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30067
ALLEN, Gerald
MARINE LIFE OF THE PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and all of Southeast Asia
$20.00 AUD

Singapore. 1996. Periplus. 1st Ed. 96 PP with over 350 colour photos. FEP: Map of South east Asia and the Western Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30.5 x 23. 9625930167

Marine plants, sponges, corals, anemones and jellyfish... Crustaceans, molluscs... Fishes, mammals and marine reptiles.

66966
AMATEUR YACHT RESEARCH SOCIETY
SAILING HYDROFOILS
$20.00 AUD

The Amateur Yacht Research Society. Berkshire, UK. 1970. 1st Ed., October 1970. 288 PP with b/w illust. (photos, plans, and sketch-plans). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket a little soiled with a few small chips. Light foxing on endpapers. Neat name on inside rear cover. A near fine copy Scarce. 22.1. x 14.5.

22277
ANIKOUCHINE, William A. & STERNBERG, Richard W.
THE WORLD OCEAN: An Introduction to Oceanography
$10.00 AUD

Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., USA. 1980?. 7th reprint of the 1973 original. XI, (3), 338 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos...). Eps: World map of the ocean floors. Hard cover, dj (piece missing on lower part). Very good. 24 x 18. 139677526

Covers basic facts of physical, chemical, geological, and biological aspects of Oceanography.

19354
BABBAGE, Ross
RETHINKING AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE
$20.00 AUD

UQP. Brisbane. 1980. 1st Ed. XXII, 312 PP with 9 figures and 9 tables. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Discreet signature & date on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.6. 0702214868

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

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

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

22154
BARRACLOUGH, E.M.C. (Editor)
FLAGS OF THE WORLD
$25.00 AUD

Frederick Warne. London. 1969. Revised edition. IX, 284 PP with over 375 text drawings, plus 40 plates with 370 flags in full colour. Fp: 6 Flags of the United States of America. Hard cover, vellum, gilt device on front cover and gilt title on spine. Top edge tinted. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 23.4 x 16.5. 723211019

A very comprehensive work.

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

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

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

22794
BEAVER, Paul
NATO NAVIES OF THE 1980s
$10.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1985. 1st Ed., No. 3 in the Warships Illustrated series. 72 PP with 14 colour and 129 bw photos. Title spread: Alongside at Portland Naval Base, UK. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 18.6. 0853687234

22136
BERRY, P. F., BRADSHAW, S. D. & WILSON, B. R. (editors)
RESEARCH IN SHARK BAY, Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee
$25.00 AUD

Western Australian Museum. Perth. 1990. 1st Ed. VIII, 326 PP with b/w fig. & tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.5 x 17. 0730939197

The joint French/W.A. scientific expedition made to Shark Bay in July 1988. This team revisited the areas where early French navigators had landed and collected natural history specimens.

19740
BRETON, Gérard
CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LESUEUR (1778 - 1846), L'ART AU SERVICE DES SCIENCES NATURELLES
$20.00 AUD

Editions du Muséum du Havre. Le Havre. 1977. Part No. 8, May 1977 of the Annales du Muséum du Havre. 12 PP with 7 b/w illust. Inside front cover: musical score on indigenous songs from Timor Island. Illustrated soft cover (stapled). French and Russian text. Fine. 29.6 x 21

Catalogue produced for the exhibition on C.-A. Lesueur organised by Le Havre and held at Leningrad in June-July 1977.

30035
BROWN, Bruce
GATTY: Prince of Navigators
$40.00 AUD

Libra. Hobart. 1997 1st Ed. VIII, 275 PP with 24 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.2. 0909619174

Tasmanian-born aviator, nicknamed "the Prince of Navigators" by Charles Lindbergh for inventing the navigational instruments he used. Author of: "The Raft Book" and "Nature is your Guide". Navigation research work with the Army Air Corps during WWII. Opening of Pan Am South Pacific route. The birth of Air Pacific...

30554
BROXAM, Graeme
SHIPPING ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES - TASMANIA - Vol. III: 1843-1850
$45.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing / Roebuck Book. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society Publication No. 45. XIV, 603 PP with 2 graphs,and 65 b/w illust. FEP: Map of Tasmania, c. 1850s. REP: An 1830s engraving of the Paddle steamer Seahorse. Hard cover, dj. Copy signed by the author on title page. Fine. 25.8 x 18. 0958656134

30061
BRUNO, Leonard C.
ON THE MOVE, A Chronology of Advances in Transportation
$20.00 AUD

Gale Research. Detroit. 1993. 1st Ed. XLIII, (3), 423 PP with bw illust. (photos and line drawings). Pict. laminated boards. Fine. 28.7 x 21.8. 0810383969

Transportation: Air, Land, Space, and Water.

36874
BULLOCKE, J. G. (editor)
THE TOMLINSON PAPERS - selected from the correspondence and pamphlets of Captain Robert Tomlinson, R.N., & Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson
$20.00 AUD

Navy Records Society. London. 1935. 1st Ed., Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 74. XXIX, 400 PP, plus 2 folded tables. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Pages trimmed. Occasional foxing. Very good. 23.2 x 15.

Essay on manning the Royal Navy without recourse to Impressment. Essay on Timber Preservation.

30024
CANTACUZINO, Marina
ON EQUAL TERMS, The first disabled crew to sail round the world - racing in the BT Global Challenge
$10.00 AUD

Simon & Schuster. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 1 colour plan, 5 colour sketch-maps, tables and b/w & colour photos. Half title page: The Time and Tide under sail. Pict. card cover. Fine. 24.1 x 18.6. 0684819368

Departure from Southampton, 29/09/1996. Calls at Rio de Janeiro, Wellington, Sydney, Capetown, Boston. Return Southampton, 17/07/1997.

22133
CARLSON, Keith J. (editor)
THE RESTLESS EARTH
$10.00 AUD

Harper & Row. San Francisco. 1990. 1st Ed., No. XXIV in the Nobel Conference Books series. XV, (3), 201 PP tables and 45 figures. Card cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 20.2 x 13.5. 0062501488

7 papers by: Jack Oliver, W.G. Ernst, David Ray Griffin, Don L. Anderson ...

21797
CHESTERTON, D. Ridley
BRITISH COASTAL SHIPS, Tugs and Trawlers
$15.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 175 PP with b/w photos throughout. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunnned. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 19 x 13.

Successor of the ABC's on coastal shipping.

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

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

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

19302
CLARKE, Captain W. V. J.
COLE'S SHIPMASTERS' HANDBOOK TO THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS
$20.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1949. 6th edition of the 1913 original. XVII, (3), 268 PP. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Stamps of the M.V. Melbourne Star on FFEP and title page. Light foxing on first and last pages, o/wise a near fine copy. Image shows title-page. 21.8 x 14.2.

Being a practical guide to the Acts and Regulations for Shipmasters and all connected with the Mercantile Marine.

41286
CLEMENTS, Rex
A GIPSY OF THE HORN - The narrative of a voyage round the world in a Windjammer twenty years ago
$10.00 AUD

London. 1939. Longmans. August 1939 impression of the 1938 abridged edition (by W. T. Hutchins), in the Heritage of Literature Series. (6), 186 PP with 6 pen & ink drawings by N. A. D. Wallis. Cloth cover. Head and foot of spine worn. Address of previous owners on front endpaper and half title page. Small ink stain in front margin of page 38. Good reading copy. Small format: 17 x 11.5.

Life on board and seeing the world on the Scottish barque Arethusa.

15794
COOK, James
CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE, Commenced in 1768, and finished in 1771. His first published account of landing in the Endeavour River
$25.00 AUD

Hisine Technique. Herberton, Far North Queensland. c.1970. Reprint from the Newcastle facsimile edition of Cook's Diaries. (2), 78 PP with 2 maps & 6 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 22 x 16.5.

Stranding on the Great Barrier Reef, overhaul in Endeavour River, passage up to Endeavour Strait.

30018
COPPINGER, R.W.
CRUISE OF THE ALERT, Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene Waters. (1878-82.)
$300.00 AUD

R. Worthington. New York. 1884. 2nd Ed. XV, 256 PP plus 17 full-page woodcut illustrations from photographs by F. North, R.N., and from Sketches by the Author. Fp: HMS Alert at anchor in Tom Bay, West Coast of Patagonia. Rebound copy, retaining original gilt-engraved and decorated cloth cover and spine. All edges gilt. Bookplate on FEP. Corners a little worn, o/wise an excellent copy with only occasional light foxing. 26 x 18.5.

The voyage of a naturalist/zoologist on board the HMS Alert. Four years in the waters of Patagonia, Polynesia, Great Barrier Reef and the Seychelles.

22425
COTTER, Charles H.
THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
$30.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1974. 1st Ed. IX, 164 PP. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.2 x 16.5.

Geography, geology, weather, currents... The Atlantic Islands. Discovery. Economic resources and trade. Political and strategic background.

22099
CRAMPTON, William G.
FLAGS, The Observer's Book of
$10.00 AUD

Frederick Warne. London. 1979. New edition of the 1959 original. 190 PP with 44 line drawings and 345 colour illust. Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Fine. Small format:14.5 x 9.4. 0723215987

22656
CREE, Edward H.
THE CREE JOURNALS, The Voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N. as Related in his Private Journals 1837-1856
$35.00 AUD

Webb & Bower. Exeter, UK. 1981. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Michael Levien. 276 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Edward Hodges Cree. Eps: Chart of South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin. Hard cover, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 19. 0906671361

Personal narrative of Dr. Edward H. Cree, recording his cruises between 1837 & 1856: Notebook & sketch book.

16081
CROWDY, Michael
THE EAGLE TANKERS
$15.00 AUD

World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1966. 1st Ed., March 1966. 12 PP with 11 b/w photos. Soft covers, stapled. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.

Short history & fleet list.

30286
CUMMING, Helen
DARE TO KNOW: The Art and Science of Pacific Voyages
$10.00 AUD

State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. (6), 32 PP with 27 b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 21 x 21. 0731066243

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the State Library of New South Wales in mid 1998.

22077
DARMAN, Peter (editor)
WARFARE AT SEA
$10.00 AUD

Blitz Edition. London. 1997. Reprint. 96 PP with detailed full-colour cutaway artwork, and over 130 bw & colour photos. Pict. laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30.4 x 22.2. 1856053687

Submarine weapons systems - anti-submarine mortars and missiles - rockets, torpedoes, guns....

22078
DEAN, Frederick E.
SHIPS OF THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD

Odhams. London. 1964. 1st English edition of the 1963 French original Bateaux d'Aujourd'hui by Jean Riverain. 64 PP with colour illustrations throughout. Title page: French Aircraft Carrier and tanker of Compagnie Navale des Pétroles. Pictorial laminated boards (France II) . Very good. Large format: 35.5 x 26.5.

30296
DELGADO, James P.
THE BEAVER: First Steamship on the West Coast
$15.00 AUD

Horsdal & Schubart. Victoria, B.C., Canada. 1993. 1st Ed. VII, 54 PP with 45 b/w illust. (line drawings, facsimiles & photos). Fp: Map of the area of the Pacific coast served by the Beaver. Pict. card cover. Fine. Oblong: 18.8 x 22.8. 0920663206

Built 1835 for the Hudson's Bay Company. Floating fur-trade post, chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying, towboat... wrecked in 1888.

19528
DODMAN, Frank E.
THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SHIPS - 1970
$10.00 AUD

Frederick Warne & Co. London & New York. 1970. Revised edition. 192 PP with 96 line drawings, plus 32 pages with 16 colour plates (flags, flags & funnels and 10 ships), and 16 bw plates (38 photos of ships). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 14.6 x 9.2. 0723200858

Describes over 100 types of ships.

22420
DOUGLAS, John Scott
THE STORY OF THE OCEANS
$15.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1953. 1st Ed. 272 PP, plus 16 pages with 2 maps and 28 bw illust. Fp: H.M.S. Challenger, the first ocean-going research ship. Hard cover. Signature on FFEP, a few foxing spots, o/wise contents are near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 20.3 x 13.2.

Early oceanography, voyages of Darwin then of the Challenger...

22801
EADDY, P. A.
SAILS BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS
$20.00 AUD

A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1954. 1st Ed. 196 PP, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos. Fp: The Iron Barque Manurewa. Hard covers, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine.. Photo "Manurewa under sail" tipped in on front endpaper. Some foxing, o/wise very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.2 x 14.

The intercolonial trade between Australia, New Zealand and South Sea islands.

22127
EVANS, Peter
WHALES
$5.00 AUD

Whittet Books. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 136 PP with illustrations by Euan Dunn. Title page: Humpback whales breaching and diving. Eps: Humpback whale and calf. Laminated pictorial boards. Near fine. 21.6 x 15.3. 0905483855

Whale: motion, breathing, diving, senses, feeding... P. 84 to 99: Hunting the whale.

30528
FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John
SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 7
$15.00 AUD

Ships in Focus Publications. London. 1998. Issue Number 7. 64 PP ( P. 129 to 192), with 1 plan and 109 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703010

Twin-funnel cargo liners. Dublin gas boats. Antiques in the Humber. The Palmers of Boston and Ringaskiddy...

19376
FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe
COLUMBUS, And the Conquest of the Impossible
$20.00 AUD

Saturday Review Press. New York. 1974. 1st US Ed. 224 PP with 2 maps, 100 b/w and 17 colour illust. Fp: A portrait of Columbus by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. Title page: A sixteenth-century ship's compass. Eps: Natives of Hispaniola. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on front edge. A near fine copy. 25.5 x 18.5. 0841503303

30030
FISHER, Bob
BEKEN OF COWES - THE NEW OCEAN THOROUGHBREDS
$25.00 AUD

Harrap. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 115 colour photographs by A. Keith Beken and Kenneth J. Beken. Fp: Cowes Harbour. Verso of title page: the Admiral's Cup. Hard cover, dj. Discreet bookshop stamp on lower corner of half title page. Near fine. 31.3 x 24. 0245544720

22411
FISHER, Bob & PICKTHALL, Barry
OCEAN CONQUEST
$15.00 AUD

Little Brown & Co. Boston. 1993. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 1 map, 5 sketch-plans and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.2 x 23.5. 0316904694

The official story of the Whitbread Round the World Race: Past, Present and Future. Races of 1973-74, 1977-78, 1981-82, 1985-86, 1989-90 & 1993-94.

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

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

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

30389
FRANCIS, T. L.
SUBMARINES: Leviathans of the Deep
$10.00 AUD

MetroBooks. New York. 1997. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w and colour illust. (maps, plans & photos). Half title page: Columbia (SSN-771). Title page: Depth gauge from Ling (SS-297). FEP: Nautilus (SS-168). REP: Rhode Island (SSBN-740). Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 28.5 x 36. 156799427X

30033
GARDINER, Robert & FRIEDMAN, Dr. Norman (editors)
NAVIES IN THE NUCLEAR AGE - Warships since 1945
$25.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1993. 1st Ed., in the "Conway's History of the Ship" series. 224 PP with tables, plans and b/w photos. Fp: The American cruiser Yorktown, firing a standard MR-SM2 surface-to-air missile. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 25.2. 0851775683

Warship design, development and technology (weapons systems, naval radars, naval electronic warfare, propulsion).

48432
GILLETT, Ross
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WARSHIPS 1914-1945
$20.00 AUD

Doubleday. Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed. 360 PP with 600 b/w photos & 100 line drawings. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Near fine. 26.2 x 26.2. 0868240958

30243
GOLDSTON-MORRIS, Maurine
THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL ARTHUR PHILLIP R.N. 1738-1814
$5.00 AUD

The Naval Historical Society of Australia, Inc. Sydney. 1997. Naval Historical Society of Australia Monograph No. 58. 13 & 18 PP (typescript on recto only) with 3 maps and 7 b/w illustrations (photocopy quality). Pictorial soft cover, staples. Contained in a clear plastic folder. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.

Transcript of two lectures given to the Society on 2nd August 1996 & 4th April 1997.

22141
GRACE, Eric S.
WHALE: Giant of the Ocean
$30.00 AUD

Sandstone Books. Sydney. 1996. 1st Australian edition. 128 PP with colour photos. Fp: Diver meets humpback whale. Title page: A humpback flips its tail into the air. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 26 x 28.5. 1875986375

14336
GRAVES, Charles
THE THIN RED LINES
$20.00 AUD

Standard Art Book. London. ND, 1950? 1st Ed. 183 PP plus 26 pages with 33 b/w photos. Fp: The Blue Train (water colour). Eps: The two 24 hour clocks (Northern & Southern hemispheres) in the court room at Electra House. Cloth cover,dj. A few chips and marks on dust jacket, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 15.

The achievements of the Telcom personnel who, during WWII, maintained the telecommunication services linking the British Empire by 155,000 miles of cable & 200,000 miles of wireless network. Cable ships during the War.

30163
GROVE, Eric
GREAT BATTLES OF THE ROYAL NAVY, as commemorated in the gunroom, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
$15.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1994. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 26 maps in colour, 45 colour and 119 bw illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 1854091840

From Alfred the Danes, 897 by W.A. Allard to the war in the Falklands, 1982 by Eric Grove.

16083
HACKMAN, Rowan M. B. H.
THE FLEET PAST AND PRESENT OF HUNTING & SON LTD
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1969. 3rd edition. 44 PP with 42 b/w photos. Inside front cover (in colour): bow marking, funnel and house flag. Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 21.5 x 14.

22142
HANDY, Amy
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL
$10.00 AUD

Todtri. New York. 1996. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 90 b/w & colour illust. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Foxing on first and last few pages, o/wise very good. 31.5 x 22.5. 1880908891

The magic of sail, the seafaring life, trade routes and merchantmen, the romance and terror of the sea: around Cape Horn, shipwrecks and storms at sea, great maritime battles. The arrival of the age of steam.

22415
HASS, Hans
WE COME FROM THE SEA
$15.00 AUD

New York. 1959. Doubleday & Co. 1st US edition of the German original Wir Kommen aus dem Meer. 288 PP with 3 maps and 60 bw photos, plus 8 pages with colour photos. Cloth cover, dj. (rubbed with a few small chips). Light foxing on inside of dust jacket. Paper ageing a little, o/wise a near fine copy. 24 x 15.5.

Adventure under the water and science in the sun.

21912
HEATON, P. M.
THE ABBEY LINE - History of a Cardiff Shipping Venture
$10.00 AUD

The Starling Press. Gwent, UK. 1983. 1st Ed. 151 PP, plus 48 pages with b/w photos. Eps: Transcript of register for Tintern Abbey and Melrose Abbey. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 22 x 15.2. 0950771422

The founder's origin, interest in shipowning, development, to the sale of the Tintern Abbey in 1960.

21289
HEINE, William C.
HISTORIC SHIPS OF THE WORLD
$5.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1977. 1st Australian edition. 156 PP with 105 b/w illustrations & 15 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 23. 0727003399

A review of 22 historic ships, restored & preserved as monuments to men who braved the sea. History, career, actual appearance.

12323
HILL, Ernestine
MY LOVE MUST WAIT - The Story of Matthew Flinders
$30.00 AUD

Lloyd O'Neil. Melbourne. 1971. Reprint of the 1941 original, in the Australian Classics series. (8), 463 PP (5). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22 x 14.6.

Historical novel centred on the life of Matthew Flinders, hydrographer & explorer, the first man to circumnavigate and to name the fifth continent: Terra Australis.

19800
HINTON, A. G.
SHELLS OF NEW GUINEA AND THE CENTRAL INDO-PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD

Robert Brown and Assoviates / Jacaranda Press. Port Moresby / Brisbane. 1972. 1st Ed. XVI, 94 PP with 6 figures, 2 maps & 44 colour plates on full-page. FEP: Map of Central Western Pacific. REP: Map of Papua New Guinea. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 26 x 19.8. 0701681144

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.

18974
HOLDEN, R. & LONEY, J.
EARLY SHIPPING IN THE PORT OF GEELONG
$15.00 AUD

J.K. Loney. Geelong. 1969. 2nd edition limited to 500 numbered copies. 76 PP with 1 map, plus 12 pages with 26 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name at top of front cover and title-page. Signed by both authors on "Contents" page. Contents near fine. 20.6 x 14.2.

22776
HOLLIDAY, Les & WOOD, Dr. Elizabeth
CORAL REEFS
$15.00 AUD

Salamander Books. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 204 PP with colour illust. (drawings, maps, photos). Title page: An Indo-Pacific coral reef thronging with golden jewelfish. Half title page: A grey angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) in the Caribbean Sea. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 30.5 x 22. 0861014634

A global view by a diver and aquarist. Form and function of coral polyps, communities of life forms sustained... Discovery of the reefs of the world (Caribbean, Maldives, Red Sea, Great Barrier Reef of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands).

30050
HONAN, William H.
VISIONS OF INFAMY, The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans that Led to Pearl Harbor
$20.00 AUD

St. Martin's Press. New York. 1991. 1st US Ed. XVI, 347 PP with 7 maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illust. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean The Highway to Japan. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing on outsided edges. Near fine. 24 x 15.2. 0312054548

The story of Hector C. Bywater, leading British Naval authority who devised the strategy used by Japan to wage the Pacific War.

17725
HOUOT, Lt. Cmdr. G.S.
FOUR YEARS OF DIVING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume CXIII, No.5, 1958)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1958. Volume CXIII, No.5, May, 1958. Contains article between P.715 and 731 with bw & colour illustrations. Soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 17.5.

Globe-eyed sharks, fish with stilts, undersea deserts, avalanches, powerful currents... Story of the French bathyscaphe pilot and his trips to the black abyss...

30414
HOWE, Leslie
THE MERCHANT SERVICE TO-DAY
$15.00 AUD

O.U.P. London. 1942. Reprint of the 1941 original. 159 PP with tables, and 10 figures, plus 23 plates with 30 b/w photos, & 1 folded chart. Fp: Queen Elizabeth leaving the Clyde and a sailing barge on the Thames. Cloth cover, decorated front cover. War economy paper. Near fine. 22 x 14.2.

Types & tonnage, propulsion, trade routes, navigation, etc.. The Merchant Service at War.

22422
IDYLL, C.P.
THE SEA AGAINST HUNGER
$10.00 AUD

Apollo Editions. New York. 1978. New & updated edition of the 1970 original. XII, (2), 222 PP with bw illust. (figures, maps, photos...). Pict. card cover (rubbed). Light insect damage on half title page, o/wise very good. 22.8 x 15.2. 0815204221

Food production in the sea, harvest of plankton & seaweed...

22658
IRELAND Bernard
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER
$10.00 AUD

Marshall Cavendish. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 168 PP profusely illustrated with b/w & colour photos. Fp: HMS Courageous. FEP: HMS Furious. REP: USS Independence. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 29 x 22. 0856857114

30566
JOHNSON, Hildegard Binder
CARTA MARINA - World Geography in Strassburg, 1525
$15.00 AUD

Greenwood Press. Westport, Ct., USA. 1974. Reprint of the 1963 original published by University of Minnesota. (VIII), 159 PP with 1 map Strassburg and the Rhine Valley, 1525, and 1 folded map in rear pocket. Title page: Portrait of Lorenz Fries. Cloth covers with a few light marks, o/wise a fine copy. Image shows title-page. 22.2 x 14.4. 0837173108

The 1525 world map by Lorenz Fries Carta Marina, on which one can see where one is in the world and where every sea, country and city is, and published by Johannes Grüninger.

30099
JONES, Cmdr. Sue & GILLETT, Ross
NAVY NEWS - 40th ANNIVERSARY
$10.00 AUD

Topmill. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. 136 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pict. card cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.5.

Chronicling the Navy News, to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication Royal Australian Navy News, since Volume No. 1, July 18, 1958.

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.

22074
KENTLEY, Eric
BOAT
$10.00 AUD

HarperCollins. Sydney. 1992. 1st Australian edition, in the Collins Eyewitness Guides series. 64 PP with colour illust. Titlespread: 12 colour photos. Half title page: Chinese Junk. Illustrated endpapers. Pict. laminated boards. Near fine. 28.7 x 22.2. 0732200881

Discover the story of boats and ships - from dugout canoes to luxury yachts and giant supertankers.

30352
KERR, John
GOING IN DEEP: A History of the Gladstone Port Authority
$35.00 AUD

Gladstone Port Authority. Gladstone, Queensland. 1988. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 1 map, 2 plans, 43 colour & 58 b/w photos. Fp: South Trees Wharf for incoming bauxite and outgoing alumina. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 18.3. 0724228187

19756
KING, Hilary
THE MARINE CHRONOMETERS OF THE BAUDIN EXPEDITION TO AUSTRALIA, 1800-1804
$20.00 AUD

Antiquarian Horology. London. 1997. Reprint of an article published in the winter 1997 issue of Antiquarian Horology. P. 508 to 521 with 7 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 17.8.

22627
KIRK, Allan A.
FAIR WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS - The Story of the Holm Shipping Company
$50.00 AUD

Reed. Wellington. 1975. 1st Ed. XV, 260 PP 260 plus 24 Pages with 86 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Neat hand-written dedicatory note on FFEP, and signed by Capt. J.F. Holm who revised and updated the text. A near fine copy. 22.1 x 14.7. 0589009346

Trading in New Zealand's coastal waters, Australia, Pacific Islands & the Antarctic.

22431
KNIGHT, Captain Frank
THE SEA CHEST, Stories of Adventures at Sea
$5.00 AUD

Platt & Munk. New York. 1964. 1st US edition (juvenile). 206 PP with 10 b/w illustrations by William Riley. Hard cover, illustrated boardsgilt device on front cover, dj. (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22.8 x 16.

Nautical stories with facts, fiction and fascinating sea lore for young readers, such as the chapter on Australian Gold and the Foreland in 1854.

10112
LAMBERT, John & ROSS, Al
ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF WORLD WAR II, Volume II: Vosper MTBs & U.S. ELCOs
$75.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1993. 1st Ed. 256 PP with tables and many b/w illust. (plans, detailed sketches & photos). Title spread: A feast of Vospers at HMS Beehive, March 1943. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 30.2 x 25. 9780851776026

The 16 different types of Vosper MTB, as well as the 70 Ft, 77 Ft and 80 Ft US Elco types. Design, construction, equipment & subsequent development. Construction lists, ...

16077
LANGMUIR, Graham E. & SOMNER, Graeme
A HISTORY OF WILLIAM SLOAN & COMPANY LTD
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 12 PP with 5 b/w illustrations (4 photos and 1 advertisement). Stapled wrappers. Near fine. 21.2 x 13.7.

Short history & fleet list.

35963
LANGMUIR, Graham E. & SOMNER, Graeme H.
WILLIAM SLOAN & CO. LTD. GLASGOW 1825 - 1968
$15.00 AUD

World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1987. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 23 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Seal of previous owner on title page. Fine. 21.2 x 13.7. 0905617428

History & fleet list.

30271
LEAVER-COOPER, Sheila
JANET FRAME'S KINGDOM BY THE SEA: OAMARU
$20.00 AUD

Lincoln University Press. Canterbury, N.Z. 1997. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 2 plans and 75 b/w photos. Pict. card cover. Fine. Oblong: 19 x 25. 090904905X

Description of the community and harbour of Oamaru, East Coast of South Island, by Janet Frame, one of the most important writers of New Zealand.

22763
LEGGET, Robert
RIDEAU WATERWAY
$10.00 AUD

University of Toronto Press. Toronto. 1955. 1st Ed. XIV, 249 PP with 6 figures (5 plans) and tables, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w illust. Title page: vignette on locks. Eps: map and profile of the Rideau Waterway. Cloth cover. Name previous owner on front endpaper, water stain on lower corner of front and rear cover. Very good. 23.6 x 15.5

Canal between Ottawa and Kingston on Lake Ontario, Canada.

22418
LEIP, Hans
THE GULF STREAM STORY
$10.00 AUD

Jarrolds. London. 1957. 1st English edition translated from the German original Der Gross Fluss Im Meer. 223 PP with 5 maps, plus 16 pages with 22 bw illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.7 x 14.

Story of the Gulf Stream, and history of both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean.

30798
LEVITT, Michael & LLOYD, Barbara
UPSET: Australia Wins the America's Cup
$5.00 AUD

Hodder and Stoughton. Sydney. 1984. 1st Australian edition of the 1983 US original. (8), 212 PP with 7 diagrams, plus 16 pages with 24 colour photos by Dan Nerney. Pictorial soft covers a little rubbed around edges. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 23 x 15.3. 0340355808

22829
LEWIS, Glen
A HISTORY OF THE PORTS OF QUEENSLAND - A Study in Economic Nationalism
$15.00 AUD

University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1973. 1st Ed. XVIII, 341 PP with 14 tables, plus 4 pages with 13 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. (rubbed). Very good. 23.3 x 15.5. 0702208124

The first major study of Queensland's economic history covering port development, shipping services and economic growth...

15855
LINGWOOD, John & GRAY, Leonard
STEPHENS, SUTTON LIMITED
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1983. 1st Ed. Monograph No.8. 68 PP with b/w photos. Card covers. Fine. 21 x 15. 0905617274

30172
LOBEGEIGER, Ross & BURKE, John (editors)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE POND MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
$10.00 AUD

Brisbane. 1996. Department of Primary Industries. 1st Ed. VI, 45 PP with tables and figures. Illust. soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0724266798

Workshop held at the Bribie Island Aquaculture Research Centre 23 July 1996. Marine farming questions, freshwater pond farming questions... Prawn feed, water quality and the fish pond.

22844
LOCKWOOD, Douglas
THE FRONT DOOR: Darwin 1869-1969
$10.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1968. 1st Ed. (14), 288 PP, plus 20 pages with 42 bw illust. FEP: Plan of Goyder's original Darwin layout. REP: Plan of modern Darwin (1968). Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Ageing of front endpaper, signature previous owner on title page, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.

19201
LONEY, Jack
AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS, Volume 4: 1901-1986
$25.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1987. 1st Ed. 284 PP with numerous b/w illust., sketches & map. FEP: The four-masted bark Strathgryfe stranded on Yanakie Beach. REP: Stranded Falls of Halladale. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise contents near fine. 24 x 17.6. 909244316

19341
LONEY, Jack
WRECKS IN THE RIP AND PORT PHILLIP BAY
$10.00 AUD

Marine History Publications. Geelong. 1978?. Combined edition. 73 PP, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers soiled. Very good. 19 x 15.

Combined issue of his previous works: "Wrecks in "The Rip", and "Wrecks in Port Phillip Bay"

22268
MACINNIS, Joseph (editor)
SAVING THE OCEANS
$35.00 AUD

Key Porter Books. Toronto, Canada. 1992. 1st Ed. 180 PP with 3 colour figures (2 maps of the world, 1 distribution of marine life in the oceans), and over 120 colour photos. Fp: Red Sea coral reef. Half title page: Clownfish (amphiprion) protected by the tentacles of a sea anemone. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 28.5 x 30. 1550134167

The planet's lifebelt by T.R. Parsons - The twilight zone by Sylvia Earle - Protecting the Oceans by Michael Donoghue... Appendices: Endangered and threatened marine animals, marine environmental organizations, glossary.

19486
MacKENZIE, Margaret E.
SHIPWRECKS, Being the Historical Account of Shipwrecks along the Victorian Coast from Cape Otway to Port Fairy 1836-1914
$10.00 AUD

National Press. Melbourne. 1964. 3rd Ed. 136 PP, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illust. including 1 map on double-page. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.

From the Mahogany Ship to the Falls of Halladale.

19503
MACLELLAN, Nic & CHESNEAUX, Jean
AFTER MORUROA, France in the South Pacific
$10.00 AUD

Ocean Press. Melbourne. 1998. 1st Ed. (8), 280 PP with 4 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.7. 1876175052

Reasons for the presence of France in the Pacific. Future for the three French overseas territories: New Caledonia/Kanaky, Wallis & Futuna, and French Polynesia/Te Ao Maohi.

15896
MALLETT, Alan S.
IDYLL OF THE KINGS 1889-1979: The story of the King Line its ships and the men who sailed and managed them
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1980. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 21 x 15. 090561710X

Story of the King Line, its ships and the men who sailed and managed them.

15807
MARCHANT, Leslie R.
AN ISLAND UNTO ITSELF: William Dampier and New Holland
$30.00 AUD

Hesperian Press. Perth. 1988. 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 208 PP with 5 graphs, 5 maps & 40 pages with b/w illustrations. Fp: Cygnet crew and aborigines filling water barrels in New Holland in 1688. Errata slip and folded table loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.7 x 14.5. 085905120X

A comprehensive account of Dampier's scientific explorations in New Holland. 1688 on board the Cygnet, 1689 on board the Roebuck, ...

30611
MARTIN, Dr. Anthony R. (editor)
WHALES AND DOLPHINS
$20.00 AUD

Salamander Book / Bedford Editions. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 72 location maps, and colour illust. (photos and paintings by Bruce Pearson & David Thompson). Illustrated title spread and endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 30.5 x 22.2. 1856000001

30123
MARX, Jenifer
PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS OF THE CARIBBEAN
$30.00 AUD

Krieger Publishing. Malabar, Fl., USA. 1992. 1st Ed. X, 310 PP with 10 head and tail pieces. Eps: 13 portraits of pirates and privateers. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.4 x 15.8. 0894644831

French Corsairs on the Spanish Lake - Elizabeth's Sea Dogs (Cavendish, Drake...) - Buccaneers, the Brethren of the Coast...

30091
MASON, A. E. W.
THE LIFE OF FRANCIS DRAKE
$10.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1941. 1st Ed. IX, 436 PP, plus 2 b/w plates and 1 large folded chart of Cadiz Harbour (by William Borough). Fp: Sir Francis Drake. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Browning of paper, o/wise fine. 23 x 15.5.

30087
MASON, John
THE HISTORY OF TRINITY HOUSE OF LEITH
$15.00 AUD

McKenzie Vincent & Co. Glasgow. 1957. 1st Ed. (16 adv.), IX, 194 PP, (16 adv.), plus 2 colour and 10 bw plates. Fp: Admiral Duncan, Viscount of Camperdown. Cloth cover, gilt crest on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.5.

Account of the activities of the Incorporation of the Master and Assistants of Trinity House of Leith: For poor, aged and infirm mariners - For the safety of ships at sea - For the convenience of ships...

17223
MASTERS, David
S.O.S. A BOOK OF SEA ADVENTURE
$15.00 AUD

Eyre and Spottiswoode. London. 1937. Reprint of the 1933 original. (10), 340 PP plus 14 plates with 15 b/w photos. Fp: Vice-Admiral Evans. Cloth cover has light speckling and spine is quite sunned. Light foxing, mostly around page margins, paper is ageing somewhat but still a very clean copy internally with just a small handwritten note dated 1941 on FFEP. 22.3 x 14.5.

Fire at sea, shipwreck, exploding volcano.

30158
MCGOWAN, A. P. (editor)
THE JACOBEAN COMMISSIONS OF ENQUIRY 1608 and 1618
$10.00 AUD

Navy Records Society. London. 1971. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 116. XXVII, 319 PP, (30 adv. & members), plus 3 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of King James I, 1603-1625. Navy blue buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.5.

Scandal caused by embezzlement and other forms of corruption following the decision to maintain a standing force of ships. Graft in the dockyards, use of Navy ships for commercial ventures...

22439
McMURTRIE, Francis E. (editor)
JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1944/5
$90.00 AUD

David & Charles Reprints. Nawton Abbot. 1971. Reprint of the 1944 original edition. (4), 79 adv., XXX, 36 addenda, 635 PP with b/w illust. (photographs, plans, profiles and silhouettes, flags & uniforms). Fp: H.M.S. Swiftsure. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Faint old tape marks on endpapers and a vertical crease on the half-title page, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 21.3 x 31.5. 0715353810

War loss section: P.544 to 635, and 32 to 35 (addenda).

21466
McNAB, Robert
THE OLD WHALING DAYS - A History of Southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840
$20.00 AUD

Golden Press. Auckland. 1975. Reprint of the 1913 original, in the New Zealand Classics series. XIII, 508 PP. Hard cover, dj. Paper ageing around edges, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.5. 0855584327

The competition between French, American and British whalers for the sperm whale.

21903
MEGAW, J. V. S. (editor)
EMPLOY'D AS A DISCOVERER - Papers Presented at the Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Historical Symposium, Sutherland Shire, 1-3 May, 1970
$15.00 AUD

A.H. & A.W. Reed. Sydney. 1971. 1st edition. 142 PP with 1 figure, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illust. Errata slip loosely inserted. Half-title page: vignette with Coat-of-Arms (James Cook's widow and descendants). FEP: Sketch plan of Botany Bay. REP: Plan of the entrance of Endeavour River. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14. 0589071009

Cook: The Navigator by J.C. Beaglehole - Cook and the Aborigines, by J.V.S. Megaw ....

22757
MONTGOMERY, Michael
WHO SANK THE SYDNEY?
$15.00 AUD

Cassell. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. (12), 242 PP with 5 maps, 7 figures, and 18 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket with a small tear. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Very good. 22 x 15. 0726954764

A controversial approach to the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, lost with all hands, whereas the German "Kormoran" had most of her crew saved.

15558
MORTIMER, Lt. George
OBSERVATIONS AND REMARKS MADE DURING A VOYAGE
$30.00 AUD

Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1988. Facsimile reprint of the 1791 original in a limited edition of 220 numbered copies (No.79). VIII, (8), 71 PP, (7). Fp: Facsimile of original title. FEP: Maria Is. REP: Amsterdam Island. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 26 x 18. 0877704562

A voyage made of the brig Mercury to Teneriffe, Amsterdam Island, Maria Island near Van Diemen's Land, Tahiti ... in 1789.

30788
MUIR, Tom (editor)
DOWNUNDER REVISITED - AUSTRALIA AND ITS DEFENCE POLICY (in Military Technology, Volume XIII)
$5.00 AUD

Military Technology. Bonn, Germany. 1989. Volume XIII, Issue 11, 1989. Special report, pages 50 to 96 with b/w and colour photos. Pict. soft cover (HMAS Hobart leading Darwin and Sydney past Middle Head). Fine. 28.5 x 21.

Australia believes it cannot be secure in an insecure region by Kim Beazley. Royal Australian Navy programmes (ANZAC Ship Project, New Submarine Construction...).

30295
MURRAY, Peter
THE VAGABOND FLEET - A Chronicle of the North Pacific Sealing Schooner Trade
$20.00 AUD

Sono Nis Press. Victoria, B.C., Canada. 1988. 1st Ed. 260 PP with 8 tail pieces, plus 40 pages with 11 colour plates by Cmdr. Maurice Chadwick and 67 b/w photos. Fp: Markland entering Clayoquot Sound, 1906. Eps: Map showing the annual migration of the fur seals of Alaska. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.4 x 16. 1550390007

Hunting the northern fur seal.

30775
NELSON, W. Ripley
THE NANTUCKET WHALING MUSEUM
$10.00 AUD

Nantucket Historical Association. Nantucket, Mass., USA. 1959. July 1959 revised edition from the 1955 original, Bulletin No. 2, Volume 4. 42 PP with 18 b/w photos. Soft cover (staples removed). Very good. 22.8 x 15.2.

30983
NIGHTINGALE, Tony
THE PACIFIC FORUM LINE - A commitment to regional shipping
$5.00 AUD

Clerestory Press. Christchurch, NZ. 1998. 1st soft cover edition. XVIII, 142 with 1 organigram, 3 maps, 5 ship's profiles and 64 b/w illust., plus 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0958370656

Published to mark PFL's first twenty years of regular and efficient shipping to the Pacific Island Nations.

30984
NIGHTINGALE, Tony
THE PACIFIC FORUM LINE - A commitment to regional shipping
$10.00 AUD

Clerestory Press. Christchurch, N.Z. 1998. 1st Ed. XVIII, 142 PP with 1 diagram, 3 maps, 5 ship's profiles and 64 b/w illustrations, plus 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Eps: Map of Pacific Forum Line world, We run the Pacific regularly. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0958370648

Published to mark PFL's first twenty years of regular and efficient shipping to the Pacific Island Nations.

22855
NOBLE, Captain John
TALL SHIPS, The Golden Age of Sail
$15.00 AUD

Viking O'Neil / Penguin. Melbourne. 1988. Paperback reprint of the 1985 original "The Golden Age of Sail of Australia and New Zealand". X, 118 PP with b/w illust. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 24.7 x 25. 0670901067

Collection of maritime photographs capturing the glorious and romantic days when sailors relied on wind and currents.

30064
NORFOLK, Lawrence
THE POPE'S RHINOCEROS
$10.00 AUD

Sinclair-Stevenson. London. 1996. 1st UK Ed. (8), 608 PP. Illustrated card cover. Fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 1856194132

Wreck of the Portuguese Nossa Senhora da Ajuda, off the coast of Italy with a rhinoceros from the Indian Kingdom of Gujarat. Reasons behind such an odd gift to Pope Leo X, initiated on the Island of Usedom in the Baltic. Historical novel.

22028
PARSONS, Ronald
PORT LINCOLN SHIPPING, Whalers, disasters, and the sea link with Adelaide
$15.00 AUD

Ronald Parsons. Magill, S.A. 1981. 1st Ed. III, 73 PP, plus 6 pages with 1 sketch and 6 b/w photos. Stapled typescript monograph. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. Oblong: 15.8 x 20.6. 0909418195

Port Lincoln: early history, whaling, advent of steam, shipwrecks and casualties.

15449
PETROFF, Peter & FERGUSON, John (editors)
SAILING ENDEAVOUR, Including Helpful Extracts from the Journal of James Cook, Navigator
$5.00 AUD

Driza-Bone / Maritime Heritage Press. Sydney. 1994. 1st edition, with introduction by Bruce Stannard. 80 PP with 2 plans & 68 b/w photos by Rod Mcleod. Pictorial soft covers. Neear fine. 21 x 14.8. 1875684050

Pictorial introduction to the world of 18th century square-rigged sailing vessels. Photos taken on the replica of the Endeavour launched in Fremantle in 1994.

30279
PHILLIPS, Peter
RIVER BOAT DAYS on the Murray, Darling, Murrumbidgee
$25.00 AUD

Lansdowne. Melbourne. 1972. 1st edition. 132 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Covers with light wear and dust jacket has a repaired tear on rear and is in a protective sleeve. Signature of previous ower on FFEP, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 25.5 x 29.5. 701800461

Paddle wheelers, steam wheelers, their builders, the wool trade, snagging boats, fishing boats, etc...

22279
PICKARD, George L.
DESCRIPTIVE PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY: An Introduction
$5.00 AUD

Pergamon Press. Oxford. 1979. 3rd edition of the 1964 original. IX, 233 PP with 31 figures (maps, graphs, diagrams), plus 4 pages with 9 b/w photos. Illustrated soft covers. Name of previous owner on top of title page. Very good. 21 x 15. 0080238254

Physical properties of Sea-Water. Water, Salt and Heat Budgets of the Oceans. Coastal Oceanography...

73756
PIVER, Arthur
TRANS-ATLANTIC TRIMARAN
$40.00 AUD

Underwriter's Press. San Francisco. 1961. 2nd printing. Foreword by Dr. John Morwood, AYRS. (4), 152, 30 (appendix) PP with b/w illustrations: 18 photos & 7 drawings). Fp: Landfall at the Azores. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (inside dust jacket with plans of trimarans designed by Arthur Piver). Near fine. 20.2 x 13.2.

19371
POLDEN, Richard
ENDEAVOUR, A Photographic Journey
$15.00 AUD

Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Fremantle, W.A. 1998. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 1 map and 128 colour photos. Fp: Endeavour sailing in the sunset. Pict. card cover. Near fine. Oblong: 24 x 26. 1863682279

The voyage of Endeavour, 16 October 1996 to 25 March 1997, Fremantle to London via : Rodrigues, Mauritius, La Reunion, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Capetown, St Helena, Ascension, Tenerife, Madeira and Alderney.

73533
POOLMAN, Kenneth
THE KELLY
$30.00 AUD

William Kimber. London. 1954. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. XII, 13-219, (5 adv.) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 18 bw photos. Fp: "More Like a Submarine", H.M.S. Kelly returning to harbour after being torpedoed in the North Sea. Eps: Map of the Mediterranean Sea. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has part of the spine missing and is in a protective sleeve. Foxing on prelims and on outside page edges, o/wise contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.

The record of HMS Kelly by her only captain. A destroyer which fought on many fronts: North Sea, Norwegian waters, Malta, then Crete where she was sunk on 23rd May 1941.

19532
PRESTON, Antony
STRIKE CRAFT
$10.00 AUD

Bison Books. London. 1989. Reprint of the 1st Ed. 64 PP with bw and colour photos. Title spread: PT Boat 333. Half title page: Soviet Osa Type missile boats in line. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 29 x 22.2. 0861240685

30155
ROSE, Susan (editor)
THE NAVY OF THE LANCASTRIAN KINGS. Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427
$15.00 AUD

Navy Records Society. London. 1982. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 123. (XIV), 288, (6) PP. Fp: Folio No. 42 of the Accounts and Inventories of William Soper. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. Image shows title-page & frontispiece. 23 x 15.5. 0049421751

Accounts by the clerk of the King's ships covering the period during which the Navy built up by Henry V for the French war was largely dispersed by sale following his death.

30104
ROWSE, A. L.
SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE OF THE 'REVENGE'
$10.00 AUD

Jonathan Cape. London. 1977. Reissue of the 1937 original. 367 PP with 1 map (Island of Flores, Azores). Cloth cover, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 22.4 x 14. 0224013564

Legendary hero of Elizabethan warfare: Drake and Raleigh, the Armada, First Virginia voyage... Fight of the 'Revenge' off Flores Islands in the Azores..

30177
SEARLE, Pauline
DAWN OVER OMAN
$15.00 AUD

George Allen & Unwin. London. 1979. Revised and re-set edition of the 1975 original. XXII, 146 PP with 1 map, 12 head pieces by Michael Beeching and 41 b/w illust. Cloth cover, dj. Short tears on front endpaper and half title page, o/wise very good. 24 x 16. 0049150235

History and development.

22280
[SHIPPING]
RUDDER'S GUIDE To Australian Customs, Shipping, Transport, Banking and Trade
$15.00 AUD

Rudder's Limited. Sydney. c. 1935. 9th edition. 76 PP with 2 maps and tables. Illustrated card cover, cloth spine. P.60 to 72: texts in Chinese script, French, Italian and German. Very good. 21.4 x 14.4.

Useful information regarding importation of goods... maritime rates and charges...

30190
SIMMONS, Joe J., III
THOSE VULGAR TUBES: External Sanitary Accommodations aboard European Ships of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries
$15.00 AUD

Chatham Publishing & Texas A&M University Press. London. 1998. 2nd edition of the 1991 original, No. 1 in the Studies in Nautical Archaeology series. XII, 99 PP with 41 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 1861760434

10853
SIMPER, Robert
SAIL - The Surviving Tradition
$10.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 161 PP with 142 b/w illust. (3 engravings, 139 photos). Fp: Aloft on the Barque Passat. Half-title page: Kruzenstern & Peking. FEP: The wooden kotter Wilhelmina, the steel klipper Aja and the steel tjalk Anna Roosje. REP: On board the barque Marques approaching Harwich. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 19. 0851773176

The Golden Age of sail - Training under sail... Working sail.

19470
SIMPSON, Colin & ANGELOGLOU, Christopher
SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER - VOYAGE OF THE CENTURY
$5.00 AUD

Sphere Books. London. 1967. 1st edition by Sphere Books. 112 PP with 1 world map, 2 plans of Gipsy Moth IV, 16 colour & 66 b/w photos. Paperback (rubbed at hinges). Very good. 17.8 x 10.7.

18236
SMITH, Graham
KING'S CUTTERS - The Revenue Service and the War against Smuggling
$10.00 AUD

London. 1983. Conway. 1st Ed. 190 PP with b/w illust. (paintings, photos, plans,...). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 24.5 x 19. 0851772919

The struggle against the law-breakers, the politicians, the Navy... Evolution of type of contraband and development of the vessels from small wooden boats to the fast craft of today.

15995
SOMNER, Graeme
BLAND GIBRALTAR
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1981. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w photos throughout. Inside front cover: New Mole, Gibraltar, 1866. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 15. 0905617169

History & fleet list.

16100
SOMNER, Graeme
BEN LINE, Fleet List and Short History, plus Supplement
$15.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1980, 1985. Fleet List: 120 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Benavon & City of Edinburgh at Southampton. Supplement of April 1985: 12 PP with 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 15. 0905617118

Fleet list and short history, plus separate supplement of 1985.

16108
SOMNER, Graeme
BEN LINE - Supplement
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1985. 12 PP with b/w photos. Stapled wrappers. Very good. 21 x 14.8.

Supplement to the 1980 fleet list and short history.

16109
SOMNER, Graeme
BEN LINE, Fleet List and Short History
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 60 PP with 1 map and 53 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Benwyvis (IV). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21.5 x 14.

Part I - Sailing Vessels; Part II - Powered Vessels; Part III - Vessels managed for the British Government.

15856
SPALDIN, B.G. & APPLEYARD, H.S.
THE WEST HARTLEPOOL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED and TALISMAN TRAWLERS LIMITED
$10.00 AUD

World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1980. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w photos throughout. Fp: Derwenthall and Hendonhall. Soft cover (house flag on front cover). Fine. 21.5 x 14. 0905617134

History & fleet details.

22853
STEELE, J. G.
THE BRISBANE RIVER
$20.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1976. 1st Ed., in the Pageant of Australia series. 63 PP with 1 graph, 3 plans & 31 bw illust., plus 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Fp: Coal wharves at South Brisbane, 31 July 1886. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 24.2 x 18.3. 0851799124

Shipping, bridges, industries... Brisbane River floods.

30101
STENMARK, Marea
SIR DAVID MARTIN, A Man of Courage and Dedication
$15.00 AUD

Simon & Schuster. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed., foreword by Sir Ninian Stephen. XIV, 178 PP with headpieces (Coat of Arms: Sans Tache) and 6 bw illust, plus 16 pages with 31 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0731805607

Joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1947, Admiral, then Governor of New South Wales.

30384
STEVENS, David (editor)
MARITIME POWER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: The Australian Experience
$15.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. XXI, 329 PP with 1 figure, 7 maps and 39 b/w photos. P. 276 to 290: Chronology of Australasian maritime operations 1901-97. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 1864487364

17 papers in an expanded and enhanced form, presented at a conference in Canberra, July 1997. Australasia and Germany before 1914 - HMAS Adelaide and the punitive expedition to Malaita in 1927 - HMAS Adelaide in Noumea in 1940 ...

22790
STONE, Scott C.S.
PEARL HARBOR, The Way It Was - December 7, 1941
$10.00 AUD

Island Heritage. Norfolk Island. 1977. Special edition. 71 PP with bw and colour illust. (map, plans, photos...). Title page: Arizona memorial. Pict. card cover. Fine. 25.3 x 17.8.

22593
STREATER, R.A., GREENMAN, Corps Cdr. D.G. & TALBOT-BOOTH, Lt. Cdr. E.C. (editors)
TALBOT-BOOTH'S MERCHANT SHIPS, Volume 2
$15.00 AUD

Marinart/Kogan Page. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 208 PP with over 1400 line drawings in text. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket has a few nicks and closed tears. Stamp of previous owner on inside front cover, o/wise contents near fine. 30.2 x 21.6. 0850381363

Covers vessels with engines aft and with either bridges amidships or right forward. Over 2600 ships with over 1400 drawings at (scale: 200' to 1).

72302
TALBOT, Frank & STEENE, Roger (editor)
READER'S DIGEST BOOK OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
$20.00 AUD

Reader's Digest Services. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. 384 PP with 2 maps, over 800 colour photos. Fp: Acropora with blue damselfish. Title page: Male blue-headed wrasse. Half title page: Sun rising over the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Eps: Fungia, a mushroom coral. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 26.3 x 26.3. 0949819417

22781
TALBOT-BOOTH, E.C. & SARGENT, E.B.R.(Editors)
MERCHANT SHIPS 1943
$150.00 AUD

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. 1943. 44 PP (adverts), followed by 816 pages with b/w illust. throughout. Orig. navy blue cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Signs of speckling on covers, top and bottom of sunned spine are frayed, small piece of front hinge missing, o/wise this scarce edition is internally very good. Oblong: 22.8 x 32.

With 1 map, 900 half-tone photos, 2,400 line drawings of ships, 800 line drawings of House Flags and 1,520 line drawings of funnels for recognition. (All illustrations are in b/w: war necessity). 9 pages of German, Italian and Japanese recognition silhouettes of planes, and 10 bw photos with caption Sea Power saves the world).

30325
TASMAN, Abel Janszoon
THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA (24 November 1642)
$25.00 AUD

Government Printer. Hobart. 1985. Facsimile reprint of the 1942 original, in a limited edition of 3000 copies. (8), 43, (8) PP with 2 colour and 2 b/w illust., plus 3 plates (facsimile of Tasman's journal entry for December 1642 and 2 folded maps). Title page: vignette in colour of the Flag of the state of Tasmania. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 25.8 x 18.8. 0724622241

Extracts from the Journal of Abel Janszoon Tasman (from translation of the original manuscript in the Colonial Archives at The Hague, by Professor J.E. Heeres) and facsimiles of original maps.

30105
TERRAINE, John
TRAFALGAR, Eye-witness accounts compiled by John Westwood
$5.00 AUD

Wordsworth Editions. London. 1998. Paperback edition of the 1976 original, in the Wordsworth Military Library series. 205 PP, (3 Index), (1 source) with many b/w illust. (plans, maps, paintings, ..), plus 1 map of West Indies and Mediterranean Sea, and 1 battle plan showing the position of the combined forces of France and Spain. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 24.5 x 19. 1853266868

England's war at sea against Napoleon, culminating with his defeat at Trafalgar.

30257
TERWEN, J. L.
HET KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN voorgesteld in eene reeks vab naar de natuur geteekende schilderachtige gezigten
$25.00 AUD

Europese Bibliotheek. Zaltbommel, Netherlands. 1965. Reprint of the 1860 original. No pagination : (VIII), 136 PP (recto only) with 136 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dutch text. Near fine. Oblong: 19.8 x 27.4.

Engravings on the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 19th century, with many coatal views (canals, lakes and harbours).

22749
THOMAS, David
ROYAL ADMIRALS 1327-1981
$15.00 AUD

André Deutsch. London. 1982. 1st Ed. (6), 200, (6 Index) PP with b/w illust., plus 8 pages with 12 colour illust. Eps: Genealogy tree of the Royal Admirals. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 17. 023397427X

The relationship over 700 years between the Royal Navy and English royalty.

14793
THOMAS, Stephen D.
THE LAST NAVIGATOR
$15.00 AUD

Hutchinson / A Paul Sidey Book. London. 1987. 1st Ed. (12), 308 PP with 1 map on double pages and 18 sketch-maps and drawings, plus 8 pages with 14 colour photos. Title spread: stars. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Occasional foxing spots, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0091726131

Part adventure story, part traveller's tale and serious scientific inquiry.

19368
TOGHILL, Jeff
TROPIC COAST - The Coastal Playgrounds of Queensland
$10.00 AUD

Sydney. 1982. Reed. 1st Ed. 88 PP with maps & bw photos, plus 8 PP with 13 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Top corner of rear endpaper clipped, o/wise near fine. 26.8 x 19. 0589503340

30796
TOGHILL, Jeff
AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES GUIDE TO THE AMERICA'S CUP - Perth 1986/87
$5.00 AUD

Reed. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.

The Cup races explained - The challengers: the boats, the tactics...

21957
TOOHEY, John
CAPTAIN BLIGH'S PORTABLE NIGHTMARE
$5.00 AUD

Duffy & Snellgrove. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. 216 PP with 1 plan of the Bounty launch, 1 chart, 3 maps and 4 b/w illust. Fp: Portrait of Captain Bligh. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.7 x 13. 1875989242

21279
TWYNING, John P. & BAYS, Peter
WRECK OF THE MINERVA
$70.00 AUD

Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1996. Facsimile reprints of two separate books: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning among South Sea Islands, 2nd edition of the 1850 original, and Wreck of the Minerva, 1850. 108 PP, (4), 109-229, (8 Index), 1 colophon with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: Facsimile of title-page Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 26 x 18.5. 0877705747

The wreck in September 1829 on Nicholson's Reef. Two narratives by one of the boatsteerers and the sailing master of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage. Twyning lived for 20 years in the Islands and returned to England after the death of his wife from Horn Island (Futuna). Only two copies of the original are known to be held in Australia.

30253
VAN DER LITH, P. A.
NEDERLANDSCH OOST-INDIË, beschreven en afgebeeld voor het Nederlandsche Volk (in two volumes)
$150.00 AUD

E. J. Brill. Leiden. 1893 & 1894. 1st Ed. Volume I: VIII, 548 PP, plus 15 b/w plates and 1 folded map of Groot-Atjeh (repaired). Fp: Ronggengs (in colour). Volume II: VIII, 544 PP, plus 9 b/w plates and 6 colour plates. Fp: Wajang-Poppen en maskers (in colour). Marbled endpapers. Half bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. Both rear endpapers starting at gutters, small piece missing to vignette with title on spine of Volume I, top of back hinge of Volume II cracked on 2 cm. Dutch text. Occasional light foxing. A very good clean set of a scarce item. 25 x 18.

Story of the Netherlands East Indies told for the Dutch people. Volume I: The Land. Volume II: Brief history of Dutch Indonesia.

30204
VAN KRIEKEN, G. S.
Dr. CORNELIS PIJNACKER, Historysch verhael van den steden Thunes, Algiers ende andere steden in Barbarien gelegen
$30.00 AUD

Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1975. 1st Ed. Volume LXXV in De Linschoten-Vereeniging series. X, 206 PP, plus 7 b/w plates. Fp: Dr. Cornelis Pijnacker. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. Dutch text. 25 x 16.5. 9024717914

22793
VEGO, Milan
SOVIET NAVY TODAY
$5.00 AUD

Arms and Armour Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed., No. 6 in the Warships Illustrated series. 68 PP with 8 colour and 112 bw photos. Title spread: A Kresta I Class guided missile cruiser. Pict. soft cover (Aircraft Carrier Minsk). Very good. 24.6 x 18.6. 0853687633

22417
VERNEY, Peter
ANIMALS IN PERIL, Man's War Against Wildlife
$10.00 AUD

Brigham Young University Press. Prove, Utah, USA. 1979. 1st US Ed. 186 PP with bw illust. Title spread: Tiger drive. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0842517146

The Great Whale hunt...

13786
VICTOR, Frances Fuller
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF THE PACIFIC
$5.00 AUD

Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1994. Reprint of the 1901 edition by the Oregon Historical Quarterly. 24 PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0877705453

Tales of ocean life and trade to the Columbia River and the Oregon coast by Captain Francis A. Lemont while serving on board the Owyhee, the Sultana and the May Dacre.

14399
WALKER, Peter Benson (editor)
THE LOG OF THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND BY CAPTAIN JAMES KELLY 1814-1815 and Other Accounts of Early Exploration of the West and North West Coast of Tasmania taken from Tasmanian Parliamentary Papers
$30.00 AUD

Caudell, A.B., Government Printer. Hobart. 1986. 1st edition limited to 2100 copies. Preface by Robin Gray, Premier of Tasmania. X, 58 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 1 large folded map (in colour) of North-West quarter of Van Diemen's Land. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Three newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Near fine. 26 x 18.7. 0724622802

Published for "Tasmania Day", 24th November, 1986.

19340
WARNER, Oliver
NELSON
$10.00 AUD

Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Book Club Associates. London. 1975. 1st Ed., in the Great Lives series. 231 PP with 100 b/w & 16 colour plates. Fp: Nelson by Leonardo Guzzardi. Eps: The Victory rakes the Spanish at Trafalgar. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.5 x 18.

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

30013
WHALL, W. B. (editor)
SEA SONGS AND SHANTIES
$20.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1948. Reprint of the 1927 (6th) enlarged edition (original of 1910). XX, (1), 154 PP with musical scores harmonised by R.H. Whall and Ernest Reeves and 40 b/w illust. (photos, drawings, tail pieces). Fp: Tea Clipper Cutty Sark. Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped). Small pieces missing from the dust jacket, and corresponding discoloured marks on cloth cover. Occasional foxing. Very good copy. 24.3 x 18.

15895
WORLD SHIP SOCIETY
REDERIAKTIESELSKABET DANNEBROG 1883-1973
$5.00 AUD

World Ship Society. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 3 colour illustrations and 133 b/w photos. Inside back cover House Flag & Bow Mark (in colour). Illustrated soft covers (a little rubbed). Very good. 23 x 16.5.

Brief history & details of the fleet.

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.

21419
WYNDETTE, Olive
ISLANDS OF DESTINY, A History of Hawaii
$15.00 AUD

Charles E. Tuttle Co. Rutland, Vt., USA. 1968. 1st printing. XIV, 296 PP, plus 36 pages with 20 bw plates. Fp: Coconut palms. Eps: Map of the Hawaiian Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. (price clipped). Fine. 24 x 16.

74186
WYNN, Kenneth
U-BOAT OPERATIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Volume 2: Career Histories, U511-UIT25
$70.00 AUD

Caxton Editions. London. 2003. Reprint of 1998 1st Ed. (VI), 312 PP with 9 sketch-maps. Laminated boards, dust jacket. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 1840675268

Career histories and appendices with: U-Boat commanders, U-Boat groups, Allied warship and merchant ships sunk, damaged or attacked.

30757
YASSO, Warren E.
OCEANOGRAPHY - A Study of Inner Space
$30.00 AUD

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. New York. 1965. 1st Ed., in the Holt Library of Science series. 176 PP with tables and 59 figures (graphs, maps, sketches and 37 b/w photos). Hard cover, dj. Very good. 21 x 14. 0030447356

Chemistry of the sea - Oceanic circulation - Marine biology... Research submersibles.