18661 ANDREWS, Graeme FIGHTING SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
$5.00 AUD
Regency House. Sydney. 1973. Revised and updated edition of the 1971 Australasian Navies. 64 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 28 x 22.
Not only the ships, also missiles & aircrafts as well as the Australian Army's water transport squadrons.
Greenwich House. New York. 1983. Reprint of the 1977 US edition. 336 PP with over 1000 b/w & colour drawings. Glossary P. 256 to 271. Technical data P. 272 to 331. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped) Faint foxing. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.5. 0517407337
From tree trunk to nuclear-propelled ships. The great navigators and captains, their vessels...
34847 ARPS, Th., GADOW, R., HEYE H., & Ritter von NIEDERMAYER, D. KLEINE WEHRGEOGRAPHIE DES WELTMEERES - Eine Einführung in Beiträgen
$10.00 AUD
Verlag von E.G. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1938. 1st Ed., Volume 6 in the Das Meer series. VIII, 136 PP with 23 maps, plus 8 plates with 15 b/w photos. Cloth cover. Very good. German text in gothic script. 22.8 x 15.
Brief history of world power and geography (in a military perspective).
36572 AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING 1979
$10.00 AUD
A.G.P.S. / Department of Transport. Canberra. 1980. 32nd edition. (2), 68 PP with 19 tables. Pictorial card cover . Near fine. 25 x 17.5.
Data as at 30 June 1979. Trading Vessels... Trades... Passenger ferries... Ships imported & ships constructed. Dry docks and patent slipways.
42855 AVIATION & MARINE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY (in Aviation & Marine International Magazine, No. 83)
$5.00 AUD
Interconair Mediagroup. Farnborough, UK. 1981. No. 83, issue IV, 1981. Contains article pages B9 to B19 with 1 map, 5 colour and 11 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 28 x 22.5.
38269 BACH, John THE AUSTRALIA STATION - A History of the Royal Navy in the South West Pacific, 1821-1913
$75.00 AUD
NSW University Press. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. XI, 259 PP with 3 maps & 53 b/w illust. Fp: HMS Wolverene. Eps: Boundaries of Australia Station. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 18.7. 0868403938
Royal Navy in Australian waters since 1821 when it was decided to detach a ship from the East Indies Station.
37244 BACKER DIRKS, F.C. DE GOUVERNEMENTS MARINE, In Het Voormalige Nederlands-Indie 1861-1949 (in haar verschillende tijdsperioden geschets, I)
$30.00 AUD
De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1985. 1st Ed. Volume I: 336 PP with 6 maps and 198 b/w illust. Many facsimiles of documents in texts. Hard cover, dj (closed tears). Near fine. Dutch text. 30 x 23. 9022818829
The government Navy in the former Dutch East Indies between 1861 and the end of the 19th century. Various administrations and services such as hydrography and transport. Chapters on former Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
37245 BACKER DIRKS, F.C. DE GOUVERNEMENTS MARINE, In Het Voormalige Nederlands-Indie 1861-1949 (in haar verschillende tijdsperioden geschests, II)
$30.00 AUD
De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1986. 1st Ed. Volume II: 359 PP with 6 maps and 281 b/w illust. Many facsimiles of documents in texts. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Dutch text. 30 x 23. 9022818837
The government Navy in the former Dutch East Indies between 1894 and 1925. Various administrations and services such as hydrography and transport. Chapters on former Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
35130 BATHE, Dr. Rolf DER KAMPF UM DIE NORDSEE - Chronik des Luft= und Seekrieges im Winter 1939/40 und des Norwegischen Feldzuges
$15.00 AUD
Gerhard Stalling. Berlin. 1941. 1st Ed. 310, (2) PP with 7 maps, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w photos. FEP: Map of the North Sea. Hard cover. Ageing of paper, stamp of previous owner on half title page. Very good. German text in Gothic script. 20.5 x 13.
German chronicle of the war at sea and in the air during the Winter 1939/40 and the campaign in Norway.
40209 BECHERVAISE, John AUSTRALIA AND ANTARCTICA
$15.00 AUD
Nelson Doubleday. Sydney. 1967. 1st edition in Around Australia Program series. 64 PP with 2 maps, 11 drawings and 25 b/w photos, plus the 4 pages with the 29 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.
Antarctica: physical description, climate, fauna and scientific work (described by a leader of A.N.A.R.E.).
40982 BECHT, Richard BLACK MAGIC - Team New Zealand's Victorious Challenge
$10.00 AUD
Hodder Moa Beckett / TVNZ Enterprises. Auckland. 1995. 1st Ed. No pagination, 48 PP with colour photos. Inside front cover: Peter Blake. Inside back cover: Russell Coutts. Title page: Red socks. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Large format: 29.2 x 27. 1869582071
Official Team New Zealand Souvenir on: Victory at San Diego, of New Zealand yacht, Black Magic (NZL 32), captain Peter Blake over US yacht Young America.
Foreningen Sveriges Sjofarts-Museum. Stockholm. 1970. 1st Ed. 188, (4 adv.) PP with 140 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. Swedish text. 24 x 16.
Maritime history - Year book 1969-1970.
44139 BLAKE, George THE BEN LINE - The History of William Thomson and Co. of Leith and Edinburgh, and of the Ships owned and managed by them 1825-1955
$20.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson. London. 1956. 1st Ed. X, 222 PP with 1 genealogical table, plus 30 pages with 1 map and 35 b/w illustrations. Fp: Ben Lomond at Hong Kong in 1890. FEP: 3 maps (North and Baltic Seas, the Firth of Forth, South East Asia). REP: Map of the world. Cloth cover, gilt House Flag on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Previous owner's neat stamp on FFEP and half-title-page. Dust jacket has a few chips and is protected. Occasional light foxing around edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.
42371 BLYTH, Chay THEIRS IS THE GLORY
$10.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 222 PP with 4 maps, plus 24 pages with 36 b/w & 12 colour photos. Eps: The 16 yachts competing. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Short note at top of title page. Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, dust jacket rubbed and chipped, o/wise very good. 22 x 14. 034018518X
Great Britain II and the Round the World Race .
35364 BOND, Bob THE SAILING MANUAL
$10.00 AUD
Pelham Books. London. 1976. 4th impression of the 1973 original. 187 PP with 84 figures, plus 8 pages with 20 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.3 x 14.2. 0720705762
40448 BOWDEN, Tim ANTARCTICA AND BACK IN SIXTY DAYS
$10.00 AUD
Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Sydney. 1991. 1st Ed. XVI, 239 PP with 4 maps, 5 facsimile of documents and 55 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.2. 9780733301131
34946 BOËR, Friedrich ALL ABOUT A CONTAINER SHIP
$30.00 AUD
Koehlers. Herford, Germany. 1985. 1st English edition, translated from the German original by Geoffrey Penny. 112 PP with b/w illust. (plans and photos), 8 coloured silhouettes of ships and 2 colour photos. FEP: "Columbus Queensland", off New York. REP: Map of the Hamburg Sud liner shipping routes. Hard cover, house flag of Hamburg Sud in blind on front cover, dj (chipped). Signature of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 3782203658
34212 BROOKES, Mabel RIDERS OF TIME
$10.00 AUD
Macmillan of Australia. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. XIV, 217 PP with 36 illustrations by Harold Freedman, and 39 b/w photos. Fp: Building the Briars Homestead. Cloth covers a little rubbed, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise very good clean copy. 24 x 16.8.
Australia: exploration, settlement...
39725 BROWN, Theo W. YOUNG EXPLORERS OF THE SEA AND BEYOND
$10.00 AUD
World Life Books. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. (14), 226 PP with 1 figure and 5 maps, plus 48 pages with 27 colour and 55 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 15.5. 0949312002
Adventures and research with young assistants on the Great Barrier Reef, Northern Scotland, Morocco and Egypt.
38743 BROZE, Jay & FORSTER, Daniel THE SAILOR'S EDGE
$15.00 AUD
Les Ateliers du Nord. Lausanne. 1985. 1st English edition. No pagination, 192 PP with colour photographs by Daniel Forster (comments at end of book with corresponding b/w photos). Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on endpapers. Near fine. 33.3 x 24.5. 2881910009
40710 BRUNTON, Paul, EASTON, Arthur & CUMMING, Helen MATTHEW FLINDERS - The Ultimate Voyage
$10.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. 36 PP with General chart of Terra Australis or Australia at centrefold, 8 b/w and 17 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0731371151
Catalogue of an exhibition presented at the State Library of New South Wales in 2001.
36360 BYE, Erik VEIEN HAR INGEN ENDE
$10.00 AUD
J. W. Cappelens Forlag. Oslo. 1976. 1st Ed. 111 PP with 53 drawings by Karl Erik Harr. Eps: Departing Stavanger Harbour on 4th July 1825. Hard cover, dj. Foxing. Fine. Norwegian text. 26 x 21.5. 8202036054
From Norway to the prairies and forests of North America. 9 poems in English: Ballad of Norway House... Blow, silver wind... Again the road.
41384 CARSE, Robert THE TWILIGHT OF SAILING SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1965. 1st UK edition. 206, (1 errata) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Clipper ship Red Jacket. Eps: Map of the maiden passage of the California clipper ships Flying Cloud and Swordfish. Hard cover (rubbed). Bookplate of previous owner on preliminary page. Errata page tiped in on page 5. Damp mark on upper margin of front cover and first 50 pages (affecting some of the illustrations). Good copy. 28 x 21.
Final days of many types of vessels, showing the slow decadence of the sailing freighters and their ultimate economic death.
40044 CHATELLE, A. (editor) LE MUSEE DE LA MARINE
$25.00 AUD
Editions de l'Institut Maritime et Colonial. Paris. 1943. 1st Ed. 156, (4 index) PP with 104 b/w photos. Numbered copy: No. 2361. Title page: Le Lion de 84 canons construit sous Louis XVI. Pictorial soft cover wit a few chips and a small piece of back cover missing at lower corner. Signature on FFEP and half-title-page. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. Scarce. French text. 2I.2 x 19.
Marine Museum of Paris, Palais de Chaillot.
20560 CHESTERTON, D. Ridley COASTAL CARGO SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1962. 5th Ed., in the ABC series. 64 PP with b/w photos. Title page: S.S. City of Brussels. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner on title page. Very good. Small format: 15.2 x 10.2.
39655 CHRISTIE'S MARITIME AND NAVAL BATTLES
$40.00 AUD
Christie's South Kensington. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 324 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (6 folded ones), plus 1 erratum page. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 26.8 x 21.
Catalogue of a sale held in London on 9th November 2000. 668 items. Photographs: 7 of scrimshaws, 18 of Titanic and Liners ephemera, 16 of historic diving, 42 of half block models and ship models...
41253 CLARKSON, John & FENTON, Roy NEW ZEALAND AND FEDERAL LINES
$25.00 AUD
John & Marion Clarkson. London. 1995. 1st softback edition,in the Ships in Focus series. 88 PP with 194 b/w photos. Inside back cover: index. Title page: Surrey, 1929. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0952117959
42314 CONDOMINAS, Georges ESQUISSE D'UNE ETUDE SUR LA NAVIGATION ET LA PECHE AUX NOUVELLES-HEBRIDES
$50.00 AUD
IRD / Vanuatu National Cultural Centre. Nouméa. 2001. 1st Ed., in Documents Scientifiques et Techniques III 4, May 2001. 47 PP with 3 maps and 16 drawings, plus 26 b/w plates with drawings and 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. French text. 29 x 20.2.
On navigation and Fishing in Vanuatu. First edition of a manuscript written in 1947, after studying these subjects from archival documents held then by the Museum of Mankind (Musée de l'Homme) in Paris.
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
12032 COX, Bernard PADDLE STEAMERS
$5.00 AUD
Blandford Press. Poole, Dorset. 1979. 1st Ed. 223 PP with b/w illust. Title page: drawing of a shell. Eps: Paddle wheeler Mississippi, on the Mississippi. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 28 x 20.5. 0713709243
Development of the paddle steamer: traffic - transatlantic, cross-channel, rivers & lakes...
22771 D'ALPUGET, Lou LET'S GO SAILING
$5.00 AUD
Ure Smith. Sydney. 1951. 1st Ed., No. 9 in the Ure Smith Miniature series. 80 PP with 5 bw illust. and 48 bw photos. Fp: N.S. Wales Anniversary Regatta Cup. Decorated card cover a little rubbed on corners. Small dedicatory note in inside front cover, o/wise very good. 19 x 12.8.
38446 de BONNEFOUX, Pierre-Marie-Joseph & PARIS, E. LE DICTIONNAIRE DE LA MARINE A VOILE
$30.00 AUD
René Baudouin. Paris. 1980. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1856. (2), XVI, 776 PP, plus 30 pages for 7 plates with 180 figures (originally folding plates). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Watermarks on outside edges (lower and lower part of front one), obvious on the lower corner of the first and last leaves. Renewed endpapers. Very good. French text. 31.8 x 21.2.
French Maritime Dictionary with English equivalent between brackets. From Arab (Turkish sailor) to Zugyte. Pages 748 to 774: English / French vocabulary, from Aback to Youngster.
37729 de WISMES, Armel NANTES ET LE TEMPS DES NEGRIERS
$10.00 AUD
France-Empire. Paris. 1992. New edition of the 1983 original. 232, (8) PP, plus 20 pages with 31 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. French text. 24 x 14.8. 2704806942
Triangular slave trade: Nantes to Africa with manufactured goods - Africa to the Caribbean Islands with slaves - Caribbean Islands to Nantes with Sugar and by-products.
34442 DEAN, Nicholas JOHN PAUL JONES CAME AWFULLY CLOSE TO BEING A LOSER (in Smithsonian, Volume 11, No. 9)
$5.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution. Washington. 1980. Volume 11, No. 9, December 1980. 184 PP. Contains article from page 139 to 154 with 1 map and 12 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Near fine. 28.2 x 21.
The rascal-hero barely won fight with Serapis before Bonhomme Richard was sunk.
41944 DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor) THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air, Volume XX, No.3
$15.00 AUD
Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1955. Spring 1955. 58 PP with 40 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover (Bowling along in the North-East Trades Passat). Staples removed. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
Loss of the Brigantine Carnegie, by Captain Broadhouse (pages 6 to 12). Running the Easting Down, by Frank T. Bullen (pages 13 to 19). Awakening of Antarctica, by Charles W. Domville-Fife (pages 20 to 35)...
40606 EAMES, Aled, LLOYD, Lewis, PARRY, Bryn & STUBBS, John (editors / golygyddion) CYMRU A'R MOR / MARITIME WALES
$10.00 AUD
Gwynedd Archives Service. Gwynedd, Wales. 1980. Issue No. 5 (1980). 168 PP, plus 12 b/w plates. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 20.7 x 14.7.
11 texts: 4 in Welsh and 7 in English. The voyage of Albion with emigrants from Caernafon to North America... Destination Australia...
40983 EDWARDS, Hugh THE REMARKABLE DOLPHINS OF MONKEY MIA
$5.00 AUD
Author. Perth. 1989. 1st Ed. (6), 110 PP with 1 map , 1 colour photo and b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 66 colour photos. Title page (in colour): Dolphin. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.2. 0731679822
41113 EPSTEIN, Sam & Beryl THE FIRST BOOK OF THE OCEAN
$5.00 AUD
Edmund Ward. London. 1963. 1st UK edition of the 1961 original. 72 PP with 47 illustrations by Walter Buehr. Hard cover, dj (flaps trimmed). Ex library copy with 4 stamps and renewed endpapers. Very good. 22.2 x 18.5.
33170 FENTON, Roy, & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 9
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 1999. Issue Number 9. 64 PP with 3 house flags / funnels, 3 plans and 114 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 9781901703047
The two Dunedin Stars, by Captain A.W. Kinghorn. the Imperial Star class. Pilgrim Ships for Mecca, by Peter Newall (pages 57 to 64 with 19 b/w photos). ...
42205 FINDEN, William and Edward VIEWS OF PORTS AND HARBOURS, Watering Places, Fishing Villages, and other Picturesque Objects on the English Coast
$25.00 AUD
EP Publishing Limited. London. 1974. Reprint of the 1838 original Finden's Ports and Harbours of Great Britain. (2), 162 PP, plus 49 b/w plates. Half-title page: Tynemouth Priory and Lighthouse, Northumberland, by G. Balmer. Fp: Brighton, Sussex, by T. Creswick. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26.2 x 18.2. 085409976X
39455 FINNLINES FINNLINES GROUP - 1990 Annual Report
$10.00 AUD
Finnlines Group Oy Ab. Helsinki. 1991. 1st Ed. 58 PP with 1 organigram, tables, 12 colour photos, and 40 ship profiles in fleet list. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Financial report... Fleet list as of 1 March 1991.
38697 FISHER, Bob BEKEN OF COWES - THE NEW OCEAN THOROUGHBREDS
$15.00 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. Fine. 31.3 x 24. 0245544720
39161 FLETCHER, Commandant M. H. THE WRNS - A History of the Women's Royal Naval Service
$20.00 AUD
B. T. Batsford. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 152 b/w photos. Fp: Crest of W.R.N.S. Hard cover, dj. Note on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 28.3 x 22.5. 0713461853
Illustrated history of the WRNS with extensive appendices including a complete list of names from the WRNS Book of Remembrance.
38657 FORMAN, Werner & SYME, Ronald IM AUFTRAG SEINER MAJESTÄT CAPTAIN COOK
$15.00 AUD
Verlag Anton Schroll & Co. Wien & München. 1971. 1st German language edition. 176 PP with b/w text-illustrations and 102 b/w & colour plates. Fp: Statue of Captain James Cook. Cloth cover, statue of Captain Cook in blind on front cover, dj. Light foxing, o/wise book and dust jacket are near fine. German text. 28.5 x 23.5.
The Voyages of Captain Cook.
41457 FOWLER, Henry W. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BIOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO AND ADJACENT REGIONS - Bulletin 100, Volume 12
$15.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution. Washington. 1933. April 1933 edition. Bulletin 100, Volume 12, United States National Museum. VI, 465 PP with 32 figures. Soft wrappers. Browning around edges, pages largely uncut. Ex-library copy with 2 stamps on front cover. Internally very good. 24.5 x 15.5.
Fishes of the Philippines Seas and adjacent waters. Covers the fishes of the families Banjosidae, Lethrinidae, Sparidae, Girellidae, Kyphosidae, Oplegnathidae, Gerridae, Mullidae, Emmelichthyidae, Sciaenidae, Sillaginidae, Arripidae, and Enoplosidae collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross, chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters.
35149 GERMAN NAVY MARINE KALENDER DER DDR 1979
$5.00 AUD
Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Berlin. 1978. 1st Ed. Edited by Klaus KRUMSIEG. 240 PP with maps, tables and b/w & colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. German text. 20 x 14.
The Naval Calendar of the German Democratic Republic. Merchant ships under sail. The Italian Navy. The port of Rotterdam. War at sea and Vietnam...
35150 GERMAN NAVY MARINE KALENDER DER DDR 1980
$5.00 AUD
Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Berlin. 1979. 1st Ed. Edited by Klaus KRUMSIEG. 240 PP with maps, tables and b/w & colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. German text. 20 x 14.
The Naval Calendar of the German Democratic Republic. Russian seamen and Stalingrad. Sail training in Socialist countries. Operations in April 1940 against Norway...
39648 GILL, Peter & BURKE, Cecilia WHALE WATCHING IN AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND WATERS
$15.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. XII, 148 PP with location maps, b/w illustrations by Ian Faulkner and colour illustrations by Pieter Folkens. Fp (in colour): Southern right whales off Head of Bight, South Australia. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 1864364726
42825 GLIKSMAN, Alain, CHAMIER, John & BARRAULT, Jean-Michel THE GIANTS OF SAIL 1919-1939, by Beken of Cowes
$100.00 AUD
Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1969. 1st US edition of the 1968 French original Les Géants de la Voile. 188 PP with 77 b/w photos (18 on full page, 23 on double page, and 8 on double length centrefold), plus 2 folded colour plates. All photographs by Frank and Keith Beken. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (rubbed). Near fine. Scarce. 29.3 x 22.2.
With the 12-Metres and the America's Cup One Designs and the Metre Boats.
41580 GOSS, J. W. BRITISH WARSHIPS 1975
$5.00 AUD
Marinart Ltd. Deal, Kent. 1975. 1st Ed. 88 PP with tables, 5 drawings & 57 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (HMS Ark Royal). Stamp of previous owner inside front cover. Near fine. 15.3 x 10.
38125 GREEN, R. C. & CRESSWELL, M. M. (editors) SOUTHEAST SOLOMON ISLANDS CULTURAL HISTORY - A Preliminary Survey
$50.00 AUD
Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington. 1976. 1st Ed., Bulletin No. 11 of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 287 PP with 17 tables and 79 figures (maps, sketches, photos), plus 4 folded plates. Pictorial soft cover. Light wear, o/wise near fine. 24.6 x 17.5.
15 contributions. New light on the Spanish settlement of the Southeast Solomons, by Jim Allen. The history of post-Spanish European contact in the Eastern District before 1939, by Kaye C. Green...
16215 GRUBE, F. & RICHTER, G. (Editors) THE BIG BOOK OF SAILING - the Sailors, the Ships and the Sea
$15.00 AUD
Barron's. New York. 1979. 1st English edition. 309 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Large format: 34 x 26.5. 0812053249
One of the last arenas of adventure left: the sea... Very good.
16514 GUILLE, A., LABOUTE, P. & MENOU, J.L. GUIDE DES ETOILES DE MER, OURSINS & AUTRES ECHINODERMES DU LAGON DE NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE - Handbook of the sea-stars, sea-urchins and related echinoderns of New-Caledonia lagoon
$85.00 AUD
Editions ORSTOM. Paris. 1986. 1st Ed. 238 PP with b/w or colour illust. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. French text. 27.8 x 21.8. 2709907488
The Echinoderns of the largest coral reefs of the world. Foreword, Introduction and abstracts in English.
38034 H.M.S.O. MANUAL OF SEAMANSHIP 1932, Volume II (B.R. 68)
$20.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1939. Reprint of the 1932 edition. XII advertisement, IV, 357 PP with b/w figures (sketches, plans, photos & 4 plates), plus 12 pages with 9 plates and 6 folded plates. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Short tear at top of spine, very light foxing, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
Organisation, duties of officers of the watch - Towing - Life saving apparatus... Salvage operations.
21326 HAGELUND, W. A. WHALERS NO MORE - A History of Whaling on the West Coast
$10.00 AUD
Harbour Publishing. Vancouver, B.C. 1987. 1st Ed. IV, 211 PP with 68 b/w illustrations (photos, maps & sketches). Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0920080022
The reminiscences of whaling on the Pacific North-West coast between 1905 and 1972, from shore bases or steam whaling ships.
38729 HAMMITT, Andrew G. TECHNICAL YACHT DESIGN
$20.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 241 PP with 13 tables and 123 figures. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Top edge of covers lightly speckled. Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages. Signature of previous owner on title page. Very good. 25.2 x 17.2. 0229115152
40183 HAYTER, Alethea A VOYAGE IN VAIN - Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804
$15.00 AUD
Faber and Faber. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 188 P, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, offsetting of the front endpaper. Very good. 22.5 x 14. 0571102409
39911 HEATON, Peter A HISTORY OF YACHTING IN PICTURES
$10.00 AUD
Tom Stacey. London. 1973. 2nd impression of the 1972 original. 159 PP with 155 b/w illustrations (4 on folded plates) & 54 colour illustrations (1 on folded plate). Title spread: Mastview of the deck of Nefertiti, American 12-metre yacht. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (closed tear). Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 31.8 x 24.2. 085468297X
73762 HECKSTALL-SMITH, B. & DU BOULAY, E. THE COMPLETE YACHTSMAN
$20.00 AUD
Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1949. 1st revised (by John Scott Hughes) edition based on the 1912 original. XVI, 476 PP with 96 figures, plus 32 b/w plates (plates 2 to 19 with 74 photos of knots and splices). Fp: The Dalua. Cloth cover, gilt title on faded spine. Front gutter reinforced, o/wise contents near fine. 21.8 x 15.
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.
Western Australian Maritime Museum. Fremantle. 1998. 1st Ed. XX, 100 PP with 4 figures and 7 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.9. 0730712222
17 papers papers presented in September 1997. Early pilots in Muslim waters, by Rear Admiral François Bellec... The research and locating of the AE2, by Selcuk Kolay... Maritime rhetorics, tourism and the Australian National Maritime Museum...
38340 HIRST, Warwick SOUTHERN DISCOVERIES (in The Bulletin)
$10.00 AUD
ACP Publishing. Sydney. 1996. Vol. 116, No. 6005, January 16, 1996. Contains article by Warwick HIRST between P. 42 and 44 with 1 map and 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Spanish Guns: A first-hand account gives a revealing insight into one of the first European expeditions into Australian waters. Don Diego de Prado y Tovar and Luis Vaes de Torres, through the Torres Strait: August / September 1606.
His Majesty 's Stationery Office. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 7 maps & 32 pages with 44 illust. FEP: Sea-borne assault troops. REP: Air-borne assault troops. Pictorial soft cover (creases), signature on front endpaper, o/wise a very good copy. 21.3 x 13.6.
Assault in the Mediterranean, Atlantic (Norway to France), Indian Ocean (Diego Suarez in Madagascar).
38298 HOWARD, Grant THE NAVY IN NEW ZEALAND, An Illustrated History
$20.00 AUD
A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1981. 1st Ed. VI, 170 PP with b/w illust. (maps, paintings, photos, ...). Title-page: Cruiser Royalist. Hard cover, dj (partly faded). Note on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 24.8 x 19. 0589013556
Two hundred years of navy in New Zealand (Royal Navy, then Royal New Zealand Navy), in war and peace.
18103 HUMBLE, Richard SUBMARINES
$5.00 AUD
Jade Books. London. 1983. Abridged edition of Undersea Warfare. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title-page: US Nuclear submarine. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 28.6 x 22.5. 0907853595
The development of the submarine, its weapons and its power plant. Its use in a strategic role.
30978 HUTSON, A. B. A. THE NAVIGATOR'S ART
$10.00 AUD
Mills & Boon. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w photos and illustrations by Alec Davis. Title page: A compass rose. Pictorial laminated boards. Stamp of the "Devonport Maritime Museum" on front endpaper and last page. Few foxing spots on endpapers. Very good. 21.7 x 15.2. 0263055922
Introduction to the art of Navigation: how navigational techniques were developed by races (Polynesians, Vikings) or individuals (Columbus, Magellan and Drake)...
34854 HÖPKER, Wolfgang DIE OSTSEE EIN ROTES BINNENMEER? - Eine Politisch-Strategische Studie
$5.00 AUD
E.S. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1958. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 4 maps, plus 3 maps (Kiel Canal, Danemark inland sea and gulf of Finland). Pictorial laminated cover. Fine. German text. 24.5 x 17.5.
The Baltic Sea: A Communist (Red) inland sea?
34855 HÖPKER, Wolfgang DAS MITTELMEER - Ein Meer der Entscheidungen - Eine Politisch-Strategische Studie
$5.00 AUD
E.S. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1961. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 9 maps. FEP: Colour map of the Mediterranean Sea. REP: Map of Scandinavia, and Map of Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean. Pictorial laminated cover. Near fine. German text. 24.5 x 17.5.
The Mediterranean Sea, a vital sea for the free world.
41289 INGRAM, C. W. N. & WHEATLEY, P. O. NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1960
$40.00 AUD
Reed. Wellington. 1961. 3rd edition of the 1936 original. VIII, 408 PP, plus 32 pages with 121 b/w illustrations. Fp: Rigs of sailing vessels. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Spine of dust jacket a little sunned. Traces of old sellotape marks on inside front and back covers, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.7 x 19.5.
30712 JENNINGS, Philip S. & BOSEK, Dany SHIPWRECKS
$5.00 AUD
Bison Books. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title spread: Wreck of the Herald of Free Enterprise. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30 x 23. 0861249288
True stories of all the famous sea disasters: fire, collision, stranding & sinking.
41314 JOHNSON, Irving & Electa YANKEE CRUISES THE STORIED NILE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1965. Volume 127, No.5, May, 1965. Contains article from P.583 to 635 with 2 diagrams (in colour) and 53 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Lacks the loose folded map, o/wise near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
39308 JOHNSTON, Sarah & Dave VALKYRIE - The Restoration of a Wooden Boat
$20.00 AUD
B. T. Batsford. London. 1983. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 5 drawings, 37 figures, and 62 b/w photos. Title page: Valkyrie II under sail. Eps: plans of interior layouts. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 25.4 x 19. 0713440317
39363 JONES, Howard MUTINY ON THE AMISTAD - The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. New York. c. 1996. 5th printing of the 1988 paperback edition (1987 original). XII, 271 PP, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Fp: Map of the North Atlantic. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 20.3 x 13.5. 195038290
The saga of the Amistad. Off the Cuban coast, a slave from Sierra Leone took over the ship which drifted and was taken into custody by the US Navy. The return to Sierra Leone after protracted legal battles.
38774 JONES, Ted THE OFFSHORE RACER
$20.00 AUD
Nautical Publishing. Lymington, UK. 1976. Reprint of the 1974 UK edition (US original of 1973). XI, (3), 285 PP with 4 tables and 103 figures (maps, sketches and b/w photos). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few small chips, foxing spots on outside page edges, o/wise near fine. 22.4 x 15.8. 0245524355
37027 JORDENS, Maurice R. DROIT ET TECHNIQUE DES OPERATIONS MARITIMES
$20.00 AUD
Les Editions Comptables, Commerciales et Financières. Bruxelles. 1944. 1st Ed., in Bibliothèque Générale des Sciences Economiques. 330 PP with 2 figures, plus 2 folded plates (Insurance Policy, and Charter Party). Rebacked copy, cloth cover and front cover and spine of original wrapper pasted down. Ageing of paper. French text. Very good. 25.5 x 17.2.
History, the ship, charter party...
76648 JUDD, H. W. PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE WEST COAST OF TASMANIA
$20.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 1971. Facsimile of the 1909 original. 136 PP with 48 pages of period advertisements, and 78 b/w photos. Limp cloth covers a little faded near spine, otherwise a fine copy. Oblong: 14.7 x 25.
41616 KEMP, J. F., & YOUNG, Peter SHIP STABILITY NOTES AND EXAMPLES
$10.00 AUD
Stanford Maritime / Royal Australian Navy. London. 1977. Reprint of the 1971 second edition (metric), of the 1959 original. 128 PP with many figures. Stapled soft cover (Royal Australian Navy Apprentice Training Establishment). Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0853090424
Published for the Royal Australian Navy.
40173 KERR, William (editor) KERR'S MELBOURNE ALMANAC, and Port Phillip Directory for 1841
$25.00 AUD
Lansdown Slattery & Company. Melbourne. No date. Facsimile reprint of the 1841 original. 261, (3), (28 adverts.) PP with many tables. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (spine faded). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.5 x 14.2. 0868330116
A compendium of useful and accurate information connected with Port Phillip... Shipping Arrivals and Departures 5th December 1839 to 11th December 1840...
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.
39181 KNECHT, G. Bruce THE PROVING GROUND - The inside story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2001. 1st Australian edition. XII, 289 PP, plus 16 pages with 46 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.2. 1865085561
Boxing Day 1998. 153 boats set out from Sydney but only 43 reached Hobart... 7 boats abandoned, 5 sank, 6 sailors died and 55 had to be pulled from the water.
43015 KNIGHT, E. F. THE UNION-CASTLE AND THE WAR 1914-1919
$55.00 AUD
The Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd. London. 1920. 1st Ed. 64, (14) PP with 1 colour and 20 b/w illustrations by Edmund G. Fuller. Fp (colour): A camouflaged Union-Castle Liner. Last page: House Flag. Illustrated endpapers (crest and caravelle). Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front cover, gilt crest of UC on back cover. Top of covers slightly sunned with a small crease in the cloth on bottom of front cover. Light foxing on the last few pages, o/wise a near fine copy of a scarce title. 28.2 x 20.2.
Record of some of the more important activities of the Fleet and Staff of the Union-Castle liners in the Great War. 13 pages with Roll of Honour.
36671 KONSTAM, Angus THE HISTORY OF SHIPWRECKS
$20.00 AUD
The Lyons Press / Mariners' Museum, Virginia. New York. 1999. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Claudia Pennington. 192 PP with location maps, maps and b/w or colour illustrations. Half title page: Loss of HMS Magnificent, March 1801. Title page: Map the Atlantic. Fp: Diver surveying the Highborn Cay shipwreck. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 23. 1558219706
A full-colour guide to the ships and treasures at the bottom of the sea.
35732 KROSCHEL, Günter & EVERS, August-Ludwig DIE DEUTSCHE FLOTTE 1848-1945 - Geschichte des Deutschen Kriegsschiffbaus in 437 Bildern
$10.00 AUD
Verlag Lohse-Eissing. Wilhelmshaven. 1966. 4th corrected impression of the 1962 original. XXVIII PP with tables, plus 160 pages without pagination containing 437 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, gilt title on front cover and spine. Bookplate and front of dust jacket tipped in on front endpaper. Near fine. German text. 26.5 x 20.5.
Photographic history of the various German navies (Prussia, North Germany) from 1848 to 1888, Imperial of the Kaiser (1888-1918), Reichsmarine of the Weiman Republic (1919-1935) and the Kriegsmarine of the Third Reich (1935-1945).
38023 LARSEN, Kay VORE ORLOGSSKIBE - Fra Halvfemserne Til Nu
$25.00 AUD
Nyt Nordisk Forlag - Arnold Busck. Copenhagen. 1932. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 112 b/w illustrations. Card cover, illustration on front cover. Front edge of covers with closed tears. Signature of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. Danish text. 23.4 x 16.3.
Danish Navy.
41218 LENTON, H. T. AMERICAN FLEET AND ESCORT DESTROYERS 2
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1971. 1st Ed., in Navies of the Second World War series. Volume 2: 160 PP with tables & 46 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.2. 356031233
41352 LEWIS, David ICEBOUND IN ANTARCTICA (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society Washington. 1984. Volume 166, No. 5, November 1984. Contains article from pages 634 to 663 with 3 maps, and 25 colour photos by Mimi George. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
Exploration from the 65-foot steel-hulled schooner Dick Smith Explorer, locked in ice between March 1983 and January 1984.
43089 LLOYD'S ANNALS OF LLOYD'S REGISTER, being a sketch of the Origin, Constitution, and Progress of Lloyd's Register of British & Foreign Shipping
$100.00 AUD
London. 1884. Lloyd's Register. 1st Ed. Edited by William Henry TINDALL, Michael WILLS, et el. X, 165 PP with head pieces and tail pieces, plus 7 plates (1 folded) with 5 facsimile of pages of the register and 2 with b/w photo pasted down. Fp: Chairman from 1881. Marbled endpapers (presentation plate on FEP). Leather binding, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned. Lower corner of front endpapers and presentation plate worn. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very good copy. Scarce. 25 x 18.5.
Published 30th October 1884, for the 50th anniversary of the Society.
48304 LONEY, J. K. TALL SHIPS AND SAILORMEN - A Concise Survey of Victoria's Early Maritime History
$5.00 AUD
J. K. Loney / Marine History Publication. Geelong. c. 1978. 1st Ed. (2), 99, (4) PP with 3 head pieces, 3 maps, plus 40 pages with 54 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover (wreck of a windjammer). Covers with slight insect damage, ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22 x 17.8. 0909244022
39972 MARX, Robert F. THE VOYAGE OF THE NIÑA II
$15.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1964. 1st UK edition of the 1963 US original. 249 PP, (3), plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Eps: Track of the voyage of Nina II. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped and rubbed. Foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.8.
1962 re-enactment of the 1492 crossing of the North Atlantic by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage of discovery of the Americas.
16782 MATRAT, Jean HISTOIRE DES RELATIONS FRANCO-ANGLAISES
$20.00 AUD
Nouvelles Editions Latines. Paris. 1953. 1st Ed. 126 PP. Pictorial card cover. Pages uncut. Occasional foxing and paper ageing. Very good. French text. 18.7 x 12.
History of the links between France and England. The numerous wars leading to the Entente Cordiale and the birth of the European Union.
41825 MAURICE, René LA FREGATE DE LA LIBERTE
$25.00 AUD
Editions du Gulf Stream. Rochefort, France. 2001. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 16 drawings. Inside front cover: Chart of the Gulf Stream, by Benjamin Franklin. Inside back cover: folded cut away (60 x 22 cms) of L'Hermione, by Jean-Benoit Héron. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. French text. 22 x 15.4.
The French frigate L'Hermione, and her 1780 voyage to the USA with the Baron de Saint Romain de Vissac, better known as Gilbert Motier de Lafayette.
42625 MAXWELL, Dr. W. G. H. & Economic Department Bank of New South Wales OFFSHORE AUSTRALIA - The Continental Shelf, the Slope, and beyond
$25.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. IV, 68 PP with 3 graphs, 15 maps, 1 colour and 54 b/w photos, plus 1 folded map in colour Bathymetric Map of the Seas Surrounding Australia and its Territories in rear pocket. Inside front cover: Halibut oil production platform in Bass Strait. Pictorial soft cover. Letter and press release, addressed to the Australian Law Journal loosely inserted. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.5.
42297 MAXWELL, F. W. NICHOLLS'S CONCISE GUIDE TO THE LOCAL MARINE BOARD EXAMINATIONS FOR SECOND MATES
$100.00 AUD
James Brown & Son. Glasgow. 1926. 2nd edition of the 1924 original. XII, (1 errata), 419 PP with figures, plus 7 plates (3 of them folded), and 2 large folded plate at rear of book. Marbled endpapers. Full leather binding, gilt crest of The Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College - H M S Worcester on front board, gilt title on spine. All edges gilt. Prize plate of the College on front endpaper. Covers lightly rubbed on outside edges and hinges, hinge of front board partly split. The 2 large plates at rear of book are complete but detached. A very good copy. 24.3 x 19.5.
76736 McCALL, Bernard COASTERS AROUND BRITAIN
$15.00 AUD
Bernard McCall. Barry, UK. 1989. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 9 maps, 8 colour and 148 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 0951357611
76737 McCALL, Bernard COASTERS IN CAMERA
$15.00 AUD
Bernard McCall. Portishead, UK. 2004. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 12 colour and 145 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781902953137
15623 McCORMICK, Anne & McDONNELL, Derek PACIFIC VOYAGES & EXPLORATION, From the Carlsmith Collection and Other Sources
$40.00 AUD
Hordern House. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 160 PP profusely illustrated with 160 b/w & 31 colour illustrations. Bookplate of Professor Adrian Horridge on inside front cover. Folded "Price List (1987)" for these 289 listed items, tipped in on inside back cover. Pictorial soft covers. Front cover lightly rubbed with a few creases, otherwise contents are near fine. 29.5 x 21. 095884786X
Catalogue detailing 289 items of the Carlsmith Family collection of Pacific voyages: Cook, Bligh, La Pérouse ...
38347 McLAREN, Ian F. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS BY SEA, LAND AND AIR 1788-1988 - Volume 2: References
$20.00 AUD
University of Melbourne Library. Melbourne. 1988. 1st edition limited to 500 copies. XVIII, 253 PP with 3 maps and 13 b/w illustrations. Illustrated soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 29.4 x 20.7. 0868399663
Bibliography recording and describing printed works by and about explorers and exploration of Australia and Antarctica.
16103 McLEAN, Gavin SHIPS OF THE UNION COMPANY
$25.00 AUD
G.P. Books. Wellington. 1989. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 87 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover with lightly faded spine, otherwise a fine copy. 21 x 14.8. 0477000169
Photographic record of the Union Steamship Company of NZ Ltd. since 1860.
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.
38676 McMULLEN, Michael MULTIHULL SEAMANSHIP
$10.00 AUD
Nautical Publishing. London. 1976. 1st edition of March 1976. 200 PP with 4 tables, 18 graphs and 194 b/w illustrations (maps, photos and sketches). Hard cover, dust jacket (price-clipped). Light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages. Very good. 25.2 x 19. 0245527265
Chapter 1: History (Pacific Ocean beginnings, first Western multihulls...). Chapter 2: Design and Construction comparisons...
34790 MELEGARI, Vezio PIRATES CORSAIRES ET FLIBUSTIERS
$10.00 AUD
Editions des Deux Coqs d'Or. Paris. 1965. 1st French edition, translated from the 1964 Italian original by H. Valot. 141 PP with b/w and colour illust. Pictorial laminated boards. Near fine. French text. 28.5 x 21.
Pirates, Corsairs and Buccaneers.
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.
38726 MITCHELL, Carleton PASSAGE EAST
$40.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1954. 1st Ed. 248 PP, plus 1 map on double page and 32 pages with 40 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust Jacket with repaired tears and in a protective sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.
1952 race between Bermuda and Plymouth of Caribbee, Janabel, Joliette, Marabu and Samuel Pepys..
41233 MONSARRAT, Nicholas HMS MARLBOROUGH WILL ENTER HARBOUR
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1952. December reprint of the November 1952. Originally published in 1947 as Depends What You Mean by Love. 96 PP with 19 illustrations by James Holland. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with pieces missing at tope front and back. Offsetting on endpapers, occasional foxing. Contents near fine and overall a very good clean copy. 24.2 x 18.8.
39250 MUDIE, Rosemary & Colin (editors) THE SAILING SHIP - A voyage through the ages
$10.00 AUD
Roydon Publishing. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 60 PP with 48 b/w and 17 colour illustrations. Title page: 16th century gunfight. Pictorial laminated boards. Near fine. 29 x 22. 094667406X
The beginning of sail. The voyagers. The Traders and Clippers. Twentieth century sail.
38350 N/A ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY - Welcome Aboard
$5.00 AUD
Navy Public Relations. Sydney. 1990. 1st Ed. No pagination, 8 PP (3 folds, + The Fleet) with 25 colour photos and "The Fleet" with 31 profiles (5 of aircrafts & 26 of ships). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7. x 21.
Brief description of the Royal Australian Navy: Peace at sea, security at home.
38543 N/A FREMANTLE MUSEUM
$20.00 AUD
Fremantle Branch, Western Australian Museum. Fremantle. c.1970. 1st Ed. 16 PP with b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: The Vlamingh Plate, 1697. Inside back cover: Dirck Hartog's plate, 1616... Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 18.3 x 24.2.
Early maritime history. Swan River Colony. The Asylum Building...
39396 N/A YACHTING WORLD ANNUAL 1973
$25.00 AUD
Edward Stanford. London. 1972. 1st Ed. Edited by Guy COLE & Bernard HAYMAN. 144 PP with drawings, sets of plans, and 81 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Bookplate and signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 28.2 x 22.
Southern Cross Cup, by Anthony Churchill. Modern technology in the small craft industry, by J. R. Flewitt.
40093 N/A SAILING DIRECTIONS AND OTHER INFORMATION FOR THE PORTS AND HARBOURS OF QUEENSLAND - 1978
$10.00 AUD
Government Printer. Brisbane. 1978. 1st Ed. 262 PP, plus 1 plate on Storm Warning Signals, and 3 folded plates (table of distances Queensland ports, table of distances Brisbane port, & Berthage signals). Hard cover, cloth spine. Near fine. 21 x 13.8.
40962 N/A ENDEAVOUR 200
$15.00 AUD
Australian Hoechst Limited / Oswald Ziegler Publications. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Dr. H. Von Pentz. 64 PP with 1 chart and 54 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated front cover. Near fine. 30.5 x 24.8.
A commemorative history of Australia's beginnings.
16045 NAIRN, R. A. PRETTY MAIDEN, The Steamship Kwinana
$10.00 AUD
Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Fremantle. 1982. 1st Ed. VIII, 42 PP with 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.4 x 14. 0909144648
The life of the state ship Darius, renamed Kwinana, blown ashore in 1922 on the beach which kept her name.
35513 NASSAES, José Luis Alcofar DIE PORTUGIESISCHE MARINE SEIT 1945 (in Marine-Rundschau - No. 78, Issue 2, February 1981)
$10.00 AUD
Bernard & Graefe Verlag. München. 1981. Contains article from P.73 to 80 with 3 tables and 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Deck of Italian Destroyer Audace). Fine. German text. 29.8 x 21.
The Portuguese Navy since 1945.
16463 NEDELEC, C. CATALOGUE OF SMALL-SCALE FISHING GEAR / CATALOGUE DES ENGINS DE PECHE ARTISINALE / CATALOGO DE ARTES DE PESCA ARTESANAL
$20.00 AUD
FAO / Fishing News. Surrey. 1975. 191 PP with b/w illust. Printed on three columns, in English, French & Spanish. Pictorial laminated boards. Covers with a scratch on rear board and faded at spine. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Light foxing. A very good copy. 30.2 x 21. 0852380771
Gillnets & entangling nets, surrounding nets, hooks and lines, scoop nets, seine nets, cast nets, lift nets, dredges, trawls, traps,...
22211 NICHOLSON, Ian LOG OF LOGS, Volume Two
$100.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Nambour, Qld. 1993. 1st Ed. Publication No.47. XII, 608 PP with b/w figures & photos. Bound copy of the original stiff covers edition. Hard cover, gilt-engraved spine. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 25.5 x 17.8. 0646091824
A complement to the first volume which generated much response and provided a great deal of fresh material making a second volume necessary.
42029 NICOLSON, Ian MARINIZE YOUR BOAT
$10.00 AUD
Stanford Maritime. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 191 PP with 255 drawings. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has been clear plastic laminated. Light foxing, o/wise very good. 25.2 x 19.2. 0540071390
The advantages of steel construction as well as feature designs, building & proper maintenance.
41508 NOBLE, Denis L. LIFEBOAT SAILORS - The U.S. Coast Guard 's Small Boat Stations
$15.00 AUD
Brassey's. Washington. 2001. 1st Ed. XVI, 247 PP with 16 head pieces, 2 maps and 31 b/w photos. Title page: crossing the bar. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.8 x 15. 1574883364
40465 NORTON, Arthur P. A STAR ATLAS, and Reference Handbook (epoch 1950) for Students and Amateurs
$10.00 AUD
Gall and Inglis. London. 1950. 11th Ed. XVI, 55 PP with 10 figures, plus 35 pages with 18 maps. 2 clear plastic maps loosely inserted. FEP: Northern Index Map. REP: Southern Index Map. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Spine sunned. Top and bottom of spine frayed. Name of stars on some maps blocked with white out, o/wise very good. 28.3 x 22.
Astronomical terms, spectroscopy, hints on observing. Care and use of the telescope. Star maps...
41347 O'BRIAN, Patrick BLUE AT THE MIZZEN
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. London. 1999. 1st UK edition. (6), 262 PP with 1 sails plan of a square-rigged ship. Pictorial stiff covers. Light ageing of paper. Very good. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780002261289
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin off to South America on the "Surprise".
37910 ORTZEN, Len STORIES OF FAMOUS FIGHTING SHIPS - Volume one: In the Days of Sail
$10.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 160 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0213166704
16095 PARSONS, Ronald AUSTRALIAN SHIPOWNERS AND THEIR FLEETS. Book Ten (Vessels enrolled at Melbourne to the end of 1859)
$10.00 AUD
Author. Adelaide. 1991. 1st Ed. IV, P.201 to 276 with 1 line drawing. Stapled typescript monograph. Soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 16.4 x 20.6. 0909418438
The formation and development of the Melbourne Steamship Co., James Paterson's sail colliers,...
38263 PARSONS, Ronald AUSTRALIAN SHIPOWNERS AND THEIR FLEETS - Book Five: Early Australian Owners
$10.00 AUD
Ronald Parsons. Magill, SA. 1979. 1st Ed. (4), 91 PP. Stapled typescript monograph. Soft covers a little aged, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 16.6 x 20.6.
Early shipowners, vessels owned/operated by the Colonial Government. Early whaling ships.
18229 PASQUELOT, Maurice LES DOSSIERS SECRETS DE LA MARINE, Londres-Vichy 1940-1944
$10.00 AUD
N.E.L. Paris. 1977. 1st Ed. 298 PP, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spine creased. Faint foxing. French text. Near fine. 22.3 x 14. 2723300226
A history of the French Navy Secret Service during WWII: sinking of the Bismark - An unknown aspect of Captain Cousteau who helped secure the secret Italian code.
34665 PIKE, Dag AN INTRODUCTION TO POWERBOAT CRUISING
$10.00 AUD
Hearst Marine Books. New York. 1989. 1st US edition of the 1989 UK Practical Motor Cruising. X, 227 PP with b/w illust. (figures and photos). Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 25 x 17.8. 0688089135
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.
18115 POLMAR, Norman & FRIEDMAN, Norman WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Treasure Press. London. 1984. Reprint of the 1983 revised and updated edition of 1981. 88 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: HMS Invincible. Half-title page: HMS Warrior (1860). Eps: HMS Alacrity. Pictorial laminated boards. Very good. 32.2 x 23.8. 0907812597
From the American Civil War to the Falklands conflict and beyond.
39035 PORTS BOSTON PORT & SHIPPING HANDBOOK - SEA & AIR 1985
$10.00 AUD
Ryston Handbooks. Norfolk. 1985. 1st edition of June 1985. 52 PP with advertisements, 1 map, 1 plan, and 13 photos (3 colour, 10 b/w). Pictorial card cover. Neear fine. 23.5 x 18.5.
Massachusetts Port Authority: Sea Port and Logan International Airport.
39056 PORTS PORT OF BOSTON HANDBOOK - 1984 - 1985
$10.00 AUD
Boston Shipping Association. Boston. 1984. 1st Ed. 224 PP with advertisements, tables, maps, plans, and b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Very good. 21.2 x 13.5.
39665 PORTS PORT OF PORTLAND - PORT DIRECTORY AND SCHEDULE OF CHARGES
$5.00 AUD
Port of Portland Authority. Portland. c. 1985. Folder containing 11 roneotyped sheets with information on Schedule of Charges and Port Directory, plus a 3 folds flyer on Port of Portland with 1 plan and 3 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 30.5 x 21.8.
Portland, Western Victoria.
39666 PORTS PORT OF PORTLAND - 32nd Annual Report Year ended 30th June, 1983
$5.00 AUD
Port of Portland Authority. Portland. 1983. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 1 plan, 6 colour and 15 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Tender vessel Maersk Handler. Inside back cover: Livestock carrier Al Yasrah. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 21.
Portland, Western Victoria.
41484 PORTS PORT OF BRISBANE - General Information
$10.00 AUD
Port of Brisbane Authority. Brisbane. 1988. November 1988 edition. (2), 86 PP with 4 maps/plans, 4 drawings, 13 profiles of ships and 15 b/w photos, plus 1 plate with 35 funnels in colour. Pictorial card cover, spiral bound. Fine. 30 x 21.
41537 PORTS PUERTO DE CASTELLON - Memoria Anual, 1987
$10.00 AUD
Ministerio de Obras Publicas y Urbanismo, Direccion General de Puertos y Costas Puerto de Castellon. 1988. 1st Ed. 80 PP with tables, plus 3 plans in colour (2 of them folded), and 3 colour plates with 6 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Spanish text. 29.3 x 21.
Annual report for the Port of Castellon, Mediterranean Sea, for 1988.
41538 PORTS PUERTO DE GIJON - Memoria Anual 1984 Annual Report
$10.00 AUD
Ministerio de Obras Publicas y Urbanismo, Direccion General de Puertos y Costas Puerto de Gijon. 1985. 1st Ed. 90 PP with tables, 1 map & 1 plan in colour, and 18 colour photos, plus 1 folded plan at rear of book. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. English and Spanish text. 30.5 x 21.3.
Annual report for the Port of Gijon, Bay of Biscay, for 1984.
41692 PRESTON, S. T. OF SHIPS & SEA
$5.00 AUD
S. T. Preston & Son, Inc. Greenport, Long Island, N.Y. 1983. Annual edition. 112 PP with hundreds of b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers a little soiled, o/wise near fine. 20.4 x 13.5.
Preston's catalog of Ship Models, Marine Clocks & Barometers, Figureheads, Scrimshaw, Brassware, Marine Prints and a host of decorative Nautical items for the Home.
38853 PURVES, Libby & GROVE, Trevor (editors) SINGLE HANDED - The Observer/Europe 1 singlehanded Transatlantic Race
$15.00 AUD
Ebury Press. London. 1984. 1st Ed., Introduction by Eric Tabarly. 208 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: under sail. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 31 x 23.5. 9780852234303
12054 PUTZ, George & SPECTRE, Peter H., & GETCHELL, David R. (editors) THE MARINER'S CATALOG, Volume 2
$10.00 AUD
National Fisherman & Int'l Marine. Camden, Maine. 1975. 2nd Printing of the 1974 original. 192 PP, profusely illustrated with photos, sketches, drawings, diagrams, etc... Pictorial soft cover. Former owner's stamp at top of title page. Faint foxing. Very good. 27 x 21. 0877420467
Small boats for work or pleasure. Information on tools, boatbuilding,... information sources, boat models..
38452 RAHS THE BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER AND THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES: An Aspect of Nineteenth Century Colonial History (Volume 54, Part 1, March 1968)
$15.00 AUD
R.A.H.S.. Sydney. 1968. Contains article by Philip M. COWBURN between P.1 and 21. Soft cover. Browning of outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.3.
16833 RAN THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Department of Defence / A.G.P.S. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. 40 PP with 34 profiles, 5 b/w and 40 colour photos. Title-page: R.A.N. Ensign. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0644140518
Australian Defence policy and the Royal Australian Navy in the 1990's and beyond.
10411 REDWOOD, Rosaline EARLY SEALING DAYS (in Walkabout Magazine Vol. 9, No. 3)
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1943. Volume 9, No. 3, January 1943. Contains article from P.4 to 8 with 3 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 30 x 24.
A history of sealing & the sealing industry on the Southern Ocean islands between 1792 and 1829. Other article: "Boats on the Darling", by W. K. GLOVER
40297 RICHARDS, Joe PRINCESS - New York
$15.00 AUD
Hollis & Carter. London. 1958. 1st UK edition. (4), 258 PP with 24 drawings by the author. Hard cover, dj (chipped). Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Voyage of the sloop Princess, registered in New York, down to Southwest Key off the Honduran coast, then return to Florida...
38947 RICHARDS, Mike NORTH COAST RUN, Men and Ships of the N.S.W. North Coast
$20.00 AUD
Turton & Armstrong. Sydney. 1977. New edition of the 1967 original. VIII, 174 PP with 56 b/w illust. Eps: General arrangement T.S.S. Poonbar. Pictorial card covers (with light wear & soiling). Small cross next to 55 names of Vessels in Appendix One. Near fine. Oblong: 14.5 x 23.4. 0908031025
An account of the coastal shipping between Sydney and Point Danger with list of vessels.
40132 RIDER, Hope S. VALOUR FORE & AFT - Being the Adventures of America's First Naval Vessel
$10.00 AUD
Seaport '76 Foundation, Ltd. Newport, Rhode Island. 1978. 1st Ed. XVIII, 259 PP with b/w illustrations (4 maps, 4 plans, facsimile of documents, paintings and photos). Title spread (in colour): Sloop Providence attacking an English ship. Eps: Area of operations, Sloop Providence 1775-1779. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.8. 0870217445
38247 ROBERTS, Frank INDIA 1526-1800
$15.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1992. 1st Ed., in the Past Historic series. 64 PP with colour illustrations (maps, paintings, photographs). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 27.7 x 21.2. 0340554371
37697 ROSS, Bob & BENNETT, Richard OCEAN CLASSICS
$15.00 AUD
Richard Bennett. Kingston, Tasmania. 1994. 1st Ed. 84 PP with 1 map, 71 colour photos by Richard Bennett. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 27.8 x 27.8. 064619710X
Tall Ships race 1988. Circumnavigation of Tasmania 1992. Sydney - Hobart...
37639 ROUSMANIERE, John (editor) THE LUXURY YACHTS
$5.00 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 illust. Title page: A gilded figurehead of England's Queen Charlotte, carved in 1824. FEP: Maps of the European and North American waters, haunts of luxury yachts. Simile leather covers, colour vignette on front cover. Near fine. 28.7 x 24. 0705406423
36623 ROY-CHAUDHURY, Rahul SEA POWER AND INDIAN SECURITY
$30.00 AUD
London. 1995. Brasseys. 1st Ed. 222 PP with 2 maps, 4 graphs and 9 tables Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 23.5 x 15. 1857530500
16770 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY AUSTRALIA'S NAVY 1991-92
$5.00 AUD
AGPS. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. Edited by Commander J.P. HODGMAN & Leiutenant Commander P.J. JONES. 96 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
39433 ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE 'ARMED FORCES AND THE SOCIETIES WHICH THEY SERVE' (in Journal of the Royal United Services Institute of Australia - Volume 18)
$10.00 AUD
Royal United Services Institute of Australia. Canberra. 1997. Volume 18, September 1997, International Seminar edition. Edited by Colonel D.W. KIBBEY, I. DUDGEON, Wing Cmdr R.W. HOWE. XII, 96 PP with 11 portraits and 3 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 17.3. 0728-1188
Defending Australia's interests: Challenges for a new strategic Era, by Ian McLachlan. The role of the Australian Defence Force Academy in educating Australia's 21st century Officer Corps, by Professor J. A. Richards... The Singapore Armed Forces - Partners in Progress, by Lieutenant General Bey Soo Khiang... Theme of seminar: by Admiral Joseph W. Prueher (USN / CINCPAC), by General de Division Maurice Quadri (French Armed Forces in New Caledonia).
39434 ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE International Seminar 'SEEKING AFFORDABLE DEFENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY' (in Journal of the Royal United Services Institute of Australia - Volume 22)
$10.00 AUD
Royal United Services Institute of Australia. Canberra. 2000. December 2000, International Seminar edition. IV, 128 PP with 13 portraits and 13 pages of advertisements. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.7 x 17.3. 0728-1188
Theme of seminar: by Admiral Dennis Blair (USN / CINCPAC). French Armed Forces in New Caledonia, by Général de Division Xavier de Zuchowicz. ... Industry Forum: by Hector Donohue of Tenix Defence Systems, by Jean-Georges Malcor of ADI Ltd....
35524 RUGE, Friedrich SEEMACHT UND SICHERHEIT - Eine Schicksalsfrage für alle Deutschen
$5.00 AUD
Fritz Schlichtenmayer. Tübingen, Germany. 1955. 1st Ed. 78 PP with 2 tables and 3 maps. Card cover (rubbed). Very good. German text. 20.2 x 12.5.
Naval Power and Security - fate of Germany.
39268 SACK, Celia R. (cataloguer) THE LIBRARY OF KARL V. STEINBRUGGE - Early Exploration of the North West Coast of America and Related Voyages
$20.00 AUD
Pacific Book Auction Galleries. San Francisco. 1996. 1st Ed. No pagination, 84 PP with 27 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 25.5 x 17.8.
Auction catalogue: Sale 97, 13 February 1996. 199 Items.
15774 SAMPSON, A. & S. EXPLORERS OF AUSTRALIA
$5.00 AUD
Lloyd O'Neil. Melbourne. 1983. Reprint of the 1979 original. 60 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title spread: Exploring party in NSW, by J. Cross, 1826. Pictorial (South Brisbane from North Shore) laminated boards. Back hinge at head of spine with a 1 cm tear. Small rub on title page. Very good. 28.5 x 21. 0855508248
The sea & land explorers of Australia.
21148 SAVOURS, Ann (editor) SCOTT'S LAST VOYAGE - Through the Antarctic Camera of Herbert Ponting
$10.00 AUD
Praeger. New York. 1975. 1st US edition of the 1974 UK original. 160 PP with 2 maps & 119 b/w photos, plus 4 pages with 4 colour photos by Ponting. Fp: Capt. Robert Falcon Scott. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 19. 0275526704
The camera records of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913, Scott's last expedition, daily life on board the Terra Nova...
36415 SCHAAP, Dick HET LAATSTE DELTAWERK
$10.00 AUD
De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1987. 2nd impression of the 1983 original. 48 PP with 3 maps, 23 b/w and 28 colour illust. Pictorial card cover. Dutch, English and German text. Near fine. 20 x 19. 9022612678
The Last Delta Project of the Eastern Scheldt, Netherlands.
36419 SCHAAP, Dick HET GROOTSTE WATERWERK
$10.00 AUD
De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1987. 2nd impression of the 1983 original. 48 PP with b/w and colour illust. (maps, & sketch-plans), 8 b/w and 21 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Dutch, English and German text. Near fine. 20 x 19. 9022612686
The Greatest Water Works: construction of the storm surge barrier and of the Philips and Oester dams.
32723 SCHLECHTRIEM, Gert SCHIFFE UND HAFEN, Bilder aus dem Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseum
$35.00 AUD
Weser-Kurier. Bremen. 1975. 1st Ed. 60 PP with 28 colour illustrations. Eps: Harbour scenes. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. German text. 24.7 x 21.5.
Paintings of ships and harbours in the German Maritime Museum.
34153 SHAW, Captain Frank H. STIRRING DEEDS OF BRITAIN'S NAVAL MIGHT
$10.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1940. 1st Ed. 254 PP, plus 16 pages with 19 b/w photos. Fp: Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Harwood. Cloth cover (soiled). Spine sunned, war economy paper, some foxing. Good reading copy. 22 x 14.
The first year of World War 2 at sea: Battle of the River Plate. Liner Rawalpindi versus the Deutschland...
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.
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.
41307 SMITH, Carl GOWER COAST SHIPWRECKS
$35.00 AUD
Peninsula from southern Wales, jutting into the Bristol Channel.
40000 SMITH, Peter C. HERITAGE OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD
Balfour. St. Ives, UK. 1974. 1st Ed. 96 PP with colour illustrations (1 painting, 1 print, 2 maps and 32 photos). Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.5. 0859440109
History of 22 famous old ships preserved in Great Britain. Victory - Cutty Sark - Discovery... Foudroyant... Gypsy Moth IV...
35392 SOMERVILLE, Hugh YACHT AND DINGHY RACING - Tactics, Tuning and Handling
$5.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1961. 2nd revised edition of the 1957 original. XIX, 15-195 PP with 65 diagrams and 67 b/w plates. Fp: Ffrantic, the Flying Fifteen. Cloth cover. Hinges rubbed. Sellotape marks on endpapers. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.3.
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.
14702 STAMP, Tom & Cordelia JAMES COOK MARITIME SCIENTIST
$15.00 AUD
Caedmon of Whitby. Whitby. 1978. Reprint ???. XIV, 160 PP with 8 b/w illustrations, plus 2 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Capt. James Cook. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23 x 14.5. 0905355040
The life of Captain Cook: Yorkshire years, family life, the voyages. The man, his methods, his achievements.
16116 STEGER, W. & SCHURKE, P. NORTH TO THE POLE
$15.00 AUD
Times Books. New York. 1987. 1st Ed. XII, 339 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 1 map and 27 b/w photos. Hard cover,dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, top of spine slightly frayed. Very good. 24.2 x 16.5. 0812917049
Account of the 1986 Steger International Polar Expedition which left from Ward Hunt Island on 7th March to reach the North Pole on 3rd May.
41353 STEGER, Will SIX ACROSS ANTARCTICA (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
NGS Washington. 1990. Volume 178, No. 5, November 1990. Contains article from P. 66 to 95 with 2 maps and 30 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
A 3700 treck from the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula to the Russian base of Mirnyy, via the South Pole.
35344 SUDBURY, Neil (editor) RETURN OF THE BOUNTY - Flagship of the Fleet
$5.00 AUD
Australian Hi-Fi Publications. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 1988 Commemorative Edition. 64 PP with 6 pages of advertising material, 25 b/w illust. and 46 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.2. 0959126120
Pictorial souvenir. Re-enactement Fleet of 1987/1988.
70288 TAYLOR H. G. THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA
$40.00 AUD
Cat and Fiddle. Hobart. 1973. 1st Ed. (12), 177 PP, plus 9 b/w plates (portraits of explorers ). Fp: The death of Marion du Fresne. Eps: Dutch vessels of Abel Tasman Expedition, at anchor. Blackman Bay, Forestier Peninsula (South East Tasmania). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is rubbed around edges and back, o/wise a near fine copy. 25 x 18. 0858530120
Abel Jansz. Tasman, Marion du Fresne, Tobias Furneaux, James Cook, William Bligh, John Henry Cox, Bruny D'Entrecasteaux... Nicolas Baudin.
40024 TAZIEFF, Haroun SOUTH FROM THE RED SEA
$10.00 AUD
The Travel Book Club. London. c.1965. Reprint of the original published by Lutterworth Press. 213 PP with 3 maps and 6 figures, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.3 x 14.2.
Exploration in the Red Sea with Cousteau on the Calypso, as well as regions of the Rift Valley of the African continent.
35380 TEMPLAR SEA FEVER - A Beginner's Guide to Yachting
$5.00 AUD
Author. Hong Kong. 1985. 1st Ed. Foreword by Mike Phillips, Commodore, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. 111 PP with 52 cartoons by Templar. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. Oblong: 14 x 20.4.
68455 TEMPLE, Philip THE SEA AND THE SNOW - The South Indian Ocean Expedition to Heard Island
$50.00 AUD
Cassell. Melbourne. 1966. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. (8), 188 PP with 2 maps, and 1 plan of the "Patanela", plus 12 pages with 32 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Heard Island. Hard cover, dust jacket with a few small chips/rubs and now in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. Scarce. 22 x 14.4.
Expedition/exploration of Heard Island in 1965. Calls at the Kerguelen Islands.
41382 THORNTON-SMITH, C. B. ANALYTICAL CHECKLIST OF FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS IN FRENCH OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA, with details of published English translations
$10.00 AUD
Department of English, Monash University. Melbourne. 1983. Photostat copy of the 1983 original. No. 1 in the Monash Bibliographical series. (2), 27 PP. Soft cover, plastic protected, spiral bound. Fine. 29.7 x 20.5. 0908481233
43202 THORSOE, Soren, SIMONSEN, Peter & FREDERICHSEN, Frederik THE DANNEBROG FLEET 1883-1993
$30.00 AUD
Dannebrog Rederi AS. Rungsted, Denmark. 1993. 1st Ed., with an historic preface by Ebbe Wedell-Wedellsborg. 208 PP with 1 map, 8 profiles (in colour), 7 plans, 270 b/w photos and 4 colour illustrations. FEP (in colour): Nordborg, 1930. REP (in colour): Brattingsborg, 1970. Pictorial boards. Name of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy.. 27.6 x 24.2. 8798430505
10472 TOGHILL, Jeff THE YACHTSMAN'S NAVIGATION MANUAL
$10.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1976. Reprint of the 1975 original. 256 PP with b/w illust. (drawings, maps, sketches and photos). Hard cover, device (astrolabe) on front cover, dj. Donation plate and stamp of the "Devonport Maritime Museum and Historical Society" on front and rear endpapers. Previous owner's name on FFEP and title page, o/wise contents near fine. 25.2 x 18.5. 0589071653
34460 TOGHILL, Jeff LET'S TRY SAILING
$20.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illust. (sketches, drawings and photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5. 058950066X
Chapters: An Introduction, The Basic Bits and Pieces, The Fundamentals, Getting under Way, The Spinnaker, Safe Navigastion, Out in the Open, A Few Hints and Tips, Some Common Knots, Glossary of Sailing Terms..
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.
16791 TYE, Lt. Lawrence 1991 COMMEMORATION - THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY
$15.00 AUD
Bruce Mountain. Tauranga. 1991. Official Souvenir Magazine. 116 PP with b/w & colour illustrations, and advertisments. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 28 x 21.2.
Brief history: HMNZN dockyard - women of the RNZ Naval Service - hydrography - naval training.
35670 UHLIG, Frank, Jr. (editor) U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE - NAVAL REVIEW, 1962 - 1963
$15.00 AUD
United States Naval Institute. Annapolis. 1962. 1st Ed. (14), 369, (9) PP with b/w illustrations (plans and photos). Cloth cover, colour photo pasted down front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 28.7 x 22.5.
15 articles, 3 of them on the Cold War (U.S. Navy, Allied Sea Power and Soviet Sea Power). The Navy supply system. The Coast Guard...
34933 VAN MAARSEVEEN, Drs J. G. S. J. DE REPUBLIEK EN FRANKRIJK in het begin van de 17de eeuw
$10.00 AUD
Antiquariaat Europese Bibliotheek. Zaltbommel. 1970. 1st Ed., No. 12. in the Spiegel der Historie series, 4th year of publication. Pages 413 to 468 with 39 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover (Statue of French King Louis XIII). Fine. Dutch text. 28 x 22.
An Embassy of the Dutch Republic to the Kingdom of France in 1624, and the Treaty of Compiègne.
39664 VEN, Capitaine de Vaisseau TRAITE DE MANOEUVRE
$25.00 AUD
Société d' Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. Paris. 1947. Updated reprint of the 1935 edition. (6) , 582 PP with 341 figures, plus 2 leaflets (Feux et Marques à employer pour les Navires en mer with 8 pages, and Balisage des Cotes de France et d'Algérie with 5 pages), at rear of book. Hard cover, title on front cover and spine. Ageing of paper, edges of covers lightly rubbed, hinges weak. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good copy. French text. 22.4 x 15.5.
Seamanship and Manoeuvres at Ecole Navale (French equivalent to Annapolis or Dartmouth). Added: 2 pamphlets on Lights, Marks and Buoyage.
43141 VERNE, Henry LE LAC LEMAN, Guide Officiel
$70.00 AUD
Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le Lac Léman. Lausanne. 1911. 1st Ed. 80, (22 advertisements) PP with 7 colour plates and 67 b/w photos, plus 1 large folded map in colour of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. French text. 18 x 12.
Tourism on and around Lake Geneva by the ferry boats of Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le Lac Léman.
22634 VILLIERS, Alan CAPTAIN COOK, The Seamen's Seaman, A Study of the Great Discoverer
$35.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1967. 1st Ed. IX, 10-256 PP with 7 maps and 26 text illustrations by Adrian Small, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w plates. FEP: Map of the 1st Voyage in H.M.S. "Endeavour", 1768-1771. REP: Map of the 2nd Voyage in the "Resolution" 1772-1775. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, device on front cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with small chips at head of spine and in a protective sleeve. Faint foxing. Very good. 24 x 16.5.
The biography of Captain Cook by the last great deep-water sailing ship man.
74464 VILLIERS, Alan CAPTAIN COOK, The Seamen's Seaman, A Study of the Great Discoverer
$25.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1978. Reprint of the 1967 original.. IX, 10-256 PP with 7 maps and 26 text illustrations by Adrian Small, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w plates. Eps: Map of the 2nd Voyage in the "Resolution" 1772-1775. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a few small chips and in a plastic sleeve. Neat name label of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. 24 x 16.5. 0340226285
The biography of Captain Cook by the last great deep-water sailing ship man.
34809 VON MÜNCHING, L. L. VLIEGKAMPSCHEPEN
$10.00 AUD
De Alkenreeks. Alkmaar, Netherlands. c. 1962. 1st Ed., No. 95 in De Alkenreeks Beeld Encyclopedie. 64 PP with 13 plans and 50 b/w photos. Title page: USN Helicopter-Carrier Okinawa. Pictorial laminated boards (fading at top of front board). Fine. Dutch text. 15 x 11.
Aircraft carriers.
35129 VON TROTHA, Adolf SEEGELTUNG - WELTGELTUNG, Gedanken eines Admirals
$10.00 AUD
E.S. Mittler & Sohn. Berlin. 1940. 1st Ed. XII, 139, (5 publications) PP, plus 7 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. German text in Gothic script. 23.5 x 15.8.
Thoughts of German Admiral Adolf von Trotha on sea power and world domination.
37637 WALKER, Bryce (editor) THE ARMADA
$5.00 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 illust. Title page: Medal struck in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Eps: Map of the Channel. Simile leather covers, colour vignette on front cover. Fine. 28.7 x 24. 705406342
21093 WALTON, K., BISHOP, J... PORTRAIT OF ANTARCTICA
$25.00 AUD
George Philip. London. 1988. Reprint of the 1983 original. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. 168 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.8 x 23.8. 0540010758
Pictorial history, spanning fifty years of exploration and research in the Antarctic. The record of a way of life.
38396 WEBBER, N. B. (editor) MARINAS AND SMALL CRAFT HARBOURS
$20.00 AUD
Southampton University Press. Southampton. 1974. Reprint of the December 1972 original. XVIII, 501 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (plans, sketches and photos), plus 1 folded map (River Hamble Policy Plan). Fp: The Hamble - River Britain's principal Marina estuary. Hard cover, dj with a few small marks, foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.8 x 15.2.
Proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of Southampton on 19-21 April 1972. 13 papers presented. Requirements of the yachtsman by J. R. Bryans... Floating breakwaters by N.B. Weller and R.J.S. Harris...Economics of the Marina....
34898 WEGENER, Edward MOSKAUS OFFENSIVE ZUR SEE - Eine Untersuchung der seestrategischen Rolle de sowjetischen Marinestreitkräfte im Ost-West-Konflikt
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Deutsches Marine-Institut. Bonn-Bad Godesberg. 1972. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 7 maps, plus 14 pages with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. German text. 20.5 x 13.6.
Soviet Navy: strategy and sea power.
34772 WHALL, Hugh D. THE SOUTHERN CROSS - Australia's 1974 Challenge for the America's Cup
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Admiralty Publishing House. Annapolis. 1974. 1st Ed. XVI, 172 PP with 4 plans and 66 b/w photos. Fp: Line drawing of Southern Cross. Cloth cover. Some light foxing. Very good. 23.5 x 15.3. 0913544043
The first challenge for the America's Cup by Alan Bond.
39364 WILLIAMS, David L. SEA TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
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Ian Allan. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 128 PP with tables, sketches, maps, and 61 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.4 x 11.8. 0711017735
42053 WILLIAMS, David L. PADDLE STEAMERS
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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
11703 WILSON, Bruce COLONIAL IDENTITIES - Canada from 1760 to 1815
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National Archives of Canada. Ottawa. 1988. 1st Ed., in Records of Our History series. XII, 236 PP with 113 b/w and colour reproductions of archival records (maps, engravings, paintings ..). Eps: Seal hunting. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.2. 0660126664
The period of war and uncertainties which shaped modern Canada.
40517 WILSON, Ian UNDISCOVERED: The Fascinating World of Undiscovered Places, Graves, Wrecks, and Treasure
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Chancellor Press. London. 1993. Reprint of the 1987 original. 192 PP with head pieces and b/w illust. (maps & plans, paintings & photos). Title page: The British Egyptologist Howard Carter opening the golden shrine of the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. Pictorial laminated boards. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5. 1851522999
40902 ZAIDMAN, Pierre-Henri Lucien Félix HENRY, Colonel de la Commune, condamné à mort et artiste Australien
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Editions du Baboune. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 90 PP with 8 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.5 x 20.7.
Lucien Henry: Colonel with the Commune of PARIS, 1871. Deported to New Caledonia in 1873. Amnesty in January 1879. Migrated to Australia, where he settled as an artist...