Maritime Books

Shipwrecks & Marine Archaeology

Last update: Tuesday, 5 November 2024.

70394
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 35, No. 1
$15.00 AUD

The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth, W.A. 2013. Vol. 35, No.1 - 2013, edited by Michael Sturma. 116 PP with 5 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24 x 16.3.

No. 1: Alexander Smith, RN (1812-172): Antarctic Explorer and Goldfields Commissioner, by John Ramsland. Disaster in the Indian Ocean: the lost Company Fleet of 1662, by Alfons van der Kraan.

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.

43000
AHLSTRÖM, Christian & KEHUSMAA, Aimo
DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH ON THE WRECK AT JUSSARÖ / THE SOFIA MARIA, A DUTCH KOFF FOUNDERED IN THE YEAR 1859 OUTSIDE OULU (in The Maritime Museum of Finland, Annual Report)
$10.00 AUD

Section for Maritime History, National Board of Antiquities of Finland. Helsinki. 1982. Annual Report 1981. 16 PP with 14 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 19.8 x 20.5.

34394
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 8, No. 1, 1984
$15.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1984. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. (2), 42 PP with 22 figures. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Iron Whaler wrecked off Fraser Island, Norwegian Bay, W. A., by Myra Stanbury. Site believed to be the HMAS Sydney, by Mike McCarthy.

34403
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 20, No. 2
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide. 1996. Volume 20, Number 2, 1996. Edited by Jeremy Green & Myra Stanbury. 70 PP with b/w figures (drawings, maps, photos). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Shipwreck of the Northern Territory, by Cosmos Coreoneos. Catalina wreck sites in East Arm, Darwin Harbour by Silvano Jung.

59398
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 7, No. 1, 1983
$15.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1983. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. II, 47 PP with 1 table and 29 figures. Soft cover, illustrated front with a few small marks, otherwise fine. 29.3 x 21.

Ships fastenings, by Mike McCarthy. Report of the 1981 Leeman expedition, wreck on Drummond Rock, by Mark Staniforth.

59401
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 11, No. 1 - 1987
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1987. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. 60 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Proceedings of the AIMA seminar on Cultural Resource Management held at Queenscliff, 16-20 September 1986.

59403
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 12, No.1 - 1988
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1988. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Wreck Reef controversy, by Warren Delaney. The Pandora project, by Peter Gesner, and Mark McCafferty.

59405
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 25, 2001
$35.00 AUD

AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2001. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Pearl shelling in the Torres Strait, by E. McPhee. Polynesian fishing implements from HMS Pandora, by T. Fallowfield. ... Heritage and Tourism ...

73785
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 9, No. 1 & 2, 1985
$25.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Melbourne. 1985. Edited by Paul Hundley & Myra Stanbury. (4), 48 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings, sketches, maps and plans, photos. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.3 x 21.

Lifting heavy artefacts from the wreck site, by Geoff Kimpton. ... Introduction and use of copper sheathing - A History, by Mark Staniforth.

73786
AIMA
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 12, No.2 - 1988
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1988. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. 46 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Colonies, convicts and filtering stones, by Myra Stanbury & Ian D. Macleod. Shipbuilding in Northern Tasmania, by Zuzana K. Orme.

73793
AIMA
AUSTRALIAN MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Newsletter No. 4, 1980
$10.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1980. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. No pagination, 54 PP with tables and 5 figures. Soft cover, title on front board, staples, cloth spine. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.

73794
AIMA
AUSTRALIAN MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ASSOCIATION - Newsletter No. 3, 1980
$10.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1980. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. No pagination, 32 PP with tables and 6 drawings. Soft cover, title on front board, staples, cloth spine. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.

73795
AIMA
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA - Newsletter No. 2. 1, September 1979
$10.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1979. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. No pagination, 52 PP with drawings. Soft cover, title on front board, staples, cloth spine. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.

73796
AIMA
AUSTRALIAN MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ASSOCIATIONS - Newsletter No. 1, 1979
$10.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1979. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. No pagination, 22 PP with tables and drawings. Soft cover, title on front board, staples. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.

73797
AIMA
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2, 1985
$10.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Hobart. 1985. Edited by Paul Clark. No pagination, 22 PP (typescript) with tables and drawings. Stapled wrappers, title on front page. Very good. 29.5 x 21.

15749
ALEXANDER, Michael
MRS. FRASER ON THE FATAL SHORE
$15.00 AUD

Simon & Schuster. New York. 1971. 1st US edition. 189 PP with 23 b/w illustrations. Fp: Mrs. Fraser. Eps: Chart of the coast of NSW from Port Jackson to the Cumberland Isles, & map of events. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket rubbed, old water mark on lower corner of back cover, foxing spots on edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. 23.4 x 15.5. 671208284

The ordeal of Mrs. Fraser after the shipwreck of the Stirling Castle in 1836/37.

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.

71552
ARMSTRONG, Warren
SQUARE-RIGGER DAYS
$25.00 AUD

Heinemann. London. 1964. 1st Ed. (6), 191 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Orig. cloth cover, gilt-engraved spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket frayed at head and foot of spine with a piece missing at the back and now in a clear protective sleeve. Stamp of previous owner on endpapers and outside edges. Very good copy of a scarce title. 22.2 x 14.2.

History of the square-riggers, the triumphs & tragedies which befell them: Lightning, Thermopylae & Cutty Sark. Kobenhavn lost without trace..

73747
ARMSTRONG, Warren
LAST VOYAGE, A Saga of Ships that Never Came Back
$25.00 AUD

Frederick Muller Ltd. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 239 PP plus 12 pages with 21 b/w illustrations/photos. Hard cover, price-clipped dust jacket has light wear and is in a protective sleeve. Dedicatory note to previous owner on FFEP. A near fine copy. Scarce with the dust jacket. 20.2 x 13.5.

The "Essex", sunk by a sperm whale, the "Titanic" sunk by an iceberg, the "Normandie" sunk in New York Harbour...

64830
ARNOLD, Craig (editor)
MAINS'L HAUL - Volume XXVII, No. 2
$10.00 AUD

Maritime Museum Association of San Diego. San Diego. 1991. Vol. XXVII, No. 2, Winter 1991. 24 PP with 2 colour and 15 b/w illustrations (1 engraving, 14 photos). Pictorial soft covers (ferryboat Berkeley). Near fine. 28 x 21.5.

In Eastern Seas; "Euterpe" in the Indian Trade, by Craig Arnold. Nelson's Dockyard on Antigua, by Al Deahl. Death of a Princess (Princess Louise), by Robert V. Schwemmer.

58555
ARNOTT, Terry (editor)
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA - Annual Report 1984
$5.00 AUD

Maritime Archaeology Association of Victoria. Melbourne. 1984. 1st edition. (26) PP (recto only) with tables. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.3.

59407
AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 26
$35.00 AUD

AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2002. Volume 26, 2002. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 132 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Holdfast Bay Project / Jetty, by M. McCarthy, J. Rodrigues... Stone anchor from Bet Dwarka Island, Gujarat Coast. The Tahitian Mourner's costume from HMS Pandora, by P. Illidge. ...

59408
AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 27
$30.00 AUD

AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2003. Volume 27, 2003. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 139 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Loch Ard disaster, by K. Fielding. Gabo Island jetty shed, by P. Davies and S. Lawrence. ... Anchors from Goa waters, by S. Tripati. Dutch Maritime Heritage Management, by T.J. Maarsleveld.

59409
AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 28
$35.00 AUD

AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2004. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 145 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Whaling and colonial trade, shipwreck of Cheviot, by R. Anderson. The Australian built schooner Alert, by M. Nash. ... Stone anchor from Saurashstra coast, India, by A.S. Gaur. ...

59410
AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 29, 2005
$35.00 AUD

AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2005. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 88 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Investigation of a survivor camp from the Sydney Cove Shipwreck, by M. Nash. Watercraft discard in Tasmania. Watercraft abandonment in Australia, by N. Richards. ...

59411
AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 30
$35.00 AUD

AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2006. Volume 30, 2006. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 145 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Mongolian fleet sunk off Japan, by J. Kimura. ... Study of the Asmat Canoes, Irian Jaya, by N. Bigourdan. ... Underwater excavation of the site in the "Tupapaurau", Society Island, by M. Guérout et R. Veccella. Portuguese shipwreck in Goa, by S. Tripati.

34402
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 19, No.1, 1995
$40.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1995. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 44 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 29.6 x 21.

Articles include: Indigenous Water-craft use in Australia, The Big Picture and small experiments on the Queensland coast, (M.J. Rowland), Life on board Manila galleons, (Jinky Smalley), ...

59404
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 23, 1999
$30.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Pitcairn project: Mutineer settlement, by Nigel Erskine. La Bella and Polly Woodside (S; Strachan). Comparison: the Yongala and Cooma shipwrecks (V. Moran & B. Jeffrey). Wooden dug-out canoe discovered in the Solitary Island Marine Park (W.E. Boyd). S.S. Papanui, wrecked on St Helena Island, by Adam Wolfe.

73781
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 31, 2007
$35.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2007. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 104 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Aboriginal watercraft depictions in Western Australia, by Nicolas Bigourdan. Stone structures of Goddesses on the boats from Goa,... (A.S. Gaur & R. Kerkar). Broome's World War II flying boat wrecks sites Broome, by S. Jung. Shipwreck at Pointe aux Feuilles, Mauritius: Le Coureur (1818), by I.A. Metwalli, et al. Survey of maritime infrastructures at Sarah Island penal settlement, by Michael Nash.

73792
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 19, No.2, 1995
$25.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide. 1995. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 29.6 x 21.

Articles include: The management of the Mannum Dry Dock, by Bill Jeffery. Wreck of the convict ship "Hive", south of Jervis Bay, by David Nutley. The 19th century "Pacific Guano Trade", by Dan O'Donnell.

18421
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 10, No.2, 1986
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Melbourne. 1986. Edited by Paul Hundley & Myra Stanbury. (2), 54 PP with 39 figures (6 maps, 15 photos..). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.4 x 21.

9 papers presented at the seminar held in Launceston from 24-26 September 1985. Proceedings from the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Seminar on Asiatic Shipbuilding Techniques. Eastern shipbuilding traditions by J. Green. Indian and South East Asian shipbuilding for the European market: A survey 1790-1815 by S.M. Strachan. The Thistle (1837): An Indian built Brigantine/schooner...

34400
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 18, No. 2, 1994
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide. 1994. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 44 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 29.6 x 21.

Contains articles: Stone-shank anchors of the Arab-Indian trade, by Gerhard Kapitän. Chinese Maritime History and nautical archaeology, by Hans Van Tilburg. The Batavia Project, by Robert Parthesius. Maritime Graffiti in Oman, by Sarah Kenderdine & Tom Vosmer.

49594
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 21, Nos.1 & 2, 1997
$30.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 1997. Includes article on the Pandora between pages 1 and 8 with 12 figures (2 maps, 8 drawings and 2 b/w photos). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Eighteenth Century Wooden Clubs from HMS Pandora: A Preliminary Analysis, by Janet Campbell.

49595
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 21, Nos 1 & 2, 1997
$30.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 134 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Wooden clubs from the Pandora. the Duyfken project. ... On the barque Day Dawn, wrecked on Quindalup Beach in August 1886. Built in 1831 as the New Bedford Whaleship Thomas Nye. The Exceptional "Janggolan", from Madura by Nick Burningham and Jeffrey Mellefont. ...

52066
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 13, No. 1, 1989
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1989. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 26 PP with 35 figures (drawings and photos). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Articles include: Defence and Victorian Shipwrecks, by Leonie Foster. Aarhus wreck site, off Moreton Island, Qld.

52069
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Special Publication No.2
$30.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1984. VI, 60 PP with 21 figures (3 maps, drawings and b/w photos). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Cavalier de La Salle vessel, wrecked in 1679, Lake Huron, Great Lakes. The Griffon Cove Wreck: a case study in archaeological reconstruction of timber hull remains, by Paul F. HUNDLEY.

59397
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 6, 1982
$15.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1982. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. II, 84 PP with 36 figures. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples, cloth spine. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

Wreck of the Sydney Cove, by Ken Atherton and Shirley Lester. Shipwrecks on the Margaret Brock Reef, off Cape Jaffa, S.E of South Australia, by Terry Drew and Bill Jeffery.

59399
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 8, No. 2, 1984
$15.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1984. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. (4), 46 PP with b/w illustrations(figures and photos). Soft cover, illustrated front. Covers a little soiled, o/wise fine. 29.6 x 21.

HMS Pandora, by Graeme Henderson, Paul Clark and Bill Jeffrey.

59400
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 10, No. 1 - 1986
$15.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1986. Introduction by Ian Warne. Edited by Paul HUNDLEY & Myra STANBURY. 81 PP with b/w illustrations (figures, maps and photos). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Five Year Report of the Maritime Archaeological Association of Western Australia: January 1979 to December 1983.

59406
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 24
$35.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2000. Volume 24, 2000. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 136 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Ashmore Reef, by Paul Clark. Pearlers, planes and people, by Natasha Stacey. The Senabi: external stern-lashings on Austronesian water-craft, by Kim Akerman and Dan Dwyer. ...

64644
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 14, Number 2
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1990. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 63 PP with b/w illustrations. Card cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Includes articles: Twenty-five years of maritime archaeology in Australia (Graeme Henderson), A future direction of maritime archaeology in South Australia (Bill Jeffery), The Early European presence, Wreck Reef Revisited.., by Warren Delaney.

72632
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 22, 1998
$30.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 138 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner at top of title-page, o/wise near fine. 29.8 x 21.

Papers from the 17th International Conference "The Maritime Archaeology of Long Distance Voyaging". Includes: Maritime craft in the Maldives, by M. H. Maniku. The Janggolan, by N. Burningham. ... Wreck of the British frigate HMS Sirius (1797) in Mauritius, by Yann von Arnim. ...

73787
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 14, Number 1
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1990. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Card cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Includes articles: A brief history of the J. Class submarines, by Gary Smith. Deconcreting objects, by Survey of the historic ship "Litherland" (1834-1853), by Michael Nash.

73788
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 15, Number 1
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1991. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Card cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Includes articles: Chinese emigration to South Australia aboard foreign-owned vessels: the Guichen Bay shipwrecks of 1857, by Bill Jeffery and Sarah Kenderdine. Recent work on the "Sydney Cove" historic shipwreck, by Mike Nash..

73789
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 16, Number 1
$25.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1992. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Card cover, illustrated front. Near fine. 29.6 x 21.

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Confernce of AIMA - September 23-29 1991 (part 2). Maritime Archaeology in: Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.

73790
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 16, Number 2
$25.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1992. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 38 PP with b/w illustrations. Card cover, illustrated front. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Barque "Fame", Sydney Harbour and the "Queen of Nations", wrecked off Corrimal (Wollongong), by Timothy Smith. The steamship "Oakland" lost off Port Stephens, by Adam Wolfe.

73791
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 18, No. 1, 1994
$25.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide. 1994. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 29.6 x 21.

Contains articles: River Boats and "Rotten Rows': Wreck sites of the River Murray, by Sarah Kenderdine. The "Nelcebee", a South Australian coastal steamer, by R.T. Sexton.

52189
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION
NAVIGATION - Volume 6, No.3, December 1982
$15.00 AUD

The Australian Institute of Navigation. Sydney. 1982. Vol. 6, No. 3, December 1982. X, 1021- 1121, (1) PP. Soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.5.

Voyage of HMS Sirius by M.E. Palmer. When the new settlement at Sydney Cove was facing starvation.

72313
BABITS, Lawrence E. & VAN TILBURG, Hans (editors)
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - A Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions
$110.00 AUD

Plenum Press. New York. 1998. 1st edition in "The Plenum Series of Underwater Archaeology". XX, 590 PP with close to 100 headpieces and figures (drawings, maps, plans, photos). Pictorial laminated boards. Discreet name of previous owner on inside front cover, o/wise a fine, as new copy. Scarce. 25.2 x 17.8. 0306453304

9 parts containing 48 papers. Parts: The Field, Areal Studies, Research Design, Finding Sites, High Technology, Site Significance, Data Recovery, Conservation, Interpretation and Exhibition.

75603
BAILEY, Maurice & Maralyn
117 DAYS ADRIFT
$20.00 AUD

Nautical Publishing. Lymington, UK. 1974. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir Peter Scott. 192 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, 31 facsimiles of document, 32 drawings, and 43 photos). Eps: Colour map of the Central Eastern Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Hand-written note praising the contents on title-page. A near fine copy. 22 x 16.2. 0245522603

The survival after the sinking of the yacht Auralyn.

19287
BALLARD, Robert
HIGH-TECH SEARCH FOR ROMAN SHIPWRECKS [in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 193, No.4]
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1998. April 1998. Contains article from P.32 to 41 with 1 map & 13 colour illust. Soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

Dives in the Mediterranean Sea, on board the U.S. Navy submarine NR-1. Studies of shipwrecks found in deep sea (2600 foot).

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

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

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

30555
BALLARD, Robert & ARCHBOLD, Rick
GHOST LINERS, Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships
$10.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1998. 1st Australian Ed., paintings by Ken Marschall. 64 PP with b/w and colour illust. throughout. Half title page: Alvin explores the severed bow section of the Titanic. Title page: Delta illuminates the anchor of Lusitania. Eps: Titanic leaving Southampton. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.2. 186448831X

Titanic - Empresss of Ireland - Lusitania - Britannic ...

20594
BALLARD, Robert D.
THE "BISMARCK" FOUND [in National Geographic, Vol. 176, No.5]
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1989. November 1989. Contains article P. 622 to 637 with 2 maps, 6 b/w photos and 14 colour illustrations. Plus folded map supplement "Asia-Pacific, Western Pacific Rim Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

The end of the "Bismarck", and the search of her wreck.

17717
BALLARD, Robert D. & ARCHBOLD, Rick
THE LOST WRECK OF THE ISIS
$10.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton / Madison Press Book. London & Toronto. 1990. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 3 maps, plans, bw & colour illustrations. Title spread: Robert Ballard and his team at work on their underwater robot Jason. Half title page: A Roman wall painting. Eps: Mosaic for the Jason project. Laminated pictorial boards, dj (inside: a poster). Fine. 28.7 x 22. 0340531789

Wreck discovered at 300 metres on the Marsili Seamount, Tyrrhenian Sea.

60395
BALLARD, Robert D. & ARCHBOLD, Rick
THE DISCOVERY OF THE TITANIC
$20.00 AUD

Warner / Madison Press. New York. 1987. December reprint of the 1987 original, with an introduction by Walter Lord. 230 PP, (2), with b/w & colour illust., as well as paintings by Ken Marschall. Title-page: The carved forward bow railing of the Titanic wreck. Eps: Flags of the White Star Line. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with a few small repairs, faint foxing, otherwise near fine. 28.5 x 22. 0446513857

Story of this luxury passenger ship: construction, first & only voyage, quests for her wreck, her discovery.

62337
BALLARD, Robert D. & ARCHBOLD, Rick
THE LOST SHIPS OF GUADALCANAL
$20.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1993. 1st Australian edition. 228 PP with over 300 b/w & colour illustrations. Half title page: Crest of the 1st Marine Division. Title spread: Rusting hull on landing Beach. Eps: Fleet under attack. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 28.8 x 22.2. 186373533X

The Guadalcanal campaign with compelling stories of sailors and warships, resting in Iron Bottom Sound.

65976
BALLARD, Robert D. & ARCHBOLD, Rick
THE LOST WRECK OF THE ISIS
$5.00 AUD

Scholastic / Madison Press Book. Toronto. 1990. 1st soft cover edition. 64 PP with 3 maps, plans, bw & colour illustrations. Title spread: Robert Ballard and his team at work on their underwater robot Jason. Half title page: A Roman wall painting. Pictorial soft covers with creases. Ex Library copy.with 3 stamps, remnant of file envelope and stickers and staples on spine. A good working copy. 28 x 21.5. 0590438530

Wreck discovered at 300 metres on the Marsili Seamount, Tyrrhenian Sea.

69314
BALLARD, Robert D. & ARCHBOLD, Rick
RETURN TO MIDWAY
$20.00 AUD

National Geographic / Madison Press Book.Washington, D.C. 1999. 1st US edition. 192 PP with b/w and colour photos, and underwater paintings by Ken Marschall. Half title page: 3 b/w period photos. Title spread: Quadruple 1.1 inch gun mounts of the Yorktown. Eps: Firefighters on deck of an aircraft carrier. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22.4. 0792275004

Battle of the 4th June 1942. Search, then discovery in May 1998 of the remains of the USS Yorktown.

70359
BALLARD, Robert D. & DUNMORE Spencer
EXPLORING THE LUSITANIA, Probing the Mysteries of the Sinking That Changed History
$15.00 AUD

Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Madison Press Books. London / Toronto. 1995. 1st Ed. 228 PP with b/w & colour illustrations, including artworks by Ken Marschall and a large folded profile "Lusitania then". Half-title page: Prewar postcard. Title-page: The Lusitania Bow. Gilt-engraved hard cover & spine, dj. Near fine. 28.7 x 22.5. 0297813145

Her career, her fatal crossing and the controversy surrounding her sinking. Exploration of the wreck.

37002
BALLARD, Robert D. & HIVELY, Will
THE ETERNAL DARKNESS - A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
$15.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2000. 1st Australian edition. XII, 388 PP with 70 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 16 colour illustrations (2 renderings and 14 photos). Title spread: Rendering by artist Ken Marschall of the Titanic's bow section. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 23.6 x 15.6. 1865082880

73245
BALLARD, Robert D., SIDES, Hampton, SWEENEY, Michael ...
TITANIC - Exploring the Discovery of a Lifetime / National Geographic
$20.00 AUD

National Geographic Partners. Washington. 2020. Special Publication 2020. 98 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 27.5 x 20.5.

A compilation of articles published in National Geographic Magazine.

32933
BANKSON, Ross, KOSZORUS, Marianne R. (editors)
HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE SEA
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1988. 1st Ed., in the Books for World Explorers series. 104 PP with colour illust. throughout. Title page: gold coins gleam, the prize of several old Spanish wrecks. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 27.3 x 23.4. 0870446584

19828
BAPTIST, Captain C. N. T.
SALVAGE OPERATIONS
$30.00 AUD

Stanford Maritime. London. 1979. 1st Ed. (4), 155 PP with 1 facsimile of document (Salvage Agreement), 1 table and 15 maps & plans, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name and address of previous owner at top of FFEP which has some offsetting, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.2 x 16.2. 0540073784

Principle of marine salvage, salvage companies, wartime salvage tugs. 15 examples of salvage operations after stranding, grounding, fire...

62306
BARNABY, K. C.
SOME SHIP DISASTERS AND THEIR CAUSES
$25.00 AUD

Hutchinson. London. 1968. 1st Ed. XVI, 272 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped) and in a protective sleeve. Neat stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Inc. on the front endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy. 21.8 x 14.5.

The ships: design, construction and operation. Shipwrecks, foundering, collisions; fires...

19982
BASCOM, Willard
DEEP WATER, ANCIENT SHIPS
$15.00 AUD

Doubleday & Co. New York. 1976. 1st Ed. X, (4), 226 PP with 7 tables and 18 figures by the author, plus 16 pages with 20 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 14.2. 0385089821

The treasure vault of the Mediterranean. Wrecks of old ships on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, containing unique information and artifacts. Locating, inspecting and salvaging...

18584
BASS, George F.
GLASS TREASURE FROM THE AEGEAN (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 153, No.6, 1978)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1978. Volume 153, No. 6, June 1978. Contains article between pages 768 and 793. with 1 map and colour illust. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

An 11th century wreck off the coast of south west Turkey.

41281
BASS, George F.
UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY: Key to History's Warehouse [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 124, No.1, 1963]
$10.00 AUD

N.G.S. Washington. 1963. Volume 124, No. 1, July 1963. Contains article between pages 138 and 156 with 1 diagram, 2 maps and 21 colour photos by Thomas J. Abercombie and Robert B. Goodman. Pictorial soft cover (Poseidon or Zeus). Covers have a few marks, o/wise very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Bronze age wrecks off Yassi island, Anatolian coast of Turkey. Other articles: Dynamic Ontario with a map loosely inserted, Athens: Golden Past and Busy Present..

20587
BASS, George F. (editor)
SHIPS AND SHIPWRECKS OF THE AMERICAS, A History Based on Underwater Archaeology
$30.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson. London. 1996. 1st soft cover edition. 272 PP with 80 colour and 296 bw illust. Title page: A diver dismantles a floor timber from a sixteenth century Basque galleon. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 21.5. 050027892X

The first book to describe the dramatic discoveries now revolutionising new world maritime history: Pre-Columbian ships, Basque whalers, Spanish treasure galleons.

21913
BASS, George F. (editor)
A HISTORY OF SEAFARING, Based on Underwater Archaeology
$15.00 AUD

Walker & Co. New York. 1972. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 506 illust. (150 in colour). Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 27.7 x 22.2 0802703909

The history of seafaring, treated primarily from the results of archaeological researches.

21938
BASS, George F. (editor)
A HISTORY OF SEAFARING, Based on Underwater Archaeology
$10.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson. London. 1972. 1st UK edition. 320 PP with 137 drawings, 150 colour and 219 b/w photographs. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 27.7 x 22.2 0500010773

The history of seafaring, treated primarily from the results of archaeological researches.

48672
BASS, George F. (editor)
A HISTORY OF SEAFARING, Based on Underwater Archaeology
$10.00 AUD

Walker & Co. New York. 1972. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 506 illustrations (150 in colour). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 27.7 x 22.2 0802703909

The history of seafaring, treated primarily from the results of archaeological researches.

72085
BASSETT, Marnie
REALMS AND ISLANDS, The World Voyage of Rose de Freycinet in the Corvette Uranie 1817-1820
$55.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. London. 1962. 1st Ed. XII, 275 PP with 2 maps, plus 24 pages with 1 map and 46 b/w illust. Fp: Portraits of Rose and of Louis de Freycinet. FEP: Voyage Toulon to Shark Bay. REP: Shark Bay to Le Havre. Cloth cover, gilt ttle on vignette on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 15.

The voyage of Rose with her husband, Capt. Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, of the Uranie. Calls in Australia, shipwrecked on the Falklands (from her journal & letters and the reports of Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, Capitaine de Corvette).

19758
BATESON, Charles
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS Including Vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings, Volume One: 1622-1850
$10.00 AUD

A. H. & A. W. Reed. Sydney. 1982. Paperback reprint of the 1972 original. 267 PP with 42 b/w illust. Pictorial stiff covers. Outside edges browned, stamp of Cairns Navigation Centre at bottom of title-page, otherwise near fine. 24.7 x 18.4. 0589071122

21678
BATESON, Charles
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS - Including Vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings, Volume One: 1622-1850
$20.00 AUD

A.H. & A.W. Reed. Sydney. 1972. 1st Ed. 267 PP with 42 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of Australia. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 17.7. 0589071122

48698
BATHURST, Bella
THE WRECKERS. A story of killing seas, false lights and plundered ships
$15.00 AUD

HarperCollins. Sydney. 2005. 1st Australian edition. XXIV, (2), 326 PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 7 colour and 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges (heavier on top edge). Contents near fine. 21.6 x 13.5. 9780007207404

74491
BATHURST, Bella
THE WRECKERS. A story of killing seas, false lights and plundered ships
$15.00 AUD

Harper Perennial. London. 2006. 1st Harper Perennial edition. XXIV, (2), 326, (16 publications) PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 7 colour and 20 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Signature of previous owner at top of title page. Very good. 19.7 x 13. 9780007170333

20595
BENCHLEY, Peter
GHOSTS OF WAR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC - WRECK OF THE COOLIDGE (in National Geographic - Vol.173, No.4)
$10.00 AUD

N.G.S. Washington. 1988. April 1988. Contains articles P. 424 to 467 with bw and colour photos. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Wrecks of planes, and ships in the South Pacific War zone. Wreck of the President Coolidge, sunk off Santo, Vanuatu in 1942 and now a popular diving destination.

66200
BENNETT, Tom
SHIPWRECKS AROUND WALES - Volume 1
$30.00 AUD

Happy Fish. Newport, Dyfed, Wales. 1987. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, maps, sketch maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.7 x 18.8. 0951211404

Volume 1: 50 of the wrecks from Adamantios J. Pithis to Vainqueur.

49060
BERLITZ, Charles
THE DRAGON 'S TRIANGLE
$5.00 AUD

Grafton Books. London. 1990. 1st paperback adition. 208 PP with tables, plus 16 pages with 2 maps, 2 sketches and 29 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 17.8 x 11. 0586207783

What is it that lurks in the Dragon's Sea ?

34784
BERLITZ, Charles & VALENTINE, J. Manson
WITHOUT A TRACE
$10.00 AUD

Souvenir Press. Adelaide. 1977. 1st Australian edition. X, (2), 180 PP with 6 b/w illust, plus 24 pages with 37 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0285622862

More evidence from the Bermuda Triangle.

17576
BERRY, Greig
SHIPWRECKS OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES CENTRAL COAST, Volume 1, 1800-1899
$45.00 AUD

Author. Tacoma. 1994. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illust., photos & maps in text. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note signed by the author on verso of title-page. Near fine. Scarce. 24.5 x 17. 06462110991

Details in chronological order of wrecks along the Central Coast of NSW.

37836
BEURDELEY, Cecile
L'ARCHEOLOGIE SOUS-MARINE - L'Odyssée des Trésors
$45.00 AUD

La Bibliotheque des Arts. Paris. 1991. 1st Ed. 222, (2) PP with 39 colour and 131 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj, slipcase (plain). French text. Near fine. 26.5 x 22.7. 2850471607

Chapter 1: Navigation and divers during the Antique period. Chapter 2: First diving equipment...

17159
BIEL, Steven
DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
$15.00 AUD

W.W. Norton. New York. 1996. 1st Ed. (X), 300 PP with 22 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 21.5 x 14.3. 039303965X

According to the author, once the Titanic had sunk, she became an icon for America's most extreme notions about technology, theology, commerce, politics, gender, race and class.

33292
BIEL, Steven (editor)
TITANICA - The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose
$10.00 AUD

W. W. Norton. New York. 1998. 1st Ed. 202 PP with 8 b/w illust. Fp: In memory of Titanic Heroes. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 13.8. 0393318737

Poems. Sermons and Religious views. Songs. News and other Timely Reflections. Advertisements.

60415
BIERMAN, John
ODYSSEY
$15.00 AUD

Simon and Schuster. New York. 1984. 1st Ed. 255 PP, plus 16 pages with 1 map and 29 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Remainder mark on lower outside edge, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0671501569

Attempted voyage of the Paddle Steamer "Pentcho", from Bratislava to Palestine: shipwreck in the Aegean Sea, internment in Rhodes and Calabria...

65767
BLANDIN, Gaston
CHIRURGIEN SUR LA "CIRCE". L'Aventure d'un Chirurgien navigant Nantais à bord d'une Frégate Royale du XVIIIe Siècle
$10.00 AUD

Ouest Editions / Universite inter-âges de Nantes. Spezet, Bretagne. 1996. 1st Ed. Preface by Jean-Pierre Kernéis. 254, (2) PP with 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on Page 1. French text. Very good. 21 x 14.8. 2908261456

Historical novel.

66376
BOND, Constance
A FURY FROM HELL: Edward Teach / Blackbeard
$5.00 AUD

Smithsonian Institute. Washington. c. 1999. Article pulled out from "Smithsonian". Pages 62 to 72 with 1 b/w and 8 colour illustrations. Very good. 27.5 x 21.

On the wreck of the pirate ship "Queen Anne's Revenge" of Blackbeard.

21941
BONSALL, Thomas E.
GREAT SHIPWRECKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$15.00 AUD

Gallery Books. New York. 1988. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 176 b/w & 32 colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 29.5 x 21.5. 0831777818

Recollection of the important passenger ship disasters of this century from the General Slocum to the Mikhail Lermontov, including Titanic, Lusitania, Normandie, Andrea Doria, ...

36281
BONSALL, Thomas E.
TITANIC - The Story of the Great White Star Line Trio: The Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic
$15.00 AUD

Gallery Books. New York. 1989. 1st printing of the 2nd edition of 1989 (original of 1987). 64 PP with 19 colour and 64 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 23.5 x 29.2. 0831787740

60180
BOURKE, Joel K.
BLACKBEARD LIVES: Blackbeard's Shipwreck (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 2006. Volume 210, No. 1, July 2006. 164 PP. Contains article from P.146 to 161 with 1 map, 1 diagram and colour photos by Robert Clark. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Shipwreck at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina.

65497
BOUTIN, Emile
LES GRANDS NAUFRAGES DE L'ESTUAIRE: Le Saint-Philibert, le Lancastria, le Campbeltown et les autres
$55.00 AUD

Editions Rives Reines. Laval, France. 1992. 1st Ed. (6), 245, (5) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, 1 musical score, facsimile of documents, 8 maps and 23 headpieces), plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Eps: Lancastria. Cloth cover, dj. Name of previous owner at top of preliminary page, o/wise near fine French text. 22.7 x 15.5. 2909191036

Lancastria, 17 June 1940 sunk by Luftwaffe: 5000 to 7000 deaths. HMS Campbelltown and the U-Boat base at Saint Nazaire.

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

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

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

68405
BRADFORD, Ernle
THE STORY OF THE MARY ROSE
$10.00 AUD

The Mary Rose Trust / Hamish Hamilton. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 207 PP with numerous b/w and 19 colour illustrations (engravings, paintings, photos, plans, sketches, ..). Title-page: The "Henry Grace à Dieu". Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Stamps and markings of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on endpapers and title page. Endpapers reinforced at gutter. Very good reading copy. 25.3 x 19.5. 0241107687

The warship which sank without firing a shot, in an engagement against the French fleet. Her story and salvage.

72314
BRADFORD, Ernle
THE STORY OF THE MARY ROSE
$20.00 AUD

Book Club Assoc. London. 1982. Reprint. 207 PP with numerous b/w and 19 colour illust. (engravings, paintings, photos, plans, sketches, ..). Title-page: The "Henry Grace à Dieu". Hard cover, dj. Blind seal of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. . 25.3 x 19.5.

The warship which sank without firing a shot, in an engagement against the French fleet. Her story and salvage.

16313
BRADLEY, Eliza
AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERINGS OF MRS. ELIZA BRADLEY, The Wife of Capt. James Bradley of Liverpool, Commander of the Ship SALLY which was wrecked on the coast of Barbary in June, 1818
$25.00 AUD

Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. 1985. Reprint of ed. published in 1821. 99 PP with 13 illust. Fp: Bedouin Camp. Ep: In the Crows Nest. Hard cover, gilt engraved. Fine. 23.7 x 15.7.

Not considered a real narrative but the account of the wreck on the Coast of Barbary in June 1818, the capture by the Arabs, her six months of captivity, the suffering ... etc. captured the imagination of the public at the time.

65949
BRADY, Eunice
THE WALTER HOOD
$25.00 AUD

Shepp. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. V, 58 PP with 1 map & 12 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Copy signed by the author on title page. Near fine. 21 x 13.6. 0949250082

Wreck of the Aberdeen White Star Line ship Walter Hood on 26th April, 1870. The involvement of the author with the wreck.

62319
BREW, Steve
GREYCLIFFE - STOLEN LIVES
$30.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. limited to 1200 copies, No. 58 in the Roebuck Society series. XII, 211 PP with b/w illustrations (1 painting and 3 sketches by the author and 53 photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26 x 18.3. 0975133101

Sinking of the Sydney ferry Greycliffe by the Royal Mail Steamer Tahiti, 3rd November 1927.

65525
BREWSTER, Hugh & COULTER, Laurie
882 1/2 AMAZING ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TITANIC
$10.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin / Madison Press Book. Sydney / Toronto. 1998. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover. Few faint stains at lower part of fore outside edge. Very good. 27.5 x 21.5. 1864489383

The Titanic was 882 1/2 feet long. A fascinating look at the Titanic in the form of questions and answers.

62778
LE BREÜS, Alain
LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE DE LA MONIQUE - Le cabotage maritime entre Nouméa et les îles Loyauté (1950-1955)
$60.00 AUD

Fortunes de Mer Calédoniennes. Nouméa. 2011. 1st Ed. Preface by Maurice Pelissou. 93, (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Fine. 27.5 x 21.8. 978746636392

Coastal trader Monique "lost with all hands" (126 people perished) on 1st August, 1953, between the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia.

70539
BRIGNELL, Trevor L.
SOME SHIPWRECKS IN THE RANDWICK MUNICIPALITY
$25.00 AUD

Randwick & District Historical Society. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. No. 3 in the Historical Monograph series. 36 PP with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (wreck of the "Hereward" on front, location maps on back). Dedicatory note to previous owner at top of title page, signed by the author. Near fine. 21 x 15. 0958743170

Wrecks of the "Hereward" in 1898, "Tekapo" in 1899, "Malabar" in 1925...

18078
BROADWATER, John D.
YORKTOWN SHIPWRECK [in National Geographic Magazine]
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1988. Volume 173, No.6, June 1988. Includes article from P.804 to 823 with 1 plan, 2 maps, and 24 colour illust. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5. -ISSN 00279358

At the climax of the American Revolution, Lord Charles Cornwallis, facing combined United States and French forces, scuttled ships in the York River to prevent a naval assault on Yorktown, Virginia.

37364
BROWN, Joseph E.
THE GOLDEN SEA - Man's Underwater Adventures
$10.00 AUD

Cassell. London. 1974. 1st UK Ed. 214 PP with b/w or colour illustrations (diving location maps & photos). Cloth cover, dj (chipped). Near fine. 32 x 22. 0304295043

The incredible story of Man's adventures in the sea (treasures won and lost, sunken cities, dangers, etc...).

74755
BROXAM, Graeme
SHIPWRECKS OF TASMANIA'S WILD WEST COAST, Addenda & Errata
$10.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1996. Second Edition. 28 PP with 6 b/w photos. Pict. card cover. Signed by the author on the title-page. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 095865610X

Addenda and Errata to the First Edition corrected to 30 January 1996.

31125
BROXAM, Graeme & NASH, Michael
TASMANIAN SHIPWRECKS - Volume 1 1797-1899
$75.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed., No. 51 in the Roebuck series. Foreword by The Hon. John White. XVI, 342 PP with 7 maps and 87 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 25.8 x 17.2. 0958656150

37032
BROXAM, Graeme & NASH, Michael
TASMANIAN SHIPWRECKS - Volume 2 1900-1999
$100.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 2000. 1st Ed., No. 54 in the Roebuck series. XIV, 402 PP with 7 maps and 207 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 25.8 x 18.2. 0958656169

71173
BROXAM, Graeme & NASH, Michael
TASMANIAN SHIPWRECKS - Volume 1 1797-1899
$65.00 AUD

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

74782
BROXAM, Graeme & NASH, Michael
SHIPWRECKS OF KING ISLAND
$25.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2023. 1st Ed. XII, 76 PP with 2 charts, 4 maps and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Signed on the title page by Graeme Broxam (Co-author and Publisher). Fine. 26.5 x 21. 9780648725299

Shipwreck of: Cataraqui, in 1845 ... City of Melbourne, in 1852.

75874
BROXAM, Graeme & NASH, Michael
TASMANIAN SHIPWRECKS - Volume 1 1797-1899
$50.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed., No. 51 in the Roebuck series. Foreword by The Hon. John White. XVI, 342 PP with 7 maps and 87 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on front endpaper and title page. Faint sellotape marks on endpapers. Near fine. 25.8 x 17.2. 0958656150

74628
BRYCESON, Dave
THE TITANIC DISASTER, As reported in the British National Press April-July 1912
$30.00 AUD

Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1998. Reprint of the March 1997 original. 312 PP with facsimile of pages, photos, and articles from the daily newspapers of the time: "Daily Sketch" and "The Times". Laminated illustrated boards. A near fine copy. 27.8 x 21.4. 1852605790

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

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

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

58055
BURCHELL, David
MY WORLD, An Autobiography
$50.00 AUD

Author. Adelaide. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir James G. Hardy. VI, 253 PP with 3 plans and 61 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Fine. 25.5 x 18. 0731647572

Scuba diving. Diving on H.M.A.S. Perth sunk in 1942 in Sunda Strait...

72345
BURNS, Jason M.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MERCHANT SAILOR: The Archaeology and History of the Norwegian Ship "Catharine"
$45.00 AUD

Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers. New York. 2003. 1st Ed. in the Plenum series in Underwater Archaeology. Foreword by Roger C. Smith. XIV, 113 PP with 5 tables and 21 figures (including 2 sketch maps). Laminated boards, pictorial front. Fine (as new). 23.5 x 15.5. 9780306473890

Shipwreck off Pensacola Bay, Florida in August 1894.

71844
BYRON, Tom
SCUBA DIVERS GUIDE: WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS
$45.00 AUD

Aqua Sports Publications. Sydney. c. 1988. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 24 x 20. 9780949490056

Central Queensland coast : from Ayr and Old Reef to Broad Sound and Mystery Cay.

71269
CAIN, Emily
GHOST SHIPS - Hamilton and Scourge: Historical Treasures from the War of 1812
$20.00 AUD

Fountain Press. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 152 PP with b/w & colour illust. (documents, drawings, engravings, photos,..). FEP: Line drawing of the schooner Scourge. REP: Line drawings of the schooner Hamilton. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 27.3 x 21. 0863430902

Early schooner days on Lake Ontario. The Anglo-American war of 1812 on the lake. Foundering of Hamilton and Scourge. Discovery of the wrecks in 1975 and their photographic survey in 1982.

46327
CALDWELL, John
DESPERATE VOYAGE
$20.00 AUD

Readers Union. London. 1952. Reprint of the UK original published by Victor Gollancz. X, 172 PP with 3 drawings. Fp: The cutter Pagan.Eps: map of the Pacific, with 2 inset maps (Galapagos and Fiji). Hard cover. Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, o/wise a very good clean copy. 21 x 13.

A 1946 crossing of the cutter Pagan between Panama and Australia, where the author intended to meet his recently married Australian bride... Wrecked in Fiji.

19274
CAMERON, Robert
AFTERMATH OF AN AIR CRASH [in Australian Geographic, No. 6, April-June 1987]
$10.00 AUD

A.G.S. Sydney. 1987. Contains article between pages 86 and 95 with 1 map, 3 colour illust. & 13 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers a little foxed, o/wise very good. 27.8 x 21.

Undersea search and recovery in the Tasman sea of the wreck of a Pel-Air jet, that crashed outside Botany Bay after take off, on 10th October 1985.

39687
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Exhibition: THE EMPRESS OF ASIA (in The Australian Antique Collector No. 57)
$10.00 AUD

Antiques and Art in Australia. Sydney. 1999. Issue No. 57, July-December 1999. Contains article P. 166 and 167 with 1 drawing and 3 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Exhibition: The Forgotten Empress held at the Singapore History Museum, April to December 1999. The Empress of Asia: Built 1912 for Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Sunk 6 miles off Singapore on 5th February 1942 by Japanese dive-bombers. Wreck discovered in 1994.

64406
CARPENTER, Jon, PIGOTT, Louis & WHITWELL, Hugh
A WATCH FROM H.M.S. PANDORA (in Antiquarian Horology)
$15.00 AUD

The Antiquarian Horological Society. London. 1985. Volume Fifteen, No. Six, December 1995. Edited by Dr. J. M. Plowman. Extract: Pages 560 to 572 and 601 with 15 b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft wrappers, cover illustrated with Figure 8. Very good. 24.7 x 18.5.

15312
CHARLWOOD, D.E.
THE WRECK OF THE "LOCH ARD", End of a Ship, End of an Era
$15.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. X, 122 PP with 5 maps and a plan of rigging & sails, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0207123160

The wreck in 1878 on the Otway coast of Victoria. Two survivors: a young passenger & her saviour, an apprentice.

15845
CHARLWOOD, Don
SETTLERS UNDER SAIL
$10.00 AUD

Government Printing Office. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 1 map, 2 plans, 1 colour photo, and 43 bw illust. Inside back cover: tall ship. Pictorial soft cover. "Compliments Card" by Premier of Victoria loosely inserted. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8.

Published by the "Loch Ard Centenary Commemoration Committee". Sunk off on the reef of Mutton Bird Island, Cape Otway. .

17738
CHARLWOOD, Don
WRECKS & REPUTATIONS - The Loss of the Schomberg and Loch Ard
$15.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1977. 1st Ed. XIV, 190 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans (rig & sail) in text plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illust. Eps: The Great Circle Route. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 19.8 x 13.5. 0207130655

The end of two tall ships on the South-west coast of Victoria in 1855 and 1878.

51990
CHARLWOOD, Don
WRECKS & REPUTATIONS - The Loss of the Schomberg and Loch Ard
$10.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1978. Special Centenary Edition, reprint of the 1977 original. XIV, 190 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans (rig & sail), plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illust. Eps: The Great Circle Route. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19 x 13.2. 0207135479

The end of two tall ships on the South-west coast of Victoria in 1855 and 1878.

67975
CHARLWOOD, Don
WRECKS AND REPUTATIONS, The Loss of the Schomberg and Loch Ard
$20.00 AUD

Burgewood Books. Melbourne. 2000. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1988 (original of 1977). XIV, 194 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans (rig & sail), plus 8 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Signed by the author on title page. Near fine. 19 x 13. 0646280066

The end of two tall ships on the South-west coast of Victoria in 1855 and 1878.

47663
CHELMINSKI, Rudolph
THE WRECK OF THE AMOCO CADIZ (in Reader's Digest Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

Reader's Digest Services. Sydney. 1979. July 1979 issue. Contains article between P.162 and 189 with colour illustrations (1 map and inset,1 painting by Schaare and 3 photos). Soft cover. Near fine. 18.2 x 13.2.

The disaster which polluted a very productive coastline of the Northwest coast of Brittany. The reasons, and could disaster have been averted?

71689
CHRISTOPHER, Peter
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS 1802-1989 - A Data Base
$20.00 AUD

The Society for Underwater Historical Research. Adelaide. 1990. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 9 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0958800618

From the Aagot, 10th December 1907 to Zanoni and Zephyr.

22849
CLARK, Paul
SHIPWRECK SITES IN SOUTH-EAST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1838-1915 (in The Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology - Special Publication No.5)
$25.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide. 1990. 1st Ed., X, 140 PP with 81 illust. (location maps, maps, sketches and photos), and 52 tables "shipwrecks database". Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Shipwreck sites in the South-East of South Australia 1838-1915, by Paul Clark.

59920
CLUB MARINE
CLUB MARINE MAGAZINE - Volume 11, No. 2
$5.00 AUD

Club Marine Australia Ltd. Melbourne. 1996. Vol. 11, No.2, April / May 1996. Foreword by Paul Wilson. Edited by Andrew WOODLEY. 96 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.

Mystery of the Yongala, by Peter Stone. ... National Fishfinder, by Steve Starling.

59921
CLUB MARINE
CLUB MARINE MAGAZINE - Volume 11, No. 3
$5.00 AUD

Club Marine Australia Ltd. Melbourne. 1996. Vol. 11, No.3, June / July 1996. Foreword by Paul Wilson. Edited by Andrew WOODLEY. 96 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.

The Keppel Islands, by David Colfelt ... National Fishfinder, by Steve Starling.

36546
COCKCROFT, Barry
FATAL CALL OF THE RUNNING TIDE - Lifeboat Rescues and Sea Dramas
$10.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1995. 1st Ed. X, 198 PP, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w and 16 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 24.2 x 15.8. 034063524X

37537
COLLINS, Bruce E.
THE WRECK OF THE PENGUIN
$25.00 AUD

Steele Roberts. Wellington. 2000. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (maps & plans, drawings, paintings and photographs). Title page: the Penguin leaving Wellington. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 20 x 28. 1877228281

Wreck of the New Zealand Union Steam Ship Penguin, 12th February 1909, with loss of 72 lives.

36808
LE CONTOUR, Noël (editor)
LE HONFLEURAIS AUX SEPT NAUFRAGES - Jean Doublet 1655-1728
$10.00 AUD

L`Harmattan. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed. 302 PP, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738447457

Cod fisherman. Corsair with Jean Bart... Slaver to the West Indies

41046
COOTE, Jack (editor)
TOTAL LOSS
$20.00 AUD

Adlard Coles. London. 1985. 1st Ed. XIV, 322 PP with 2 location maps, 6 pictorial illustrations by Trevor Ridley, 6 b/w photos by Lt. Douglas Perkin of the USCG, and 16 charts. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5. 0229116841

A collection of 40 first-hand accounts of yacht losses at sea, with a summary of the lessons to be learned.

61316
COURSE, Captain A. G.
PIRATES OF THE EASTERN SEAS
$15.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1966. 1st Ed. (8), 263 PP with 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w illustrations. Hard cover. Light foxing mostly on page edges and top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.

Piracy from the Gulf of Aden to Japan including the more infamous names of Kidd, Avery, Eli Bloggs, the formidable Mrs. Ching, etc.. The efforts of those who strove to combat them.

20589
COWAN, Rex
CASTAWAY & WRECKED
$10.00 AUD

Duckworth. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 1 map, facsimile of newspapers & 54 b/w photos. Fp: Facsimile of newspaper clippings. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped), name of previous owner on ffep, o/wise fine. 28 x 22. 0715611453

Wrecks on the Scilly Islands and the Cornwall coasts.

74934
CRAINER, Stuart
ZEEBRUGGE: LEARNING FROM DISASTER - Lessons in Corporate Responsibility
$25.00 AUD

Herald Families Association. London. 1993. 1st Ed. XVI, 170 PP. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0951999508

6 March 1987: P&O-owned car ferry "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes off Zeebruge: 192 passengers and crew die.

34673
CRAMER, Max
TREASURES, TRAGEDIES AND TRIUMPHS OF THE BATAVIA COAST - A true story of discovery and adventure in the 20th Century
$35.00 AUD

Author / Scott Four Colour Print. Perth. 1999. 1st Ed. XVIII, 334 PP with 6 maps and 90 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 31 colour photos. Eps: Dutch chart. Pictorial card covers with light wear, otherwise fine. 21 x 14.8. 064638483X

Wreck of the barque "Stefano" lost in 1875. Wrecks of the "Batavia", "Zeewyk"... Dive with whale sharks... Discovery of French coins left by Louis François Marie Aleno de Saint-Aloüarn in 1772.

34674
CRAMER, Max
TREASURES, TRAGEDIES AND TRIUMPHS OF THE BATAVIA COAST - A true story of discovery and adventure in the 20th Century
$45.00 AUD

Max Cramer / Scott Four Colour Print. Perth. 1999. 1st Ed. XVIII, 334 PP with 6 maps and 90 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 31 colour photos. Eps: Dutch chart. Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note dated and signed by the author on verso of front endpaper. Fine. 22 x 15.6. 064638483X

Wreck of the barque "Stefano" lost in 1875. Wrecks of the "Batavia", "Zeewyk"... Dive with whale sharks... Discovery of French coins left by Louis Francois Marie Aleno de Saint-Alouarn in 1772.

69072
CRESSWELL, Captain W.R., R.N.
A FEDERAL AUSTRALIAN LIFE-SAVING SERVICE (in The Review of Reviews, 1896)
$40.00 AUD

The Review of Reviews for Australasia. Melbourne. 1896. Australasian edition of June 1896 edited by W. H. Fitchett. XII, (2), 539 to 652 PP. Contains article Page 574 to 581 with b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 painting and 5 b/w photos). Soft wrappers fragile and chipped. Ageing of paper with occasional foxing. Very good copy of a scarce item. 25.5 x 19.7.

A study of the South Australia Service.

65200
CREW, Gary & WILSON, Mark
THE CASTAWAYS OF THE CHARLES EATON
$20.00 AUD

Lothian Books. Melbourne. 2002. Juvenile edition. No pagination, 32 PP with colour illustrations by Mark Wilson. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5. 0734403437

Wrecked 15th August 1834 on Great Detached Reef, Great Barrier Reef.

35410
CURREY, John (editor)
AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES
$10.00 AUD

Cassell. Melbourne. 1973. Reprint of the 1972 original. Juvenile edition in the "Southern Cross" series. (6), 117 PP with 20 colour and 20 b/w illustrations by Don Angus. Pictorial laminated boards. Near fine. 25.6 x 19. 304939161

Voyage of Disaster (Batavia), by Bruce Edwards. The narrow escape (Endeavour), by Lynne Stronell... The wrong ship (Investigator), by K.A. Austin...

72295
DAGGETT, Charles & SHAFFER, Christopher
DIVING FOR THE GRIFFIN
$40.00 AUD

Weidenfeld & Nicholson. London. 1990. 1st Ed. XII, 178 PP with 4 maps & 1 plate, plus 16 pages with 1 chart & 31 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Paper ageing a little around edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 24 x 16. 0297810634

History of the English East India Company Marine Service, the four voyages of the East Indiaman Griffin, her sinking in 1761 and the recovery of her cargo in the late 1980's.

61320
DAWSON, Major A. J.
BRITAIN'S LIFE-BOATS - The Story of a Century of Heroic Service
$25.00 AUD

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1923. 1st Ed., with an Introduction by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and a Foreword by Joseph Conrad. XIII, 279 PP with 1 plan, plus the Introduction, 1 large folded chart and 32 pages with 82 b/w photos. Hard cover with wear around edges and light soiling, device on front cover (RNLI Flag). Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.6 x 14.2.

19571
DE LA CROIX, Robert
MYSTERIES OF THE PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD

The John Day Co. New York. 1957. 1st US edition. Translated from the French original by James Cleugh. 252 PP. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 21 x 14.

What happened to the Comte de La Pérouse. The whaler Essex sunk by a whale... The riddle of Amelia Earhart's last flight.

74479
DE LA CROIX, Robert
MYSTERIES OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1957. 1st illustrated edition. Translated from the French original by James Cleugh. 230 PP plus 12 pages with 18 b/w photos. Hard cover with light wear, top edge tinted. Light foxing around edges, half-title page miscut with corresponding tiny piece at bottom missing in margin of title page. Contents are near fine. 21 x 14.

What happened to the Comte de La Pérouse. The whaler Essex sunk by a whale... The riddle of Amelia Earhart's last flight.

75538
DE LA CROIX, Robert
A HISTORY OF PIRACY
$5.00 AUD

Manor Books. New York. 1978. Paperback edition. Translation from the French original and foreward by Michael Ross. 250, (6 publications) PP. Pictorial soft covers. Covers rubbed, ageing of paper, light foxing. Good reading copy. 17.7 x 10.5. 0532192109

Henry Morgan: Bloodstained Gold. William Kidd. ... Libertalia: a Republic of Vertuous Pirates.

76326
DE LA CROIX, Robert
MYSTERIES OF THE ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1960. 1st edition. Translated from the French original by Anne Carter. (8), 143 PP, plus 8 pages with b/w illustrations (2 pages of a newspaper, 6 portraits and 4 photos). Hard cover. Spine sunned and somewhat soiled. Light foxing around edges and on 2 leaves. Library label, number and stamp on front endpaper, otherwise contents in good condiion. 20.5 x 13.5.

Tristan Da Cunha. Juan Fernandez Archipelago. Kingdom of New France (carved in the Bismarck Archipelago). ...

70903
DE VARIGNY, M. C.
VOYAGE AUX ILES SANDWICH (Iles Hawaï), 1855 - 1869 (in Le Tour du Monde)
$70.00 AUD

L. Hachette / Le Tour du Monde. Paris. 1873. 4 instalments (livraisons 665, 666, 667 & 668) out of "Le Tour du Monde", Volume XXVI. 64 PP (209-272) with 38 wood-engravings: 2 maps, 4 headpieces and 32 text drawings (11 of them on full page). Inserted in a soft cover folder. Light foxing and some faint old watermarks. Contents clean and legible. French text. 30.2 x 21.5.

Voyage / Sojourn: 1855 to 1869.

52256
DEACON, Christine A. & Kevin
AUSTRALIA DOWN UNDER, Exploring Australia's Underwater World
$10.00 AUD

Doubleday. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 272 PP with 8 colour maps, 4 b/w illustrations & many colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 30 x 22. 0868242411

58259
DEAN, Martin, FERRARI, Ben, OXLEY, Ian, REDKNAP, Mark & WATSON, Kit
ARCHAEOLOGY UNDERWATER - The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice
$10.00 AUD

Nautical Archaeology Society. London. 1995. Reprint with corrections of the 1992 original. X, 332 PP with over 150 b/w illustrations (graphs, maps, drawings by Ben Ferrari, photos...). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 19. 1863132255

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).

41052
DILLON, Patrick
LOST AT SEA - An American Tragedy
$15.00 AUD

The Dial Press. New York. 1998. 1st Ed. (16), 267 PP with 2 plans. Eps: Map with detail of the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands. Hard cover, dj. Signed by the author on title page, "Autographed Copy" sticker on front of dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 24.2 x 16.2. 0385314213

Sinking of Americus and Altair, two crabbing vessels off Unalaska Island in February 1983. 14 dead. Investigation...

67560
DILLON, Patrick
LOST AT SEA - An American Tragedy
$5.00 AUD

Touchstone. New York. 2000. Reprint of the 1998 original. (16), 264, (8) PP with 2 plans. Pictorial soft covers a little worn around edges. Ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 14.0. 0684869098

Sinking of Americus and Altair, two crabbing vessels off Unalaska Island in February 1983. 14 dead. Investigation...

64387
DIOLE, Philippe
4,000 YEARS UNDER THE SEA, Excursions in Undersea Archaeology
$5.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1957. Paperback edition. 192 PP plus 8 pages with b/w photos and a map of the Mediterranean. Pict. soft covers a little browned. Paper ageing. Signature of previous owner on half-title page. Good. 17.8 x 11.

Detailed account of survey & searches in the Mediterranean: Dionysos, Mandia, Cherchel, Narbonne, Saint Tropez.

57066
DIVING
SCUBA DIVER (December 1987 / January 1988)
$10.00 AUD

Scuba Diver / Yaffa Publishing Group. Sydney. 1987. Bicentenary Special issue. Edited by Martin COLEMAN. 88 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27. 2 x 21.

Excavating HMS Sirius, with Graeme Henderson. Albany, a dive into W.A.'s deep south, by Jeff Mullins... Claws, Murray River Crayfish, by Attlia Bikscos...

57067
DIVING
SCUBA DIVER (August/September 1988)
$10.00 AUD

Scuba Diver / Yaffa Publishing Group. Sydney. 1988. August/September 1988 issue. Edited by Liz CONRAD. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27. 2 x 21.

The President's Power (wreck of President Coolidge, off Santo) / Vanuatu - for the thinking Diver, by Andrew Green. Seas of the Sunshine State. Oman - high voltage diving, by Roly Parsons...

57068
DIVING
SCUBA DIVER (February/March 1990)
$10.00 AUD

Scuba Diver / Yaffa Publishing Group. Sydney. 1990. February/March 1990 issue. Edited by Simon LANE. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27. 2 x 21.

No rest at "Wreck Reef" (wreck of Cato and HMS Porpoise of Matthew Flinders), by Frank Richards. Guam and Saipan, Micronesia.

57070
DIVING
SCUBA DIVER (August/September 1992)
$10.00 AUD

Scuba Diver / Yaffa Publishing Group. Sydney. 1992. August/September 1992 issue "Wreck Diving Special". Edited by Cathie HOLLOWAY & Cassie WELSH. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27. 2 x 21.

Scuba sites: Point Lonsdale, Victoria, by David King. Wrecks, by Max Gleeson, Andrew Green, David King, Mark Warwick

57071
DIVING
SCUBA DIVER (February/March 1994)
$10.00 AUD

Scuba Diver / Yaffa Publishing Group. Sydney. 1994. February/March 1994 issue. Edited by Cathie HOLLOWAY. 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27. 2 x 21.

Scuba sites: Lizard Island, by Cathie Holloway. Ningaloo Marine Park. Fiji's Luscious Isles, by Cassie Welsh.

57072
DIVING
SCUBA DIVER (June/July 1994)
$10.00 AUD

Scuba Diver / Yaffa Publishing Group. Sydney. 1994. June/July 1994 issue. Edited by Cathie HOLLOWAY. 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27. 2 x 21.

Scuba sites: Rottnest Island, by Peter and Margy Nicholas. Diving New Caledonia and Vanuatu, by Andrew Green and Cathie Holloway. Beyond Bali, by Ann Storie.

71779
DIXON, G. M.
FOR THOSE IN PERIL - The Lifeboatmen
$15.00 AUD

Minimax Books. Peterborough, UK. 1981. 1st Ed. 100 PP with b/w illudtrations (Line drawings by Malcolm Walker, maps, plans, photos...). Pictorial stiff covers with light wear. Near fine. 24.5 x 18. 0960791146

56937
DOAK, Wade
THE ELINGAMITE AND ITS TREASURE
$30.00 AUD

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1969. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Douglas Robb. 192 PP, plus 16 pages with 37 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of 3 Kings Islands and of the passage of Elingamite from Sydney to 3 Kings Islands. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Top edge tinted. Dust jacket has a repaired tear on rear and is now in a protective sleeve. An otherwise near fine copy. 22.4 x 14.7. 0340107774

The tragic shipwreck in November 1902 costing 45 lives and the story of the salvage of its treasure.

60616
DOBBS, Horace E.
CAMERA UNDERWATER - A Practical Guide to Underwater Photography
$10.00 AUD

The Focal Press. London. 1976. 3rd edition of the 1962 original. 204 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches and 45 photos). Hard cover, dj. Ex Library copy with 3 stamps on title page (recto and verso) and last page. Occasional foxing. Good reading / working copy. 23.5 x 16. 0240509323

21390
DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Henrietta
VOYAGE TO DISASTER - The Life of Francisco Pelsaert
$30.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1982. Reprint in the Australian Classics series, of the 1963 original. XVI, 318 PP with 2 maps in text plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illust. Fp: Title page of the Joost Hartgers 1648 edition of "Ongeluckige Voyagie van't Schip Batavia". Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.5. 0207148414

Covering his report to the Dutch East India Company and the wreck of the Batavia in 1629...

17615
DRAPER, Sarah
SHIPWRECKS
$15.00 AUD

National Maritime Museum. Greenwich. 1992. 1st Ed. in the Maritime Collections series. 32 PP with 9 bw and 45 colour illust. Pict. card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0948065133

Wrecks of the Mary Rose, the Spanish Armada, the Royal George...

72346
DROMGOOLE, Sarah (editor)
LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE: National and International Perspectives
$100.00 AUD

Kluwer Law International Ltd. London. 1999. 1st Ed. XX, 239, (5 blank) PP with 2 sketch maps and 4 graphs. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24.5 x 17.5. 9041197621

National Perspectives: Australia, by Bill Jeffery. China, by Porter Hozagland. France, by Gwenaëlle Le Gurun... Turkey by Janet Blake. UK, by Sarah Dromgoole. USA, by Ole Warner and Caroline M. Blanco. An International Perspective by Patrick J. O'Keefe.

36767
DURBIDGE, Ellie & COVACEVICH, Jeanette
NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND
$10.00 AUD

Stradbroke Island Management Organisation. Brisbane. 1981. 1st Ed. 168 PP with 35 figures and 142 b/w photos. Fp: Sand dunes, Main Beach. Pictorial soft cover rubbed with a few creases and a repaired tear, o/wise very good. 24 x 17.5. 0959398309

Natural environment: Flora and Fauna. Social environment: Aborigines, White settlement, shipwrecks, industries.

43344
DURUZ, Rosamund (editor)
LOCH ARD CENTENARY, Souvenir Booklet
$20.00 AUD

Heytesbury District Historical Society. Port Campbell, Vic. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 54 PP with 1 "Postmarker" and 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.2. 086825116X

Wreck of the Clipper Loch Ard, near Port Campbell, 1st June 1878. 2 survivors.

16336
DWYER, Barry & BUCHANAN, Neil
THE RESCUE OF ELIZA FRASER
$70.00 AUD

Dwyer & Buchanan. Noosa. 1986. 150th Anniversary Ed. IV, 50 PP with maps, sketches & photos. Pictorial soft covers (stapled) are a little browned around edges, with a few small soil spots. Previous owner's signature (Drury Clarke) on front cover plus his personal notes on the launching of the book stapled on inside rear cover. Signed by the author on the inside front cover, thanking Dr. Drury Clarke, then President of the Queensland Historical Society, for his launching of the publication. Contains 2 loosely inserted relevant newspaper articles. A very good copy. Scarce. 29.7 x 21. 0959078819

Rescue of Eliza Fraser, following the wreck of the "Stirling Castle" with 13 appendices for explanations.

32360
EASTLAKE, Keith
SEA DISASTERS, The Truth behind the Tragedies
$20.00 AUD

Greenwich Editions. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: Lakonia on fire. Title spread: Seawise University, formerly Queen Elizabreth, on fire in Hong Kong. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 28.7 x 23.6. 0862881498

Collision. Fire. Explosion. Human error. Weather and Mechanical failure.

17623
EATON, John P. & HAAS, Charles A.
TITANIC DESTINATION DISASTER, The Legends and the Reality
$20.00 AUD

P.S.L. Wellingborough. 1997. Reprint of the revised and expanded 1996 edition (original of 1987). 184 PP with 143 bw illust., plus 8 pages with 18 colour illust., 10 of them photographs. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 21.6 x 15.8. 1852605340

From construction and launching to the discovery of the wreck, and the exhibition with many of the salvaged artefacts.

36401
EDWARDS, Bernard
THE GREY WIDOW-MAKER
$15.00 AUD

London. 1990. Robert Hale. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0709041918

24 disasters at sea: Grosvenor East Indiaman - Her Majesty's troop-ship Birkenhead - Californian and Titanic... 236,000-tonne Liberian tanker Caribbean Breeze caught in 1985 by the Iran/Iraq conflict.

22875
EDWARDS, Hugh
L'ARCHIPEL DES FANTÔMES EN COLERE
$25.00 AUD

Editions France-Empire. Paris. 1989. 1st French edition translated by Jean Guillou & Monique Larue. 290 PP with 5 maps, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 24 x 15.2. 2704806357

20th century skin divers discover a 17th century shipwreck & treasure and reveal the final truth about the infamous Batavia mutiny.

37748
EDWARDS, Hugh
TREASURES OF THE DEEP - The Extraordinary Life and Times of Captain Mike Hatcher
$25.00 AUD

HarperCollins. Sydney. 2000. 2nd printing of the 2000 original. (8), 279 PP, plus 48 pages with 9 b/w and 80 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (Junk "Song Saigon"). Fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 0732258855

Fame with the discovery of the wreck of "Geldermalsen" lost on Admiral Stellingwerf Reef, and salvage of her Nanking cargo. Discovery of the wreck of "Tek Sing", a great junk lost in 1822 on Belvidere Rock, Gaspar Strait.

70503
EDWARDS, Hugh
ISLANDS OF ANGRY GHOSTS
$20.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1996. 11th reprint of the paperback edition of the 1966 original. (8), 208 PP with 1 map & inset on double-page. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 0207163170

A 20th century scuba diver discovers a 17th century shipwreck & treasure and reveal the final truth about the infamous Batavia mutiny.

74597
EDWARDS, Hugh
ISLANDS OF ANGRY GHOSTS
$10.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1991. Reprint of the paperback edition of the 1966 original. (8), 208 PP with 1 map & inset on double-page. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp "Production Sample" at bottom of half-title page, o/wise fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 0207163170

A 20th century scuba diver discovers a 17th century shipwreck & treasure and reveal the final truth about the infamous Batavia mutiny.

38742
ELDER, Michael
FOR THOSE IN PERIL - The Story of the Life-Boat Service
$20.00 AUD

John Murray. London. 1963. 1st Ed. XII, 135 PP with 1 plan, plus 1 map on double page and 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2.

63339
ERSKINE, Dr. Nigel
EAST OF INDIA, forgotten trade with Australia (in Signals Quarterly No. 103)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2013. No. 103, June-July-August 2013, edited by Jeffrey Mellefont. 68P. Contains 4 articles between pages 2 and 27, plus page 48 with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Lord Wellesley's Boatman). New. 30 x 23.

Early links between Australia and India. Forgotten Lives: Indian workers in 19th century Australia, by Michelle Linder. Shipwrecks east of India: three-masted ship Ferguson on Ferguson Reef, by Kieran Hosty. By the Sea, drinking Tea, by Mariko Smith.

30779
EVERETT, Marshall
STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC
$20.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1998. Reprint of the 1912 original, in the Conway Classics series. 320 PP with 30 drawings, plus 32 pages with 35 b/w illust. Fp: Capt. E.J. Smith, the Commander of the Titanic, who went down with his ship. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20.4 x 14.5. 0851777686

38236
EVERETT, Marshall
WRECK AND SINKING OF THE TITANIC - The Ocean's Greatest Disaster
$15.00 AUD

Castle Books. Edison, NJ., USA. 1998. Reprint of the 1912 original. 320 PP with 30 drawings, plus 32 pages with 35 b/w illust. Fp: Capt. E.J. Smith, the Commander of the Titanic, who went down with his ship. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20.4 x 14.5. 0785810110

34514
FAITH, Nicholas
MAYDAY
$10.00 AUD

London. 1998. Channel 4 Books. Reprint of the 1998 original. IX, 182 PP, plus 8 pages with 5 b/w and 12 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 15.7. 0752221736

The real story behind the world's worst maritime disasters.

34014
FARRINGTON, Karen
SHIPWRECKS
$20.00 AUD

Parkgate Books. London. 1999. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 139 b/w photos. Title spread: Wreck on the Skeleton Coast, Namibia, providing nesting site for local seabirds. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 31.3 x 23.7. 1902616138

52082
FARRINGTON, Karen
SHIPWRECKS
$20.00 AUD

Thunder Bay Press. San Diego, Ca. 2000. Reprint. 144 PP with 139 b/w photos. Title spread: Wreck on the Skeleton Coast, Namibia, providing nesting site for local seabirds. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 31.3 x 23.7. 1571451595

19665
FARRINGTON, Tony
RESCUE IN THE PACIFIC, A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm
$20.00 AUD

International Marine & McGraw-Hill. New York. 1996. 1st US Ed. XX, 273 PP with 1 map, 1 barometer graph & 4 weather maps, plus 10 pages with 19 bw photos. Eps: Location map & sequence of events. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 21.5 x 14. 070213674

A rogue storm during the Auckland - Tonga yacht race of June 1994. Foundering of 7 yachts. Rescue efforts by the Royal NZ Air Force, the Royal NZ Navy, the French Navy (Jacques Cartier) and two freighters.

41624
FERGUSSON, Bernard
CAPTAIN JOHN NIVEN
$10.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 127 PP. Title page: Sketch-map of New Zealand. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Occasional foxing, light musty smell, o/wise a good copy. 21.5 x 14. 0001921487

Biographical novel. Shipwrecked on Motu Uira, south of the South Island of New Zealand.

53372
FIDLER, Kathleen & MORRISON, Ian
WRECKS, WRECKERS AND RESCUERS
$15.00 AUD

Lutterworth Press. Guilford & London. 1977. 1st Ed. 124 PP with 7 maps and 20 line drawings. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Ex library copy, with stamps on title page (recto and verso) and last page. Lacks the free fly of front endpaper. Few pages lightly soiled. Good reading copy. 24 x 16. 0718821696

Viking, Mary Rose... Torrey Canyon.

69135
FLAYHART, William Henry III
PERILS OF THE ATLANTIC: Steamships Disasters, 1850 to the Present
$15.00 AUD

W.W. Norton & Co. New York. 2003. Advance Uncorrected Proof copy (without any illustrations). 357, (3 blank) PP. Soft cover. Sticker on front cover. Internally fine. 23.4 x 15.3.

Includes the wreck of the Arctic in 1854, the White Star liner Atlantic in 1873, the Ville du Havre, the Loch Earn, the Cunard liner Oregon, the steamship Rusland, Holland America's Veendam, the Titantic, Empress of Ireland, Lusitania, Morro Castle ....

58042
FOSTER, Dr. Leonie
THE WILD COAST WRECKS
$25.00 AUD

Heritage Victoria. Melbourne. 1996. 1st Ed. (6), 142 PP with 48 b/w illustrations (maps, sketches, photocopies and photographs). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.4 x 20.8. 0730686191

State of Victoria.

21420
FOWLES, John
SHIPWRECK, Photography by the Gibsons of Scilly
$10.00 AUD

Jonathan Cape. London. 1976. Reprint of the 1974 original. 48 Pages with 2 maps and 36 b/w photos. Title page : Glenbervie ashore. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 21 x 26. 0224010530

The pictorial records of the Gibson family of the Scillies, started in 1860, on tall ships & working boats, steamships & motor vessels.

21741
FOWLES, John
SHIPWRECK, Photography by the Gibsons of Scilly
$5.00 AUD

Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1975. 1st US edition of the 1974 UK original. 48 pages with 2 maps & 36 b/w photos. Title page : Glenbervie ashore. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 20.3 x 25.5. 0316290912

The pictorial records of the Gibson family of the Scillies, started in 1860, on tall ships & working boats, steamships & motor vessels.

21742
FOWLES, John
SHIPWRECK, Photography by the Gibsons of Scilly
$10.00 AUD

Jonathan Cape. London. 1979. Reprint of the 1974 original. 48 Pages with 2 maps and 36 b/w photos. Title page : Glenbervie ashore. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 26. 0224010530

The pictorial records of the Gibson family of the Scillies, started in 1860, on tall ships & working boats, steamships & motor vessels.

69307
FOWLES, John
SHIPWRECK, Photography by the Gibsons of Scilly
$5.00 AUD

Sphere Books Ltd. London. 1981. Reprint of the 1974 original. No pagination, 48 PP with 2 maps and 36 b/w photos. Title page : Glenbervie ashore. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 20.2 x 25.2. 0722136358

The pictorial records of the Gibson family of the Scillies, started in 1860, on tall ships & working boats, steamships & motor vessels.

70558
FRAME, Tom
HMAS SYDNEY
$10.00 AUD

Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2008. Reprint of the 1998 paperback edition (updated of the 1993 original). XVI, 412 PP with 3 figures (1 location map and 2 diagrams), plus 8 pages with 4 profiles and 14 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780733623639

Mysterious & controversial action between HMAS Sydney & the German auxiliary raider HSK Kormoran on 19th November, 1941. Search for both wrecks and their discovery in March 2008.

20233
FRANZEN, Anders
KRONAN, Remnants of a Warship's Past [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 175, No.4, 1989]
$5.00 AUD

N.G.S. Washington. 1989. April 1989. Includes article from P.438 to 465 with 1 map and 29 colour illustrations (photographs by Bill Curtsinger and paintings by John Berkey). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Sinking of the Swedish warship on 1st of June 1676, by a combined Danish-Dutch fleet off the coast of Öland Island, Sweden.

70153
FREDERICKSON, Arthur C. and Lucy F.
SHIPS AND SHIPWRECKS IN DOOR COUNTY, WISCONSIN - Volume II
$15.00 AUD

Authors. Frankfort, Michigan. 1963. 1st edition. 76 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 cartoon, 4 newspapers advertisements (page 74) and 72 photos (including Sturgeon Bay's waterfront at centrefold). Soft cover, illustrated front cover. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.3.

Door Peninsula, between Green Bay and western shores of Lake Michigan.

59787
FREMANTLE PORT AUTHORITY
A SUMMARY OF SHIPWRECKS IN AND AROUND PORT OF FREMANTLE, Western Australia (in Port of Fremantle Quarterly - Volume 5, No.1)
$20.00 AUD

Fremantle Port Authority. Fremantle. 1974. Spring - October 1974. 36 PP. Article by Denis Robinson from P.13 to 24 with 1 location map and 5 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 19.2.

Contains also: the Port of Melbourne (Seaports - Vital link in world trade - No. 4).

47185
GADDIS, Vincent
LES VRAIS MYSTERES DE LA MER
$20.00 AUD

Editions France-Empire. Paris. 1966. 1st French edition. Translated from the 1965 US original Invisible Horizons by R. Jouan. 299, (3) PP with 1 map on double page, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, dj (repaired closed tears). Few foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. French text. 19 x 14..

Mysteries at sea (islands, ship disappearances, shipwrecks...). Bermuda triangle and mystery ships.

63746
GALIPAUD, Jean-Christophe & JAUNEAU, Valerie
AU-DELA D'UN NAUFRAGE . Les Survivants de l'expédition Lapérouse
$55.00 AUD

IRD Editions / Actes Sud / Editions Errance. Nouméa. 2012. 1st Ed. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 9782877724883

Archaeology and Lapérouse expedition: underwater on the wrecks of Boussole and Astrolabe, and ashore for the survivors and their camps ...

47165
GAWRONSKI, J. H. G. (editor)
AMSTERDAM PROJECT - Jaarrapport van de Stichting VOC-SCHIP "AMSTERDAM" 1986/Annual Report of the VOC-SHIP AMSTERDAM Foundation, 1986
$25.00 AUD

Foundation VOC ship Amsterdam / Stichting VOC-schip Amsterdam. Amsterdam. 1987. 1st edition limited to 2000 copies. Report No. 3 by Foundation Voc Ship Amsterdam. (2),100, (10 advertisements) PP with tables and b/w illustrations (plates, drawings and plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Text in Dutch and English. 29.5 x 21. 9071690024

36509
GESNER, Peter
PANDORA - An Archaeological Perspective
$20.00 AUD

Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 2000. Updated reprint of the 1991 original. XII, 60 PP with b/w & colour illust. (maps, charts, paintings & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 21. 9780724244829

Pandora and its historical background on the last voyage, the wreck, its discovery & the excavation on it.

20203
GIBBS, James A.
PACIFIC GRAVEYARD
$15.00 AUD

Bindfords & Mort. Portland, Oreg. 1973. Second printing of the 3rd edition. 296 PP with b/w illust. (photos, maps & draw.). Eps: Shipwreck chart of this Pacific Graveyard. Pictorial soft cover. Covers a little rubbed with one crease. Faint foxing. Very good. 21.4 x 14. 0832302252

A narrative of shipwrecks where the Columbia river meets the Pacific Ocean.

37797
GIBBS, James A.
SHIPWRECKS OF THE PACIFIC COAST
$15.00 AUD

Binfords & Mort. Portland, Oregon. 1962. 2nd edition of the 1957 original. (8), 316 PP, plus 32 pages with 67 b/w photos. Eps: maps of the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington. Cloth cover, title and devices on front cover and spine, dj. Small chips to the dust jacket, ageing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.2.

40407
GIBBS, James A.
SHIPWRECKS OF THE PACIFIC COAST
$10.00 AUD

Binfords & Mort. Portland, Oregon. 1962. 2nd edition of the 1957 original. (8), 316 PP, plus 32 pages with 67 b/w photos. Eps: maps of the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington. Cloth cover, title and devices on front cover and spine, dj (price-clipped). Slight insect damage to the dust jacket. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.2.

68172
GIBBS, James A.
SHIPWRECKS OF THE PACIFIC COAST
$20.00 AUD

Binfords & Mort. Portland, Oregon. 1971. 2nd printing of the 1962 edition (original 1957). (8), 316 PP, plus 32 pages with 67 b/w photos. Eps: maps of the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington. Cloth cover, title and devices on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Repaired tear at top of the dust jacket. Very good copy. 22.2 x 14.2.

17737
GIBBS, Jim
DISASTER LOG OF SHIPS
$5.00 AUD

Bonanza Books. New York. c. 1978. 1st reprint (a) of the 1971 original. 176 PP with b/w illustrations. Fp: Passenger liner La Jenelle before & after her shipwreck. Hard cover, cloth spine. Signature of previous owner on title page. Very good. 27.2 x 21.

A pictorial story of shipwrecks along the West Coast of North America, from the Mexican border to Alaska.

20670
GIBBS, Jim
DISASTER LOG OF SHIPS
$10.00 AUD

Bonanza Books. New York. c. 1978. 3rd Bonanza reprint (c) of the 1971 original. 176 PP with b/w illustrations. Fp: Passenger liner La Jenelle before & after her shipwreck. Hard cover, cloth spine, dust jacket has a few ships. Faint foxing. Very good. 27.2 x 21. 0517169827

A pictorial story of shipwrecks along the West Coast of North America, from the Mexican border to Alaska.

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.

17242
GIBSON, F. (editor)
THE SAVAGE SEA, Photographed by the Gibsons of Scilly
$15.00 AUD

Author. St. Ives, Cornwall. c. 1980. 1st Ed. 60 PP with 8 colour and 56 bw photos. Pictorial soft cover. Previous owner's signature on first page and his stamp on the inside of front and back cover, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 20.8 x 29.5.

Dramatic photographs of stricken ships. From the Petrellen wrecked at Mount's Bay in 1885 to the stranding of the Ben Asdale at Falmouth in 1978.

71563
GILLIS, Richard
A SEA MISCELLANY OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY
$15.00 AUD

Harvey Barton. Bristol. 1968. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w illust. throughout. Pictorial card covers with a little insect damage/rubs, mostly on back cover, o/wise contents are fine. 21 x 14.

17598
GLEESON, Max
THE VANISHED FLEET OF THE SYDNEY COASTLINE
$15.00 AUD

Author. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. 168 PP with 37 b/w and 22 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17. 0646136712

The events surrounding the loss of fifteen ships wrecked on the Sydney or Illawarra Coast. Woniora in 1882, Undola in 1918, Malabah in 1931, Birchgrove Park in 1956.

69850
GLEESON, Max & ELLIOTT, Mae
S.S YONGALA, Dive to the Past
$20.00 AUD

Turton & Armstrong. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 80 PP (2), with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Map of North Qld. coast. Hard cover, dj. Inscription on verso o FFEP, light foxing, o/wise a very good clean copy. 21.5 x 15. 0908031319

History of the Yongala, built 1903, and wrecked in March 1911 off Cape Bowling Green with 120 lives lost. Diving on the wreck...

73189
GODARD, Philippe & STEPHENS, Phillida
THE FIRST AND LAST VOYAGE OF THE BATAVIA
$40.00 AUD

Abrolhos Publishing. Perth. 1993. 1st Ed. 332 PP with over 400 b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, title engraved on spine & front cover, dj. Foxing on endpapers and prelim pages and on top outside page edges, o/wise near fine. 28.7 x 22. 0646105191

Construction, V.O.C. specifications, the voyage, shipwreck, mutiny,... to modern discovery of the wreck.

17611
GODDIO, Franck
SAN DIEGO, An Account of Adventure, Deceit, and Intrigue [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 186, No.1, 1994]
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1994. Volume 186, No.1, July 1994. Includes article from P.34 to 57 with 1 map & 27 colour illust. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

Sea battle of the 14 December 1600, between the Dutch vessels Mauritius and Eendracht and the Spanish San Diego and San Bartolomé off the coast of Luzon. Dives and excavations on the wreck of the San Diego began in 1992.

51788
GODDIO, Franck & GUYOT DE SAINT MICHEL, Evelyne Jay
GRIFFIN, on the Route of an Indiaman
$75.00 AUD

Periplus. London. 1999. 1st English edition. Translated from the French original by Ludwig von Bomhard and Leonard Harrow. XVI, 351 PP with 10 maps, 11 diagrams, 47 b/w or colour illustrations, 145 photos and 70 plates. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj, ribbon page-marker. Fine. Large format: 34.52 x 24.5. 1902699009

The Route to India, the Griffin, from shipwreck to excavation, the Wreck, from reality to the documents, the history of a cargo, . ...

44609
GREE, Alain
DANS LES GRIFFES DE L' OCEAN - Naufrages et Drames de la Mer, Volume 1
$10.00 AUD

Editions Gallimard. Paris. 1987. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, drawings and period engravings). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. French text. 24 x 16. 2070602354

15 narratives on shipwrecks and dramas at sea.

44610
GREE, Alain
LES SURVIVANTS DE L' INFORTUNE - Naufrages et Drames de la Mer, Volume 2
$10.00 AUD

Editions Gallimard. Paris. 1988. 1st Ed. 232 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, drawings and period engravings). Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on preliminary page blocked with white out. Very good. French text. 24 x 16. 2070602478

14 narratives on shipwrecks and dramas at sea.

17617
GREEN, Jeremy
LOOKING FOR KHUBILAI KHAN (in Geo Magazine Volume 5, No.4, December 1983-January 1984)
$10.00 AUD

Australasia's Geographical Magazine. Sydney. 1984. Includes article from P.58 to 69 with 1 map and 14 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 23 x 20.3.

Applying a recently developed colour sonar system which detects large objects buried under sand, Japanese maritime archaeologists are probing Japan's Bay of Imari for Khubilai Khan's sunken fleet.

33569
GREEN, Jeremy (editor)
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Papers from the First Southern Hemisphere Conference on ...
$15.00 AUD

Ocean's Society of Australia. Melbourne. 1977. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illust. (maps, graphs, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.1 x 15.7. 0868959645

Maritime archaeology in Europe, New Zealand & Australia: legislation, conservation & preservation.

49804
GREEN, Jeremy, GAINSFORD, Matthew & STANBURY, Myra (editors)
DEPARTMENT OF MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY, WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MARITIME MUSEUM - A compendium of projects, programmes and publications 1971-2003
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 2004. 1st Ed. Special Publication No. 9. Foreword by Graeme Henderson. XII, 133 PP with tables, 2 b/w and 55 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.8 x 16.8. 1876465301

75964
GREENOP, Frank S.
COAST OF TRAGEDY
$10.00 AUD

K.G. Murray. Sydney. 1944. 1st Ed. 256 PP. Hard cover, cloth spine. Renewed endpapers, otherwise a very good clean copy. 18.8 x 12.

26 tales of the sea, on the Australian coast and the bordering seas. Wreck of the Trial, mutiny on the Bounty, Seringapatam, the whaler turned Man-of-War, Ben Boyd's empire...

57540
GREENWALD, Michael
SURVIVOR
$20.00 AUD

Blue Horizons Press. San Diego. 1995. Revised 4th printing of the 1989 original, edited by Steve Callahan and Douglas Robertson. XXIV, 600, (6) PP with 160 b/w illustrations. Fp: drawing by Steve Callahan. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.3 x 18.3. 0931297036

Account of survival after being shipwrecked on an Alaskan island. A manual and required reading for all those who go to sea.

40946
GROCOTT, Terence
SHIPWRECKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY & NAPOLEONIC ERAS
$25.00 AUD

Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, Pa. 1997. 1st US edition. XVI, 430 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0811715337

Chronicle of maritime tragedies (from contemporaneous publications) listing 1500 ships and covering: the Revolutionary Era 1793-1801, the Era of the Peace of Amiens 1801-1803, and the Napoleonic Era 1803-1816.

71692
GROCOTT, Terence
SHIPWRECKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY & NAPOLEONIC ERAS
$20.00 AUD

Caxton Editions. London. 2002. Reprint of the 1997 original, by Chatham Publishing. XVI, 430 PP. Hard cover, laminated pictorial boards, dj. Light foxing on outside edges. Fine. 24 x 16. 1840671645

Chronicle of maritime tragedies (from contemporaneous publications) listing 1500 ships and covering: the Revolutionary Era 1793-1801, the Era of the Peace of Amiens 1801-1803, and the Napoleonic Era 1803-1816.

41304
GROSVENOR, Melville Bell
WHITE MIST CRUISES TO WRECK-HAUNTED ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON [in National Geographic Magazine]
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1967. Volume 132, No.3, September, 1967. Contains article between P.378 and 419 with 1 plan, 1 map, 4 b/w and 45 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.

Graveyard to over 600 ships. French outpost south of Newfoundland..

19032
GROUSHKO, Michael
LOST TREASURES OF THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD

Multimedia Books. London. 1993. Reprint of 1986 original. 192 PP with bw and colour illust. Fp: Research in Egypt. Half title page: Coins on sea floor. Eps: Battle at sea. Laminated pict. boards, dj. Fine. 29.5 x 23.2. 185375126X

Buried treasures of pirates, treasures of sunken ships...

18582
GUEROUT, Max
THE WRECK OF THE C.S.S. ALABAMA, Avenging Angel of the Confederacy [in National Geographic Magazine]
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1994. Volume 186, No. 6, December 1994. Contains article P. 66 to 83 with 1 map, 1 b/w photo and 19 colour illustrations by Rod M. Farb. Pictorial soft cover. New. 25.4 x 17.5.

On the wreck of the Confederate Alabama, sunk by the U.S.S. Kearsarge off Cherbourg, Normandy.

71138
GUEROUT, Max & GRAN
"ESCLAVES OUBLIES", Le Naufrage de l'Utile sur l'ïle Tromelin en 1761
$10.00 AUD

GRAN / Groupe de Recherche en Archéologie Navale. Paris. 2004. 11 PP (printed on recto only) plus 10 PP. Plastic covers, clear front, spiral bound. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Slave ship wrecked in 1761, on Tromelin Island, a dependency of France in the Western Indian Ocean.

72969
HALL, Thomas
THE T.W. LAWSON - The fate of the world's only Seven-Masted Schooner
$70.00 AUD

The History Press. Charleston, S.C. 2006. 2006 edition of the 2005 History Press original. 153, (7) PP with b/w illustrations (maps, drawings, engravings, paintings, photos and portraits... ). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2. 9781596292086

35819
HALLS, Chris
AUSTRALIA'S WORST SHIPWRECKS
$10.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1978. 1st Ed. 158 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22 x 14. 0727009494

Zuytdorp, Star of Greece, Quetta, ...

37052
HAMILTON-PATERSON, James
THE GREAT DEEP - The Sea and its Thresholds
$20.00 AUD

Random House. New York. 1992. 1st US edition. (14), 300, (4) PP with 7 b/w illust. on full page. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16.5.

Charts and naming - Islands and boundaries - Reefs and seeing - Wrecks and death... Pirates and nomads (in the Sulu Archipelago).

72520
HANSON, Neil
THE CUSTOM OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD

Doubleday. London. 1999. 1st Ed. 331 PP, plus 8 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Cover of "The Graphic", 20th September 1884. Pictorial card cover. Address of previous owner at top corner of title page. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.4 x 15.5. 9780385601153

Voyage of the Yacht "Mignonette" bound from Falmouth to Sydney. Shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean... A shocking true tale of shipwreck, murder and the last taboo.

64293
HARDY, A. C.
WRECK S.O.S. - A story of how ships are wrecked, how they are repaired and what exists to save them
$40.00 AUD

Crosby Lockwood. London. 1944. 1st Ed. 147 PP with 2 pages of graphs & 9 pages of line drawings, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Fp: "A salvage steamer at work". Orig. blue cloth cover, gilt title spine, dust jacket (price-clipped). Dust jacket has a few nicks, chips, book has a little light foxing and ageing of paper. An otherwise near fine copy and scarce in this condition. 21.5 x 14.

70074
HARRIS, John
WITHOUT TRACE - The Last Voyages of Eight Ships
$10.00 AUD

Guild Publishing. London. 1988. Reprint of the 1981 original. (10), 244 PP with 7 maps, plus 8 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Eps: Mappemonde with location of the 8 disappearances. Hard cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine, dj. Ageing and foxing of paper on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 16.

The Erebus and Terror of the Franklin Expedition, the Waratah vanishing between Durban and Cape Town, the Joyita mystery in 1955 between Samoa and Fiji,...

76312
HARVEY, Peter
THE EARLIEST LOCATED STEAMSHIP WRECK IN AUSTRALIA - Paddle Steamer "CLONMEL"
$30.00 AUD

Victoria Archaeological Survey / Planning and Environment. Melbourne 1985. April 1985 edtion. (1), 45 PP (typescript on recto only), plus 16 b/w plates for 7 figures and 10 photos. Soft covers. Very good. 30 x 21.3.

Report on the conditions of the wreck of the steamer lost on 1st January 1841 on a sandbar off Port Albert.

75334
HEALEY, Tim
THE WORLD'S MOST MYSTERIOUS PLACES
$15.00 AUD

The Reader's Digest Association. Sydney. 1996 1st Australian edition, in "The Earth, Its Wonders, Its Secrets" series. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial boards. Fine. 29.8 x 23.5. 0864389612

Lost Realms, Fabled Treasures: ... Nam Madol, Pohnpei / Oak Island, Canada ... Strange Relics: Easter Islands. Ancient of Days: Angkor, Cambodia.

19273
HENDERSON, Graeme
THE WRECK OF THE SIRIUS [in Australian Geographic, No. 29, January-March 1993]
$15.00 AUD

A.G.S. Sydney. 1993. Contains article pages 100 to 117 with 1 map, 2 colour illustrations & 26 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

Wrecked on 19th March 1790, Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island. Also includes Tasmania's Overland Track, From Cradle to Narcissus, by Howard Whelan, and includes a large folded poster with the map and information on the history, etc.

42283
HENDERSON, Graeme
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA
$30.00 AUD

University of W.A. Press. Perth. 1986. 1st Ed. IX, 197 PP with 65 b/w photos & drawings. Fp: Divers on the platform of a scuttled whale chaser. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on top corner of front endpaper. Name of 8 early wrecks added by previous owner in chapter 3. Foxing spots on first and last leaves, o/wise a near fine copy. 24 x 17.5. 0855642416

A comprehensive account of archaeological resources in Australia.

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

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

58006
HENDERSON, Graeme
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY IN AUSTRALIA
$30.00 AUD

University of W.A. Press. Perth. 1986. 1st Ed. IX, 197 PP with 65 b/w photos & drawings. Fp: Divers on the platform of a scuttled whale chaser. Hard cover, dj. Ex-Library copy with stamps and marks on rear endpaper, o/wise a nice clean copy. 24 x 17.5. 0855642416

A comprehensive account of archaeological resources in Australia.

62086
HENDERSON, Graeme
THE WRECK OF THE "ELIZABETH"
$20.00 AUD

Australian Society for Historical Achaeology. Sydney. 1973. 1st edition limited to 600 numbered copies (No.282 / 600). No. 1 in the "Studies in Historical Archaeology" series. X, 53 PP with 10 plates & 14 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21.5 x 14. 0909797013

The riddle of the wreckage found off Cottesloe, to the naming of the wreck.

37127
HENDERSON, Graeme (editor)
INDIAN OCEAN WEEK 1997 - PROCEEDINGS
$20.00 AUD

Western Australian Maritime Museum. Fremantle. 1998. 1st Ed. XX, 100 PP with 4 figures and 7 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.9. 0730712222

17 papers papers presented in September 1997. Early pilots in Muslim waters, by Rear Admiral François Bellec... The research and locating of the AE2, by Selcuk Kolay... Maritime rhetorics, tourism and the Australian National Maritime Museum...

65194
HENDERSON, Graeme & Kandy-Jane
UNFINISHED VOYAGES, Western Australian Shipwrecks, 1851 - 1880
$55.00 AUD

University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 1988. 1st Ed. XVIII, 308 PP with 28 maps & location maps & 43 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover & spine, dj. Dust jacket with small repaired closed tear and in a protective sleeve. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, otherwise near fine. Oblong: 18.7 x 25.5. 0855642823

66095
HENDERSON, Graeme & STANBURY, Myra
THE SIRIUS - Past and Present
$30.00 AUD

Collins. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 168 PP with tables, 5 b/w & 30 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Title page with dedicatory note dated and signed by Myra Stanbury, co-author. Fine. 19.7 x 13. 0732224470

The Baltic trading ship Berwick, then Sirius of the first fleet, shipwrecked on Norfolk Island. Diving expeditions and preservation of artifacts.

74223
HENDERSON, Graeme, DE HOOP, Robert & VIDUKA, Andrew
MISADVENTURES IN PARADISE - Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island during the Dutch Era
$65.00 AUD

University of Western Australia Publishing. Perth. 2020. 1st Ed. Introduction in "The Oceans Institute Monograph" series, by Peter Veth. XII, 242 PP with over 74 b/w or colour figures. Stiff covers, pictorial front. New. 23.3 x 15.5. 9781760802301

36833
HENDERSON, James A.
PHANTOMS OF THE TRYALL
$35.00 AUD

St George Books / W.A. Newspapers Ltd. Perth. 1993. 1st Ed. XII, 193 PP with 2 maps of the last voyage of the Tryall 1622 and 27 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 15.2. 0867780533

Documented account of Australia's first shipwreck, the English East India Company's vessel Tryall in 1622 off the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia's north-west. The remains discovered in 1969 but later devastated by the 'Gelignite Buccaneer'. The turbulent story of the battle to save Australia's historic wrecks.

71690
HENDERSON, James A.
MAROONED, The Wreck of the Vergulde Draeck and the Abandonment and Escape from the Southland of Abraham Leeman in 1658
$55.00 AUD

St. George Books. Perth. 1982. XIV, 218 PP with b/w illust. throughout (maps, sketches, photos...). Eps. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Name of previous owner on half-title page, o/wise near fine. 22.5 x 15. 0867780118

After the wreck of the "Vergulde Draeck", a search party of the rescue ship "Waeckende Boey" is marooned on Green Island and has to reach Batavia in a leaking boat.

70283
HETHERINGTON, Roy M.
THE WRECK OF H.M.S. ORPHEUS, New Zealand's Worst Sea Disaster
$20.00 AUD

Cassell. Auckland. 1975. Reprint of the 1968 original. XVI, 158 PP with 1 map & 24 bw illust. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with tiny chips. Faint foxing. Brief note on front endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy. 22.4 x 14.8. 0726937037

The most tragic shipwreck in New Zealand waters, 7th Feb. 1863, Manukau Harbour: loss of 189 from a complement of 258. Appendix with 58 pages on wrecks in N.Z.

69075
HICKLING, Vice Admiral Harold
ONE MINUTE OF TIME - The Melbourne - Voyager Collision
$20.00 AUD

Reed. Sydney. 1965. 1st Ed. 235 PP with 9 diagrams, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w photos. Fp: The mariners' compass. Eps: Interpretation of events with map reconstructing the collision. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.

10 February 1964: collision between the destroyer H.M.A.S. Voyager and the aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Melbourne.

66945
HILL, Chris
LORD HOWE ISLAND: South Pacific paradise on our doorstep (in Australian Geographic No. 28, October-December 1992)
$10.00 AUD

A.G.S. Sydney. 1992. Contains article pages 32 to 53 with 2 maps, 2 b/w and colour 36photos, plus large folded map of "Lord Howe Island". Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

30723
HOEHLING, A. A.
EPICS OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD

Contemporary Books. Chicago. 1977. 1st Ed. VI, (2), 228 PP, plus 8 pages with 20 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Fine. 23.5 x 15.8 0809281295

Cruise of the Alabama - The ordeal of William Bligh - Why did they sink the Lusitania ...

15933
HOEHLING, A. A. & Mary
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LUSITANIA
$5.00 AUD

Quality Book Club / Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1957. 1st UK edition of the 1956 US original. VIII, 184 PP plus 16 pages with 22 b/w illust. Hard cover, title and libary number on spine (dulled) but no stamps inside. Good reading copy. Image shows title-page. 22.2. x 14.8.

Chronicle of the last days of this Atlantic liner, of her crew & passengers up to her torpedo sinking on May 7 1915 off the coast of Ireland. Loss of 1198 lives (124 of them American). The experiences of the survivors, the rescue..

44255
HOEHLING, A. A. & Mary
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LUSITANIA
$10.00 AUD

Quality Book Club / Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1957. Reprint of the 1957 UK edition. VIII, 184 PP, plus 16 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, title on spine (dullled). Light foxing, o/wise a very good clean copy. Image shows title-page. 22.2. x 14.8.

Chronicle of the last days of this Atlantic liner, of her crew & passengers up to her torpedo sinking on May 7 1915 off the coast of Ireland. Loss of 1198 lives (124 of them American). The experiences of the survivors, the rescue..

55912
HOFFER, William
SAVED! The Story of the Andrea Doria - the Greatest Sea Rescue in History
$5.00 AUD

Pan. London. 1981. 1st paperback edition of the 1980 UK edition. 224 PP with 1 diagram, 1 map and 3 sketch-plans, plus 86 pages with 21 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing. Very good. 17.7 x 11 0330262327

The collision between the Italian liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish liner Stockholm off Nantucket Island in 1956.

50216
HOGARTH, Christine
SHIPWRECK, Discoveries from our Earliest Shipwrecks 1622-1797
$10.00 AUD

International Cultural Corporation of Australia Ltd. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed., with a foreword by R. J. L. Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia. 51 PP with 4 location maps,12 b/w & 60 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Invitation to the official opening of this exhibition, by Vice Admiral M. W. Hudson, Chief of Naval Staff, loosely inserted. Fine. 27.4 x 22. 0642123497

The great seafaring saga out of which Australia emerged as a nation. Written in conjunction with the exhibition Shipwreck.

66036
HOGARTH, Christine
SHIPWRECK, Discoveries from our Earliest Shipwrecks 1622-1797
$5.00 AUD

International Cultural Corporation of Australia Ltd. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed., with a foreword by R. J. L. Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia. 51 PP with 4 location maps,12 b/w & 60 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.4 x 22. 0642123497

The great seafaring saga out of which Australia emerged as a nation. Written in conjunction with the exhibition Shipwreck.

44635
HOGARTH, Christine (compiler)
NAVIGATORS AND SHIPWRECKS - Australia's Heritage in Stamps
$5.00 AUD

Australia Post. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed., Book 2 in the Australian Bicentennial Collection. 36 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (maps, charts, engravings, painting photos and images of stamps). Title page: Silver plate from the wreck of the Batavia. Fp: Detail from the map: Mar del Sur, Mar Pacifico, 1622. Pictorial soft cover. Booklet without the stamp collection. Fine. 25 x 25. 0642079013

47136
HOGARTH, Christine (compiler)
NAVIGATORS AND SHIPWRECKS - Australia's Heritage in Stamps
$10.00 AUD

Australia Post. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed., Book 2 in the Australian Bicentennial Collection. 36 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (maps, charts, engravings, painting photos and images of stamps), plus stamp folder in pocket inside front cover. Title page: Silver plate from the wreck of the Batavia. Fp: Detail from the map: Mar del Sur, Mar Pacifico, 1622. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 25. 0642079013

30237
HOLMAN, Gordon
CARLSEN OF THE "FLYING ENTERPRISE"
$30.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1952. 1st Ed. No pagination, 32 PP with 76 b/w photos. Inside front cover: track of the "Flying Enterprise". Pictorial card cover. Spine lightly rubbed. Near fine. Scarce. 21.5 x 14.

Shifting of her pig-iron cargo, listing, towing and ultimately foundering of this vessel of Isbrandtsen Lines.

66494
HOOK, Fiona, PATERSON, Alistair & SOUTER, Corioli (editors)
Program and Abstracts of the 2005 Conference "THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF TRADE & EXCHANGE"
$30.00 AUD

University of Western Australia & Western Australia Maritime Museum. Perth & Fremantle. 2005. October 2005 edition. 94 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Minimal scoring on 5 pages, o/wise near fine. 29.2 x 21. 1740521250

16315
HORDER, Mervyn
ON THEIR OWN - SHIPWRECKS & SURVIVALS
$10.00 AUD

Duckworth. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 140 PP with 12 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0715610163

Shipwreck narratives from all ages (St. Paul to WWII) and climes (Spitzberg to the South Seas).

52925
HOSTY, Kieran
THE MELANCHOLY WRECK OF THE DUNBAR (in Signals No. 79)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2007. No. 79, June-August 2007. 48 PP. Contains article pages 34 to 39 with 1 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

Wrecked off Sydney Heads, August 1857.

69498
HOSTY, Kieran
VASA 1628, Strange Fate of a King's Warship (in Signals No. 57)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2001. Issue No. 57, December 2001 - February 2002. 40 PP. Contains article pages 25 to 28 with 1 b/w and 9 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Exhibition held 15 November 2001 to 27 January 2002 on her fate in 1628 ... her remarkable salvage and restoration.

65279
L'HOUR, Michel & VEYRAT, Elisabeth
LA MER POUR MEMOIRE - Archéologie sous-marine des épaves Atlantiques
$30.00 AUD

Somogy éditions d'Art & Buhez. Paris. 2005. 1st edition. Forewords by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Jean-Luc Massy & Eric Morin. 368 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Rocky landscape off Brittany. REP: Location map and map of French Brittany and Normandy. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and spine. French text. Fine. 29 x 25.5. 2850568317

66702
L'HOUR, Michel & VEYRAT, Elisabeth
UN CORSAIRE SOUS LA MER: Les épaves de la Natière, Archéologie sous-marine à Saint-Malo - Volume 2: Campagne de Fouille 2000
$35.00 AUD

Edition Adramar. Saint Malo. 2001. 1st edition. Volume 2: 108 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, maps, plans and photos) and 8 colour plates with 1 drawing and 37 photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.5 x 21.2. 29511562411

66703
L'HOUR, Michel & VEYRAT, Elisabeth
UN CORSAIRE SOUS LA MER: Les épaves de la Natière, Archéologie sous-marine à Saint-Malo - Volume 3: Campagne de Fouille 2001
$35.00 AUD

Edition Adramar. Saint Malo. 2002. 1st edition. Volume 3: 108 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, maps, plans and photos) and 8 colour plates with 1 chart, 4 drawing and 41 photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.5 x 21.2. 2951156242X

66704
L'HOUR, Michel & VEYRAT, Elisabeth
UN CORSAIRE SOUS LA MER: Les épaves de la Natière, Archéologie sous-marine à Saint-Malo - Volume 4: Campagne de Fouille 2002
$35.00 AUD

Edition Adramar. Saint Malo. 2003. 1st edition. Volume 4: 132 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, maps, plans and photos) and 8 colour plates with 1 plan and 38 photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.5 x 21.2. 29511562438

33166
HOWARTH, Patrick
LIFEBOAT - In Danger's Hour
$20.00 AUD

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

Story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, founded in 1824.

65973
HUDSON, Kenneth & NICHOLLS, Ann
THE BOOK OF SHIPWRECKS
$5.00 AUD

Macmillan. London. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 170 PP with 3 plans of ships & 11 maps, plus 64 pages with 101 b/w illustrations. Hard cover. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper and title page. Remainder mark on bottom outside edge. Very good. 24 x 16. 0333220927

Record of over 1500 ships / sea disasters from around the world from about 2500 BC to the present.

68115
HUDSON, Kenneth & NICHOLLS, Ann
THE BOOK OF SHIPWRECKS
$10.00 AUD

Macmillan. London. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 170 PP with 3 plans of ships & 11 maps in text plus 64 pages with 101 bw illust. Hard cover, dj. Stamp of "University of Tasmania" / "Australian Maritime College" on front endpaper and title page. Very good. 24 x 16. 0333220927

Record of over 1500 ships / sea disasters from around the world from about 2500 BC to the present.

69778
HUDSON, Kenneth & NICHOLLS, Ann
THE BOOK OF SHIPWRECKS
$10.00 AUD

Macmillan. London. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 170 PP with 3 plans of ships & 11 maps in text plus 64 pages with 101 bw illust. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum " on front endpaper. Very good. 24 x 16. 0333220927

Record of over 1500 ships / sea disasters from around the world from about 2500 BC to the present.

72319
HUME, Ivor Noël
SHIPWRECK! - History from the Bermuda Reefs
$20.00 AUD

Capstan Publications. Hamilton, Bermuda. 1995. 1st Ed. Foreword by The Hon. Sir John Swan, Premier of Bermuda. VIII, 64 PP with 6 b/w illustrations (1 photo and 5 drawings) and colour illustrations (2 charts, 8 paintings by E.B. Tucker and 68 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2.

71752
HUTCHINSON, Geoff
THE MARY STANFORD DISASTER - The Story of a Lifeboat: November 15th, 1928
$15.00 AUD

G. Hutchinson, RNLI. Rye Harbour. 1984. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear Admiral W.J. Graham, Director RNLI. 28 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 sketch map, 9 photos and 17 portraits of the Crew. Inside front cover: Memorial. Inside back cover: Sketch map of Rye Area. Soft covers, illustrated front. Near fine. 21 x 15.

Rye Harbour Lifeboat disaster: Lifeboat capsized with all the crew, 17 lives lost, tragic response to distress signals.

41289
INGRAM, C. W. N. & WHEATLEY, P. O.
NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1960
$40.00 AUD

Reed. Wellington. 1961. 3rd edition of the 1936 original. VIII, 408 PP, plus 32 pages with 121 b/w illustrations. Fp: Rigs of sailing vessels. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Spine of dust jacket a little sunned. Traces of old sellotape marks on inside front and back covers, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.7 x 19.5.

74425
INGRAM, C. W. N. & WHEATLEY, P. O.
NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1960
$20.00 AUD

Reed. Wellington. 1961. 3rd edition of the 1936 original. VIII, 408 PP, plus 32 pages with 121 b/w illustrations. Fp: Rigs of sailing vessels. Hard cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Copy lacking the free fly of front endpaper. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Foxing. An otherwise very good clean copy. Image shows the frontispiece. 24.7 x 19.5.

72298
INGRAM, C.W.N.
NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1982
$60.00 AUD

Reed. Wellington. 1984. 6th (Revised. & Enlarged), (4), 491 PP plus 4 b/w plates. Fp: Rigs of sailing vessels. Cloth cover with pictorial dust jacket (by W.W. Stewart) A fine copy. Scarce. 24.8 x 19. 0589015109

An epic account of disasters on the coast of New Zealand.

34565
INGRAM, Chas. W. N. & WHEATLEY, P. Owen
SHIPWRECKS NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS 1795-1950
$20.00 AUD

A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1951. 2nd edition of the 1936 original. Foreword by W. C. Smith. 520 PP with 112 b/w illust. Fp: Wreck of H.M.S. Orpheus on Manukau Bar, 7th February 1863. Cloth cover, spine faded and worn at extremities. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 24 x 16.

58647
INGRAM, Chas. W. N. & WHEATLEY, P. Owen
SHIPWRECKS NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS 1795-1936
$60.00 AUD

Dunedin Book Publishing Association. Dunedin, NZ. 1936. 1st Ed. Foreword by P. Fraser. 502, (2) PP with 123 b/w illustrations. Fp: Intercolonial cargo steamer Abel Tasman, totally wrecked Greymouth, July 18 1936. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Covers rubbed around edges with shelf wear, spine dulled. Signed by Wheatley on FFEP together with previous owner's signature which is also at top of title-page. A few pencil marks against some entries in the Index pages at the rear. Contents near fine. Scarce. 24 x 16.

68335
JEFFERY, W. & AMESS, J.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CONFERENCE ON MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
$50.00 AUD

South Australian Department of Environment and Planning. Adelaide. 1983. 1st Ed. VI, (2), 452 PP with 47 figures and 91 b/w plates. Soft cover, illustrated front. Stamps of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front cover and title page. Stamp of "Australian Maritime College" on title page and last page. Very good. 29.7 x 21. 724346686

47 papers presented in March 1982: Maritime Archaeology in Australia, and developments in each state - Maritime Archaeology in other countries - Research and Survey - Site management and protection...

55989
JEFFERYS, Greg
THE STRADBROKE ISLAND GALLEON. The Mystery of the ship in the swamp
$45.00 AUD

J.A.G. Publications. Brisbane. 2007. 1st Ed. (2), 189 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, plans, and photos by Cliff Rosendahl). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780980357004

73406
JEFFERYS, Greg
HEROES AND VILLAINS - The astounding untold story of the founders of Cascade Brewery
$40.00 AUD

J.A.G. Publications. Woodbridge, Tas. 2013. 1st Ed. XVII, 238 PP with 50 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, maps, portraits and photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine/as new condition. 21 x 14.8. 9780646910468

Peter Degraves & Major Hugh Macintosh, and their "Hope", a Sharp built ship, shipwrecked at Hope Beach, South Arm, mouth of the Derwent River, in April 1827.

39119
JEFFREYS, Max
MURDER, MAYHEM, FIRE & STORM: Australian Shipwrecks
$20.00 AUD

New Holland Publishers. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. X, 262 PP with 1 map on double page, 16 location maps and 16 head pieces (paintings or photos). Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 22.8 x 17. 9781864364453

Dutch Wrecks on West Australia coast: Batavia, De Vergulde Draeck, Zuytdorp, Zeewyk... HMS Pandora... Australian Hospital Ship Centaur.

71896
JEFFREYS, Max
WRECK OF THE SYDNEY COVE
$20.00 AUD

New Holland Publishers. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. XIV, 257 PP with 14 maps with 11 head pieces, 5 bw illust., and 14 maps. Eps: map of S.E. of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 23.7 x 17.5. 1864363029

The epic story of the shipwrecked crew and their heroic journey from Preservation Island to Port Jackson in 1797.

16352
JENNINGS, P.S. & BOSEK, D.
SHIPWRECKS
$5.00 AUD

Bison Group. London. 1994. Revised and updated edition of the 1992 original. 80 PP with b/w & colour illust. Hard cover with dj (front: The Tempest, rear: Wreck of Argo Merchant). Fp: Wreck of Herald of Free Enterprise. Pict. laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30 x 23. 1858410436

True stories of all the famous sea disasters: fire, collision, stranding & sinking.

65994
JENNINGS, P.S. & BOSEK, D.
SHIPWRECKS
$5.00 AUD

Bison Group. London. 1995. Revised and updated edition of the 1992 original. 80 PP with b/w & colour illust. Hard cover with dj (front: The Tempest, rear: Wreck of Argo Merchant). Title spread: Wreck of Herald of Free Enterprise. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30 x 23. 1858410436

True stories of all the famous sea disasters: fire, collision, stranding & sinking.

30712
JENNINGS, Philip S. & BOSEK, Dany
SHIPWRECKS
$5.00 AUD

Bison Books. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title spread: Wreck of the Herald of Free Enterprise. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30 x 23. 0861249288

True stories of all the famous sea disasters: fire, collision, stranding & sinking.

31079
JESSOP, Violet
TITANIC SURVIVOR - The newly discovered memoirs of Violet Jessop who survived both the Titanic and Britannic disasters
$10.00 AUD

Boronia Press. Canberra. 1998. 1st Australian edition. Introduced, edited and annotated by John Maxtone-Grahame. X, 238 PP, plus 24 pages with 35 b/w photos. Title spread: Titanic. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.7 x 15.3. 0646352776

Stewardess with White Star Line.

63045
JOHNSON, David
TRIUMPH - The Ship that hit the Lighthouse
$25.00 AUD

The Dunmore Press. Palmerston North. NZ. 1981. 1st Ed. X, 142 PP with 1 map in text plus 24 pages with 41 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Fine. 22 x 14.5. 0908564589

The steamer shipwrecked on 29/11/1883 at the foot of the Tiritiri lighthouse which guides shipping into Auckland Harbour. Her subsequent refloating & career.

20661
JOHNSTONE, Paul
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SHIPS
$10.00 AUD

The Bodley Head. London. 1974. 1st edition in the Bodley Head Archaeologies series. 135 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 13 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing, o/wise fine. 25.3 x 19.2. 0370015797

Study of ships around the world from the Cheops Ship to the Polynesian double-canoes, Ferriby Boats, the Sutton Hoo, the Wasa, Mary Rose and Amsterdam,...

58184
JOHNSTONE, Paul
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SHIPS
$5.00 AUD

The Bodley Head. London. 1974. 1st Ed. in the Bodley Head Archaeologies series. 135 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 13 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). A little light foxing, o/wise very good. 25.3 x 19.2. 0370015797

Study of ships around the world from the Cheops Ship to the Polynesian double-canoes, Ferriby Boats, the Sutton Hoo, the Wasa, Mary Rose and Amsterdam,...

33986
JONES, Dilwyn
BOATS - Egyptian Bookshelf
$10.00 AUD

British Museum Press. London. 1995. 1st edition, in the Egyptian Bookshelf series. 96 PP with 72 b/w illust. (1 map, 9 photos and 62 drawings), plus 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Fp: Artist's impression of the sailing boat of Hatshepsut. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 24 x 17. 0714109754

34401
KENDERDINE, Sarah
TE WAKA MAORI - Maori Canoe in New Zealand prehistory: reconstruction from an archaeological perspective including oral and historical evidence. (in A.I.M.A. Bulletin - Volume 15, No.2, 1991)
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1991. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 87 PP, contains article from P.29 to 36 with 4 figures (1 engraving and 3 sets of drawings). Illustrated card cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Other articles: The Last Voyage of the Day Dawn Wreck, by Geoff Kimpton & Graeme Henderson, The Kangaroo Island Shipwreck Survey and Community Involvement, by Robert McKinnon,...

44470
KENTLEY, Eric
DISCOVER THE TITANIC
$10.00 AUD

Dorling Kindersley. London. 1997. 3rd impression, in Action Book series. 30 PP with colour illustrations. Inside front cover: bow of Titanic. Inside back cover: Nautile. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 29 x 22. 0751356247

18350
KIM, H. Edward
A 14TH CENTURY CARGO MAKES PORT AT LAST [in National Geographic Magazine]
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1979. Volume 156, No 2, August 1979. Includes article from P.230 to 243. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

The wreck of a 14th century Chinese sea-going vessel of Sinan on the South Western coast of Korea.

52515
KING, David
THE WRECK OF THE WILLIAM SALTHOUSE (in Heritage Australia)
$10.00 AUD

Australian Council of National Trusts. Canberra. 1988. Volume 7, No. 3, Spring 1988 issue. Contains article from P. 46 to 48 with 1 map, 2 drawings and 4 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.5 x 23.

Wrecked at the Rip, Port Phillip Heads, November 1841.

47159
KLEINGARDT, Birgitta (editor)
WASA
$10.00 AUD

Statens Sjöhistoriska Museum / Wasavarvet. Stockholm. 1983. Reprint of the 1st English edition of 1969, translated from the Swedish original by Alan Tapsell. 48 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 15.

The saga of the Swedish warship "Wasa": lost and salvaged, life on board, preservation, the decorated man-of-war.

36671
KONSTAM, Angus
THE HISTORY OF SHIPWRECKS
$20.00 AUD

The Lyons Press / Mariners' Museum, Virginia. New York. 1999. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Claudia Pennington. 192 PP with location maps, maps and b/w or colour illustrations. Half title page: Loss of HMS Magnificent, March 1801. Title page: Map the Atlantic. Fp: Diver surveying the Highborn Cay shipwreck. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 23. 1558219706

A full-colour guide to the ships and treasures at the bottom of the sea.

40055
LACOUDRE, N.
ELECTRICITE ET ARCHEOLOGIE
$10.00 AUD

Valectra / Electricité de France. Paris. 1987. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 6 tables and many colour illustrations (drawings, graphs and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 23.5 x 18. 2724000153

Archaeology, and use of electricity (electrolysis) to protect items salvaged from the sea.

67073
LAMBERT, Nat
RMS TITANIC - Press Out and Build
$15.00 AUD

Top That! Publishing. Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2012. 1st Ed. "Centennial Edition". 16 PP with 6 b/w illustrations and colour photos (6 in text and 24 for the Assembly instructions), plus 6 sheets on glossy stiff paper for the press out model by Gary Kings. Large double-sided poster in colour "The Sunday Times - Titanic" (supplement) loosely inserted. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 31.5 x 23.5. 9781845102067

Folded poster - Recto: Commemorating 100 years since the ill-fated voyage / Verso: poster for the movie "Titanic" by James Cameron. Format: 90 x 59.5 (folded: 29.7 x 21.2).

12096
LANGLEY, Martin & SMALL, Edwina
LOST SHIPS OF THE WEST COUNTRY, A Guide to Forgotten Craft from Poole to Gloucester
$25.00 AUD

Stanford Maritime. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 9 head pieces, 16 maps and 123 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 19.5. 0540074314

Story of the wrecks visible on the coasts of Devon, Cornwall and Gloucester.

20891
LARN, Richard & Bridget
SHIPWRECKS - St Ives to Bude
$5.00 AUD

Tor Mark Press. Penryn. 1990. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map and 27 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (the St Ives schooner Giles Lang beached deliberately at Maer Lake). Near fine. 21 x 14. 0850253241

North coast of Cornwall.

41254
LARN, Richard & Bridget
SHIPWRECKS - Around Land's End
$10.00 AUD

Tor Mark Press. Penryn. 1989. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map and 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (the Dieppe trawler Jean Gougy, 1962). Near fine. 21 x 14. 0850253071

Extreme west coast of Cornwall.

41255
LARN, Richard & Bridget
SHIPWRECKS - Around Mount's Bay
$10.00 AUD

Tor Mark Press. Penryn. 1991. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map and 29 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (French-built wooden brigantine Jeune Hortense). Near fine. 21 x 14. 0850253268

South coast of Cornwall.

41256
LARN, Richard & Bridget
SHIPWRECKS - Around the Lizard
$10.00 AUD

Tor Mark Press. Penryn. 1989. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map and 31 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Norwegian barque Gunvor). Near fine. 21 x 14. 0850253063

South coast of Cornwall.

41257
LARN, Richard & Bridget
SHIPWRECKS - Falmouth to Looe
$10.00 AUD

Tor Mark Press. Penryn. 1993. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 map and 33 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (French two-masted schooner Marie Celine). Near fine. 21 x 14. 0850253381

South coast of Cornwall.

14360
LARN, Richard & CARTER, Clive
CORNISH SHIPWRECKS, The South Coast
$10.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1976. Paperback reprint. 254 PP, (2 adverts) with 10 wreck location charts in text plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 19.7 x 12.7. 0330234749

Falmouth, Lizard, Lands End, graveyard of many a ship.

69138
LARSON, Erik
DEAD WAKE - The Last Crossing of the LUSITANIA
$15.00 AUD

Doubleday. London. 2015. 1st paperback edition. XVI, 430, (2) PP with 1 map "Great Britain and Environs - 1914". Fp: Lusitania. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23.3 x 15. 9780857521828

45943
LARUE, Pierre, PRONER, Raymond et al.
LE PATRIMOINE MARITIME CALEDONIEN - Association Fortunes de Mer Calédoniennes
$10.00 AUD

Association Fortunes de Mer Calédoniennes. Nouméa. 1989. 1st Ed. of November 1989. 32 PP with 1 map, 4 drawings, 10 colour and 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.8 x 21.

Shipwrecks in New Caledonia.

51171
LAYSON, J. F.
MEMORABLE SHIPWRECKS AND SEAFARING ADVENTURES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
$10.00 AUD

Walter Scott. London. c. 1900. 1st Ed. ?. VIII, 9-304 PP, (16 publications), plus frontispiece and 3 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Corners of covers worn. Head and foot of spine frayed and worn. Hinges starting. Ex library copy with library plate on front endpaper. Foxing, o/wise good. 19 x 13.

Personal descriptions by the shipwrecked seaman, the passenger, and the adventurer: Lady Hobart, Blendenhall, La Méduse...

32055
LAYTON, Thomas N.
THE VOYAGE OF THE FROLIC - New England Merchants and the Opium Trade
$20.00 AUD

Stanford University Press. Stanford. 1997. 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 227 PP with 39 figures (2 maps, facsimile of documents, drawings and photos). Title spread: Frolic under sail. Cloth cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0804729093

Custom-built Baltimore clipper for the Opium trade between Bombay and China. Wrecked with Chinese goods, on the Mendocino coast, North of San Francisco, in the early years of the Gold Rush.

72318
LEFROY, Mike
SHIPWRECK AT MADMAN'S CORNER
$25.00 AUD

Western Australian Museum. Perth. 2010. New edition of the 1999 original. 80, (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 9781920843465

Point Cloates, West Australia.

21776
LEMON, Andrew & MORGAN, Marjorie
POOR SOULS, THEY PERISHED: The Cataraqui - Australia's Worst Shipwreck
$30.00 AUD

Hargreen Publishing. Melbourne. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Patsy Adam-Smith. XII, 188 PP with 3 tables & 54 b/w illust. (10 maps or plans). Eps: Artist's view of the wreck of the Cataraqui, engravings from the 1880's. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. A near fine copy. 25 x 17.5. 0949905283

The circumstances of the voyage of the Cataraqui. Liverpool to Melbourne, the events of the wreck in Bass Strait on 4th August, 1845 (400 lost, 9 survivors).

19322
LEWIS, Tom
WRECKS IN DARWIN WATERS
$20.00 AUD

Turton & Armstrong. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. VIII, 97 PP with 45 b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: Darwin waters. Inside rear cover: Timor Sea and Van Diemen Gulf. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 25 x 17.5. 908031459

Stories of misadventure, war, accident & storms which sent ships & aircraft to the bottom.

18407
LINDER, Elisha & RABAN, Avner
MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY
$5.00 AUD

Cassell. London. 1975. 1st Ed., No. 7 in the Cassell's Introducing Archaeology series. 95 PP with 43 b/w illust., and 15 colour photos. Eps: Scuba divers and parachute. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20 x 17. 0304293377

Study of a wreck as a self-contained capsule of history. Tools & techniques. Wrecks in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Western Europe & the New World.

41521
LOCKHART, J. G.
PERIL OF THE SEA - A Book of Shipwrecks and Escapes
$15.00 AUD

Philip Allan. London. 1928. Reprint of the 1924 original, No. 3 in the Nautilus Library series. 254 PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (lightly soiled). Foxing spots on outside edges, name and stamp of previous owners on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 17.4 x 11.5.

From the foundering of the Blanche Nef in 1120, carrying William the Etheling, the only legitimate son of King Henry I, to the Wreck of the Birkenhead in 1852 off South Africa, and the Titanic in April 1912.

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

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

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

18840
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ALONG THE GIPPSLAND COAST
$10.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. 1973. 4th edition of the 1968 original. 83, (3) PP with Appendices, Indexes & 1 map, plus 16 pages with 32 bw illust. Pict. soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise fine. 20.3 x 13.8.

18841
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ALONG THE GIPPSLAND COAST
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1976. 5th edition of the 1968 original. 83, (4) PP with Appendices, Indexes & 1 map, plus 20 pages with 41 bw illust. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 20.3 x 13.4.

19650
LONEY, J. K.
VICTORIAN SHIPWRECKS, All Wrecks in Victorian Waters and Bass Strait, Including King Island and the Kent Group
$10.00 AUD

The Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1971. 1st Ed. 10, (III), 177 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illust. FEP: Key to locations on the Victorian Coast & Inland Waters. REP: 4 location maps (mahogany ship, obsolete vessels..). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few chips and in a protective sleeve, otherwise near fine. 24.8 x 15.8. 725600454

20884
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON THE GIPPSLAND COAST, Special supplement on Twofold Bay
$15.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. 1968. 2nd revised and enlarged edition. 92, (7) PP with Indexes & 2 maps, plus 20 pages with 41 bw illust. Pict. soft cover. Insect damage on covers, o/wise very good. 21 x 13.5.

Twofold Bay: pages 81 to 91.

39965
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON VICTORIA'S SOUTH WEST COAST
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publication. Geelong. 1975. 3rd edition of the 1968 original. (1), 39 PP, plus 8 pages with 2 maps and 12 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Faint foxing. Very good. 20.2 x 14.

A survey of incidents from Victorian - South Australian border to Lady Bay, including Portland, Port Fairy, and Warrnambool.

48142
LONEY, J. K.
WRECK OF THE S. S. CASINO
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1975. 1st Ed., No. 5 in the Famous Wrecks series. 20 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 13.8. 0909244146

Wrecked on 6th August, 1859, on a passage from Port Adelaide to Melbourne.

58235
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS AT APOLLO BAY
$10.00 AUD

J.K. Loney / Hen Jenkins. Geelong. 1975. 2nd edition of the 1970 original. 28 PP with 1 map and 14 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.2 x 14.2. 0959985301

64962
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON VICTORIA'S SOUTH WEST COAST
$10.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. 1969. 2nd edition of the 1968 original. (4), 43 PP with 5 b/w illustrations (1 sketch map, 1 drawing, 1 photo and 3 headpieces), plus 5 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 21.2 x 13.6.

A survey of incidents from Victorian - South Australian border to Lady Bay, including Portland, Port Fairy, and Warrnambool.

68991
LONEY, J. K.
SHIPWRECKS ALONG THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
$10.00 AUD

Author. Portarlington. 1967. 1st Ed. (4), 110, (2) PP with 1 location map and 41 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed and lightly soiled). Good reading copy. 21 x 14.

Wrecks around Cape Otway from Warrnambool to Barwon Heads.

69266
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S SOUTHERN COASTLINE
$20.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. 1972. Revised and enlarged reprint of the 1971 original Wrecks on South Australia's South East Coast. 40 PP, plus 24 pages with glossary and index and 26 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 19.8 x 13.9.

Shipwrecks and strandings from Victor Harbour to Port MacDonnell.

69787
LONEY, J. K.
ADMELLA
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1975. 1st Ed., No. 4 in the "Famous Wrecks" series. 20 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 13.8. 090924409X

Wrecked on 6th August, 1859, on a passage from Port Adelaide to Melbourne.

69789
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON PHILLIP ISLAND
$10.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. c. 1975. 1st Ed. 16 PP with 1 map & 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 14. 0909244138

69790
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON THE N.S.W. SOUTH COAST
$15.00 AUD

J.K. Loney. Geelong. 1975. 1st edition of September 1975. 75, (5) PP, plus 20 pages with 40 b/w illustrations, including a location map. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 19.6 x 14.2. 0909244081

14297
LONEY, J.K.
WRECKS ON THE SOUTH COAST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
$20.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. 1975. 4th Ed. 54 PP, (4 index), plus 25 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise a very good copy. 20.5 x 14.

18991
LONEY, J.K.
WRECKS ON THE N.S.W. SOUTH COAST
$10.00 AUD

Author & Ken Jenkins. Geelong. 1975. 1st Ed. 75, (5 index) ) PP, plus 20 pages with 40 b/w illustrations, including 1 map. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Light foxing. 2 of the photos and captions are a little smudged (printer error). Very good. 19.6 x 14.2. 0909244081

15115
LONEY, Jack
OLD DAYS AND WAYS ALONG THE SOUTH COAST, Tales From the Surf and Shipwreck Coasts
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1992. 1st Ed. 78 PP with 1 map & 4 b/w photos, plus 2 pages with 4 colour photos & 28 pages with 57 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 17.5. 0909191484

Stories and incidents between Queenscliff and Warrnambool.

17144
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ON KING ISLAND
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1979. 1st edition. 28 PP, plus 12 pages with 1 map & 11 b/w illust. Stiff covers, illustrated front cover. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.2. 0909191034

King Island: Australia's marine graveyard (over 60 wrecks and 800 lives lost).

17146
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES
$5.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1989. Reprint of the 1985 original. 150, (10 blank for notes) PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.8 x 17.5. 0909191344

Shipwrecks, escapes from disaster, Ben Boyd's shipping empire, ...

17147
LONEY, Jack
THE PRICE OF ADMIRALTY - Ships of the R.A.N., Lost 1914-1974
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1978? 1st Ed. 36 PP with 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly soiled, o/wise near fine. 20.5 x 14.3. 0909191115

From the loss of "A1", off Rabaul in 1914, to the loss of the "Arrow", hit by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day, 1974.

17225
LONEY, Jack
LADY BAY WARRNAMBOOL, A Graveyard of Ships
$5.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1982. Reprint of 1968 original. 20 PP, plus 8 pages with 1 plan & 7 b/w illust. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14. 0909244103

Wrecks of Lady Bay near the city of Warrnambool.

17463
LONEY, Jack
FAMOUS WRECKS
$30.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c.1975. 1st Ed. (2), 116 PP with 6 maps, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial soft covers (lightly soiled). Very good. 20.6 x 16. 0909191301

The Mahogany Ship, Schomberg, Admella, S.S. Casino ... R.M.S. Australia.

17582
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIA'S SHIPWRECK COAST AND OTHER STORIES
$15.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. 1986. 1st Ed. 103 PP with 4 maps & 117 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 18.6. 0909244294

Wreck sites, graves, memorials to seamen and passengers...

17642
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS, Volume 2: 1851-1871
$20.00 AUD

Reed. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. 239 PP with 15 b/w illust. Eps: Map of Australia. Hard cover, dj (a little chipped). Near fine. 24.6 x 18.2. 0589501003

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

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

18828
LONEY, Jack
WRECK - 1891, and Other Maritime Memories
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1992. 1st Ed. 121 PP with 1 map & 2 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 69 b/w illustrations (including 6 maps). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 17.5. 0909191492

Major wrecks on the South Western Victorian coast in the year 1891: W.D. Godfrey, Joseph H. Scammell, Gambier, Fiji,...

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

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

18833
LONEY, Jack
SHIPS AND SHIPWRECKS AT PORTARLINGTON
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1970. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 1 location map & 12 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 20.4 x 14.2. 0909191026

Mosquito fleets, Port Phillip Bay trade (cargo & passengers).

18834
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS IN THE RIP
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1975. 4th Ed. 44 PP with 1 map, plus 12 pages with 1 plan & 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. fine. 21 x 14.2. 0909191042

Wrecks between Point Lonsdale and Point Nepean.

18838
LONEY, Jack
VICTIMS OF THE CORSAIR ROCK
$10.00 AUD

Author. Geelong. ND 1975?. 1st Ed. 12 PP plus 8 pages with 9 b/w photos. Pict. card cover. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 0909244197

Wrecks on the Rock, off Point Nepean.

18988
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ALONG THE GIPPSLAND COAST
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1985. 7th edition of the 1968 original. 82, (10) PP with Appendices, Indexes & 1 map, plus 20 pages with 37 b/w illust. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 20.3 x 14.5. 0909244278

18994
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ON THE N.S.W. NORTH COAST
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1976. 1st Ed. 135 PP, plus 20 pages with 1 map & 32 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.2. 0909244170

19000
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ALONG THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1988. 9th edition of the 1967 original. 138 PP with 4 location maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illust. (2 maps). Pict. soft cover. Fine. 22 x 15. 959985387

Shipwrecks on the Victorian coast, from Point Lonsdale to Portland.

19001
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ALONG THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1976. 6th Ed. of the 1967 original. 138 PP with 4 location maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illust. (2 maps). Pict. soft cover. Fine. 22 x 15. 0959985387

Shipwrecks on the Victorian coast, from Point Lonsdale to Portland.

19201
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS, Volume 4: 1901-1986
$25.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1987. 1st Ed. 284 PP with numerous b/w illust., sketches & map. FEP: The four-masted bark Strathgryfe stranded on Yanakie Beach. REP: Stranded Falls of Halladale. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise contents near fine. 24 x 17.6. 909244316

19341
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS IN THE RIP AND PORT PHILLIP BAY
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1978?. Combined edition. 73 PP, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers soiled. Very good. 19 x 15.

Combined issue of his previous works: "Wrecks in "The Rip", and "Wrecks in Port Phillip Bay"

20800
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ON THE NEW SOUTH WALES COAST
$20.00 AUD

Oceans Enterprises. Yarram. 1993. 1st Ed. 166, (12 Indexes) PP with 56 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22 x 15. 0646110810

20801
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES
$10.00 AUD

List Publishing. Geelong. 1985. 1st Ed. 150 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 22.8 x 18.2. 0909191344

Shipwrecks, escapes from disaster, Ben Boyd's shipping empire, ...

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.

39964
LONEY, Jack
THE MAHOGANY SHIP
$10.00 AUD

Geelong. c.1975. Marine History Publications. 3rd edition. No. 2 in the "Famous Wrecks" series. 17 PP with 1 sketch map, plus 8 pages 2 maps and 5 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Front cover a little soiled, name of previous owner at top of first leaf. Near fine. 20.2 x 14. 0909244030

The wreck of a derelict wooden vessel observed near Warrnambool: a Portuguese or a Spanish vessel??

45012
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIA'S SHIPWRECK COAST AND OTHER STORIES
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1991. 2nd edition of the 1986 original. 104 PP with 4 maps & 117 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 17.5. 0909244294

Wreck sites, graves, memorials to seamen and passengers...

45364
LONEY, Jack
LADY BAY WARRNAMBOOL, A Graveyard of Ships
$5.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1975. Reprint of the 1968 original. 20 PP, plus 8 pages with 1 plan & 7 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 20.8 x 14. 0909244103

Wrecks of Lady Bay near the city of Warrnambool.

55465
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS, Volume 2: 1851-1871
$35.00 AUD

Reed. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. 239 PP with 15 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of Australia. Hard cover, dj (chipped and repaired). Outside front edges of pages and some margins, have old stain marks, not affecting the text. Dedicatory note dated and signed by author on title-page. Very good. 24.6 x 18.2. 0589501003

57977
LONEY, Jack
WRECK - 1891, and Other Maritime Memories
$25.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1992. 1st Ed. 121 PP with 1 map & 2 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 69 b/w illustrations (including 6 maps). Pictorial soft cover. Signed on title page by the author. Fine (mint condition). 21.5 x 17.5. 0909191492

Major wrecks on the South Western Victorian coast in the year 1891: W.D. Godfrey, Joseph H. Scammell, Gambier, Fiji,...

58005
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS ALONG THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1983. 8th edition of the 1967 original. 138 PP with 4 location maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illust. (2 maps). Pictorial soft covers with light wear and soiling, o/wise very good.. 22 x 15. 0959985387

Shipwrecks on the Victorian coast, from Point Lonsdale to Portland.

58010
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES
$20.00 AUD

List Publishing. Geelong. 1985. 1st Ed. 150 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Note on title page dated and signed by the author. Very good. 22.8 x 18.2. 0909191344

Shipwrecks, escapes from disaster, Ben Boyd's shipping empire, ...

58030
LONEY, Jack
SHIPS AND SEAMEN OFF THE SOUTH COAST
$15.00 AUD

Neptune Press. Belmont, Vic. 1980. 1st Ed. 142 PP with b/w illust. (map & photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (chipped). Dated and signed by the author on title page. Near fine. 22.2 x 16 0909131457

Whaling, wreckers, shipwrecks & disasters, tall ships and mosquito fleets.

58061
LONEY, Jack
WRECK AND RESCUE AT PORT PHILLIP HEADS
$20.00 AUD

The Queenscliffe Lifeboat Preservation Society. Queenscliff. 1989. 1st Ed. (3), III, 50 PP with 1 map and 20 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 19.8 x 13. 0731658981

Operations & history of the Queenscliffe Lifeboat Service.

58095
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SEA MYSTERIES
$20.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1984. 1st edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No. 141). 112 PP with 11 maps, plus 28 pages with 33 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author. Near fine. 21.5 x 17.8. 090919128X

The Queenscliff treasure, wild white women, the Waratah,...

58102
LONEY, Jack
THE LOCH ARD DISASTER
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. c. 1975. 6th Ed. 44 PP with 1 map & 6 b/w illustrations, plus 12 pages with 1 map & 22 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on inside front cover, o/wise very good. 19.4 x 13.8. 095998531X

Wrecked on Mutton Bird Island near Port Campbell on 1st June, 1878.

58110
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS IN PORT PHILLIP BAY
$10.00 AUD

J. K. Loney. Geelong. c. 1975. 1st Ed. 29, (3 index) PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 14. 0959985379

Wrecks in the Rip combined with Wrecks in Port Phillip Bay.

59835
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS, Volume 4: 1901-1986
$30.00 AUD

Marine History Publication. Portarlington. 1987. 1st Ed. 284 PP with numerous b/w illust., sketches & map. FEP: The four-masted bark Strathgryfe stranded on Yanakie Beach. REP: Stranded Falls of Halladale. Hard cover, dj. Signed by the author on title page. A near fine copy. 24 x 17.6. 0909244316

59865
LONEY, Jack
THE LOCH ARD DISASTER
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. c. 1985. 7th edition. 44 PP with 1 b/w photo, plus 16 pages with 1 map & 21 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.2. 095998531X

Wrecked on Mutton Bird Island near Port Campbell on 1st June, 1878.

62669
LONEY, Jack
WRECK OF THE LY-EE-MOON
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c. 1976?. 1st Ed. No pagination, 24 PP with 1 map and 14 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.4 x 14.5. 0909244235

Shipwrecked below the lighthouse of Green Cape on 31st May, 1886.

68068
LONEY, Jack
SHIPS AND SEAMEN OFF THE SOUTH COAST
$10.00 AUD

Neptune Press. Belmont, Vic. 1980. 1st Ed. 142 PP with b/w illust. (map & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 22.2 x 16 0909131465

Whaling, wreckers, shipwrecks & disasters, tall ships and mosquito fleets.

69784
LONEY, Jack
THE LOCH ARD DISASTER
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. c. 1972. 4th edition of the 1970 original. 48 PP with 2 maps & 3 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.4 x 13.8. 095998531X

Wrecked on Mutton Bird Island near Port Campbell on 1st June, 1878.

71546
LONEY, Jack
THE MAHOGANY SHIP
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 2009. 7th edition. 24 PP with 1 map, 2 sketch maps (one at centrefold) and 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0909244030

The wreck of a derelict wooden vessel observed near Warrnambool: Portuguese or Spanish vessel??

71769
LONEY, Jack
THE SCHOMBERG INCIDENT
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. c.1972. 2nd Ed. 24 PP plus 4 pages with 2 sketch maps & 2 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with a few spots. 4 pages with 4 photographs called for are missing (a possible publisher error/misprint ?). Otherwise contents near fine. 20 x 13.8.

Wrecked on the West coast of Victoria, at Curdie's Inlet on 27th December, 1855.

72124
LONEY, Jack
THE LOCH ARD DISASTER
$15.00 AUD

Jack Loney / Ken Jenkin. Geelong. 1970. 1st edition. (2), 50 PP with b/w illustrations (1 sketch map, 1 map and 30 photos, portraits, and prints). Inside front cover: Gorge Entrance from Tom Pearce's cave. Inside back cover: Captain Gibbs. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 20.5 x 14.5.

Wrecked on Mutton Bird Island near Port Campbell on 1st June, 1878.

73968
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS, Volume 4: 1901-1986
$15.00 AUD

Marine History Publication. Portarlington. 1987. 1st Ed. 284 PP with numerous b/w illust., sketches & map. FEP: The four-masted bark Strathgryfe stranded on Yanakie Beach. REP: Stranded Falls of Halladale. Hard cover, dj. Ex-library copy with stamps on endpapers and title-page and fore outside page edges. Dust jacket is rubbed and repaired and in a protective sleeve. Contents clean and still a very good copy. 24 x 17.6. 0909244316

73829
LONEY, Jack & MORRIS, E.W.
THE OTWAY: A Short History of Apollo Bay 1850 - 1968
$30.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1979. Reprint of 3 booklets: (1), 51 PP, 43, (3) PP and 42 PP, a total of 140 pages, plus 38 pages with 1 map and 49 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 20.3 x 13.8. 0909244219

The 3 booklets: Twelve Decades - Otway Memories - Pioneering Days.

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

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

Wrecks of Lady Bay near the City of Warrnambool.

20876
LONSDALE, Adrian L. & KAPLAN, H.R.
A GUIDE TO SUNKEN SHIPS IN AMERICAN WATERS
$25.00 AUD

Compass Publications. Arlington, Virginia, USA. 1964. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 189 PP with 2 maps/charts, 8 tables & 19 bw photos. Fp: Barkentine wrecked on reef is swamped and dashed by pounding surf. Cloth cover is very good, dust jacket rubbed and stained. Internally very clean and good. 22.3 x 15.

46006
LOVE, Don
SHIPWRECKS ON THE EAST GIPPSLAND COAST
$35.00 AUD

Don Love. Meerlieu, Victoria. 2003. 1st Ed. VIII, 180, (1) PP with 4 maps, 22 sketches or plans and 60 b/w illustrations. Eps: Chart Port Phillip to Gabo Island. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 18. 097507010X

74423
LOVE, Don
SHIPWRECKS ON VICTORIA'S WEST COAST
$55.00 AUD

Don Love. Perry Bridge, Victoria. 2009. 1st Ed. Roebuck Society title No. 63. XII, 248 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: Chart "Western Approaches to Bass Strait". Hard covers, dj. Fine (as new condition). 29.7 x 21. 9780975070130

Exploring the fate of 146 vessels lost from Barwon Heads to the South Australian Border, 1834-1945.

74860
LOVE, Don
SHIPWRECKS ON THE EAST GIPPSLAND COAST
$45.00 AUD

Don Love. Meerlieu, Victoria. 2003. 1st Ed. VIII, 180, (1) PP with 4 maps, 22 sketches or plans and 60 b/w illustrations. Eps: Chart Port Phillip to Gabo Island. Hard cover, dj. Signed by the author on half title page. Fine. 25.2 x 18. 097507010X

74861
LOVE, Don
SHIPWRECKS ON THE SOUTH GIPPSLAND COAST
$35.00 AUD

Don Love. Meerlieu, Victoria. 2005. 1st Ed. viii, 127 PP with b/w illustrations and index of vessels. Endpapers: Admiralty chart: Cape Schanck to Wilson's Promotory. Hard cover, dj. Signed by the author on half title page. Fine (mint condition). 25.2 x 18. 097507018

65278
LUSITANIA
LUSITANIA TORPEDOED (in Great Newspapers Reprinted)
$15.00 AUD

Great Newspapers Reprinted / Peter Way Ltd. London. 1972. Reprint of "The Daily Mirror", Saturday, May 8, 1915. 16 PP with b/w illustrations and a 4 pages pictorial wrapper "PGNR No. 14". Fine. 37 x 29.

46780
LYNCH, Don & MARSCHALL, Ken
GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS. A Journey into the Heart of the Titanic
$20.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton / Madison Press Books. London & Toronto. 2003. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w & colour photos from archives, paintings and illustrations. Title spread: Telemotor of the Titanic steering wheel. Eps: White Star line passenger ship sailing. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.2 x 26.2. 0340734167

Haunting saga of the great maritime disaster: Titanic sinking on its maiden voyage in April 1912. Enthralling information on the ship, its crew & its passengers.

19486
MacKENZIE, Margaret E.
SHIPWRECKS, Being the Historical Account of Shipwrecks along the Victorian Coast from Cape Otway to Port Fairy 1836-1914
$10.00 AUD

National Press. Melbourne. 1964. 3rd Ed. 136 PP, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illust. including 1 map on double-page. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.

From the Mahogany Ship to the Falls of Halladale.

21966
MacKENZIE, Margaret E.
SHIPWRECKS - Being the Historical Account of Shipwrecks along the Victorian Coast from Peterborough to Cape Otway 1843-1914
$5.00 AUD

National Press. Melbourne. 1954. 1st Ed. 86 PP with 1 map, plus 4 pages with 10 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Signature on half title page. Occasional foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 19 x 12.5.

Wrecks of the Joanna, Marie Gabrielle, Eric the Red, Falls of Halladale, ... The original edition.

75951
MAIDEN, Peter
THE SHIPWRECK OF THE NEW GUINEA GOLD EXPLORERS - The Wreck of the Brig Maria off Hinchinbrook Island in 1872
$20.00 AUD

Central Queensland University Press. Rockhampton, Qld. 2000. 1st Ed. 173, (3) PP with 3 maps, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Neat stamp of the "Centre for Public Security Research" on title page, top outside edge and inside back cover, otherwise near fine. 24.5 x 17.7. 9781875998852

Brig wrecked on 26th February 1872, with 75 souls on board, on a passage from Sydney to New Guinea.

33675
MALSTER, Robert
SAVED FROM THE SEA - The story of life-saving services on the East Anglian coast
$20.00 AUD

Terence Dalton. Lavenham. 1974. 1st Ed. 296 PP with 138 b/w illust. FEP: Map of the Suffolk & Essex lifeboat stations. REP: Map of the Norfolk lifeboat stations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.2 x 17.8. 0900963328

17160
MARRIOTT, John
DISASTER AT SEA
$5.00 AUD

Arrow Books. London. 1989. Reprint of the 1987 original. 288 PP with 30 maps & plans, plus 8 pages with 16 bw illust. Pictorial soft cover. Good. 17.8 x 11. 0099602903

Lloyds of London. The British Search and Rescue Organisation. Shipwrecks: Victoria and Camperdown, Andrea Doria and Stockholm, Titanic... The 1979 Fastnet Race.

22646
MARRIOTT, John
DISASTER AT SEA
$10.00 AUD

Promotional Reprint Company. London. 1996. Reprint of the 1987 original. 176 PP with 30 maps & plans & 49 b/w illust. Laminated boards, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.7. 1856483487

Lloyds of London. The British Search and Rescue Organisation. Shipwrecks: Victoria and Camperdown, Andrea Doria and Stockholm, Titanic... The 1979 Fastnet Race.

42485
MARRIOTT, John
DISASTER AT SEA
$10.00 AUD

Hippocrene Books. New York. 1987. 1st US edition. 176 PP with 30 maps & plans, and 49 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Dust jacket is a little browned near spine, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.7. 087052450X

Lloyds of London. The British Search and Rescue Organisation. Shipwrecks: Victoria and Camperdown, Andrea Doria and Stockholm, Titanic... The 1979 Fastnet Race.

43119
MARRIOTT, John
DISASTER AT SEA
$10.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1987. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 30 maps & plans, and 49 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj (price-clipped and in a protective sleeve). Near fine. 23.5 x 15.7. 0711017379

Lloyds of London. The British Search and Rescue Organisation. Shipwrecks: Victoria and Camperdown, Andrea Doria and Stockholm, Titanic... The 1979 Fastnet Race.

20827
MARRIOTT, Leo
TITANIC
$15.00 AUD

Promotional Reprint Book Company. London. 1997. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (letters, plans, menus, photos...) & 18 colour illust. Fp: Titanic lying completed in Belfast Lough. Laminated boards, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 31 x 23.5. 1856484335

47393
MARRIOTT, Leo
TITANIC
$15.00 AUD

Promotional Reprint Book Company. London. 1998. Reprint of the 1997 edition. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (letters, plans, menus, photos...) & 18 colour illust. Fp: Titanic lying completed in Belfast Lough. Laminated boards, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 31 x 23.5. 1856484335

17573
MARSDEN, Peter
DE LAATSTE REIS VAN DE AMSTERDAM
$10.00 AUD

De Boer Maritieme Handboeken. Amsterdam. 1974. 1st Dutch edition. 248 PP with 90 illust. in text. Dark green gilt-decorated cloth cover, dj (closed tear). 4 pages with blurred printing, not affecting legibility, o/wise an excellent copy. Dutch text. 25.5 x 18. 9022819167

The ill-fated voyage of the Amsterdam, wrecked near Hastings on 23 January, 1749.

17574
MARSDEN, Peter
THE WRECK OF THE AMSTERDAM
$10.00 AUD

Stein & Day. New York. 1975. 1st US Ed. (4), 290 PP with 41 figures, plus 24 pages with 52 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (chipped & rubbed). Small white-out patch at top of FFEP, light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise very good. 24 x 15.5. 0812817605

The ill-fated voyage of the Amsterdam, wrecked near Hastings on the 23 January, 1749.

37131
MARSDEN, Peter
THE WRECK OF THE AMSTERDAM
$15.00 AUD

Hutchinson. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 287 PP with 41 figures, plus 24 pages with 52 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 15.5. 009119850X

The ill-fated voyage of the Amsterdam, wrecked near Hastings on the 23 January, 1749.

37381
MARSDEN, Peter
BOOK OF SHIPS AND SHIPWRECKS
$25.00 AUD

B. T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1997. 1st Ed., in the English Heritage series. 128 PP with 90 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 11 colour plates. Pictorial card cover. Fine 24.6 x 18.7. 03475366

Maritime archaeology in Britain... Roman ship found in London. The First British Navy of the 2nd century A. D.

67259
MARSDEN, Peter
SEALED BY TIME - The Loss and Recovery of the Mary Rose
$35.00 AUD

The Mary Rose Trust Ltd. Portsmouth, UK. 2003. 1st Ed. XIV, 194 PP with 18 headpieces and 140 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 22 colour plates. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0954402901

71830
MARSHALL, Don B.
CALIFORNIA SHIPWRECKS - Footsteps in the Sea
$30.00 AUD

Superior Publishing. Seattle. 1978. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 103 b/w photos. Fp: The barque Gifford at Mussel Rock on September 25, 1903. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dust jacket (price-clipped) is a bit chipped and rubbed. Light foxing, o/wise contents near fine. Scarce. 27.4 x 21.6. 0875642233

10561
MARX, Robert F.
SHIPWRECKS IN THE AMERICAS
$10.00 AUD

Dover. New York. 1987. Revised edition of the 1971 original. XXII, 482, (18 publications) PP with 10 b/w illustrations, plus 36 pages with 63 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Creases on front cover and foot of spine rubbed. Faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 13.5. 048625514X

Information on history of salvage, location, surveying, excavating on site. Guide to major shipwrecks in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

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

67128
MARY ROSE
The MARY ROSE Drama
$15.00 AUD

The Mary Rose Society / Trust. Portsmouth. 1981. 5 brochures. 1- The Mary Rose Society, Occasional Paper No. 1 of June 1981 (signed by Nigel Walter, co-editor): 12 PP with 2 organisation charts. 2 - The Mary Rose Society, Occasional Paper No. 2 of October 1981 (signed by Nigel Walter co-editor): 12 PP with 1 sketch map of "The Battle of Spithead, 19th July 1545'' and 1 drawing of the Mary Rose. 3 - The Mary Rose drama: 3 folds flyer with 15 b/w illustrations. 4 - Progress Report 15th September 1981: 2 PP. 5 - Bulletin of The Mary Rose Trust, No. 14 of October 1981: 4 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. 6 - Catalogue "Mary Rose Trading Ltd", for Autumn 1981: 4 PP. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.

31148
MASEFIELD, John
A MAINSAIL HAUL
$5.00 AUD

Grafton Books. London. 1987. Reprint of the 1954 edition (reissue of the 1913 revised and enlarged edition with two new pieces), based on the 1905 original. 128 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.5. 0246131772

Exploits of ships and men.

17223
MASTERS, David
S.O.S. A BOOK OF SEA ADVENTURE
$15.00 AUD

Eyre and Spottiswoode. London. 1937. Reprint of the 1933 original. (10), 340 PP plus 14 plates with 15 b/w photos. Fp: Vice-Admiral Evans. Cloth cover has light speckling and spine is quite sunned. Light foxing, mostly around page margins, paper is ageing somewhat but still a very clean copy internally with just a small handwritten note dated 1941 on FFEP. 22.3 x 14.5.

Fire at sea, shipwreck, exploding volcano.

35560
MASTERS, David
CRIMES OF THE HIGH SEAS
$10.00 AUD

Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936. 1st Ed. 280 PP, plus 8 plates with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Ships laid up in the River Dart during the great slump. Cloth cover. Some foxing, covers rubbed at hinges, short note on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.

Underwriters against shipowners or operators trying to cheat them through fraudulent fires, shipwrecks...

45907
MASTERS, David
S.O.S. A BOOK OF SEA ADVENTURE
$10.00 AUD

Eyre and Spottiswoode. London. 1937. Reprint of the 1933 original. (10), 340 PP plus 14 plates with 15 b/w photos. Fp: Vice-Admiral Evans. Rebacked copy, cloth cover. Lacks the half title page. Ageing and foxing of paper. Very good internally. 22.3 x 14.5.

Fire at sea, shipwreck, exploding volcano.

75682
MASTERS, David
WHEN SHIPS GO DOWN - More Wonders of Salvage
$30.00 AUD

Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936. Reprint of the 1932 original. 356 PP with 1 map, plus 16 plates with 18 b/w photos. Fp: Wreck of the Norwegian timber ship "Hansy". Cloth cover, title on spine, dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Tiny stamp of previous owner at top of FFEP and small piece missing at top of blank rear endpaper. A nice copy in the scarce dust jacket. 22 x 14.5.

Lloyd's underwriter, famous wrecks, salvage.

65011
MATHER, Patricia (editor)
A TIME FOR A MUSEUM: The History of the Queensland Museum 1862-1986
$25.00 AUD

Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 1986. 1st Ed. Volume 24 of the "Memoirs of the Queensland Museum". Preface by the Honorable Peter McKechnie. X, 386 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0724216456

... Chapter 10: People and lifestyle / Anthropology, by M.C. Quinnell. Chapter 12: Pandora Box / Maritime Archaeology, by R. A. Coleman.

56383
MATHEWSON III, R. Duncan
ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURE: The Search for NUESTRA SENORA DE ATOCHA
$30.00 AUD

Seafarers Heritage Library. Woodstock, Vermont. 1985. 2nd printing (July 1985) of the January 1980 original. (2), XXIV, 171 PP with 3 tables, 13 figures, and b/w illustrations (5 portraits & 31 plates). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.3 x 20.8. 0916149005

The world's greatest treasure hunt.

61462
MATTHEWS, Rupert
TITANIC: The Tragic Story of the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner
$15.00 AUD

Arcturus Publishing Ltd. London. 2011. 1st Arcturus edition. 208 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 9781848377639

16317
McCANN, Leonard G.
THE HONORABLE COMPANY'S BEAVER
$10.00 AUD

Vancouver Museum. Vancouver, B.C. 1980. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 61 b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, photos, ..). Pictorial card covers a little foxed, o/wise near fine. 28 x 21.5.

Life of the little paddle-wheeler Beaver which operated on the waters of the Pacific coast of Northwest America. Built in 1835 for the Hudson's Bay Company and wrecked in July 1888, at the entrance of Vancouver Harbour.

73104
McCLUSKIE, Tom
ANATOMY OF THE TITANIC
$25.00 AUD

PRC Publishing. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 25 colour and some 250 b/w illustrations (photos and plans). Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 31.2 x 23.5. 9781856484824

Construction, launch, outfitting, machinery... accommodation, cabins.

61839
McCORMICK, Donald
BLOOD ON THE SEA - The Terrible Story of the Yawl Mignonette
$20.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 158 PP with 1 map, plus 4 pages with 5 b/w illust. Fp: Map showing voyage of the Mignonette's dinghy. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped and with a few small closed tears), o/wise a near fine copy. 20.2 x 13.5.

70264
McDOWELL, Bart
CARTAGENA NIGHTS (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 175, No.4, 1989)
$5.00 AUD

N.G.S. Washington. 1989. April 1989. Includes article from P.494 to 509 with colour illustrations (4 maps and 13 photos by O. Louis Mazzatenta.). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Historic Colombian port and fortress of the Spanish Main.

45116
McHUGH, Evan
SHIPWRECKS - Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters
$15.00 AUD

Viking / Penguin. Melbourne. 2003. 1st Australian edition. XVI, 336 PP with maps 1 compass rose, 13 headpieces and 15 maps, plus 16 pages with 16 colour and 17 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 23 x 15. 9780670040193

13 shipwrecks: Trial in 1622 - Batavia in 1629 - Sydney Cove in 1797 - Stirling Castle in 1836 - Cataraqui in 1845 ... Sydney to Hobart yacht race of 1998.

48155
McHUGH, Evan
SHIPWRECKS - Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters
$10.00 AUD

Penguin. Melbourne. 2005. 1st Penguin Books edition, of the 2003 original. XVI, 336, (8 publications) PP with 1 sail plan, 1 compass rose, 13 headpieces and 15 maps, plus 16 pages with 16 colour and 17 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 13. 014300039X

13 shipwrecks: Trial in 1622 - Batavia in 1629 - Sydney Cove in 1797 - Stirling Castle in 1836 - Cataraqui in 1845 ... Sydney to Hobart yacht race of 1998.

42644
McKAY, Gary
TRACY - The Storm that Wiped out Darwin on Christmas Day 1974
$10.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. XV, 213 PP with 1 b/w photo, 1 map, 1 sketch and 1 plan of Darwin, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15. 1865085588

36079
McKEE, Alexander
FROM MERCILESS INVADERS - The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
$10.00 AUD

Souvenir Press. London. 1987. 2nd edition of the 1963 original, completely revised and reset, with additional material. 288 PP with 1 map and 2 line figures, plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illust. Eps: Map of the Channel with Armada campaign. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0285627953

69001
McKEE, Alexander
HOW WE FOUND THE MARY ROSE
$10.00 AUD

Souvenir Press. London. 1982. 1st paperback edition. 144 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, sketches, photos), plus 16 pages with 37 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on half title page, ex-library stamps on half title page, title page & rear endpapers, shelf number at lower corner of front cover. Contents clean and still a very good copy. 23 x 17.5. 0285625446

42743
McNIVEN, Ian J., RUSSELL, Lynette &, SCHAFFER, Kay (editors)
CONSTRUCTIONS OF COLONIALISM - Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck
$20.00 AUD

Leicester University Press. London. 1998. Paperback edition. VIII, (2), 192 PP with 3 maps and 8 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 0718501713

Wreck of the Stirling Castle.

68920
MEARNS, David L.
LOST & FOUND - The Epic Search for HMAS Sydney Wreck (in the Weekend Australian Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

Nationwide News. Sydney. 2017. Issue July 22-23, 2017. 60 PP. Contains article pages 28 to 31 with 2 colour and 3 b/w photos. Pictorial soft wrappers. Fine. 27.5 x 22.3.

75945
MEARNS, David L.
THE SEARCH FOR THE SYDNEY
$20.00 AUD

HarperCollins. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. Prologue by Lieutenant John Perryman. (8), 264 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus double folded plate with art works in colour . Hard cover, device and position of wreck in latitude and longitude on front cover, dj (verso: profile and plans on H.M.A.S. Sydney). Neat stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. 30.2 x 23.5. 9780732288891

35404
MELLEFONT, Jeffrey & HOSTY, Kieran (editors)
MARY ROSE - Life & Death on Henry VIII's Lost Warship
$15.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed. Forteword by Dr. Kevin Fewster, Director. 16 PP with b/willustrations ( 6 sketches, 4 photos), and 25 colour photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 28 x 21. 0646188089

Catalogue of an Australian touring exhibition in 1994/95.

32136
MEW, F.
BACK OF THE WIGHT
$10.00 AUD

The Country Press. Isle of Wight. 1965. 5th impression. Reprint with additions to the 1934 original. (10), 116 PP, plus 12 b/w photos. Fp: Wreck of the Clarendon. Cloth cover, dj. Small pieces missing from dust jacket, dedicatory note on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.

Yarns of wrecks and smuggling.

48744
MEW, F.
BACK OF THE WIGHT
$15.00 AUD

The Country Press. Isle of Wight. 1982. 10th impression. Reprint with additions to the 1934 original. (10), 116 PP, plus 12 b/w photos. Fp: Wreck of the Clarendon. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.7 x 13.5.

Yarns of wrecks and smuggling.

75478
MILES, Jonathan
MEDUSA: The Shipwreck - The Scandal - The Masterpiece
$15.00 AUD

Pimlico. London,. 2008. 1st paperback edition of the 2007 original. XIII, 334, (4) PP with 3 line drawings, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 9781845951450

22388
MILLER, David.
THE WRECK OF THE ISABELLA
$20.00 AUD

Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1995. 1st US edition. XII, 259 PP with 8 tables, 2 maps, 2 plans & 2 family trees, plus 8 pages with 7 bw photos. Eps: map of the Falkland Islands. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 24 x 15.8. 1557507686

Wreck on the Falkland Islands, of the Merchant Brig Isabella. Rescue of the castaways by the American sealing brig Nanina. Great Britain and the USA being then at war, the British took over the US ship, aftermath...

69127
MILLER, William H.
DOOMED SHIPS. Great Ocean Liner Disasters
$30.00 AUD

Dover. New York. 2006. 1st Ed. X, 118 PP with 193 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 22.4. 0486453669

The lavish interiors of the magnificent liners which sailed between the 1890's and the 1980's.

69966
MINTO, Captain Tom & STEVENS, Eric
THE SEARCH FOR THE "KOBENHAVEN" and Other True Stories of the Depression Years
$20.00 AUD

Graeme K. Andrews. Sydney. 1984. Edition limited to 1000 hand numbered copies (No. 13 / 1000). 52 PP with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a few rubs, lower margin of a few pages with old water stains in the margin, o/wise contents near fine. 23.5 x 16.5. 0959672311

Graphic descriptions of life on a square-rigger in 1936 and on a coal burner ship in 1929. The last voyage of the Parma by Eric Stevens.

63677
MOIR, Peter & CRAWFORD, Ian
CLYDE SHIPWRECKS
$20.00 AUD

Moir.Crawford. Wemyss Bay. 1988. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 37 location maps (in colour) with insets, 5 coloured plans, and b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, photos). Inside front cover: S.S. Mountclare. Inside back cover: S.S. Margareta. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 14.7 x 21. 0951336606

52869
MONTALI, Jean-Marie
TRESOR EN MER DE CHINE (in Le Figaro Magazine)
$10.00 AUD

Le Figaro Magazine. Paris. 1992. Issue No. 3, 19 May 1992. Contains article between pages 82 and 94 with 1 drawing, 1 map, 2 sets of artworks and 11 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 23.

Expedition of Franck Goddio / ELF, on the wreck of the San Diego, off the Philippines Islands.

50503
MONTLUCON, Jacques
L'ELECTRICITE POUR METTRE A NU LES OBJETS ARCHEOLOGIQUES
$5.00 AUD

La Recherche. Paris. 1986. Extract from issue 174, February 1986. 4 PP with 1 graph and 7 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 30 x 22.

Electricity and recovery of underwater archaeological artifacts.

41335
MOORE, W. Robert
THE GARDEN ISLES OF SCILLY / ISLES OF WRECKS AND GOLDEN DAFFODILS (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD

NGS. Washington. 1938. Volume LXXIV, No. 6, December 1938. Contains article from P.755 to 774 with 1 map, 9 b/w and 13 colour photos. Soft cover (rubbbed). Good. 25.5 x 17.5.

Isles off Land's End, Cornwall.

52708
MORAN, Vivienne
LOST OFF THE COAST- Southern Ocean Shipwreck Trail
$10.00 AUD

Heritage South Australia. Adelaide. 2000. 1st Ed. 45 PP with 1 map, 1 graph and 32 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0759010056

Ships lost on the South East coast of South Australia: Port MacDonnell to the Coorong.

43185
MORDHORST, Jan
RETTEN, WAS ZU RETTEN LIST: Dramatische Schiffsbergungen
$25.00 AUD

Koehler. Herford. 1994. 1st Ed. 137 PP with sketches, plans , maps, 26 colour and 90 b/w photos. Eps: Salvage of the Estrella. Hard cover, dj. Fine. German text. 27.5 x 21.5. 3782206045

Saved - Dramatic salvage: Tanker Aquarius in the Indian Ocean... Cargo ship Estrella... Tug boat Wotan...

18408
MORRIS, Keith, ROWLANDS, Peter
EXPLORING SHIPWRECKS
$15.00 AUD

Artists House. London. 1993. Reprint of 1980 edition. 192 PP with b/w & col. illust. Laminated pictorial boards, dust jacket with a few chips/closed tears. Stamp of the Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum at top of title-page, o/wise contents near fine. 27.8 x 22.2. 0861341074

Describes seven very different wreck sites: Mediterranean, Red Sea, Caribbean, Orkney Is., The Great Lakes, off Bermuda & Truk Lagoon.

74651
MORRIS, Keith, ROWLANDS, Peter
EXPLORING SHIPWRECKS
$15.00 AUD

Gallery Books. New York. 1988. 1st US edition. 192 PP with b/w & col. illust. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Stamp (discreet) of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania at top of half title-page. Front end paper with remnants of sticker with address of previous owner. Near fine. 27.8 x 22.2. 0831730951

Describes seven very different wreck sites: Mediterranean, Red Sea, Caribbean, Orkney Is., The Great Lakes, off Bermuda & Truk Lagoon.

16359
MOSCOW, Alvin
COLLISION COURSE, The Story of the Collision between the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm
$20.00 AUD

Grosset & Dunlap. New York. 1981. Reprint of the 1959 original. 345 PP, plus 32 pages with b/w illustrations. Eps: Andrea Doria sinking. Cloth cover, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0448120194

65088
MOSCOW, Alvin
COLLISION COURSE
$5.00 AUD

Dell Book. London. 1962. 1st UK paperback edition of the 1959 US original. 233 PP with 4 line drawings, plus 4 pages with 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers rubbed. Ageing of paper. Good reading copy. 17.6 x 11.2.

The Andrea Doria and the Stockholm.

68383
MOSCOW, Alvin
COLLISION COURSE, The Story of the Collision between the "Andrea Doria" and the "Stockholm"
$15.00 AUD

Longmans. London. 1959. 1st Ed. XII, (2), 238 PP with 3 plans and 2 diagrams, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos, 2 plans and 2 graphs. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Head and foot of spine of dust jacket rubbed. Front endpaper with signature of previous owner and a rubbed patch. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.2.

64404
MOSS, Linda & STAMMERS, Michael
LIVERPOOL's SOUTH DOCKS - An Archaeological and Historical Survey: Part 1 Mann Island - Wapping Basin
$20.00 AUD

Merseyside County Museums. Liverpool. c.1970. 1st Ed., with a preface by Richard Foster. 79 PP with b/w illustrations (11 figures and 79 photos). Pictorial soft covers a little soiled, o/wise near fine. 30 x 21. 0906367085

22316
MUCKELROY, Keith (editor)
ARCHEOLOGY UNDER WATER. An Atlas of the World's Submerged Sites
$25.00 AUD

McGraw-Hill Books. New York. 1980. 1st Ed. 192 PP with maps, charts, diagrams plus bw & colour photos. Title page: Diver inspecting a storage jar. Half-title page: Diver recovering a Roman amphora. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 28.5 x 22.5. 0070439516

Wrecks & sites (ports & cities) from Scandinavia to Middle America and from 1200 BC to the end of the 19th century.

58107
MUCKELROY, Keith (editor)
ARCHAEOLOGY UNDER WATER. An Atlas of the World's Submerged Sites
$25.00 AUD

McGraw-Hill Books. New York. 1980. 1st Ed. 192 PP with maps, charts, diagrams plus bw & colour photos. Title page: Diver inspecting a storage jar. Half-title page: Diver recovering a Roman amphora. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped and with a few small nicks and small piece missing at rear top near spine). Edges are rubbed (shelf wear) and dust jacket is in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 28.5 x 22.5. 0070439516

Wrecks & sites (ports & cities) from Scandinavia to Middle America and from 1200 BC to the end of the 19th century.

70049
MUDIE, Ian
THE WRECK OF THE ADMELLA
$10.00 AUD

Nelson. Melbourne. 1984. Reprint of the 1978 edition (adapted by Margaret MacPherson from the 1966 original). 72 PP with 1 plan & 3 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover. Very good. 17.5 x 11. 017005313X

The wreck of "Admella", one of Australia's coastal steamers, in 1859, on a passage from Port Adelaide to Melbourne.

63731
N/A
SHIPWRECKS on the Coasts of Victoria and the Islands of Bass Strait
$25.00 AUD

Marine History Postcards. Geelong. c. 1990. Binder with 32 b/w postcards: 20 of windjammers, 12 of motor ships or steamships. Very good. Format - postcards: 9 x 14 / folder: 25 x 19.

Includes photos of the Blencathra, British Admiral, Carnarvon Bay, Cataraqui ... on King Island.

75510
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 22, No. 4, April, 1956
$20.00 AUD

Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Kangaroo at bay awaits the attack). Very good. Format: 32 x 25.

Articles include: Honouring Governor Arthur Phillip (K. Norman), Progress on the Snowy River Scheme (L.H. McCausland), The Story of the Zeewyck (W. Charnley), ...

42637
NASH, Michael
CARGO FOR THE COLONY - The 1797 Wreck of the Merchant Ship Sydney Cove
$25.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 2001. 2nd edition of the 1996 original. VIII, 199 PP with 4 maps, colour & b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. As new. 25 x 17.7.. 095865617

Wrecked in 1797 on a voyage Calcutta to Port Jackson on Preservation Island in the Furneaux Group. First merchant ship wrecked after the establishment of the colony of New South Wales.

57679
NASH, Michael
SYDNEY COVE - The History and Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Shipwreck
$60.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2009. Expanded edition of the 2001 "Cargo for a Colony". (4), 284 PP with 4 maps, 7 charts, colour & b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.5 x 21.5 9780975133156

Wrecked in 1797 on a voyage from Calcutta to Port Jackson on Preservation Island in the Furneaux Group. First merchant ship wrecked after the establishment of the colony of New South Wales.

69794
NASH, Michael
CARGO FOR THE COLONY, The Wreck of the Merchant Ship Sydney Cove
$20.00 AUD

Braxus Press. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed. X, 118 PP with 4 maps, 6 colour & 21 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.2 x 14.2. 1875818014

Wrecked in 1797, on a voyage Calcutta to Port Jackson, on Preservation Island in the Furneaux Group. First merchant ship wrecked after the establishment of the colony of New South Wales.

70599
NASH, Michael & BROXAM, Graeme
SHIPWRECKS IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS 1622 -1850
$50.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2019. 1st Ed. VIII, 288 PP with b/w or colour illustrations (charts & location maps, plans, drawings, paintings and photos). Eps: General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and spine, dj. Signed on title page by Graeme Broxam, publisher and co-author. New. 27.4 x 21.8. 97809992366087

64918
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
HISTORY SALVAGE FROM THE SEA / COLONIZATION AND TRADE IN THE NEW WORLD
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1977. Folded poster. Double sided supplement to Volume 152, No. 6, December 1977. History side with artworks by Richard Schlecht. Colonization side with chart by William Peele and Richard K Rogers. Few repaired tears at fold. Very good. Poster size: 57.5 x 76. Folded size: 28.8 x 19.

16334
NAYLER, Geoff
WRECKS AND RELICS
$5.00 AUD

Author. Melbourne. c. 1980. Expanded edition. 64 PP with 65 b/w photos (24 on full page). Title-page: Sea encrustacean being removed from a wheel. Pictorial card cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 14. 0909853762

A pictorial record of 30 well-known wrecks on the Central Victorian coast.

17279
NAYLER, Geoff
MY CEILING THE WAVES
$30.00 AUD

Geoff Nayler / Wedneil Publications. Melbourne. c. 1972. 1st Ed. 88 PP with 1 plan, 3 maps & 35 b/w photos plus 32 pages with 29 full-page colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Some light wear, creases, near corners, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.

The diving experiences on wrecks in Australian waters and Truk Lagoon (Micronesia).

20343
NELSON, Daniel A.
GHOST SHIPS OF THE WAR OF 1812, Hamilton & Scourge [in National Geographic Magazine]
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1983. Volume 163, No.3, March 1983. Includes article from P.288 to 313 with 1 map and 26 bw and colour illust. Pict. soft cover (bodice of Hamilton's figurehead). Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Sunk in a squall on 8th of August 1813, in the south west corner of lake Ontario. Discovered by side-scan sonar in 1975 and inspected by Cousteau diving saucer in 1980.

18583
NEWTON, John G.
HOW WE FOUND THE MONITOR (in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 147, No.1)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1975. January 1975. Contains article P. 48 to 61 with bw and colour illust. Pictorial. soft cover. Lacks the back cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Sunk off Cape Hatteras.

75692
NOBLE, Captain John
HAZARDS OF THE SEA - Three Centuries of Challenge in Southern Waters
$15.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed. 251 PP, plus 16 pages with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is price clipped and with a sunned spine. Stamps and markings of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Very good. 22 x 14.5.

Tragic and dramatic events in the seas around Australia and New Zealand, between the wreck of the Tryal in 1622 and the wreck of the Wahine in 1968.

30064
NORFOLK, Lawrence
THE POPE'S RHINOCEROS
$10.00 AUD

Sinclair-Stevenson. London. 1996. 1st UK Ed. (8), 608 PP. Illustrated card cover. Fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 1856194132

Wreck of the Portuguese Nossa Senhora da Ajuda, off the coast of Italy with a rhinoceros from the Indian Kingdom of Gujarat. Reasons behind such an odd gift to Pope Leo X, initiated on the Island of Usedom in the Baltic. Historical novel.

39190
NUTLEY, David
REVEALING THE PAST - An Introduction to Maritime Archaeology
$5.00 AUD

NSW Heritage Office. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. 8 PP with 5 b/w illustrations and 8 colour photos. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21.

Information sheet.

39590
NZ MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT
PRELIMINARY INQUIRY MIKHAIL LERMONTOV
$10.00 AUD

Ministry of Transport. Wellington. 1986. Photocopy of a 9 pages (printed on recto only) report by S. J. Ponsford, Marine Inspector, Ministry of Transport, New Zealand. Contained in a clear plastic folder. Image shows the first page. Very good. 29.7 x 21.

Published 10 days after the grounding on 16 February 1986 at 17.37 while entering Ship Cove, and subsequent sinking the same day at 22.50 in the southernmost part of Port Gore Bay.

48679
O'MAY, Harry (compiler)
WRECKS IN TASMANIAN WATERS, 1797-1950
$25.00 AUD

T. J. Hughes, Government Printer Tasmania. Hobart. c. 1970. Reprint. 209, (V Index) PP, plus 26 pages at rear with 45 b/w photos & 1 folded map at back. Fp: Schooner Mariner, 1925. Red cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dust jacket with a few small nicks and in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.

Comprehensive details of ships wrecked in the treacherous seas around Tasmania.

66061
O'RILEY, Ivan
AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS AND TREASURE
$15.00 AUD

Southdown Press. Melbourne. c. 1970. 1st Ed. Parade Special. 56 PP with 1 sails plan, 11 location maps and b/w illustrations. Stapled wrappers. Small piece torn at lower corner of front cover. Very good. 28 x 20.2. 0868600644

12 stories of shipping calamities in Australasian waters.

60178
OELAND, Glen
THE H.L. HUNTLEY: Secret Weapon of the Confederacy (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

N.G.S. Washington. 2002. Volume 202, No. 1, July 2002. 130 PP. Contains article from P. 82 to 101 with 2 maps and colour illustrations (artwork by Richard Schlecht and photos by Ira Block). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Raising Hunley, Civil War submarine.

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

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

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

76179
PARROTT, Daniel S.
TALL SHIPS DOWN: The Last Voyages of the "PAMIR", "ALBATROSS", "MARQUES", "PRIDE OF BALTIMORE", and "MARIA ASUMPTA"
$40.00 AUD

International Marine / McGraw-Hill. Camden, Me. / New York. 2003. 1st printing of the soft cover edition. XVI, 336 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (8 silhouettes of tall ships, artworks, drawings & graphs, sketches, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Rubbed patch at top of half-title page, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 22 x 14.5. 007143545X

17597
PARSONS, Ronald
SHIPWRECKS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA - 1836-1875 (Book 1)
$10.00 AUD

Ronald Parsons. Magill. 1986. March 1986 edition of the 1981 original. IV, 79 PP, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Stapled typescript monograph printed on 2 columns. Pictorial soft covers with a few light marks, Oblong: 16 x 20.6. 0909418187

22028
PARSONS, Ronald
PORT LINCOLN SHIPPING, Whalers, disasters, and the sea link with Adelaide
$15.00 AUD

Ronald Parsons. Magill, S.A. 1981. 1st Ed. III, 73 PP, plus 6 pages with 1 sketch and 6 b/w photos. Stapled typescript monograph. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. Oblong: 15.8 x 20.6. 0909418195

Port Lincoln: early history, whaling, advent of steam, shipwrecks and casualties.

64430
PARSONS, Ronald & PLUNKETT, Geoff
SCUTTLED AND ABANDONED SHIPS IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS
$15.00 AUD

Ronald Parsons. Lobethal, S.A. 1998. Revised edition of the May 1995 original. Typescript monograph. IV, 55 PP, plus 1 plate with 5 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers. Stamp of previous owner on front cover and title page. Very good. 21 x 14.5. 0909418616

69800
PATERSON, Lance
WRECK-OLLECTIONS: SHIPS AND SHIPWRECKS IN QUEENSLAND WATERS - Volume 4
$60.00 AUD

Author. Caloundra, Qld. 2018. 1st Ed. (XI), 101 PP with 2 maps, 58 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, photos) and 25 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.4 x 20.6. 9780646987378

46024
PERKES, Dan
TWENTIETH-CENTURY SHIPWRECKS - A Pictorial History
$15.00 AUD

Contemporary Books. Chicago. 1983. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 127 PP with 3 maps and 140 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers rubbed at hinges and front edges. Very good. 28 x 21.8. 0809255758

66035
PERRIN, Andrew
OUTER LIMITS - On Patrol in our Northern Seas "Ashmore Reef" (in Australian Geographic, No. 64, Oct-Dec 2001)
$10.00 AUD

Australian Geographic. Sydney. 2001. 128 PP. Contains article from P. 62 to 73 with colour illustrations (1 map and insets, 1 artwork by Marje Crosby-Fairall and 11 photos by Kevin Deacon). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

18405
PETERSON, Mendel
REACH FOR THE NEW WORLD (in National Geographic Magazine)
$15.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1977. Vol. 152, No. 6, December, 1977. Includes article P.724 to 765 with 1map, 1 b/w photo and 45 colour illustrations (photographs by David L. Arnold and Paintings by Richard Schlecht). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

Wrecks off Bermuda & other Caribbean islands or on the lost city of Port Royal (Jamaica).

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.

19516
PICKFORD, Nigel
THE ATLAS OF SHIPWRECK & TREASURE - The History, Location, and Treasure-trove of Ships Lost at Sea
$45.00 AUD

Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1994. 1st Australian Edition. 200 PP with b/w & colour illust. (engravings, maps & photos). Gazetteer: P.120-159. Shipwrecks Listing: P.160-200. Illustrated title page, half title page & endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Light foxing on the inside of dust jacket flaps, top of dust jacket has light shelf wear, o/wise a fine copy. Large format: 31.5 x 26. 086438615X

36800
PICKFORD, Nigel
LOST TREASURE SHIPS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
$30.00 AUD

Pavilion Books. London. 1999. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 1 map on double page, and b/w or colour illust. Fp: Colour poster of Cunard Line with Lusitania. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.2 x 23.8. 1862050791

17 of these Treasure Ships (Republic, Titanic, Lusitania, Empress of Britain... Awa Maru). Map with location of 174 of the lost treasure ships.

60162
PISKURIC, Sally (designer)
HISTORIC SHIP WRECKS - Admella - Dunbar - Loch Ard
$10.00 AUD

Australia Post. Melbourne. c.2009. Colour illustrated folder containing 3 unfranked stamps. Fine. Format: 10.5 x 16.5.

Stamps depicting the shipwrecks of: Admella on the coat of South Australia - Loch Ard on the coast of Victoria - Dunbar at the entrance of Sydney, New South Wales.

66173
PLAYFORD, P. E.
THE WRECK OF THE ZUYTDORP, On the Western Australian coast in 1712
$30.00 AUD

W.A. Historical Society. Perth. 1976. Reprint of the 1959 original article published in "Early Days", Journal and Proceedings of the W. A. Historical Society, Inc. - Vol.5, Part 5, pp.5-41. 36 PP with 3 maps & 7 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. 1 post card of the model of Zuytdorp and 4 pages 'The Beardman Jug Replicas', loosely inserted. Fine. 21.3 x 13.6.

A brief account of the other V.O.C. wrecks, then the Zuytdorp wreck, north of Gantheaume Bay.

40636
(POSTER)
AUSTRALIA'S HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS - Museums beneath the Sea
$10.00 AUD

Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. Folded poster 60 x 21.2 (12 folds) with 9 maps on the inside and 6 b/w illustrations. Fine. Folded size: 21.2 x 10.

Ownership, Protection, Historic Shipwrecks Laws...

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

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

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

72670
POWLING, J. W.
THE MAHOGANY SHIP - A Survey of the Evidence
$75.00 AUD

Osburne Group. Warrnambool, Vic. 2003. 1st Ed. (8), 99 PP with b/w illustrations (2 location maps, sketch plans, facsimile of docments). Pictorial stiff covers. Signed and dated by the author on inside front cover. Fine (as new condition). 29.7 x 21 0959257632

30630
PROTASIO, John
TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - True Accounts of Major Ship Disasters
$10.00 AUD

Robson Books. London. 1991. 1st UK Ed. (9), 213 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Hard cover. A little light foxing, o/wise fine. Image shows title-page. 24 x 16. 0860517381

19 accounts of disasters and shipwrecks. The Arctic, the Maine, Titanic, Lusitania.. Herald of Free Enterprise.

69978
QUARRELL, Avis
Touring The SHIPWRECK COAST
$10.00 AUD

Covell Publications. Warrnambool, Vic. 1990. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 16 drawings and 55 colour photos. Inside back cover: map of the shipwreck coast with 2 location maps. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0949068152

67892
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
A BILL RELATING TO WRECK CASUALTIES AND SALVAGE
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1879. Bill of 18th June 1879. 10 PP (stitched). Foxing spots on outside pages. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67895
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Respecting "WRECKS AND SALVAGE BILL" Reserved for Royal Assent
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1880. Despatch presented to both Houses of Parliament, 22nd February 1880. 3 PP. Faint foxing, paper aged. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67896
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Respecting UNCLAIMED SALVAGE
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1880. Despatch presented to both Houses of Parliament, 16th July 1880. 2 PP. Edges chipped with a few closed tears, o/wise good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67897
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Transmitting TERRITORIAL WATERS JUDICATURE ACT, 1878
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1880. Despatch presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1st December 1879. 2 PP. Paper aged with a few chips or repaired tears. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67898
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Transmitting DECLARATION BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND FRENCH GOVERNMENTS PROLONGING THE DURATION OF THE EXISTING TREATIES OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1880. Despatch presented to both Houses of Parliament, 24th January 1880. 1 PP. Paper ageing with a small closed tear. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67901
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Transmitting ORDER OF HER MAJESTY IN COUNCIL RESPECTING CREWS OF DANISH SHIPS, Etc.
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1882. Despatch transmitted to both Houses of Parliament, 8th August 1881. 1 PP. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67902
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
AGREEMENT BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND DENMARK RELATIVE TO MERCHANT SEAMEN DESERTERS
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1882. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 7th November 1881. 1 PP. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67903
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Containing Note from Swedish Minister respecting new system of TONNAGE MEASUREMENT IN SWEDEN
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1882. Despatch transmitted to both Houses of Parliament, 12th April 1882. 1 PP. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67904
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Orders in Council respecting TONNAGE MEASUREMENT OF SHIPS OF THE KINGDOMS OF SWEDEN AND HAYTI
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1882. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 8th June 1882. 2 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67905
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Her Majesty's Order in Council respecting CANDIDATES FOR CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY IN THE MERCANTILE MARINE
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1882. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 4th August 1882. 3 PP. Faint foxing and a few small chips. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67906
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Declaration between British and Russian Governments respecting TONNAGE MEASUREMENT OF SHIPS
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1882. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1st July 1882. 1 PP. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67907
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Order in Council exempting from re-measurement SHIPS OF THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1883. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1st September 1882. 2 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67909
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Respecting ORDER IN COUNCIL EXEMPTING FROM REMEASUREMENT SHIPS BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1883. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 10th April 1883. 2 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67910
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Order in council exempting from re-measurement DANISH STEAM VESSELS
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1883. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 22nd May 1883. 2 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67911
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Respecting AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND ITALIAN GOVERNMENTS FOR THE MUTUAL RELIEF OF DISTRESSED SEAMEN
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1883. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 10th September 1883. 2 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67912
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Amendment of, Relating to Colonial Courts of Inquiry - MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1883. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 25th September 1882. 2 PP. Faint foxing with a few small chips. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67914
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch enclosing Instructions for Examination of Candidates for Master and Mate's Certificates - MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1883. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 8th April 1883. 1 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67915
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Order in Council for Giving Effect to REVISED REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA
$15.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1884. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 5th September 1884. 4 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

Includes: Rules concerning Lights, Sound Signals for Fog, Steering and Sailing Rules...

67917
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
REGULATION FOR FIXING THE POSITION OF THE LOAD LINE REQUIRED UNDER THE 93rd SECTION OF "THE NAVIGATION ACT OF 1876" ....
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1884. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 25th August 1884. 1 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67919
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Respecting DECLARATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SWEDEN AND NORWAY, RESPECTING PRIVILEGES OF COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1884. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 9th November 1883. 1 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67920
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Further Despatch Relating to the EXEMPTION OF NORWEGIAN SHIPS FROM TONNAGE MEASUREMENT
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1884. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 28th February 1884. 2 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67922
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Transmitting AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND EGYPT RESPECTING COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1884. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 22nd July 1884. 3 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67923
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Transmitting Order in Council for ARREST OF SEAMEN DESERTERS FROM RUSSIAN, NORWEGIAN AND SWEDISH, AND PERUVIAN SHIPS
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1884. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 2nd September 1884. 1 PP. Small closed tears, o/wise very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67924
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Despatch Transmitting Order in Council Respecting ISSUE OF COLONIAL CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY TO OFFICERS OF BRITISH VESSELS
$15.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1891. C.A. 111-1891, Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 31st August 1891. 7 PP. Rusty staples removed. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

67925
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
Termination of TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND PORTUAL
$5.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1891. C.A. 77-1891, Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 7th July 1891. 1 PP. Faint foxing. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

68436
QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT
TONNAGE MEASUREMENT OF ITALIAN VESSELS
$10.00 AUD

James C. Beal, Government Printer. Brisbane. 1883. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 6th March, 1883. 1 PP. Top edge rubbed with small closed tears. Very good. Folio: 33 x 21.5.

72745
QUINN, William P.
SHIPWRECKS ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST - A remarkable collection of photographs of maritime incidents from Maine to Florida.
$40.00 AUD

Commonwealth Edition. Beverly, Mass. 2004. New and redesigned edition of the 1988 original. XII, 244 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, paintings and photos). Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket with light wear and a few small nicks, o/wise near fine. 26 x 21. 9781889833736

A collection of photographs and data covering the period from the late 1800's to the 1980s.

46573
RAIOAOA, Tavae & DUROY, Lionel
SI LOIN DU MONDE
$20.00 AUD

Ohéditions. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed. 177 PP, plus 8 pages with 1 coloured map on double page, 1 facsimile of a letter, 3 b/w and 15 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. A little light foxing, o/wise fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2915056064

Narrative of a fisherman from Faaa, Tahiti, who drifted for 118 days (15 march to 10 July 2002) and reached Aitutaki in the Cook Islands.

53770
RAO, Dr. S. R.
JOURNAL OF MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 1
$20.00 AUD

Society for Marine Archaeology / National Institute of Oceanography. Goa, India. 1990. Volume 1, January 1990. (4), 118, (2) PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 18.5.

Journal for the underwater cultural heritage of the Indian Ocean.

22328
RATHE, Gustave
THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'STEFANO' OFF THE NORTH-WEST CAPE OF AUSTRALIA IN 1875
$25.00 AUD

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New York. 1992. 1st US Ed. XIX, (3), 136 PP with 1 map & 16 b/w illust. in text plus 8 pages with 7 colour illust. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.4. 0374385858

Shipwreck of the Croatian barque "Stefano" registered in Dubrovnick, in October 1875, off Point Cloates. ... the survival of the castaway on this inhospitable coast.

43354
RATIGAN, William
GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECKS & SURVIVALS
$20.00 AUD

Galahad Books. New York. 1974. Reprint of the 1960 original. 334, (2) PP with 6 head pieces plus 12 pages with 1 map on double page and 6 illustrations by Reynold H. Weidenaar. Hard cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0883652439

67687
RAYNAL, F.E.
LES NAUFRAGES OU VINGT MOIS SUR UN RECIF DES ILES AUCKLAND, Récit Authentique par F.E. Raynal, Illustré de 40 Gravures sur bois dessinées par A. de Neuville et accompagné d'une Carte
$90.00 AUD

Librarie Hachette et Cie. Paris. 1877. 4th edition in Bibliothèque des Ecoles et des Familles. 303 PP with 1 map (folded), and 40 woodcuts by A. de Neuville. Fp: Portrait of F.E. Raynal. Marbled boards, red leather spine with gilt title, raised gilt bands and gilt decorations, ribbon page-marker. Covers a little worn around edge, inside front hinge with some wear, but overall, a very clean near fine copy. French text. Image shows title-page and Frontispiece. 27.8 x 18.5.

Three years on a sugar plantation in Mauritius, gold mining in Australia (Victoria & NSW), between 1853 & 1863. Attempt at sealing & silver mining on Campbell Island. Voyage on the schooner Grafton. Shipwrecked on Auckland Island. Departure on a small sailboat towards NZ. Rescue. Mention of the wrecks of the Invercauld & the General Grant.

17589
REINELT, W. H.
THE LOSS OF THE ORION
$20.00 AUD

Marine History Publication. Geelong. 1980. 1st Ed. 16 PP, plus 4 pages with 1 map & 3 b/w illust. Soft covers, pictorial front. A fine copy. Scarce. 20.7 x 13.8.

Lost with all hands in May 1908 on a run from Duck River near Stanley, Tasmania to Melbourne.

58258
RENFREW, Colin & BAHN, Paul
ARCHAEOLOGY, Theories, Methods, and Practice
$20.00 AUD

Thames and Hudson. London. 1997. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1996 (original of 1991). 608 PP with over 550 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 18.7. 0500276879

69499
RICHARDS, Bill & TERRY, Martin
WELCOME BATAVIA & COMMERCE AND CONQUEST: The Story of the V.O.C. (Dutch United East India Company) (in Signals No. 49)
$10.00 AUD

Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1999. Issue No. 49, December 1999 - February 2000. 40 PP. Contains 3 articles pages 4 to 9 with 3 b/w and 10 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Batavia at Lelystad, Netherlands). Fine. 29.6 x 21.

Exhibition held in 2000.

60120
RINGER, R. James
PHIPS' FLEET- Sir William Phips's ship found at Baie-Trinité, Saint Lawrence (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 2000. Volume 198, No. 2, August 2000. 124 PP. Contains article from P. 72 to 81 with 1map and 13 colour illustrations (photos by Bill Curtsinger). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Shipwreck following the attempted attack on Québec of 1690.

74475
RISING, Catrin (editor)
THE STORY OF VASA
$25.00 AUD

Swedish National Maritime Museum. Stockholm. c. 2015. English edition. 52 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (photos, drawings, maps). Inside back cover: Vasa through the centuries. Illustrated stiff covers. Postcard in colour of Vasa in the Vasa Museet, Djurgarden, Stockholm. Near fine. 24 x 16.7. 9789198471335

Her fate in 1628, her remarkable salvage and restoration.

56207
ROBERTSON, Dougal
SURVIVE THE SAVAGE SEA
$20.00 AUD

Elek Books. London. 1973. 4th impression in June 1973 of the 1973 original. 223 PP with 13 b/w photos & 33 drawings by Pam Littlewood. Eps: Colour map of the Central Eastern Pacific with routes of the yacht Lucette and the raft. Hard cover, dj. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on title page and name and date of previous owner, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22 x 14. 0236154613

The ordeal following the ramming/sinking of the schooner Lucette by killer whales on 15 June 1972. Rescued after 37 days adrift.

75191
ROBERTSON, Dougal
SURVIVE THE SAVAGE SEA
$20.00 AUD

Praeger Publishers. New York. 1973. 1st US edition. 269 PP with 13 b/w photos & 33 drawings by Pam Littlewood. Eps: Colour map of the Central Eastern Pacific with routes of the yacht "Lucette" and the raft. Cloth covers, devices and title on spine. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Very good. 21.3 x 14. 0236154613

The ordeal following the ramming / sinking of the schooner Lucette by killer whales on 15 June 1972. Rescued after 37 days adrift.

58174
ROBIE, David
EYES OF FIRE - The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior
$15.00 AUD

Lindon Publishing. Auckland. 1986. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Walter Lini. (5), 168 PP with 55 b/w illustrations (3 maps, cartoons and photos). Fp: Hole in the hull. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 17.7 x 22.7.

From Spain, through the Marshall Islands to final resting place in New Zealand.

75258
ROBIE, David
EYES OF FIRE - The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior
$100.00 AUD

Little Island Press / AUT University. Auckland. 2015. 5th edition. Preface by Bunny McDiarmid and foreword by Walter Hadye Lini. XII, 194, (4) PP with 15 colour and 50 b/w photos, 3 maps, 3 cartoons (1 in colour). Fp (in colour): Rainbow Warrior on the morning after the bombing. Pictorial soft covers. Newsletter of "Earth Island Journal" losely inserted. Dedicatory note on half title page, dated and signed by David Robie. Fine. Oblong: 17.7 x 22.7. 9781877484285

30th Anniversary Edition. From Spain, through the Marshall Islands to bombing (16/07/1985) then final resting place in New Zealand.

70254
ROBOTHAM, Rosemarie
FALKLAND'S GRAVEYARD OF SHIPS (in Life - Volume 5, No. 6)
$10.00 AUD

Time Inc. Los Angeles, CA. 1982. Volume 5, No. 6, June 1982. Editd by Richard B. Stolley. 128 PP. Contains article pages 108 to 114 with 1 b/w and 8 colour photos by Harald Sund. Pictorial soft covers. Staples removed. Near fine. 33 x 25.

Over 200 wrecks.

50814
ROE, Michael
AN IMPERIAL DISASTER: the wreck of George the Third
$35.00 AUD

Blubber Head Press. Hobart. 2006. 1st Ed. X, 294 PP with 2 pages of maps, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Broadsheet Report to Britain's Populace I. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24.3 x 16.5. 0908528329

17578
ROGERS, Stanley
HAZARDS OF THE DEEP
$20.00 AUD

W. H. Allen. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 222 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.5.

Strange tales of ships that vanished including the Ferret on regular run Glasgow-Belfast, found as Gladys in Melbourne. The never completed voyage of the brig Australia on its way from Leith to Sydney, burnt South-west of Cape Town....

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

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

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

18080
RULE, Margaret
THE MARY ROSE, The Excavation and Raising of Henry VIII's Flagship
$15.00 AUD

Conway Maritime Press. London. 1986. Reprint of the 1983 revised edition (original of 1982). 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: A watch bell found in 1982 and cast in 1510. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26.3 x 19.3. 0851773826

The raising: after 437 years and 11 years of excavations written by the archaeological director of the project.

18855
RULE, Margaret
THE MARY ROSE
$5.00 AUD

Ring Publications. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 60 PP with b/w and colour illust. Inside back cover: The lifting after 437 years under water. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 27.5 x 21.

The excavation and raising of Henry VIII's flagship.

36899
RULE, Margaret
THE MARY ROSE - A Guide
$10.00 AUD

Mary Rose Trust. London. 1989. 14th Impression. (2), 38 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Battle in The Solent. Pictorial card cover. Colour postcard "Mary Rose" cutaway, loosely inserted. Fine. Oblong: 17 x 24. 095117472X

47593
RULE, Margaret
HENRY III's LOST WARSHIP / THE SEARCH FOR MARY ROSE (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 163, No. 5, 1983)
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1983. Volume 163, No. 5, May 1983. Contains article between pages 646 and 675 with 2 maps and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.5 x 17.6.

The excavation and raising of Henry VIII's flagship.

34714
RUSSELL, W. Clark
THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR. An Account of the Mutiny of the Crew and the Loss of the Ship when trying to make the Bermudas
$20.00 AUD

A. L. Burt Publisher. New York. c. 1890. Reprint in the Cornell series of Books for Young People by Popular Writers. 301, (18 adv.) PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Ageing of paper, half title page missing. Very good. 19 x 13.

56895
RYAN, Mark, TAYLOR, Peter & WHITMORE, Mick
VICTORIA'S SHIPS' GRAVEYARD
$40.00 AUD

Scuttlebutt Press. Melbourne. 2009. 1st Ed. Introduction by Dr. Michael McCarthy. Foreword by Garry Gentile. XVI, 159 PP with 1 map on double page and 57 b/w illustrations (sketch maps, facsimile of documents and photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780980590203

67047
S.S. MERIMBULA
ABRAHAMS BOSOM RESERVE, CURRARONG / S.S. MERIMBULA
$5.00 AUD

Department of Lands. Nowra, 1988. Folded brochure, March 1988. 4 folds with 2 sketch maps, 3 b/w photos and artwork. Local newspaper clipping (March 1988, Vol. 2, No.1) with a b/w photo of the wrecked Merimbula. Very good. Format: 21.2 x 10.

Wrecked off Beecroft Head on 27 March 1928.

30603
SAMMON, Rick
RHYTHM OF THE REEF - A Day in the Life of the Coral Reef
$15.00 AUD

Swan Hill Press. London. 1996. 1st Uk Ed. of the 1995 US original. 120 PP with 1 map of threatened Coral Reefs, 1 drawing (formation of Reef Types) and 117 colour photos. Title spread: glassy sweepers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.8 x 25.6. 1853107417

Sunrise on the reef: Red Sea. Diving at midday: Truk Lagoon...

65188
SAND, Christophe, TEREBO, Malia & LAGARDE, Louis
LE PASSE DE DEVA - Archéologie d'un domaine provincial calédonien
$60.00 AUD

Institut d'Archéologie de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et du Pacifique. Nouméa. 2013. 1st Ed., October 2013, "Archeologia Pasifika" No. 2. 80 PP with colour illustrations (1 location map, 1 map, drawings and over 80 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 23.5. 9782954167510

35351
SARPEDON PRESS SERVICES
MARY ROSE - Souvenir Guide
$20.00 AUD

The Mary Rose Trust. Old Portsmouth. 1985. 1985 edition. 64 PP with 35 pages of advertising material and 29 pages with 20 b/w and 78 colour illustrations. Inside front cover: Gun. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.

The Ship, the King and the Princess. The homecoming. The "Mary Rose": Lifestyles in a Tudor Ship, Time, Speed & Distance, The Power of the Longbow... The Final Battle, the legacy.

68413
SAUNDERS, Roy
THE RAISING OF THE "VASA", The rebirth of a Swedish galleon
$10.00 AUD

Oldbourne. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 88 PP plus 36 pages with 38 bw photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Former owner's signature on FFEP plus 2 University of Tasmania stamps and one on the inside back cover. Contents are near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.

Sunk in Stockholm harbour within minutes of the start of her maiden voyage, 10th August 1682. Lifted to the surface 24th April 1961. Museum since then.

44459
SCHEFFER, Age
VAN ZEERAMPEN EN REDDERS - Relaas van spectaculaire schipbreuken tussen egmond en eems
$10.00 AUD

Knoop & Niemeijer. Haren. 1974. 1st Ed. 151, (2 publications) PP with 1 map and 25 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Dutch text. 22.5 x 14.5.

Shipwrecks and lifeboat rescues on the coasts of the West Frisian Islands.

37736
SCHMITT, Frederick P. & SCHMID, Donald E.
H. M. S. CULLODEN
$10.00 AUD

Marine Historical Association. Mystic, Connecticut. 1961. 1st Ed., Publication No. 38. 63 PP with 17 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, vignette on front cover. Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.4 x 17.8.

74 Guns Ship-of-the-Line, launched 18th of May 1776... Wrecked January 1781 near Montauk Point, Long Island.

61338
SEAL, Jeremy
THE WRECK AT SHARPNOSE POINT - A Victorian Mystery
$10.00 AUD

Picador. London. 2001. 1st Australian edition. (12), 316 PP with b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimile of documents, photos). Fp: chart of the North coast of Cornwall, opposite Lundy Island. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0330493256

Wreck of the Caledonia in 1842, on the North coast of Cornwall.

16339
SEXTON, Rae
BEFORE THE WIND - Tracing the impact on a small community and shipping company by the shipwreck in 1888 of the Star of Greece
$5.00 AUD

Australasian Maritime Historical Society. Adelaide. 1982. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Ronald Parsons. X, 110 PP with 1 map, 17 b/w photos and drawings. Fp: Construction plans & rigging plans of the Star of Greece. Eps: Sketch showing the total wreck of the Star of Greece. Hard cover, illustrated front cover. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 21 x 13.8. 0959944834

Wrecked off Willunga, South Australia, on Fiday the 13th of July 1888.

41485
SEXTON, Rae
BEFORE THE WIND - Tracing the impact on a small community and shipping company by the shipwreck in 1888 of the Star of Greece
$20.00 AUD

Australasian Maritime Historical Society. Adelaide. 1982. 1st edition numbered and signed. X, 110 PP with 1 map, 17 b/w photos and drawings. Fp: Construction plans & rigging plans of the Star of Greece. Eps: Sketches showing the total wreck of the Star of Greece. Hard cover, illustrated front. Copy No. 197 with signature of the author on verso of title page. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21 x 13.8. 0959944834

Shipwrecked off Willunga, South Australia, on Friday the 13th of July, 1888.

37043
SHACKEL, Paul A. & LITTLE, Barbara J. (editors)
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CHESAPEAKE
$35.00 AUD

Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 1994. 1st Ed. XIV, 299 PP with over 10 tables and 85 figures. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22. 1560982578

18 papers.

33570
SHANKLAND, Peter
BYRON OF THE WAGER
$15.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 7 b/w illust. Eps: Anson's squadron off St. Catherine's Harbour on the coast of Brazil. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22 x 14.2. 0002160560

The Wager of Anson's fleet was wrecked while rounding Cape Horn. The ensuing mutiny and rebuilding of a boat with salvaged timber. The return to England.

11542
SHEARS, Richard & GIDLEY, Isobelle
THE RAINBOW WARRIOR AFFAIR
$15.00 AUD

Unwin. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. XII, 217 PP with 3 full-page maps & 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 0868618594

53783
SHIPLOVERS' SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
THE ANNUAL DOG WATCH - No.21
$15.00 AUD

Shiplovers' Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1964. Volume No. 21, 1964. Contains article between P.20 and 29 with . Edited by C. HALLS. Pictorial soft covers with a few creases, head of spine with light wear, o/wise very good. 21 x 13.8.

Article by C. Halls "The search for the Batavia", between P.20 & 29 with 1 map, 1 drawing and 3 b/w photos.

19312
SHIPWRECKS
NEW SOUTH WALES - HISTORIC SHIPWRECK
$10.00 AUD

Department of Planning. Sydney. 1992. July 1992. Set 1 in the New South Wales Historic Shipwreck series. 22 PP loose leaves, with location map, plan of diving site and a b/w profile of each ship. Contained in a clear plastic envelope. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Historical and diving information on 10 historic shipwrecks: PS Mimosa - TSS John Penn - Merimbula - Yarra Yarra - PS Commodore - Walter Hood - Ballina - SS Duckenfield - Dunbar - Queen of Nations.

40627
SHIPWRECKS
VICTORIA'S SHIPWRECK DISCOVERY TRAIL
$35.00 AUD

The Maritime Archaeology Unit / Victoria Archaeological Survey. Melbourne. 1992. 1st Ed. Ring folder containing 42 information sheets under plastic sleeves with b/w illustrations (plans, sketches, photos). Large folded flyer and a guide to maritime terminology in front pocket. Plastic folder with illustrated front cover. Fine. 31.4 x 26.

Contains individual sheets on 21 wrecks of the coasts of Victoria and Port Phillip Bay. Includes: SS Blackbird, Casino, Clarence, Coogee... Victoria Tower, SS Wauchope, William Salthouse.

40637
SHIPWRECKS
UNDERWATER HERITAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES
$5.00 AUD

Department of Planning. Sydney. c.1991. 1st Ed. Folded poster 40 x 42 (8 folds) with 1 map and 14 b/w illustrations. Fine. Folded size: 21 x 10.

Underwater Heritage Laws... Declared shipwreck sites in NSW: TSS John Penn, PS Commodore....

44997
SHIPWRECKS
NAUFRAGES EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$40.00 AUD

Fortunes de Mer Calédoniennes. Nouméa. 2003. 1st Ed. Edited by Gilbert CASTET. 124 PP with advertisements, 8 pages with chronological tables, 1 chart in colour, and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

Shipwrecks on New Caledonia coasts and reefs: windjammers, nickel ore carriers, warships and US planes during WWII...

48343
SHIPWRECKS
SHIPWRECKS AROUND THE ISLES OF SCILLY
$10.00 AUD

Gibson Collection. St Ives, Cornwall. c. 1980. 1st Ed. No pagination, 64 Pages with 102 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Torrey Canyon). Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21.

The pictorial records of the Gibson family of the Scillies, started in 1860, on tall ships & working boats, steamships & motor vessels.

71177
SHIPWRECKS
50 NAUFRAGES EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$80.00 AUD

Fortunes de Mer Calédoniennes. Nouméa. 2020. 1st edition, with a preface by Gabriel Valet. 172 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, paintings and photos) and colour illustrations (1 Index chart, 50 location maps and hundreds of photos). Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 9782955807828

Shipwrecks on New Caledonia coasts and reefs: windjammers, nickel ore carriers, warships, and US planes during WWII... Wreck of a 40 m. long cargo freighter (drug ?, refugees? ...) on Bampton Reef discovered in April 2019.

36411
[SHIPWRECKS]
THE WORLD'S WORST DISASTERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
$15.00 AUD

Octopus Books. London. 1983. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w photos. Laminated boards. Near fine. 21.6 x 15. 0706419383

Mont Pelée Volcano (1902)... Titanic (1912)... Morro Castle (1934)... North Sea oil rig disaster (1980)...

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.

20981
SHOMETTE, Donald G.
HEYDAY OF THE HORSE FERRY [in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 176, No.4]
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1989. October 1989. Contains article P. 548 to 556 with 1 plan, 5 bw and 8 colour illust. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

A long-forgotten animal-powered craft is discovered on the bottom of Lake Champlain.

44507
SILVERBERG, Robert
TREASURES BENEATH THE SEA
$10.00 AUD

Scholastic Book Services. New York. 1971. Juvenile edition. 6th printing of the 1960 original. 78 PP with colour illustrations by Mort Kunstler [1 map on double page, 6 head pieces (location map) and 20 drawings]. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. 20.5 x 15.2.

35736
SIMPSON, Colin
LUSITANIA
$5.00 AUD

Penguin Books. London. 1974. 1st paperback edition of the 1972 original published by Longman. 295, (8 adv.) PP with 1 facsimile of document and 3 diagrams. Pictorial soft cover (creased). Name of previous owner. Some foxing. Good reading copy. 18.2 x 11.2. 0140037934

Startling truth about one of the most fateful disasters of the sea: the torpedoing of the Lusitania.

39054
SIMPSON, Colin
LUSITANIA
$5.00 AUD

Penguin Books. London. 1974. 1st paperback edition of the 1972 original published by Longman. 295, (8 adv.) PP with 1 facsimile of document and 3 diagrams. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 18.2 x 11.2. 140037934

Startling truth about one of the most fateful disasters of the sea: the torpedoing of the Lusitania.

15169
SJOVOLD, Thorleif
THE VIKING SHIPS IN OSLO
$20.00 AUD

Universitetets Oldsaksamling. Oslo. 1985. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 3 sets of line drawings, 2 plans and 22 photos) & 6 colour photos. Inside front cover: Plan of the Viking Ship Hall. Inside back cover: Plan of the Oseberg Collections. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 24 x 17.

The Oseberg Find, the Gokstad Find, the Borre Find, ..

72337
SKOWRONEK, Russell K. & FISCHER, George R.
HMS FOWEY, LOST AND FOUND: Being the Discovery, Excavation and Identification of a British Man-of-War Lost off the Cape Florida in 1748
$60.00 AUD

University Press of Florida. Gainesville, Fl. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith. XXV, 233, (3) PP with figures. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 23.5 x 16. 9780813033204

64434
SMALL, Isaac M.
SHIPWRECKS ON CAPE COD - The story of a few of the many hundred shipwrecks which have occurred on Cape Cod
$15.00 AUD

The Chatham Press. Riverside, Connecticut. c. 1967. Reprint of the 1928 original. 86 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, drawings, tail-pieces and photos). Fp: Portrait of Isaac M. Small. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.3.

41307
SMITH, Carl
GOWER COAST SHIPWRECKS
$35.00 AUD

Sou'wester Books. Swansea. 1993. 1st Ed. 105 PP with 1 chart, 1 map, 2 drawings, 13 newspaper clippings and 38 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 19.8 x 20.8. 0951528149

Peninsula from southern Wales, jutting into the Bristol Channel.

60181
SMITH, Roff
SHIPWRECK IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE: Portuguese merchant ship (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 2009. Volume 216, No. 4, October 2009. 130 PP. Contains article from P.116 to 127 with 1 map and colour illustrations (3 artworks by Jon Foster and 8 photos by Amy Toensing). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Portuguese trading vessel, sunk in 1533, off the southern coastline of Namibia.

21751
SNOW, Edward Rowe
MARINE MYSTERIES AND DRAMATIC DISASTERS OF NEW ENGLAND
$20.00 AUD

Dodd, Mead & Co. New York. 1976. 1st Ed. X, (2), 238 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 bw illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21 x 14.2. 0396073786

Along the waterfront (bank robbery, fire), on the coast (piracy...) and offshore (shipwrecks...).

36516
SPENCER, Mark
THE WRECK OF THE CATTERTHUN (in Australian Geographic, No. 27, 1992)
$10.00 AUD

Australian Geographic Society. Sydney. 1992. Issue No. 27, July-September 1992. 128 PP. Contains article from P.100 to 115 with 1 location map, 1 plan, 4 b/w and 18 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

Inter-colonial trader S.S. Catterthun owned by Eastern and Australian Steamship Co., sunk off Seal Rocks in August 1895 with loss of 55 lives.

63913
SPENCER, Mark
DIVING THE CUMBERLAND (in Australian Geographic, No. 77, Jan-Mar 2005)
$10.00 AUD

Australian Geographic. Sydney. 2005. 128 PP. Contains article from P. 80 to 87 with 4 b/w photos and 14 colour illustrations (1 map, 1 painting by Mike Golding, and 12 photos). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

Dive on the wreck of the Twin Screw Steamer Cumberland sunk after hiting a mine laid by the German Raider "Wolf", on the 6th of July 1917.

74914
STAMMERS, Michael
LIVERPOOL - The Port and its Ships
$15.00 AUD

Alan Sutton. Stroud, UK. 1991. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (prints, paintings and c. 160 photographs)s. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 24.7 x 17. 9780862997281

37486
STANBURY, Myra
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL - a catalyst in the development of the Western Australian Maritime Museum
$15.00 AUD

Western Australian Museum. Perth. 1991. 1st Ed. (2), 26 PP with 2 drawings and 9 b/w photos. Stapled pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0730946371

58886
STANBURY, Myra
EXAMINATION OF HISTORIC SHIPWRECK MATERIAL - Confidential Report prepared for Heritage South Australia / Department for Environment and Heritage
$15.00 AUD

Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum. Fremantle. 2004. Report No. 187, June 2004. VIII, 16 PP with 2 tables and 27 figures. Soft cover, pictorial front with clear plastic cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

56142
STANBURY, Myra (editor)
THE BARQUE EGLINTON - wrecked Western Australia 1852: the history of its loss, archaeological excavation, artefact catalogue and interpretation
$60.00 AUD

AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 2003 1st Ed. A.I.M.A. Special Publication No. 13 / Special Publication Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology No. 6. XVI, 233 PP with 24 tables and 109 b/w figures (maps and plans, drawings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 1876465182

55517
STANIFORTH, Mark & NASH, Michael (Editors)
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY: Australian Approaches
$45.00 AUD

Springer. New York. 2008. 1st soft cover printing of the 2006 original. The Springer series in Underwater Archaeology. XVII, 222, (4) PP with tables and 30 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.3 x 15.6. 9780387769851

Articles by various contributors, including: Theoretical Approaches, Artifact Studies, Thematic Studies in Australian Maritime Archaeology, Individual Shipwreck Site Case Studies (Sirius, Pandora, Sydney Cove), Nautical Archaeology in Australia, the Indian Ocean and Asia, Innovative Approaches in Underwater Cultural Heritage Management, Maritime Museums and Maritime Archaeological Exhibitions, Cultural Tourism and Diver Education..

52068
STANIFORTH, Mark & VICKERY, Libby
THE TEST EXCAVATION OF THE WILLIAM SALTHOUSE WRECK SITE - An Interim Report (AIMA - Special Publication No.3)
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1984. VII, 35 PP with 19 figures (map & plans, drawings and b/w photos). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.

60170
STEINBERG, Jennifer
LAST VOYAGE OF THE SLAVE SHIP HENRIETTA MARIE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 2002. Volume 202, No. 2, August 2002. 126 PP. Contains article from P.46 to 61 with 1 map and 19 colour illustrations (11 photos by Courtney Platt). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

New Ground Reef, 34 miles off Key West, Florida.

73713
STEWART, Alex
TITANIC [UNCLASSIFIED] - Secrets of the Titanic Revealed
$25.00 AUD

A & C Black / Bloomsbury Publishing. London. 2012. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial boards, laminated. Fine (as new condition). 28.6 x 22. 9781408160527

35042
STICK, David
THE OUTER BANKS OF NORTH CAROLINA 1584-1958
$20.00 AUD

The University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill. 1958. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 352 PP with 4 maps and 27 illustrations (title page vignette, head and tail pieces) by Frank Stick. Eps: Map of the North Carolina Outer Banks. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.7.

Exploration, settlement... Storms and shipwrecks... The Wright Brothers...

38767
STICK, David
GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC - Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast
$15.00 AUD

The University of North Carolina Press. Chapell Hill. 1972. 13th printing of the 1952 original. X, (2), 276 PP with 1 map, 12 tail-pieces and 18 head-pieces, illustrated by Frank Stick. Eps: Chart of the coast of North Carolina (inset chart of ship, mast and rigging types). Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Small chips at top of dust jacket. Faint foxing on outside top edge, o/wise very good. 23.5 x 15.5.

Shipwrecks on the outer banks. Ironclads and blockade runners. The great hurricane of 1899. U-Boats during WWI & WWII...

72320
STIRLAND, A. J.
THE MEN OF THE MARY ROSE - Raising the Dead
$35.00 AUD

Sutton Publishing. Stroud, UK. 2005. New and revised edition of the 2000 original. Introduction by Robert Hardy. XIV, 185 PP with 8 tables, 16 figures and 43 b/w plates. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine. 24.3 x 17.2. 9780750939157

73615
STODDART, Michael
THE BLYTHE STAR TRAGEDY - How indifference and Neglect sank a ship and cost three men their lives
$40.00 AUD

Forty South Publishing. Hobart. 2022. 1st edition. XII, 164 PP with 2 colour photos and b/w illustrations: 2 drawings, 2 maps, 2 sketches, 3 plans and 7 photos. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. New. 25 x 17.5. 9780645211740

58761
STONE, Peter
DIVE AUSTRALIA - A Guide to Scuba diving locations and services in Australia
$15.00 AUD

Oceans Publications. Yarram, Victoria. 1990. 3rd edition of the 1982 original. 288 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, location maps, photos...). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 0731683471

64877
STRACHAN, Shirley
SILTS IN THE SIGHT GLASS: Protectors and Raiders of the SS CITY OF LAUNCESTON - 1863-1865
$10.00 AUD

Heritage Victoria. Melbourne. 2000. 1st Ed. 79 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover, folded back cover with location map and plan. Fine. 21 x 21. 0730686701

Sunk by SS Penola in Port Phillip Bay, 19th November 1865.

21859
STREET, Sean
THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND
$15.00 AUD

Souvenir Press. London. 1992. 1st Ed. XIII, 208 PP with 2 maps & 8 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0285630512

Night of 7th December 1875, the Deutschland, a German emigrant ship, off course, ran aground on the Kentish Knock, a sandbank of the Thames estuary.

63882
SULLAWAY, Neva (editor)
SHIPWRECKS AND CASTAWAYS (in Mains'l Haul)
$20.00 AUD

Maritime Museum of San Diego. San Diego. 2006. Vol. 42, No. 4, Fall 2006 of Mains'l Haul, A journal of Pacific Maritime History. 52 PP with b/w illustrations (map, plan, engravings, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 28 x 21.5. 0944580203

Shipwreck, Women Castaways, and Cast-off Morals, by John R. Stilgoe. Lady Castaways (Jeanne Baret - Rose de Freycinet - Ann Morley - Betty Guard - Nellie Murray - Mary Ann Jewell - Mrs. Wordsworth), by Joan Druett. Surveying the Pacific: The voyages of the Galilee 1905-1908, by Diane Cooper. ...

58780
SULLIVAN, Norman (editor)
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (in The Wisconsin Archeologist, Volume 73, No. 1 - 2)
$10.00 AUD

The Wisconsin Archaeological Society. Milwaukee, USA. 1992. Special Issue: Maritime Archaeology. Volume 73, No. 1 - 2, March-June 1992. (2), 110 PP with 5 tables and b/w illustrations (19 figures, 13photos). Soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15.3.

Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology: An Introduction, by David J. Cooper. Wisconsin's Underwater Archaeological Resources: A Federal Perspective, by David E. Berwick. Identification and Assessment of Light Vessel Number 57, by Gordon P. Watts, Jr. Gently Down the Stream: ... Northern Mississippi River..., by John O. Jensen.

35550
TAYLOR, J. R. W.
GOLD FROM THE SEA - Epic Story of the Recovery of Niagara's Bullion
$15.00 AUD

Australasian Publishing. Sydney. 1943. 6th Australian edition (March 1943) of the September 1942 original. 271 PP, plus 17 b/w photos by J. M. Leonard. Fp: Fore-Deck and Bridge-deck of the Claymore. Title-page: Vignette with the Claymore. Eps: Sketch of mooring plan by Chief Diver Johnstone. Green cloth covers rubbed around edges, faded gilt title on spine. Light foxing on margins of some pages, o/wise contents are near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.3 x 15.

46309
TAYLOR, J. R. W.
GOLD FROM THE SEA - The Epic Story of the Niagara's Bullion
$15.00 AUD

Australasian Publishing. Sydney. 1947. Reprint of the September 1942 original. 224 P, plus 17 b/w photos by J. M. Leonard. Fp: R.M.S.Niagara. Eps: Sketch of mooring plan by Chief Diver Johnstone. Cloth cover, title on faded spine. Contents near fine. 20.5 x 13.5.

50628
TAYLOR, Peter
VICTORIAN SHIPWRECK - NOTICE TO MARINERS 1841 - 2003
$10.00 AUD

Bob Leek & Peter Taylor. Newport, Victoria. 2006. Revised and updated edition of the 2005 original. 103 PP with 8 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0975175424

Official records of shipwrecks as described in the Notice to Mariners.

62869
TAYLOR, Peter
SHIPWRECKS - A Practical Guide to Research and Discovery
$40.00 AUD

Scuttlebutt Press. Melbourne. 2013. 1st Ed. IX, 179 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.4 x 20.7. 9780980590241

62137
TAYLOR, Peter & WILLIAMS, Desmond S.
CORAMBA - The Ship the Sea Returned
$20.00 AUD

Scuttlebutt Press. Melbourne. 2012. 1st Ed. X, 162 PP with b/w illustrations (1 plan "general arrangement", 1 sketch, 1 house-flag, 2 engravings, 3 maps, 11 portraits and 33 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.7 x 14.5.

The T.S.S. Coramba, foundered on 30th November, 1934, off Phillip Island. Wreck discovered in January 2011 and subsequently studied in May 2011.

53502
THOMAS, Dr. Robert & McKENZIE, Dr. Bart
THE DIVER'S MEDICAL COMPANION
$10.00 AUD

Diving Medical Centre. Sydney. 1984. A Diving Medical Centre monograph. January 1984 reprint of the original. Foreword by Carl Edmonds. (8), 184 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 13.5. 0949585106

58231
THOMAS, Dr. Robert & McKENZIE, Dr. Bart
THE DIVER'S MEDICAL COMPANION
$10.00 AUD

Diving Medical Centre. Sydney. c. 1980. 1st Ed. A Diving Medical Centre monograph. Foreword by Carl Edmonds. (8), 184 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.

70079
THOMAS, Gordon & MORGAN-WITTS, Max
THE STRANGE FATE OF THE MORRO CASTLE
$10.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1973. 1st UK edition. 252 PP with 1 map and 1 ship plan, plus 12 pages with 29 b/w photos. Eps: Extracts from Ward Line brochures. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 14.5. 0002117436

The fire which ravaged the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle in 1934 with the loss of 90 passengers and 35 crew members.

69557
THOMPSON, Thomas
HELL AND HIGH WATER
$20.00 AUD

London. 1975. André Deutsch. 1st Ed. 254 PP, plus 4 pages with 5 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper with foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2. 0233967052

An extraordinary true story of shipwreck and survival. Sailed from a marina in Puget Sound, bound for Costa Rica ...

61915
THORNTON, Nicholas
SUSSEX SHIPWRECKS
$20.00 AUD

Countryside Books. Newbury, Berkshire. 1988. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 30 b/w illustrations (engravings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0905392973

43338
THRESH, Peter
TITANIC
$10.00 AUD

Parkgate Books. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 31 x 23.7. 1855855992

The short but eventful life of this great ship: drawing board to the sinking and the rediscovery of the wreck.

52482
THRESH, Peter
TITANIC
$5.00 AUD

Bison Books. London. 1993. Reprint of the 1992 edition. 80 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Signature of previous owner at top of half title page and bottom of last page. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 31 x 23.7. 0861249445

The short but eventful life of this great ship: drawing board to the sinking and the rediscovery of the wreck.

69934
THRESH, Peter
TITANIC
$10.00 AUD

Bison Books. London. 1992. 1st edition. 80 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 31 x 23.7. 0861249445

The short but eventful life of this great ship: drawing board to the sinking and the rediscovery of the wreck.

49601
THROCKMORTON, Peter
OLDEST KNOWN SHIPWRECK YIELDS BRONZE AGE CARGO (in National Geographic Magazine)
$15.00 AUD

Washington. 1962. N.G.S. Volume 121, No.5, May, 1962. Contains article between pages 696 and 711 with 2 maps, 1 b/w illustration and 17 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.2 x 17.5.

Diving 32 centuries into the past, archeologists off the coast of Turkey bring up relics of Traojan War times.

72305
THROCKMORTON, Peter
DIVING FOR TREASURE
$20.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson. London. 1977. 1st UK Ed. 136 PP with 126 b/w & 10 colour illust. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Dust jacket has some light shelf wear along top edge, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 22.4.

Introduction to underwater archaeology: treasures such as jade, pieces of silver, etc..

17622
THROCKMORTON, Peter (editor)
HISTORY FROM THE SEA - Shipwrecks & Archaeology, From Homer's Odyssey to the Titanic
$15.00 AUD

Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1987. 1st Australian edition. 240 PP with b/w & col. illust. (maps, graphs, paintings, photos). Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 29.7 x 23.5. 0864380445

Story of underwater archaeology examining the human history over 4000 years.

53696
THROCKMORTON, Peter (editor)
HISTORY FROM THE SEA: Shipwrecks and Archaeology. - From Homer's Odyssey to the Titanic
$15.00 AUD

Mitchell Beazley Publishers. London. 1987. 1st Ed. 240 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (maps, graphs, paintings, photos). Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 29.7 x 23.5. 0855336145

Story of underwater archaeology examining the human history over 4000 years. Chapter 7: Eastern Horizons (Arab Dhows, by Stephen Rogers. Chinese Junks, East Indiamen , by Jeremy Green)...

20486
TIBBALLS, Geoff
THE TITANIC - The Extraordinary Story of the Unsinkable Ship
$5.00 AUD

Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1997. 1st Australian Edition. 128 PP with b/w and colour illust. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 23. 086449100X

33612
TIBBALLS, Geoff
THE TITANIC - The Extraordinary Story of the Unsinkable Ship
$10.00 AUD

Carlton Books. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour illust. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 23.6. 1858682916

32912
TITANIC
TITANIC: The Official Story April 14-15, 1912
$20.00 AUD

Random House. New York. 1997. Illustrated box containing a guide of 16 pages and over 100 pages reproducing 18 documents. Fine. 22.5 x 35 0375501150

Reproductions of eighteen remarkable documents telling the true history of the twentieth century's greatest maritime disaster.

40736
TITANIC
TITANIC - The Official Story
$15.00 AUD

Public Record Office / National Archives. London. c. 1999. Reprint. Illustrated folder containing 18 facsimile of documents, some folded (over 80 pages). Fine. Oblong: 22.7 x 35.7. 1873162375

47433
TITANIC
TITANIC - Poster from the Movie
$10.00 AUD

The Sunday Mail. Brisbane. 1998. Commemorative edition. Poster (57.5 x 80), folded in 4. Inside and first fold: photos with passengers/actors. Outside folds: Reprint of front page of The New York Herald Tribune, Tuesday April 16; 1912. Sunday Mail Sunday, September 27 1998 Titanic makes headlines again arriving on video (Australia prepares for launch on September 30, 1998. Fine condition. Folded format: 40 x 29.5.

41714
TOMLINSON, H. M.
GALLIONS REACH - A Romance
$30.00 AUD

Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1949. 2nd edition of the 1927 original, No. 6 in the Mariners Library series. 240 PP. Cloth cover, device on front cover, illustrated dj. Dust jacket is price-clipped and in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 19 x 13.

62452
TRIBOUILLIER, Anne-Laure & ANGLEVIEL, Fréderic
Chroniques d'un Navire de Commerce: TACITE, 1869-1873 (in Le Petit Journal)
$10.00 AUD

Musée de l'Histoire Maritime de Nouvelle-Calédonie / Mairie de Nouméa. Nouméa. 2002. Issue: Friday 7th of June 2002. 8 PP with b/w illustrations. French text. Fine. Format: 42 x 29.5. 2951868804

Exhibition held 7th June to 3rd November 2002. Windjammer sunk 10 October 1873 on arrival in New Caledonia. Wreck discovered in 1998.

47597
TUNLEY, Roul
SECRETS FROM A TIME SHIP
$20.00 AUD

Reader's Digest Association Ltd. London. 1982. Reprint from British Reader' Digest. 8 PP with 10 colour photos by Adam Woodfitt. Pictorial soft cover (illustration by James Leech). 1 colour photo, 4 colour postcards and 3 folded flyers loosely inserted. Fine. 18.5 x 13.2.

35842
TUREN, Teppo & McCABE, Elizabeth Maddox
THE TUNTSA
$15.00 AUD

Arthur Barker. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 254 PP with 12 head pieces, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illust. (1 map, 2 plans and 21 photos). Eps: Course of the Tuntsa. Hard cover, dj (closed tears). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2.

Successful attempt to migrate from Finland to the USA, during an unsuccessful voyage. Crossing from Helsinki to Dover, Brest, Casablanca, Safi, the Canary Islands interrupted by a shipwreck in the Virgin Island.

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.

43425
UDEN, Grant
THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE
$15.00 AUD

Macdonald. London. 1970. 1st Ed., in the Famous Events series. 96 PP with 2 maps and 13 b/w illustrations by Karen Usborne. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 19.1 x 12.8. 356031101

Launched 1756, Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1769, foundering in the Solent in August 1782 while at anchor.

71452
UPTON, Joe
JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE - Seafaring Adventures along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska
$5.00 AUD

Alaska Northwest Books. Anchorage. 1992. 2nd printing of the 1992 original. 189, (3) PP with 7 maps and 33 b/w photos. Card covers, pictorial front. Rubbed patch at head of spine. Contents near fine. 22.7 x 15.2. 0882403664

22195
VAN DER MOLEN, S. J.
THE LUTINE TREASURE, The 150-year search for gold in the wreck of the frigate Lutine
$20.00 AUD

Adlard Coles. London. 1970. 1st English edition translated from the Dutch original. 168 PP, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Eps: Line drawing of la Lutine frigate. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tear and protective sleeve. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0229974821

La Lutine captured from the French in 1793, sunk off Tershelling in 1799. Its famous bell was recovered in 1858 and is still in use in the Underwriters' Room at Lloyds.

60179
VESILIND, Priit J.
LOST GOLD: Bounty from a Civil War ship, S.S. Republic (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD

N.G.S. Washington. 2004. Volume 206, No. 3, September 2004. 136 PP. Contains article from P. 108 to 127 & 134/135 with 1 map and colour illustrations (artwork by Jon Foster and photos by Jonathan Blair). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

Sunk 1865 off the coast of Georgia.

58355
VICTORIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
THE EARLIEST LOCATED STEAMSHIP WRECK IN AUSTRALIA - PADDLE STEAMER "CLONMEL"
$10.00 AUD

Victoria Archaeological Survey. Melbourne. 1985. April 1985 report. 45 PP (recto typescript only), plus 17 pages for 7 figures and 10 plates. Text by P. Harvey. Soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

72336
VIEIRA DE CASTRO, Filipe
THE PEPPER WRECK: A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River
$65.00 AUD

Texas A&M University Press. College Station. 2005. 1st Ed. XI, 287, (4 blank) PP with 46 tables, 70 figures and the "Artifact List" for 1902 items between pages 203 and 240. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new). 24 x 16. 9781585443901

12445
VILLIERS, Alan
ENGLAND'S SCILLIES, THE FLOWERING ISLES (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 132, No.1, 1967)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1967. Contains article between P.126 and 145 with 2 maps and 26 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.4 x 17.5.

Archipelago off the South West corner of Cornwall.

44530
VILLIERS, Alan
OPGEGEVEN ALS VERMIST - Scheepen Waarover Men Nooit Meer Iets Hoorde
$25.00 AUD

Uitgeverij C. De Boer Jr. Amsterdam. 1958. 1st Dutch edition, In the "Bibliotheek der Zeven Zeeén" series. Translated from the English original "Posted Missing" by Kapt. A. I. J. Hilckmann. 304 PP with 7 maps, and 32 b/w photographs. Eps: 8 silhouettes of ships. Cloth cover, device on front cover, top edge tinted. Note on half-title page, faint foxing, o/wise near fine. Dutch text. 21.4 x 14.5.

The story of ships lost without traces in recent years. Chapters 9 & 10: The mystery of the Waratah.

49751
VILLIERS, Alan
POSTED MISSING - The Story of Ships Lost without Trace in Recent Years
$30.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 8 figures & 9 maps, plus 16 pages with 23 b/w photographs. Fp: In a Heavy Sea. Eps: World map with position of ships posted missing. Hard cover, dj (price clipped and with piece missing at head and foot). Foxing, o/wise very good. 21 x 14.5.

Chapters 9 & 10: The mystery of the Waratah.

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

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

69621
WAKE-WALKER, Edward, DEANE, Heather & PURCHES, Georgette
LIFEBOAT!: Royal National Lifeboat Institution
$20.00 AUD

Ian Allan Ltd. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside front cover: map of the British Isles with location of Lifeboat stations. Inside back cover: profiles of 15 Lifeboats in the RNLI Fleet. Pictorial front and back card covers. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 0711018359

38822
WALTHEW, Kenneth
FROM ROCK AND TEMPEST - The Life of Captain George William Manby
$15.00 AUD

Geoffrey Bles. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 175 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with small rub at top corner of front part. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 713802871

The Manby apparatus projects a life-line to stranded ships, then uses the breeches buoy...

72807
WANE, Greg
DEATH AT SEA - The Bass Strait ferry tragedy
$25.00 AUD

Gegory Wane. Camperdown, Vic. 2021. 1st Ed. No. 1 in the Mini-Book History series. VIII, 9-104 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 plan of Launceston, 3 newspaper advertisements and 30 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Signed by the author on title page. New. 19 x 14.5. 978098066353

Collision in Bass Strait between the passenger ferry "Coogee" and the 2204-ton iron barque "Fortunato Figari", 25th December 1803.

61657
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Library and Collection on Ships, Shipwrecks and the Sea, of NANCYE KENT PERRY (in Australian Book Auctions Catalogue)
$20.00 AUD

Australian Book Auctions Pty. Ltd. Melbourne. 2010. A.B.A. Catalogue "March Gallery Sale", 22nd March 2010. No pagination, 74 PP (for 636 items) with 21 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27 x 20.7.

75875
WARD, Christopher
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON...
$15.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 2011. 1st Ed. Trade paperback. XIV, 274 PP with 10 b/w illustrations (documents, manuscripts & newspaper clippings), plus 16 pages with 39 b/w illustrations (photos & portraits, poster ...). Pictorial soft covers. Stamp of the "Maritime Museum of Tasmania" on half title page. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 9781444707953

52852
WARNE, Ian (editor)
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BARQUE OMEO
$15.00 AUD

Maritime Archeology Association of Western Australia. Fremantle. 2007. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 28 b/w illustrations ( 5 sketch plans and 23 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15.

Auxiliary Steamship, built 1858 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, for McMelkan Blackwood & Company of Melbourne. Maiden voyage: 1859 in 108 days... Wrecked 1895 near Helin Bay, W.A.

20453
WARWICK, Mark
CLIPPERS (in Sportdiving in Australia & the South Pacific)
$15.00 AUD

Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1993. No. 37, April/May 1993. Includes article from P.96 to 103 with 2 maps & 8 bw photos. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.

The clipper ship saga.

50729
WATSON, Arnold and Betty
ROSTER OF VALOR. The Titanic Halifax Legacy
$15.00 AUD

7 C'S Press, Inc. / Titanic Historical Society, Inc. Riverside, Ct. 1984. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Walter Lord. XIV, 97 PP with 26 b/w photos. FEP: Drawing with Titanic victims graves. REP: Map of Halifax. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 21.7 x 14.5.

75629
WATTS, Gordon Payne, Jr.
SHIPWRECKED- Bermuda's Maritime Heritage
$100.00 AUD

Nationam Museum of Bermuda Press. Old Naval Dockyard, Bermuda. 2014. Deluxe edition. Foreword by Dr. Edward Cecil Harris. 276 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, ephemera, paintings, posters, photos ...). Eps: Map of the Bermuda with Key Sites on the Island's reefs. Cloth covers with gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Short tear in the gutter of front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. Olong: 26 x 33.5. 9781927750704

32909
WELS, Susan
TITANIC - Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner
$10.00 AUD

Time Life / Discovery Channel. New York. 1997. 2nd printing, foreword by William F. Buckley. (XXII), 206 PP with b/w and colour illust. Fp: The Titanic propeller. Eps: List of the passengers and crew of the Titanic. Pictorial laminated boards, illustrated plastic wrappers. Fine. Oblong: 25.2 x 26. 0783552610

45897
WEXHAM, Brian
SHIPWRECKS OF THE WESTERN CAPE
$20.00 AUD

Howard Timmins. Cape, South Africa. c. 1985. 1st Ed. 124 PP with 1 map on double page, 1 chart, b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 24. 0869782517

HMS Sceptre, 1799. Birkenhead, 1852...

65855
WHEELER, Margaret (editor)
A BOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY - Seventeen Stories of Discovery
$15.00 AUD

Cassell & Company. London. 1959. 2nd edition of the 1957 original. XII, 178 PP with 4 b/w illustrations (1 drawing, 1 plan, and 2 maps), plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Note on front endpaper. Very good. 22 x 14.5.

76267
WHELAN, Howard
FROM CRADLE TO NARCISSUS, Tasmania's Overland Track [in Australian Geographic, No. 29, January-March 1993]
$15.00 AUD

A.G.S. Sydney. 1993. Contains article from P. 32 to P.55 with colour photos and the large folded poster with the map and information on the history, etc. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

Also includes: The Wreck of the Sirius, by Graeme Henderson, The Phone goes Bush by Ken Brass, Circling Everest by Dick Smith, The Lure of the Barramundi by Rory McGuinness..

38459
WHITTAKER, Mark
THE HOWLING - Eye of the Storm (in The Australian Magazine)
$10.00 AUD

Nationwide News / The Weekend Australian. Sydney. 1999. The Weekend Australian, March 6-7 1999. Contains article P.18 to 24 with 6 colour photos. Soft cover. New. 31 x 25.3.

The weather suddenly turned up and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart fleet sailed into deep trouble. Fatal Storm.

70360
WHITTAKER, Paul & REID, Robert
PATANELA IS MISSING - Australia's Greatest Sea Mystery
$50.00 AUD

Bantam Books. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. 248 PP with 1 map on double page and 1 b/w photos of the authors, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Slight ageing of paper, other wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 21 x 13.5. 1863590870

50359
WICKS, Sir James, BIRD, Captain R. & McINTYRE, Captain A. F.
M.V. PACIFIC CHARGER, Shipping Casualty, 21 May 1981. Report of Court and Annex Thereto
$15.00 AUD

N. Z. Government Printer. Wellington. 1982. 1st Ed. (4), 184 PP with 3 b/w photos. Soft cover. Small tears on the 2 first leaves, o/wise very good. 24 x 15.5.

Shipwrecked on Baring Head, near Wellington, New Zealand. Investigation held in Wellington 7 July to 9 October 1981.

21563
WILKES, Bill St. John
NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, A Handbook
$20.00 AUD

David & Charles. Newton Abbot, UK. 1971. 1st Ed. 294 PP with 38 line drawings, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Signature of previous owner on FFEP and a few old sellotape marks on flaps of dust jacket. Contents clean and a very good copy. 22.3 x 14.3. 0715350234

Preliminary research, preparations, equipment, techniques, locating sites, recording finds, photography & surveying,...

21536
WILLIAMS, Peter J. & SERLE, Roderick
WRECKS OF PORT PHILLIP
$20.00 AUD

Maritime Historical Productions. Melbourne. 1964. 1st edition. (8), 94 PP with 2 tail-pieces & 38 b/w illustrations (2 maps, 13 paintings & 23 photos). Hard cover, dj. Stamp of bookseller at lower part of front endpaper. Dust jacket chipped. Occasional foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 21.8 x 14.2.

31619
WILLIAMS, Peter J. & SERLE, Roderick
SHIPWRECKS AT PORT PHILLIP HEADS 1840-1963
$5.00 AUD

Maritime Historical Productions. Melbourne. 1963. 1st Ed. (12), 91 PP with 7 tail & head-pieces, 1 chart & 44 b/w illust. Card cover (rubbed). Front cover with creases, damp mark on first pages, o/wise good. 21.5 x 14.

37728
WILLIAMS, Peter J. & SERLE, Roderick
SHIPWRECKS AT PORT PHILLIP HEADS 1840-1963
$5.00 AUD

Maritime Historical Productions. Melbourne. 1967. New revised edition. 64 PP with 24 b/w illust. Soft cover, staples. A few small rubbed patches around edges of front cover, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.

59947
WILLIAMS, Peter J. & SERLE, Roderick
SHIPWRECKS AT PORT PHILLIP HEADS 1840-1963
$10.00 AUD

Maritime Historical Productions. Melbourne. 1963. 1st Ed. (12), 91 PP with 7 headpieces and tailpieces, 1 chart & 44 b/w illust. Card cover rubbed, o/wise good. 21.5 x 14.

71251
WILLIS, Sam
SHIPWRECK, A History of Disasters at Sea
$25.00 AUD

Quercus Publishing. London. 2008. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Fp: The Battle of Camperdown (1799), Contents page: Wreck of the steamship SS Santa Rosa off Point Arguello, California, 7 July 1911. Hard cover, dust jacket. As new. 30 x 26. 9781847247629

Chapters on: Ancient and Dark Age Wrecks, Galleons and Gold, Broadsides, Pirates and Whales, Iron, Steam and Steel, World Wars, Nuclear Power, Oil and the Atomic Bomb.

72641
WILSON, Frances
HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC - Or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
$25.00 AUD

Bloomsbury. London. 2011. 1st UK edition. (12), 328, (12) PP with b/w illustrations plus 32 pages with 50 b/w plates. Eps: Reproduction of the original First Class Passenger List. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 16. 978140880922

10579
WILSON, H. H.
CYCLONE COASTS - Australia's North-West Frontier
$20.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1980. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 5 charts, plus 20 pages with 35 b/w & 7 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.2. 0727013904

Pearling industry on the Northwest coast of Australia.

12125
WILSON, Ian
SHIPWRECKS OF THE ULSTER COAST, From Carlingford Lough to Inishowen Head
$15.00 AUD

Impact Amergin. Belfast. 1979. 1st Ed. (12), 177, (6 Index), (2 Bibliography) PP with 9 maps & 43 b/w photos in text. Half-title page: Schooner "Lily" in the evening setting, Portstewart, 1931. Fp: "Ulrica" wrecked on Lighthouse Island - Copeland Islands, 1897. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 21.8 x 15.3.

40517
WILSON, Ian
UNDISCOVERED: The Fascinating World of Undiscovered Places, Graves, Wrecks, and Treasure
$10.00 AUD

Chancellor Press. London. 1993. Reprint of the 1987 original. 192 PP with head pieces and b/w illust. (maps & plans, paintings & photos). Title page: The British Egyptologist Howard Carter opening the golden shrine of the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Pictorial laminated boards. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5. 1851522999

39605
WILSON, Neil
GREAT SEA DISASTERS - The World's Worst Sea Disasters
$10.00 AUD

Siena Book / Parragon. Bristol, UK. 1998. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 30 colour and 48 b/w illustrations. Half title page: White Star Liner Atlantic, aground on Meagher Island, Nova Scotia, 1873. Fp: The Endurance trapped in the pack ice, Weddell Sea, 1915. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. Oblong: 23.5 x 29.7. 0752527436

Galleons, guns and East Indiamen... Passenger Liners... Ferries and Riverboats... Survival and Rescue.

52765
WOOD, Danielle
THE SHIPWRECK COAST (in Australian Geographic No. 87, July-September 2007)
$10.00 AUD

The Australian Geographic Society. Sydney. 2007. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 folded map of The Great Ocean Road. Contains article between pages 54 and 65 with 1 folded map (in colour), 14 b/w and 21 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

16338
WOODLEY, Arthur E.
WESTERN PORT WRECKS AND MARITIME MISHAPS
$20.00 AUD

Loch Haven Books. Melbourne. 1992. 1st Ed. XV, 101 PP with b/w illust. (photos & maps), 5 pages Glossary. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 25 x 17.5. 1875308083

An account of the maritime mishaps, fishing reminiscences, seafaring anecdotes and the tragedies in and off Western Port.

72354
WORSLEY, Jill & Peter and GREEN, Jeremy (editors)
CAPES OF SUNSET: Western Australia's Maritime Heritage between Peel Inlet & Flinders Bay
$100.00 AUD

Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 2012. 1st Ed. Special publication No. 15. Foreword by Hugh Edwards. XIV, 417 PP with 340 figures with b/w or colour illustrations (charts, maps & plans, sketches, paintings, photos...). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). Oblong: 21 x 29.3. 9781876465056

72397
WYNNE, Barry
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE - Teehu Makimare's 2,000 mile drift in an open boat across the South Seas
$35.00 AUD

Souvenir Press. London. 1966. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand. 158 PP with 3 maps & 2 plans, plus 12 pages with 25 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing on outside edges, signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.

A short inter island (Manihiki to Rakahanga) trip of the "Tearoha" that ended 64 days later in Erromango, Vanuatu.

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.

20451
ZANELLI, Leo
SHIPWRECKS AROUND BRITAIN, A Diver's Guide
$15.00 AUD

Kaye & Ward. London. 1978. Reprint (with corrections) of the 1970 original. 112 PP with 24 location charts, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Part of dust jacket lightly sunned. Very good. 22.2 x 14. 0718211952

Guide to 400 wrecks with brief information on the ship, the shipwreck and the wreck.

52607
ZANELLI, Leo
SHIPWRECKS AROUND BRITAIN. A Diver's Guide
$10.00 AUD

Kaye & Ward. London. 1970. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 24 location charts, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illustrations (2 drawings & 16 photos). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with signs of dampness and rubbed spine. Very good. 22.2 x 14. 0718208668

Guide to 400 wrecks with brief information on the ship, the shipwreck and the wreck.