52064 AIMA AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 20, No.1, 1996
$15.00 AUD
AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1996. Edited by Jeremy Green & Myra Stanbury. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Articles include: Tracing Artefact Trajectories, following Chinese export porcelain, by Mark Staniforth. Lord Ashley, by Adam Wolfe. The Solway (1837): Results of the 1994 text excavation, by Cosmos Coroneos...
30067 ALLEN, Gerald MARINE LIFE OF THE PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and all of Southeast Asia
$20.00 AUD
Singapore. 1996. Periplus. 1st Ed. 96 PP with over 350 colour photos. FEP: Map of South east Asia and the Western Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30.5 x 23. 9625930167
Marine plants, sponges, corals, anemones and jellyfish... Crustaceans, molluscs... Fishes, mammals and marine reptiles.
57076 ANDREWARTHA, Barry (editor) SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 16
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1989. Issue No. 16, October/November 1989. 114 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.
Diving "Investigator Group", South Australia, by Peter Stone. Siebe: the father of modern diving, by Nick Baker.
57082 ANDREWARTHA, Barry (editor) SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 42
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1994. Issue No. 42, February/March 1994. 122 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.
Diving Fiji Northern region. Diving the Grotto of the Third, Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, by Raphael Christian Fournier.
57083 ANDREWARTHA, Barry (editor) SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 55
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1996. Issue No. 55, April/May 1996. 122 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.
Diving Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
57075 ANDREWARTHA, Barry & STONE, Peter (editors) SKINDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC, 12/4
$15.00 AUD
Australian Sports Publications. Melbourne. c. 1982. Vol. 12, No. 4, Issue for October/November 1982. 96 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Very good. 27.2 x 20.4. 0868950017
Special "Dive Papua New Guinea": Milne Bay, Rabaul, Port Moresby, with Bob Halstead... Ron and Valerie Taylor Diary. Diving in Bali, by John H. Harding.
65292 ARCHAEOLOGY Izuchenie Pamyatnikov Morskoy Archeolegii - Vyp 6 / STUDY ON THE MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 6
$50.00 AUD
North-western Institute for Heritage / Institute for the History of Material Culture - Russian Academy of Sciences. St Petersburg. 2009. Vol. 6. 228 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Russian text, cyrillic script with English abstracts. Near fine. 20 x 14.5. 9785903030088
10 articles. Pages 93 to 109: underwater archeological research ... Russian battleship of the 18th century "St. Alexander", by O.A. Zolotarev and V.D. Kobets. ... .Pages 199 to 227: The relics of the Peter Epoch on Solomon Islands (Archaeological Investigations on the place of Wreck of La Perouse's vessels), by A. Yu. Epatko.
56141 AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Special Publication No.14
$45.00 AUD
Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 2008. 1st Ed. Special Publication Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology No. 12. (2), X, 64 PP with 10 tables, 45 b/w figures (engravings and paintings, maps and plans, drawings and photos) and 2 figures with b/w drawings and 11 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781876465032
... Shipwreck salvage in the Northern Territory: The wreck of the Brisbane as a case study in site salvage and material culture reuse, by David Steinberg.
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.
58232 BALDER, A. P. SPORT DIVING - The Complete Manual for Skin and Scuba Divers
$10.00 AUD
Cassell Australia. Sydney. 1978. Revised and updated edition of the 1968 original. XII, (2), 337 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14. 0726904554
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).
68045 BALLARD, Robert & ARCHBOLD, Rick EXPLORING THE "BISMARCK"
$10.00 AUD
Madison Press Book. Toronto. 1991. 1st Ed. 64 PP with bw and colour illust. Title spread: "Bismarck". Half-title page: Stern of the "Star Hercules". Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards, dj (inside: "Bismarck" poster). Near fine. 28.8 x 22.2. 0340549076
Life of the "Bismarck", search and discovery of the wreck. Exploration by the "Argo", a deep-sea camera sled.
30606 BALLARD, Robert D., McCARTER BRIDGE, Linda & al. (editors) THE OCEAN REALM
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1978. 1st Ed. 200 PP with over 210 colour illust. Title spread: Cluster of tube sponges in the Caribbean Sea. Eps: Bathymetric charts of the Oceans. Hard cover, device on front cover, dj. Fine. 26 x 18. 0870442511
The shallow shores by H. Robert Morrison. The ocean depths by Robert D. Ballard...
44198 BALLARD, Robert D., McCONNELL, Malcolm ADVENTURES IN OCEAN EXPLORATION - From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2001. 1st Ed. 288 PP with nearly 210 b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: Alvin. Title spread: 2 passengers submersible inspecting the Cayman Wall. Hard cover, title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 31.2 x 24. 0792279921
The Mysterious Sea... Science beneath the sea... The Museum of the Deep.
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...
63182 BEATTIE, John LIFEBOATS TO THE RESCUE
$15.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot, UK. 1980. 1st Ed. 172, (1 acknowledgements) PP with 25 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0715381032
71773 BERTHOLD, Robert The AUSTRALIAN SCUBA DIVERS Illustrated Dictionary
$35.00 AUD
Robert Berthold Photography. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by J.T. Baker, AIMS. 224 PP with 240 photos (over 160 in full colour). Pictorial card cover. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by the author. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0646075268
Quick reference guide to Marine plants and animals, biological terms... From Abalone and Absolute pressure to Zooxanthellae and Zostera.
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...
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.
63845 BRITNELL, Jett & McCALLUM VANUATU: Pacific Rim of Fire (in Fisheye View)
$10.00 AUD
Fisheye View Scuba Magazine. San Francisco ?. 1990. Reprint from Volume 4, No. 2, October/November 1990. (8) PP with 1 sketch map and 10 photos colour. Pictorial soft cover.
Diving in Vanuatu, and on the wreck of the troop ship President Coolidge.
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...).
59115 BROXAM, Graeme SHIPWRECKS OF TASMANIA'S WILD WEST COAST
$100.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. No. 44 in the Roebuck Series. XXX, 471 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, maps, portraits, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 25.5 x 18.2. 0646151789
Including the wreck of the schooner "Grondy" late 1815, a study of the total wrecks, strandings, boating disasters... the hulks at Strahan, flotsam & jetsam.
56592 BUCKLES, Guy THE DIVE SITES OF THE RED SEA
$20.00 AUD
New Holland. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 173 PP with colour illust. (maps & photos). Title page: A Spanish Dancer. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.2 x 16.5. 185368905X
Comprehensive coverage of diving and snorkelling.
48631 BURCHELL, David ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE - An Autobiography
$20.00 AUD
Heinemann. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. 136 PP, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edges. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Near fine. 21.8 x 14.
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...
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.
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.
31362 CARRIER, Rick & Barbara DIVE - The Complete Book of Skin Diving
$15.00 AUD
Wilfred Funk. New York. 1955. 1st Ed. (8), 294 PP with tables and over 176 figures (drawings, sketches and b/w photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine (sunned). Some foxing. Good. 23.8 x 16.5.
How it all began. The watery world. Physiological problems of diving... Photography underwater. The unexplored sea.
45332 CLARKE, Arthur C. THE COAST OF CORAL
$15.00 AUD
New York. 2002. Ibooks. Paperback reprint of the 1955 original, with a 2001 introduction. (12), 264, (7) PP with 2 sets of 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 0743435079
Dives on the Great Barrier Reef in 1955. Chapter 18: on pearls and pearling in the Torres Strait.
59918 CLUB MARINE CLUB MARINE MAGAZINE - Volume 10, No. 6
$5.00 AUD
Club Marine Australia Ltd. Melbourne. 1995. Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1996 / January 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.
Diving the Far North Great Barrier Reef, by Peter Stone. ... 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
22092 COLEMAN, Neville THE UNDERWATER AUSTRALIA DIVE GUIDE
$5.00 AUD
Nelson Publishers. Melbourne. 1987. 1st Ed. VIII, 271, (7 adv.) PP with bw and colour illust. Pict. card cover. Fine. 24.5 x 19. 0170069192
Information on diving sites of Queensland, New South Wales... Northern Territory. Chapters on underwater wildlife & hazards, medical services...
71758 COLEMAN, Neville THE UNDERWATER AUSTRALIA DIVE GUIDE
$15.00 AUD
Nelson Publishers. Melbourne. 1987. 1st Ed. VIII, 271, (7 adv.) PP with bw and colour illust. Pictorial stiff cover. Dedicatory note on page I signed by the author. Near fine. 24.5 x 19. 0170069192
Information on diving sites of Queensland, New South Wales... Northern Territory. Chapters on underwater wildlife & hazards, medical services...
Robert Laffont. Paris. 1991. 1st Ed., in the Planète Océan series. (8), 132 PP with colour photos. Title spread: Calypso at anchor in a lagoon. Eps: Atoll. Cloth cover, dj. French text. Fine. 29.3 x 22.5. 2221068351
Works of the Cousteau Society Inc., in the Pacific Basin. From Alaska to Cape Horn, and from California to the Great Barrier Reef. Dives in the Pacific Islands...
13796 COUSTEAU, J. Y. & DUMAS, Frédéric THE SILENT WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1953. 6th Impression. XI, 148 PP, plus 1 diagram of the Fountain of Vaucluse and 64 pages with 84 b/w & 20 colour photos. Fp: Author and family. Cloth cover. Foxing, o/wise very good. 24 x 16.
Undersea discovery and adventure by the first men to swim at record depths without lines to the surface.
73996 COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves & DUGAN, James THE LIVING SEA
$30.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1963. 1st UK edition. (12), 212 (3) PP with 2 drawings, plus 24 Pages with 35 colour,photos 64 pages with 96 b/w photos, and 2 folded maps in colour Calypso's World and Calypso's Mediterranean. Top outside edge tinted. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. 24.7 x 17.
New adventures and discoveries of the famous undersea explorer and author of The Silent World.
35437 COUSTEAU, Jean-Michel & RICHARDS, Mose COUSTEAU'S AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1993. 1st Australian edition. 176 PP with 1 map and 120 colour photos. Half title page: A leafy sea dragon. Title spread: Aerial view near Mt. Trafalgar, Western Australia. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 23.5. 0864385382
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.
61292 DAVIES, Joan, HICKS, Norman, FLOYD, Mike... (editors) THE LIFE-BOAT. The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution - Volume XXXIV - No. 378
$10.00 AUD
Royal National Life-boat Institution. London. 1956. Volume XVVIV, No. 378, December 1956. 321-380 PP with 15 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.
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.
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
32965 DIOLE, Philippe L'AVENTURE SOUS-MARINE
$20.00 AUD
Editions Albin Michel. Paris. 1953. 1st Ed. 267 PP, plus 32 b/w plates. Pictorial card cover. Covers lightly creased, ageing of paper on edges. Near fine. French text. 19.2 x 14.3.
The Undersea adventure.
33887 DIOLE, Philippe THE UNDERSEA ADVENTURE
$5.00 AUD
Readers Union / Sidgwick and Jackson. New York. 1954. Reprint of the 1953 original. 183 PP, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Hard cover. Good. 19.7 x 12.2.
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.
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...
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...
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.
57073 DIVING SKINDIVING AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Australian Sports Publications. Melbourne. c. 1975. Annual issue. Edited by Barry ANDREWARTHA. 80 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Lower margin of leaf 69/70 chipped. Foxing. Very good. 27.2 x 20.4. 0868950017
Australia: Kangaroo Island, King Island, Solitary Islands, Sydney Harbour... Pacific: New Zealand. Simpson Harbour, PNG. Kapingamarangi atoll, Micronesia
57074 DIVING SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 3
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1987. Issue No. 3, August/September 1987. Edited by Barry ANDREWARTHA & Peter STONE. 112 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Covers lightly rubbed. Very good. 27.7 x 21.
Diving under Sargassum Weed, by Rudie H. Kuiter. Dive and Travel show "Oceans 87".
57078 DIVING SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 24
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1991. Issue No. 24, February/March 1991. Edited by Barry ANDREWARTHA. 114 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.
Diving in the deep water cave of Pannikin, South Australia, by Andrew Wright. Diving in Antarctica, by Jonathan Chester... Diving on the wreck of the Trial, Monte Bello Islands, W.A., by Mark Warwick.
57079 DIVING SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 33
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1992. Issue No. 33, August/September 1992. Edited by Barry ANDREWARTHA. 122 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.
First British ironclad monitor Cerberus, Port Phillip Bay, by Bill and Peter Boyle. ... Rust in Peace (shipwrecks of WWII in the Pacific), by John McLennan.
57080 DIVING SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 36
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1993. Issue No. 36, February/March 1993. Edited by Barry ANDREWARTHA. 122 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.
Ningaloo, by Heather Falconer & Pip O'Dell. Norfolk Island, by Becca Saunders...
57081 DIVING SPORTDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC - No. 39
$10.00 AUD
Mountain, Ocean & Travel Publications. Melbourne. 1993. Issue No. 39, August/September 1993. Edited by Barry ANDREWARTHA. 114 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.7 x 21.
The Banda Islands, by Valerie Taylor. Diving Ulladulla, by Tony Karacsonyi.
70639 DIVING RAN DIVING MANUAL - ABR 155 - Volume 2: Regulations and Practical Diving
$100.00 AUD
Department of Defence (Navy) Canberra. 1980 / 1983. 1st July 1980 original ABR 155 (updated 1983). Volume 2, Chapters 8 to 18. (4), XIV, 248 PP (14 of them large folded) with tables and b/w or colour figures (drawings, flages, graphs ...). Pages with 4 punch holes contained in a special ring binder. Covers of binder somewhat soiled. Contents fine. 32 x 25.
Last updated pages (1983), inserted on 5 July 1984.
70640 DIVING RAN DIVING MANUAL - ABR 155 : Volume 3: Specialised Diving Techniques and Equipment & Volume 4: Diving Equipment , Description and Maintenance
$150.00 AUD
Department of Defence (Navy). Canberra. 1980 / 1983. 1st July 1980 original ABR 155 (updated 1983). Volume 3, Chapters 19 to 23: (4), XIV, 114 PP with tables and b/w figures (drawings, photos ...). Volume 4, Chapters 24 to 29: (6), XIV, 194 PP (3 of them large folded), with tables and b/w figures (drawings, photos, sketches). Pages with 4 punch holes contained in a special ring binder. Covers of binder a little soiled. Contents near fine. 32 x 25.
Last updated pages (1983), inserted on 5 July 1984.
71857 DOUKAN, Dr. Gilbert UNDERWATER HUNTING
$40.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1953. 2nd impression (August 1953) of the July 1953 original. Translated by Bernard Miall, from the French "La Chasse Sous-Marine". X, 162, (4 publications) PP, plus 16 pages with b/w illustrations (5 plates with drawings and 20 photos). Fp: An Omber weighing 33 Kgs. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Top outside edge tinted. Dust jacket (now protected) rubbed at edges, and with pieces missing at head, middle and foot of spine. Foxing. Very good. 21.8 x 14.5.
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.
62265 ELLIS, William S. THE COAST GUARD, Small Service with a Big Mission (in National Geographic)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1974. Reprint from the July 1974 issue. 113-138, (3) PP with 27 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Folder punch holes close to spine, o/wise fine. 25.4 x 17.7.
58234 EMPLETON, Bernard E., HILL, Robert W. & LANPHIER, Edward H. (editors) THE NEW SCIENCE OF SKIN AND SCUBA DIVING
$10.00 AUD
Association Press / Follett Publishing. Chicago. 1980. 5th revised edition. XI, (3), 302 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 18.5. 0695813463
72187 FARLEY, Michael B. & ROYER, Charles SCUBA EQUIPMENT, Care & Maintenance
$10.00 AUD
Marcor Publishing. St. Helena, Ca. 1988. Revised edition, June 1988 of the 1980 original. 176 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches and photos). Stiff covers, illustrated front. Covers lightly rubbed and laminated. Very good. 23 x 15.3. 0932248012
33033 FIELDING, Ann & ROBINSON, Ed AN UNDERWATER GUIDE TO HAWAI'I
$10.00 AUD
Times Editions. Singapore. 1987. 1st Ed. 156 PP with 2 maps and over 220 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.4 x 16. 0824811046
44134 FIELDING, Ann & ROBINSON, Ed AN UNDERWATER GUIDE TO HAWAI'I
$5.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1993. 4th printing of the 1987 original. 156 PP with 2 maps and over 220 colour photos. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 23.4 x 16. 0824811046
46617 FOUCHER-CRETEAU, Jean PERLES REQUINS ET CORAUX
$100.00 AUD
Librairie des Champs-Elysées. Paris. 1955. 1st Ed. 56 PP, plus 110 pages with 62 b/w & 32 colour illustrations. Soft cover, dj. Dedicatory note on preliminary page, dated Abidjan 12/1/71 and signed by the author. Near fine. French text. 28 x 22.5.
Diving and filming expedition in the Red Sea in April 1954.
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
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...
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, . ...
73695 GORES, Joseph N. MARINE SALVAGE
$35.00 AUD
David & Charles. London. 1972. 1st UK Ed. XXIV, (2), 525 PP plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, no dust jacket. Previous owners name and address on FFEP. Some of the pages with photos are rubbed where they have previously been stuck together, however all the photos are still intact except for photos 26 and 27 (the Vasa) where a small part on the page edge has been damaged. Otherwise contents clean and still a very good copy. 22.3 x 14. 071535454X
The history of salvage attempts, divers and the sea, various kinds of salvage operations, equipment used and their developments.
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.
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
58561 HAISMAN, Sylvie THIS BARREN ROCK: A True Tale of Shipwreck and Survival in the Southern Seas, 1875
$30.00 AUD
ABC Books. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. (XII), 238, (3) PP with 1 location map of the Crozet Islands and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 9780733325557
Wreck of the Shaw Savill & Co. "Strathmore" in 1875 on Grande Ile, Crozet Islands.
48095 HALSTEAD, Bob M/V TELITA & MINISUB (in Paradise)
$10.00 AUD
Air Niugini. Port Moresby. 1987. Issue No. 65, Nov-Dec 1987. 38 PP with b/w or colour illustrations. Contains article between P. 9 and 14 with 18 colour photos, and between P. 23 and 26 with 16 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28.5 x 21.
Building of the M/V Telita, dive support vessel. Dives on the wreck of a Japanese mini submarine, New Hanover.
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.
74502 HASS, Hans CONQUEST OF THE UNDERWATER WORLD
$20.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot, UK. 1975. 1st UK edition of the 1973 German original. 407 PP with 102 illustrations (45 in colour and 57 in b/w). Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing with foxing spots on outside edges. Dust jacket with closed tears and in a protective sleeve. Ver good. 24.2 x 17. 0715367137
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.
30815 HOUOT, Georges & WILLM, Pierre TWO THOUSAND FATHOMS DOWN
$5.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton & Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1955. 1st UK Ed. 256 PP with 8 diagrams, plus 16 pages with 2/6 bw photos. Eps: Cutaway drawing of the F.N.R.S. 3. Cloth cover (marked and worn). Some foxing. Good reading copy. Image shows the endpapers. 22.2 x 14.5.
The dives of the Bathyscaphe, first independent deep-water submarine to descend deeper than William Beebe and Otis Barton.
17725 HOUOT, Lt. Cmdr. G.S. FOUR YEARS OF DIVING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume CXIII, No.5, 1958)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1958. Volume CXIII, No.5, May, 1958. Contains article between P.715 and 731 with bw & colour illustrations. Soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 17.5.
Globe-eyed sharks, fish with stilts, undersea deserts, avalanches, powerful currents... Story of the French bathyscaphe pilot and his trips to the black abyss...
49606 HOUOT, Lt. Comdr. Georges S. DEEP DIVING BY BATHYSCAPHE OFF JAPAN (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 117, No.1, 1960)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1960. Volume 117, No.1, January 1960. Contains article between P.138 and 150 with 5 bw & 8 colour illustrations (1 map, 1 plan & 6 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 17.5.
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
53823 ILLSLEY, John Sherwood (compiler) A DATABASE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY and Related Topics with Author and keyword Indexes
$50.00 AUD
Akadimias Software / University College of North Wales. Bangor, Wales. 1989. 1st Ed. Booklet: (4), 24 PP, plus 6 floppy discs (5.25) in IBM PC 360K format. Booklet format: 20 x 14.6. Booklet and floppy discs contained in a plastic box. With Compliments note signed by the author loosely inserted. Very good. Box format: 14 x 15.5.
9300 citations sorted into 45 subject groups.
11508 ISY-SCHWART, Marcel LA CROISIERE BLEUE, Joyaux de la Mer de Corail
$35.00 AUD
Robert Laffont. Paris. 1968. 1st Ed. 190 PP with 1 map in text plus 32 pages with 35 b/w photos plus 4 pages with colour photos. Pict. soft cover. French text. Very good. 21.5 x 13.8.
The sailing cruise around New Caledonia and the atolls of Ouvéa & Beautemps-Beaupré, of an adventurer, photographer, scuba diver in 1967.
56590 JACKSON, Jack THE DIVE SITES OF THE PHILIPPINES
$20.00 AUD
New Holland. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 176 PP with colour illust. (maps & photos). Title page: Pterois Volutans. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.2 x 16.5. 185368516X
Comprehensive coverage of diving and snorkelling.
20252 JEFFERIS, Roger & McDONALD, Kendall THE WRECK HUNTERS
$10.00 AUD
A.S. Barnes & Co. New York. 1966. 1st Ed. 255 PP with 5 line drawings, and 60 bw illust. Fp: The Wreck Hunter. REP: maps of wrecks from the Needles to North Foreland. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Map of FEP not present (renewed FEP ?). Very good. 21.5 x 14.5.
Accounts of amateur aqualung divers of Great Britain and their search for sunken wrecks around the English coast. P.237 to 246: Wreck List.
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...
53625 JOLLY, Dick WRECK, RESCUE AND SALVAGE
$35.00 AUD
Whittles Publishing. Dunbeath, Scotland. 2007. Reprint of the 2006 original. VI, 154 PP with 32 b/w illustrations (1 document, 13 headpieces and 18 photos) and 27 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17. 190444542X
Reminiscences of deep-sea tug and commercial salvage.
16531 KAHARL, Victoria A. WATER BABY
$10.00 AUD
OUP. New York. 1990. 1st Ed. XII, 356 PP plus 32 pages with b/w & colour photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0195061918
Deep-sea exploration with Alvin, the world's first deep-diving submarine.
37913 LANG, Denise V. FOOTSTEPS IN THE OCEAN - Careers in Diving
$15.00 AUD
E. P. Dutton. New York. 1987. 1st Ed. XV, 144 PP with 35 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0525671935
60871 LARN, Richard UNIDENTIFIED ARTEFACTS 1 (in The International Journal of NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY and UNDERWATER EXPLORATION)
$5.00 AUD
The Council for Nautical Archaeology / Academic Press. London. 1984. Reprinted from Volume 13, No. 2, May 1984. 113-119 PP with 7 figures with 12 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2.
56040 LARUE, Pierre LA FIN DE LA DIEPPOISE (in Subaqua)
$10.00 AUD
Fédération Française d' Etudes et de Sports Sous-Marins. Marseille. 1991. Issue No. 119, Nov.-Dec. 1991. 100 PP. Contains article pages 28 to 33 with 4 b/w photos, and colour illustrations (1 sketch chart and 7 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
La Diéppoise: minesweeper sunk in 1988 to become a diving site in the lagoon of New Caledonia.
64057 LARUE, Pierre LA DIEPPOISE: une patate de grande classe (in Cols Bleus)
$10.00 AUD
Cols Bleus, Hebdomadaire de la Marine et des Arsenaux. Paris. 1998. Issue No. 2437, 11 & 18 April 1998. 36 PP. Contains article pages 8 to 10 with 7 colour photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
La Diéppoise: minesweeper sunk in 1988 to become a diving site in the lagoon of New Caledonia.
70018 LAXON, W. A. THE CURRIE LINE OF MELBOURNE
$10.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia. Melbourne. 2003. 1st Ed. 61, (3) PP with 25 b/w illustrations (2 newspaper clippings, 2 portraits and 21 photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0959907963
Shipmaster & shipowner. Salvage expert... Shipping line taken over by British India in early 1913.
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.
38115 LEECH, Graeme THE FIRST BOAT PEOPLE (in The Australian Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
Nationwide News / The Weekend Australian. Sydney. 1998. The Weekend Australian, July 18-19 1998. Contains article pages 16 to 21 with 5 colour photos, by Marco del Grande. Soft cover. Fine. 31 x 25.3.
When Europe's Ice Age cavemen were making paintings of animals, someone in Australia painted a picture of a boat on a sandstone rock in the north Kimberley. It could be the first painting portraying ocean travel.
59288 LEEK, Bob SAIL TRADERS OF PORT PHILLIP AND VICTORIA - Volume II
$30.00 AUD
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.
74927 LEWIS, Captain John TOW-LINE
$40.00 AUD
J. D. Lewis. Mallacoota, Victoria. 2000. 1st Ed. IV, 144 PP 1 sketch-map, 2 cartoons and 10 b/w photos, plus Errata slip pasted down on verso of "Table of Contents" page. Pictorial card covers. Light creases on lower corner of covers, o/wise contents are near fine. Scarce. 20.3 x 14.3. 0646398709
Story of tugs and their tugmen: towing, salvage and maritime mishaps in Western Australia during years 1960-1980. Stranding, breakdowns... Bridgewater, Alkimos, Gertrude Therese, Nicolaos Michalos IV, ... Esso Den Haagt, Shinyo Maru, Morgedal.
42252 LIMBURG, Peter R. & SWEENEY, James B. VESSELS FOR UNDERWATER EXPLORATION
$20.00 AUD
Crown Publishers. New York. 1973. 2nd Ed. (6), 154 PP with 105 b/w illust. (engravings, paintings, photos, sketch plans...). Fp: Research Submarine Deep Quest. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 28.5 x 22. 0517505347
Oceanographic submersibles since prehistoric time: underwater breathing contraptions to diving bells, and submarines.
58127 LIPPMANN, John OXYGEN FIRST AID
$5.00 AUD
J.L. Publications. Melbourne. 1995. Revised Australasian edition of April 1995 (original of August 1992). 160 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Fine. 21 x 15. 0646235656
A guide to the provision of oxygen in scuba diving accidents and other emergencies.
58128 LIPPMANN, John OXYGEN FIRST AID
$5.00 AUD
J.L. Publications. Melbourne. 1999. January 1999 reprint of the April 1995 revised Asia-Pacific edition (original of August 1992). 160 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Fine. 21 x 15. 0646235656
A guide to the provision of oxygen in scuba diving accidents and other emergencies.
72188 LIPPMANN, John DEEPER INTO DIVING
$50.00 AUD
J.L. Publications. Melbourne. 1990. 1st edition, July 1990. Foreword by Peter B. Bennett. (14), 610 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (drawings, graphs, sketches & photos). Erratum ship loosely inserted. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 24 x 17.5. 0959030638
75787 LUBBOCK, Adelaide OWEN STANLEY R.N. 1811-1850, Captain of the "Rattlesnake"
$30.00 AUD
Heinemann. Melbourne. 1968. 1st Ed. (9), 298 PP with 4 maps, plus 1 large folded chart & 16 pages with 34 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper. Dust jacket with repaired chips/tears in a protective sleeve, small rub at top corner of front jacket, o/wise near fine. 21.3 x 13.5.
Surveying of the Northern part of Australia, Port Essington, Southern New Guinea, Coral Sea.
17562 LYON, Eugene THE TROUBLE WITH TREASURE (In National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1976. Volume 149, No.6, June 1976. Article: P. 787 to 805. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
The wreck of the Spanish galleon Atocha sunk off Florida in 1628.
56598 MACINNIS, Joe UNDERWATER MAN
$10.00 AUD
McClelland and Stewart Limited. Toronto. 1974. 1st Australian Sports Publications edition. Foreword by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. (2), 142 PP with b/w photos14 . Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 0771036272
66975 MACKEN, Jim THE WRECK OF THE HAZARD & Other True Sea Stories of Broken Bay
$25.00 AUD
Author. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed. IV, 56 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map, drawings, engravings, facsimile of documents and photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Small rubbed spot on title page, o/wise fine. Oblong: 21 x 29. 0646219898
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
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.
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
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...
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.
21286 McCARTHY, Mike EXCAVATION OF THE BARQUE DAY DAWN
$20.00 AUD
W.A. Museum. Perth. 1980. 1st Ed. 58 PP with b/w illustrations. Illustrated card cover. Near fine. 22 x 17. 0724482237
The excavation and identification of the wreck of an ex-American whaling ship in Cockburn Sound.
43266 McHUGH, Evan THE SHIPWRECK COAST (in Qantas, The Australian Way - Issue No. 111, September 2002)
$10.00 AUD
Qantas. Sydney. 2002. Contains article between P. 88 and 92 with 2 b/w and 8 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Beyond the West Australian coastline lie scores of shipwrecks, remnants of 400-year seafaring heritage that allow divers to plunge into the past.
64417 McINNES, Allan THE WRECK OF THE "CHARLES EATON"
$20.00 AUD
Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1983. Reprint. 21- 50 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map and 3 photos). Soft covers a little soiled and reinforced, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 13.5.
Paper read to the RHSQ on 24 February 1983. Shipwrecked , 15 August 1834, on Detached Reef, Torres Strait, on a passage from Australia to Canton.
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
69734 MEDLAND, J. C. SHIPWRECKS OF THE WIGHT
$20.00 AUD
Freshwater, Isle of Wight. 1986. West Island Printers. 1st Ed. 70 PP with 1 map in colour "The Coastal Waters of the Isle of Wight" and b/w illustrations (5 sketches, 20 engravings and 56 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0951149806
32816 MIDDLETON, Ned TEN YEARS UNDERWATER
$40.00 AUD
Immel Publishing. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 129, (7) PP with 1 plan, 6 maps, 12 b/w and 77 colour photos. FEP: Preparing for a diving expedition. REP: table with personal diving statistics. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27 x 19. 0907151434
58568 MOITESSIER, Bernard EN BAGARRE AVEC LES REQUINS DANS LES EAUX DE L'ÎLE MAURICE (in L' Aventure Sous-Marine, techniques et exploration)
$5.00 AUD
L'Aventure Sous-Marine. Paris. 1969. Issue No. 75, Special Summer 1969. 183-246 PP. Contains article from P. 192 to 197 with 2 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 27 x 21
Diving and sharks in Mauritius waters.
46020 MOORE, Robin & JENNINGS, Howard THE TREASURE HUNTER
$10.00 AUD
Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1974. 1st Ed. X, 261 PP with 1 sketch map, plus 16 pages with 1 map, 2 charts with Insets, and 26 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Central America, the Caribbean and Northern South America. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 139305297
Howard Jennings: modern adventurer and full-time treasure hunter.
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...
56596 MORRISON, Hugh & SINCLAIR, Steve INTERNATIONAL SCUBA DIVER - The Essentials of SCUBA Theory
$10.00 AUD
Lion Fish Publications. Perth. 1984. 1st Ed. Foreword by Stan Bugg. VI, 191 PP with tables and figures (drawings & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Back cover with a crease. Very good. 21.5 x 14.0. 0949665010
10560 MULLER, Kal UNDERWATER INDONESIA, A Guide to the World's Greatest Diving
$20.00 AUD
Periplus Editions. Singapore. 1992. 1st Ed. 285 PP with colour illustrations (maps & photos). FEP: Map of Sumatra to Papua New Guinea. Fp: Bunaken Island, Sulawesi. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. 0945971141
An excellent dive guide: sites & dive options such as living aboard or ashore.
74471 N/A TITANIC - THE EXHIBITION
$50.00 AUD
National Geographic. 88 PP profusely illustrated throughout. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Exhibition of the Titanic which includes many original artefacts. Recreates the grandeur of the ship and relates many stories of the passengers at the time. Includes the "Boarding Pass" which is used as the Entry to the exhibition.
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).
62362 NOALL, Cyril THE STORY OF CORNWALL'S LIFEBOATS
$10.00 AUD
Tor Mark Press. Truro, Cornwall. 1970. 1st Ed. 48 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 cut-away, 3 sets of plans, engravings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.6 x 14.
Tor Mark Press. Truro, Cornwall. c. 1965. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 47 b/w photos. Fp: American liner "Paris". Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14
62435 O'BRIEN, T. Michael GUARDIANS OF THE EIGHTH SEA - A History of the U.S. Coast Guard on the Great Lakes
$15.00 AUD
US Government Printing Office. Washington. 1976. 1st Ed. Foreword by Truman R. Strobridge and Preface by James S. Gracey. XI, 97 PP with b/w illustrations (headpieces, engravings, maps, paintings and photos). Soft cover, illustrated front. Very good. 26 x 20.
34093 O'NEILL, Richard SUICIDE SQUADS OF WORLD WAR II. Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II: their Development and their Missions
$10.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1981. 1st Australian edition. 296 PP with 6 maps, 18 tables, 60 diagrams and sketch-plans, and 130 b/w photos. FEP: Map of Japanese waters. REP: Map of the Channel and North Sea. Hard cover, dj. Foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 23.8 x 15.5. 0701816104
72103 OWEN, David M. A manual for FREE-DIVERS using compressed air
$35.00 AUD
Pergamon Press. London. 1955. 1st Ed. 62 PP with 13 b/w figures, plus 2 folded plates for figure 1 & 5 and 9 photos/plates for figures 3 and 6 to 13. Cloth cover, dj (price clippped). Dust jacket with repaired chips and small piece missing at head of spine. Very good. 19 x 12.5.
16358 OWEN, Roderic THE FATE OF FRANKLIN
$100.00 AUD
Hutchinson of Australia. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Australian edition. 471 PP with 15 text illustrations (4 facsimiles of manuscropts and drawings) and 10 maps (3 double page & 7 full page), plus 16 pages with 57 b/w illustrations. Fp: facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News, a journal published on board HMS Resolute. Eps: Map of the Arctic. Cloth covers, dj. Bookplate of previous owner pasted down on half title page. Light foxing spots on outside edges and first few passages, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 24 x 15.5. 009131190X
The life and mysterious death of the most heroic Arctic explorer.
71158 PARSONS, Ronald (compiler) SHIPPING LOSSES AND CASUALTIES CONCERNING AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (in 2 volumes)
$70.00 AUD
Author. Goolwa, S.A. 2003. 1st Ed. Volume I: (6), 200 PP with 4 b/w illustrations. Volume II, (2), 201- 398 PP. Soft cover, staples, cloth tape on spine. Faint foxing. Near fine. Scarce. 29 x 21. 0909418705
Volume I: from Aagot and Aagtekerke to Juverna and J. W. Alexander. Volume II: from K9 and Kadina to Zvir and Zwarte Zwaan.
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
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).
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
66367 POSTER SHIPWRECKS: A Fragile Link with the Past - Tug Valiant
$5.00 AUD
Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories & Department of Planning. Canberra & Sydney. c. 1994. Poster. Tug Valiant sunk 1981, off Barrenjoey Head. Colour photo by Alan Johnson (winner of the 1991 Shipwreck NSW Amateur Photographic Competetion). Fine. Large format: 82 x 47.
Tugboat Valiant sunk off Barrenjoey Head.
66370 POSTER SHIPWRECKS: A Fragile Link with the Past -
$5.00 AUD
Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories & Department of Planning. Canberra & Sydney. c. 1994. Poster: S.S. Bombo, coastal trader (50 Tons, 154'), wrecked Port Kembla Harbour Entrance. Colour photo by John Fowden (Winner of the 1992 Shipwreck NSW Amateur Photographic Competition). Fine. Large oblong format: 47 x 67.
S.S. Bombo, off Port Kembla.
62603 [POSTER] SHIPWRECKS: A Fragile Link with the Past - 3 Posters
$10.00 AUD
Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories & Department of Planning. Canberra & Sydney. c. 1994. 3 posters in colour. Fine. Format: 82 x 47
1 - Have you seen this face?: Bellarine jug from the Vergulde Draeck. 2 - S.S. Bombo, off Port Kembla. 3 - tug Valiant, off Barenjoey Head.
Australia Post. Melbourne. 2007. Poster in colour. Fine. Poster format: 84 x 59.5.
Admella: 6.8.1959, 89 lives lost - Loch Ard: 1.6.1878, 49 lives lost - Dunbar: 20.8.1857, 120 lives lost.
75449 POTTINGER, J. SALVAGING THE GERMAN FLEET: Our Enduring Legacy 1919 - 2019
$15.00 AUD
Stromness Museum. Stromness, Orkneys. 2019. January 2019 reprint of the revised edition. Introduction by Bryce Wilson. 24 PP with 12 colour illustrations (1 painting, 1 invitation celebrating the raising of "SMS Friedrich der Grosse" and 10 photos), and 21 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780956066312
63109 PURCHASE, Peter THE ALBATROSS NECKLACE - The Last Voyage of the Zuytdorp
$35.00 AUD
Dune Publishing. Perth. 2013. Reprint of the 2012 original. VI, 408 PP with 1 chart on double page (journey of the Zuytdorp 1711-12, 2 b/w illustrations and 2 colour photos- head of each major part). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.7 x 14.5. 9780957736412
Historical novel. Published in 2012 to mark the tricentenary of the June 1712 wreck of the VOC ship "Zuytdorp" on the cliffs north of Kalbarri, Western Australia.
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.
53501 ROBIN, Bernard SURVIVAL AT SEA. A practical manual of survival and advice to the shipwrecked, assembled from an analysis of thirty-one survival stories
$10.00 AUD
Stanley Paul & Co. London. 1981. 1st English edition with a foreword by Alain Bombard. Edited and translated from the 1977 French original by Richard Simpkin. (6), 233, (7 bibliography & index) PP with 26 maps and many drawings. Pictorial soft cover with a few creases, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 13.7. 0091430917
Survival stories by: Richard Hakluyt..., Guillaume Bontekoe... William Bligh...
44363 RODEN, Hans SCHATZSUCHER - Chronik der versunkenen und vergrabenen Schätze un der zu ihrer Bergung angestellten Versuche
$5.00 AUD
Koehlers. Jugenheim/Bergstrasse. 1963. 1st Ed. 244 PP with 14 maps and 55 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. German text. Near fine. 20.6 x 14.
Treasure and treasure hunters.
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.
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...
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.
42790 SCHROEDER, Robert E. SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE
$15.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1965. 1st Ed. VII, 184 PP, plus 32 pages with 19 colour and 38 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Signed by the author on half title page. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.5.
A pioneer night diver and marine biologist reveals the marvelous spectacle of underwater life, the remarkable changes between day and night.
55557 SHREEVES, Karl, WOHLERS, Bob, RICHARDSON, Drew... PADI - Open Water Diver Manual
$10.00 AUD
PADI / Southwood Press. Santa Ana, Ca. & Sydney. 1998. Reprint of the 1995 edition. VI, 272 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. One crease on spine, o/wise fine. 24.2 x 17.3. 1878663178
58762 SHREEVES, Karl, WOHLERS, Bob, RICHARDSON, Drew... PADI - Open Water Diver Manual
$15.00 AUD
PADI / Macarthur Press. Santa Ana, Ca. & Sydney. c. 1991. 3rd printing of the 1990 original. VI, 272 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.2 x 17.5.
72143 SLEEPER, Jeanne Bear & BANGASSER, Susan WOMEN UNDERWATER
$15.00 AUD
DeepStar Publishing. Crestline, Ca. 1979. 1st Ed. (8), 111 PP with 1 table and b/w illustrations: 4 drawings & 75 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Name of previous owner blocked out with black felt at top of title page. Very good. 21.5 x 13.7. 0918888042
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
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
42791 TAYLOR, Herb UNDERWATER WITH THE NIKONOS & NIKON SYSTEMS
$45.00 AUD
Amphoto. New York. 1977. 2nd printing in October 1977 of the original. 160 PP with 13 drawings, and 137 b/w photos, plus 12 pages with 17 Colour photos. Hard cover, dj (rubbed). Note on front endpaper, scoring on pages 61/62. Internally very good. 23.4 x 15.5. 817424016
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.
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
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)...
60590 TILLMAN, Albert A. SKIN AND SCUBA DIVING IN UNDERWATER EDUCATION - A Training Text for Institutions of Higher Learning
$10.00 AUD
Wm. C. Brown Company / Under Sea Industries.. Dubuque, Iowa. 1974. 16th printing of the 1962 original. X, 149 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Covers slightly rubbed. Underlining Some underlining in the table of contents and in text with a few markings, o/wise good. 27.2 x 21. 0697071065
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.
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.
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
67173 WANE, Greg WRECKED ON BRUNY ISLAND - Three of Tasmania's finest ships were lost at Adventure Bay in 1909 during two weeks of fierce storms
$25.00 AUD
Author / Two Dogs Books - Boutique Publishers. Wallington, Vic. 2010. 1st Ed. VIII, 9-88 PP with 1 engraving, 1 map, 4 charts, 3 portraits and 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 23 x 15.4. 978098066322
Wooden ketch "Priscilla" and steamer S.S. "Sea Bird": 12th June 1909. Barque "Natal Queen": 24th June 1909.
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.
66263 WARWICK, Sam & ROUSSEL, Mike SHIPWRECKS OF THE CUNARD LINE
$40.00 AUD
The History Press. Stroud, Gloucestershire. 2012. 1st Ed., with a foreword by John Chatterton. 167 PP, (1 publication) with 6 location maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Oblong: 23.5 x 25.5. 9780752454771
Includes a "Cunard Line Fleet" list.
69626 WILLIAMS, Captain Sir John SO ENDS THIS DAY - An Autobiography
$15.00 AUD
Globe Press. Melbourne. 1981. 1st Ed. (12), 226, (6 index) PP, plus 32 pages with 60 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Ex library copy with renewed endpapers, sellotape marks on covers, stamp on verso of title page and remnants of sticker at foot of spine of dust jacket. Outside edges soiled with foxing spots. Top corner of pages 109 to 114 with repaired tears. A good reading copy. 24.2 x 15.8. 095936711X
He started before the mast on sailing ships, migrated to Australia where he worked for the ports of Townsville & Melbourne. Marine salvage, Chairman of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission, Australian National Line.
74084 WILLIAMS, Captain Sir John SO ENDS THIS DAY - An Autobiography
$35.00 AUD
Globe Press. Melbourne. 1981. 1st Ed. (12), 226, (6 index) PP, plus 32 pages with 60 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 24.2 x 15.8. 095936711X
He started before the mast on sailing ships, migrated to Australia where he worked for the ports of Townsville & Melbourne. Marine salvage, Chairman of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission, Australian National Line.
62254 WILLIAMS, Des FATHOMS, Official Journal of the Victorian Sub-Aqua Group - 1979-1981 (14 issues)
$10.00 AUD
VSAG / Victorian Sub-Aqua Group. Melbourne. 1979 to 1981. 14 Issues: November 1979 to December 1981. A total of 252 pages with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples. Good run. 20.7 x 16.8.
1979: November and December. 1980: April, May & October. 1981: February, March, April, June, August, to December.
62255 WILLIAMS, Des FATHOMS, Official Journal of the Victorian Sub-Aqua Group - 1982 (7 issues)
$10.00 AUD
VSAG / Victorian Sub-Aqua Group. Melbourne. 1982. 7 issues: April to December 1982. A total of 150 pages with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Good run. 20.7 x 16.8.
62256 WILLIAMS, Des FATHOMS, Official Journal of the Victorian Sub-Aqua Group - 1983 (5 issues)
$10.00 AUD
VSAG / Victorian Sub-Aqua Group. Melbourne. 1983. 7 issues: March to July 1983. A total of 110 pages with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Covers with creases. Good run. 20.7 x 16.8.
62257 WILLIAMS, Des FATHOMS, Official Journal of the Victorian Sub-Aqua Group - 1984 / 1989 (4 issues)
$10.00 AUD
VSAG / Victorian Sub-Aqua Group. Melbourne. 1984 to 1989. 4 issues: October 1984 to June / July 1989. A total of 107 pages with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Covers with creases. Good. 20.7 x 16.8.
October 1984, December 1984, February 1985, December 1989.
65989 WILLIAMS, Mark DEEP SEA TREASURE
$15.00 AUD
Heinemann. London. 1981. 1st Ed. (XII), 180 PP with 63 bw and colour illust. (maps, drawings, photos...). Fp: scuba diver with coins. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Ex-library copy with 4 stamps, pocket on front endpaper and sellotape marks on endpapers. Internally very good. 24 x 16. 0434866601
Story of the professional and amateur divers whose tenacity awakened history and treasure hunting beneath the sea.
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
22445 WILSON, Roberta & James Q. WATCHING FISHES, Life and Behaviour on Coral Reefs
$15.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1985. 1st Ed. XII, 275 PP with tables, 3 maps & 36 drawings by Roberta Wilson, plus 32 pages with 63 colour plates. Cloth cover, devices in blind on front cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 006015371
72101 ZANELLI, Leo & SKUSE, George SUB-AQUA ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY
$20.00 AUD
Kaye & Ward. London. 1976. 1st Ed. (6), 114 PP with 72 b/w illustrations: drawings, sketches, photos & tables. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Small water mark affecting a small area (1.5cm x 0.5cm) of lower edge of front board, dust jacket and outside edge. Contents near fine. 20.5 x 13.4. 0195198948