775-1859, Part II: Admiralty Protections from Impressment, Part III: Aspects of the South Seas Trade.
70070 JONES, A. G. E. & CHATWIN Dale SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE SOUTH SEAS TRADE 1775-1859 - Volume 3
$20.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing / Roebuck Society. Hobart. 2013. Limited edition of 100 hand numbered copies. Publication No. 53 of the Roebuck Society expanded and edited by Dale Chatwin. 165 PP with 2 graphs, tables and 14 b/w illustrations (1 map, facsimile of documents and 3 whaling scenes). Card covers, illustrated front. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780992366018
British Southern Whale Fishery... Whaling trade.
70976 JONES, A. G. E. & CHATWIN Dale SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE SOUTH SEAS TRADE 1775-1859 - Volume 3
$30.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing / Roebuck Society. Hobart. 2013. Limited edition of 100 hand numbered copies. Publication No. 53 of the Roebuck Society expanded and edited by Dale Chatwin. 165 PP with 2 graphs, tables and 14 b/w illustrations (1 map, facsimile of documents and 3 whaling scenes). Card covers, illustrated front. Signed by Dale Chatwin on title page. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780992366018
British Southern Whale Fishery... Whaling trade.
54514 JONES, Noreen NORTH TO MATSUMAE: Australian Whalers to Japan
$50.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2008. 1st Ed. XXIX, 208 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w and 24 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on prelims and last few pages and on outside page edges. Very good. Scarce. 23 x 15. 9780980296518
Voyage of the Lady Rowena, November 1830 to end of June 1832: Port Jackson, Solomon Islands, Minami Tori Shima (Marcus Island), Japan with return to Sydney via Guam, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Wallis Island and Tonga. Voyage of the Eamont in 1850, shipwrecked in May 1850 off Akkeshi, Hokkaido Island.
75675 KEMP, Christopher FLOATING GOLD
$20.00 AUD
Fourth Estate/HarperCollins. Sydney. 2012. 1st printings of the 1st Australian paperback edition. XVI, 304 PP with 20 b/w illustrations (1 newspaper clipping, 1 letter and 18 photos), plus 8 pages with 12 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper and foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 20.8 x 13.5. 9780732291914
75865 KERR, Garry CRAFT AND CRAFTSMEN OF AUSTRALIAN FISHING 1870-1970 - An Illustrated Oral History
$60.00 AUD
Main'sl Books. Portland, Victoria. 1985. 1st Ed. 261 PP with 24 plans & around 250 photos. FEP: Sail plan of fishing ketch "Myrtle Burgess". REP: Sail plan of "Elsie Jargen". Hard cover, simile leather, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears, rubbed patches, and a sunned spine, now in a protective sleeve. Small sellotape marks on endpapers. Name of previous owners at top corner of the verso of FFEP. An otherwise near fine copy. 25 x 18.5. 0949583553
The evolution of Australian fishing craft: cray fishing ketches and yawls, pearling luggers, oyster cutters, couta boats ...
74744 KINGSTON, W.H.G. PETER THE WHALER
$10.00 AUD
W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. London. c. 1936. Juvenile edition in the "Foulsham's Boy and Girl Fiction Library" series. Abridged edition. 160 PP. Fp: Whale and harpooner. Hard cover, title and decoration on front board and spine. Ageing of paper, hinges rubbed. Very good reading copy. 18.5 x 12.5.
Early life and adventures in the Arctic Regions.
46508 KIRKER, James ADVENTURES TO CHINA - Americans in the Southern Oceans 1792-1812
$15.00 AUD
O.U.P. New York. 1970. 1st Ed. (10), 192 PP with 2 drawings and 3 charts, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Fp: Daniel Foss, a seal hunter. Eps: A chart of the world. Cloth cover, device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Faint foxing on outside edges. Signature of previous owner at top of half title page, o/wise near fine. 20.7 x 13.8.
American ships loaded with fur skins or sandalwood from the South Seas or Southern Ocean, to China.
68093 KIRKWOOD, Roger & GOLDSWORTHY, Simon FUR SEALS AND SEA LIONS
$25.00 AUD
CSIRO Publishing. Melbourne. 2013. 1st Ed. in the Australian Natural History series. V, 151 PP with tables, over 45 b/w figures and 16 plates with 102 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17. 9780643096929
74660 KOMATSU, Masayuki & MISAKI, Shigeko THE TRUTH BEHIND THE WHALING DISPUTE
$20.00 AUD
ICR Information Line. Tokyo. 2001. 1st Ed. 171 + 172-176 (blank pages foir notes) PP with 2 tables, 4 graphs in colour and 13 colour illustratiuons (1 table of whales managed by the International Whaling Commission and 12 photos). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped. Some highlighting in text, o/wise near fine. 20.7 x 13.5. 479661785X
International Whaling Commission and Japanese point of view.
73275 LABOUTE, Pierre & GRANDPERRIN, René POISSONS DE NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$150.00 AUD
Editions Catherine Ledru / IRD. Nouméa. 2000. 1st edition. Preface by Yves Magnier. 520 PP with 3 colour figures, 4 colour maps and hundreds of colour photos. Half title page: Cirrhilabrus Laboutei. Eps: Coral fishes. Pictorial laminated boards. Newspaper clipping loosely inserted. Dedicatory note dated and signed by Pierre Laboute, co-author on verso of front endpaper and on page 3. French text. Fine. 29.2 x 23.1. 2950578438
Some 1000 species described. Fishes of fresh and brackish waters. Sharks...
64492 LAING, Alexander AMERICAN SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
American Heritage Press. New York. 1971. 1st Ed. XXI, (3), 536 PP with 98 pages of b/w illustrations. Title spread: Crowninshield's wharf, Salem, in 1806. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Repaired dust jacket which has a faded spine is now in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 26 x 18. 07035846X
Whaling, whalers and whaling ships - Clippers - Sail or Steam?, Wood or Metal? - Last challenges of wood and sail.
70867 LANDAUER, Lyndall Baker SCAMMON - BEYOND THE LAGOON : A Biography of Charles Melville Scammon
$50.00 AUD
The Associates of the J. Porter Shaw Library & Institute for Marine Information. San Francisco & Pasadena. 1986. 1st Ed. No. 1, in the Pacific Maritime History series. Preface by David A. Hull. Foreword by Barbara Johnson. XIV, 180 PP, plus 20 pages with 20 b/w plates. Fp: C. M. Scammon. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.5. 0933185006
73541 LANGDON, Robert WHERE THE WHALERS WENT
$50.00 AUD
Pacific Manuscript Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1984. 1st soft cover edition. XX, 298 PP (typescript), illlustrated with charts and pen & ink drawings. Soft covers, front cover with clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 086784471X
An index to the Pacific ports and islands visited by American whalers (and some of the other ships) in the 19th century.
30774 LAUBENSTEIN, William J. THE EMERALD WHALER
$15.00 AUD
Andre Deutsch. London. 1961. 1st UK Ed. 239 PP with 1 map, plus 4 pages with 5 b/w illustrations. Hard cover. Two small old tape marks on inside of covers, o/wise a very good clean copy. 21.5 x 14.
Voyage of the whaler "Catalpa" to Western Australia which took 6 Irishmen to freedom after they had been condemned to prison in W.A.
68992 LAUBENSTEIN, William J. THE EMERALD WHALER
$10.00 AUD
Readers Book Club. Melbourne. 1962. Reprint of the 1961 UK original. 239 PP with 1 map, plus 4 pages with 5 b/w illustrations. Hard cover a little cocked, rubbed dust jacket.dj. Ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Good reading copy. 19 x 13.
The voyage of the whaler Catalpa to Western Australia, taking to freedom 6 Irishmen who were condemned to prison in W.A.
37602 LAWSON, Will IN BEN BOYD'S DAY
$30.00 AUD
New Century Press. Sydney. 1939. 1st Ed. 255 PP. Cloth cover. Spine sunned, light wear, some foxing, renewed endpapers. Very good. 18.7 x 12.5.
Novel based on Ben Boyd's life, achievements... to his ultimate death on Guadalcanal Island.
68052 LAWSON, Will HARPOONS AHOY ! - Fighting the Great Sperm Whales
$50.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1938. 1st Ed. IX, (2), 220 PP. Blue cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Spine lightly rubbed at head and foot and dulled. Occasional light foxing. Very good. 22 x 15.
Story of the great sperm whales and Captain McKillop, last of the old-time whalers out of Hobart (as told to the author).
69030 LAWSON, Will & The Shiplovers' Society of Tasmania BLUE GUM CLIPPERS AND WHALE SHIPS OF TASMANIA
$10.00 AUD
D. & L. Book Distributor. Launceston. 1986. Facsimile reprint of the 1949 original. 261 PP, plus 30 b/w plates. Fp: Sailing ships at New Wharf in 1881. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Early whaling, trading and shipbuilding in Tasmania.
69926 LAWSON, Will & The Shiplovers' Society of Tasmania BLUE GUM CLIPPERS AND WHALE SHIPS OF TASMANIA
$30.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1949. 1st Ed. 261 PP, plus 30 b/w plates. Fp: Sailing ships at New Wharf in 1881. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with small chips and tears. 2 newspaper articles pasted down on front and rear endpaper. Light foxing. An otherwise clean and very good copy. 22 x 14.5.
Early whaling, trading and shipbuilding in Tasmania.
72765 LAWSON, Will & The Shiplovers' Society of Tasmania BLUE GUM CLIPPERS AND WHALE SHIPS OF TASMANIA
$20.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1949. 1st soft cover edition. 261 PP, plus 30 b/w plates. Fp: Sailing ships at New Wharf in 1881. Stiff covers, dj (price clipped). Light foxing on the outside edges, o/wise in fine condition. 21.5 x 14.
Early whaling, trading and shipbuilding in Tasmania.
59997 LEATHERWOOD, Stephen & REEVES, Randall R. The Sierra Club Handbook of WHALES and DOLPHINS
$10.00 AUD
Sierra Club Books. San Francisco. 1983. 1st paperback edition. Foreword by Sam H. Ridgway. XVII, 302 PP with 130 b/w photos and 70 illustrations in full-color by Larry Foster. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on half title page. Fine. 20.3 x 11.5. 0871563401
10406 LEAVITT, John F. THE CHARLES W. MORGAN
$40.00 AUD
Mystic Seaport. Mystic. Ct. 1973. 1st Ed. Foreword by Waldo C. M. Johnston. XVI, 132, (5) PP with 50 b/w illustrations (16 drawings, sketches & line drawings, and 34 photos). Fp: The Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport. Pictorial card coversr. Fine. 25.2 x 17.5.. 0913372102
Thirty-seven whaling voyages over 80 years between Sept. 1841 & 1921. Preserved and now a landmark of Mystic Seaport.
73068 LEWIS, Helen Jo THE SHERBURDS - Pioneers and Whalers in Van Diemen's Land
$65.00 AUD
Helen Jo Lewis. Hobart. 2021. 1st edition limited to 200 copies. X, 182 PP with 1 family tree, and over 100 b/w or colour illustrations (charts, maps and plans, drawings and paintings, documents, newspaper clippings, portraits ...). Fp: Map of Van Diemen 's Land, c. 1826. Laminated pictorial boards barque ["Pacific", 1848). Signed by the author on title page. New. 25 x 17.5. 9780646839950
At least 14 Master Mariners can be traced in the Sherburd family.
21277 LOCKLEY, Ronald M. WHALES, DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES
$15.00 AUD
Methuen. Sydney. 1979. 1st Australian edition. 200 PP with 13 colour photos and 126 b/w illustrations (38 profiles of whales/porpoises). Hard cover, pictorial dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.4 x 18. 0454001495
Evolution and anatomy, sound navigation, their ecosystem. The whale-hunters and modern whaling. The great whales and the small whales (dolphins and porpoises).
47801 LONDON, Jack THE SEA WOLF
$10.00 AUD
The World's Best Reading / The Reader's Digest Association. Pleasantville, NY. 1989. Reprint of the 1904 original, with an Afterword by John L. Cobbs. 304 PP with 39 headpieces and 11 b/w illustrations by W. J. Aylward. Hard cover, device and title on front cover, gilt title on simile vellum spine. Foxing spots on top and fore outside edges. Near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0895773384
21372 LONEY, Jack SEA ADVENTURES AND WRECKS ON THE N.S.W. SOUTH COAST
$10.00 AUD
Author. Portarlington. 1977. 2nd edition. 80 PP plus 24 pages with 1 map & 44 b/w illust. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 20.4 x 14. 0909244081
Ruins of Bittangabee Bay, Ben Boyd and Twofold Bay, mutiny on the whaling ship Junior in 1857... shipwrecks.
21384 LONEY, Jack SEA ADVENTURES AND WRECKS ON THE N.S.W. SOUTH COAST
$15.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Geelong. c.1980. 3rd edition. 80 PP, plus 24 pages with 1 map & 44 b/w illust. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 20.4 x 14. 0909244081
Ruins of Bittangabee Bay - Ben Boyd and Twofold Bay - mutiny on the whaling ship Junior in 1857... shipwrecks.
75265 LUCAS, Jeremy WHALE
$10.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 1981 1st Ed. 172 PP. EPS: Map of the British Isles and Map of the journey of a sperm whale between northern Greenland and West Africa. Hard covers, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x14.5. 022401921X
74405 LÜDECKE, Cornelia & SUMMERHAYES, Colin THE THIRD REICH IN ANTARCTICA - The German Antarctic Expedition 1938-39
$200.00 AUD
Bluntisham Books / Erskine Press. Bluntisham & Eccles. 2012. 1st Ed. VIII, 254, (5 Index) PP with tables and b/w illustrations (documents, graphs, maps, portraits, photos, sketches...), plus 8 pages with 13 colour illustrations (1 poster, 1 German postal cancellation stamp; 3 maps and 8 photos). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 25 x 19.5. 9781852971038
Whaling expeditions, followed by the Exploration of Neu-Schwabenland ...
71501 MACKENZIE, J.M. SEALING, SAILING AND SETTLING IN SOUTH-WESTERN VICTORIA
$25.00 AUD
Lowden Publishing Co. Kilmore. 1976. 1st Ed. No. 5 in the Historical Briefs series. VIII, 82 PP plus 16 pages with 20 b/w plates. Half title page: vignette with tall ship. FEP: Shires: South Western Victoria. REP: Counties and coastal parishes South Western Victoria. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0909706484
Pioneer seamen of the Western Ports, early days at Port Fairy, Portland...
21233 MADDOCK, Shirley THESE ANTIPODES, A New Zealand Album 1814 to 1854
$20.00 AUD
Collins. Auckland. 1979. 1st Ed. X, 318 PP with b/w illust. plus 28 pages with 64 colour illust. (photos by Don Whyte). Hard cover, dj. Stamp on outside lower edge, o/wise very good. 26 x 20. 0002169584
A vivid account of New Zealand's past: its early visitors, explorers, whalers, missionaries.
30611 MARTIN, Dr. Anthony R. (editor) WHALES AND DOLPHINS
$20.00 AUD
Salamander Book / Bedford Editions. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 72 location maps, and colour illust. (photos and paintings by Bruce Pearson & David Thompson). Illustrated title spread and endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 30.5 x 22.2. 1856000001
43657 MARTIN, Kenneth R. DELAWARE GOES WHALING, 1833-1845
$10.00 AUD
The Hagley Museum Greenville, Delaware. 1974. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 26 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22 x 15.2.
Whaling fever in Delaware, and the Wilmington Whaling Company.
69531 MARTIN, Stephen THE WHALES' JOURNEY
$25.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. XII, 251 PP with 2 maps and 13 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 2 b/w photos and 10 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 1865082325
A year in the life of a humpback whale and a century in the history of whaling. Whaling at Bay of Islands and Tory Channel, New Zealand. Whaling at Twofold Bay, in West Australia, Moreton Bay (Tangalooma), Norfolk Island...
21292 MASON, F. van Wyck HARPOON IN EDEN
$5.00 AUD
Doubleday & Co. New York. 1969. 1st Ed. 430 PP. An illustrated book mark with Maori / English words loosely inserted. Cloth cover, dj. Front endpapers pasted together. Dust jacket worn & rubbed. Foxing spots on outside edges. Good reading copy. 24 x 16.
A novel of Nantucket & New Zealand in the great whaling days during the 1830's.
21235 MATTHEWS, Dr. Leonard Harrison (editor) THE WHALE
$15.00 AUD
Simon & Schuster. New York. 1968. 1st Ed. Foreword by Philip F. Purrington. 287 PP profusely illustrated in b/w & colour. Eps: Whale species (Japanese names). Hard cover, silver device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped and repaired. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. Oblong: 25.2 x 27.5.
The whales in mythology and folklore, their biology, whaling industry and whaling boats, whale products, ... whale protection.
33827 MAWER, Granville Allen AHAB'S TRADE - The Saga of South Seas Whaling
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. XIV, 393 PP with head & tail pieces, 6 maps, 12 b/w photos and 20 b/w illust., plus 8 pages with 13 colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 1864485795
Rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Pacific.
36513 MAXWELL, C. Bede WOODEN HOOKERS - Epics of the Sea History of Australia
$30.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1940. 1st Ed. IX, 780 PP. Green cloth cover with some soil marks, dust jacket is chipped and missing a few small pieces and is now in a protective sleeve. A date (1944) written on FFEP and former owner's name and address on title-page. Light foxing throughout and on outside page edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. 19.5 x 13.5.
True tales of heroism, endurance & resourcefulness. Tales of the men who sailed the wooden hookers, the mutinies, piracy, shipwrecks, whalers, blackbirders...
21286 McCARTHY, Mike EXCAVATION OF THE BARQUE DAY DAWN
$20.00 AUD
W.A. Museum. Perth. 1980. 1st Ed. 58 PP with b/w illustrations. Illustrated card cover. Near fine. 22 x 17. 0724482237
The excavation and identification of the wreck of an ex-American whaling ship in Cockburn Sound.
75276 McGOVERN, Ann LITTLE WHALE
$5.00 AUD
Hippo Books / Scholastic Book Services. London. 1985. 1st UK edition. No pagination, 44 PP with coloured illustrations by John Hamberger. Pictorial soft covers with creases. Contents are near fine. Oblong. 19 x 22.8. 9780590703543
21369 McKENZIE, J. Alex S. (compiler) WHALES OF TALES
$10.00 AUD
Eden Killer Whale Museum. Eden. September, 2001. 2nd edition. 20 PP with b/w illust. Stapled wrappers. Near fine. 21 x 15. 095779018X
Booklet containing "A collection of remarkable whaling stories - amazing tales of shipwreck, and of the terrifying and deadly denizens of the deep".
70591 McKILLOP, Captain William THE LAST OF THE SAIL WHALERS: Whaling off Tasmania and Southern New Zealand by Captain William McKillop (1865-1938)
$55.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2019. 1st Ed. No. 66, in the Roebuck series. Edited by Rhys Richards & Graeme Broxam. XIV, 216, (4 blank) PP with 1 family tree, 8 colour illustrations (including a map of Tasmania) and over 60 b/w illustrations: 5 maps (2 with inset), 6 drawings, 20 sketches by Gordon Grant and 35 photos and portraits. Laminated pictorial boards. Copy signed on title page by Graeme Broxam, publisher and co-editor. As new. 26.2 x 21. 9780992366070
Born Stewart Island, NZ, Coastal trading and seaing in New Zealand southern waters. Settled in Tasmania in 1893.
31966 McMANUS, Michael A TREASURY OF AMERICAN SCRIMSHAW - A collection of the useful and decorative
$25.00 AUD
Penguin Studio. New York. 1997. 1st printing. X, 150 PP with 7 b/w headpieces and 200 colour photos. Fp: Jagging wheel in Walrus ivory. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22.2. 9780670862344
21466 McNAB, Robert THE OLD WHALING DAYS - A History of Southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840
$20.00 AUD
Golden Press. Auckland. 1975. Reprint of the 1913 original, in the New Zealand Classics series. XIII, 508 PP. Hard cover, dj. Paper ageing around edges, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.5. 0855584327
The competition between French, American and British whalers for the sperm whale.
21364 MEAD, Tom EMPIRE OF STRAW - The Dynamic Rise and Disastrous Fall of Dashing Colonial Tycoon Benjamin Boyd
$20.00 AUD
Dolphin Books. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed. VIII, 286 PP (2 adv.) with 1 map & 3 portraits, 3 tail-pieces & 3 b/w illust. in text plus 8 pages with 8 colour plates & 16 pages with 16 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 16.5. 9780909089047
With the money of the Royal Bank of Australia, Boyd became a grazier, built a city at Twofold Bay, started a coastal trade and had 9 sailing ships for deap sea fishing. To refloat his empire, he went gold-digging in California and wanted to become a South Pacific Raj.
34739 MELVILLE, Herman TYPEE
$10.00 AUD
Heron Books. London. 1968. Reprint from the 2nd English edition of 1846. Introduction and notes by Milton R. Stern. XXX, 268 PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Herman Melville, 1819-1891. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt decorated front cover and spine, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 20.7 x 12.5.
Whaling, jumping ship in the Marquesas, living with the cannibals in the valley of Typee Vai on Nuku Hiva.
38139 MELVILLE, Herman MOBY DICK - THE CONFIDENCE-MAN - THE PIAZZA TALES - BILLY BUDD
$25.00 AUD
Exeter Books. New York. 1986. Complete and unabridged reprints of the 1851, 1857, 1856 and 1924 originals. 767 PP with 4 b/w illustrations on respective title pages. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 15.8. 671086235
Moby Dick: Whaling. Confidence-man: life on a steamer on the Mississippi.
75069 MELVILLE, Herman MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE
$10.00 AUD
Chancellor Press. London. 1985. Reprint in the Oxford World's Classics series, of the 1920 edition (original of 1851). Introduction by Viola Meynell. XXVIII, 583 PP. Hard covers, illustrated front. Slight foxing of paper. Very good. Small formet: 15.4 x 10. 1851520112
75107 MELVILLE, Herman The Best of MOBY DICK and TYPEE, also BILLY BUD complete
$10.00 AUD
Platt & Munk. New York. 1964. 1st edition in "The Platt & Munk Great Writers Collection". Foreword by Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg. 543 PP. Hard covers, gilt decoration on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket laminated and slightly soiled; Last leaf with a lower part torn (not affecting the text). Foxing. Good reading copy. 24 x 15.5.
50585 MERCER, Peter A MOST DANGEROUS OCCUPATION. Whaling, Whalers and the Bayleys: Runnymede's Maritime Heritage
$15.00 AUD
National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). Hobart. 2002. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Dr. Marion Myhill. XIV, 82 PP with 1 map, 2 facsimiles of documents, 16 b/w and 18 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0958024405
41350 MERYMAN, Richard AMERICAN VISIONS - THE WYETH FAMILY [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 180, No.1, 1991]
$10.00 AUD
NGS. Washington. 1991. Volume 180, No. 1, July 1991. Contains article from pages 78 to 109 with 11 b/w photos and 11 colour paintings. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
Newell Convers Wyeth, illustrator of Treasure Island or Kidnapped. Nathaniel Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth...
18846 MICCO, Helen Mary KING ISLAND AND THE SEALING TRADE, 1802
$20.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1971. 1st Ed., Volume 3 in the Roebuck series. IV, 5I PP plus 8 pages with 7 b/w plates. FEP: Map of King Island. REP: The 3 vessels of Baudin's expedition. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 26 x 18.8. 0950085812
A translation of chapters 22 & 23 of the narrative by François Péron published in the official account of the voyage of discovery to the Southern lands undertaken in the corvettes Le Géographe, Le Naturaliste, and the schooner Casuarina during the years 1800 to 1804, under the command of Captain Nicolas Baudin.
68088 MIDDLETON, Angela TWO HUNDRED YEARS ON COD FISH ISLAND (WHENUAHOU) - From Cultural Encounter to Nature Conservation
$30.00 AUD
Department of Conservation / Te Papa Atawhai. Invercargill, NZ. 2007. Southland Conservancy, June 2007 edition. 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 9421005174731
21239 MIELCHE, Hakon THERE SHE BLOWS!
$15.00 AUD
William Hodge. London. 1952. 1st English editon translated from the Danish original by M. A. Michael. (8), 227 PP with head pieces and tail pieces, plus 12 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj. Small pieces missing at head and foot of spine of dust jacket. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 16.
Life on board Norwegian whalers and a whale factory ship. Short history of whaling.
41554 MITCHELL, M. WHALE KILLERS OF TWOFOLD BAY
$10.00 AUD
Bega News Print. Bega, NSW. c. 1980. Reprint ?. No pagination, 10 PP with 10 b/w photos. Soft cover, illustrated front. Very good. 21 x 13.6.
First whaling station set at Twofold Bay, in 1828.
74636 MODZELEWSKI, Michael INSIDE PASSAGE: Living with Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians
$25.00 AUD
Adventures Unlimited / HarperCollins. Boynton Beach, Fl. 1991. 1st Ed. XVIII, 184 PP. Hard covers, cloth spine, dj. Dedicatory note to previous owner on half title page, signed by the author. 9780060165338
56071 MORTON, Harry THE WHALE'S WAKE
$40.00 AUD
University of Otago Press. Dunedin. 1982. 1st Ed. 396 PP with tail pieces by Peggy Morton, plus 40 pages with 108 b/w illustrations. FEP: Australasia whaling grounds. REP: Whaling harbours & shore station locations of New Zealand. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with closed tears at top. Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on verso of front endpaper. Near fine. 24 x 15.4. 0908569297
Whaling in New Zealand waters from 1792 to the late 1850's, its impact on Maori culture and the shaping of the NZ character.
68051 MORTON, Harry THE WHALE'S WAKE
$30.00 AUD
University of Otago Press. Dunedin. 1982. 1st Ed. 396 PP with tail pieces by Peggy Morton, plus 40 pages with 108 b/w illustrations. FEP: Australasia whaling grounds. REP: Whaling harbours & shore station locations of New Zealand. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with small repaired tears. A near fine copy. 24 x 15.4. 0908569297
Whaling in New Zealand waters from 1792 to the late 1850's, its impact on Maori culture and the shaping of the NZ character.
37603 MOWAT, Farley A WHALE FOR THE KILLING
$15.00 AUD
Heinemann. London. 1973. 1st UK edition of the 1972 Canadian original. 239, (1 blank) PP. FEP: maps of Newfoundland, the outport of Burgeo and Aldridges Pond. REP: Aldridges Pond by David Blackwood. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (rubbed). Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14. 043447987X
Desperate plea for an end to commercial whaling.
21354 MRANTZ, Maxine WHALING DAYS IN OLD HAWAII
$25.00 AUD
Aloha Graphics. Honolulu. 1976. 1st Ed. 40 PP with duo tone illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2.
Brief history of Hawaii followed by whaling & whalers.
75813 MÜLLER, Harald (editor) POLARSKIPET FRAM / THE POLAR EXPLORATION VESSEL FRAM
$15.00 AUD
Mittet & Co. A/S. Oslo. 1984 1984 bi-lingual edition. 24 PP with 3 maps, 1 b/w photo and 11 colour illustrations (5 photos) & 6 paintings). Pictorial card covers. Norwegian and English text. Near fine. 21 x 14.7. 8271820125
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1946. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photos throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Performing Pony). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: When Steamboats sailed the Murray by George Farwell, Whaling in the Antarctic and Japan by Prof. W.J. Dakin, Cormorants by L.E. Richdale, Megalong Valley by A.J. Quilty, The Boobook Owl by C.E. Bryant, ..
76039 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Volume 6, Nos. 3 to 12 and Volume 7, Nos. 1 to 2, 1940 (January to December 1940)
$120.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1940. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. Monthly edition. Volume 6, No. 3, January 1940 to Volume 7, No. 2, December 1940, with a total of 576 PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers. All volumes have the 8 page pictorial pages in the centre. A near fine complete year of 12 issues. 30 x 24.
Volume 6, No.3: Isles of Eden (the Trobriands) by Basil Hall; When Natives go Fishing by Ewen K. Patterson; Around the Mutton-Bird Islands by Rosaline Redwood; Overlanders by Ernestine Hill. Volume 6, No.4: King of the Coral Cods by Ewen K. Patterson; Across the Empty Kimberleys by H.C. Barclay; Australia Makes Paper by Edward Samuel; Where the Diprotodon Died, by Ian Mudie; When Mars beats the Drums, A New Guinea Episode, by Allan Hood; "Thar" she Blows, Australian Whaling in the Last Century by J.J. Stewart. Volume 6, No.5: The Australian Stockwhip by Ian Westbrook; A New Guinea Mission by S. Alston Pearl; Yacca Gum, A Kangaroo Island Industry, by W.J. Tohl; Australia's Unknkown Islands by Charles Barrett; Huon Pine by M.S.R.Sharland; A Fijian's Day by D. Boyd; Where the Ibis Nests by A.S. Le Souet. Volume 6, No.6: Yampi Sound and its Iron by John K. Ewers; Australian Petrol by Edward Samuel; By Caravan to "The Centre" by Capt. C.A.S. Mansbridge; Native Life in Tahiti by W.G. Burchett. Volume 6, No.7: The Desolation that is Lake Eyre by C.T. Madigan; Lightning Ridge by Frank Hurley; Isles of the Coral Seas by Capt. C.A.S. Mansbridge; The Road to Milford Sound by Violet A. Roche; When Natives go Hunting by Ewen K. Patterson; Strzelecki by Olive Havard; New Norcia Mission by James Pollard. Volume 6, No.8: Tahitian Wedding by W.G. Burchett; Whale Hunting with bomb and wireless by Frank Hurley; Canoe Holiday, Down the Murray from Khancoban to Howlong by James Valentine; "Big Tom "- the Cassowary by Ewen K. Patterson. Volume 6, No.9: Native Labour by S. Alston Pearl; Masters of Camouflage, Birds that make themselves appear a part of their surroundings by Ronald K. Monro; Glacier Land, In New Zealand's Southern Alps by Violet A. Roche; "Creating" Crocodiles, Strange ceremony of North Queensland natives by Ewen K. Patterson. Volume 6, No.10: Through Central Australia by Bertha G. Strehlow; Fiji Gold by F.I. Ryan; Black Man's Day by Ernestine Hill; Artist's Walkabout by R. Emerson Curtis with 2 of his sketches; Flying the Tasman by Violet A. Roche. Volume 6, No. 11: Climbing in New Zealand Forests by "Cusec"; Ruins in the Far North, Port Essington To-day by Charles Barrett; The Combs of Koo-chee, The Stingless Bees of Queensland by Tarlton Rayment; Rivers of Van Diemen Gulf by John R. Finlayson; Rottnest Island by Anthony Culpeffer. Volume 6, No.12: The Red Centre, Sidelights on a motor tour from Adelaide to Alice Springs by Frank Hurley; The Huntress, An Australian Wasp that has learnt to use a tool by Tarlton Rayment; Gift of the Gods (Napier Earthquake of 1931) by V. May Cottrell; Australia's Fishing Industry by Harold Thompson; The Digger's Hat by Pat O'Neill, The Dingo Trapper by S.A. Marden. Volume 7, No.1: The Virgins of Halictus (sandbees) by Tarleton Rayment; Fishing for Trout (in the South Esk, Tasmania) by Eugene Cooper; The Night is his playtime, a Nocturnal Study of Koala at Home by Ronald K. Monro; Mighty Nullabor Buttresses by the Rev. Geo. C. Woolf; Forgotten Paradise, the Carnarvon Ranges of Queensland by C.C.D. Brammall; Ocean Toilers by Rosaline Redwood; Power from Water, Impressions of Tasmania's Hydro-electric power developments by R. Emerson Curtis with 2 sketches; The Sea-Tiger by Ewen K. Patterson. Volume 7, No.2: Branding Muster by James F. Hobden; The Fahnestock Expedition to the South Seas by H.E.L. Priday; "Philosopher Smith", Discovered Mount Bischoff (Tasmania) by A. Geoffrey Horner; Australia's Bay of Islands, Moreton Bay, Queensland by C.C.D. Brammall; Aborigines of the Great Western Desert by R.M. Berndt.
76082 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia's Geographic Magazine - Volume 11, Nos. 3 to 12 and Volume 12, Nos. 1 to 2, 1945 (January to December 1945)
$120.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1945. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. Monthly edition. Volume 11, No. 3, January 1945 to Volume 12, No. 2, December 1945, with a total of 488 PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers. All volumes have the pictorial pages in the centre. A near fine complete year of 12 issues. 30 x 24.
Volume 11, No.3: Through the Aime Pigmy Country, The Story of a Forced March through a Section of New Guinea by Three Australian Soldiers by Alan Hughes; Around Darwin Harbour by A.L. Lauder; Papuan Profiles, Inside a Prison Yard by R. Emerson Curtis with 2 sketches; South-West Coast (Tasmania) by Fred Usher. Volume 11, No.4: North-Westward Ho! and The Duracks by Ernestine Hill; Tripping and Trading on the Sepik River (New Guinea) by G.M. Read; The Baobab Tree by Ernest Philpot; Wolfram by Noel Griffiths; Buru and Copal (the Moluccas). Volume11, No.5: Sky-Lines in the Forest by H. Drake-Brockman; Across the Barkly Tablelands by Haliden Hartt; Oil of Tung by Tarlton Rayment. Volume 11 No.6: Aerial Postman (Southern section of the NT and portion of SA), by Glen Francis; Gold (W.A.) by H. Drake-Brockman; The Tasmanian North-West, Romance of the Arthur River by Bernard Cronin; New Guinea Hair Styles by G.M. Read; Merawke (Dutrch New Guinea) by Owen Campbell Mortimer. Volume 11 No.7: Penguins by L.E. Richdale; Native Walkabout by H.D. Williamson; The Reaches of the Western Sounds by Owen Campbell Mortimer; The "Brighties" (diamonds) of the Western Slopes by Tarlton Rayment; Mt. Bartle Frere, the Highest Point in Queensland by Noel Griffiths. Volume 11, No.8: East of Soerabaja (Tarlton Rayment); Forests of the Territory by James Pollard; Coloured Characters by H. Drake-Brockman; Mareeba by Noel Griffiths; The Journey North, the Overland postal service from Meekatharra to Marble Bar) by Jackson J. Doughty. Volume 11, No.9: The Captain Cook Dock, Sydney by Mary Durack; Flying Visit (Catalina in Arnhem Land) by H.D. Williamson; Fruits of Ceram (Moluccas) by Tarlton Rayment; New Hebrides by Basil Hall; Ballet at Badu by A.E. Church. Volume 11, No.10: With Eagles in the Field by David Fleay; Policing Cape York by Noel Griffiths; Tin by Marion Maude; Birds in the Swamps by C.E. Bryant; Buffalo Country by James Pollard; Tea-Tree Bees of Port Phillip by Tarlton Rayment; The Vanishing Australian by Mary Durack. Volume 11, No. 11: The Hunters by H.D. Williamson; New Old World (Australia's bush animals) by K. Woodburn; Trees that grow shipshape by Noel Griffiths; Bentonite by Robert Archer; Birds of Paradise by A.W. Lauder; The Blue Spec (gold mine) by Jackson J. Doughty; Volume 11, No.12: Wings to Borroloola by Ernestine Hill; Kite Fishing in the Solomons by A.E. Church; Rubber Mills of Papua by Arthur Hausler; Ghost Worlds of the North by James Pollard; Education in Nationhood, amongst the Pacific Peoples by Wallace Deane; The Condamine Bell by Charles Goodliffe. Volume 12, No.1: Frilled Dragon by Norman Laird; Thylungra by Mary Durack; New Britain by H.D. Williamson; Lovely Trefoil Island (N.W. Tasmania) by C. Lott; Dampier's Well by A.E. Church; Charting the Seas by Rowland G. Roberts; Volume 12, No.2: Island of Iron (Cockatoo Island) by H. Drake-Brockman; The Crocodile Hunters by E. Worrel; The Paddle-Wheelers of Echuca by F.L. Boyle; Queer Spears of the North by "Wayfarer"; Stick Insects by Norman Laird; Bringalbert by William Ruth; King Island by M.S.E. Sharland.
76103 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia's Geographic Magazine and Journal of the Australian Geographical Society - Volume 13, Nos. 3 to 12 and Volume 14, Nos. 1 to 2, 1947 (January to December 1947)
$120.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1947. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. Monthly edition. Volume 13, No. 3, January 1947 to Volume 14, No. 2, December 1947, with a total of 580 PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers. All volumes have the pictorial pages in the centre. A near fine complete year of 12 issues. 30 x 24.
Volume 13, No.3: Australia's Water Resources by J.D. Lang (Page 6 to 20); Suwarrow by William S. Bond; Melville Island by W.E. Harney; Yellowtail in Spencer's Gulf by R.O. Burlinson. Volume 13, No.4: Soil Erosion in Australia by R.G. Downes; St. Peter's Birds by Michael Sharland; The Antiquitity of the Aboriginal by W. Charnley; The Gum of the Kauri Trees by Tarlton Rayment; The Trout comes to Western Australia by John K. Ewers. Volume 13, No.5: The Bitumen by M. Kathleen Woodburn; On Cooper's Creek by George Farwell; Chasing the Honey Flows by Art Hausler; The Lure of the Saltings by Ina Watson; Murray Downs Station by H.R. Nicholls, King Island by Cath Lott. Volume 13, No.6: An Australian Seashore by William J. Dakin, I Know a Dark Green Forest by Arthur Groom, Aileron by M. Kathleen Woodburn; Major Mitchell's Explorations by K.W. Richardson. Volume 13, No.7: Darwin by M. Kathleen Woodburn; Life in a Pine Forest by Michael Sharland; Nullarbor Caves by J. Maitland Thomson; Granite Gold by C.O. Leigh Cook. Volume 13, No.8: Building Ships in Australia by George Farwell; New Guinea is different now by R. Hamilton; Sidelights on Polynesian Life by Laurence Maine; The Oak Park Picnic Races by Ruth Ann Curtis; Rodondo Report by John Mayston Béchervaise; A Woman of Arnhem Land by John Russell. Volume 13, No.9: Water on Malvern Downs by R. and R. Emerson Curtis; Pelicans of the Coorong by Michael Sharland; Cotton in Australia by Sylvia D'Arcy-Evans; Robe, on St. Vincent's Gulf by George Farwell. Volume 13, No.10: The Power of Dreams, A Story of the Flying Doctor Service by Ruth Ann Curtis; Wings of the Overflow by Michael Sharland; Five Days on the "George Bass" by C.C. Lawrence; Shark Repellant by G. Payne; Walkabout in a Wagon, Melbourne to Wentworth by Horse and Cart by H.R. Nicholls. Volume 13, No. 11: Westward the River Rolls by George Farwell; Fish from the Bight by Michael Sharland; The Migrants (ticks) by M. Kathleen Woodburn. Volume 13, No.12: Cape York Peninsula by F.W. Whitehouse; Mining for Talc by George Farwell; No Rest for Australian Forests by R. Emerson Curtis; Monuments to Aboriginal Kings. Volume 14, No.1: The Musgrave Ranges by Allan F. Wilson; White Cliffs by Vernon A. Lee; Kings of the Cattle Ramp by Blanche Maynard; Adventure in Science by William J. Dakin; Chatham Islands by Rosaline Redwood; Canoe on the Murrumbidgee by R. Raven-Hart. Volume 14, No.2: Surveying Australian Waters by Geoffrey C. Ingleton; On Tiger Snakes by Eric Worrell; Trochus Shell and Reef by Norman W. Caldwell; Mataranka by M. Kathleen Woodburn; Aboriginal Ballet by John K. Ewers; Mapping by "Cography" by Stanley H. Powell.
76104 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australian Geographical Magazine and Journal of the Australian Geographical Society - Volume 14, Nos. 3 to 14 (January to December 1948)
$120.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1948. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. Monthly edition. Volume 14, No. 3, January 1948 to Volume 14, No. 14 December 1948, with a total of 576 PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers. All volumes have the pictorial pages in the centre. A near fine complete year of 12 issues. 30 x 24.
Volume 14, No.3: The Sugar Shield by Ruth Ann Curtis; Melanesian Arcadia by J.G. Coombs; Mountain of Iron by George Farwell; Man and Minerals by Curt Teichert; A Wooden Ship is Built by John McPherson. Volume 14, No.4: We Wanted a Coral Island by R. Emerson Curtis; Kimberley Epic by Mary Durack; The Battle of Simpson Desert by Michael Sawtell; The Art called Contemplative by Basil Hall; The Grass Tree by M. Kathleen Woodburn. Volume 14, No.5: The Birdsville Track by George Farwell; Sherbrooke Holiday by L.H. Smith; The Third Great Tor by John Béchervaise; Tasmania's Lonely Fjord by Matt O'Brien; Termite Castles by JK.S. Litchfield. Volume 14, No.6: Everything is Temporary in Post-War Moresby by Sean Keogh; Where the Darling Ends by George Farwell; The Beach Master by Norman Laird; The Whistling Eagle by David Fleay; Water for Mallee Lands by Michael Sharland; The Island where Time stands still by Mrs. Harry Bonney; This Jealous Land by Arthur W. Upfield. Volume 14, No.7: Walking the Cattle by Arthur W. Upfield; Silver-Lead Town by George Farwell; The Golden Bough by M. Kathleen Woodburn; Inarlinga by Norman Laird; Arnhem Land Aboriginal Reserve by V.C. Hall; Greenly Island by H.H. Finlayson. Volume 14, No.8: Source of Atomic Power by George Farwell; Macquarie Island by Norman Laird; Western Australia's Limestone Coast by J. Gentilli; Pukumani by John K. Ewers. Volume 14, No.9: Fire Control in Western Australian Forests by Ray Bean; On the Shores of Lake Eyre by George Farwell; The Giants by C.C.D.Brammall; Trading Post of the "Never Never" by V.C. Hall; The East-West Bitumen by J.H.L. Cumpston; Vanua Balavu by G. Scorseby Shepherd. Volume 14, No.10: Mapping a Continent by L. FitzGerald; Ski-ing is the Life! by M. Hall; From Tea-Tree Swamp to Pasture by A.R. Callaghan; Boats on Wheels by Molly Lyons; Northern Territory Army Farms by V.C. Hall. Volume 14, No. 11 (mis-numbered as No.12) : Police Patrol in the "Never Never" by A.F. Anderson; Droving through the Sea by Fred Lord; Boydtown by C. Mervyn Archdall; Makatea by S.G. Martin; Fasciola Hepatica by M. Kathleen Woodburn; People of the Centre by Bertram Keith; Queensland Nuts by Ian Desmond. Volume 14, No.12 : Tasmania's Modern Explorers by Michael Sharland; Islands of Torres Strait by R. Raven-Hart; Debris of the Tides by W.A. Harney; The Australian Deserts by M. Kathleen Woodburn; Bird Islands off the Swan River by James Pollard; Tragedy of Lizard Island by Fred Lord. Volume 14, No.13: The Hidden Crater of Wolf Creek by Charles H. Holmes; Lord Howe Island to-Day by G. Scoresby Shepherd; Captain Cook Memorial at Tahiti by S.G. Martin; Letter from Macquarie by Norman Laird; The Maluka's Grave by W.E. Harney; Rocky Island. Volume 14, No.14: Cockatoo Island, Yampi Sound by John K. Ewers; Australia's Most Northerly Homestead by John H. Martin; Crossing the Gammon Ranges by Warren Bonython; Melville Island by C.M. Thiele and J.B. Harrington; Domestic Problems in the Far North by Leone Biltris; Gregory's Baobab Tree by L.H.A. Giles.
70756 NASH, Michael THE BAY WHALERS - Tasmania's shore-based whaling industry
$30.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing / Tasmanian Heritage Office. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. VI, 170 PP with 2 graphs, 5 sketches, 9 maps, 32 colour and 20 b/w illustrations. Title spread: Whaleboat approaching for the kill. Eps: Map of the world with whaling grounds. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.9 x 18. 0958656193
57001 NASH, Michael (editor) CAPTAIN ROBINSON : The Reminiscences of a Tasmanian Master Mariner. James Williams Robinson 1824-1906
$30.00 AUD
Blubber Head Press. Hobart. 2009. 1st edition limited to 500 numbered copies. X, 175, (3) PP with 20 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 5 b/w and 11 colour illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Captain James William Robinson. Eps: Map of the South Pacific Ocean. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 17. 9780908528349
Bay-whaling in Tasmania then pelagic whaling. Sealing on Heard Island. Guano in Queensland. Trading in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans...
30775 NELSON, W. Ripley THE NANTUCKET WHALING MUSEUM
$10.00 AUD
Nantucket Historical Association. Nantucket, Mass., USA. 1959. July 1959 revised edition from the 1955 original, Bulletin No. 2, Volume 4. 42 PP with 18 b/w photos. Soft cover (staples removed). Very good. 22.8 x 15.2.
64975 NICHOLSON, John CEDAR, SEALS AND WHALING SHIPS
$40.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2007. 1st edition (juvenile). No. 2 in the "Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia 1788-1830s" series. 32 PP with colour illustrations by the author. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 27.5 x 22. 9781741750034
72852 NICOL, Douglas J. OCEANOGRAPHIC FEATURES THAT MAY INFLUENCE CETACEAN STRANDINGS AROUND TASMANIA
$20.00 AUD
Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania. Hobart. 1985. Research Project No. 25. (6), 46 PP with 4 figures (maps of Tasmania). Soft covers, title on front cover, staples, cloth spine. Fine. 29.5 x 20.7. 0859012921
Whale Stranding Programme.
72853 NICOL, Douglas J. HUMAN INTEREST IN THE TASMANIAN CETACEAN FAUNA
$20.00 AUD
Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania. Hobart. 1986. Research Report No. 26. (8), 13, (2 apendix) PP with 8 figures (series of graphs and 5 maps of Tasmania. Soft covers, title on front cover, staples, cloth spine. Fine. 29.5 x 20.7. 0859013537
Whale Stranding Research Programme.
72854 NICOL, Douglas J. OBSERVER EFFORT AND ITS EFECT ON THE TASMANIAN CETACEAN STRANDING RECORD
$20.00 AUD
Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania. Hobart. 1986. Research Report No. 27. (8), 24 PP with 4 figures (maps of Tasmania). Soft covers, title on front cover, staples, cloth spine. Near fine. 29.5 x 20.7. 0859013529
Whale Stranding Research Programme.
72856 NICOL, Douglas J. THE AUSTRALIAN CETACEAN STRANDING DATABASE, 1790 to 1988: Operating Procedures and Review
$35.00 AUD
Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service / Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania. Hobart. 1990. Consultancy Report, February 1990. (3), IV, 51 PP, plus 57 pages with 10 tables and 74 figures (graphs and maps). Soft covers, title on front cover, clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Fine. 29.5 x 20.7.
Whale Stranding Research Programme.
72857 NICOL, Douglas James (B.Sc.) THE TASMANIAN CETACEAN STRANDING RECORD: A Review of the Cetacean Strandings in Tasmanian Waters and an Examination of Possible Causes ...
$75.00 AUD
Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania. Hobart. 1991. September 1991 Thesis. XVIII, 219 PP with 16 tables and 66 figures (graphs, 2 measurements diagrams and distribution maps of Tasmania). Soft covers, title on front cover, clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Fine. 29.5 x 20.7.
... behind a Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Environmental Studies (Research).
35568 NORDHOFF, Charles WHALING AND FISHING
$25.00 AUD
Dodd, Mead & Co. New York. 1895. Reprint of the original 1855 edition. X, 11-383 PP with 19 head pieces and 3 b/w illust. Decorated cloth cover, spine soiled and a little frayed at extremities although still tight. Paper ageing/browned. Former owner's neat stamp on FFEP. Internally near fine. 16.2 x 11.
Whaling cruise out of New Bedford to the Azores, Tristan da Cunha, grounds off Madagascar, Mascarenas, Seychelles... Shipwrecked in Algoa Bay...
17267 NORMAN, L. PIONEER SHIPPING OF TASMANIA. Whaling, Sealing, Piracy, Shipwrecks, etc. in Early Tasmania
$60.00 AUD
J. Walch & Sons. Hobart. 1938. 1st Ed. 220 PP, plus 36 pages with 61 b/w illustrations. Fp: Hobart in colourful whaling days. Cloth cover with some wear, colour vignette (All Sails Set) laid down on front cover, gilt title on spine. Signature of previous owner dated 1938 on FFEP. Remnants of old tape marks on endpapers, otherwise contents are near fine. The scarce first edition. 25.5 x 16.
70725 NORMAN, L. SEA WOLVES AND BANDITS - Sealing, Whaling, Smuggling and Piracy. Wild Men of Van Diemen's Land. Bushrangers and Bandits. Wrecks and Wreckers
$30.00 AUD
J. Walch & Sons. Hobart. c. 1980. Reprint of the 1946 original. 208 PP with 1 portrait, plus 54 pages with 88 b/w plates. Fp (folded): Hobart Bridge. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner at top corner of front endpaper. Near fine. 25 x 16.
... with a chronology of curious and interesting facts relating to old Van Diemen's Land, and (from 1856) to Tasmania.
75707 NORMAN, Leslie HAUNTS OF THE BLUE WHALE
$30.00 AUD
O.B.M. Publishing. Hobart. 1978. 1st Ed. XVI, 156 PP with 12 tables, plus 12 pages with 20 b/w photos. Fp: A full rigged whaler at sea. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed with a few chips and in a protective sleeve, otherwise contents are near fine. 25 x 17.5. 0959903453
The whaling industry as it applied to the old port of Hobart Town: whaling on the seven seas as well as whaling fleets taking shelter, refitting & victualling.
21229 O'MAY, Harry WOODEN HOOKERS OF HOBART TOWN & WHALERS OUT OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
$20.00 AUD
T. J. Hughes, Government Printer. Hobart. 1978. 2nd Impression. 137 PP, VI (index) PP & 101, (3 index) PP, plus 32 pages with 61 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. 22 x 14.5.
Whaling in the early days of Van Diemen's Land.
21284 O'MAY, Harry HOBART RIVER CRAFT AND SEALERS OF BASS STRAIT
$20.00 AUD
L.G. Shea, Government Printer. Hobart. c. 1964. 1st Ed. 113 , IV, (2), 32 PP, plus 20 pages with 38 b/w photos, and 1 folded map at rear. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket has some shelf wear with chips at top, and is plastic protected. Contents near fine. 21.7 x 14.5.
The craft used by the early settlers to carry goods to and from Hobart. The sealers in Bass Strait.
70089 O'MAY, Harry WOODEN HOOKERS OF HOBART TOWN AND WHALERS OUT OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
$20.00 AUD
L. G. Shea, Government Printer. Hobart. c. 1960. 137, VI (index) PP & 101, (3 index) PP, plus 32 pages with 61 b/w photos. Green cloth cover, dust jacket. Front part of dust jacket with small piece missing at top and now in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. Scarce. 22 x 14.5.
Whaling in the early days of Van Diemen's Land.
70831 O'MAY, Harry HOBART RIVER CRAFT and Sealers of Bass Strait
$25.00 AUD
L. G. Shea, Government Printer. Hobart. 1973. 2nd impression. Foreword by Eric Reece, Premier of Tasmania. 113, IV, (2), 31 PP, plus 20 pages with 38 b/w photos, and 1 folded map at rear. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Brief note at top of front endpaper, o/wise fine. 21.7 x 14.5.
The craft used by the early settlers to carry goods to and from Hobart. The sealers in Bass Strait.
73754 O'MAY, Harry (compiler) HOBART RIVER CRAFT and Sealers of Bass Strait
$15.00 AUD
L. G. Shea, Government Printer. Hobart. c. 1964. 1st Ed. 113 , IV, (2), 32 PP, plus 20 pages with 38 b/w photos, and 1 folded map at rear of book. Green cloth cover, laminated with clear plastic film. Stamp of the Marine Board of Hobart on front endpaper and top of title-page. Near fine. Image shows title-page. 21.7 x 14.5.
The craft used by the early settlers to carry goods to and from Hobart. Chapter 8: The Wilson Ship-Yard at Port Cygnet. The sealers in Bass Strait.
59477 PACIFIC SOCIETY JOURNAL OF THE PACIFIC SOCIETY - Volume 23, (No. 86-87)
$10.00 AUD
The Pacific Society. Tokyo. 2000. Volume 23, No. 1-2 (86-87, April 2000). Edited by Hiroshi Nakajima. 138 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Texts in either Japanese or English. Near fine. 25.6 x 18.
No. 86-87: 3 texts in English (Asia and the Pacific Islands, by Ron G. Crocombe. Whaling in the Mariana Islands, 1866-1867, by Lawrence J. Cunningham. Code Choice amongst the Japanese Residents of Fiji, by Hiromi Muranaka-Vuletich), and 9 other texts in Japanese.
59480 PACIFIC SOCIETY JOURNAL OF THE PACIFIC SOCIETY - Volume 26, (No. 1/1)
$10.00 AUD
The Pacific Society. Tokyo. 2003. Volume 26, No. 1/1 (92, October 2003). Edited by Hiroshi Nakajima. 90 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Texts in either Japanese or English. Near fine. 25.6 x 18.
No. 92: 4 texts in English (U.S. Navy Sailing Vessels in the Western Pacific, by P. E. Patacsil ... ), and 5 other texts in Japanese (The Whaling days of Hawaii and the United States 1820-1860... by H. Tsuzuki).
21310 PAINE, Ralph D. THE SHIPS AND SAILORS OF OLD SALEM
$20.00 AUD
Heath Cranton. London. 1924. 1st UK edition. XVIII, 471 PP, plus 49 plates with 64 b/w illustrations. Fp: The Panay one of the last of the Salem fleet. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Slight ageing of paper around outside edges. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22 x 15.
Narratives and deeds of American sailors. privateers, whalers, explorers of new routes and trades, ...
48813 PEASE, Zephaniah W. A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM OF OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
$15.00 AUD
The Old Dartmouth Historical Society. New Bedford. 1957. 7th edition. 60 PP with 67 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26.7 x 19.6.
10407 PHELAN, Joseph THE WHALE HUNTERS, in Pictures
$10.00 AUD
Time-Life. New York. 1969. 1st Ed., in the Spotlight on History series. 52 PP with 10 b/w and 14 colour illustrations (7 on double page, 6 on full page, 1 on half page). Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 20.5 x 20.8.
General history and pictorial description of whaling in the 1820-1850's by the Yankee whalemen.
42610 PHELAN, Joseph THE WHALE HUNTERS, in Pictures
$5.00 AUD
Time-Life. New York. 1969. 1st Ed., in the Spotlight on History series. 52 PP with 10 b/w and 14 colour illustrations (7 on double page, 6 on full page, 1 on half page). Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and with small piece missing at foot of spine. Lower corner of few pages dog eared. Very good. Oblong: 20.5 x 20.8.
General history and pictorial description of whaling in the 1820-1850's by the Yankee whalemen.
36467 PHILBRICK, Nathaniel IN THE HEART OF THE SEA - The Epic True Story that Inspired MOBY DICK
$15.00 AUD
Flamingo / HarperCollins. London. 2000. Trade paperback edition. XVIII, 302 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans, 1 tail piece and 14 head pieces, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Remainder mark at bottom edge and a small crease on front cover, otherwise o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 0002572125
The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged whale, far out in the Pacific, November 1820.
56091 PHILBRICK, Nathaniel IN THE HEART OF THE SEA - The Epic True Story that Inspired MOBY DICK
$10.00 AUD
Flamingo / HarperCollins. London. c. 2000. Reprint of the paperback edition. XVIII, 302 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans, 1 tail piece and 14 head pieces, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 19.7 x 13. 0006531202
The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged whale, far out in the Pacific, November 1820.
37531 PHILP, J. E. WHALING WAYS OF HOBART TOWN
$125.00 AUD
J. Walch & Sons. Hobart. 1936. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 2 figures and 11 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover (The Flurry). Front cover with a small crease at bottom corner, tiny piece missing at top of spine, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 22.3 x 14.4.
Bay whaling, off-shore whaling, sperm oil quest, end of the whaling days by ships based/registered in Hobart.
72767 PHILP, J. E. WHALING WAYS OF HOBART TOWN
$60.00 AUD
J. Walch & Sons. Hobart. 1936. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 2 diagrams and 11 b/w plates. Bound copy of the original soft cover edition. Stiff card covers with original front cover (The Flurry) pasted down on front board. Top part of title page cut away on 5cms. 4 brief marginal notes (1 pertinent correction and 3 references to other pages), otherwise contents are near fine. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.2.
Bay whaling, off-shore whaling, sperm oil quest, end of the whaling days by ships based/registered in Hobart.
46628 POIRIER, Nicolas LES BALEINIERS FRANCAIS EN NOUVELLE-ZELANDE. Des ambitions coloniales de la Monarchie de Juillet dans le Pacifique
$75.00 AUD
Les Indes Savantes. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed. Preface by Jacques Weber. 172, (2) PP with 2 crests, 7 maps and many tables, plus 12 pages with 6 b/w and 13 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 2846540314
French whaling in the Pacific, and attempt to create a French settlement in New Zealand.
41659 POLLARD, Jack WHALE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
The Book Company International. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Mimi Macpherson. X, 67 PP with head pieces, tail pieces, 1 map, 2 sketches, 6 b/w illustrations of whales, and 26 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards, dj (closed tear). Small illustration of a Whaling ship pasted down on top corner of free fly of front endpaper. Foxing spots on endpapers. Near fine. Oblong: 22 x 29.7. 1863091734
56031 POLLARD, Jack WHALE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
The Book Company International. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Mimi Macpherson. X, 67 PP with head pieces, tail pieces, 1 map, 2 sketches, 6 b/w illustrations of whales, and 26 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards, dj (closed tear). Near fine. Oblong: 22 x 29.7. 1863091734
63145 POWNALL, Peter & CATON, Albert WHALING WILL BE PROHIBITED WHEN 200-MILE ZONE IS PROCLAIMED (in Australian Fisheries 1979)
$15.00 AUD
Fisheries Division, Department of Primary Industry. Canberra. 1979. Volume 38, Number 5, May 1979. 80 PP. Contains article pages 12 to 21 with 1 colour and 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 17.5.
Article by P. Pownall - "Whaling will be prohibited when 200-Mile Zone is Proclaimed. End of Whaling and Whaling Industry with the introduction of the 200-Mile Australian Exclusive Economic Zone, on the 1st January 1981..
35346 QUEENSLAND MUSEUM HUMPBACK WHALES (in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volume 30, Part 2)
$30.00 AUD
Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 1991. July 1991. Edited by P.A. JELL & R.A. PATERSON. P. 239-354 with 14 tables, 10 colour photos and 61 b/w figures (drawings, graphs and b/w photos). Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 24.3 x 18.3.
14 papers presented at the Humpback Whale Conference hosted by the Queensland Museum in September 1990.
58284 RAHS SHORE-BASED WHALING AT TWOFOLD BAY: One Hundred Years of Enterprise (in Journal of the RAHS - Volume 71, Part 1, June 1985}
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1985. 88 PP. Contains article by Michael PEARSON between pages 3 and 27 with 1 location map and 2 sketch maps. Soft cover. Fine. 22.3 x 14.
Image shows list of other articles.
58751 RAHS JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS - Vol XVII, Part VI, 1931
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1931. P.337-396. Staped soft covers (chipped). Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21 x 14.
The Australian Wool-Trade in the 'Forties, by Professor S. H. Roberts. ... Ben Boyd, by Captain J. H. Watson. Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
56137 REDOR, Florence LE DOCTEUR NEL, CHIRURGIEN-BALEINIER DE L' ALBATROS, Le Havre (1837-1840)
$300.00 AUD
Author & Université de Nantes. Nantes. 1980. Thesis. (2 pages of an 1843 letter (copy) given to the author by M. du Pasquier), (10), 265 PP, (1) printed on recto only, with 4 graphs, tables and 2 maps. Bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Loosely inserted: signed manuscript letter from the author to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist). French text. Fine. 30 x 21.
Thesis for her Ph.D. in Medicine, held Nantes, 4th April 1980. Chapter I: General History of Whaling. Chapter II: Whaling from the port of le Havre, and doctors or surgeons on French whaling ships. Chapter III (pages 153 to 257): Voyage of the whaling ship Albatros by Jean-Baptiste Généreux Nel, M. D. - Sailed from le Havre on 16 October 1837, Cape Horn, Valdivia (Chile) 24 January 1838, Honolulu (April 1838 then July / August 1838).. Bay of Islands February 1839... Tahiti 30 June 1839... Rio de Janeiro, February 1840. Return to le Havre 18 April 1840.
10411 REDWOOD, Rosaline EARLY SEALING DAYS (in Walkabout Magazine Vol. 9, No. 3)
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1943. Volume 9, No. 3, January 1943. Contains article from P.4 to 8 with 3 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 30 x 24.
A history of sealing & the sealing industry on the Southern Ocean islands between 1792 and 1829. Other article: "Boats on the Darling", by W. K. GLOVER
36483 RICHARDS, Rhys AMERICAN WHALING ON THE CHATHAMS GROUNDS, Viewed From an Antipodean Perspective
$40.00 AUD
The Nantucket Historical Association. Nantucket, Mass. 1971. 1st Ed. 70 PP with 2 maps and 7 b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: Sketch map of the Chatham Islands. Card cover. Staples removed. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.3.
51757 RICHARDS, Rhys WHALE TEETH ARTEFACTS IN THE WESTERN SOLOMON ISLANDS (in Tuhinga)
$15.00 AUD
Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. Wellington. 2006. Extract from Tuhinga (Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) No. 17. Pages 69 to 79 with 1 map and 8 colour photos. Plastic covers, clear plastic front, spiral bound. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
56135 RICHARDS, Rhys SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALES: a reassessment of their former distribution and migration routes in New Zealand waters, including on the Kermadec grounds (in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington. 2002. Extract from Volume 32, No. 3, September 2002. 355-377 PP with 2 maps. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.8.
66268 RICHARDS, Rhys CAPTAIN CHARLES BAYLEY: Whaling Master 1813-1857
$20.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2014. 1st Ed. No. 65 in the Roebuck series. VI, 54 PP with 5 tables, 5 b/w illustrations (1 portrait, 2 paintings, 2 maps with insets and 4 photos) and colour illustrations (1 graph, 2 photos and 6 paintings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 9780992366025
68419 RICHARDS, Rhys SEALING IN THE SOUTHERN OCEANS 1788-1833
$70.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2010. 1st Ed. 278 PP with 7 tables, & facsimile of log book page, 1 b/w photo, 2 engravings and 18 maps (some with insert). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.9 x 17.5. 9780473164805
Collection of 12 articles, chapters and notes written from 1977 to 2006. Chapter 2: Prince Edward, Marion and Crozet islands. Chapter 3: St.Paul and Amsterdam Islands. Chapter 4: Desolation Island. Chapter 5: Kerguelen and Heard Islands. Chapter 6: Macquarie Island and Antipodes Islands. Chapter 7: First foreign sealing in New Zealand waters. Chapter 8: Murihiku and the Southern Islands of New Zealand. Chapter 9: The Auckland Islands. Chapter 10: Foreign sealing at the Chatham Islands. Chapter 11: Searching for Nimrod Islands. Chapter 12: Sealing in the Antarctic in 1821.
68444 RICHARDS, Rhys BOLD CAPTAINS: Trans-Pacific Exploration and Trade 1780-1830 (in 2 Volumes)
$70.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2017. 1st Ed. Volume I: 300 PP with b/w illustrations (2 charts, 15 sketch maps and 44 drawings, paintings, letters). Volume II: 301 - 590 PP with b/w illustrations (2 charts, 16 sketch maps and 40 drawings, paintings and portraits). Pictorial soft cover. As new. 22 x 15.5. 9780473405182 & 9780473405199
Collection of 24 articles, chapters and notes written between the 1970s and 2000. Simon Metcalfe: The American Fur Trader. Captain Roger Simpson and the Bass Islands. William Hutchings: a Boston Captain trading for the Dutch at Japan in 1800... Abraham Bristow: Whaling Master. Captain Robert Rhodes : an excellent Chart Maker, and pioneer whaler. Captain Louis Charles Ruault Coutance: French Naval Officer, Privateer and Trans-Pacific Trader. ..;
70259 RICHARDS, Rhys CAPTAIN CHARLES BAYLEY: Whaling Master 1813-1857
$15.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2019. Reprint of the 2014 original. No. 65 in the Roebuck series. Edited by Graeme Broxam. VI, 54 PP with 5 tables, 5 b/w illustrations (1 portrait, 2 paintings, 2 maps with insets and 4 photos) and colour illustrations (1 graph, 2 photos and 6 paintings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 9780992366025
72532 RICHARDS, Rhys SEALING IN THE SOUTHERN OCEANS 1788-1833
$70.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2010. 1st Ed. 278 PP with 7 tables, & facsimile of log book page, 1 b/w photo, 2 engravings and 18 maps (some with insert). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.9 x 17.5. 9780473164805
Collection of 12 articles, chapters and notes written from 1977 to 2006. Chapter 2: Prince Edward, Marion and Crozet islands. Chapter 3: St.Paul and Amsterdam Islands. Chapter 4: Desolation Island. Chapter 5: Kerguelen and Heard Islands. Chapter 6: Macquarie Island and Antipodes Islands. Chapter 7: First foreign sealing in New Zealand waters. Chapter 8: Murihiku and the Southern Islands of New Zealand. Chapter 9: The Auckland Islands. Chapter 10: Foreign sealing at the Chatham Islands. Chapter 11: Searching for Nimrod Islands. Chapter 12: Sealing in the Antarctic in 1821.
75001 RICHARDS, Rhys MAORI WHO WENT SPERM WHALING BEFORE 1840
$45.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2021. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 4 tables and over 50 b/w illustrations (1 map "Bay of Islands", 15 head pieces, 15 drawings by Gordon Grant, drawings, sketches, prints and 4 photos). Pictorial soft covers. New. 25 x 17.5. 9780473587482
... with the Names found in Shipping Records etc.
75002 RICHARDS, Rhys NGA TOHORA: The Right Whales of New Zealand and the Southern Oceans
$65.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2023. 1st Ed. 276 PP with tables and over 60 b/w illustrations (maps, drawings & sketches, prints and photos). Pictorial soft covers. New. 25 x 17.5. 9780473680626
75110 RICHARDS, Rhys SAMOA'S FORGOTTEN WHALING HERITAGE - American Whaling in Samoan Waters 1824-1878
$125.00 AUD
Lithographic Services Ltd. Wellington. 1992. 1st Ed. XI, 208 PP with b/w illustrations (sketches, diagrams, paintings, photos). Pictorial stiff cover with light wear and a short tear and rub at foot of spine. Contents near fine. Scarce. 29.8 x 20.7. 0473016079
Reminiscences and souvenirs of Samoa, through logbooks of whaling ships. History of the Samoa Islands.
56109 RICHARDS, Rhys and Margaret PACIFIC ARTIFACTS BROUGHT HOME BY AMERICAN WHALEMEN
$50.00 AUD
Paremeta Press. Paremata, NZ. 2000. 1st Ed. Preface by Michael A. Jehle. (2), 65 PP with 2 maps and tables. Soft cover. Note to previous owner, Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) signed by Rhys Richards, tipped in on half title page. Fine. 25.5 x 17.5. 0473073773
A report by Rhys and Margaret Richards for the New Bedford Whaling Museum, October 2000.
51742 RICHARDS, Rhys, & ROGA, Kenneth NOT QUITE EXTINCT. Melanesian barkcloth ('tapa') from western Solomon Islands
$40.00 AUD
The Paremata Press. Paremata, NZ. 2005. Revised 1st edition limited to 500 copies. 100 PP with 2 maps, over 50 b/w or colour illustrations of tapa motifs, 14 b/w and 19 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 26 x 20. 0958201323
74395 RICKETSON, Annie Holmes THE JOURNAL OF ANNIE HOLMES RICKETSON ON THE WHALESHIP "A. R. TUCKER" 1871 - 1874
$40.00 AUD
The Old Dartmouth Historical Society. New Bedford, Mass. 1958 1st Ed. Foreword by Philip F. Purrington, Curator. 79 PP with 1 map of the Indian Ocean, 2 b/w portraits, many small ornaments, and the tail piece, plus 8 plates with b/w photos. Stiff covers, illustrated front, staples. Near fine. 25.2 x 17.7.
75304 ROBERTSON, John SEALED SOULS - A Colonial History of Sealing and Whaling on the Southern Coasts of Australia, 1798 to 1852
$80.00 AUD
Sealed Souls Pty Ltd. Cuballing, W.A. 2022 1st Ed. (22), 540 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations: location maps, portraits, drawings, sketches ..., including 19 maps in the "Atlas of Maps".. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Dedicatory note on half title page dated and signed by the author. Fine (mint condition). 24 x 17. 9780645132700
41724 ROBERTSON, R. B. OF WHALES AND MEN
$15.00 AUD
The Reprint Society. London. 1958. Reprint of the 1956 original published by Macmillan. XII, 13-256 PP with 1 drawing of a pelagic whaling fleet, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Southern Atlantic with route of an Antarctic Whaling Expedition. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips/nicks, o/wise near fine. 19 x 12.5.
A pelagic whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean for the 1950-51 whaling seasons. Chapter 13: All whaling shall cease.
41725 ROBERTSON, R. B. OF WHALES AND MEN
$5.00 AUD
The Reprint Society. London. 1958. Reprint of the 1956 original published by Macmillan. XII, 13-256 PP with 1 drawing of a pelagic whaling fleet, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Southern Atlantic with route of an Antarctic Whaling Expedition. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (chipped at spine). Cancelled stamp on rear endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 19 x 12.5.
A pelagic whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean for the 1950-51 whaling seasons. Chapter 13: All whaling shall cease.
41726 ROBERTSON, R. B. OF WHALES AND MEN
$10.00 AUD
The Reprint Society. London. 1958. Reprint of the 1956 original published by Macmillan. XII, 13-256 PP with 1 drawing of a pelagic whaling fleet, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Southern Atlantic with route of an Antarctic Whaling Expedition. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, top outside edge tinted. Very good reading copy. 19 x 12.5.
A pelagic whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean for the 1950-51 whaling seasons. Chapter 13: All whaling shall cease.
74938 ROBERTSON, R. B. OF WHALES AND MEN
$25.00 AUD
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1956. March Reprint of earlier March first edition. XIII, 247 PP plus 16 pages with 23 bw illustrations. Eps: Map of the Southern Atlantic with route of an Antarctic Whaling Expedition. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers with wear around edges, signature of previous owner on half-title page, o/wise contents are near fine. 22 x 14.
A pelagic whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean for the 1950-51 whaling seasons. Chapter 13: All whaling shall cease.
31848 ROBERTSON, R.B. OF WHALES AND MEN
$15.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1954. 1st Ed. XII, 302 PP plus 16 pages with b/w photos & 1 illust. of a pelagic whaling fleet. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
A pelagic whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean for the 1950-51 whaling seasons. Chapter 13: All whaling shall cease.
58320 ROBERTSON, R.B. OF WHALES AND MEN
$10.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. c. 1960. Reprint (W) of the 1954 original. XII, 302 PP, plus 16 pages with b/w photos & 1 illust. of a pelagic whaling fleet. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
A pelagic whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean for the 1950-51 whaling seasons. Chapter 13: All whaling shall cease.
72704 ROBINSON, Roland, & MUMBULLA, Percy THE WHALERS
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1996. 1st Australian edition, originally published in 1989 in "The Nearest the White Man Gets". 32 PP with colour illustrations by Bronwyn Bancroft. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 28.6 x 22.2. 0207184844
21656 ROSS, John O. WILLIAM STEWART, Sealing Captain, Trader and Speculator
$15.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1987. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society publication No. 37. IX, 219 PP, plus 8 pages of b/w illust. FEP: Map of Australia, N.Z., Tasman Sea & Southern Ocean. REP: Chart of N.Z., North, South & Stewart Is. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.6. 0909434288
61463 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: XCVI, No. 5
$5.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1940. Vol. XCVI, No. 5, November 1940. Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. VI (Advertisements), 305-376 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 6 plates with 16 b/w photos and a folded plate with 7 maps or plans at rear of Journal. Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. XCVI - No. 5: Sand Cays and Mangroves in Jamaica, by J. A. Steers, ... J.A. Lofthouse. ... Whale-Marking in the Southern Ocean, by A.C. Hardy.
46471 RUSSELL, Dick EYE OF THE WHALE; Epic passage from Baja to Siberia
$10.00 AUD
Simon & Schuster. New York. 2001. 1st Ed. 688 PP with 15 maps and 50 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 22 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Remainder mark on top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16.5. 0684866080
Struggle and survival of the gray whales. History and culture of the whale fishery on the coasts of the North Pacific Ocean.
57191 RYAN, Maurice & SMITH, Robert TIME AND TIDE AGAIN: A History of Byron Bay
$30.00 AUD
Northern Rivers Press. Lismore. 2001. 1st Ed. XIV, 146 PP with b/w illustrations (maps & plans, facsimile of documents, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0957962207
One of the playgrounds of Australia. Port and shipping, Whaling... Surfing.
21357 SANDERSON, Ivan J. FOLLOW THE WHALE
$10.00 AUD
Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1956. 1st Ed. XXII, (2), 423 PP with tables, 10 maps & charts by author, 16 head pieces and 1 tail piece by F.W. Saunders, and 51 profiles of whales. Eps: Mappemonde with major sperming grounds. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped, rubbed and with sunned spine. Foxing. Very good. 22 x 15.
History of whaling, going back to the time of the first seafarers, Neolithic Man to the American experiences, with the Phoenicians, Basques, Japanese, Norsemen, Indians from Puget Sound, ...
72714 SAWTELL, Clement Cleveland THE SHIP "ANN ALEXANDER" OF NEW BEDFORD: 1805 - - 1851
$40.00 AUD
The Maritime Historical Association, inc. Mystic, Connecticut. 1962. 1st Ed. Publication No.24. Foreword by Edouard A. Stackpole. 103 PP with b/w ilustrations (documents, 2 drawings, 2 photos, 3 portraits ... & 11 facsimile of pages of log books). Soft cover, illustrated front with title. Name on title page, and bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Whaling Specialist, inside front cover. Occasinal foxing. Very good. 25.4 x 17.7.
21385 SAYERS, M. C. PORT FAIRY, Pioneer Whaling Station
$30.00 AUD
Mullaya Publications. Melbourne. 1975. Reprint of the 1973 original. 64 PP with 32 b/w illustrations by Jan Neil. Eps: Plan of Port Fairy. Pictorial soft cover with a small crease at top corner, o/wise near fine. 22.9 x 15.2. 0859140075
History of the township. Port first entered in April 1810. Whaling industry by 1830 sustaining 200 people...
21308 SCHEFFER, Dr. Victor B., BOCKSTOCE, John et al.. ALASKA WHALES AND WHALING [in Alaska Geographic]
$20.00 AUD
Alaska Geographic Society. Anchorage. 1978. Volume 5, No.4 of Alaska Geographic Quarterly. 144 PP with b/w & colour illustrations and includes a loosely inserted poster of whales. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 18. 0882401149
Whales of Alaska. History of commercial whaling in Arctic Alaska... Modern Eskimo whaling.
44343 SCHEFFER, Victor B. THE YEAR OF THE WHALE
$5.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1969. 1st Ed. X, 214 PP with 13 decorations by Leonard Everett Fisher. Fp. Pictorial soft cover. Crease at top of rear cover. Slight ageing of paper, foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 20.3 X 13.6. 0684718863
A year in the life of a sperm whale.
10456 SCHMITT, Frederick P., DE JONG, Cornelis & WINTER, Frank H. THOMAS WELCOME ROYS - America's Pioneer of Modern Whaling
$10.00 AUD
Mariners Museum. Newport News, Virginia. 1980. 1st Ed. Mariners Museum publication, No.38. XIV, (2), 253 PP with 34 figures. Fp: Capt. Thomas Welcome Roys. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 15. 0917376331
His early whaling experiences in the Pacific, on the "Crescent" of Sag Harbor. The first American to use steamers for whaling. His attempts to develop a rocket-propelled harpoon, ...
74416 SCHOLL, Michael C. & PESCHAK, Thomas P. (editors) SAVE OUR SEAS Foundation Magazine - Issue 4
$15.00 AUD
Save our Seas Foundation. Geneve. 2015. Issue No. 4, 2015. 148 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (new condition). 31 x 24.
Great Bear Wild, "Canada Pacific Coastline", by Ian McAllister. The Call of the Whales, northern coast of British Columbia , by Janie Wray. Science with the Giants, Whale sharks of Ningaloo Reef, by Lara Marcus Zamora.
74443 SCORESBY, William AN ACCOUNT OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS WITH A HISTORY & DESCRIPTION OF THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY - Volume 1
$50.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 2011. Paperback edition of in the "Cambridge Library Collection" series of the 1820 original. Volume I: (4), XX, 552, (82 appendix) PP with tables. Fp (on double page): The ship Esk of Whitby damaged by ice. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 21.4 x 14. 9781108037785
Volume I: The Arctic.
38825 SEVERIN, Tim IN SEARCH OF MOBY DICK - Quest for the White Whale
$15.00 AUD
Little, Brown and Company. London. 1999. 1st Ed. (10), 242 PP with 1 map on double page, 3 b/w plates and 22 drawings by Trondur Patursson, plus 8 pages with 31 colour photos. Eps: Map World of the White Whale. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16.8. 316645958
Part one: Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands. Part two: Pamilacan, Philippines. Part Three, Lamalera, Indonesia. Part four: Tonga
74634 SHAPIRO, Irwin & STACKPOLE, Edouard A. THE STORY OF YANKEE WHALING
$25.00 AUD
American Heritage Publishing / Golden Press. New York. 1959. 1st edition in the "American Heritage Junior Library" series. 5-153 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (paintings, prints,, drawings and photos. Half title page: Figurehead of the whaler "White Lily". Title spread: Peche de la Baleine. FEP: Peche du Cachalot. REP: "The Capture". Illustrated boards with light shelf wear, o/wise contents near fine. 26 x 18.5.
53365 SHIRLEY, Bronwyn SHIPWRECKS, WHALES AND PIRATES (in Australian Customs History Journal)
$10.00 AUD
Australian Customs Service. Canberra. 1996. No. 7, June 1996. 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article P. 6 to 8 with 1 b/w photo and 1 colour illustration. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.7.
On the seaport of Eden, south coast of New South Wales. Other article: M.V. Fairsea, by Ian C. Bennett.
39649 SIMMONS, Mark HUMPBACK WHALES - OUT OF THE BLUE
$15.00 AUD
Department of Environment, Queensland Government.. Brisbane. 1996. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 5 b/w and 40 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.8 x 21. 0724269282
10405 SIMPSON, MacKinnon WHALE SONG - A Pictorial History of Whaling and Hawai'i
$30.00 AUD
Lahaina Whaling Museum. Honolulu. 1986. 1st Ed. 130 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Carved wooden figurehead. Eps: Plans / details of the whaling hermaphrodite brig Viola. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 28.5 x 22. 0896100200
Beautiful book. The whaling trade by whaleships of New England, based in Hawaiian waters.
21602 SLIJPER, E.J WHALES
$30.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1962. 1st English edition, translated from the 1958 Dutch original. 475 PP with 229 b/w illust. (drawings, maps, photos, sketches ...). Cloth cover with a few marks, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on inside front cover. Light foxing on prelims and last pages, o/wise contents are near fine and printed on superior gloss paper. 23.6 x 15.5.
Historical introduction - Evolution and appearances - Locomotion - Respiration - Heart, circulation and blood - Behaviour ... Classification of the cetacea (P.417 to 420) and extensive bibliography (P.421 to 458).
21278 SMITH HARRIS, Charles Edward (editor) FROM THE DEEP OF THE SEA - The Diary of Charles Edward Smith, Surgeon of the Whale-ship Diana, of Hull
$20.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1977. 1st US edition of the 1922 original. XII, 288 PP with 2 maps and 13 tail pieces, plus 4 pages of sketches. Fp: Map of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.3 x 14. 0870219324
Experiences of a surgeon on board a British steam whaler in Davis Strait 1866-67. Edited by his son.
72065 SMITH, Ian THE NEW ZEALAND SEALING INDUSTRY - History, archaeology, and heritage management
$50.00 AUD
Department of Conservation / Te Papa Atawhai. Wellington. 2002. 1st edition of June 2002. (V), 72 PP with 6 tables and 21 figures (graphs, maps, photos & sketches). Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. Scarce. 29.8 x 21. 0478222505
72849 SMITH, Peter MANAGEMENT MANUAL FOR MARINE MAMMALS IN NSW
$25.00 AUD
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Hurtsville, NSW. 1997. 1st edition of Match 1997. Species Management Report Number 14. VIII, 98, (71 for 5 Appendices) PP with 2 tables an 20 figures including 59 sketches and details as well as 55 drawings of Marine Mammals. Soft covers, illustrated front. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0731008693
46666 SMITH, Vincent MUSCO BLUE WHALE
$15.00 AUD
Harper & Row. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. (4), 122 PP with 6 full page illustrations by Wilson Buchanan. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy. 23.5 x 15.5. 0063120089
45347 SMOLKER, Rachel TO TOUCH A WILD DOLPHIN - The Lives and Minds of the Dolphins of Monkey Mia
$10.00 AUD
Random House Australia. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. (10), 274 PP with 1 figure (baby signatures whistles) and 20 head and tail pieces, plus 16 pages with 36 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 1740510186
65449 SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH MARINER'S MIRROR [THE], The International Quarterly Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 99, No. 2
$10.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 2013. May 2013. Edited by Martin Bellamy. 129-254, (2) PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.2.
Obituaries: Michael K. Stammers. ... Decline of Antarctic Whaling Industry, by Bjorn L. Basberg.
76293 SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH THE MARINER'S MIRROR . The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Vol. XXVI, No. 4 - 1940
$20.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 1940. October 1940. 329-424, (VIII publications) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings... photos), plus 20 pages with 9 b/w plates (1 of them folded) with 14 photos. Fp: The Sutton Hoo Ship. Soft covers. Covers soiled and with stamp of "HMS ..., Ward Room Mess". War economy paper. Occasional foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 24.3 x 17.
No. 4 - Primitive Craft and Medieval Rigs in South America, by Vice-Admiral R.H. Lane-Poole. The Sutton-Hoo burial ship, by C.W. Phillips. The British Gunvessels of 1875: the larger Single-crew Type, by Admiral G.A. Ballard.
61979 SOULAIRE, Dr. Jacques, BONNEL, Ulane & RANDIER Jean BALEINES / PECHE A LA BALEINE (in Neptunia - No 94)
$10.00 AUD
Paris. 1969. Les Amis du Musée de la Marine. Extracts from issue 94, (printemps 1969). 1-23 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27 x 21.
La pêche à la baleine en France, by Dr. Soulaire. Les Quakers, pêcheurs de baleine à Dunkerque et Lorient, by Ulane Bonnell. Yankee whalers, les baleines d' Amèrique / La pêche à la baleine aujourd'hui, by Jean Randier.
58976 SOULAIRE, Jacques LE GRAND CACHALOT (in 3 Volumes)
$100.00 AUD
Editions S. P. M. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed. Volumes 44, 45 & 46 in Collection Kronos. Vol. I: 293, (3) PP. Vol. II: 380, (2) PP. Vol. III: 272, (4) PP. A total of 954 pages with around 200 figures. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 22 x 15.. 9782901952572
Volume I: Cétologie & L'or du cachalot / Sperm Whaling and its Golden Age. Volume II: L'homme et le cachalot / Man and Sperm Whale. Volume III: Histoire chronologique de la chasse au cachalot / a chronological history of Sperm Whaling.
22766 SOUTER, Gavin MOSMAN, A History
$35.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1995. Reprint of the 1994 original. XII, 378 PP with 4 plans, and 18 b/w illust., plus 16 pages with 48 b/w plates, and 4 pages with 7 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 15.8. 9780522845914
Whaling and careening of ships in the early years to a modern suburb on north shore, Sydney.
31968 SPENCE, Bill HARPOONED - THE STORY OF WHALING
$20.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. London. 1980. 1st Ed. 192 PP, profusely illustrated. Hard cover, dj. Top corner near spine is bumped, top of spine a little damaged. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages. An otherwise very good clean copy. 26 x 21. 085177167X
Whaling from the days of the Basque and the Dutch, to the Antarctic boom period up to the last of bay whaling and deep sea whaling from factory ships.
73087 SPROD, Dan (editor) THE TREGURTHA LOG, Relating the Adventurous Life of Captain Edward Primrose TREGURTHA: Napoleonic Wars / Whaling in the South Seas / Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District
$40.00 AUD
Blubber Head Press. Sandy Bay, Tas. 1980. 1st edition limited to 600 copies hand numbered (No. 97) and signed by the Editor. 165 PP with 3 maps (FEP, text, REP), 3 illustrations pasted down (frontispiece and 2 headpieces in colour), and 6 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 1 map of Port Phillip, 3 headpieces and 1 tailpiece). Fp: Portrait of Capt. Tregurtha. FEP: Map of Australia & South Seas. REP: Map of Europe & the East. Cloth covers, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket slightly sunned. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 32 x 20. 0908528035
21295 STANBURY, Peter & BUSHELL, Lydia (editors) SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Macleay Museum / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. (6), 130 PP with 7 tables, 3 maps, 5 figures & 53 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 24 x 18. 0909635269
An introduction to the Pacific islands. Contributions on: European Discovery (Robert Langdon), Landforms (John Connell), Botany (Wee-Lek Chew), Languages (Darrell Tryon), Arts (Beth Dean & Victor Carell), Whaling (William Dawbin), Crops & Farming (Peter Searle), Politics and Independence (Stuart Inder).
75068 STEWARDSON, Carolyn L. MAMMALS OF THE ICE
$25.00 AUD
Sedona Publishing. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by Phillip Law. 183 PP with over 25 tables, 13 maps of sightings, graphs, illustrations by Peter L. Child and colour photos. Erratum slip tipped in on last page. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Lower corner of front cover and first 4 leaves with a crease, o/wise near fine. 24 x 21. 0958744912
Guide to the mammals of the Southern Ocean.
21282 STEWART, Frank THE PRESENCE OF WHALES, Contemporary Writings on the Whale
$10.00 AUD
Whitecap Books. Vancouver. 1995. 1st Canadian edition. 320 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Neaer fine. 22.8 x 15.1. 155110301X
Anthology on the great (blue and fin) whales, the killer whales, the mythic belugas and narwhals.
68376 STODDART, Michael TASSIE'S WHALE BOYS - Whaling in Antarctic Waters
$30.00 AUD
40 / Forty South Publishing. Hobart. 2017. 1st edition with a foreword by Nick Gales. XV, 192 PP with tables, b/w or colour illustrations. FEP: The Antarctic Continent (in colour). REP: Map of the Ross Sea (in colour). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 9780995408227
30072 STOETT, Peter J. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF WHALING
$35.00 AUD
UBC / University of British Columbia Press. Vancouver. 1997. 1st Ed. XII, 228 PP with 3 tables, and an essential chronology of Whaling. Illustrated card cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 0774806044
The Whale and the Whaler, Cetapolitics, Whale ethics...
71492 STUBBS, Ches I REMEMBER ... The Memoirs of a Whaling Skipper
$20.00 AUD
Author. Albany. c.1980. 1st Ed. (4), 128 PP with b/w photos, printed on superior gloss. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21.5 x 16.
Memoirs spanning 18 years: A.B., Gunner, Mate on whaling ships, first with the Albany Whaling Company, then with the Cheyne Beach Whaling Company.
74733 SUTTON, Felix (editor) HERMAN MELVILLE'S MOBY DICK
$20.00 AUD
Grosset & Dunlap. New York. 1956. 1st juvenile edition, in the "Favorite Classics" series. 69 PP with 38 illustrations by H. B. Vestal (19 b/w and 19 in colour). Laminated pictorial boards (small rubbed patches). Contents near fine. 28.3 x 21.5.
21269 TAYLOR, A. Carey, WINKS, Robin W. & KUGLER, Richard C. THE OPENING OF THE PACIFIC, Image and Reality - Maritime Monographs and Reports No 2
$20.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum. London. 1971. 28 PP, plus 1 map on double page at centerfold. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 20.8.
3 papers read at a symposium held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich on 7th November 1970: Charles de Brosses, the man behind Cook - Getting to know the "beau sauvage" - The penetration of the Pacific by American whalemen in the 19th century.
62917 THIERCELIN, Dr. Louis & MORTELIER, Christiane UN BALEINIER A ARAMA (in Bulletin S.E.H. No. 94)
$10.00 AUD
Société d'Etudes Historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 1993. No. 94 (1st term 1993). 100 PP. Contains article, presented by Christiane Mortelier, between P.11 and 52 with b/w illustrations (1 chart, 1 photo, 1 portrait and 8 engravings). Pictorial soft cover. Issue lacking P.75 to 84 (La Ville de Castries et de Kastri, par J. Guillou). French text. Very good. 27.6 x 17.5.
Call in 1863, of the French Whalers "Gustave" and "Winslow" in the North of New Caledonia. Encounter with Father Jerome Guitta.
72309 THOMAS, Colin S. SCRIMSHAW - "The Ancient Art of the Mariner"
$70.00 AUD
Colin S. Thomas. Hobart. 2011. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No.445 of 500). 42 PP with 55 colour photos. Inside front cover: Whale bone chair. Inside back cover: walking sticks. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Scarce. 29.7 x 21. 9780646550077
Exhibition of February 2011, held at the Commissariat Store, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. Includes a card flyer for the exhibition.
Victor Harbour, South Australia. 1964. 2nd edition of January 1964. 16 PP with 3 b/w photos. Wrappers with illustrated front. Covers lightly soiled, staples removed. Very good. 22 x 14.
21279 TWYNING, John P. & BAYS, Peter WRECK OF THE MINERVA
$70.00 AUD
Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1996. Facsimile reprints of two separate books: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning among South Sea Islands, 2nd edition of the 1850 original, and Wreck of the Minerva, 1850. 108 PP, (4), 109-229, (8 Index), 1 colophon with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: Facsimile of title-page Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 26 x 18.5. 0877705747
The wreck in September 1829 on Nicholson's Reef. Two narratives by one of the boatsteerers and the sailing master of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage. Twyning lived for 20 years in the Islands and returned to England after the death of his wife from Horn Island (Futuna). Only two copies of the original are known to be held in Australia.
70085 VAMPLEW, Wray THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL WHALING CONTROL (in Maritme History - Vol. 2, No. 2)
$10.00 AUD
University College London. London. 1972. September 1972 issue. (2), 123-232 PP. Contains article pages 123 to 139 with 1 table "Antarctic Whaling". Soft covers, illustrated front. Traces of sellotape inside front and back covers. Very good. 21 x 15.
71526 Van Der DOES, Willem STORMS, ICE, and WHALES, The Antarctic Adventures of a Dutch Artist on a Norwegian Whaler
$30.00 AUD
Eerdmans Publishing Co. Michigan. 2003. 1st Ed. Translated from the 1934 Dutch original by Ruth van Baak Griffioen. Introduction by Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek. XXIV, 391 PP with 1 map "Route van de "Sir James Clark Ross", 1923/1924 and b/w illustrations by Willem van der Does. Fp: portrait of Willem van der DoesHard covers, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 16. 9780802821256
41756 VAN DER POST, Laurens THE HUNTER AND THE WHALE
$10.00 AUD
Readers Book Club / Companion Book Club. Melbourne. c. 1967. Reprint of the original published by The Hogarth Press. 288 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 18.7 x 12.5.
A novel describing the emergence towards manhood of a young South African during four seasons on board a whaling ship.
71497 VAUCAIRE, Michel HISTOIRE DE LA PECHE A LA BALEINE
$35.00 AUD
Payot. Paris. 1941. 1st Ed. 264 PP with graphs, tables & 24 engravings in text, plus 8 plates with 11 photos. Soft cover, illustrated front. Ageing of paper, pages uncut (except for the 8 first and the 24 last leaves). Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Whaling specialist pasted down on preliminary page. French text. Very good. 23 x 14.2.
Natural history of the whales, development of fishing, equipment, use of whale oil...
21321 VENABLES, Bernard BALEIA ! BALEIA ! Whale Hunters of the Azores
$15.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1969. 1st US Ed. XII, 204, (4) PP with b/w illust. by the author (2 maps and 28 pen & ink drawings), plus XVI plates with 23 b/w photos. Decorated cloth cover & spine, dj. Fine. 21.8 x 14.6.
The survival in the late 1960's of the daring primitive techniques of New England's famous whalers.
22417 VERNEY, Peter ANIMALS IN PERIL, Man's War Against Wildlife
$10.00 AUD
Brigham Young University Press. Prove, Utah, USA. 1979. 1st US Ed. 186 PP with bw illust. Title spread: Tiger drive. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0842517146
The Great Whale hunt...
43017 VILLIERS, A. J. SEA-DOGS OF TO-DAY
$45.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1932. 1st Ed. 284 PP, plus 40 pages with 32 b/w photos. Fp: Jim the Londoner. Cloth cover with light wear, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Light foxing, o/wise contents are near fine. A scarce first edition. 21.5 x 14.8.
Stories: Larsen, Master Whaler. Gustaf Erikson of Mariehamn. The John Steward Line of square-riggers... Crossing the Atlantic by yacht.
21253 VILLIERS, Alan WHALERS OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN - A Story of Modern Whaling in the Antarctic
$40.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1949. 1st Australian edition. 248 PP with 9 woodcut illustrations by Charles Pont. Fp: On the grounds. Eps: Charts of the voyage of the Pelagos. Cloth cover with a lightly sunned spine, o/wise a near fine copy. Image shows frontispiece and title-page. 20.5 x 14.5.
40966 VILLIERS, Alan PILOT PETE
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1963. Reprint of the 1953 original. 64 PP with 61 illustrations by H. T. Cauldwell. Eps. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Note written on half title page. A few foxing sports, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.
Novel set in a rocky island far away in the South Pacific.
74468 VILLIERS, Alan LA TASMANIE AU TEMPS DES BALEINIERS ET DES FORCATS
$10.00 AUD
Editions France-Empire. Paris. 1978. 1st French edition of "Vanished Fleets, Sea Stories from old Van Diemen's Land". Translated by Jean Joba and Douglas O'Brimmick. 316, (2) PP with 1 decorated map on double page, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. French text. Very good. 19 x 14.
A survey of the maritime history of Tasmania. Earlier days, convict ships, whalers, clippers & later days.
74527 VILLIERS, Alan WHALERS OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN - A Story of Modern Whaling in the Antarctic
$60.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1934. 1st US Edit. 286 PP with 11 woodcuts by Charles Pont. Fp: "On the Grounds". Ep: Chart of the voyage of the "Pelagos". Orig. decorated cloth cover with light wear, o/wise a near fine copy. 24 x 16.
On the whaling grounds near the South Pole, and a Norwegian expedition which picked up a few extra hands in Hobart, including an under-age stowaway.
21379 VILLIERS, Alan & KEMP, Weston THE AGE OF SAIL LIVES ON AT MYSTIC (in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 134, No.2, 1968)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1968. Contains article between pages 220 and 239 with 1 plan, 1 map, 2 b/w and 13 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
Mystic Seaport Museum, in Connecticut.
46996 WAKEFIELD, Edward Jerningham ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND 1839-1844 (in Two Volumes)
$60.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1971. Reprint of the 1845 original. No. 74 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (2), X, 482 PP, 1 large folded map at rear of volume. Volume II: (2), X, 546 PP. Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front and spine), glassine covers. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine set. 22 x 14.7. 9060720946
Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844; with some account of the beginning of the British colonization of the Islands.
51366 WALKER, Ian TALL SHIPS AND CANNIBALS. The Story of Captain Richard Copping of Hobart Town
$25.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2005. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. Publication No. 60 in the Roebuck Society series. VIII, 152 PP with 42 b/w illustrations. FEP: Map of the Northern & Southern Hemispheres. REP: Map of Oceania. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 097513311X
72777 WALL, William S. HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SKELETON OF A NEW SPERM WHALE, lately set up in the Australian Museum, together with some account of a new genus of sperm whales called EUPHYSETES
$150.00 AUD
The Australian Museum. Sydney. 1890. Reprint of the 1851 original, with a preface by E.P. Ramsay. (8), 65 PP with tables, plus 2 large folded plates with 10 figures and 9 b/w plates. Soft covers, title on front cover. Covers with repaired chips, o/wise contents near fine. 21.5 x 14.
58292 WALLWORK, Rebecca WHALE MEET AGAIN - NANTUCKET (in QANTAS, the Australian Way)
$10.00 AUD
ACP Magazines. Sydney. 2009. Issue No. 189, March 2009. 178 PP. Contains article pages 81 to 86 with 3 b/w and 7 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Reasons to holiday on the historic haven of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Australia Scopes the Night Skies,...
72850 WARNEKE, Robert (editor) VICTORIAN WHALE RESCUE PLAN - A Contingency Plan for Strandings of Cetaceans (Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises) on the Victorian Coastline
$25.00 AUD
Fisheries and Wildlife Service / Department of Conservation, Forests and Land , Victoria. Melbourne. 1986. August 1986 edition. Foreword by Joan E. Kirner. VI, (2), 75 PP 4 figures (1 map of Victoria Coastline with inset "Port Phillip Bay", ... 7 sketches for: external features, measurements, and post mortem examination. Soft covers, illustrated front, clear plastic covers, spiral bound. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
21365 WELLINGS, H. P. BENJAMIN BOYD IN AUSTRALIA (1842-1849)
$10.00 AUD
Privately published. Eden. No date, c. 1930. 7th Edition. 48 PP with 11 b/w illust. Stapled card covers browned and repaired, contents very good. 21.5 x 14.
Shipping Magnate: Merchant: Banker: Pastoralist and Station Owner: Member of the Legislative Council: Town Planner: Whaler.
35663 WELLINGS, H. P. BENJAMIN BOYD IN AUSTRALIA (1842-1849)
$5.00 AUD
D.S. Ford Printer. Sydney. No date, c. 1970. Reprint. 48 PP with 1 head piece, 1 tail piece, and 11 b/w illust. Soft cover. Very good. 21.3 x 13.8.
Shipping Magnate: Merchant: Banker: Pastoralist and Station Owner: Member of the Legislative Council: Town Planner: Whaler.
39950 WELLINGS, H. P. BENJAMIN BOYD IN AUSTRALIA (1842-1849)
$10.00 AUD
D.S. Ford Printer. Sydney. c. 1950. 11th edition. 48 PP with 1 head piece, 2 tail pieces, and 11 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Newspaper (The Canberra Times) clipping loosely inserted. Very good. 21.3 x 13.8.
Shipping Magnate: Merchant: Banker: Pastoralist and Station Owner: Member of the Legislative Council: Town Planner: Whaler. Newspaper clipping of 5 September 1973 on the rebirth of Boydtown.
41553 WELLINGS, H. P. BENJAMIN BOYD IN AUSTRALIA (1842-1849)
$5.00 AUD
Bega News Print. Bega, NSW. c. 1980. Reprint. 48 PP with 1 head piece, 1 tail piece, and 11 b/w illust. Soft cover. Very good. 21.3 x 13.8.
Shipping Magnate: Merchant: Banker: Pastoralist and Station Owner: Member of the Legislative Council: Town Planner: Whaler.
32785 WEST, Captain Ellsworth Luce & MAYHEW, Eleanor Ransom CAPTAIN'S PAPERS - A Log of Whaling and other Sea Experiences
$25.00 AUD
Barre Publishers. Barre, Massachusetts. 1965. 1st Ed. VIII, 172 PP, plus 16 pages with 19 b/w photos. Fp: Map of the Bering Sea. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped and with a small rub at back). Occasional foxing. 23.3 x 15.5.
Whaling either from New England or California, in the Bering Sea, the North Pacific and Central Pacific (Marshall, Caroline...). Shipwrecked in 1899 on Kusaie (Kosrae), Federated States of Micronesia...
21519 WHIPPLE, A.B.C. (editor) THE WHALERS
$5.00 AUD
Amsterdam. 1980. Time-Life Books. 1st European English language printing of the 1979 original in the Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title page: Whaling scene carved on the tooth of a sperm whale in 1830. Eps: The Oceans of the Whalers. Simile leather covers, colour illustration pasted down on front cover. Near fine. 28.7 x 23.5. 070540627X
31746 WHIPPLE, A.B.C. (editor) THE WHALERS
$5.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1982. 2nd European English language printing of the 1979 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title page: Whaling scene carved on the tooth of a sperm whale in 1830. FEP: The Oceans of the Whalers. Simile leather covers, colour illustration pasted down on front cover. Very good. 28.7 x 23.5. 070540627X
21368 WHITEHEAD, Hal VOYAGE TO THE WHALES
$20.00 AUD
Stoddart. Toronto. 1989. 1st Ed. X, 195 PP with 2 maps and 2 figures, plus 16 pages with 30 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22.8 x 15. 9780773721531
Study of whales in the Indian Ocean between 1981 and 1984 (mostly sperm whale).
52833 WHITTAKER, Mark WHALE TALES (in The Weekend Australian Magazine)
$5.00 AUD
Nationwide News. Sydney. 2007. 42 PP. Contains article from P.32 to 35 with 1 b/w and 2 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 31 x 25.4.
The end of commercial whaling in Australia, 1977: hippies took on harpooners in the showdown 30 years ago.
40984 WILLIAMS, Heathcote WHALE NATION
$15.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 1989. 5th reprint of the 1988 original. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of half title page, o/wise fine. 29 x 19.5. 0224025694
21232 WILSON, John THE CRUISE OF THE GIPSY, The Journal of John Wilson, Surgeon on a Whaling Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 1839-1843
$45.00 AUD
Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1991. 1st edition with introduction and notes by Dr. Honore Forster. XXXII, 404 PP, plus 24 pages with 8 maps & 16 illustrations. Coloured frontispiece: Scene at Agana, Guam in 1840. Eps: Whaling scene. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 31 x 23. 0877704880
Detailed and meticulous account of a whaling cruise by a British whaling ship.
21376 WILTSHIRE, J. G. CAPTAIN WILLIAM PELHAM DUTTON, First Settler at Portland Bay, Victoria. A History of the Whaling and Sealing Industries in Bass Strait, 1828-1868
$20.00 AUD
Wiltshire Publications. Melbourne. 1994. Revised reprint of the 1976 edition. 52 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Title page illustrated by whaling scenes. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.3 x 14.6. 0959186514
72895 WOODINGS, Simon A PLAUSIBLE PHYSICAL CAUSE FOR LIVE CETACEAN MASS STRANDINGS
$75.00 AUD
Department of Physics, The University of Western Australia. Perth. 1995. September 1991 Thesis. III, 4-69 PP (recto only) with (8 + 2) tables and 29 figures (graphs, 2 measurements diagrams and distribution maps of Tasmania). Soft covers, title on front cover, clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Fine. 29.5 x 20.7.
Thesis presented as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science (Honours).
74536 WRIGHT, Harrison M. NEW ZEALAND, 1769-1840: Early Years of Western Contact
$20.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1980. 3rd printing of the 1959 original. Harvard Historical Monograph No. XLII. XII, 225, (3 publications) PP with 1 map of New Zealand North Island and an insert. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dust jacket. A fine copy. 20.5 x 14. 0620003674
Chapter II: Traders and Whalers.
41405 YSKA, Redmer AN ERRAND OF MERCY - Captain Jacob Eckhoff and the loss of the Kakanui
$20.00 AUD
Banshee Books. Wellington. 2001. 1st Ed. 106 PP with 26 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0473076993
Attempted rescue of a sealing gang stranded on Macquarie Island.
75275 ZIM, Herbert S. THE GREAT WHALES
$10.00 AUD
Scholastic Book Services / World's Work Ltd. Tadworth, Surrey. 1964. British edition (TW 364-C). No pagination, 64 PP with b/w and coloured illustrations by James Gordon Irving. Illustrated stiff covers. Signature of previous owner at top of title-page. Very good. 20.4 x 15.
40671 ZITWER, Barbara Jane WHALES
$10.00 AUD
Warner Books. New York. 1995. 1st printing, in Magic of the Ocean series. (2), 54 PP with 27 colour illustrations by Robbin Gourley. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 15.4 x 11. 0446910112
