72201 ABERDEEN & COMMONWEALTH LINE PORT SAID and SUEZ CANAL
$20.00 AUD
Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line. London. 1931. September 1931 edition. 4 PP with 2 house flags and illustrated front (a Scottish terrier). Covers lightly soiled and worn, o/wise near fine. 21.6 x 14.
Brief history and description of the crossing.
72202 ABERDEEN & COMMONWEALTH LINE EMBARKATION and Baggage Notice T.S.S. "Esperance Bay"
$20.00 AUD
Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line. London. 1934. March 1934 edition. Sailing from Southampton on 10 October 1934. 4 PP with 1 illustration at back (a Scottish Terrier). Covers lightly soiled. Near fine. 20. 2 x 12.5.
50858 AFOUMADO, Diane EXIL IMPOSSIBLE. L'errance des Juifs du paquebot St-Louis
$35.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in the Racisme et Eugénisme series. Preface by Serge Klarsfeld. 284, (2) PP with 1 map and 1 b/w photo. Pictorial soft cover (poster of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie). French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747585085
The voyage of 937 Jewish refugees on board the luxury liner Saint Louis of Hamburg-Amerika Line. Hamburg - Cherbourg - Havanna - Antwerp. 13th May to 17 June 1939.
40131 ANDERSON, Robert & WILSON, Ian SHIPS AND QUAYSIDES OF ULSTER
$20.00 AUD
The Friar's Bush Press. Belfast. 1990. 1st Ed. (VI), 90 PP with 87b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 17.9 x 21.5. 0946872325
The Harland & Wolf Historic photograph Collection at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum.
15852 ANDREWS, Graeme A LOG OF GREAT AUSTRALIAN SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is a little sunned with a few chips. An otherwise near fine copy. Oblong: 18.5 x 26. 0589502026
150 famous ships which played a vital role in the development of Australia.
15939 ANDREWS, Graeme VETERAN SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
$10.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1976. 1st Ed. 136 PP with b/w illust., plus 4 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, otherwise a fine copy. Oblong: 19.3 x 27.5. 0589071904
17982 ARCHIBALD, E. H. H. TRAVELLERS BY SEA
$10.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum / HMSO. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 34 PP with 16 b/w illustrations on full page. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. Oblong: 16.5 x 21.5.
62686 ARMSTRONG, Diane THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE - The Story of the SS DERNA and its Passengers
$20.00 AUD
Flamingo / HarperCollins. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. XII, 484 PP, plus 32 pages with 1 facsimile of crew list, 5 newspaper clippings and 61 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 07322686265
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...
64708 BAILLIE, Captain D. G. O. A SEA AFFAIR - An Autobiography
$5.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by Viscount Simon of Stackpole Elidor. X, 11-290 PP, plus 14 pages with 24 b/w photos. Fp: Commodore D.G. Baillie on the bridge of S.S. Himalaya. Hard cover. Spine sunned. Copy lacking 3 b/w photos facing pages 94 / 95. Ageing of paper and foxing. Ex Library copy with stamps. Good reading copy. 23.2 x 16.
From the training ship "Worcester" to Commodore of P. & O., 50 years of life at sea.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
17751 BATHE, B. W. SEVEN CENTURIES OF SEA TRAVEL - From the Crusaders to the Cruises
$10.00 AUD
Leon Amiel Publisher. New York. 1973. Reprint of the 1st US edition. 296 PP 30 colour and 327 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in and Ingleton bookplate. Very good. Image shows the tipped-in front cover of the dust jacket. 31.5 x 25.2. 0814807283
The development of sea travel from the 14th century to the present.
42997 BATHE, B. W. SEVEN CENTURIES OF SEA TRAVEL, From the Crusaders to the Cruises
$15.00 AUD
Barrie & Jenkins. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 298, (1) PP with 327 b/w illustrations, and 30 colour plates pasted down.. Cloth, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. Large format: 31.7 x 28.5. 0214668118
The development of sea travel from the 14th century to the present. A splendid publication.
17750 BATHE, B.W. SEVEN CENTURIES OF SEA TRAVEL, From the Crusaders to the Cruises
$10.00 AUD
Leon Amiel Publisher. New York. 1973. Reprint of the 1st US Ed. 296 PP with 30 colour and 327 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Very good. 31.5 x 25.2. 0814807283
The development of sea travel from the 14th century to the present.
20620 BATHE, B.W. SEVEN CENTURIES OF SEA TRAVEL - From the Crusaders to the Cruises
$10.00 AUD
Portland House. New York. 1990. Reprint of the 1st US edition. 296 PP with 30 colour & 327 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.5 x 25.2. 0517017547
The development of sea travel from the 14th century to the present.
71827 BATY, Scott SHIPS THAT PASSED
$40.00 AUD
Reed Books. Sydney. 1984 1st Ed. 328 PP with b/w illust. Fp: P & O Liner "Oriana". Ep: Oriana passing the Chandris liner "Australis". Hard cover, dj. Light shelf wear at bottom edge, o/wise a fine copy. 28.5 x 21.5. 0730100081
Salute to six decades of international passenger shipping service in Australasian waters. A pictorial roll-call of these liners.
36073 BEHRMAEL, Eric LINIENSCHIFFE UND TRAUM-KREUZFAHRTEN
$20.00 AUD
Avanti Verlag. Neuenburg, Germany. 1980. 1st German edition of the French "Paquebots et Croisières de Rêve". 160 PP with 13 b/w and 144 colour illustrations. Title spread: Liner at Port Antonio, Jamaica. FEP: The Great Eastern. REP: The Enrico C. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. German text. 24 x 19.2.
Liners and Cruise Ships.
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...
18538 BIRD, Nicky LUGGAGE LABELS FROM THE GREAT AGE OF SHIPPING
$10.00 AUD
Victoria and Albert Museum. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 8 PP with 11 bw illust. in text plus 12 full page colour plates. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 22. 0905209281
Twelve decorative, adhesive labels from bygone days, to adorn your luggage - with an introduction on the era of the liner.
72521 BISSET, Sir James TRAMPS & LADIES, MY EARLY YEARS IN STEAMERS
$40.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1960. Reprint of the 1959 original. XVI, 315 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illustrations. Fp: Colour painting of SS Mauretania. Eps: Chart of the North Atlantic steamer tracks. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on verso of front endpaper and remnants of old tape marks on endpapers. Contents are near fine. 22.2 x 14..
The memoirs of Sir James Bisset in the early days of steamships with recollections of his arrival on board the SS Carpathia, at the scene of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
21948 BISSET, Sir James & STEPHENSEN, P. R. TRAMPS & LADIES - MY EARLY YEARS IN STEAMERS
$50.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1960. Reprint of the 1959 original. XVI, 315 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illust. Fp: Colour painting of SS Mauretania. Eps: Chart of the North Atlantic steamer tracks. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few nicks, chips and in a protective sleeve. An otherwise fine copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.
The memoirs of Sir James Bisset in the early days of steamships with recollections of his arrival on board the SS Carpathia, at the scene of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
40431 BISSET, Sir James & STEPHENSEN, P. R. TRAMPS & LADIES - MY EARLY YEARS IN STEAMERS
$35.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1959. 1st Ed. XVI, 315 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): The champion Cunard liner, SS Mauretania. Eps: Chart of the North Atlantic steamer tracks. Hard cover. Spine sunned. Neat name and address of previous owner at top of FFEP. An otherwise near fine copy. 22.2 x 14.
The memoirs of Sir James Bisset in the early days of steamships with recollections of his arrival on board the SS Carpathia, at the scene of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
40422 BLAKE, George B.I. CENTENARY 1856-1956
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 272 PP, plus 16 plates with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Statue of Sir William McKinnon. Cloth cover, dj (a few chips, closed tears and a small piece missing). Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.8.
The British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, created to carry mail between Calcutta and Rangoon to become, in 1922, the largest merchant fleet in the world.
50859 BLONDEL-LOISEL, Annie, LITALIEN, Raymonde, BARBICHE, Jean-Paul & BRIOT, Claude DE LA SEINE AU SAINT-LAURENT AVEC CHAMPLAIN
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., the Histoire à l'Harmattan series. 232, (6) PP with b/w illustrations: 1 plan of a port, 1 painting, 3 sketches, and 5 engravings (charts). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5 2747590798
Symposium of April 2004 for the 400th anniversary of New France.
67846 BLORE, Trevor ESCAPE TO HILIFE - A Gourmet Goes to Sea
$25.00 AUD
Jarrolds. London. 1964. 1st Ed. 160 PP, plus 16 pages with 19 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired chips and price clipped, o/wise a very good clean copy. 21.5 x 14.2.
Life at sea for the crew & passengers on the run between England & South Africa, the ports of call...
51982 BLOW, Michael SHIPS
$5.00 AUD
Nelson Doubleday. Garden City. 1966. 1st Ed. prepared for the Science Program series with the Science Service. 64 PP with 17 drawings and 27 b/w photos, plus 12 pages with Science Bulletin and the 12 vignettes (colour photos) to be pasted down. Pictorial soft cover (Liners alongside piers, with New York City in background). Cover slightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. 21 x 14.
71809 BLUE FUNNEL LINE THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE TO AUSTRALIA, by T.S.S. Ulysses & T.S.S. Nestor
$100.00 AUD
Alfred Holt & Co. Liverpool. c. 1935. Folded poster (45 x 57 cms). Recto: 1 colour painting or T.S.S. Ulysses or T.S.S. Nestor and 6 b/w photos of Accommodation. Verso: 9 colour photo of paintings (The Nomad of Australian Interior / Kosciusko / Snowy Mountain near Yass / The Great Barrier Reef and 5 of Australian capital cities. Short closed tears repaired with acid-free clear tape. Near fine. Scarce. Folded format: 19 x 15.
75780 BONE, David W. MERCHANTMAN REARMED
$50.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1949. 1st Ed. XX, 332 PP with 1 tailpiece, 16 head pieces and 16 plates (drawings by Muirhead Bone). Fp: Sir David W. Bone. Cloth cover, gilt lettering on spine. Light foxing. Upper and lower edges of covers a little worn/frayed. Copy lacking the half title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
The records of his WWII services: Master of "Cameronia", "Circasia" or landing ships. Convoy duties, troop carrying... The last chapter tells of the repatriation of Australian soldiers, former POW from Changi, to Australia, where the author spent his early days in windjammers.
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
75824 BONSOR, N.R.P. NORTH ATLANTIC SEAWAY, An illustrated history of the passenger services linking the old world with the new
$30.00 AUD
T. Stephenson & Sons. Prescot, Lancashire. 1955 1st Ed. Foreword by A. C. Hardy, President of the World Ship Society. XXXII, 639 PP with 30 pages containing 150 silhouettes (illustrations by J.H. Isherwood), plus 30 pages with 54 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): R.M.S. Caronia. FEP: Western Europe. REP: The Eastern Seaboard of North America. Bookmark with "Principal Chapters" and "Fleet List Abbrerviations", loosely inserted. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with clear plastic protection, pasted down on endpapers. Occasional foxing, heavy on outside edges. A very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
70159 BOWEN, Frank C. THE FLAG OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS, The History of Shaw Savill & Albion Limited 1858-1939
$45.00 AUD
Shaw Savill. London. 1939. 1st Ed., with a preface by the Right Honourable Viscount Runciman of Doxford. (6), 124 PP, XXVIII, (12 pages Index), plus 22 bw illust. on full page. Title page: The Company Flag (in colour). Gilt-engraved blue cloth cover. Ex-libris plate pasted down on inside front cover, light foxing on endpapers, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 22.7 x 15.2.
The close association between the Dominion of New Zealand and the Shaw Savill and Albion Company.
71767 BOWEN, Frank C. HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC LINE
$80.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. London. 1928. 1st Ed. (17 adverts.), (4), 205, (11 adverts.) PP with 44 b/w photos, all but 1 on ships and 22 of them on full page. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Spine and lower part of front cover somewhat sunned and some light wear. Contents near fine. Scarce. 19 x 13.5.
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.
62384 BRAYNARD, Frank O. "WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP", THE STORY OF THE LEVIATHAN - Volume 2
$70.00 AUD
South Street Seaport Museum. New York. 1974. Volume II: 382 PP with b/w illustrations (over 200 photos), plus large folded "cut out plan" (in colour) of the S.S. Leviathan, United States Lines. Eps: Eight plans "General Arrangement" as the Leviathan. Cloth cover, gilt-title on spine and front cover, dj (painting by Albert Brenet). Signed by the author on the verso of the free fly of the front endpaper. Dust jacket with corners of inside flaps trimmed. Fine condition. 28.5 x 22.
Her life as the "Leviathan" of the United States Lines.
62410 BRAYNARD, Frank O. LIVES OF THE LINERS
$20.00 AUD
Cornell Maritime Press. New York. 1947. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 204 PP with 42 drawings of liners by the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with repaired tears and pieces missing. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine internally. 23.5 x 16.
22031 BREMER, Stuart HOME AND BACK - Australia's Golden Era of Passenger Ships
$5.00 AUD
Dreamweaver. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Poster on P & O, regular fortnightly sailings. Half title page: Come 'Home' via Suez. Eps: Liners alongside Princes Pier, Port Melbourne. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 30 x 23. 0949825069
The principal shipping companies involved in trade to Australia & around its coastline between 1900 & 1970. Aberdeen Line, White Star Line, including A.U.S.N., Burns Philp, Melbourne Steamship Company...
22187 BREMER, Stuart AUSTRALIA'S GOLDEN ERA OF SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Bullion Books. Sydney. 1989. Originally published in 1984 by Dreamweaver Books as Home and Back. 223 PP with b/w illust. Fp: P & O poster. Eps: Passenger ships at a pier. Hard cover, dj (Oriana passing Sydney Opera House). Fine. 29.5 x 22.5. 0730205975
The main shipping companies involved in trade to Australia and along its coastline.
31796 BREMER, Stuart HOME AND BACK - Australia's Golden Era of Passenger Ships
$5.00 AUD
Dreamweaver. Sydney. 1986. Reprint of the 1984 original. 224 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Poster on P & O, regular fortnightly sailings. Half title page: Come 'Home' via Suez. Eps: Liners alongside Princes Pier, Port Melbourne. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30 x 23. 0949825069
The principal shipping companies trading to Australia & around its coastline, between 1900 & 1970. Aberdeen Line, White Star Line, including A.U.S.N., Burns Philp, Melbourne Steamship Company...
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.
15911 BRINNIN, J. M. (editor) BEAU VOYAGE - Life Aboard the Last Great Ships
$15.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1982. 1st English edition of the 1980 French original "Paquebots: Le temps des traversées", by Michel Mohrt and Guy Feinstein. 272 PP with 331 b/w photos. Half title page: Queen Elizabeth, berthing New York. Eps: The Queen Mary moving down river to Grennock. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 32.5 x 24. 0500012725
65359 BRINNIN, J. M. (editor) BEAU VOYAGE - Life Aboard the Last Great Ships
$10.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1982. 1st English edition of the 1980 French original "Paquebots: Le temps des traversées", by Michel Mohrt and Guy Feinstein. 272 PP with 331 b/w photos. Half title page: Queen Elizabeth, berthing New York. Eps: The Queen Mary moving down river to Greenock. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket in three separate parts, loosely inserted. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 32.5 x 24. 0500012725
68679 BRINNIN, J. M. (editor) BEAU VOYAGE - Life Aboard the Last Great Ships
$15.00 AUD
Bracken Books. London. 1981. 1st English edition, translated from the 1980 French original "Paquebots: Le temps des traversées" by Richard Miller. 272 PP with 331 b/w photos. Half title page: "Queen Elizabeth", berthing New York. Eps: The "Queen Mary" moving down river to Grennock. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Stamp of "Devonport Maritime Museum & Historical Society" on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 32.3 x 24. 1851701346
75825 BRINNIN, John Malcolm THE SWAY OF THE GRAND SALOON, A Social History of the North Atlantic
$50.00 AUD
Arlington Books. London. 1986. 2nd revised edition. XXII, 599 PP, plus 48 pages with 55 b/w illustrations. Endpapers: A Grand Salon. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 24 x 16.5.
Splendours and miseries make up the marvellous story of the glorious age of passenger ships.
71454 BRITISH INDIA JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED - B. I. News, No. 44
$20.00 AUD
British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. London. 1965. July 1965 edition, No. 44. Edited by D. Gun-Cuninghame. 48 PP with 4 colour photos and b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front cover (Sirdhana and Kampala, in Hughes Dry Dock, Bombay). Near fine. Scarce. 24.7 x 18..5.
Island Story "Pitcairn Island", by Captain G. D. Kelly. Agencies: Gray, Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., Balrain.
71455 BRITISH INDIA JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED - B. I. News, No. 46
$20.00 AUD
British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. London. 1966. January 1966 edition, No. 46. Edited by D. Gun-Cuninghame. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front cover (M/V Nowshera in Malta). Rubbed patches at top of front cover. Contents near fine. Scarce. 24.7 x 18..5.
Island Story "Cocos-Keeling Islands", by Captain G. D. Kelly. Agencies: Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co. of Japan Ltd.
71456 BRITISH INDIA JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED - B. I. News, No. 58
$20.00 AUD
British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. London. 1969. January 1969 edition, No. 58. Edited by D. Gun-Cuninghame. 48 PP with b/w illustrations zand Fleet List at centrefold. Soft covers with light soiling, pictorial front (M/V Jelunga, River Hoogly, Calcutta). Near fine. Scarce. 24.7 x 18..5.
Early Schoolboy Cruising. "Suhaili" sails on, by Robin Knox-Johnston.
71457 BRITISH INDIA JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED - B. I. News, No. 65
$20.00 AUD
British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. London. 1970. October 1970 edition, No. 65. Edited by J.D. Precious. 48 PP with b/w illustrations and a 4 pages Fleet List at centrefold. Soft covers a little soiled, pictorial front (Launch of Merkara, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne). Near fine. Scarce. 24.7 x 18..5.
M.S. Manora.. BI Cavalcade by W.A. Laxon.
62995 BROGREN, Klas (editor) GUIDE 93 - Cruise & Ferry: ROYAL VIKING QUEEN / SCHICHAU SEEBECKWERFT AG
$25.00 AUD
Plus 2 Ferryconsultation. Halmstad, Sweden. 1993. 1993 edition. 224 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover (Royal Viking Queen). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 16 to 97: Royal Viking Queen, by Klas Brogren. Schichau Seebeck and the Vulkan Combine, by Arnold Kludas & Tom Todd. Market report. ...
62996 BROGREN, Klas (editor) GUIDE 94 - Cruise & Ferry: JUAN J. SISTER & Compania Transmediterranea
$25.00 AUD
Plus 2 Ferryconsultation. Halmstad, Sweden. 1994. 1994 edition. 224 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover (Juan J. Sister). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 14 to 49: Juan J. Sister / Going Bananas, by Jon H. Boyce. Luis Delso, by Antonio Alarcon. Hot Med, by Klas Brogren. Market report. ...
Plus 2 Ferryconsultation. Halmstad, Sweden. 1996. 1996 edition. 232 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover (Superfast). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 14 to 107: Superfast Feries / Across the Adriatic, by Klas Brogren. ... Hot Med update, by Russell Plummer. ... Market report. ...
ShipPax Information. Halmstad, Sweden. 1997. 1997 edition. 248 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover (Aida). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 14 to 115: Aida, by Klas Brogren. ... DSR / Deutsche Seereederei Touristik, by Tom Todd ... Market report. ...
ShipPax Information. Halmstad, Sweden. 2003. 2003 edition. 240 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover (Mont St Michel). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 10 to 107: The Mont St Michel Story, by Philippe Holthof. Brittany and Normandy, by Russell Plummer. Brittany Ferries: from feeder for farmers to ferries for cruisers, by Frederik Naumann ... Market Report.
ShipPax Information. Halmstad, Sweden. 2004. 2004 edition. 248 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial (Visby, Capital of Gotland) soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 8 to 113: The Visby / Rederi AB Gotland Story / Islands alike ?, by Karl Borgren. Four Times a Visby, by Frederik Naumann. The Danish influence, by Philip Dawson. ... Market Report.
ShipPax Information. Halmstad, Sweden. 2005. 2005 edition. 254 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover (Pont-Aven). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 8 to 110: The Pont-Aven story / Les perfectionnistes français, by Philippe Holthof. Brittany Ferries & Meyer Werft, by Tom Todd. Brittany Ferries Broker, by Frederik Naumann. ... Market Report.
ShipPax Information. Halmstad, Sweden. 2006. 2006 edition. 248 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial (Maersk Dunkerque) soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 8 to 111: Maersk Dunkerque / Focus on Norfolk Line, by Philippe Holthof. Samsung Heavy Industries, by Jonathan Boonzaier. ... Market Observationseport.
Plus 2 Ferryconsultation. Halmstad, Sweden. 1990. 1990 edition. 186 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover. (starboard side of "Crystal Harmony"). Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
NYK / Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Crystal Cruises & Crystal Harmony. History of NYK "Nibiki", by Michio Yamada. Cruise Vessels: Angelina Lauro, ... Club Med I, Westerdam. Ferries: Asagiri Maru ... Venus. Ro / Ro: Bore Sea ... Yufutsu Maru.
ShipPax Information. Halmstad, Sweden. 2005. 2005 edition. 216 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial soft cover ("Birka Paradise" ). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Birka Line and "Birka Paradise". Aker Finnyards. Aland is Finland's maritime heart ... Ferries: New Camellia ... Stena Baltica. Cruise: Arosa Luna ... Echantment of the Seas ... Pride of America. RoRo: Positive Star ... Torrens.
39992 BROWN, Alan LOCH LOMOND PASSENGER STEAMERS 1818-1989
$15.00 AUD
Allan T. Condie Publications. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (engravings, maps, photos) and 8 pages of colour illustrations (9 flags and funnels, 12 profiles, postcards and photos). Inside front cover: Map of Loch Lomond and Trossachs. Inside back cover: Map between the Clyde and Loch Lomond. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.8 x 20.8. 1856380288
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
19260 BUCHANAN, Gary et al. GREAT VOYAGES OF THE WORLD, 25 adventures on the high seas and great rivers of the world
$25.00 AUD
Readers's Digest. Sydney. 1997. 1st Australian edition. 176 PP with maps & location maps, and colour photos. Title spread: the Xi Ling gorge, on the Yangtze river. Half title page: Portside anchor. Pict. laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0864491972
Round the world on the QE2 - On the rivers: Shannon (Ireland), Rhine (Germany), Mekong... On the high seas: to St Helena and Tristan da Cunha, from Bali to Sydney...
68498 BURGESS, Douglas R., Jr. SEIZE THE TRIDENT, The Race for Superliner Supremacy and How It Altered the Great War
$15.00 AUD
International Marine / McGraw-Hill. Camden, Maine. 2005. 1st Ed. X, 296 PP, plus 6 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. . Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers, title page and top outside edge. Rubbed patch at foot of spine. Internally very good. 23.5 x 15.5 0071430091
60556 BUTLER, David Allen THE LUSITANIA - The Life, Loss an Legacy of an Ocean Legend
$35.00 AUD
Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, Pa. 2000. 1st Ed. XII, 291 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 20 b/w photos. Fp: Notice !, by Imperial German Embassy. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Creases on lower corner of pages XI / XII. Faint ageing of paper, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0811709892
Novel.
19057 CABLE, Boyd A HUNDRED YEAR HISTORY OF THE P. & O. 1837-1937, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
$65.00 AUD
Ivor Nicholson and Watson. London. 1937. 1st Ed. X, 289 PP with 10 pages of silhouette sketches, plus 18 plates on full page (12 colour, 6 b/w). Fp (in colour): Armorial Bearings of the P & O. Eps: Maps of P & O routes. Original cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. "Compliments" slip tipped in on preliminary page. Remnants of sellotape on top of half title page. Occasional foxing, o/wise a near fine copy. 24 x 19.
71149 CABLE, Boyd A HUNDRED YEAR HISTORY OF THE P. & O. - Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company 1837-1937
$60.00 AUD
Ivor Nicholson and Watson. London. 1937. 1st Ed. X, 289 PP with 10 pages of silhouettes of past and present ships, plus 18 plates (6 b/w & 12 colour). Fp (in colour & with tissue guard): The Armorial Bearings of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Eps: Maps of P & O routes. Cloth cover, gilt-engraved coat-of-arms on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on dust jacket and pages (some heavy on front outside edge), but not affecting colour plates. A very good copy with the scarce dust jacket. 24 x 19.
15969 CAIRIS, Nicholas T. PASSENGER LINERS OF THE WORLD SINCE 1893
$10.00 AUD
Bonanza Books. New York. 1979. Revised edition of the 1972 original published under the title North Atlantic Passenger Liners since 1900. 226 PP with 211 b/w photos of each ship described. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 21.8 x 28.2. 0517288753
Nostalgic look at the heyday of passenger ships, through the brief history of 211 ships of over 10,000 tons. Ships of the Cunard Line to the United States Lines. From the Alaunia to the Zaandam.
62347 CAIRIS, Nicholas T. NORTH ATLANTIC PASSENGER LINERS SINCE 1900
$25.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 212 b/w photos. Fp: The Cunard White Star Liners "Britannic", "Queen Mary" and the "Mauretania" at piers 90 and 92. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy. Oblong: 18.5 x 22. 711002754
Brief history of 210 ships of over 10,000 tons with 1 bw photo, specification and technical data.
65978 CAIRIS, Nicholas T. PASSENGER LINERS OF THE WORLD SINCE 1893
$5.00 AUD
Bonanza Books. New York. 1979. Revised edition of the 1972 original "North Atlantic Passenger Liners since 1900". Bonanza reprint (b). 226 PP with 211 b/w photos of each ship described. Hard cover, cloth spine, no dj. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. Oblong: 21.8 x 28.2. 0517288753
Nostalgic look at the heyday of passenger ships, through the brief history of 211 ships of over 10,000 tons. Ships of the Cunard Line to the United States Lines. From the "Alaunia" to the "Zaandam".
72206 CANDIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY 5 MENUS CANADIAN PACIFIC
$50.00 AUD
Canadian Pacific. London. 1955. 5 folded menus. Front cover: colour illustration / Back cover: details on the illustrated front / Inside: different types of menus. Near fine. 24.7 x 17.
Front covers: Empress of Australia (painting by Oswald Pennington) / Banff Springs Hotel, in the heart of the Canadian Rockies / Mount Assiniboine, Canadian Rockies / Indian Days at Banff / "The Mounted", Constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the steps of the West Block of Parliament Building and in front of the Peace Tower at Ottawa.
10113 CARY, Alan L. LINERS OF THE OCEAN HIGHWAY
$70.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston. London. circa 1936. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 58 b/w photos (45 full-page). Orig. cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. A scarce book. 22.2 x 14.5.
Details of 73 liners between 14,000 & 15,500 GRT, employed on all the principal routes with short histories of P.S.N.C., Aberdeen & Commonwealth, the Anchor Line,... Includes loosely inserted newspaper clippings of the day.
43082 CARY, Alan L. MAIL LINERS OF THE WORLD
$30.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston. London. c. 1936. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 61 silhouettes and 62 b/w photos (39 on full page). Cloth cover (no dust jacket). Spine sunned, faint foxing on outside edges. Bookshop stamp on front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper around outside edges. Very good copy of a scarce title. 22.2 x 14.5.
Details of 62 liners. Brief histories of Hamburg-Amerika Line, Nordeutscher Lloyd, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes...
33731 CHARLEWOOD, Geoff TROOPSHIP MEMORIES - A Dip in the Ocean
$30.00 AUD
Navigator Books. London. 1996. 1st Ed. (10), 126 PP with 12 b/w photos (11 of ships). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23.2 x 15.6. 0902830627
On the Passenger ships of the "British India" Company, between 1941 and 1946.
41525 CHESTERTON, D. Ridley COASTAL PASSENGER SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1963. 5th edition in the ABC series. 64 PP with 57 b/w photos. Title page: S.S. Yaroslaw Dubrovnik, Polish Ocean Lines. Pictorial soft cover (S. S. Maid of Orleans). Date on inside front cover, o/wise fine. Small format: 15.2 x 10.2.
62067 CLEGG, W. Paul & STYRING, John S. STEAMERS OF BRITISH RAILWAYS AND ASSOCIATE COMPANIES
$20.00 AUD
T. Stephenson. Prescot, UK. 1962. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 140 PP with 7 b/w photos in text of Part I plus 109 photos accompanying 108 descriptions of ships. Fp: The "Cerdic Ferry". Ep: Map of the regular passenger services of British Railways and Associate Companies. Hard cover, dust jacket (price-clipped with a few small chips). Offsetting of endpapers. A near fine copy. 22 x 14.
71576 COCKRILL, Philip K.N.S.M. The Royal Netherlands Steamship Company (1856-1981), Series Booklet No.26
$35.00 AUD
Philip Cockrill. Berkshire. c. 1980. 1st Ed., booklet No. 26 in this series. 56 PP with b/w illustrations in text. Soft covers lightly soiled, o/wise fine. 21 x 14.5.
A history of KNSM through postal cancellations.
19855 COLEMAN, Terry THE LINERS - A History of the North Atlantic Crossing
$10.00 AUD
Penguin. London. 1977. Reprint in paperback edition of the 1976 original. 232 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Poster of Normandie. Half-title: Shopping on Aquitania. Pictorial card cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 19. 0140043985
When these liners had style: in their design, in the men who sailed them or travelled on them.
76181 COLEMAN, Terry THE LINERS - A History of the North Atlantic Crossing
$15.00 AUD
Allen Lane. London. 1976. 1st Ed. 232 PP with b/w & 34 colour illust. Fp: Poster of Normandie. Half-title: Shopping in the long gallery of the Aquitania. Hard cover. Covers lightly rubbed. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper, top of half title page & title page, and last page. Very good. 25 x 19.5. 0713910119
When these liners had style: in their design, in the men who sailed them or travelled on them.
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.
63095 CONDIE, Allan T. PADDLE STEAMERS IN CAMERA
$15.00 AUD
Allan T. Condie Publications. London. 1987. 1st Ed. Foreword by Alan Brown. 48 PP with b/w illustrations including 114 photographies by Fred A. Plant. Inside front cover: foreword and funnel. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of Introduction, o/wise fine. 29.6 x 20.8. 0907742556
63079 COOKE, Anthony EMIGRANT SHIPS - The Vessels which carried Migrants across the World, 1946-1972
$15.00 AUD
Carmania Press. London. c.1990. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Fine. 27.3 x 21.5. 0951865609
The various shipping lines and ships which ferried migrants leaving war-torn Europe for other destinations or lands of promise.
70995 COOKE, Arthur O. A VOYAGE ON A LINER
$80.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. London. 1936. Reprint in the "Life at Sea" series, of the 1912 original. 110 PP with 4 colour illustrations and 36 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 4 drawings and 30 photos). Fp (in colour): "getting under weigh". Blue cloth cover with light wear, illustrations on front board. Brief note to previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise neear fine. Scarce. 17.8 x 12
Voyage in Spring 1912 to the Canary Isles.
70582 Le COUTEUR, Wilson THE GREAT OUTPOSTS OF THE EMPIRE
$50.00 AUD
Federal-Houlder-Shire Lines. London. 1907. 1st Ed. (4), 224, LXXIIII, PP with 1 map, 6 tables (distances, fleet list...) and 178 b/w photos. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover, all edges gilt. Hinges worn and edges of covers rubbed. Spine worn at extremities. Stamp of previous owner on recto of front endpaper and last page. Verso of title page with traces of previous label. Still a very good copy. Scarce. 18.8 x 12.3.
The World of Federal-Houlder-Shire Lines: Great Britain, South Africa, Australia (pages 49 to 113) , and New Zealand.
43140 COWSILL, Miles BRITTANY FERRIES - De la Terre à la Mer / From the Land to the Sea
$15.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. Kilgetty, UK. 1993. 2nd revised edition of the 1989 original. 96 PP with 1 map, 1 cut away, 3 plans, 91 b/w and 53 colour photos. Inside front cover: Normandie. Inside back cover: the Prince of Brittany off Alderney. Pictorial soft cover. Text in French and English. Name or previous owner at top of title page, o/wise fine.. Oblong: 19.5 x 21. 1871947170
43116 COWSILL, Miles & HENDY, John THE TOWNSEND THORESEN YEARS 1928 - 1987
$15.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. Kilgetty, UK. 1988. 1st Ed. 56 PP with 9 colour photos & bw illust. (maps, plans, photos). Centrefold: "Pride of Dover". Title page: funnel of "Panther". Inside front cover: "Spirit of Free Enterprise". Pictorial soft cover with a small crease. Name of previous owner on title page, o/wise near fine. 29.6 x 20.8. 0951309307
43168 COWSILL, Miles, HAALMEIJER, Frank, & HENDY, John HARWICH - HOEK VAN HOLLAND - A 100 years of Service / 100 Jaar Veerdienst
$10.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. Kilgetty, UK. 1993. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 1 sketch plan, 1 plan, 39 colour photos and 195 b/w illustrations. Eps: Colour posters. Pictorial soft cover. Dutch and English text. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 1871947162
Historical insight of the route between Harwich and Hook of Holland.
37276 CRABBE, Raoul DE LA PIROGUE AUX NAVIRES ATOMIQUES
$20.00 AUD
Ad. Goemaere. Bruxelles. 1951. 1st Ed. (2), 492 PP with 5 tables, plus 1 folded plan and 33 plates with 47 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.7.
History of ships: from the canoe to the ships with nuclear propulsion.
30333 CRAIG, Robin STEAM TRAMPS AND CARGO LINERS 1850-1950
$10.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1980. 1st Ed. Volume 5 in The Ship series edited by Basil Greenhill. 60 PP with 38 illust. FEP: Different types of vessels classed in Lloyd's Register Book. REP: Cross-sections of typical bulk carrying cargo ships built between the 1870's and 1900's. Laminated pictorial boards. A fine copy. Oblong: 20.5 x 21.2. 0112903150
70022 CREE, Nicholas EMPRESS IN MELBOURNE - Recollections from the 1938 Visit
$10.00 AUD
N. Cree. Melbourne. 1991. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 10 b/w photos & 1 facsimile of menu. Pict. card cover. Near fine. Oblong: 15 x 20.8. 0959560645
6th April, 1938: Call at Melbourne of the biggest passenger ship of the time.
75843 CREE, Nicholas STATION PIER RE-VISITED - Photographic Recollections from the 1960s
$15.00 AUD
Nicholas Cree Family Histories. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 plan & 29 b/w photos. Centrefold: Station Pier in 1969 with berthed: Oronsay, Australis, Galileo Galilei & Fairstar. Pictorial soft covers lightly soiled, o/wise fine. Stamp of Maritime Museum of Tasmania and of Tasmanian Senator Ken Wriedt on title page. Oblong: 15 x 21. 0959560637
Melbourne's Station Pier, point of entry to countless European migrants to Australia.
72204 CUNARD "MEDIA" & "PARTHIA" - One Class Only / First Class
$50.00 AUD
Cunard Line. Liverpool. 1947. Folded poster with 5 folds. Recto: 2 colour illustrations (1 painting of the sister ships by Walter Thomas & 1 colour photo of Cocktail Bar of Parthia) and details. Verso: 7 colour photos of accommodation on either "Media" or "Parthia". Near fine condition. Format: 45 x 55 / folded: 23 x 10.
First new Passenger Liners to enter the post-war (World War II) fleet of the Cunard Line. Maiden voyages Liverpool to New York respectively 20th of August of 1947 and 10th of April 1948.
74363 CUTLER, Carl C. QUEENS OF THE WESTERN OCEAN - The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines
$35.00 AUD
United States Naval Institute. Annapolis. 1961. 1st Edition. Foreword by Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz. XXII, 672 PP, (2), with 9 pages of ship and sail plans, plus 52 pages with 78 b/w illustrations. Fp: Black ball liner Neptune. FEP: Plans of Boston & New York City. REP: Liverpool in 1851. Cloth cover, gilt title on blue vignette on spine, dj. Bookplate of previous owner opposite half-title page. Light shelf wear, o/wise near fine. 26.8 x 18.5.
Appendices: Sailing Lines between the United States & Foreign Ports (P.331-413), Coastal Lines (P.414-548), Index of Ships' Names (P.579-613), General Index (P.615-672).
75830 CUTLER, Carl C. QUEENS OF THE WESTERN OCEAN - The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines
$25.00 AUD
United States Naval Institute. Annapolis. 1961. 1st Edition. Foreword by Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz. XXII, 672 PP, (2), with 9 pages of ship and sail plans, plus 52 pages with 78 b/w illustrations. Fp: Black ball liner Neptune. FEP: Plans of Boston & New York City. REP: Liverpool in 1851. Cloth cover, gilt title on blue vignette on spine. Light shelf wear, o/wise near fine. 26.8 x 18.5.
Appendices: Sailing Lines between the United States & Foreign Ports (P.331-413), Coastal Lines (P.414-548), Index of Ships' Names (P.579-613), General Index (P.615-672).
35619 DAWSON, Philip CRUISE SHIPS - An Evolution in Design
$30.00 AUD
Conway. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 271 PP with over 100 line drawings and 178 b/w photos, plus 16 pages with 25 colour illust. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing on prelims and inside of dj, o/wise near fine. 28.3 x 22. 0851776604
Very comprehensive.
38711 DE BOER, Dr. M. G. & WESTERMANN, Dr. J. C. EEN HALVE EEUW PAKETVAART 1891-1941
$30.00 AUD
Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij. Amsterdam. 1941. 1st Ed., with a preface by M. C. Koning. 430, (28 appendices) PP with 6 maps, 8 graphs, 8 ship profiles, 70 b/w illustrations, plus 13 plates (6 in colour and 7 with 14 b/w portraits). Fp: Portrait of Op Ten Noort. Hard cover, cream vellum and blue cloth spine, gilt title on front cover (some gilt letters rubbed). Covers rubbed, ageing of paper. Stamp of Royal Inter Ocean Line, Hong Kong on front endpaper and title page, o/wise very good. Scarce. Dutch text. 29.8 x 23.
A history of the Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (K.P.M. / R. I.L.) between 1891 and 1941.
71607 DE BOER, Dr. M.G. THE HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE 1873-1923
$80.00 AUD
The Board of the Holland-America Line. Rotterdam. 1923. 1st English edition. 104 PP with 3 maps, 1 table, 12 graphs, 28 drawings and paintings by G. Van Duffelen, and 37 b/w photos. Small errata slip loosely inserted. Fp: The S.S. Rotterdam in the Port of New York. Soft covers, gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine. Covers have a little light soiling, o/wise a fine copy of a rare item. Image shows the title-page and frontispiece. 31 x 24.
43273 DE BOER, G. J. 125 JAAR HOLLAND-AMERIKA LIJN 1873-1998
$70.00 AUD
De Alk b.v. Alkmaar. 1998. 1st Ed. 256 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations (ephemera, cut-aways, plans, photos and silhouettes). Half title page: Potsdam, may 1900. Title Spread: the Noordam. Laminated pictorial boards. Dutch text. Fine. 30.2 x 21.3. 906013074X
The 125 years of the Dutch shipping line: Holland-America.
20545 DEAYTON, Alistair STEAM SHIPS OF EUROPE
$10.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w photos plus 16 pages with 35 colour photos. Fp: Blidosund at Svartloga. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 27.5 x 20.5. 0815774784
An illustrated guide to veteran passenger vessels: their routes & areas of operation, profiles of passengers...
39026 DEMOULIN, Maurice LES PAQUEBOTS A GRANDE VITESSE ET LES NAVIRES A VAPEUR
$35.00 AUD
Librairie Hachette. Paris. 1887. 1st Ed., in Bibliothèque des Merveilles. (4), 288, (4 publications) PP with 45 figures. Rebacked copy retaining part of the original soft cover on card cover. Very good. French text. 18.8 x 12.2.
56249 DICKINSON, Merryn AUSTRALIAN CRUISE PASSENGER, Issue 6
$10.00 AUD
Travel Media Group. Sydney. 1999. Issue 6, 1999. 76 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Pages 20 to 23: Carnival Cruise Lines' PARADISE, by Georgina Cruz. Pages 24 to 29: P&O's ORIANA: timerless elegance in a modern age of cruising, by Gil McLachlan. Pages 34 to 37: Star Clippers' STAR FLYER in Southeast Asia. Pages 48 to 53: The All Red Route: Round-World Cruising via the British Empire from 1920 to 1939, by Scott Baty.
31522 DIVINE, David THESE SPLENDID SHIPS - The Story of the Peninsular & Oriental Line
$25.00 AUD
Frederick Muller. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 255 PP, plus 12 pages with 24 b/w photos. Fp: The luminous beauty of a ship at night. Cloth cover, dj. Covers a little speckled around edges, dust jacket with a few chips, rubs and now plastic protected, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.4.
One of the greatest lines, beginning with a mail contract to Gibraltar and expanding to the main shipping routes of the globe.
68417 DIVINE, David THESE SPLENDID SHIPS - The Story of the Peninsular & Oriental Line
$5.00 AUD
Frederick Muller. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 255 PP, plus 12 pages with 24 b/w photos. Fp: The luminous beauty of a ship at night. Blue cloth cover. Stamps of the Australian Maritime College on FFEP, title-page, rear endpaper and outside page edges. Contents clean and complete. 22.2 x 14.4.
One of the greatest lines, beginning with a mail contract to Gibraltar and expanding to the main shipping routes of the globe.
45707 DOUGLAS, Gavin SEAMANSHIP FOR PASSENGERS
$20.00 AUD
John Lehmann. London. 1949. 1st Ed. VIII, 9-176 PP with drawings by P. A. Jobson, plus 8 pages with 3 colour plates (National Ensigns - International Code of Signals - House Flags & funnel markings). Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped and with repaired tears. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, foxing spots on outside page edges. Offsetting of endpapers, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.5.
T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd. Prescot, UK. 1967. 3rd edition of the 1935 original. XIV, 204 PP with tables, plus 36 pages with 1 colour plate and 69 b/w photographs. Fp (in colour): P.S. Columba (I). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Vessels of the MacBrayne fleet and their predecessors, to the Western Isles and the Scottish Highlands.
21812 DUNN, Laurence BRITISH PASSENGER LINERS
$5.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. Southampton. 1959. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 87 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.3 x 12.5.
From the Anchor Line to the Union-Castle Line.
31234 DUNN, Laurence PASSENGER LINERS
$40.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1961. 1st edition. (4), 474, (18 adv.) PP with b/w photos throughout, 6 pages with 120 funnels in colour, and a comprehensive index and addenda. Fp: R.M.S. Windsor Castle, flagship of the Union-Castle fleet. Eps: maps showing major passenger ports. Red cloth cover with a few old tape marks, gilt devices on front, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has repairs and is in a protective sleeve. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on FFEP which also has 2 old sellotape marks. Otherwise contents are clean and near fine. 25.5 x 19.
A comprehensive work with sections on Great Britain, the Americas, Europe, Mediterranean, Asia and Australasia, Russia and the Communist Bloc. Contains an extensive index of companies, shipbuilders, ship names, changes, etc...
43625 DUNN, Laurence MERCHANT SHIPS OF THE WORLD, 1910-1929 in Colour
$5.00 AUD
Blandford. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 215 PP with 4 pages of sketches and 96 colour plates by the author. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 19.8 x 13.8. 0713705698
Pictorial survey of the merchant ship, ocean liner, tramp steamer, freighter, tanker ...
56351 DUNN, Laurence LINERS AND THEIR RECOGNITION
$10.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1954. 2nd impression of the 1953 original, in the Ship Recognition series. 160 PP with 1 map, silhouettes & photos. Fp: Six liners alongside New York piers. Hard cover. Light foxing. Very good. Small format, oblong: 12.7 x 19.3.
73464 DUNN, Laurence LINERS AND THEIR RECOGNITION
$10.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1953. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 1 map, silhouettes & photos. Fp: Six liners alongside New York piers. Hard cover, device on front cover. Covers rubbed, soiled and worn. Light foxing. Contents clean and still a very good copy. Small oblong: 12.7 x 19.3.
74757 DUNN, Laurence PASSENGER LINERS
$30.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1961. 1st edition. (4), 474, (18 adv.) PP with b/w photos throughout, 6 pages with 120 funnels in colour, and a comprehensive index and addenda. Fp: R.M.S. Windsor Castle, flagship of the Union-Castle fleet. Eps: maps showing major passenger ports. Red cloth cover, gilt devices on front. Remnants of tape parks on endpapers, o/wise a very nice copy of the scarce first edition. 25.5 x 19.
A comprehensive work with sections on Great Britain, the Americas, Europe, Mediterranean, Asia and Australasia, Russia and the Communist Bloc. Contains an extensive index of companies, shipbuilders, ship names, changes, etc...
75686 DUNN, Laurence FAMOUS LINERS OF THE PAST: Belfast Built
$70.00 AUD
Adlard Coles, Ltd. London. 1964. 1st Ed. 238 PP with b/w illustrations (photos & line drawings) printed on superior gloss paper. Fp: The White Star Line "Baltic". Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Endpapers with stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, and old sellotape marks. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. Oblong: 19 x 26.
Illustrated review of bygone liners built at Belfast for Aberdeen Line, Allan Line ... White Star (North Atlantic) and White Star (Australasian).
18556 DUNN, Laurence (editor) A SOURCE BOOK OF SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Ward Lock. London. 1973. Reprint of the 1970 original. 160 PP with over 150 bw illust. (drawings, paintings, photos). Fp: The Great Tea Race of 1866. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise very good. Oblong: 12.2 x 17.5. 706312155
All types of shipping, from oar propelled Greek galley to container ship.
16036 DURAND, Jean-François PAQUEBOTS AUTOUR DU MONDE - CRUISE SHIPS AROUND THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD
Marines Edition. Nantes. 1997. 1st bilingual edition. 208 PP with tables, bw ships' profiles and 200 col. photos. Pictorial laminated card cover. French/English text. Fine. 22 x 16. 2909675319
Guide book to the Cruise vessels in 1996, a side-effect of the rise in marine tourism.
48608 DURAND, Jean-François & CORNIER, Gérard LES NAVIRES DE COMMERCE FRANCAIS 1996
$10.00 AUD
Marines Edition / Le Marin. Bourg en Bresse. 1995. 1st Ed. 224 PP with tables, b/w illustrations (plans, ships' profiles and photos). Pictorial laminated soft cover. French text. Near fine. 22 x 16. 2909675238
Ships of the French merchant fleets.
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.
21083 EMMONS, Frederick PACIFIC LINERS 1927-1972
$20.00 AUD
Leonard Fullerton. Auckland. 1973. 1st N.Z. Ed. 135 PP with 226 ships' profiles (line drawings). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Sellotape marks on endpapers and covers, otherwise contents are near fine. 24.6 x 19. 0903680009
Illustrations and brief biographies of the ships engaged in passenger services in the Pacific.
45747 EMMONS, Frederick THE ATLANTIC LINERS 1925-70
$20.00 AUD
Bonanza. New York. 1976?. Reprint of the 1972 US original. 160 PP with b/w illust. throughout. (ships' profiles). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0517209837
Ships engaged in passenger services on the North Atlantic. Over 286 ships illustrated.
62335 EMMONS, Frederick THE ATLANTIC LINERS 1925-70
$30.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1972. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 238 b/w illustrations (ships' profiles). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 25.2 x 19. 0715354574
Ships engaged in passenger services on the North Atlantic. Over 286 ships illustrated.
65977 EMMONS, Frederick PACIFIC LINERS 1927-72
$20.00 AUD
Wren Publishing. Melbourne. 1973. 1st Australian edition. 135 PP with 226 ships' profiles (line drawings). Hard cover, dj. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. 3 brief relevant notes on pages 93, 97 & 126. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24.6 x 19. 0858850699
Illustrations and brief biographies of the ships engaged in passenger services in the Pacific.
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
18562 FAITH, Nicholas CLASSIC SHIPS, Romance and Reality
$10.00 AUD
Boxtree. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 144 PP with bw and col. illust. Half-title page: Brunel's Great Britain on her maiden voyage. Title-page: Tug boats. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 24.5 x 28.7. 075221022X
Men o'war, great liners, working boats...
15958 FARQUHAR, I. J. UNION FLEET 1875-1968
$10.00 AUD
New Zealand Ship and Marine Society. Wellington. 1968. 1st Ed. Foreword by R. A. Falla. (6), 56 PP, plus 12 pages with 18 b/w illustrations by J.E. Hobbs. Pictorial soft cover. Name and address of previous owner at top corner of title page, otherwise fine. 22.5 x 16.
A list of ships owned by the Union Steam Ship Company of N.Z. since its inception in 1875 in Dunedin.
64393 FARR, Grahame WEST COUNTRY PASSENGER STEAMERS
$35.00 AUD
T. Stephenson & Sons Ltd. Prescot, UK. 1967. 2nd edition of the 1956 original. XII, 355 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, plans, tail pieces and 19 funnels), plus 36 pages with 87 b/w photos and the frontispiece. Fp: S.S. Scillonian, leaving St.Mary's. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 22.3 x 14.5.
35620 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 11
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2000. Issue Number 11. 64 PP (129 to 192) with 105 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703088
Fleet in Focus: Alexander Shipping Co. Ltd. The potato ship that turned turtle. Canadian wood, U.S. steel. On the Rocks (shipwrecks)...
37896 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 14
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2000. Issue Number 14. 64 PP (65 to 128) with 108 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703118
Fleet in Focus: Furness North Pacific Ships (part 1). Whitbury Shipping Co. Ltd. Fleet List. Australian two-funnellers, by Ian Farquhar... Torquay Harbour in the thirties (part 2)...
39289 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 16
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2001. Issue Number 16. 72 PP (193 to 264) with 1 map, 3 plans and 115b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703134
Fleet in Focus: Harrisons' four masters. British merchant ships in the Mexican revolution, by David H. Grover...
40374 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 17
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2001. Issue Number 17. 64 PP with 16 flags and funnels (in colour), 24 colour and 76 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703142
Fleet in Focus: The Furness goalposters. Spanish veterans. The Welly Boot (Wellington Star), by Captain A.W. Kinghorn. Their own devices (flags and funnels) by J. L. Loughran.
40375 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD, 13-16
$50.00 AUD
John & Marion Clarkson. Preston. 2000/2001. Bound copy of issues 13 to 16 of Ships in Focus Record. 264 PP with hundreds of b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 30.2 x 21.2.
41026 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 18
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2001. Issue Number 18. 64 PP (65 to 128) with 5 profiles, 25 colour and 81 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703150
Fleet in Focus: The PLM colliers 12 to 27, by Roy Fenton. The Country ship by John Naylon. The Fred Olsen cruise ships, by Anthony Cooke. The develpment of post-war Bank Line cargo ships (part 2), by Paul Boot.
41884 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 19
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2002. Issue Number 19. 64 PP (129 to 192) with 1 map, 1 flag and funnel, 2 sketch-plans and 92 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703169
Fleet in Focus: Houlder's post-war Granges, by John Hill. Tasmanian Traders by Rex Cox and Ken Wriedt. Sunderland in Focus, by John Lingwood.
42421 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 20
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2002. Issue Number 20. 64 PP (193 to 264) with 2 sketch-plans and 123 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703177
Fleet in Focus: Houlder 's post-war Granges, Part 2 by John Hill. The Nile Steamship by David Burrell. Ben-My-Chree of 1908, by John Shepherd.
42925 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 21
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2002. Issue Number 21 64 PP with 2 facsimile of newspaper clippings, 2 accommodation plans and 127 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703185
Fleet in Focus: Ellerman's City of Oxford Class. Ships held hostage.
44601 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 23
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2003. Issue Number 23. 64 PP (129-192) with 130 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703207
Fleet in Focus: North Pacific Coast Line (part 2), by David Burrell. By Bergen Line from Newcastle (part 2), by Anthony Cooke. Photographer in focus: William Livermore of Sydney, by Ian Farquhar.
34050 FENTON, Roy, & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 10
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 1999. Issue Number 10. 64 PP with 3 house flags / funnels and 97 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703061
Fleet in Focus: John Holt. The port of Widnes. Boer War transports...
43638 FENTON, Roy, & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 22
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2002. Issue Number 22. 64 PP (64-128) with 3 flags & funnels, 1 set of plans and 118 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703193
Fleet in Focus: North Pacific Coast Line (part 1), by David Burrell. By Bergen Line from Newcastle (part 1), by Anthony Cooke.
44951 FENTON, Roy, & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 24
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2003. Issue Number 24. 72 PP (193-264) with 1 set of plans, 36 flags and funnels (in colour), 62 b/w and 65 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703703
Fleet in Focus: Shaw, Savill's big ICs, by Captain Edward Buckle and Roy Fenton. Thomas Skinner's Castle Line, by Malcolm Cooper. Iron colours, Flags and Funnels of BISCo ore carriers by J.L. Loughran.
46073 FENTON, Roy, & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 26
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2003. Issue Number 26. 64 PP (65 to 128) with 3 sets of plans and 101 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 190170372X
Canadian Pacific's Beavers (part 2), by Stephen Howells. Iron Ladies follow up to parts 1, 2 and 3 (by John Harrison). The Liberty Liners, by Anthony Cooke.
52964 FENTON, Roy, & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 37
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2007. Issue Number 37, July 2007. 64 PP with 1 house Flag & Funnel, 87 b/w and 40 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703835
British and Continental Steam Ship Co. Ltd (Part 1), by Colin Turner and Roy Fenton. Up the Canal (Manchester Ship Canal) in colour... Arnott Young, shipbreakers on the Clyde (Part 1) by Ian Buxton....
20273 FILDES, Bob OCEAN LINERS 1984
$10.00 AUD
Searail Productions. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. 200 PP (in typescript) with 75 b/w photos. Fp: Cruising vessels Royal Viking Star and Leonid Sobinov. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
A world-wide guide to the shipowners who operate regular or advertised Liner services on deep sea routes (passenger and cruising ships, container ships, ro-ro ships, cargo liners).
62350 FITCHETT, T. K. THE GREAT LINERS - P & O Orient Ships on the Australian Trade
$25.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1977. 1st Ed. 80 PP with colour illustrations by author. Hard cover, dj. Fine copy. Oblong: 22.5 x 28.5. 0727003895
The passenger ships of the P & O & the Orient Line before and after their merger.
67376 FITCHETT, T. K. THE VANISHED FLEET, Australian Coastal Passenger Ships 1910-1960
$20.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1976. 1st Ed. 112 PP with colour illustrations by author. Fp: MV "Manoora". Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with light wear. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on the FFEP, otherwise contents are near fine. Oblong: 22.5 x 28.5. 0727002104
From the arrival of the tiny "Express" during the Victorian gold rush to the departure of the "Manoora" on 9/8/1961.
75930 FITCHETT, T. K. THE LONG HAUL - Ships on the England-Australia Run
$15.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1980. 1st Ed. 95 PP with colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips. Neat stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on FFEP together with a library reference no. An otherwise near fine copy. Oblong: 22.5 x 28.5. 0727010271
Passenger ships running the longest sea route in the world.
38773 FITZGIBBON, Theodora A TASTE OF THE SEA IN FOOD AND PICTURES
$15.00 AUD
A. S. Barnes. South Brunswick & New York. 1977. 1st American edition. 105 PP with 48 b/w photos. Eps: 2 sketches by Harry Furniss for P&O, Pyjama parade 7 am, and A Red Sea-iesta. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Convivial manuscript notes on title page, and endpapers. Near fine. Oblong: 17.5 x 25.2. 0498021343
64326 FITZGIBBON, Theodora A TASTE OF THE SEA IN FOOD AND PICTURES
$20.00 AUD
A. S. Barnes. South Brunswick & New York. 1977. 1st American edition. 105 PP with 48 b/w photos. Eps: 2 sketches by Harry Furniss for P&O, Pyjama parade 7 am, and A Red Sea-iesta. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Fine. Oblong: 17.5 x 25.2. 0498021343
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 ....
18949 LE FLEMING, H. M. FOREIGN OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1961. 2nd yearly edition, in the ABC series. 64 PP with tables, and 53 bw photos. Title page: S.S. Leipzig, Hamburg America Line. Pictorial card covers with light wear. Very good. 15.4 x 10.2.
18953 LE FLEMING, H. M. OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1956. 64 PP with 1 page of advert., tables and 67 b/w photos. Title page: M.V. Glenartney, Glen Line. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner on title page. Very good. 15.3 x 10.2.
18954 LE FLEMING, H. M. OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1959. 6th yearly edition, in the ABC series. 64 PP with tables and 61 b/w photos. Title page: R.M.S. Orion, Orient Line. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner on title page. Near fine. 15.3 x 10.2.
21445 LE FLEMING, H. M. COASTAL PASSENGER SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1960. 4th yearly edition, in the ABC series. 64 PP with 2 pages advert., tables, and 56 bw photos. Title page: M.V. Torfinn Jarl, Det. Nordenfjelske D/S A/S. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 15.6 x 10.4.
40559 LE FLEMING, H. M. OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1955. 64 PP with tables and 69 b/w photos. Title page: R.M.S. Pretoria Castle. Pictorial card cover (Saxonia). Signature of previous owner at bottom of title-page. Very good. 15.3 x 10.2.
41524 LE FLEMING, H. M. ABC OF COASTAL PASSENGER SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 56 PP with tables, and 53 b/w photos. Title page: S.S. Cote d'Azur, S.N.C.F., & S.S. Canterbury, British Railways, Southern Region. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 15.6 x 10.4.
62325 LE FLEMING, H. M. SHIPS OF THE HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE
$25.00 AUD
John Marshbank. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 77 PP with 58 b/w illustrations. Title spread: SS "Maasdam". Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped and lightly rubbed). Near fine. Small format: 15.8 x 12.8.
Fleet list of 127 Holland-America Ships.
53863 LE FLEMING, H.M. SHIPS OF THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE
$25.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. Southampton. 1961. 1st Ed. VIII, 56 PP plus 24 pages with 53 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with a few small chips/rubs and in a protective sleeve. Name and address of previous owner on inside front cover, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 19 x 13.
The ships of the company founded by Alfred Holt.
60153 FRAME, Chris & CROSS, Rachelle THE QM2 STORY
$15.00 AUD
The History Press. Brimscombe Port, UK. 2010. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 3 b/w photos and 103 colour illustrations (1 artwork, 1 portrait of Samuel Cunard, 1 painting of RMS Britannia and 100 photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. Oblong: 13.4 x 19.2. 9780752450926
75987 FRAME, Chris & CROSS, Rachelle QM2: A Photographic Journey
$35.00 AUD
The History Press. Brimscombe Port, UK. 2017. Remastered edition of the 2009 original. Foreword by Dr Stephen Payne. Afterword by Captain Chris Wells. 120 PP with 1 b/w and 205 colour photos. Laminated pictorial stiff covers. Fine. Oblong: 22.6 x 25. 9780750907303
72152 [FRANCONIA] AROUND THE WORLD Via the Southern Hemisphere
$35.00 AUD
Thomas Cook & Son. New York. 1927. 1st Ed. 88 PP with 16 b/w plates (photos). FEP: Route of the Cruise, North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean. REP: Route of the Cruise, Indian Ocean and Atlantic. Hard cover. title and illustration on front board. Hard covers soiled and reinforced at spine with black tape. A few pages with pencil or pen annotations and underlining. Foxing. A good copy of a scarce item. 22.8 x 15.
Program for a cruise on the Cunard liner "Franconia", sailing from New York on the 12 January 1927 and returning to New York 2 June 1927.
70015 FRENCH, Nelson ORMONDE TO ORIANA, Orient Line to Australia and beyond, a Purser remembers
$25.00 AUD
Navigator Books. Ringwood, U.K. 1995. 1st Ed. (16), 217 PP with 26 b/w photos. Pictorial card covers with light soiling. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.4 x 15.6. 0902830430
First call in Australia, 1948 on board the Orontes. Migrant voyages on the Otranto. Maiden voyage on the Oriana...
69835 FRICKER, Philip J. BEKEN OF COWES OCEAN LINERS
$70.00 AUD
Reed's Nautical Books. Corsham, UK. 1992. 1st Ed. 319 PP with over 150 b/w & colour photographs by the Beken family (Frank William, Alfred Keith and Kenneth John). Fp (in colour): "Majesty of the Seas" of the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in April 1992. Hard cover, dj with a light crease and a couple of small nicks. Foxing spots on half title page and last page and inside of dust jacket, o/wise a near fine copy. Large oblong: 25 x 32. 0947637427
Splendid pictures covering over a hundred years. From the Albert Ballin to the Windhuk and the Windsor Castle with details and short history of each vessel together with a b/w or colour photo.
69084 FURNISS, Harry P & O SKETCHES IN PEN AND INK
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1987. Reprint of the original published by The Studio of Design. 204 PP with 98 sketches on full page. Cloth cover, gilt title and illustration on front cover. Covers have a few marks/speckling on spine and back edge, otherwise contents are fine. Oblong: 21.2 x 29.8. 0297791958
63354 GIBBARD JACKSON, G. THE SPLENDID BOOK OF STEAMSHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. London. c. 1929. 1st Ed. X, 11-192 PP, followed by 32 PP of adverts, plus 16 b/w plates. Red cloth cover with light shelf wear. Slight ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges. Inscription dated 1932 on FFEP. Very good. 19 x 13.
76269 GILLESPIE, J. Bryce R.M.S. QUEEN MARY Superliner Pictorial
$30.00 AUD
Scenic Art, Inc. / WCO Port Properties Ltd. Oakland, Ca. 1990. Reprint. No pagination, 44 PP with b/w and colour illustrations including a folded exploded-view painting at centrefold. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 27.8 x 21.5; 0940188317
The factual story of a great ship.
42406 GOLDEN, Fran Wenograd CRUISE VACATIONS FOR DUMMIES, 2001
$10.00 AUD
IDG Books. Foster City, Ca. 2001. 1st Ed. XXII, 528, (2 publications) PP with 3 maps in colour, 3 plans, 8 head pieces, 11 profiles and 32 b/w photos of ships, and 56 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 076456174X
Your insider's guide to the best cruise lines and values.
21968 GORDON, Malcolm R. FROM CHUSAN TO SEA PRINCESS - The Australian Services of the P & O and Orient Lines
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 106 b/w pictures & 16 colour photos. Fp: Launching of ORCADES. FEP: ORSOVA beneath Sydney Bridge. REP: ORCADES, ORONSAY & OTRANTO in Sydney. Hard cover rubbed around edges (shelf wear) and a label on bottom of spine. Ex-library copy with stamps of the University of Tasmania on endpapers and Contents page. Contents complete and a very good clean copy. 27 x 19.2. 0868617639
From the arrival in 1825 of the Chusan to serve Singapore, and the arrival of the Orient Line in 1877, to the advent of jet services.
69591 GORDON, Richard THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE
$10.00 AUD
Michael Joseph. London. 1955. 5th impression (January 1955) of the October 1954 original. 220 PP. Cloth cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 20.2 x 13.5.
A novel. Problems faced by a Captain promoted from a cargo ship to the passenger liner "Charlemagne" plying between Tilbury and Sydney.
68945 GRAHAM, Charles SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS - No. I - The Passenger Liners
$30.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1947. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 9 line drawings and 38 b/w photos (22 on full page). Pictorial soft cover (in colour), slightly rubbed. Ex Library copy with donation plate and stamps of the "Devonport Maritime Museum and Historical Society". A very good copy. Scarce. 17.5 x 11.5.
Originally written to stimulate interest in the British Mercantile Navy. Presents the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line, N.Z. Shipping Co., P. and O., Shaw Savill & Albion ...
38959 GRAHAM, Lydia S. PORT TO PORT - A Description of Real Journeys, made by Real People, under Modern Conditions
$20.00 AUD
A. Wheaton. Exeter. 1938. 2nd impression. 136 PP with 22 figures (21 maps and plans) and 27 b/w photos. Fp: Eden gardens and Pagodan, Calcutta (the second city of the Empire). Eps: World map. Attractive illustrated cloth cover. Near fine. 21.8 x 14.
Round the world voyages westward and eastward. Written by a headmistress who describes journeys made by herself and recounted to her pupils in an endeavour to stimulate their imagination and interest and to give them a general idea of the relation of one part of the world to the rest. It even includes some simple questions put to the students.
43347 GRANT, Kay SAMUEL CUNARD, Pioneer of the Atlantic Steamship
$10.00 AUD
Abelard-Schuman. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 27 b/w illustrations. Fp: Sir Samuel Cunard. Hard cover. Dust jacket tipped in on rear endpaper. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.5.
Published to commemorate the centennial of Canadian confederation.
71657 GRANT, Kay SAMUEL CUNARD, Pioneer of the Atlantic Steamship
$15.00 AUD
Abelard-Schuman. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 27 b/w illustrations. Fp: Sir Samuel Cunard. Hard cover, dust jacket (price-clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Sello tape mlark on front cover. An otherwise very good clean copy. 21.5 x 14.5.
Published to commemorate the centennial of Canadian confederation.
41271 GRATTIDGE, Captain Harry & COLLIER, Richard CAPTAIN OF THE QUEENS
$25.00 AUD
Oldbourne Press. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 303 PP, plus 8 pages with frontispiece and 6 b/w photos. Fp: The Captain's cabin aboard the "Queen Mary". Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Top edge tinted. Light foxing. Very good. 22.2 x 14.
From cadet on board windjammers to Commodore of the Cunard Line, Queen Mary then Queen Elizabeth, the mightiest liner ever of this period.
45547 GREENHILL, Basil (editor) THE SHIP (set of 10 volumes)
$50.00 AUD
HMSO & National Maritime Museum. London. 1980 & 1981. 1st Ed. Series of 10 volumes with a total of 628 PP and 419 b/w illustrations in text. Illustrated endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 20.5 x 21.2.
The development of merchant vessels and specialized vessels of war, from the earliest times to the present day by: Sean McGrail, John Morrison, Alan McGowan, Robin Craig, John M. Maber, Basil Greenhill, Antony Preston, and Ewan Corlett.
46310 GREENWAY, Ambrose A CENTURY OF CROSS-CHANNEL PASSENGER FERRIES
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1981. 1st Ed. 124 PP with b/w illust. (plans, photos,..). Title-page: Caesarea leaving Folkestone. Half-title page: Steamer Sussex arriving in Dieppe. FEP: Canterbury. REP: Côte d'Azur. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 24.2 x 18.2. 0711010692
76140 GREGORY, Alexis THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL - 1880-1939
$40.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1991. 1st English edition of the 1990 French original. 220 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0304340375
The Menu and the Cure, The Railroads, The Grand Tour, The Orient Express, To Russia and the Steppes, Egypt, Across the Pond, The Birth of the Modern Liner, ..
48655 GRIMSHAW, Beatrice THREE WONDERFUL NATIONS, TONGA, SAMOA, FIJI (in Tours to the South Sea Islands)
$250.00 AUD
Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z., Ltd. Dunedin. 1913. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 46 b/w photos, plus 1 Routes Chart tipped in at centrefold. Inside front cover: Fleet List in February 1913. Inside back cover 2 advertisements. Pictorial soft wrappers (front cover: the Navua, rear cover: colour illustrations). Longitudinal crease in the middle of covers with 2 small closed and repaired tears. Minimal foxing around edges. Staples removed. Contents near fine. Scarce. 24.6 x 18.6.
69873 GRUNER, George F. THE WHITE FLYERS: HARVARD AND YALE - American Coastwise Travel
$30.00 AUD
Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library / The Glencannon Press. San Francisco / Palo Alto, Ca., USA. 2002. 1st Ed. No. 4 in the Pacific Maritime History series. XVIII, 168, (6 blank) PP withj B:w illustrations (drawings, ephemera, plans and photos). Eps: General Arrangment of S.S. Yale. Laminated pictorial boards. Top edge with faint foxing spots, o/wise fine. 26 x 18.2. 97818899012168
Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of her commissioning.
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.
55008 HAPAG-LLOYD SHORT HISTORY OF THE HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE 1847-1963
$40.00 AUD
Hamburg Amerika Linie. Hamburg. 1963. 1st Ed. 37, (3) PP with 4 tables and 19 b/w illustrations (3 portraits, 4 paintings, 12 b/w photos). Stapled soft covers, decorated front cover with gilt crest and title.. Slight foxing of paper. Near fine. Scarce. 20 x 14.2.
Ian Allan. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 287 b/w illustrations (2 maps, 3 cutaways, 3 plans and b/w photos). Half title page: The Senlac in Harbour at Newhaven. Title spread: The St.Christopher. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on endpapers, and first & last leaf. Near fine. 29.8 x 22. 0711012091
A pictorial record of the Sealink consortium (Ferries and Channel crossing).
63111 HARVEY, W. J. STENA 1939-1989
$20.00 AUD
Stena AB. Sweden. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dan Sten Olsson. 152 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: aerial views of the Port of Göteborg. Hard cover, gilt-engraved title and colour vignette on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 21.3. 9185786411
Pages 101 to 140: Ship Histories / Fleet List: 286 vessels with 145 b/w photos.
62423 HAVYATT, Geoffrey A. HAVYATT'S AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORY OF SHIPPING
$10.00 AUD
Author. Woolwich, N.S.W. c. 1970. List of 8 PP (recto only), staples. Near fine. 33.5 x 20.5.
List of 38 Passenger Ships sailing to / in Australia.
20675 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT SHIPS IN PROFILE - 4 - The ships of the HAMBURG AMERICA, ADLER and CARR LINES
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1980. 1st Ed. No. 4 in the Merchant Fleets in Profile series. 208 PP with profile drawings to 1:1800 scale. Hard cover, dj. Shelf No. on front endpaper and small stamp on top of title page, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0850593972
31684 HAWS, Duncan HOLLAND AMERICA LINE
$55.00 AUD
Author. London. 1995. 1st Ed., No. 28 in the Merchant Fleets series. VI, 100, (2 index) PP with 92 scale (1:1200 & 1:1300) profile drawings. Pictorial card cover. Previous owner's name and date on title-page, o/wise fine. 21 x 14.8. 0946378258
Chronological Company history and Fleet list for all the ships ever owned by yh Nederlandsch Americaanische Stoomboot Maatschappij.
31692 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS - No. 24 - BRITAIN'S RAILWAY STEAMERS: WESTERN AND SOUTHERN COMPANIES + French and Stena
$20.00 AUD
Author. London. 1993. 1st Ed. No. 24 in the Merchant Fleets series. (VI), 230 PP with 309 b/w drawings to constant scale (1:900). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0946378215
Technical details and career histories of 28 companies and their 466 ships.
Author. London. 1986. 1st Ed. No. 8 in the Merchant Fleets series. 96 PP with 1 map on full page & 120 scale profile drawings. Pictorial card covers a little faded near spine, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 23.2 x 15.6. 0946378037
Chronological history, routes, fleet list (225 ships).
41249 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS IN PROFILE - 2 - The ships of the CUNARD, AMERICAN, RED STAR, INMAN, LEYLAND, DOMINION, ATLANTIC TRANSPORT and WHITE STAR LINES
$30.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1979. 1st Ed., No. 2 in Merchant Fleets in Profile series 216 PP with scale profile drawings (1:1800) by author. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 24 x 16. 0850593247
43437 HAWS, Duncan CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY
$75.00 AUD
Author. London. 2001. 1st Ed. No. 39 in the Merchant Fleets series. 96 PP with 1 map "China and the Yangtse Basin" and 100 profile drawings to scale (1/1200). Pictorial card covers with a small light crease on lower front corner, o/wise a fine copy. Fine. Scarce. 21 x 14.8. 0946378428
History of the Hong Kong shipping line, started in 1872. Fleet list of 256 ships.
62054 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS - 7 - NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING & FEDERAL S.N. CO.
$30.00 AUD
Duncan Haws. London. 1985.. 1st Ed., No. 7 in Merchant Fleets series. 112 PP with 111 scale profile drawings by author (scale: 1/1800). Pictorial card cover, spine a little sunned, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.7. 0946378029
Chronological history, livery, routes and fleet lists of The New Zealand Shipping Company with 108 vessels. The Federal Steam Navigation Company with 95 vessels.
62072 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS No. 5: ROYAL MAIL LINE and NELSON LINE
$25.00 AUD
Author. London. 1982. 1st Ed. No. 5 in the Merchant Fleets series. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (3 funnels and 145 scale profile drawings). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0946378002
Author. London. 1989. 1st Ed., No. 16 in Merchant Fleets series. 204 PP with 294 scale profile drawings. Pictorial card covers a little faded near spine, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.7. 0946378053
History, routes, and the seven important founding companies: Ellerman, Bucknall, .. Ellerman Harrison Container Line ...
66775 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS - 6 - BLUE FUNNEL LINE
$30.00 AUD
Author. London. 1986. Reprint, updated edition of the 1984 original. No. 6 in Merchant Fleets series. 149 PP with 113 b/w drawings by author. Pictorial soft covers a little faded near spine, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.7. 0946378010
History of the line, fleet index and fleet list (351 vessels).
68168 HAWS, Duncan THE SHIPS OF THE HAMBURG AMERICA, ADLER AND CARR LINES
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1980. 1st edition in the Merchant Fleets in profile series, No. 4. 208 PP with scale profile drawings (1:1800) by author. Hard cover, dj. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" /" Australian Maritime College" on endpapers and title page. Contents clean and a very good copy. 24 x 16. 0850593972
Author. London. 1990. 1st Ed., No. 18 in the Merchant Fleets series. 142 PP with 1 map and 152 scale profile drawings. Pictorial card covers a little faded neear spine, o/wise a fine copy. 23.3 x 15.5. 0946378150
Technical data and career histories of all the 242 ships. Note: This work formed a condensed section of Volume 3, published in 1979.
69011 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS No. 5: ROYAL MAIL LINE & NELSON LINE
$15.00 AUD
Author. London. 1982. 1st Ed. No. 5 in the Merchant Fleets series. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (3 funnels and 145 scale profile drawings). Pictorial card cover. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" & "Australian Maritime College" on half title page, title page and last page. Very good. 23.2 x 15.5. 0946378002
69012 HAWS, Duncan ANCHOR LINE - 9 - ANCHOR LINE
$15.00 AUD
Author. London. 1986. 1st Ed. No. 9 in the Merchant Fleets series. 100 PP with 100 ship profiles. Pictorial card cover (spine a little sunned). Stamps of "University of Tasmania" & "Australian Maritime College" on half title page, title page and front outside edge. Very good. 23.2 x 15.6. 0946378053
Anchor Line chronological history, routes, fleet list of 174 ships.
70091 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS IN PROFILE - 3 - The ships of the UNION, CASTLE & UNION-CASTLE, ALLAN and CANADIAN PACIFIC LINES
$25.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1979. 1st Ed. No. 3 in the Merchant Fleets in Profile series. 186 PP with scale profile drawings (1:1800) by author. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0850993522
62980 HAWS, Duncan & RABSON, Stephen MERCHANT FLEETS IN PROFILE - 1 - The Ships of the P&O, ORIENT and BLUE ANCHOR LINES
$30.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1978. 1st Ed., No. 1 in Merchant Fleets in Profile series. 160 PP with scale profile drawings (1:1800) by author. Hard cover, price-clipped dust jacket which is a little faded on spine. An otherwise fine copy. 24 x 16. 0850593190
36839 HENDERSON, Roy CROSSING THE CHANNEL - A review of post-war Continental ferry services
$10.00 AUD
Silver Link Publishing. Peterborough, UK. 1997. 1st Ed., in Maritime Heritage series. 128 PP with 1 family tree, 1 map and 177 b/w photos by author. Title spread: British Railways ferry Vortigern. Hard cover, dj. A few pages have scuff marks and/or light foxing, o/wise very good. 28.4 x 22. 1857941039
43117 HENDY, John THE DOVER - OSTEND LINE
$15.00 AUD
Ferry Publications (Kent). London. 1991. 1st Ed. 56 PP with 1 plan, 2 sketches, 89 b/w and 25 colour photos. Inside front cover: Colour photo of the Prince Philippe (II & III). Inside back cover: Prinses Maria-Esmeralda. Pictorial soft cover (Prins Albert and Reine Astrid) . Fine. 29.8 x 21. 095135065X
36492 HENRY, Fred SHIPS OF THE ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET CO. LTD.
$5.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1967. 2nd edition of the 1962 original. 64 PP with 1 portrait, 2 maps and 24 b/w photos. Stapled pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.5 x 12.2.
61854 HENRY, Fred SHIPS OF THE ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET CO. LTD.
$10.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1977. 4th edition of the 1962 original, revised by F. B. O'FRIEL. 88 PP with 2 maps and 32 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.5 x 12.2. 0851742823
67631 HENRY, Fred SHIPS OF THE ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET CO. LTD.
$5.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1962. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 1 portrait, 2 maps and 24 b/w photos. Stapled pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 18.5 x 12.2.
36066 HENRY, Tom THE GOOD COMPANY - An Affectionate History of the Union Steamships
$25.00 AUD
Harbour Publishing. Madeira Park, B.C., Canada. 1994. 1st Ed. 152 PP with 1 map on double page and 196 b/w illust. (2 ephemera, 9 paintings and 185 photos). Title spread: "Lady Alexandra". Eps: chart of Malaspina Strait, British Columbia. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing, o/wise fine. 31 x 23.5. 1550171119
Union Steamships of British Columbia, Canada, between 1889 and 1959.
39552 HMSO SURVEY OF PASSENGER SHIPS - Instructions to Surveyors - Volume I
$20.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1961. Consolidated edition including Supplement of November 1958. XIV, 319 PP with figures and tables, plus 2 folded charts. 1 errata slip loosely inserted. Soft cover (slightly soiled). Very good. 24.1 x 15.4.
40328 HMSO INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE SURVEY OF PASSENGER STEAMSHIPS - Volume I: text
$15.00 AUD
Board of Trade / HMSO. London. 1950. Reprint of the 1946 edition. IV, 302 PP with 13 figures and tables in appendices. Soft cover. Paper ageing with foxing on outside edges, covers with creases/chips, o/wise good. 21.2 x 13.7.
30218 HOARE, Robert J. TRAVEL BY SEA
$5.00 AUD
A. & C. Black. London. 1961. 1st Ed., in the Black's Junior Reference Books series. 80 PP with b/w illust. (drawings, photos). Title page: vignette of an early East Indiaman. Hard cover, pictorial front cover (Sirius, the first ship to cross the Atlantic under continuous steam power in 1838), dj (price clipped). Some foxing. Very good. 25.2 x 19.
Ships of early times, age of Discovery, great days of sail and in the age of steam.
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.
21734 HOLLY, David C. EXODUS 1947
$15.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1995. 1st printing, revised edition of the 1969 original. XI, (3), 242 PP, plus 32 pages with 1 plan, and 53 bw photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 23.6 x 13. 1557503672
Biography of Old Bay Line steamer President Warfield. She went to war in 1942, was chartered as the Exodus by the Haganah in 1947 to bring 4500 survivors of the Holocaust to Palestine.
40400 HOOK, F. A. MERCHANT ADVENTURERS 1914-1918
$30.00 AUD
A. & C. Black. London. 1920. 1st Ed. VIII, 319 PP, plus 2 folded maps at rear and 32 plates with 35 b/w illust. Fp: Four-point-seven. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Bookplate of "The Royal Cruising Club" on front endpaper. Ageing of paper and foxing (not affecting plates). Top of spine missing on 2 cm. Covers protected by a dust jacket (laser print). Good reading copy. 21.4 x 13.5.
War records during the first World War of: P. & O., British India, and their Associated Lines.
21391 HORNSBY, David OCEAN SHIPS - 1986
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1986. Revised and updated edition, from the 1964 original. 288 PP with tables and 246 b/w photos. Title spread: British Respect. Laminated pictorial boards (Royal Princess). Near fine. 22.3 x 15. 0711015023
Part One: Passenger liners & cruise ships. Part Two: Cargo vessels & tankers.
21392 HORNSBY, David OCEAN SHIPS - 1994
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1994. Revised and updated edition, from the 1964 original. 224 PP with tables and 196 b/w photos. Title spread: "Nedlloyd Rotterdam". Laminated pictorial boards ("Queen Elizabeth 2"). Name of previous owner on inside front cover. Fine. 24 x 17.5. 0711022542
Part One: Passenger liners & cruise ships. Part Two: Cargo vessels & tankers.
21393 HORNSBY, David OCEAN SHIPS - 1996
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1996. Revised and updated edition, from the 1964 original. 224 PP with tables and 168 bw photos. Title spread: "Eckert Oldendorff". Half title page: "Maasdam". Laminated pictorial boards ("Oriana"). Name of previous owner on inside front cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.5. 0711024286
Part One: Passenger liners & cruise ships. Part Two: Cargo vessels & tankers.
21399 HORNSBY, David OCEAN SHIPS - 1982
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1982. Updated & revised edition, from the 1964 original. 255 PP with tables & over 250 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj ("Vistafjord"). Very good. 22.3 x 15.2. 0711011508
Part One: Passenger liners & cruise ships. Part Two: Cargo ships. Part Three: Tankers.
37746 HORNSBY, David OCEAN SHIPS - 2000
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan / Plymouth Press. London. 2000. 12th edition. 224 PP with tables and 168 bw photos. Title spread: P&O Nedlloyd Southampton. Half title page: Peene Ore, Monrovia. Laminated pictorial boards (Disney Wonder). Fine. 24.2 x 17.7. 0711024270X
Part One: Passenger liners & cruise ships. Part Two: Cargo vessels & tankers.
61312 HORNSBY, David OCEAN SHIPS - 1998
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan / Plymouth Press. London. 1998. New edition, fully revised. 224 PP with tables and 162 b/w photos. Title spread: Orient Overseas (international) Ltd Containership "OOCL Singapore". Half title page: A.P. Moller "British Vigilance". Laminated pictorial boards (Fascination). Fine. 24.2 x 17.7. 0711025673
Part One: Passenger liners & cruise ships. Part Two: Cargo vessels & tankers.
60895 HOWARTH, David & Stephen THE STORY OF P&O - The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
$5.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 224 PP with numerous b/w & colour illust. Fp: The Royal Charter of Incorporation of P & O. FEP: William Fawcett & HMS Queen in 1837. REP: Hulk of HMS Queen. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner at top of title page. Repaired tear at top of front cover of dust jacket. Dust jacket covered with clear plastic protection, pasted on endpapers, o/wise very good. 27 x 20.3. 0297789651
Begins with P & O's steam ships and covers the company's career for 150 years.
71434 HOWARTH, David & Stephen THE STORY OF P&O - The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 224 PP with numerous b/w & colour illust. Fp: The Royal Charter of Incorporation of P & O. FEP: William Fawcett & HMS Queen in 1837. REP: Hulk of HMS Queen. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 27 x 20.3. 0297789651
Begins with P & O's steam ships and covers the company's career for 150 years.
15890 HOYT, Edwin P. AMERICAN STEAMBOAT STORIES
$10.00 AUD
Abelard-Schuman. New York. 1966. 1st ed. 128 PP with 10 b/w illustrations by Ann Grifalconi. Fp. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 21.8 x 14.5.
History & story-telling of steamboating in America since the 17th Century with Robert Fulton.
45909 HUGHES, David & HUMPHRIES, Peter IN SOUTH AFRICAN WATERS - Passenger Liners since 1930
$35.00 AUD
O.U.P. Cape Town. 1977. 1st Ed. (10), 133 PP with 106 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and with short closed tears, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 15 x 21.5. 0195701208
From the Bank Line, and the Blue Funnel Line to the South African Marine Corporation and the Union-Castle Line.
36318 HUGHES, Tom THE BLUE RIBAND OF THE ATLANTIC
$5.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. London. 1976. 1st paperbound edition of the 1973 original. 192 PP with 12 head pieces, 4 plans & 51 b/w illustrations. Card cover, dj (price-clipped). Very good. 21.5 x 14. 0850591465
Description of the origins of ocean steamship travel, careers of the most famous ships: Lusitania, Mauretania ...
45817 HUGHES, Tom THE BLUE RIBAND OF THE ATLANTIC
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. London. 1973. 1st. 192 PP with 12 head pieces, 4 plans & 51 b/w illustrations. Hard cover. 2 discreet stamps of bookshops on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges and the margin of 3 b/w photos. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 0850591376
Description of the origins of ocean steamship travel, careers of the most famous ships: Lusitania, Mauretania ...
71553 HURD, Archibald A MERCHANT FLEET AT WAR
$60.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1920. 1st Ed. XXIV, 140 PP with 1 drawing, plus 13 colour plates and 50 b/w plates with 70 photos. Title page: vignette with crest of Cunard Line. Fp (in colour): "Aquitania" leading the Transports. FEP: Map of Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. REP: Map of the routes served by Cunard ships during the war. Covers with light shelf wear (rubbing around edges mostly) and spine is somewhat faded. Light foxing around page edges, o/wise a near fine copy. 20.7 x 14.
The Cunard Line during First World War.
15909 HUTCHINGS, David F. RMS QUEEN MARY - 50 Years of Splendour
$10.00 AUD
Kingfisher. Southampton. 1990 Reprint of the June 1986 original. 56 PP with b/w & colour illust. Inside front cover: "Queen Mary" in her element. Inside back cover: Wonders of the "Queen Mary". Pictorial card cover. Small crease on back cover, o/wise fine. 27 x 21.5. 0946184232
A pictorial record.
38235 HYNDS, Paul WORLDWIDE HIGH SPEED FERRIES
$30.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (photos, plans, drawings and artist impressions). Fp: Surface-piercing foils carry the weight of this Rodriguez-built hydrofoil. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.5 x 20.2. 085177587X
37258 IRELAND, Bernard HISTORY OF SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Chartwell Books. Edison, N.J., USA. 1999. 1st US Ed. 192 PP with over 200 b/w and colour illustrations. Illustrated endpapers, half title page, and title page. Illustrated hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 24.6. 0785811761
From the first dug-out canoe (c. 500 BC) to the great ocean liners and the modern warships of today.
38201 IRELAND, Bernard HISTORY OF SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Hamlyn. London. 1999. 1st Ed. 192 PP with over 200 b/w and colour illustrations. Illustrated endpapers, half title page, and title page. Illustrated hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 24.6. 0600595900
From the first dug-out canoe (c. 500 BC) to the great ocean liners and the modern warships of today.
49224 JACKSON, G. Gibbard THE BOOK OF THE SHIP
$20.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. London. c. 1927. 1st Ed. VIII, 248 PP, plus 14 colour plates and 32 b/w plates with 51 illustrations. Fp (in colour): Launch of the Great Britain in 1839. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and spine. Covers rubbed and spine is faded. Hand-written inscription on FFEP dated 1933 and a dated stamp of 1935. A very good clean copy. 22.5 x 15.5.
42405 JACKSON, Robert LINERS, TANKERS AND MERCHANT SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Grange Books. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 1 b/w, 3 colour photos and 300 colour artworks. Title page: Carrack. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. Small format. 17 x13. 9781840134773
Some 300 of the world's greatest commercial vessels.
72548 JASPER, Willi LUSITANIA: The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
$25.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven & London. 2016. 1st US edition. Translated from the German original of 2015 by Stewart Spencer. VI, 233 PP, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w illustrations (drawings & cartoons, posters, photos). Hard covers, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 9780300221381
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.
38275 JOHNSTON, Paul Forsythe STEAM AND THE SEA
$10.00 AUD
Peabody Museum of Salem. Salem. 1983. 1st Ed. VI, 90 PP with 12 colour and 77 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 25.3 x 20.3. 0875770738
Catalogue accompanying a special exhibition of 1983 held at the Peabody Museum.
47624 KANIUK, Yoram COMMANDER OF THE EXODUS
$10.00 AUD
Grove Press. New York. 2000. 1st English edition translated from the Hebrew original by Seymour Simckes. XVI, (2), 214 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.7 x 14.5. 0802116647
Yossi Harel was responsible for bringing to Palestine: Anna / Knesset Israel from Yugoslavia, President Warfield / Exodus 47 from France, both Pan York / Ingathering and Pan Crescent / Independence from Romania/Bulgaria.
40311 KEATING, Bern VOYAGES OF THE ROYAL VIKINGS
$50.00 AUD
Royal Viking Line. San Francisco. 1985. 1st Ed., introduced by Horace Sutton. (2), 190 PP with 8 sketch maps and 173 colour photos by Harvey Lloyd. Decorated endpapers. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Cloth slipcase. Fine. Large format: 34.8 x 27.3.
The world of Royal Viking Line: Alaska/Canada - Canada / New England - Panama Canal / Caribbean / Mexico - Northern Europe - Mediterranean - South Pacific - Southeast Asia - China / Orient.
71630 KEILHAU, Wilhelm NORWAY AND THE BERGEN LINE, A Centenary Publication
$60.00 AUD
The Bergen Line, Oslo. 1953. 369 PP on superior coated paper with b/w illustrations throughout and drawings by Kjell Stormoen including headpieces and tailpieces. Decorated endpapers. Blue cloth cover, gilt company badge on front, gilt title and badge on spine (dulled). A near fine copy. Scarce. 26 x 18.
History of Norway before 1850, The Foundation of the Bergen Line, coastal trunk lines, coastal express service, tourist travel in Norway, the Bergen-Newcastle line, company expansion, the war and hardships, new expansion after WWI, the Depression, the Bergen Line during the German occupation, post war prosperity.
21653 KENDALL, F. R. DEAREST MOTHER - Extracts from the Letters of F. R. Kendall
$5.00 AUD
P&O Cruises & Good Books Publications. London. 1987. 1st Ed. Introduction by Brian MacDonald. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (front: William Fawcett, 1828 / back: Canberra 1987). Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0946555060
Commemorative booklet published for the 150th anniversary of the creation of The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Franklin Kendall had 50 years of service with P & O and during that time, he travelled extensively, writing regularly to his mother. This booklet contains extracts from the 78 letters he wrote, each commencing with the words Dearest Mother. They reflect the early days of P. & O.
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
38197 KERR, George F. BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS - The War History of the P. & O. (1939-1945)
$15.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 196 PP, plus 2 colour plates, 6 pages with 13 photos & 1 large folded photo (panoramic view of Table Bay Harbour in April 1941). Fp: The North African Landing 1942. Cloth cover, dj (chipped). Light foxing, signature of previous owner on preliminary page. Very good. Scarce. 20.5 x 14.
The world's greatest merchant fleet during WWII. Armed merchant cruisers, troopships ...
45373 KERR, George F. BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS, The War History of the P. & O. (1939-1945)
$10.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 196 PP, plus 2 colour plates, 6 pages with 13 photos & 1 large folded photo (panoramic view of Table Bay Harbour in April 1941). Fp: The North African Landing 1942. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Stamp "With Compliments of the P & O S. N.Co." on half-title page. Light foxing. Very good. 20.5 x 14.
The world's greatest merchant fleet during WWII. Armed merchant cruisers, troopships ...
71662 KERR, George F. BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS, The War History of the P. & O. (1939-1945)
$30.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 196 PP, plus 2 colour plates, 6 pages with 13 photos & 1 large folded photo (panoramic view of Table Bay Harbour in April 1941). Fp: The North African Landing 1942. Cloth cover, chipped dj. Light foxing on edges. Very good. 20.5 x 14.
The world's greatest merchant fleet during WWII. Armed merchant cruisers, troopships ...
17239 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 2, 1913-1923
$25.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1976. 1st UK Ed. 240 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Vaterland. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Note on front endpaper. Near fine. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850592429
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
17258 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 3, 1924-1935
$20.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1986. Reprint of the 1976 UK edition. 240 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Roma. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 24.5 x 20.3. 850592453
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
30616 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 5: 1951-1976
$20.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1987. 2nd reprint of the 1977 original UK edition. 226 PP with b/w illust. Fp: Queen Elizabeth 2 in New York. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850592658
40566 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 2, 1913-1923
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. c.1990. 3rd reprint of the 1976 original UK edition. 240 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Vaterland. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 20.3. 050592429
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
40568 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 5, 1951-1976
$20.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. c.1990. 4th reprint of the 1977 UK edition. 226 PP with b/w photos. Fp: QE2 in New York. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850592658
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
41696 KLUDAS, Arnold DIE GROSSEN PASSAGIERSCHIFFE DER WELT - Eine Dokumentation - Band I: 1858 - 1912
$25.00 AUD
Gerhard Stalling Verlag. Oldenburg/Hamburg. 1972. 1st Ed. 220 PP with 287 b/w photos. Fp: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (Mauretania). Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. German text. 26.8 x 20.4. 3797918233
Published in English as Great Passenger Ships of the World - Volume 1.
41697 KLUDAS, Arnold DIE GROSSEN PASSAGIERSCHIFFE DER WELT - Eine Dokumentation - Band II: 1913 - 1923
$25.00 AUD
Gerhard Stalling Verlag. Oldenburg/Hamburg. 1973. 1st Ed. 243 PP with 295 b/w photos. Fp: Vaterland. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (Veendam). Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. German text. 26.8 x 20.4. 3797918321
Published in English as Great Passenger Ships of the World Volume 2.
41698 KLUDAS, Arnold DIE GROSSEN PASSAGIERSCHIFFE DER WELT - Eine Dokumentation - Band III: 1924 - 1935
$25.00 AUD
Gerhard Stalling Verlag. Oldenburg/Hamburg. 1973. 1st Ed. 247 PP with 325 b/w photos. Fp: Roma. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (Deutschland). Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. German text. 26.8 x 20.4. 379791833X
Published in English as Great Passenger Ships of the World Volume 3.
65998 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD Volumes 1 to 6
$70.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1986. 1st English edition for volumes 1 to 6, translated from the German original by Charles Hodges (1 to 5) and Keith Lewis (6). Total of 1346 pages with hundreds of b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Volume 3 with a repaired tear on front endpaper. Only volumes 1 & 2 are price clipped. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 24.5 x 20.3. 085059: 1740 - 2429 - 2453 - 2534 - 2658 - 7471
68799 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 1, 1858-1912
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1975. 1st UK Ed. 216 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Kaiser Wilhelm. Hard cover. Stamps and markings of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page and a small label on bottom of front cover. Internally very good. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850591740
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
68800 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 2, 1913-1923
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1976. 1st UK Ed. 240 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Vaterland. Hard cover, dj. Stamps and markings of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page and a small label on bottom of front cover. Internally very good. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850592429
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
68801 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 4, 1936-1950
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1977. 1st UK Ed. 230 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Dunnottar Castle. Hard cover, dj. Stamps and markings of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page and a small label on bottom of front cover. Internally very good. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850592534
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
68802 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 5, 1951-1976
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1977. 1st UK Ed. 226 PP with b/w photos. Fp: QE2 in New York. Hard cover. Stamps and markings of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page and a small label on the bottom of front cover. Internally very good. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850592658
68803 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD - Volume 6, 1977-1986
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1986. 1st UK Ed. 192 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Canberra. Hard cover, dj. Stamps and markings of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page with a small label on bottom of front cover. Internally a very good clean copy. 24.5 x 20.3. 0850597471
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
74542 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD TODAY
$50.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. London. 1994. Reprint of the English edition translated from the German original by Keith P. Lewis. 186 PP with 19 colour and 312 b/w photos. Fp: Achille Lauro. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy. 27.5 x 21.4. 1852603828
An up-to-date survey of all existing large passenger ships, ferries and cruise vessels.
75767 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD (Set of 6 Volumes)
$100.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1986. 1st English edition. Total of 1346 pages with hundreds of b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Volumes 1, 2 & 4 have price-clipped dust jackets. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 24.5 x 20.3. 085059: 1740 - 2429 - 2453 - 2534 - 2658 - 7471
37745 KNOX-JOHNSTON, Sir Robin (Foreword) THE CONWAY HISTORY OF SEAFARING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
$15.00 AUD
Conway. London. 2000. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. 212 PP with 24 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Fine. 25.3 x 19.2. 0851777597
The race for sea supremacy by Eric Grove. The Great Liners, by Philip Dawson. Icy waters, by Ann Savours... Supplying the world by Alastair Couper.
48518 KOLLTVEIT, Bard (editor) TRADE WINDS. A History of Norwegian Shipping
$100.00 AUD
Dreyers Forlag A/S. Oslo. 1990. 1st English edition, translated from the Norwegian original by Jean Aase. Introduction by Thor Heyerdahl. 398, (2) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, photos, plans...). Fp: Dutch Chart of 1630. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. Scarce. 27.7 x 23.7. 82091059763
From the Stone Age through the Middle Ages, The 16th Century through to the 20th Century, Norwegian Shipping in the 1990's. A most comprehensive volume.
15980 KRAFT, Barbara S. THE PEACE SHIP, Henry Ford's Pacifist Adventure in the First World War
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1978. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 367 PP with 22 b/w illust. in text. Fp: Oscar II leaving Hoboken Pier on 4th Dec. 1915. Hard cover with repaired dj. Very good. 24 x 16. 025665707
The ill-fated effort of Henry Ford and peace pilgrims to stop WWI. They set sail on the passenger ship Oskar II.
37875 LACEY, Robert THE QUEENS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
$15.00 AUD
Sidgwick & Jackson. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 124 PP with b/w illust. throughout. Fp: The launching of Queen Elizabeth. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover (simile leather), gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on endpapers. Near fine. 25 x 19.5. 0283979232
18015 LAGENDIJK, A. SCHEEPVAART, Van de Lage Landen, Passagiersschepen in het Noordatlantisch Vaargebied
$10.00 AUD
Uitgevers Wyt. Rotterdam. 1976. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w photos throughout & fleet lists. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. Dutch text. 20.5 x 14. 906007601X
74355 LAISTER, Peter MARINER'S MEMORABILIA - A Guide to British Shipping Company China of the 19th & 20th Centuries (Volume 3 and Volume 4)
$80.00 AUD
Peter & Pam Laister. Hartley, Kent. 2020 and 2021. 1st Ed. Vol. 3: PP and Vol. 4: 112 PP with hundreds of colour photos throughout. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 9781902953984 & 9781902953991
Volume 3. Brief Histories of British Short Sea & Coastal Companies and European & American Liner Companies, and Volume 4. Brief Histories of British Deep Sea Cargo and Passenger Lines and Commonwealth Companies, both volumes illustrated with examples of their 19th and 20th Century China.
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).
Australia Post. Melbourne. c.2009. Colour illustrated folder containing 4 unfranked stamps. Fine. Format: 10.5 x 16.5.
Stamps depicting travel posters of 4 shipping lines: Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line - Orient Line - Shaw Savill Lines - Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
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
60500 LAURENT, Maurice F. LA MER EST BELLE
$10.00 AUD
Librairie Hachette. Paris. 1963. 1st Ed., in l'Humour Contemporain series. 253, (3) PP with b/w illustrations by Jean Reschofsky. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Occasional foxing. Very good. 20.2 x 13.
Voyage of a French couple to the USA in the early 1960' s. Crossings (to and from) on S.S. France.
15935 LAWSON, Will PACIFIC STEAMERS
$30.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1975. Reprint of the 1927 original. XX, 244 PP, 68 full-pages with 125 b/w illust. Fp: The "Kaikoura" in 1866. Cloth cover, dj. Stamp of previous owner on title page, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.5 x 17.
The pioneer passenger & mail lines which survived up to the 1920's between the West Coast of America, Australia & New Zealand.
75779 LAWSON, Will PACIFIC STEAMERS
$50.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1927. 1st Ed. XX, 244 PP, plus 72 plates with 114 b/w illustrations. Fp: The "Kaikoura" in 1866. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Gilt lettering on spine lightly dulled. Light foxing on outside edges. Very good. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.
The pioneer passenger & mail lines which survived up to the 1920's between the West Coast of America, Australia & New Zealand.
43614 LENOTRE, G. VOYAGES ET PASSAGERS DE JADIS, Illustrations de Maurice Leloir, Diary, Dessins de Gustave Bourgain
$50.00 AUD
Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Paris. 1908. 1st Ed. (2), 10 b/w plates with legend on tissue guard paper, (2), 36 PP with 30 illustrations by Maurice Leloir, followed by a Diary: (4), 14 b/w plates illustrated by G. Bourgain. Bound copy in navy buckram with gilt title on spine and marbled endpapers, ribbon pge-marker. Binding retaining the original illustrated soft covers (see image). Slight ageing of paper, o/wise a fine copy. French text. Scarce. 20.7 x 14.5.
Souvenir book/diary (unused) for passengers of the French Line. 10 plates (views of France and America), Voyages and passengers with 30 illustrations, 12 plates with sailing craft...
36521 LLOYD, Harvey, LEWIS, Tom et al. VOYAGES - The Romance of Cruising
$15.00 AUD
Dorling Kindersley / Tehabi Books. London. 1999. 1st UK edition with a foreword by John Maxtone-Graham. 284 PP with maps and colour illust. (photos, posters...). Title spread: The Windtar cruises off St. Kitts on the way to Nevis. Eps: World map. Hard cover, title in blind on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. Large format: 31.5 x 26.3. 9780751308075
The world's 100 most exciting ports of call, selected by the world's leading travel writers.
30761 LLOYD, W. W. P&O PENCILLINGS
$60.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1987. Reprint of the original published for "The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company". No pagination, 48 PP with 24 colour and 25 b/w plates. Fp: In the River. Title page: The pilot leaving the ship off the Isle of Wight. Illustrated half title page & last leaf: Quis Separabit. Cloth cover, gilt title and illustration on front cover. Near fine. Scarce. Oblong: 21.2 x 29.8. 0297791966
Illustrations by the author of life aboard a P&O voyage from London, through the Mediterranean, via the Suez Canal with views of Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Suez Canal, and Red Sea.
42969 LOCK, A. C. C. RANDOM JOURNEY (Around the World)
$15.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1959. 1st Ed. 256 PP, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: A girl like Marana. Cloth cover, gilt title on a soiled spine. Faint foxing, o/wise very good. 21.8 x 14.2.
Voyage from Australia to England in late 1957, on board the liner "Southern Cross" of Shaw Savill (shipboard life, Tahiti, Panama...). His return to the battlefields of Pozières, Villers Bretonneux, Paschendale ..., where he had been fighting at the end of the Great War. Return trip by way of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan...
35761 LYNCH, Don TITANIC, An Illustrated History
$20.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton / Madison Press Book. London / Toronto.. 1998. Reprint of 1992 original. 228 PP with b/w & colour photos from archives, paintings and illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 29 x 30.5. 0340562714
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.
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.
14565 MABER, John M. NORTH STAR TO SOUTHERN CROSS
$15.00 AUD
T. Stephenson & Sons. Prescot. 1967. 1st Ed. XV, 335 PP with 5 line drawings by author, plus 48 pages with 96 b/w photos. Fp: Mariposa, built 1953. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 24.2 x 16.2.
The story of the Australasian seaways where, since the 1850's, sixty shipping lines established routes between Europe, Australasia and North America.
30334 MABER, John M. CHANNEL PACKETS AND OCEAN LINERS 1850-1970
$10.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1980. 1st Ed. Volume 6 in The Ship series edited by Basil Greenhill. 60 PP with 43 illust. FEP: Plans of the Britannia 1840 Cunard Line. REP: Plans of the Andes 1939 and the Orient 1879. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. Oblong: 20.5 x 21.2. 0112903169
66003 MABER, John M. NORTH STAR TO SOUTHERN CROSS
$5.00 AUD
T. Stephenson & Sons. Prescot. 1967. 1st Ed. XV, 335 PP with 5 line drawings by author, plus 48 pages with 96 b/w photos. Fp: Mariposa. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. No dj. Signature of previous owner on half title page and his stamp on front endpaper, title page and top outside edge. Old tape marks on endpapers. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 24.2 x 16.2.
The story of the Australasian seaways where, since the 1850's, sixty shipping lines established routes between Europe, Australasia and North America.
21661 MADDOCKS, Melvin (editor) THE GREAT LINERS
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1982. 3rd European English language printing of the 1978 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: Telegraph. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic. Simile leather covers, colour illustration (Queen Mary) pasted down on front cover. Near fine. 28.7 x 23.5. 0705406237
37626 MADDOCKS, Melvin (editor) THE GREAT LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1982. 3rd European English language printing of the 1978 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: Telegraph. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic. Simile leather covers, colour illustration (Queen Mary) pasted down on front cover. Top corner of FEP and pages 1 to 28 trimmed. Very good. 28.7 x 23.5. 0705406237
37644 MADDOCKS, Melvin (editor) THE ATLANTIC CROSSING
$10.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1982. 1st European English language printing of the 1981 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: House Flag of the Black Ball Line. FEP: Map of the North Atlantic. Simile leather covers, colour illustration (Packet ship leaving Belfast) pasted down on front cover. Near fine. 28.7 x 23.5. 0705406385
Pioneer emigrants, pilgrims... to packet boats.
37645 MADDOCKS, Melvin (editor) THE ATLANTIC CROSSING
$10.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1984. 2nd European English language printing of the 1981 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: House Flag of the Black Ball Line. FEP: Map of the North Atlantic. Simile leather covers, colour illustration (Packet ship leaving Belfast) pasted down on front cover. Near fine. 28.7 x 23.5. 0705406385
Pioneer emigrants, pilgrims... to packet boats.
48819 MADDOCKS, Melvin (editor) THE GREAT LINERS
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1982. 3rd European English language printing of the 1978 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: Telegraph. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic. Simile leather covers, colour illustration (Queen Mary) pasted down on front cover. Very good. 28.7 x 23.5. 0705406237
54192 MADDOCKS, Melvin (editor) THE ATLANTIC CROSSING
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1981. 1st printing in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: House Flag of the Black Ball Line. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic. Simile leather covers, colour illustration (Packet ship leaving Belfast) pasted down on front cover. Near fine. 28.7 x 23.5. 0809427265
Pioneer emigrants, pilgrims... to packet boats.
16098 MAGUGLIN, Robert O. THE QUEEN MARY, The Official Pictorial History
$15.00 AUD
Wrather Port Properties/Sequoia. Long Beach. 1985. 1st Ed. 120 PP with profuse b/w & colour photos on glossy paper. Pictorial card covers. Very good. 30.2 x 23. 0866790152
The career of Cunard's Queen Mary, the stateliest ship, from her launching in 1934 until 1967 when she was sold to the City of Long Beach.
15966 MALLETT, Alan S. & BELL, Andrew M. B. THE PIRRIE-KYLSANT MOTORSHIPS 1915-1932 - The story of the 111 motorships built for the R.M.S.P. Group between 1915 and 1932
$10.00 AUD
Mallett and Bell Publications. Norfolk, U.K. 1984. 1st Ed. 120 PP with 5 colour illust. and 122 b/w photos, plus 1 folded plan at rear of book. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.6. 0950945307
46422 MALMBERG, Thure & RAUDSEPP, Peter (editors) PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD: A HISTORY IN POSTERS / PASSAGERARFARTYG PA AFFISCHER
$70.00 AUD
Oy Raud Publishing Ltd. Helsinki / Helsingfors. 2004. 1st bilingual edition. 210 pp, (12 advertisements) with 1 b/w and 118 colour posters. FEP: Posters of Hamburg-Amerika Linie and White Star Line. REP: Posters of Messageries Maritimes and Union-Castle Line. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. English and Swedish text. Large format: 34.5 x 25.5. 9529689128
The history of the major shipping companies together with their very colourful advertising posters. A lavish publication.
63139 MARINE TRADING AB CRUISE & FERRY INFO - 1993 - No. 7
$5.00 AUD
Marine Trading AB. Halmstad, Sweden. 1993. Issue No. 7, 1993. 36 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (bay window Silja Europa). Fine. 29.5 x 20.3.
New Vessel: IBN Battouta 2... Company profile: Limadet.
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
72198 MATSON Line SOUVENIR PASSENGER LIST - S.S. "MONTEREY", First Class
$50.00 AUD
Matson Line. Sydney. 1939. Folded List dated 3rd March 1939. Illustrated card: Map in colour "Route of the Matson Line" on the outside, by E. Melbourne Brindle / Souvenir Passenger list on the inside. Captain E.R. Johanson. Near fine. Format - Map: 26 x 42.6 & folded: 26 x 21.3.
Attractive map by E. Melbourne Brindle. Sailing from Sydney to Auckland 3rd March 1939 at 11.00 a.m.
61462 MATTHEWS, Rupert TITANIC: The Tragic Story of the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner
$15.00 AUD
73071 MATTSSON, Algot (Editor) FROM LAKE AND RIVER TO DISTANT OCEANS - 1865 BROSTROMS 1965
$70.00 AUD
Brostrom. Gothenburg. 1965. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dan-Axel Broström. 164 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (including a folded fleet list with funnels/house flags). Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket with light rubbing and a repaired tear on front, now in a protective sleeve. Near fine. Scarce. 30.2 x 21.5.
The largest shipping group of Sweden: The Ferm Steamship Company, The Tirfing Steamship Company, The Swedish East Asia Company Ltd, The Swedish American Line... Their involvment in shipyards. Axel Brostrom is regarded as the father of the modern Swedish mercantile marine.
15915 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John CROSSING AND CRUISING: from the Golden Era of Ocean Liners to the Luxury Cruise Ships of Today
$35.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1992. 1st Ed. XV, (3), 314 PP with 100 b/w photos in text. Eps: Grand Salon. Hard cover, gilt title on a cloth spine, dj. The cruise-ship chart (in colour) is on the inside of the folded dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges, otherwise a fine copy. 24 x 16. 9780684191546
22363 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John LINERS TO THE SUN
$25.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1985. 1st US Ed. XVI, 496 PP with 250 drawings and photos. Eps: Cruising around the world with inset. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (inside of folded dust jacket is a poster with the Cruise Ships of the late 20th century). Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. 24.2 x 17.2. 025450107
An evocative recreation of great cruises, past & present, from cruise ship conversion, construction & design, to the pleasures and occasional perils of life on board.
37905 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John THE NORTH ATLANTIC RUN, The Only Way to Cross
$15.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1972. 1st UK edition, originally published in the United States as The Only Way to Cross. XIV, 434 PP with b/w illustrations (2 plans of ships, 4 ephemera, 6 maps, and 180 photos). Eps: Steamer routes on the North Atlantic. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Front cover with light bumps, o/wise near fine. 24 x 17.5. 0304291560
Nostalgic look at the great passenger liners plying between Europe and the USA.
40525 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John LINERS TO THE SUN
$20.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1985. 1st US edition. XVI, 496 PP with 250 drawings and photos. Eps: Cruising around the world with inset. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (inside of folded dust jacket is a poster with the Cruise Ships of the late 20th century). Dust jacket is price clipped. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24.2 x 17.2. 025450107
An evocative recreation of great cruises, past & present, from cruise ship conversion, construction & design, to the pleasures and occasional perils of life on board.
40526 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John THE NORTH ATLANTIC RUN - The Only Way to Cross
$20.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1972. 1st UK edition, originally published in the United States as The Only Way to Cross. XIV, 434 PP with b/w illustrations (2 plans of ships, 4 ephemera, 6 maps, and 180 photos). Eps: Steamer routes on the North Atlantic. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Newspaper article "Rusting Memories" dated August 9, 1992, loosely inserted. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 17.5. 0304291560
Nostalgic look at the great passenger liners plying between Europe and the USA.
47478 MAXTONE-GRAHAM, John THE NORTH ATLANTIC RUN, The Only Way to Cross
$5.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1972. 1st UK edition, originally published in the United States as The Only Way to Cross. XIV, 434 PP with b/w illustrations (2 plans of ships, 4 ephemera, 6 maps, and 180 photos). Eps: Steamer routes on the North Atlantic. Hard cover. Ex library copy with few stamps and the endpapers reinforced at fold. Sellotape marks on covers. Good reading copy. 24 x 17.5. 0304291560
Nostalgic look at the great passenger liners plying between Europe and the USA.
20879 McAULEY, Rob THE LINERS
$20.00 AUD
Boxtree / A Channel Four Book. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 24.8 x 28.4. 0752210580
Discovery of the ocean liners and passenger ships, since the first crossing of the Atlantic by an auxiliary steam-powered vessel. Companion book to the television series The Liners.
70165 McCART, Neil 20TH CENTURY PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE P&O
$30.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough, UK. 1985. 1st Ed. 233 PP with 228 b/w illust. Title page: House Flag of the P & O. FEP: Strathnaver at Sydney after her post-war refit. REP: Royal Princess is floated out of her building dock, Helsinki, February 1984. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23 x 21. 0850597161
31358 McCLUSKIE, Tom SHIPS - From the Archives of Harland & Wolff, the Builders of the Titanic
$10.00 AUD
PRC. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 160 PP with colour illustrations. Fp: the Waipara. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 25 x 28.5. 185648467X
A selection of 29 of the early ships (transition from sail to steam) built in Belfast by Harland & Wolff.
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
66174 McFARLANE, Alasdair CLYDE PLEASURE STEAMERS, Forty Illustrations of the Best-Known Clyde Steamers, with Descriptive Matter on separate Tissue
$50.00 AUD
James Hedderwick & Sons. Glasgow. c. 1935. Enlarged and Revised edition. (4), (160) PP with 40 plates with illustrations by Alasdair Macfarlane, and descriptive matter on separate tissue paper by the editor of the "Evening Citizen" of Glasgow. Soft cover, illustration (T.S. "King George ") and title on front cover are in blind. Front cover with 5 stains and name of previous owner. Slight ageing of paper. Internally very clean and in near fine condition. Scarce. Oblong: 22 x 29.3.
70993 McLACHLAN, G. W. P. FAMOUS LINERS OF THE EASTERN OCEANS
$20.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. c. 1937. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 55 b/w photos. Fp: Australian Motor Liner Kanimbla. Cloth covers with light wear, title on front board and spine. Spine lightly sunned. Small piece torn in lower margin of the two last leaves. Foxing spots. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2.
Vessels which have made their names when trading East of Suez: to Australia and New Zealand, to India and Ceylon, to Burma and the Straits, to China and Japan, and across the Pacific.
G.P. Books. Wellington. 1989. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 66 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0477000142
Photographic record of the various runs: Northern Route, Nelson Passenger Service, the Picton Ferry, the Wellington-Lyttelton Ferry Service and Foveaux Strait Service.
71810 MESSAGERIES MARITIMES M/V CALEDONIEN - 3 items : Billet de Passage / Passage Ticket & Liste des Passagers
$30.00 AUD
Compagnies des Messageries Maritimes. Paris. 1969. 3 items: 1- Plastic folder with "Messageries Maritimes" & logo "Unicorn & Anchor" on the front. / 2 - Liste des Passagers Papeete to Sydney, sailing 2.12.1960. / 3 - Passage Ticket "CALEDONIEN" Sydney to Marseille , sailing on 7.11. 1962. Very good. Folder size: 21.5 x 14.
74140 MIDDLEMISS, Norman L. MERCHANT FLEETS - 44 - P. & O. LINES
$40.00 AUD
Shield Publications Ltd. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 2004. 1st Ed., No. 44 in Merchant Fleets series. 227 PP with 11 colour illustrations and over 300 scale profile drawings by Duncan Haws (pages 39 to 88). Pictorial card cover. Small name label of previous owner on half-title page, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.7. 9781871128253
Celebrating the 170th anniversary of P.&.O Group.
16050 MILLER, Byron S. SAIL, STEAM AND SPLENDOUR, A Picture History of Life Aboard the Transatlantic Liners
$30.00 AUD
Times Books. New York. 1977. 1st US Ed. 288 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Hard cover, gilt-engraved cloth spine, dust jacket has one small chip on top of spine, o/wise a fine copy. Oblong: 27 x 36. 1812906381
The conquest of the Atlantic, emigrant ships, floating palaces, war experiences, last crossings..
14175 MILLER, William H. MODERN CRUISE SHIPS, 1965-1990: A Photographic Record
$15.00 AUD
Dover Publications. New York. 1992. 1st Ed. XI, 130 PP with 184 illust. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30 x 22.5. 0486267539
Pictorial survey of over 100 cruise ships from the Queen of Bermuda to the Sovereign of the Seas.
20838 MILLER, William H. BRITISH OCEAN LINERS - A Twilight Era, 1960-85
$15.00 AUD
PSL / Patrick Stephens Ltd. Wellingborough. 1986. 1st UK edition. 136 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Orsova docking. FEP: Queen Elizabeth berthing New York. REP: Canberra berthed at Circular Quay, Sydney. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on endpapers, o/wise fine. 23 x 20.5. 0850597668
From Anchor Line to Union Castle Line.
21521 MILLER, William H. THE CRUISE SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 191 PP with b/w photos and 13 pages on specifications of cruise ships. Fp: QE2, Britanis & Bermuda Star at New York berth. Half title page: Keeping fit on the aft decks of the Nordic Prince. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Top corner of back cover bumped, o/wise near fine. 26 x 20. 09851774296
The rise of the cruise industry which developed when commercial jet travel ousted passenger liners from their traditional routes.
22024 MILLER, William H. FAMOUS OCEAN LINERS - The Story of Passenger Shipping from the turn of the Century to the present day
$20.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1987. Reprint of the original. 136 PP with 109 b/w and 18 colour photos. Title spread: Queen Mary arriving New York, 1949. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 25.2 x 19.2. 850598761
From the first of the super liners, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, to Queen Elizabeth II.
22225 MILLER, William H. TRANSATLANTIC LINERS 1945-1980
$25.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1981. 1st Ed. 222 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is price-clipped with a few small chips and sunned spine. A few small spots on endpapers, o/wise a near fine copy. 25.5 x 17.5. 0715380206
Information and technical details on every liner classed by shipping line. From the America Banner Lines and their "Atlantic" and "La Guardia", to the Zim Lines and their "Israel", "Jerusalem", "Shalom" & "Zion".
30450 MILLER, William H. LINER - Fifty Years of Passenger Ship Photographs
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. c. 1986. 3rd printing of the 1986 original. 160 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 28 x 20.5. 085059765X
A record of the changes in passenger shipping over the past 50 years.
31859 MILLER, William H. THE LAST BLUE WATER LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 224 PP with numerous b/w illust. Fp: The Arcadia at Suva, Fiji. Hard cover, dj (trimmed flaps). Mark (RW 86) of previous owner on lower edge, sticker of the Sydney Maritime Museum on title page. Faint foxing. Very good. 24.5 x 19. 0851774008
A stimulating, factual & nostalgic account of the post-war era of intercontinental liner traffic.
34510 MILLER, William H. THE LAST BLUE WATER LINERS
$15.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 224 PP with numerous b/w illust. Fp: The Arcadia at Suva, Fiji. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 19. 0851774008
A stimulating, factual & nostalgic account of the post-war era of intercontinental liner traffic.
38198 MILLER, William H. OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Mallard Press. Sydney / Auckland. 1990. 1st Australian edition. 144 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title page: colour vignette with Paris. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large format: 36.5 x 26.5. 1863250239
Travel by passenger liner from the White Star Line to the floating resorts plying the Caribbean. (published in the USA under the title: Ocean Liners: Travel on the Open Seas)
43049 MILLER, William H. THE LAST BLUE WATER LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 224 PP with numerous b/w illust. Fp: The Arcadia at Suva, Fiji. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 19. 0851774008
A stimulating, factual & nostalgic account of the post-war era of intercontinental liner traffic.
43110 MILLER, William H. THE CRUISE SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 191 PP with b/w photos and 13 pages on specifications of cruise ships. Fp: QE2, Britanis & Bermuda Star at New York berth. Half title page: Keeping fit on the aft decks of the Nordic Prince. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26 x 20. 0851774296
The rise of the cruise industry which developed when commercial jet travel ousted passenger liners from their traditional routes.
44633 MILLER, William H. FAMOUS OCEAN LINERS - The Story of Passenger Shipping from the turn of the Century to the present day
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1987. 1st printing of the original. 136 PP with 109 b/w and 18 colour photos. Title spread: Queen Mary arriving New York, 1949. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 25.2 x 19.2. 850598761
From the first of the super liners, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, to Queen Elizabeth II.
44634 MILLER, William H. FAMOUS OCEAN LINERS - The Story of Passenger Shipping from the turn of the Century to the present day
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1987. Reprint of the original. 136 PP with 109 b/w and 18 colour photos. Title spread: Queen Mary arriving New York, 1949. Hard cover, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 19.2. 0850598761
From the first of the super liners, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, to Queen Elizabeth II.
45799 MILLER, William H. GREAT CRUISE SHIPS AND OCEAN LINERS FROM 1954 TO 1986 - A Photographic Survey
$15.00 AUD
Dover Publications. New York. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Hisashi Noma. (6), 116 PP, (2), with 173 b/w photos. Title spread: France. Pictorial card cover. Front cover and spine with creases. Very good. 30 x 22.5. 0486255409
The last great years of Transatlantic travel and the rise of the ocean liner/cruise ship.
45819 MILLER, William H. LINER - Fifty Years of Passenger Ship Photographs
$5.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. c. 1986. 3rd printing of the 1986 original. 160 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. No dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 28 x 20.5. 085059765X
A record of the changes in passenger shipping over the past 50 years.
59080 MILLER, William H. THE LAST ATLANTIC LINERS
$45.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w photos. Fp: The largest liner ever built, Cunard's 83,673-ton "Queen Elizabeth". Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24.7 x 18.5. 0851773206
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.
75989 MILLER, William H. MERCHANT SHIPS OF A BYGONE ERA - The Post-War Years
$10.00 AUD
Carmania Press. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 202 b/w photos. Inside front cover: The "Queen Mary". Pictorial soft covers. Front cover with creases, and a sunned spine. A good working copy. 27.3 x 21.5. 0951865676
44631 MILLER, William H. & HUTCHINGS, David F. TRANSATLANTIC LINERS AT WAR - The Story of the Queens
$20.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot, UK. 1985. 1st UK Ed. 175 PP with 1 map, 3 profiles of ships and 30 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing on prelims and dust jacket flaps, o/wise fine. 24 x 16.2. 0715385119
The distinguished war roles of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth during WWII and the QE2 during the Falklands War of 1982.
36301 MILLER, William H. Jr. THE GREAT LUXURY LINERS 1927-1954 - A Photographic Record
$15.00 AUD
Dover Publications. New York. 1981. 1st Ed. (12), 163 PP with 186 b/w photos. Title spread: Queen Mary. Pictorial card cover. Covers rubbed with some creases, o/wise near fine. 29.8 x 22.5. 0486240568
74543 MILSOM, C. H. BLUE FUNNEL - THE LATER YEARS, 1925-1982
$30.00 AUD
Sea Breezes Publication. Liverpool. 2002. 6th impression of the May 1989 original. 48 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. A fine copy. Scarce. 29.7 x 20.8. 095132022X
43179 MITCHELL, Barry NORTH SEA FERRIES - Across Three Decades / Gedurende Drie Decennia
$15.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 2 maps, 3 cutaways, 68 b/w and 31 colour photos. Inside front cover: Norland with Royal Yacht Britannia, at Hull. Inside back cover: Norsea arriving at Hull. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Dutch and English text. Oblong: 19.6 x 21. 1871947243
62691 MITCHELL, Barry SUPERFERRIES
$10.00 AUD
Coastline Press. Bridlington. 1987. 1st Ed. 65 PP with 104 b/w and 4 colour photos. Inside front cover: Map of the South west part of the North Sea (in colour). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21. 0951253107
41581 MITCHELL, W. H. & SAWYER, L. A. CRUISING SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1967 1st Ed. in the "Merchant Ships of the World" series. 160 PP with 78 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears. Near fine. Small oblong: 11 x 15.5.
History of pleasure cruising which started in 1845, and details on the ships employed in this trade.
69725 MITCHELL, W. H. & SAWYER, L. A. THE CAPE RUN - The Story of the Union-Castle Service to South Africa and of the Ships Employed
$30.00 AUD
Terence Dalton. Lavenham, UK. 1984. 1st Ed. X, 214 PP with b/w illust. (line drawings by Nigel V. Robinson, house-flags, photos, posters ...). Eps: Map of the continent of Africa. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.8 x 18.5. 0861380304
Amalgamation of the Union Line & Castle Line in 1900, to the last sailing of the mail service in 1977.
15016 MOODY, B. BRITISH OCEAN LINERS
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 64 PP with tables, and 62 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover ( "Carmania" ). Very good. 18.3 x 12.5.
18921 MOODY, B. OCEAN SHIPS - 1974
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1974. 5th edition of the 1964 original. 352 PP with tables and 254 bw photos. Title spread: Manora, P & O Cargo Division. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (Royal Viking Star). Price-clipped dust jacket. Near fine copy. 19 x 13. 0711005613
Passenger Liners and Cargo Ships. Cruise Ships. Tankers.
41734 MOODY, B. BRITISH OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 64 PP with tables, and 58 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (P & O Liner Canberra). Stamp of previous owner on title page. Very good. Small format:15.3 x 10.
68949 MOODY, B. BRITISH OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 64 PP with tables, and 62 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover ("Carmania"). Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Very good. 18.3 x 12.5.
14764 MOODY, Bert FOREIGN OCEAN LINERS
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 52 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover ( "Argentina" of Moore-McCormack Lines). Front cover slightly soiled. Very good. Small format: 18.2 x 12.2.
21211 MOODY, Bert OCEAN SHIPS - 1978
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1978. 6th edition of the 1964 original. 349 PP with tables, and 237 bw photos. Title spread: Monarch Sun of Holland America Line. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Fine. 19 x 12.8. 0711008655
Part One: Passenger Liners and Cargo Ships. Part Two: Cruise Ships. Part Three: Tankers.
68654 MOODY, Bert OCEAN SHIPS - 1978
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1978. 6th edition of the 1964 original. 349 PP with tables, and 237 bw photos. Title spread: Monarch Sun of Holland America Line. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Stamps of "University of Tasmania" / "Australian Maritime College" front on endpaper, title page and verso of last page. Very good. 19 x 12.8. 0711008655
Part One: Passenger Liners and Cargo Ships. Part Two: Cruise Ships. Part Three: Tankers.
68948 MOODY, Bert FOREIGN OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 52 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover ("Argentina" of Moore-McCormack Lines). Front cover with a rubbed patch, stamp of 'The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Very good. Small format: 18.2 x 12.2.
52952 MORRIS, Charles F. ORIGINS, ORIENT & ORIANA
$60.00 AUD
Teredo Books. Brighton, UK. 1980. 1st Ed. XX, 491 PP with 211 illustrations ( 9 in colour). Fp: Oriana in dry dock in Falmouth. FEP: Cuzco rounding Cape St. Vincent. REP: Oriana launching. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). A fine copy. Scarce in this condition. 25 x 19. 0903662078
The author was the Company's naval architect and describes the development of ships & the history of the Orient Company.
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.
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1953. September 1953 reprint of the May 1953 original. XVIII, 392 PP, plus 100 pages with 4 photo-gravures, 6 colour illust. & 137 bw illust. Fp: Table Bay in 1851. Cloth cover, repaired dust jacket (inside front flap missing). One of the colour plates (Sir Donald Currie) is a laser copy. Otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. 24.2 x 17.4.
Hundred year history of the ships and men of this shipping line in peace and in war. The struggle between the Union Line and its rival Castle Line up to their amalgamation in 1900.
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1953. 1st Ed. XVIII, 392 PP plus 100 pages with 4 photo-gravures, 6 colour illust. & 137 bw illust. Fp: Table Bay in 1851. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine (dulled). Light foxing, mostly on prelims and around some margins and outside page edges. A near fine copy of this scarce item. 24.2 x 17.4.
Hundred year history of the ships and men of this shipping line, in peace or in war. The struggle between the Union Line and its rival Castle Line up to their amalgamation in 1900.
71619 MUSK, George CANADIAN PACIFIC - The Story of the Famous Shipping Line
$30.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1981. 1st Ed. 272 PP with 4 maps and 106 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with light wear around edges, faint foxing on prelims and last pages, o/wise near fine. 25.5 x 22.5. 0715379682
The shipping line with the advertising slogan: "Canadian Pacific Spans the World".
30848 N/A SEA TRAVEL and how to enjoy it
$30.00 AUD
Rockliff. London. 1948. 1st Ed. VI, (2), 64 PP with over 30 sketches and diagrams. Hard cover, dj (price clipped) with a few closed tears and light wear, light foxing on endpapers, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 18.5 x 12.
An invaluable companion for all who travel by sea on business or pleasure in the "good old days".
54985 N/A CARPETS AND INTERIORS. A Guide for: Architects - Decorators - Furnishers - Hoteliers - Shipbuilders
$25.00 AUD
James Templeton Company Limited. Glasgow. 1955. 1st Ed. 62, (2) PP with 55 colour photos. Eps: Design based on carpet made for the Coronation of King George V. Cloth cover, no dj, gilt title and device on front cover and spine. Near fine. 29.2 x 22.5.
James Templeton & Company Limited: Carpet manufacturers. Notable carpets: House of Commons, Westminster - Senate, Canberra - Parliament House, Wellington... 7 colour photos of R.M.S. Caronia, and accommodation of Caronia, Mauretania, Kenya, Arcadia. ...
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1988/1989. Volume 10, No.1 (July/August) 1988 to No. 6 (May/June) 1989. 6 issues for a total of 444 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5
Volume 10. Each issue with following : Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Grenada. - Ship: "Celebration" of Carnival Cruise Lines. - Cruise: River Shannon. No. 2 - Port: Copenhagen. - Ship: "Royal Princess". - Cruise: Mexican Riviera. No. 3 - Port: San Diego. - Ship: "Sovereign of the Seas". - Cruise: Greek Isles. No. 4 - 10th Anniversary Issue. No. 5 - Port: Ocho Rios, Jamaica Island. - Ship: "Yorktown Clipper". - Cruise: The Baltic. No. 6 - Port: Miami. - Ship: "Queen Elizabeth 2". - Cruise: exploring China.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1991 / 1992. Volume 13, No.1 (July/August) 1991 to No. 6 (May/June) 1992. 6 issues for a total of 488 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5
Volume 13. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Dubrovnik. - Ship: "Golden Odyssey" of Royal Cruise Lines. - Cruise: Path of Magellan. No. 2 - Port: Hong Kong. - Ship: "Crystal Harmony". - Cruise: South Pacific. No. 3 - Port: St. Thomas. - Ship: "Crown Princess". - Cruise: Bermuda. No. 4 - 1992 Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Vancouver. - Ship: "Ocean Princess". - Cruise: Alaskan Adventure. No. 6 - Port: Barcelona. - Ship: "Horizon". - Cruise: Med / Red Seas.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1989/1990. Volume 11, No.1 (July/August) 1989 to No. 6 (May/June) 1990. 6 issues for a total of 424 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5.
Volume 11. Each issue with following : Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Barbados. - Ship: "Stella Solaris" of Sun Line Cruise. - Cruise: Sailing the Mediterranean. No. 2 - Port: Istanbul. - Ship: "Crown Odyssey". - Cruise: Grenadines & Orinoco. No. 3 - Port: Nice. - Ship: "Norway". - Cruise: Western Caribbean. No. 4 - 1990 Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: St. Lucia. - Ship: "Seabourn Pride". - Cruise: Experience Alaska. No. 6 - Port: Helsinki. - Ship: "Cunard Countess". - Cruise: Britain circumnavigated.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1992 / 1993. Volume 14, No.1 (July/August) 1992 to No. 6 (May/June) 1993. 6 issues for a total of 484 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5
Volume 14. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Guadeloupe. - Ship: "Ecstasy" of Carnival Cruise Lines. - Cruise: Around the World. No. 2 - Port: Long Beach. - Ship: "Costa Classica". - Cruise: Mexican Riviera. No. 3 - Port: Ocho Rios. - Ship: "Monarch of the Seas". - Cruise: Caribbean Holidays. No. 4 - 1993 Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Seattle. - Ship: "Royal Viking Queen". - Cruise: Alaska. No. 6 - Port: Venice. - Ship: "Regal Princess". - Cruise: Kentucky Derby.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1993/1994. Volume 15, No.1 (July/August) 1993 to No. 6 (May/June) 1994. 6 issues for a total of 500 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5
Volume 15. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Singapore. - Ship: "Royal Odyssey". - Cruise: Bangkok, Bali & beyond. No. 2 - Port: Montreal. - Ship: "Radison Diamond". - Cruise: Trans-Panama Canal. No. 3 - Port: St Maarten / St. Martin. - Ship: "Independence". - Cruise: Trans-Atlantic. No. 4 - 1994, 6th Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Puerto Vallarta. - Ship: "Statendam". - Cruise: Experience Alaska. No. 6 - Port: London. - Ship: "Costa Romantica". - Cruise: Mediterranean Holiday.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1994 / 1995. Volume 16, No.1 (July/August) 1994 to No. 6 (May/June) 1995. 6 issues for a total of 464 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5
Volume 16. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Juneau. - Ship: "Zenith". - Cruise: Happy New Year. No. 2 - Port: Buenos Aires. - Ship: "Fantome". - Cruise: New Zealand Splendors. No. 3 - Port: Key West. - Ship: "Royal Princess". - Cruise: Jet Set Med. No. 4 - 1995, 7th Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Barbados. - Ship: "Delta Queen". - Cruise: Glorious Glaciers. No. 6 - Port: Amsterdam. - Ship: "Majesty of the Seas". - Cruise: Rail and Sail.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1996/1997. Volume 18, No.1 (July/August) 1996 to No. 6 (May/June) 1997. 6 issues for a total of 432 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5.
Volume 18. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: St. Croix. - Ship: "Meridian". - Cruise: Egypt & the Holy Land. No. 2 - Port: Rio de Janeiro. - Ship: "Maasdam". - Cruise: South Seas Caribbean. No. 3 - Port: Nassau. - Ship: "American Queen". - Cruise: Gems of the Orient. No. 4 - 1997, 9th Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Bangkok. - Ship: "Sun Princess". - Cruise: in-depth Alaska. No. 6 - Port: Skagway. - Ship: "Crystal Symphony". - Cruise: Beautiful Baltic.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1997 / 1998. Volume 19, No.1 (July/August) 1997 to No. 5 (March/April) 1998. 5 issues for a total of 364 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine set. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5.
Volume 19. Each issue with following topics: Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Kauai, Hawaii. - Ship: "Wind Spirit". - Cruise: South America. No. 2 - Port: New York. - Ship: "Splendour of the Seas". - Cruise: Passage to India. No. 3 - Port: St. Lucia. - Ship: "Century". - Cruise: Vietnam. No. 4 - 1998, 10th Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: Dubrovnik. - Ship: "Carnival Destiny". - Cruise: Alaska / Yukon.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1990/1991. Volume 12, No.1 (July/August) 1990 & No. 2 (Sept/October 1990), No. 4 (Jan/February 1991) to No. 6 (May/June) 1991. 5 issues for a total of 388 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with original soft cover. 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine run. Image shows cover of No.1. 27.5 x 20.5.
Volume 12. Each issue with following : Port of the Month - Ship of the Month - Cruise of the Month ... No. 1 - Port: Antigua. - Ship: "Mississippi Queen" of Delta Queen Steamboat Co. - Cruise: Canada & New England. No. 2 - Port: Mazatlan. - Ship: "Star Princess". - Cruise: Mexican Riviera. ... No. 4 - 1991 Annual Directory Issue. No. 5 - Port: San Francisco. - Ship: "Westerdam". - Cruise: Alaska. No. 6 - Port: San Juan - Ship: "Constitution" of American Hawaii Cruises. - Cruise: Canadian Arctic.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1988. Volume 9, No. 6. Issue for May/June 1988. 68 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (Regent Sea). 2 holes for ring binder close to spine. Fine. 27.5 x 20.5
Volume 9. No. 6 - Port: Acaculpo. - Ship: "Regent Sea" of Regency Cruises. - Cruise: Seven Seas, Epirotiki's International Adventure. - Special Feature: Down Under Cruise Roundup for the 1988 Bicentennial of Australia, by Harry Basch.
World Publishing Company. Evanston, IL. 1994. Volume 16, No.1 (July/August) 1994. Edited by Robert MEYERS, Charles DOHERTY & Randy MINK. 68 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (Zenith of Celebrity Cruises). Fine. 27.5 x 20.5
No. 1 - Port of the Month: Juneau. - Ship of the month: "Zenith". - Cruise: Happy New Year. New ship review: Marco Polo of Orient Lines.
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.
69855 NEWALL, Peter CAPE TOWN SHIPPING
$50.00 AUD
Blackdog Press. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 198 b/w and 16 colour photos. Half title page: Liner Hamburg. Fp: Holland Africa's liner Randfontein. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 30.2 x 21.6. 0953939103
75985 NEWALL, Peter UNION-CASTLE LINE. A Fleet History
$50.00 AUD
Carmania Press. London. 1999. 1st Ed. Foreword by Laurence Dunn. 256 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map "Union-Castle routes round Africa" and 342 paintings, prints & photos) and 32 colour photos. Half title page: House-Flag. Fp: Winchester Castle. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Name and address of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Covers with light shelf wear, otherwise contents are fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0953429148
40300 NEWELL, Gordon OCEAN LINERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$10.00 AUD
Bonanza Books. New York. c.1968. 2nd Bonanza reprint (B) of the 1963 original by Superior Publishing Company. 192 PP with b/w illustrations. Title-page: United States & Independence off New York Pier & Company flags from Aberdeen & Commonwealth to Union Steam Ship of N.Z. Eps: Passenger accommodation plans of S.S. President McKinley. Cloth cover, dj. Stamp of previous owner, o/wise very good. 27.4 x 21.2.
40307 NEWELL, Gordon OCEAN LINERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$10.00 AUD
Bonanza Books. New York. c.1975. Bonanza reprint (f) of the 1963 original. 192 PP with b/w illustrations. Title-page: United States & Independence off New York Pier & Company flags from Aberdeen & Commonwealth to Union Steam Ship of N.Z. Hard cover, dj (spine sunned). Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 27.4 x 21.2. 051703168X
43009 NEWELL, Gordon OCEAN LINERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$15.00 AUD
Superior Publishing. Seattle. 1963. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w illustrations. Half title page: S.S. Rotterdam. Title-page: United States & Independence off New York Pier, & Company flags (in colour) from Aberdeen & Commonwealth to Union Steam Ship of N.Z. Eps: Passenger accommodation plans of S.S. President McKinley. Cloth cover, dj. Traces of foxing on endpapers. Dust jacket has a few small chips and sellotape marks inside dust jacket, o/wise a near fine copy of the 1st edition. 27.4 x 21.2.
45821 NEWELL, Gordon OCEAN LINERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$5.00 AUD
Bonanza Books. New York. c.1975. Bonanza reprint (f) of the 1963 original. 192 PP with b/w illustrations. Title-page: United States & Independence off New York Pier & Company flags from Aberdeen & Commonwealth to Union Steam Ship of N.Z. Hard cover, cloth spine, no dj. Bookplate and signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 27.4 x 21.2. 051703168X
38273 NEWPORT, O. W. & SUSSEX, John THE POST IN LIVERPOOL
$10.00 AUD
National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside / Stamp Publicity Board. Liverpool. 1988. 1st Ed. (2), 59, (5 advert.) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26 x 23. 0906367336
Liverpool's maritime Postal History (pages 34 to 49).
38005 NIXON, Larry VAGABOND VOYAGING - The Story of Freighter Travel
$35.00 AUD
Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1938. 1st Ed. XXII, 314 PP, plus 36 pages with 7 drawings and 19 b/w photos. Fp: The Author. Cloth cover, decorated front, title on browned spine which is a little frayed top and borrom (shelf wear). Contents very clean and overall a very good copy.. Scarce. 19.6 x 13.5.
The adventue of tramp travel. Includes a list of freighter trips, routes travelled, fares, etc..
71591 NORTH, T. E. THE BOYS' BOOK OF SHIPS
$20.00 AUD
Blackie & Son Ltd. London. c. 1954. 1st Ed., in the "Blackie's Modern Transport" series. No pagination, 32 PP with colour illustrations: 12 "ranks"of officers, 29 house flags, 61 of ships under way. Title page: Stirling Castle. Verso of title page: Queen Mary. Hard cover, device on front cover, title on spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. Small format: 17.5 x 13.6.
Each page describes a ship with text & illustration, and gives the list of the other ships of the line. Delightful illustrations by the author/artist.
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.
76113 O'CALLAGHAN, John The Saga of The Steam Ship GREAT BRITAIN
$10.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1971. Reading Proof copy. 190 PP. Soft covers, title on front cover. Name of previous owner on front cover. Proof copy without the 16 pages for 24 b/w illustrations mentioned on "Illustration" page, otherwise a good reading copy. 21.5 x 14. 0246640898
62202 OCEANIC S. S. Coy: Mariposa and Monterey PASSENGER AND MAIL SHIPS FOR SERVICE BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND SYDNEY (in The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales Officer's Journal)
$5.00 AUD
M. S. B. Sydney. 1930. Vol. V, No. 9, February 1930. Edited by H. L. Gilmour. XX (advertisements), 36 PP. Contains article pages 5 to 8. Soft cover with light soiling. Contents near fine. 18.3 x 12.5
A Description of the Oceanic Steam Ship Coy's latest additions: Mariposa and Monterey, sister ships launched 1931.
63327 OFFERPACE PASSENGER AND CRUISE LINERS 1982
$5.00 AUD
Offerpace Ltd. Stanford-le-Hope. 1982. 1st Ed. 48 PP with tables and 27 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Cruise Ship Orpheus. Pictorial soft cover (Regina Maris). Fine. Small format:15 x 10.5.
71805 ORIENT LINE R. M. S. ORAMA, 20,000 Tons
$35.00 AUD
Orient Line Mail Steamers. London. c. 1929. Travel brochure. No pagination, 16 PP with 8 b/w illustrations (1 with Orama under steam and 7 of accommodation). Soft wrappers with crest and title on front cover, staples. Front cover lightly soiled, o/wise contents are near fine. A scarce booklet. 16.3 x 17.2.
Built 1924. Maiden voyage to Australia 15/11/1924.
71821 ORIENT LINE ORIENT LINE CRUISES FROM AUSTRALIA - Cruising in the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Sydney. 1954. April 1954 edition. 12 PP. Illustrated soft cover, staples. A few marks and faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 18.6 x 12.3.
Information for Orient Line Passengers cruising in the Pacific.
73913 ORIENT LINE PASSENGER LIST - R.M.S. ORFORD, April 1929
$20.00 AUD
Orient Line. Fremantle. 1929. Booklet: R.M.S Orford, Commander A.L. Owens. 16 PP on Orient Line with 1 track chart "Orient Line to England", photo of twin-scew S.S. Oronsay, and 5 photos of accommodations, Fleet List, ..., plus 5 pages "Passengers List issued at Fremantle, 9th April 1929". Folded covers with a tie, showing duo-tone illustration on the front (windjammer by Lingstrom). Light wear to covers, o/wise near fine. 19 x 12.
Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited. London. 1955. Cabin Tourist "B" Class Accommodation, October 1955. Large folded plant: 66 cm x 88 cm. Fine. Very good. Folded format: 16.6 x 32.
Sun Deck and Upper Cabin Deck / Promenade Deck and Main Cabin Deck / Lower Promenade Deck & Lower Cabin Deck.
19086 P & O THE P. AND O. POCKET BOOK (Fourth Issue)
$60.00 AUD
Adam & Charles Black. London. 1926. 4th issue. XXXI, 375 PP with 1 map and 2 figures, plus 36 pages with 40 maps (one folded with a small crease) and plans in colour, 16 colour plates (2 by Spurling), 4 colour plates with flags (16 House Flags and Funnels, 15 British and colonial Flags, 18 Merchant vessels Flags, and 29 Flags and pennants). Blue cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Small inscription on inside front cover and short verse opposite half-title page. Small neat drawing of a revolver on inside back cover. Light offsetting of endpapers and minimal foxing. A near fine copy. Scarce. 16.7 x 11.
History of P. & O. and of British India with description of countries & ports of call of both these companies.
44386 P & O ABOUT OURSELVES - P & O Staff Journal
$10.00 AUD
P & O S. N. Co. London. 1957. Issue Vol. 3, No. 23, December 1957. Pages 269 to 304 with drawings, cartoons, and b/w photos. Illustrated soft wrappers. Staples removed. Near fine. 24 x 18.2.
This is our Company. Ship news. Personal news. Trooping by C. B. Thompson. Off the beaten track (Port Alma in Qld and Wyndham in W.A.) by Captain J. L. Dunkley.
67059 P & O PORTS OF CALL: BOMBAY
$10.00 AUD
P&O. London. c. 1950. 3 folds flyer: Recto with brief history & information . Verso with a map/plan in colour . Very good. 21.5 x 14.
Gives places of interest and information for passengers.
67060 P & O PORTS OF CALL: COLOMBO
$10.00 AUD
P&O. London. c. 1950. 3 folds flyer: Recto with brief history & information / Verso with 1 map / plan in colour . Occasional foxing. Light creases, o/wise very good. 21.5 x 14.
Gives places of interest and information for passengers.
71799 P & O HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION: P.&O. BRANCH SERVICE TO ENGLAND, via Ceylon, Egypt and Mediterranean
$30.00 AUD
P. & O. London Passenger Offices. London. 1932. October 1932 edition. 28 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 Route Map & Distances via Suez, & 20 drawings or photos (7 of Accommodation and 12 of Tourist Destinations). Pictorial soft covers. Stamp of Hobart Agents "C. Piesse & Co. Pty. Ltd." on front cover and title page. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.2.
Handbook : from Advice of Steamers Arrival ... to Wireless Messages, for the "One Class" Passenger ships, Ballarat, Balranald, Baradine, Barrabool & Bendigo.
71811 P & O P & O, Shore Excursions: PORT SAID
$15.00 AUD
English Coaling Company Ltd / P & O Steamers. Port Said. 1954. November 1954 folded flyer: 2 folds with 3 b/w photos. Front cover: Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Very good. Small format: 20.5 x 12.8.
Launch tour of Port Said Harbour. Tour of the Town. Gives places of interest and information for passengers. (The statue was removed following the November 1956 Anglo-French landing).
71822 P & O - ORIENT LINE PASSENGER LIST - S.S. ORIANA, leaving Sydney on 8th of May 1961
$10.00 AUD
P & O - Orient Lines. Sydney. 1961. 8 pages Captain C. Edgecombe. Soft cover. A few marginal marks against some names, o/wise fine. Small format: 18.5 x 12.2.
Leaving Sydney on 8th May and Auckland on 11th May 1961 for North America, returning to Sydney.
32050 P&O DEAREST MOTHER, Extracts from the Letters of F.R. Kendall
$10.00 AUD
P&O Cruises & GB Publications. London. 1987. 1st Ed. Introduction by Brian MacDonald. 48 PP with b/w illust. Bound copy with pictorial card cover pasted down the front cover. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 15.4. 0946555060
Commemorative booklet published for the 150th anniversary of the creation of The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Franklin Kendall had 50 years of service with P & O and during that time, he travelled extensively, writing regularly to his mother. This booklet contains extracts from the 78 letters he wrote, each commencing with the words Dearest Mother. They reflect the early days of P. & O.
P & O S. N. Co. London. 1971. Issue No. 36, Summer 1971. Staff Journal with 48 PP with drawings and b/w photos, plus 4 pages "Fleet List" as at 15th March 1971 at centrefold . Pictorial soft cover (Native traders alongside "Arcadia" at Funchal.). Near fine. 24 x 18.2.
English silver coins, by Michael Hughes. First ... Down Under (beneath Sydney Harbour Bridge).
41544 P. & O. THE P. & O. POCKET BOOK
$200.00 AUD
P. & O. Head Office. London. 1900. 2nd issue (eight thousand). 200, (30 memoranda & blank for notes) PP, plus 12 duotone photogravures, 3 colour plates with flags, and 8 colour maps on double page. Cloth cover, gilt devices on front and rear cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. Signature of previous owner on FFEP. A near fine copy of a rare very early edition. 13.5 x 10.2.
History of P. & O. and of British India with description of countries & ports of call of both these companies. Le Canal de Suez (in French), by Comte Charles de Lesseps. Australasia by Hume Nisbet.
44387 P. & O. ABOUT OURSELVES - P & O Staff Journal
$50.00 AUD
P & O S. N. Co. London. 1954/55. Issue Vol. II, Nos. 8 to 15, March 1954 to December 1955. (2 index), 366 PP with b/w illustrations (cartoons, drawings, plans and photos), plus 3 plates (2 photographs on double page and folded plan of Arcadia). Marbled endpapers with tape repairs. Bound copies, cloth cover, gilt title on sunned spine. Contents near fine. 24.5 x 19.
This is our Company. Ship news. Personal news. Photographic Competition... Very informative.
44388 P. & O. ABOUT OURSELVES - P & O Staff Journal
$50.00 AUD
P & O S. N. Co. London. 1956/57. Issue Vol. III, Nos. 16 to 23, March 1956 to December 1957. (2 index), 304 PP with b/w illustrations (cartoons, drawings, plans and photos). Marbled endpapers with tape repairs. Bound copies, cloth cover, gilt title on sunned spine. Note on verso of FFEP and a newspaper clipping pasted down on verso of rear endpaper. Contents near fine. 24.5 x 19.
This is our Company. Ship news. Personal news. Photographic Competition... A mine of information.
71803 P. & O. T.S.S. "ARCADIA" - FIRST CLASS DECK PLAN (Provisional)
$30.00 AUD
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. London. 1960. Large folded cabin plan (75 x 77 cm) with 9 b/w photos (1 of T.S.S. Arcadia under way and 8 of Accommodations) and 5 plans of accommodation by deck. Fine. Folded size: 9.5 x 19 cm.
71815 P. & O. S.S. STRATHMORE - Luncheon Menu, Tourist Class
$5.00 AUD
s.s. Strathmore. June 1950. "Luncheon Menu", Tourist class, Tuesday 13th June 1950. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 15.8 x 11.5.
69083 PADFIELD, Peter THE TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN
$25.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 318 PP with table & diagrams, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, Typescript note pasted down on inside front cover indicating details of the Californian and it's position when torpedoed. Covers lightly soiled with light shelf wear, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.
The author disproves the theory upheld by two Courts of Inquiry, that the Leyland liner "Californian" was within sight of the disaster which 'beset' the Titanic.
64723 PARKER, Captain Walter H. LEAVES FROM AN UNWRITTEN LOG-BOOK
$120.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. c. 1931. 1st Ed. XVI, 272 PP, plus 10 b/w plates with 1 caricature, 2 paintings and 10 photos. Errata slip tipped in on "contents" page. Fp: Portrait of the author. Red cloth cover with light wear around edges. Spine lightly sunned. Slight ageing of paper and some light foxing. Discreet stamp on top outside page edges and a faint signature on inside front cover, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 24.2 x 16.5.
Captain Parker (in 1931), was Captain of the R.M.S. Olympic.
31562 PATERSON, L. J. TWELVE HUNDRED MILES FOR THIRTY SHILLINGS
$30.00 AUD
Mainstream Publishing. Edinburgh. 1988. 1st Ed. 127 PP with 91 b/w illust. (house flags, menu, posters... and photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28 x 20.3. 1851581979
Photographic record of/on the Clyde Shipping Company.
63137 PATTON, Brian SCOTTISH COASTAL STEAMERS 1918-1975
$15.00 AUD
Silver Link Publishing. Wadenhoe, UK. 1996. 1st Ed., in the Maritime Heritage series. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (ephemera, maps, posters, photos). Fp: "Map" of West coast of Scotland. Title page: poster with Duchess of Argyll. Pictorial soft cover. Previous owner's name on half-title page, o/wise fine. 27.5 x 21.3. 1857940563
The Lines that linked the Lochs.
15949 PAYNE, Stephen M. GRANDE DAME, Holland America Line and the S.S. ROTTERDAM
$20.00 AUD
Rina. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 132 PP with b/w & colour photos & 12 plans & diagrams. FEP: "Rotterdam" steaming out of New York. REP: SS Rotterdam. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 20.8. 0903055120
The building, technical features, passenger accommodation of the SS Rotterdam. The transition by Holland America Line from Atlantic ferry to cruise ship operators.
70758 PEARL, Cyril THE DUNERA SCANDAL - Deported by Mistake
$25.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed. VI, 234 PP with 29 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.7. 0207147078
The internment in Australia of 2542 Germans & Austrians either political or racial refugees. They were deported on the British India liner Dunera.
35987 PEDERSEN, Bjorn & HAWKS, F. W. A HISTORY OF DEN NORSKE AMERIKALINJE A/S (Norwegian America Line) 1910-1995
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal. 1995. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 3 plans and 114 b/w photos. Fp: Vistafjord of 1973. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.7. 0905617797
71144 PEISLEY, Tony (editor) ORIANA - From Dream to Reality
$20.00 AUD
The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. London. 1995. 2nd edition. Foreword by Lord Sterling of Plaistow. 168 PP with b/w and colour illust. (drawings, plans, photos...). Half title page: House flags of P&O Cruises Ltd. Fp: Stern of the Oriana. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine, dj. Contained in an illustrated slipcase. Fine. 29.5 x 25.7. 0951432818
Built at Papenburg, by the German shipyard Meyer Werft, and launched 30th July 1994. The Ballad of Oriana by Michael Hanson. P&O at one with the sea by Garry Pownall. Cruising, a celebration by Tony Peisley.
74606 PETER, Bruce BALTIC FERRIES
$50.00 AUD
Ferry Publicatons. Ramsey, Isle of Man. 2009. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy. 28.5 x 22.5.
Contents: History of the Baltic Ferry Scene, Evolution of the Baltic Super-Ferry, Recession, Bankruptcy and Disaster, the Champagne Economy and Mini-Cruise Culture, Destination Tallinn ...
22603 PLOWMAN, Peter EMIGRANT SHIPS TO LUXURY LINERS - Passenger Ships to Australia & New Zealand, 1945-1990
$65.00 AUD
NSW University Press. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. 296 PP with 283 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 16 colour plates. Fp: "New Australia" at Circular Quay. Half-title page: profile of the "Britanis". Eps: Advertising material / posters on sea travel. Hard cover, dj. Review tipped in on half-title page. Tiny bump near bottom of spine, o/wise a fine copy. 29.2 x 22. 0868403792
Stories of the Builders & Owners, the Crew & Passengers of these great ships.
30446 PLOWMAN, Peter PASSENGER SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Volume I (1876-1912)
$20.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. 224 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Eps: Funnels, house flags & hull colours of these passenger ships. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dj a little faded. Near fine. Oblong: 21.2 x 28. 0868240362
Covers 125 vessels placed in service from 1876 to 1912 by 21 shipping companies from Australia & 4 from New Zealand.
51841 PLOWMAN, Peter AUSTRALIAN CRUISE SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Rosenberg. Sydney. 2007. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 112 colour illustrations (1 painting, 111 photos). Title page: Saga Rose and Arcadia. Verso of title page: Sapphire Princess. Pictorial soft cover. Errata slip loosely inserted. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 9781877058509
51932 PLOWMAN, Peter PASSENGER SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Volume I (1876-1912)
$15.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. 224 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Eps: Funnels, flags & colours of these passenger ships. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket faded with a closed repaired tear on back, foxing on top edges. Internally fine. Oblong: 21.2 x 28. 0868240362
Covers 125 vessels placed in service from 1876 to 1912 by 21 shipping companies from Australia & 4 from New Zealand.
68721 PLOWMAN, Peter ACROSS THE SEA TO WAR - Australian and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through two World Wars to Korea and Vietnam
$15.00 AUD
Rosenberg. Sydney. 2003. 1st Ed. 504 PP with 188 b/w photos. Fp: Moravian departs Woolloomooloo wharf on 17 January 1900. Card covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 22.5 x 15. 9781877058066
68755 PLOWMAN, Peter PASSENGER SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Volume I (1876-1912)
$10.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. 224 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Eps: Funnels, flags & colours of these passenger ships. Hard cover. Ex-Library copy with No. at lower corner of front board, stamps or markings on endpapers, outside edges and title page. Very good. Oblong: 21.2 x 28. 0868240362
Covers 125 vessels placed in service from 1876 to 1912 by 21 shipping companies from Australia & 4 from New Zealand.
69951 PLOWMAN, Peter WANGANELLA AND THE AUSTRALIAN TRANS-TASMAN LINERS
$50.00 AUD
Rosenberg / Transpress NZ. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. 188 PP with 23 colour and over 125 b/w illustrations (menus, programs, paintings, plans & photos). Fp: Advertisements for travel by Huddart Parker Line. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note to previous owner signed by the author on title page. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 9781877058806
69956 PLOWMAN, Peter ACROSS THE PACIFIC: LINERS FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TO NORTH AMERICA
$70.00 AUD
Rosenberg. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. 272 PP with around 200 b/w illustrations (line drawings, plans, maps, photos) and 32 colour illustrations. Title page: Line drawing of "Mariposa". Frontispiece: Aorangi. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note to previous owner signed by the author on half title page. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 9781877058967
75953 PLOWMAN, Peter PASSENGER SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Volume I (1876-1912)
$40.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1981. 1st Aust. Ed. 224 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Eps: Funnels, flags & colours of these passenger ships. Hard cover, dj. A near fine copy, signed by the author on the title page. Oblong: 21.2 x 28. 0868240362
Covers 125 vessels placed in service from 1876 to 1912 by 21 shipping companies from Australia & 4 from New Zealand.
74545 PLOWMAN, Piers & CARD, Stephen J. QUEEN OF BERMUDA and the Furness Bermuda Line
$200.00 AUD
Bermuda Maritime Museum Press. Bermuda. 2002. Deluxe edition. Foreword by Allan Davidson. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, ephemera, paintings, posters, photos ...), plus a large folded plate with a colour drawing "Queen of Bermuda", by Enrico Repeto. Eps (in colour): cutaway and model of Queen of Bermuda. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front board and spine, protected by a similar slipcase. Fine. Scarce. 32 x 24. 0921560109
43106 PLUMMER, Russell SUPER-FERRIES OF BRITAIN, EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 4 maps, tables and 147 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 18 colour photos. Title spread: Koningin Beatrix. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 25.2 x 19. 0850599237
40101 POTTER, N. & FROST, J. QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 - The Authorised Story
$15.00 AUD
Harrap. London. 1969. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 16 pages with 1 cut-away, 1 drawing and 26 b/w photos. Fp: QE2 at sea. Hard cover, dust jacket is a little sunned and is price-clipped. Neat stamp of previous owner on inside front cover, o/wise a near fine copy. 21.5 x 14.6. 245594442
The problems of Cunard: new concepts, financial crises, as well as the building of the Queen Elizabeth 2.
76072 POTTER, Neil & FROST, Jack THE MARY, The Inevitable Ship
$25.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 1 plan & 6 tables, plus 20 pages with 38 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): The "Queen Mary" leaving New York. Hard covers. Covers lightly soiled, spine sunned. Contents are near fine. 21.5 x 15.
From launching in September, 1934, to the early 1960's.
53698 POWNALL, Garry AURORA - Dawn of a New Era
$35.00 AUD
P&O Cruises (UK) Limited. London. 2000. 1st Ed. Foreword by Lord Sterling of Plaistow, Chairman, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. 128 PP with 4 plans in colour, and colour photos by Mike O'Dwyer. Hard cover, title in blind on front cover and spine, dj. Stamp Maiden Season and stamp of the Captain (30 May 2000) on front endpaper. A little light foxing on prelims, o/wise near fine. Large format: 34.7 x 25. 0951432826
A photographic record of this vessel.
15924 PRIOR, Rupert (editor) OCEAN LINERS - The Golden Years
$8.00 AUD
Tiger Books. London. 1993. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Fp: The Arrival (1914), by the English painter C.R.W. Nevinson. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large format: 30.5 x 23. 1855013436
A pictorial anthology recreating the grandeur and luxury of the passenger liners.
36334 RANSOME-WALLIS, P. NORTH ATLANTIC PANORAMA 1900-1976
$10.00 AUD
Wesleyan University Press. Middletown, Connecticut. 1977. 1st US edition. 192 PP with bw photos, plus 4 pages with 3 colour illust. Title spread: Queen Elizabeth 2. Half-title page: SS City of Rome of Anchor Line. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Renewed endpapers, o/wise very good. 29.8 x 22.2. 0819550167
When passenger liners were providing luxury and safety between the US and Europe.
69935 RANSOME-WALLIS, P. NORTH ATLANTIC PANORAMA 1900-1976
$20.00 AUD
Ian Allan. Shepperton, Middlesex. 1977. 1st edition. 192 PP with bw photos, plus 4 pages with 3 colour illust. Title spread: Queen Elizabeth 2. Half-title page: SS City of Rome of Anchor Line. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing on outside edges and on inside of dust jacket. Near fine. 29.8 x 22.2. 0711006261
When passenger liners were providing luxury and safety between the US and Europe.
55362 RHOTON, Elaine THE LOGOS STORY
$5.00 AUD
OM Publishing / Send The Light Books. Bromley, Kent. 1990. Reprint of the 1988 original. 192 PP, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 19.8 x 13. 01850780420
Built 1949 in Denmark as Umanak, plying between Denmark and Greenland. 1970 transformed in a Missionary Ship as Logos. Shipwrecked in Beagle Channel in 1988.
43134 RINGWALD, Donald C. HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE - The story of a great American steamboat company
$20.00 AUD
Howell-North Books. Berkeley, Ca. 1965. 1st Ed. X, 228 PP with 7 maps and over 250 b/w photographs. Fp: 3 smoke stacks. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 28.8 x 22.2.
71967 ROBINS, Nick TURBINE STEAMERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
$25.00 AUD
N.S. Robins & Colourpoint Books. Newtownards, Northern Ireland. 1999. 1st Ed. 125 PP with graphs, plans, tables and b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Faint remnants of damp mark at top of front outside edge of last 25 pages, o/wise near fine. 23.2 x 18. 9781841586014
56004 ROBINS, Nick S., & MEEK, Donald E. THE KINGDOM OF MACBRAYNE: From steamships to car-ferries in the West Highlands and Hebrides
$15.00 AUD
Birlinn Limited. Edinburgh. 2008. New expanded edition of the 2006 original. XII, 291 with 1 map and b/w or colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): the Claymore. Pictorial soft cover. Text in English with some of the text in Scottish / Gaelic. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 22.8. 9781841586014
38006 ROBINSON, Howard CARRYING BRITISH MAILS OVERSEAS
$20.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1964. 1st Ed. 328 PP with 7 maps, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illustrations. Fp: The coming of the post to Dover in the 1630s. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
39741 ROCHE, T. W. E. SAMUEL CUNARD, and the North Atlantic
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 86 PP with b/w illustrations (12 silhouettes, 2 facsimiles of documents, 3 plans, 1cutaway and drawings). Title spread: Britannia, c. 1840. Hard cover, dj. Ex library copy with 7 discreet library stamps, number on spine, and small window cut on spine of dust jacket, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 356034364
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73953 ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES T.S..S. "NIEUW HOLLAND" -
$20.00 AUD
Royal Interocean Lines / Ye Olde Printerie. Hong Kong. 1948 1st Ed. 4 PP with 1 b/w photo. Soft covers, illustrated front (T.S.S. Nieuw Holland, in Hong Kong Harbour). 1 page on reconditioning of a model of the Nieuw Holland, in "Ship Building, Repair & Services" of November 1949, loosely inserted. Near fine. Oblong: 14 x 19.
RIL - War record of the Nieuw Holland, reconversion and particulars.
60933 ROYAL MAIL ASSOCIATION ROYAL MAIL NEWS (The Newsletter of the Royal Mail Association) - Nos. 25 to 29
$15.00 AUD
Royal Mail Association. Chislehurst, Kent. 1996-97. 5 issues. No. 25 June 1996 to No. 29, June 1997. A total of 40 PP with b/w illustrations (8 drawings or profiles of ships, 20 photos of ships). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
No. 25: South to Patagonia, by James Thornhill. The Nelson Line, by Bob Forrester. No. 26: The birth of the Royal Mail Lines, by David Jackson-Smith. No. 27: The last link - Royal Mail House, Southampton, by Rob Wilton. No. 28: Recollections of the Suez Crisis, 1956, by Trevor Milner. The Mails, Passengers and Cargo on the South American Route. No. 29: R.M.S. Alcantara of 1927, by J. H. Isherwood.
65033 ROYAL PACKET STEAM NAVIGATION CO. ISLES OF THE EAST - An illustrated guide to Australia, Papua, Java, Sumatra, Singapore etc.
$300.00 AUD
KPM / Royal Packet Steam Navigation Company. Batavia. 1912. Deluxe edition of January 1912. Edited by W. LORCK. LII (adverts), 244 PP, followed by LIII-CXXI (adverts) and b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 b/w plate : portrait of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; 1 plate "Time Table 1912; 1 folded plate "Accommodation plan of KPM Steel Screw Steamer "Tasman" and 2 colour plates: painting by C. H. Hoyt "Middle Harbour, Sydney, from Mosman Heights, and "Samples of Javanese Art Work..." . Papered boards with a colour illustration on front board by Tindall, cloth spine. Front cover with small pieices missing at corners of front edge. Spine has been reinforced (crudely). The first few pages (up to VIII) are somewhat damaged at the gutters (without loss) and most of Page III/IV has been torn off. The guide was published on superior glossy paper thus conserving its clarity and brightness. A very good copy of quite a rare item. 25.3 x 15.5.
Section I, Chapter 1 (P. XXXIII to L): The "KPM": A Twenty Years' Record. Chapter III (P 38 to 155): A trip to Java by a KPM Steamer (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Port Moresby ... Borneo, Celebes, Singapore). Section II,Chapter 1 (P.156-243): Commercial Section - Rotterdamsche Lloyd, The Railways of Java, Sumatra Railways, Batavia, The Tea Industry, Bandoeng, Soerabaya.. Chapter II (P.LIII - CXXI): Advertisements: period advertisements for hotels, transport companies, import/export, ... Gives an insight to life in these areas at the time.
22730 SANKEY, Raymond BARROW & MORECAMBE BAY
$15.00 AUD
Silver Link Publishing. Carnforth, UK. 1991. Reprint of the 1986 original, in the Maritime Heritage series. 64 PP with 1 map and 152 bw photos. Title page: The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's Ben-My-Chree, completed in 1927. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 27.3 x 21. 0947971076
Shipping scenes (merchant ships and navy ships) on the waters of Barrow and Morecamber Bay, Cumbria. Shipbuilding activities: Navy built by Vickers, or Cunard, P & O, and Orient line.
70424 SAUNDERS, Hilary St. George VALIANT VOYAGING - A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-1945
$15.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1948. 1st Ed. 216 PP, plus 1 plate in colour on double page, and 7 plates with 13 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Regimental Badges on the Dunera. FEP: Position of the Fleet at the Outbreak of War. REP: Position of ships lost. Cloth covers marked and worn at head and foot of spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Stamp of previous owners on half-title page. A very good reading copy. 20.5 x 14.
43968 SCHAAP, Dick & SCHAAP, Dick A BRIDGE TO THE SEVEN SEAS - Holland America Line Centennial
$25.00 AUD
Meijer Pers bv. Amsterdam. 1973. 1st Ed. 120 PP with b/w & colour illust. (photos, posters, postcards,..). Eps: Dutch & US flags. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and gilt on spine, dj. Near fine. 27 x 26.6.
Pictorial history of a century of ocean travel aboard the ships of the Holland America Line. Migrants from Europe to Ellis Island (N.Y.). Luxury passengers between the two continents.
62450 SCHIELDROP, Edgar B. THE HIGH SEAS
$20.00 AUD
Hutchinson & Co. London. 1939. 1st Ed. No. 3 in the Hutchinson's Illustrated Library of Modern Knowledge. Foreword by Sir Archibald Hurd. (2), 211 PP with over 130 b/w illustrations (diagrams, plans, photos). Fp (in colour): S.S. Stratheden at Port Said. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed with closed tears, o/wise near fine. 23.7 x 15.5.
Shipbuilding and ship management from earliest times to the present day (1939).
32979 SCULL, Theodore W. OCEAN LINER ODYSSEY 1958-1969
$30.00 AUD
Carmania Press. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 88 PP with 1 plan and 130 b/w illust. (ship's memorabilia and photos). Inside front cover: The Flandre, with her great flared bow at Le Havre. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 27.3 x 21.5. 0951865692
Going in style: the French Line's Liberté & Flandre. The other French line: Navigation Mixte and French Line between Marseille and North Africa... Up the British Columbia Coast: Northland Navigation's M/V Northland Prince...
61528 SEDDON, Sue TRAVEL
$15.00 AUD
Allan Sutton Publishing & Thomas Cook. London. 1991. 1st Ed. Foreword by John Julius Norwich. 158 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Fp: The Grand Palace, Bangkok. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Note at top corner of front endpaper, o/wise fine. 33.5 x 25. 0862999030
... to celebrate 150 years of Travel.
32211 SERVER, Lee THE GOLDEN AGE OF OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Todtri. New York. 1996. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 43 b/w and 54 Colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 31.6 x 22.6. 1880908867
Floating Palaces. Life aboard ship. Myth, media and popular culture.
72236 SHAW SAVILL GALA DINNER and DANCE MENU - S.S. ARAWA
$10.00 AUD
On board. 1955. Folded "Gala Dinner and Dance" menu, 23rd April 1955, Captain L.J. Hopkins Commanding. Front cover: Dancing Girl. Inside: Dance Programme: 9.00 to 11 p.m. & Dinner. Faint foxing. Near fine. 19 x 12.7.
10017 SHIPPING BRITISH SHIPS - 50 Coloured Illustrations
$10.00 AUD
J. Salmon Ltd. Sevenoaks, UK. 1972. 2nd impression of the 1971 original. A Salmon Colour book. (2), 48 PP with 1 colour photo and 49 colour paintings. Inside front cover: index. Pictorial card cover (front: Queen Mary - back: H.M.S. Ark Royal). Fine. Oblong: 14 x 14.7.
26 Liners, Yacht Britannia, 5 Merchant ships and 18 warships.
62439 SHIPPING KNOW YOUR SHIPS - Car Ferries and Ocean Liners
$15.00 AUD
OTD / Ocean Travel Development. London. 1972. March 1972 up-dated and extended edition of the 1970 original. 144 PP with 99 b/w photos. Soft covers, spiral bound. Covers lightly rubbed. Very good. Oblong: 21 x 29.
OTD = the International Trade Association of Passenger Shipping Lines.
74000 SHIPPING TRAVEL POSTER - ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE
$20.00 AUD
Oy Raud Publishing. Helsinki. 2004. 1st Finnish edition. Mini poster in colour by Harry Hudson Romell, featuring their "Minnetonka" sailing from London, Cherbourg or Boulogne to New York. Fine. Format: 35.7 x 23.5.
74002 SHIPPING TRAVEL POSTER - BIBBY LINE
$20.00 AUD
Oy Raud Publishing. Helsinki. 2004. 1st Finnish edition. Mini poster in colour by James S. Mann, featuring one of their Liners in the background and the stern of a South East Asia traditional crafts in the foreground. Fine. Format: 35.7 x 23.5.
Poster for Watson & Parker, Bibby Line Agent in Marseille.
74698 SHIPPING KNOW YOUR SHIPS - Car Ferries and Ocean Liners
$15.00 AUD
OTD / Ocean Travel Development. London. 1970. 1st edition of October 1970. 144 PP with 110 b/w photos. Soft covers, staples, cloth spine. Covers with some wear, o/wise a very good clean copy. Oblong: 21 x 30.
OTD = the International Trade Association of Passenger Shipping Lines.
Arts Recherches et Créations. Nantes. 2000. 1st Ed. 1st term 2000. 125? (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 folded plate (double length) on France Mania in text and 2 large folded cutaways of Normandie and France at end of book. Hard cover, dj. French text. Fine. 30.5 x 23.
Normandie at Saint Nazaire and Chronology of Normandie by Daniel Sicard. Normandie and Art Deco, by François Robichon. Passengers Ship France and Chronology of France, by Charles Offrey...
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.
64790 SMITH, Eugene W. TRANS-ATLANTIC PASSENGER SHIPS PAST AND PRESENT
$45.00 AUD
George H. Dean. Boston. c. 1950. 3rd printing of the 1947 original. (8), 350 PP with 91 b/w photos (39 on full page). Fp: S.S. America of the U.S. Lines. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Label with previous owner's signature on inside front cover, o/wise a near fine copy in like dust jacket. 17.2 x 11.5.
Chapters include: Short History of the North Atlantic Record Breakers, Trans-Atlantic Passenger Ships Built between 1840 and 1940, Fleet list, ...
72659 SMITH, Peter C. CRUISE SHIPS: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels
$50.00 AUD
Pen & Sword Maritime. Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 2010. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 3 tables and over 200 colour photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Small repaired closed tear at rear of dust jacket, o/wise fine. Oblong: 18 x 25. 9781848842182
Part 1: The Ships: the showcase and the facts for over 150 of them. Part 2: The stories behind the ships: Making, Operating, Enjoying them. Future trends.
44599 SOMERS, Alain SOUTHERN CROSSING - M/V EXPLORER (in Qantas, The Australian Way)
$10.00 AUD
Qantas. Sydney. 2002. Issue for October 2002. Contains article between P. 106 and 111 with 10 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Antarctic Adventure: the final frontier in luxury cruising on board the M/V Explorer.
15917 SPROULE, Anna PORT OUT, STARBOARD HOME - The Rise and Fall of the Ocean Passage
$10.00 AUD
Blandford. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 100 b/w illustrations (sketches, line drawings, photos). Eps: Departure of P & O steamer Sumatra from Southampton for India. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25 x 19. 0713785225
An illustrated tribute to the great ships (sail then steam) which carried rich & poor across the oceans, colonial armies to the outposts of empire and troops to the battlefields.
40555 SPROULE, Anna PORT OUT, STARBOARD HOME - The Rise and Fall of the Ocean Passage
$10.00 AUD
Blandford. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 100 b/w illust. (sketches, line drawings, photos). Eps: Departure of P & O steamer Sumatra from Southampton for India. Hard cover, dj. Back cover and back of dust jacket damaged. Internally very good. 25 x 19. 713785225
An illustrated tribute to the great ships (sail then steam) which carried rich & poor across the oceans, colonial armies to the outposts of empire and troops to the battlefields.
70090 STANFORD, Don ILE DE FRANCE, A Biography
$40.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1960. 1st Ed. (8), 185, (3) PP with 2 maps on double page The Journeys of the Ile de France: 1940-1942 and 1943-1946, plus 24 pages with 45 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Foxing throughout (heavy on a few pages). Still a very good copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.
The 32 years of this luxurious passenger ship, in peace and at war (troop transport). After joining the Free French, voyages from Australia in 1941, 1942 & 1943. Rescue of the 754 passengers of the Andrea Doria.
70531 STEPHENS, Don, STEPHENSON, Lynda R. & PREDAINA, Nancy SHIPS OF MERCY: Bringing Hope and Healing to the World's Forgotten Poor
$15.00 AUD
Mercy Ships. Lindale, Texas. 2012. 2nd edition. VIII, 225 PP with b/w illustrations, including 8 pages of plans "Ship Specifications", plus 8 pages with 19 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 9780986028434
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
64833 STORRUSTEN, Erling HURTIGRUTEN - The World's most beautiful voyage
$15.00 AUD
Hurtigruten Group. Bergen, Norway. 2005. 8th English edition of March 2005. 130 PP with tables, 1 b/w photo and colour illustrations (4 charts, 2 location maps, 12 maps, 12 plans and 85 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 8299315441
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.
36336 TAYLOR, Arthur GREAT LINERS
$20.00 AUD
An Echo Publication. Southampton. c. 1980. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 103 b/w photos. Title page: Queen Elizabeth 2. Pictorial card cover (lightly rubbed). Very good. Oblong: 20.9 x 19.8.
An illustrated history of one hundred great liners.
20996 TAYLOR, John W. R. PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD - Hippo Books No.18
$10.00 AUD
Longacre Press. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 127 PP with 61 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Faint foxing, o/wise very good. Small format. Oblong: 10 x 12.7.
61 ships from the Italian Africa to the British Windsor Castle.
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.
75992 THOMSON, W. John Photographic Album of SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER VESSELS
$20.00 AUD
W. John Thomson. Adelaide. 2003. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 map, 1 plan and 86 b/w photos. Title page: S.S. Herbert (1896-1906). Stiff covers, pictorial front "S.S. Flinders". Front cover lightly soiled. Near fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.5. 0646429221
20918 THORNTON, E. C. B. SOUTH COAST PLEASURE STEAMERS
$15.00 AUD
Stephenson. London. 1962. 1st Ed. XII, 180 PP, plus 18 pages with 47 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj (chipped). Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.
History of all England's South Coast pleasure steamers.
63040 THORSOE, Soren, SIMONSEN, Peter, KROGH-ANDERSEN, Soren, FREDERICHSEN, Frederik & DFDS 1866-1991 - Ship Development through 125 years - from Paddle Steamer to Ro/Ro Ship / Skibsudvikling gennem 125 ar fra Hjuldamper til Rulleskib
$45.00 AUD
DFDS A/S. Copenhagen. 1991. 1st Ed. 503 PP with 3 maps, 21 plans, 86 bw illust., and 732 photos of ships (Fleet list). Illustrated endpapers. Laminated decorated boards. Fine. Danish and English text. 30.2 x 21.2. 8798003003
Short Sea shipping line running between Denmark and the United Kingdom and Iceland. As of 1926, routes to Atlantic ports of North and South America.
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.
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.
74968 The Trident THE TRIDENT, incorporating "Blue Peter" - (Magazine of the Sea - Vol. 12. No. 136)
$20.00 AUD
The Trident. London. 1950. August 1950 issue / special "Chusan" Number. 313-392 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft covers, front ("Chusan", colour painting by Edward Beckett). Spine reinforced (clear plastic acid free tape). Contents near fine. 30 x 22.
P. & O. Liner "Chusan", The largest New Liner of the Year (pages 344 to 385). From Singapore to Devon: Ocean-Going Junks by E.R. Yarham. Danish Sailing Ships of To-day, by Basil Greenhill. ...
15918 TUTE, Warren ATLANTIC CONQUEST, The Ships and the Men of the North Atlantic Passenger Services, 1816-1961
$5.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 247 PP, plus 32 pages with 53 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj (chipped). Ex library copy with a few library markings. Good reading copy. 21.5 x 14.
The battle for international prestige and the commercial rivalry between the packets sailing each side of the Atlantic.
40535 TUTE, Warren ATLANTIC CONQUEST - The Ships and the Men of the North Atlantic Passenger Services, 1816-1961
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 247 PP, plus 32 pages with b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Neat stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
The battle for international prestige and the commercial rivalry between the packets sailing each side of the Atlantic.
75933 UNION STEAM SHIP HISTORY OF UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND LIMITED 1875-1940
$30.00 AUD
Union Steam Ship Company. Wellington. 1940. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w photos of ships, their captains & their shipowner. Verso of half-title page: Armorial Bearings (in colour). Blue hard cover, gilt-engraved front board (lightly soiled). Signature of previous owner (J.H. Ibbotson) at top of title-page. Very good. 25 x 18.7.
A company of world-wide importance which was founded and managed in New Zealand. Issued in commemoration of the centenary of British settlement in New Zealand, 1940.
62196 UNION STEAMSHIPS THE EMPIRE'S LARGEST SHIP (in The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales Officer's Journal)
$5.00 AUD
M. S. B. Sydney. 1936. Vol. XII, No. 1, June 1936. Edited by H. L. Gilmour. XVII (advertisements), 39 PP. Contains article pages 3 to 9 with 2 diagrams. Soft cover. Near fine. 18.3 x 12.3
Liner of Union Steam Ships of New Zealand.
38778 VAN LIMBURG STIRUM, S. J. Craaf NEERLANDS REEDERIJEN - Een overzicht van de geschiedenis van verschillende lijnbedrijven
$10.00 AUD
Stichting De Zee. Amsterdam. c. 1940's. Reprint of an article published in the magazine De Zee. 78 PP. Soft cover. Label with number on spine. Note and stamp at top of Page 1, o/wise very good. Dutch text. 22.6 x 15.
An overview of the history of various Dutch shipping companies. De Rotterdamsche Lloyd. De Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland. De Holland-Amerika Lijn. De Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij. Koninklijke West-Indische Maildienst. De KoninklijkePaketvaart Maatschappij. De Java-China-Japan Lijn.
43060 van PAPENDRECHT, A. Hoynck DE ZEILVLOOT VAN WILLEM RUYS JAN DANIELSZOON EN DE ROTTERDAMSCHE LLOYD
$60.00 AUD
Rotterdam Lloyd. Rotterdam. 1933. 1st Ed. XV, 147 PP with tables & 100 b/w illustrations, plus 11 b/w plates with tables, map, documents, 1 large folding plan of the D.S.M.S. Baloeran, 1 large folded plate with fleet list and 25 ship profiles and 1 folded map of the River Maas. Printed on superior glossy paper. Fp: Portrait of Willem Ruys Jan Danielszoon. Illustrated endpapers. Original sturdy stiff covers have light foxing. Near fine copy of a scarce title. Image shows Page XV with a travel poster for Rotterdam Lloyd. Dutch text. 27.8 x 20.4.
The sailing fleet of Willem Ruys and the fleet of Rotterdam Lloyd.
10034 VERNON GIBBS, Cdr. C.R. THE WESTERN OCEAN PASSENGER LINES AND LINERS 1934-1969
$15.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1970. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 36 Pages with 68 photos of liners & 2 Pages on house flags. Fp: The old rivals: Queen Mary & Normandie. Hard cover, no dust jacket. Light foxing around the edges, o/wise near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22 x 14.
Record of passenger liners & shipping lines on the North Atlantic in 1934 after 5 years of the Depression. The number of these ships had greatly diminished, most having been broken up and sold for scrap.
45666 VERNON GIBBS, Cdr. C.R. THE WESTERN OCEAN PASSENGER LINES AND LINERS 1934-1969
$15.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1970. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 68 b/w photos of liners and 2 b/w plates (house flags and description). Fp: The old rivals: Queen Mary & Normandie. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Top edge of covers with light speckling. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
Record of passenger liners & shipping lines on the North Atlantic in 1934 after 5 years of the Depression. The number of these ships had greatly diminished, most having been broken up and sold for scrap.
18894 VERNON GIBBS, Commander C. R. BRITISH PASSENGER LINERS OF THE FIVE OCEANS - A Record of the British Passenger Lines and their Liners from 1838 to the Present Day
$25.00 AUD
Putnam. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 559 PP with 172 b/w illustrations (advertisements and posters, external views if ships, interior and general views). Fp: Bentwick leaving Aden. Blue cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
34646 VICKERS, Anna VOYAGE EN AUSTRALIE ET EN NOUVELLE-ZELANDE
$350.00 AUD
Librairie Ch. Delagrave. Paris. 1883. 1st Ed. (4), 462 PP with 52 illustrations (38 on full page), plus 1 large folded map of Australasia in colour. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt decorations and title on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. Top and bottom of spine frayed, top of front hinge weak and worn on 3 cms, long closed tear on folded map, o/wise very good. French text. 27.2 x 17.2.
Voyage on the Orient. Departure from Plymouth on 6th November 1879, call at Saint-Vincent (Cape Verde Islands), Capetown. Arrival Sydney 20 December 1879. Travel to Adelaide on the Assam, to New Zealand on the Wakatipu... Return via San Francisco on the Australia with a departure from Auckland in June 1880. Ferguson 17716a.
62339 WALKER, Colin Memory of a Queen: R.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH - A Personal Tribute by
$25.00 AUD
Oxford Publishing. Oxford. 1972. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commodore G. T. Marr. No Pagination, 96 PP with 90 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dj a little sunned. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 30.3 x 21.5. 0902888137
A pictorial tribute to the "working" ship and not to the glamorous liner, published after the fire that destroyed her in Hong Kong in January 1972.
19652 WALL, Robert OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
New Burlington. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Fp: A poster of 1929 of the Statendam III. Eps: Lusitania at Liverpool. Hard cover, dj. Happy Birthday notes on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 30 x 23. 0906286204
The rise and fall of the ocean liner and its final capitulation to the aeroplane.
19663 WALL, Robert OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1978. Reprint of the 1977 original. 256 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Fp: poster of 1929 of the Statendam III. Eps: Lusitania at Liverpool. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 30 x 23. 0002116103
The rise and fall of the ocean liner and its final capitulation to the aeroplane.
49568 WALL, Robert OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Chartwell Books. New York. 1977. 1st US edition. 256 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Fp: A poster of 1929 of the Statendam III. Eps: Lusitania at Liverpool. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Hinges split at head and foot of spine. 1 small stain on front edge. Very good internally. 30 x 23. 0890097836
The rise and fall of the ocean liner and its final capitulation to the aeroplane.
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
46231 WARWICK, Ronald W. & FLAYHART III, William H. QE2
$15.00 AUD
W.W. Norton. New York & London. 1985. 1st Ed. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: 10 QE2 Deck Plans. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Light shelf wear, dust jacket with a few rubs, o/wise fine. 26 x 22. 0393018857
Background on Cunard Line, and history of the Queen Elizabeth 2: construction, launching, maiden voyage... refitting after her return from the Falklands conflict.
68729 WARWICK, Ronald W. & FLAYHART III, William H. QE2
$10.00 AUD
W.W. Norton. New York & London. 1985. 1st Ed. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: 10 QE2 Deck Plans. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with short closed tears. Donation plate to and stamps of the "Devonport Maritime Museum & Historical Society" on endpapers. Internally contents near fine. 26 x 22. 0393018857
Background on Cunard Line, and history of the Queen Elizabeth 2: construction, launching, maiden voyage... refitting after her return from the Falklands conflict.
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.
71635 WATERS, Sydney D. UNION LINE - A Short History of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. 1875-1951
$30.00 AUD
Privately published, Wellington. 1951. 1st Ed. 148 PP with b/w illustrations. Frontispiece (in colour): Armorial bearings of the Company. Eps: Trade routes of the Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd. Green cloth cover, gilt title on front cover. Covers a little dulled with light wear around edges, light foxing on prelims and last pages, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 25.2 x 19.
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.
22806 WATSON, Milton H. FLAGSHIPS OF THE LINE - A Celebration of the World's Three-funnel Liners
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1988. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 21 head pieces (house-flags) and 180 b/w photos. FEP: Queen Mary departs from New York. REP: Docked in New York in September 1939 were Ile de France, Normandie, Queen Mary, Aquitania and Rex. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 20.8. 0850599318
45587 WATSON, Milton H. FLAGSHIPS OF THE LINE - A Celebration of the World's Three-funnel Liners
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1988. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 21 head pieces (house-flags) and 180 b/w photos. FEP: Queen Mary departs from New York. REP: Docked in New York in September 1939 were Ile de France, Normandie, Queen Mary, Aquitania and Rex. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 20.8. 0850599318
70076 WATSON, Milton H. US PASSENGER LINERS SINCE 1945
$20.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Limited. Wellingborough. 1988. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w illust. (memorablilia, photos, plans). Title-page: President Cleveland departing from San Francisco. FEP: America. REP: Celebration sailing off to the Caribbean. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.2 x 21. 1852609172
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
15974 WHALE, Derek M THE LINERS OF LIVERPOOL, Part I
$10.00 AUD
Countywise Limited. Birkenhead. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Michael Stammers. 114, (1 publications) PP with 84 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0907768113
On the people (passengers and crew) who travelled on these liners.
37068 WHEELER, Sir Mortimer (editor) SWANS HELLENIC CRUISES - Handbook for 1971 Cruises
$15.00 AUD
W. F. & R. K. Swan (Hellenic) Ltd / The Hellenic Travellers Club. London. August 1970. 10th Ed. of the 1962 original. 326 PP with 1 page with photos of coins, 4 pages with drawings and 104 maps & plans. FEP: Map of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. REP: Map of Western Mediterranean and map between Turkey and Egypt. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 26 x 20.7.
Notes for the would be traveller: History, Greek deities, Heroes... Greek Architecture, Greek Sculpture... Countries from Algeria, Bulgaria... to Syria, Turkey...
40730 WILLIAMS, David & FORTY, Jonathan OCEAN LINERS
$20.00 AUD
PRC Publishing. London. 2001. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 34 b/w and 123 colour illustrations (engravings, menus,paintings, photos and posters). Fp: Royal Viking Sea docked in Edinburgh, Scotland. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. As new. 31 x 23.7. 1856486079
42053 WILLIAMS, David L. PADDLE STEAMERS
$25.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 2002. 1st Ed., in the Glory Days series. 96 PP with 94 b/w and 51 colour illustrations. Title page: P/S Princess Elizabeth. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Oblong: 19.2 x 24.5. 0711027722
62405 WILLIAMS, David L. CUNARD'S LEGENDARY QUEENS OF THE SEAS
$20.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 2004. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: Queen Mary 2, in Southampton waters, on 26th December 2003. Pictorial laminated boards. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. Oblong: 19.2 x 24.5. 0711029938
71465 WILLIAMS, David L. BRITISH FERRIES
$25.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 2003. 1st Ed., in the Glory Days series. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Title page: Townsend Toresen. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Oblong: 19.2 x 24.5. 0711028915
17351 WILSON, E. A. SOVIET PASSENGER SHIPS 1917-1977
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1978. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 ship profile and 137 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0905617045
History and fleet list.
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
20515 WINSER, John de S. BRITISH CROSS-CHANNEL RAILWAY PASSENGER SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1994. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 map, 1 silhouette, 3 plans and 126 b/w photos. Title spread: Dieppe Harbour, 15th August 1937. Half title page: the 1445 tons Brittany. FEP: View of St Helier Harbour with Falaise in port. REP: The 1949 Strait of Dover steamer Maid of Orleans. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28 x 22. 185260459X
53 ships which joined the railway-owned fleets from 1920 to 1963.
14776 WINTER, L. B. NOR THEY UNDERSTAND
$25.00 AUD
Jacaranda Press. Brisbane. 1966. 1st Ed. XV, 179 PP with 6 charts (4 on double page), plus 26 pages with 44 b/w photos. Fp: As we Dream. Name of previous owner on half title page. Hard cover, dj. Short rubbed patch at head of spine of cover and dust jacket . Top corner of front endpaper clipped. Otherwise contents near fine. 22.5 x 14.
Sailing experiences on cargo/passenger ship and his own yacht Brynhildr, brought from Scotland to Sydney on the M/V Cedric, vessel of Shaw Savill Line where he served as doctor.
34021 WITHEY, Lynne GRAND TOURS AND COOK'S TOURS - A History of Leisure Travel, 1750 to 1915
$15.00 AUD
Aurum Press. London. 1998. 1st UK edition. XIV, 401 PP with 3 head pieces, plus 16 pages with 36 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 1854105485
Travels initially within Europe then towards exotic shores: Egypt, India, Japan, the Far West... Stories of the entrepreneurs who made these possible: Karl Baedecker, George Pullman, César Ritz, and, above all, Thomas Cook.
30031 WRAY, William D. MITSUBISHI AND THE N.Y.K., 1870-1914 - Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry
$40.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass., USA. 1984. 1st Ed., in the Sub-series on the History of Japanese Business and Industry - Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 108. XX, (2), 672, (5 cat.) PP with 4 maps, 15 figures (7 b/w photos), and 62 tables. Cloth cover, dj. Short note on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 23.4 x 15.7. 0674576659
The origins and institutional growth prior to WWI: Japan's largest industrial group Mitsubishi, and the world's leading shipping enterprise Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
45804 YOUNG, John M. (editor) PASSENGER SHIPS OF P & O (in Shipping - Today & Yesterday - Supplement August, 2000)
$10.00 AUD
Shipping - Today & Yesterday. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 16 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.