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53293
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE - Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History -- Volume 15, No. 1
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1993. 64 PP. Contains article P. 18 to 29. Card covers. Near fine.. 24 x 16.3.
Article by F.R.L. Carleton. An Eighteenth Century conventual Franciscan naturalist on the Laperouse Expediton. Père Laurent Receveur (1757-1788).
54027
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 6, Nos. 1 & 2 - 1984
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1984. Edited by Frank BROEZE. 76 PP with 10 figures. No. 2, October 1984. 77-152 PP with 10 figures. Card covers, faded around edges with light foxing, o/wise very good. 24.3 x 16.3.
No. 1: Jave-la-grande, by W.A.R. Richardson. Nos 1 & 2: The Maritime Fur Trade - (part I: Bonanza Years of the Fur Trade, 1789-1809 & part II: The Second phase, 1810-1820 ..., by Rhys Richards.
54028
AAMH
THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 9, Nos. 1 & 2 - 1987
$20.00 AUD
Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1987. Edited by John BACH & Vaughan EVANS. No. 1, April 1987: 72 PP with 17 figures. No. 2, October 1987. 73-148 PP with tables and 3 figures. Card covers, light foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.3 x 16.3.
No. 1: Scrimshaw in Australia (Part II), by Janet West...
16593
ALLEN, Dr. Gerald R.
FISHES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
$20.00 AUD
T.F.H. Neptune City. 1985. Book No.9 in series Pacific Marine Fishes edited by Warren E. Burgess & Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod. P.2207 to 2534, profusely illustrated with colour plates. Pictorial laminated boards. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 28.5 x 22. 086622050X
18202
ANDERSON, Virginia B.
MARITIME MYSTIC
$10.00 AUD
Marine Historical Association. Mystic, Conn. 1962. 1st Ed. Publication No.39. VIII, 88 PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Card cover, faded around edges and spine, o/wise very good. 25.5 x 18.
Story of a New England community, its seaport life of the past and its rebirth following restoration. Now known as Mystic Seaport.
71575
ARBON, A. L.
A HISTORY OF UNION STEAMSHIP CO. OF NEW ZEALAND 1875-1971 - Volume 2: The Ships
$25.00 AUD
Ronald H. Parsons. Lobethal, South Australia. 1974. 1st Ed. Vol.2: VII, 135 PP. Typescript monograph, stapled. Stapled card covers worn around edges with a few chips/closed tears and lacking rear card cover. Slight ageing of paper. Name and address of previous owner on title-page, o/wise very good. Oblong: 16.5 x 20.6. 0909418020
33035
ARGYLE, E. W.
LOCAL CRAFT & YACHTS
$10.00 AUD
Picton Publishing. Chippenham. 1971. 1st Ed. and Part five in the Ships on Stamps series. (2), 64 with 16 b/w photos and 154 photos of stamps. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 21 x 15.3.
65166
AVON PRINT
OLD SHIP & SHIPPING PRINTS
$10.00 AUD
Avon Print Pty Ltd. Sydney. c. 1975. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with 14 b/w illusrations. Pictorial soft cover (Emigrant Sailing Ship, 1852). Very good. 26 x 21.
Catalogue of limited editions of old maps and charts.
47989
BACON, Vo
THE BOATING COOKBOOK
$20.00 AUD
Horwitz Grahame. Sydney. 1981. 1st Australian edition. (4), 158 PP with drawings. Pictorial soft cover, spiral bound. Foxing on outside edges. Very good. 17.5 x 12. 0725511656
64708
BAILLIE, Captain D. G. O.
A SEA AFFAIR - An Autobiography
$5.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by Viscount Simon of Stackpole Elidor. X, 11-290 PP, plus 14 pages with 24 b/w photos. Fp: Commodore D.G. Baillie on the bridge of S.S. Himalaya. Hard cover. Spine sunned. Copy lacking 3 b/w photos facing pages 94 / 95. Ageing of paper and foxing. Ex Library copy with stamps. Good reading copy. 23.2 x 16.
From the training ship "Worcester" to Commodore of P. & O., 50 years of life at sea.
15893
BAKER, W.A. & TRYCKARE, Tre
THE ENGINE POWERED VESSEL, From Paddle-Wheeler to Nuclear Ship
$15.00 AUD
Crescent Books. New York. 1972. 1st U.S. edition. 268 PP with 225 b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, decorated boards, dj. Very good. Oblong: 25.7 x 27.2.
The development of increased efficiency in the use of energy by ships, the key steps which led to a revolution in marine transport.
65072
BALLANTYNE, Iain
GUIDE TO THE ROYAL NAVY 2014/15
$15.00 AUD
HPC Publishing / Warships International Fleet Review. St Leonards-on-sea, East Sussex. 2014. Special edition of Warships International Fleet Review. 68 PP with colour photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.
13762
BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS
EARLY FRENCH VOYAGES TO AUSTRALIA - LES PREMIERES EXPEDITIONS FRANCAISES VERS L'AUSTRALIE (A portfolio of reproductions)
$450.00 AUD
Banque Nationale de Paris. Melbourne. 1981. Limited edition of 2300 copies. Special folder containing: An 8 PP text book with a preface by Rodney Davidson, 2 colour reproductions of invitations to attend State banquets marking the Centenary of Settlement in NSW (1888) and the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament (1901) and on title page (protected by tissue guard): Frontispiece of "Atlas du Voyage de La Pérouse, 1797". As well as 17 facsimiles of plates (4 of them on double page) from the atlases from Bougainville's Voyage until that of Dumont d'Urville's Second Voyage. Original blue stiff folder. Letter from Banque Nationale de Paris to previous owner loosely inserted. Fine. French & English text. Large folio (47.3 cm x 65.6cm). This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.
65239
BARNETT, Joel
"RISE OF THE GERMAN NAVY AFTER 1918" - Data Notes
$5.00 AUD
World Ship Society - Queensland. Brisbane. 1969. Special publication 1/69, April 1969. (2), 10 PP (typescript) with 2 tables. Soft cover, staples. Ageing of paper. Very good. Foolscap: 32 x 20.8.
42939
BENHAM, Hervey
ONCE UPON A TIDE
$25.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1971. Revised edition of the 1955 original. 240 PP with 15 illustrations in line by Roger Finch, plus 30 pages with 85 b/w illustrations. Fp: The Mersey oyster smack Boadicea. FEP: 3 maps of the North Sea and 12 traditional craft. REP: The traditional gear of the East coast fisherman. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dj with repaired short tears. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 024550804X
Ships and seamen of England's East Coast seaboard.
65468
BILLING, John
THE CORNUBIA PADDLE STEAMER and the Common Seal of the City of Gladstone Queensland
$80.00 AUD
Magic Daffodil Studio Press. Port Keats, N.T. 1993. 1st edition limited to 500 copies, hand numbered (No. 100) & signed by author. (8), 32 PP with 5 full-page b/w draw. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Scarce. 25.2 x 17. 0646153692
This paddle steamer built for the coast of Cornwall, came to Australia & was owned by Ben Boyd. She ended in Aneytum, Southern Vanuatu, owned by Capt. James Paddon, whaler, sandalwood trader and then settler in New Caledonia.
65047
BJÖRKLUND, Anders (editor)
PROCEEDINGS 1990, VIIth International Congress of Maritime Museums
$30.00 AUD
National Maritime Museums. Stockholm. 1991. 1st Ed. Preface by Lars-Ake Kvarning. 283 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers lightly soiled, o/wise fine. 24 x 16.5. 9185268488
31 papers presented during the 7th Congress held 24 August/2 September,1990, on board M/S Kristina Regina.
34797
BLACKMAN, Raymond V. B. (editor)
JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1972-73
$25.00 AUD
Chin Shan / Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Taipei, Taiwan. c. 1972. Taiwanese reprint of the 75th yearly issue. (4), 745 PP with some 3400 illust., (about 2900 b/w photos & 500 scale drawings). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (closed tear). Very good. 30.2 x 21.
53131
BLANCO, Francisco Mellén, DE LUCAS GONZALEZ, Miguel & TALAVAN, Miguel Luque
EXPEDICIONES ESPAÑOLAS EN EL PACIFICO SUR DEL SIGLO XVI AL XVIII / Spanish Expeditions to the South Pacific in the 16th-18th centuries
$35.00 AUD
SEACEX / Sociedad Estatal para la Accion Cultural de España. Madrid. 2006. 1st Ed. Forewords by Carmen Cerdeira and Miguel Angel Moratinos. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spanish and English text. Fine. 21 x 21. 8496008975
65226
BLIGH, William
THE BLIGH NOTEBOOK - 'Rough Account - Lieutenant Wm Bligh's voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor'
$25.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin / National Library of Australia. Sydney / Canberra. 1987 Transcription and Facsimile, edited by John Bach. XIV, 336 with 3 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations including 2 large folded plates with plans of Bounty launch, chart from Tofua to Isle of Java (with 3 insets) and painting of Kupang about 1803, & the facsimile of the Notebook (Page 221 to 328), draft list of mutineers (pages 331 to 336). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 24.6 x 16.8. 0049090321 / 0642104042
65346
BOLTON, Peter
COLLECT SHIPS ON STAMPS
$20.00 AUD
Stanley Gibbons Ltd. London. 1993. 2nd edition, in the Stanley Gibbons Thematic catalogue. (6), 321, (1 advert.) PP with thousands of stamps reproducted in b/w. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.8 x 20.8. 0852593627
From Abu Dhabi and Aden to Zanzibar and Zil Elwannyen Sesel (Seychelles).
65261
BOURKE, Kevin
MAN OF IRON, SHIP OF STEEL: The Story of Vic Meyer and Solo
$40.00 AUD
Author. Kingscliff, NSW. 2014. 1st Edition. Foreword by Sir James Hardy. 198 PP with b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Signed by the author on front endpaper. New. Oblong: 21.7 x 30.2. 9780646926094
Few yachts in the world could match Solo's career as a Racer (Sydney/Hobart, Brisbane/Gladstone, Trans Tasman race...), cruiser (circumnavigation of Australia, the Pacific, and the world), and Antarctic explorer with Dr David Lewis.
65010
BOWD, D. G.
MACQUARIE COUNTRY: A History of the Hawkesbury
$20.00 AUD
Library of Australian History. Sydney. 1979. Edition limited to 1500 copies of the revised edition of 1973 (original 1962). Foreword by Ronald B. Walker. (12), 242 PP, plus frontispiece and 16 plates with 26 b/w illustrations. Fp: A portrait of Governor Macquarie. FEP: Map Hawkesbury c. 1810. REP: Map of Hawkesbury district 1968. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 25.2. x 16. 090812032X
65110
BOWEN, Frank C.
THE SEA, Its History and Romance - Volume I
$50.00 AUD
Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd. London. c.1926. 1st Ed. Volume I: (VIII), 308 PP with 15 colour plates (1 folded one), and 143 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): The Great Harry, 1520. Cloth cover, blue buckram, gilt device and title on front board and spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Offsetting of the endpapers and foxing, o/wise a nice copy. 29 x 23.
64234
BRAYNARD, Frank O.
PRINT - "LIBERTAD", Argentina ("The Tall Ships", Official Op Sail '76 Portfolio)
$5.00 AUD
Sabine Press / Op Sail. New York. 1976. Frameable sketch of the the full-rigged steel squarer Libertad. Fine. Oblong format. 28 x 35.5.
Commissioned 1960 by the Argentinian Navy.
64238
BRAYNARD, Frank O.
PRINT - "AMERIGO VESPUCCI", Italy ("The Tall Ships", Official Op Sail '76 Portfolio)
$5.00 AUD
Sabine Press / Op Sail. New York. 1976. Frameable sketch of the Amerigo Vespucci, patterned after frigates of the 19th century. Fine. Oblong format. 28 x 35.5.
Commissioned 1931, by the Italian Navy.
64240
BRAYNARD, Frank O.
PRINT - "CHRISTIAN RADICH", Norway ("The Tall Ships", Official Op Sail '76 Portfolio)
$5.00 AUD
Sabine Press / Op Sail. New York. 1976. Frameable sketch of the Full-rigged ship Christian Radich. Fine. Oblong format. 28 x 35.5.
Owned by the worldwide Merchant Marine of Norway.
65525
BREWSTER, Hugh & COULTER, Laurie
882 1/2 AMAZING ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TITANIC
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin / Madison Press Book. Sydney / Toronto. 1998. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover. Few faint stains at lower part of fore outside edge. Very good. 27.5 x 21.5. 1864489383
The Titanic was 882 1/2 feet long. A fascinating look at the Titanic in the form of questions and answers.
15911
BRINNIN, J. M. (editor)
BEAU VOYAGE - Life Aboard the Last Great Ships
$15.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1982. 1st English edition of the 1980 French original "Paquebots: Le temps des traversées", by Michel Mohrt and Guy Feinstein. 272 PP with 331 b/w photos. Half title page: Queen Elizabeth, berthing New York. Eps: The Queen Mary moving down river to Grennock. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 32.5 x 24. 0500012725
64985
BRITTAIN, Tom & WRIGHT, Paul
SUBMARINES - A guide to the world's undersea navies
$5.00 AUD
Domino Books Ltd. Glasgow. 1979. Folded poster. 12 folds with colour artworks (1 cutaway, 11 armaments, 23 National / Navy Flags, and 26 submarines) painted by Tom Brittain and Paul Wright. Fine condition. Format - Poster: 50 x 132 / Folded: 50 x 11. 0006854699
23 types of modern submarines
21942
BROMLEY, J. S. (editor)
THE MANNING OF THE ROYAL NAVY. Selected Public Pamphlets 1693-1873
$10.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1974. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 119. L, 409, (7 publications) PP, plus 4 pages with facsimile title page of 4 pamphlets. Blue buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.5.
25 pamphlets: on impressment, Marine Militia... Suggestions for improving the character of Merchant Seamen, and providing an efficient Naval Reserve.
40160
BROWN, Anthony J.
ILL-STARRED CAPTAINS - FLINDERS AND BAUDIN
$30.00 AUD
Crawford House. Adelaide. 2000. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by Tim Flannery. XX, 512 PP with 1 sketch, 3 maps, 3 plans and 9 charts, plus 28 pages with 22 b/w and 35 colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.6 x 16. 1863331921
Australian exploration seen through two very different expeditions.
32402
BROXAM, Graeme
A STEAMSHIP FOR HOBART, S.S. REEMERE 1909
$20.00 AUD
Navarine. Canberra. 1992. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies (No. 423/1000). Foreword by Ken Wriedt. II, 60 PP with 1 plan, 1 map & 46 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Signed by author. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646113291
Story of small trading craft plying Tasmanian bays, rivers and inlets. The need to preserve and restore the SS Reemere, launched in 1909.
65112
BRYANT, Myffanwy / ACKLEY, Alice
A BLOODY BUSINESS: 150 years of Whaling in Australia / PRESERVING AUSTRALIA'S WHALING PAST: Discovery Bay Historic Whaling Station (in SIGNALS, Quarterly - No. 107)
$15.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2014. No. 107, June-August 2014. Bearings (foreword), by Kevin Sumption. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains 2 articles pages 2 to 6 and 54 to 59 with 5 b/w and 10 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30 x 23.
Also contains : Fishing, pearling, sailing, trading: tales of Western Australia's Mariners and their Craft, by Daina Fletcher. Timbers, planks and keels: Timber shipbuilding in 19th century New South Wales, by Dr. Roger Hobbs.
48441
BUCKLEY, William F.
ATLANTIC HIGH, A Celebration
$5.00 AUD
Doubleday. New York. 1982. 1st Ed. XVIII, 262 PP with 1 map, 1 figure and 72 bw photos in text plus 16 pages with 20 col. photos. Eps: Scrimshaw with track of voyage. Cloth cover. Spine faded. Faint foxing on outside edges. Good. 24 x 16. 0385152337
An Atlantic cruise in 1980: Virgin islands, Bermuda, Azores, Gibraltar. The author was Editor of the US National Review.
12666
BURCHETT, W. G.
PACIFIC TREASURE ISLAND - New Caledonia
$30.00 AUD
F. W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1942. 2nd edition of the 1941 original. 230 PP with 1 map, plus 20 pages with 26 b/w photos. Fp: Coconut tree. Eps: Map of Pacific Ocean with location of New Caledonia. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket chipped and with repaired tears. Ageing of paper and foxing. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.7.
Voyage through its land and wealth: the story of its people and past by a young Australian journalist in 1941.
21220
BURTON, Robert
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF WHALES
$15.00 AUD
Universe Books. New York. 1973. 2nd printing of the 1973 original. 159 PP with 2 tables and 21 figures, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Eps: 17 species of whales. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Light foxing, mostly around page edges, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 16.4. 0876631839
Study of whales, life at sea, behaviour, birth & death. The whaling industry: founding, development, sperm whales,.. legislation & conservation.
74553
BURTON, Robert
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF WHALES
$10.00 AUD
Andre Deutsch. London. 1980. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. 185 PP with 20 b/w figures and 3 tables in text, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Hard cover, dust jacket (price-clipped). Dust jacket a little creased and endpapers and some pages a little ruffled. Still a good copy. 22 x 14. 0233971300
65337
BUTLER, James G.
SEA BREEZES FAMOUS WARSHIPS (Nos. 7 to 12)
$20.00 AUD
The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph Ltd. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 6 filing cards with warship profile and aerial view to scale, technical data and history of 6 Famous Warships, contained in a clear plastic envelope. Few foxing spots. Near fine. 25.3 x 20.3.
H.M.S. Ark Royal (1938) - H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906) - H.M.S. Ajax (1935) - H.M.S. Cossack (1938) - Dunkerque (1937) - U.S.S. Saratoga (1927).
65052
BYRNE, Dianne
A TRAVELLING PHOTOGRAPHER IN COLONIAL QUEENSLAND - The Work of William Boag
$75.00 AUD
Brisbane. 1994. State Library of Queensland. 1st Ed., with a preface by W. Ross Johnson. IX, 118 PP with b/w ilustrations (2 maps, 5 newspaper clippings and 9 photos) and 104 b/w plates. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 30 x 25. 0724258833
64823
CABBAN, Peter & SALTER, David
BREAKING RANKS
$10.00 AUD
Random House Australia. Sydney. 2005 1st Ed. XII, (4), 384 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 16 pages with 42 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Newspaper clippings. Inside back cover: transcripts of Enquiry. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Occasional posting. Very good. 23.3 x 15.2. 1740513150
The true story behind the HMAS Voyager scandal.
57563
CADORET, Bernard, BENNETT, Jenny ... (Editors)
MARITIME LIFE AND TRADITIONS - No. 13
$10.00 AUD
Le Chasse-Marée & WoodenBoat Publications. Douarnenez. 2001. No. 13, December 2001. (6), 82 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 22.
Shark hunting in Ireland, by Criostor Mac-Carthalgh. On the Garlandstone, by Basil Greenhill and Gary Emerson. The Gold-Rush Storeship Niantic, by James P. Delgado. Daring the sea: the first Atlantic crossing under oars, by David W. Shaw...
75623
CARR, Denis J. (editor)
SYDNEY PARKINSON, Artist of Cook's Endeavour Voyage
$80.00 AUD
British Museum (Natural History) in association with ANU Press. Canberra. 1983. 1st Australian edition. XVI, 300 PP with VIII & 253 plates (130 in colour). Fp: Colour portrait of Sydney Parkinson. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt device (kangaroo) on front, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 25. 0708111726
Wide range selection of drawings: plants, animals, people, scenery and boats made during the first voyage of Captain Cook until Parkinson's death in Javanese waters.
65447
CARR, Frank G. G.
CUTTY SARK - Last of the Clippers (in Yachting World, December 1954)
$10.00 AUD
Yachting World / The Cutty Sark Society. London. 1954. Reprint from issue of December 1954. 8 PP with 6 line drawings by Max Millar and 5 b/w photos. Soft cover (foxing spots). Very good. 29.4 x 21.
65222
CARY, William S.
WRECKED ON THE FEEJEES - Experience of a Nantucket Man, the sole survivor of crew of Whaleship "Oeno", who lived for nine years among Cannibals of South Pacific
$100.00 AUD
The Inquirer and Mirror Press. Nantucket, Mass. 1928. 1st edition with a foreword by Harry B. Turner. (4), 74 PP. Contemporary card covers retaining original wrappers which are pasted down. Staples removed. Few tears repaired. Name of previous owner on rear blank page. Paper a little browned, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 19 x 14.5.
An account of the Nantucket whaling ship "Oeno" wrecked on Turtle Island on 5th April, 1825.
65303
CASARES, Joaquin Garcia
HISTORIA DEL DARIEN: Cuevas, Cunas, Españoles, Afros, presencia y actualidad de los Chocoes
$150.00 AUD
Editorial Universitaria Carlos Manuel Gasteazoro. Panama. 2008. 1st edition limited to 500 copies. 559 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, plans & sketch maps, facsimile of documents and 40 photos) plus 9 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Lower corner of front cover with small creases, o/wise near fine. Spanish text. 28 x 23.2. 9789962531586
38506
CASSELLS, Vic
THE DESTROYERS, their Battles and their Badges
$35.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed., in the Australia's Naval Heritage series. XIV, 250 PP with 60 badges in colour and b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with light shelf wear, o/wise a fine copy. 28.7 x 21.6. 0731808932
20576
CELL, Gillian T. (editor)
NEWFOUNDLAND DISCOVERED, English Attempts at Colonisation, 1610-1630
$10.00 AUD
The Hakluyt Society. London. 1982. Second Series, Volume 160. XVIII, 310 PP with 5 bw illust. (3 maps). Fp: Map of the Island of Newfoundland. Cloth cover, dj. (rubbed around edges and in a protective sleeve). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0904180131
Settlement, tied to the exploitation of cod fisheries, as well as searching for iron, growing food...
65076
CHAMBERS, Keith S. & MUNRO, Doug
DUPERREY AND THE DISCOVERY OF NANUMAGA IN 1824: An Episode in Pacific Exploration (in The Great Circle, Volume 11, No. 1)
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1989. Vol. 11, No. 1, 1989. 66 PP. Contains article pages 37 to 43 with 1 table and 1 sketch map. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. 23.5 x 16.
42619
CHATTERTON, E. Keble
GALLANT GENTLEMEN
$15.00 AUD
Hurst & Blackett. London. 1934. 6th impression of the 1931 original. 296 PP with 1 plan, 1 sketch, 4 maps, plus 16 b/w plates with 31 photos. Fp: After the Falklands Battle. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, occasional foxing in text, o/wise a near fine copy. 22 x 14.5.
56043
CHEESMAN, L. E.
THE CYCLOPS MOUNTAINS OF DUTCH NEW GUINEA (in The Geographical Journal)
$25.00 AUD
The Royal Geographical Society. London. 1938. Extract from: Vol. XCI, No. 1, January 1938. Pages 21 to 30 with 1 map, plus 2 pages with 4 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
54286
CHEESMAN, L. Evelyn
THE ISLAND OF MALEKULA, NEW HEBRIDES (In the Geographical Journal)
$20.00 AUD
The Royal Geographical Society. London. 1933. Volume LXXXI, No. 3 (March 1933): 193-210 PP with 2 maps, plus 2 plates with 9 b/w illustrations (3 paintings, 6 photos). Soft cover. Front cover with a closed tear. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24.7 x 15.5.
Paper read at the Evening Meeting of the Society on 21 November 1932.
56092
CHEEVER, Rev. Henry T.
THE WHALE AND HIS CAPTORS; or THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES, and The Whale Biography, as gathered on the homeward cruise of the "Commodore Preble"
$40.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. 1991. Facsimile reprint of the 1850 original. XIII, 314, (6 publications); 1 (colophon) PP with 34 b/w engravings. Eps: Sperm whale rammed by steam whale chaser. Hard cover, Simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0877704872
Whaling in the North & South Pacific (including Rimatara Island of the Austral Group) & Atlantic Oceans in 1844 & 1845.
65018
CHESNEAU, Roger & RIMELL, Ray
SEA HARRIER - British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS MK 1
$20.00 AUD
Linewrights Ltd Publication. Chipping Ongar, Essex. 1984. 1st Ed. No. 3 in the Aeroguide series. 32 PP with 69 b/w photos and 9 line drawings and colour profile by Steve Archibald. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29/7 x 21. 0946958025
64317
CLANCY, Robert & RICHARDSON, Alan
SO CAME THEY SOUTH
$25.00 AUD
Shakespeare Head Press. Sydney. 1988. 1st edition, in Library Reference series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illust. (charts & paintings). Fp: 1540 map by Sebastian Munster. FEP: Mare del Sud / Mare Pacifico. REP: India Orientalis. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Near fine. 32 x 23. 0730208648
Discovery and mapping by Europeans of the Australian continent and of New Zealand.
64993
CORDATO, Tony, HODGE, John & WEBBER, Kimberley
Where is Grandma's Teapot ? - RECORD KEEPING FOR HISTORICAL MUSEUMS
$15.00 AUD
Museum Studies, The University of Sydney. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. (2), 21 PP with 16 figures. Errata slip tipped in on title page. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. 29 x 20.7. 0867581077
62550
CRAGO, Tony
THE FLEET AT ANCHOR, RIO DE JANEIRO (colour print)
$5.00 AUD
John Sands Promotional Products. Sydney. 1987. Print from the 1988 Calendar "Journey of the First Fleet" from the original colour painting by Tony Crago. Format: 31.5 x 38.
One of the six prints with a 10 lines (on 4 columns) caption at top of each print. The Fleet at Anchor, Rio de Janeiro / The Fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
62551
CRAGO, Tony
CLOSING UP THE FLEET AFTER LEAVING CAPETOWN (colour print)
$5.00 AUD
John Sands Promotional Products. Sydney. 1987. Print from the 1988 Calendar "Journey of the First Fleet" from the original colour painting by Tony Crago. Format: 31.5 x 38.
One of the six prints with a 10 lines (on 4 columns) caption at top of each print. Closing up the Fleet after leaving Capetown / From Capetown to Botany Bay.
62553
CRAGO, Tony
ENTERING PORT JACKSON (colour print)
$5.00 AUD
John Sands Promotional Products. Sydney. 1987. Print from the 1988 Calendar "Journey of the First Fleet" from the original colour painting by Tony Crago. Format: 31.5 x 38.
One of the six prints with a 10 lines (on 4 columns) caption at top of each print. Entering Port Jackson / At Journey's End.
65200
CREW, Gary & WILSON, Mark
THE CASTAWAYS OF THE CHARLES EATON
$20.00 AUD
Lothian Books. Melbourne. 2002. Juvenile edition. No pagination, 32 PP with colour illustrations by Mark Wilson. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5. 0734403437
Wrecked 15th August 1834 on Great Detached Reef, Great Barrier Reef.
52988
DE VOS, Ron
THE CLIPPER STAD AMSTERDAM (in Maritime Life and Traditions)
$10.00 AUD
Le Chasse-Marée & WoodenBoat Publications. Douarnenez. 2001. No. 12, September 2001. (4), 84 PP. Contains article P. 44 to 59 with 1 set of line-drawings, and 26 colour illustrations (1 cutaway, 1 sail plan, 4 sketches and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 22.
Modern 200'-long fully-rigged clipper: keel laid 16 December 1997... First sea trials on 23 May 2000.
64986
DIBB, Geoffrey (editor)
THE THAMES BOOK, incorporating the Association of Thames Yacht Clubs Handbook - Navigator Directory Guide, 1964
$15.00 AUD
George Godwin Ltd. London. 1964. 1964 edition. 148 PP with tables, b/w illustrations (41 sketch maps & plans, drawings, graphs photos) and colour illustrations (4 on Buoy Systems and 38 Burgees of Clubs). Pictorial soft cover, spiral bound. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. Oblong: 18 x 24.5..
48924
DOWNER, Martyn
NELSON'S PURSE. An extraordinary historical detective story shedding new light on the life of Britain's greatest naval hero
$5.00 AUD
Bantam Press. London. 2004. 1st Ed. (8), 424 PP with 18 head pieces and 28 b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimiles of documents or letters, paintings), plus 32 pages with 1 b/w and 48 colour photos. Eps: Plan of the attack of Lord Nelson on the combined fleet, October 21st 1805. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0593051807
13388
DUDDEN, Arthur Power
THE AMERICAN PACIFIC, From the Old China Trade to the Present
$20.00 AUD
OUP. New York. 1992. 1st US Ed. XX, 314 PP with 10 maps. Eps: Map of the New Pacific. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 195058216
History of the United States on the Pacific rim and in East Asia. From the trade of sea otter and beaver pelts bought from the Indians and sold to China, to the post Vietnam war era and the end of the Cold War.
49426
DUTTON, Geoffrey
IN SEARCH OF EDWARD JOHN EYRE
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Melbourne. 1982. 1st Ed. VIII, 152 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Initials of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 26.8 x 19.4. 0333338413
Overlander and explorer in Australia, Governor in New Zealand and the West Indies.
55981
DUTTON, Thomas
SEA-SICKNESS (Cause, Treatment, and Prevention). Voyaging for Health, Health Resorts
$10.00 AUD
Henry Kimpton / Hirschfield Bros. London. 1892. 3rd edition (5th thousand). XII, 134 PP. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Covers slightly rubbed. Speckle spots on back cover. Top corner of title page clipped. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18.7 x 13.
A concise practical treatise.
65252
EDWARDS, Hugh
THE REMARKABLE DOLPHINS OF MONKEY MIA
$10.00 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. Dedicatory note inside front cover signed by the author. Near fine. 24 x 16.2. 0731679822
65085
EVANS, I.O.
FLAGS
$10.00 AUD
Hamlyn Publishing Group / Sun Books. London / Melbourne. 1970. 1st edition in the "Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks" series 160 PP with colour illustrations throughout. Rebacked copy retaining original covers. Very good. 18.5 x 11.5. 600001237
Country flags, flags in space, signal flags, international flags, ...
54210
FARWELL, George
PADDLEWHEELS OF YESTERDAY (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol. 13, No.12)
$5.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1969. December 1969. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 2 to 8 with 7 b/w photos. Soft cover. Near fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
On the Murray and Darling rivers.
40763
FAY, Leonard G. (editor)
TANKER DIRECTORY OF THE WORLD 1960
$30.00 AUD
Terminus Publications. London. 1960. 1st Ed. XII, 286, XIII-XXIV PP with 47 pages of advertising material, 1 plan, 2 graphs and 78 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Foxing of both endpapers, o/wise very good. 28.8 x 22.
Amenities in the modern Tanker. Outlook for German tankers... Malta's new role... P. and O. Group of tankers... Safety from fire and explosion... List of tankers. List of owners and/or managers.
64883
FINLAY, Patrick (editor)
JANE'S FREIGHT CONTAINERS 1973-74
$35.00 AUD
Macdonald & Jane's Publishing Co. London. 1973. 6th Ed. (38), 662 PP with b/w illustrations (photos and plans), plus 8 b/w or colour guide-cards. Cloth cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 32.8 x 22. 0354001159
The world-wide survey of container and roll-on/roll-off operations.
22214
FITCHETT, T. K.
THE LONG HAUL - Ships on the England-Australia Run
$15.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1980. 1st Ed. 95 PP with colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 22.5 x 28.5. 0727010271
Passenger ships running the longest sea route in the world.
64976
FLETCHER, Daina
GUIDE TO MARITIME MUSEUMS IN AUSTRALIA, and register of members
$15.00 AUD
Australian Maritime Museums Council. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. Foreword by Mary-Louise Williams. VI, 38 PP. Soft cover, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0646405357
22893
FOLEY, Captain John C. H.
REEF PILOTS - The History of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service
$35.00 AUD
Banks Bros. & Street. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. XIX, 202 PP plus 64 pages of illustrations. Title page: Crest of the Torres Strait Pilots. Fp: Chart of the Torres Strait. Eps: Charts of the Queensland coasts. Hard cover, dj (a little sunned on spine). Signed by the author on the recto of the frontispiece. Loosely inserted: Invitation to the launch of the book at The Brisbane Club on 30th April, 1982. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0959335803
History of the Queensland Coast & Torres Strait Pilot Service.
53181
FORSTER, Georg
COOK, THE DISCOVERER
$225.00 AUD
Hordern House / Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2007. No. 6 in the Australian Maritime Series. 1st edition limited to 1050 copies, with a foreword by Martin Lutz, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany and an introductory essay by Dr. Nigel Erskine. Translated from the 1787 German original "Cook der Entdecker. Versuch eines Denkmals". 276 PP with 9 illustrations and German text in gothic script between pages 40 and 148. Fp: The Apotheosis of Captain Cook. Bound in quarter tan kangaroo with marbled papered boards. Gilt title on burgundy vignette on spine. Fine. 25.5 x 21.5. 8781875567492
Cook the Discoverer. An Attempted Memorial. A new translation accompanying a facsimile of "Cook, der Entdecker? Versuch eines Denkmals", being a memoir of Captain Cook written by Georg Forster, first published in Berlin in 1787.
47105
FRASER, Rod
THE CHAMPION OF THE SEAS
$30.00 AUD
Pilgrim Printing Services. Melbourne. 1999. 1st Ed. 320 PP with facsimile of documents and newspaper entries, b/w illustrations (engravings, etchings and photos), plus 1 b/w and 3 colour plates. Inside front cover (in colour): Entrance of Port Phillip. Inside back cover (in colour): Lighthouse at Point Lonsdale. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Dedicatory note signed by the author on title page. Very good. 24.8 x 17.5. 0957720203
The 2447 ton clipper Champion of the Seas carried around 5300 migrants during 15 voyages from Liverpool to Melbourne between 1854 and 1868. Selection of shipboard diaries, extracts from the Captain's Log, and full reprint of The Champion of the Seas Gazette, and The Champion of the Seas Times, printed on a weekly basis on board.
65343
GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, Inca
COMENTARIOS REALES DE LOS INCAS - Epitome
$15.00 AUD
Editorial Mantaro. Lima, Peru. 1998. 1st Ed., April 1998. 204, (1) PP. Decorated soft covers. Light ageing of paper. Spanish text. Near fine. 20.5 x 14.2.
14328
GARRETT, K. S.
EVERARD OF GREENHITHE
$60.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1991. 1st Ed. 238 PP with 1 map (Greenhithe on the River Thames), 6 full page of colour illustrations (3 funnels & colours) and 408 b/w photos of sailing barges (30), motor vessels and port scenes. Fp: Colour painting Greenhithe, Kent. Eps: General particulars of Pamela Everard. Cloth cover, gilt-decorated front cover (house flag), gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0905617584
Company started in 1922 by the manager of the shipyard which was building & repairing sailing barges.
64894
GERMAN, Andrew W.
MYSTIC SEAPORT: The First Fifty Years - A Chronological Survey
$10.00 AUD
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. Mystic, Ct. 1980. 1st Ed. 44 PP with b/w illustrations (3 plans and 67 photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 25.4 x 17.8.
Started as The Marine Historical Association, on 25th December 1929.
65142
GHIONE, Sergio
TURTLE ISLAND A Journey to Britain's Oddest Colony
$20.00 AUD
Allen Lane / The Penguin Press. London. 2002. 1st UK edition, translated from the 2000 Italian original by Martin McLaughlin. (14), 158 PP with 1 diagram and 1 map with location map. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 22.4 x 14. 0713995475
51149
GRAHAM, Colin (editor)
SEA FARE - Volume 1, No. 9
$10.00 AUD
Sydney. 1970. Trident Publishing. Volume 1, No. 9, April 1970. 40 PP with 2 plans, 2 figures and b/w photos. Pictorial wrappers (H.M. Bark Endeavour). Very good. 21.5 x 15.2.
H.M. Bark Endeavour. Perth & Fremantle working Vessels (part 2). Ships of the month: Strathnaver & Strathaird. World news.
64968
GRAHAM, Colin (editor)
SEA FARE - Volume 1, No. 10 (Bi-Centenary Number)
$10.00 AUD
Sydney. 1970. Trident Publishing. Volume 1, No. 10, May 1970. 40 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial wrappers (U.S.S. Bainbridge). Old stains on covers, o/wise very good. 21.5 x 15.2.
The Bi-Centenary Armada: 5 pages with 8 photos. Fairstar, ship of the month: 4 pages with 1 profile and 4 photos
43584
GREEN, Timothy
THE SMUGGLING BUSINESS
$10.00 AUD
Aldus Books. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 1 map, 42 colour and 120 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 26.8 x 19.8. 0490003702
65277
GREGORY, C. Dickson
AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT
$300.00 AUD
The Richards Press Ltd. London. 1928. 1st Ed. Foreword by Granville Ryrie. 260 PP, plus 6 colour plates (full page) and 138 pages with 276 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): H.M.S. "Ophir" 6814 tons. Original blue buckram covers, gilt decorated front cover, gilt title on spine, top edges gilt. Covers a little rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Short neat note to previous owner on front endpaper. Frontispiece with repaired closed tears. Colour plate facing page 152 has some scribble but not affecting the illustration. Light foxing, not affecting illustrations. Very good copy of a scarce item. 25.7 x 20.
The history of steam navigation in Australian waters, beginning in 1831 with the arrival of the Sophia Jane.
64665
GROSE, Peter
AN AWKWARD TRUTH: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. c. 2013. Reprint (13th) of the 2009 original. XIII, 258 PP with 2 tables and 4 maps, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 9781741756432
36620
GUTHRIE, Margaret D.
THE FIRST TOURIST - Commemorating the Bicentenary of Matthew Flinders Voyage in the Sloop Norfolk to Bribie Island and Moreton Bay
$10.00 AUD
Author. Bribie Island. 1999. 1st Ed. (8), 72 PP with 8 b/w illust., plus 16 plates with 30 colour illust. Verso of title page: Matthew Flinders, from the portrait by Antoine Toussaint de Chazal. Decorated card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646369776
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.
65134
HARRIS, Max, SMITH, Bernard, DUTTON, Geoffrey et al. (editors)
AUSTRALIA'S HERITAGE: The Making of a Nation. Vol. 2: The formative years
$15.00 AUD
Hamlyn House. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. Vol. 2: (4), 121-240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): John Macarthur. Hard cover, illustrated front cover (Whaling scene). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 28.3 x 20.5.
65297
HARVEY, N. (editor)
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume 92
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia SA (Inc). Adelaide. 1992. Volume 92, 1992. (2), 86 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Top corner of front cover rubbed. Very good. 24 x 18.
Leichhardt's First attempt to the Swan River, 1846-1847 ..., by Dan Sprod. ... Samuel Grau Hubbe: a minor explorer (Oodnadatta to Coolgardie), by Moxon Simpson. ... The Big Run: Victoria River Downs, by Jock Makin.
65473
HAVILLAND, Charlotte (editor)
THE CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED - A Pictorial History 1872-1992
$100.00 AUD
John Swire & Sons Limited. Hong Kong. 1992. 1st Ed. (2), 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 2 maps in colour (1 of them folded). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, dj. 2 rubbed patches on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Oblong: 26 x 33.5.
From the start as a Yangtze river steamer company to a shipping line covering Far Eastern & Pacific waters.
49236
HAWKINS, Clifford W.
LOG OF THE HUIA. A Record of the Schooner
$60.00 AUD
Leader Press. Auckland. 1947. 1st Ed. 85 PP with b/w illustrations (52 photos, 3 plans, 1 map & 11 flags or pennants flown), plus 2 folded plans (lines and sail plan). Title-page: Off Whangaparaoa. Marbled cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (a little rubbed with a few small chips). A near fine copy of the scarce first edition. 21.5 x 14.
New Zealand topsail schooner which plied the Tasman and the Pacific for over 50 years.
70091
HAWS, Duncan
MERCHANT FLEETS IN PROFILE - 3 - The ships of the UNION, CASTLE & UNION-CASTLE, ALLAN and CANADIAN PACIFIC LINES
$25.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1979. 1st Ed. No. 3 in the Merchant Fleets in Profile series. 186 PP with scale profile drawings (1:1800) by author. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0850993522
56925
HEENAN, David
DUNK ISLAND AND BEAVER CAY
$10.00 AUD
Glenmede. Brisbane. 1994. 1st Ed., in Australia's Great Barrier Reef series. 48 PP with 1 map with 2 insets on double page, 8 b/w and 74 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 29.4 x 21.5. 0646168495
Holiday resort, research station...
22048
HELLING, William P.
REDISTRIBUTING THE BLAME - Baudin's Voyage to the Australian Seas (in The Great Circle - Volume 15, No. 2, 1993)
$15.00 AUD
Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1993. Vol. 15, No.2. 73-142, (2) PP. Contains article between P.107 and 127 with 5 maps. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 16.5.
The Baudin expedition and some of the problems which plagued it: coordination between geographers and naturalists and their lengthy separations plus the problem of personalities (Baudin and Péron).
51240
HINDWOOD, K. A., KEITH, K. & SERVENTY, D. L.
BIRDS OF THE SOUTH-WEST CORAL SEA
$10.00 AUD
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Melbourne. 1963. 1st Ed. Division of Wildlife Research Technical Paper No. 3. 44 PP with 7 tables, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos on 7 plates, and a folded map at back of book. Soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.8.
65016
HMAS DIAMANTINA
COMMISSIONING OF HMAS DIAMANTINA II, 4 May 2002
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Navy. Sydney. 2002. Souvenir brochure. 3 folds with 2 b/w photos and colour illustrations (2 portraits, 4 badges and 4 photos). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
5th of the 6 Huon Class Minehunters, built by ADI, Newcastle.
47720
HOLMES, Captain J. W.
FIFTY YEARS ON THE SEVEN SEAS IN SAIL (in The Sydney Mail )
$40.00 AUD
John Fairfax & Sons. Sydney. 1937. No. 1320, Vol. LI, issued 14th July 1937. 52 PP. Contains article (first of 3 instalments) on pages 5, 10-11, and 28 with b/w illustrations. Pictorial wrappers with a few chips or nicks showing a colour painting: "with the sextant". Light foxing, staples rusty, o/wise contents near fine. Large format: 40 x 29.
Other article : Singapore's Great Airport and Sydney's Flying-Boat Base.
63042
HORNBY, Ove
"WITH CONSTANT CARE..." - A.P. MOLLER: Shipowner 1876-1965
$45.00 AUD
J. H. Schultz Information. Copenhagen. 1988. 1st edition with a foreword by Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller. 326 PP with tables, 1 map, 1 family tree, 2 sketch-plans of ships, 1 page with house flag, funnel and seal of Maersk line (in colour), 2 colour illustrations and 60 b/w photos. Cloth cover, device (seven-pointed star) on front cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 17. 8756923562
The largest shipping company of Denmark. Fleet list covering 216 of their ships.
63870
HUDDART PARKER LIMITED
WAR SERVICE OF THE MERCHANT NAVY - A Record of the Participation of the Men and Ships of Huddart Parker Ltd
$35.00 AUD
John D. Harris & Co. Melbourne. 1951. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans. 79 PP with head-pieces in colour and 33 b/w photos. House flag (in colour) on half title page. Cloth cover with gilt title and crest on front board. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 29 x 22.5.
A tribute to the men who served during 1939/1945, together with a Roll of Honour.
35845
INGLETON, Geoffrey Chapman
TRUE PATRIOTS ALL, or News from Early Australia, as told in a Collection of Broadsides
$20.00 AUD
Charles E. Tuttle. Rutland, Vt, USA. 1988. Reprint of the 1952 original, published for the year of Australia's bicentenary. VIII, 280 PP with b/w illustrations by author. Fp: A poster (in colour) for the aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, c. 1828, tipped in. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly faded. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 28 x 22. 0804815453
Convict transports, shipwrecks, escapes, mutiny, marooned seamen...
46434
IRVINE, Lucy
FARAWAY
$10.00 AUD
Doubleday. London. 2000. 1st paperback edition. XIV, 386 PP with 5 maps, plus 32 pages with 13 b/w and 73 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover.with a few light creases, spine slightly creased. Ageing of paper and faint foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 23.3 x 15.5. 0385601808
Adventures and life in the second half of the 20th century on the faraway island of Pigeon Island, Lom Lom group, Reef Islands, Solomon.
65335
ISHERWOOD, J. H.
SEA BREEZES FAMOUS SHIPS (Nos. 7 to 24)
$35.00 AUD
The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph Ltd. London. 1964. 1st Ed. 17 colour filing cards with ship profiles to scale (funnel and hull colours), technical data and history of 17 Famous Ships, contained in a clear plastic envelope. Top corner of 7 cards lightly bumped. Few foxing spots. Near fine. 25.3 x 20.3.
Aquitania (1914) - Leonardo da Vinci (1960) - Malolo - see image (1927) - Statendam (1929) - Omarah (1899) - Suwa Maru (1914) - Orcades (1937) - Titanic (1912) - Lafayette (1930) - Santa Paula (1932) - Columbia (1899) - Peninnsular (1888) - Kaiser Wilhelm II (1903) - Baltic (1904) - Conte di Savoia (1932) - President Coolidge (1931) - Almanzora (1915) - Chichibu Maru (1930).
64891
JOHNSTON, W. Ross
THE CALL OF THE LAND - A History of Queensland to the Present Day
$25.00 AUD
Brisbane. 1982. The Jacaranda Press 1st Ed. VIII, 229 PP with b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimile of documents, maps, photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 26.2 x 20. 0701616555
20731
KAUL, Cynthia, BOBROW, Jill & JINKINS, Dana
HARBORS OF ENCHANTMENT, A Yachtsman's Anthology
$15.00 AUD
Concepts Publishing. Waitsfield, Vt., USA. 1989. 1st Ed. 287 PP with 19 colour maps, paintings by Peter Carr & numerous colour photos. Illustrated title page and half title page. Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped). Near fine. 31 x 23.3. 0393027619
Fabulous photographs, imaginative text... on the world's most favoured destinations of cruising yachtsmen.
64608
KEMP, Peter
THE HISTORY OF SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
Orbis Publishing. London. 1983. Reprint of 1978 original. 320 PP with profuse b/w & colour illustrations in text. Illustrated endpapers (the schooner Alert). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.7 x 23.2. 0856135011
Man's struggle for mastery of the sea from the oarpower, the use of sail, to the nuclear energy of the submarine or the aircraft carrier.
63612
KIRSOP, Wallace (Curator)
KNOWLEDGE THROUGH PRINT: A Melbourne Perspective
$20.00 AUD
University of Melbourne. Melbourne. 2012. 1st Ed. Foreword by Douglas Stewart and Acknowledgements by Pam Pryde. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 21. 9780734047847
An exhibition held in the Leigh Scott Gallery, Bailieu Library: 12 June - 2 September 2012.
64492
LAING, Alexander
AMERICAN SHIPS
$15.00 AUD
American Heritage Press. New York. 1971. 1st Ed. XXI, (3), 536 PP with 98 pages of b/w illustrations. Title spread: Crowninshield's wharf, Salem, in 1806. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Repaired dust jacket which has a faded spine is now in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 26 x 18. 07035846X
Whaling, whalers and whaling ships - Clippers - Sail or Steam?, Wood or Metal? - Last challenges of wood and sail.
62961
LAXON, W.A., FARQUHAR, I.J., KIRBY, N.J. & PERRY, F.W.
CROSSED FLAGS - The histories of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited and the Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited and their subsidiaries
$50.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Gravesend, UK. 1997. 1st Ed. 196 PP with 10 colour plates and 336 b/w illust. Fp: R.M.S. "Rangitane" leaving Auckland, 1938. Half title page: The Crossed Flags, Maritime Building, Napier. FEP: Capacity plan of "Northumberland", 1916. REP: Capacity plan of "Hinakura", 1949. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, gilt flags on front cover, dj. A fine copy. 30.2 x 21.5. 0905617878
65030
LEMONOFIDES, Dino
BRITISH INFANTRY COLOURS
$15.00 AUD
Almark Publishing Co. Ltd. London. 1972. Soft cover edition. July 1972 reprint of the February 1971 original. 56 PP with b/w illustrations and 6 plates with 39 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 15. 0855240210
65051
LLOYD'S
LLOYD'S BOOK OF HOUSE FLAGS & FUNNELS OF THE PRINCIPAL STEAMSHIP LINES OF THE WORLD AND THE HOUSE FLAGS OF VARIOUS LINES OF SAILING VESSELS
$750.00 AUD
Lloyd's London. London. 1912. Updated version of the 1904 original edition. (6), (2 PP index to National and Official Flags / index to Funnels), (30 PP index to shipowners), (2), 16 PP advertisements, plus 111 plates (25 to 136) with colour House-Flags and Funnels. Green cloth cover, gilt decorated front, gilt title on spine. Spine is soiled with some cracking and has been reinforced. Rear cover is a little soiled, o/wise front cover is quite clean and bright. Inside front and rear gutters are a little cracked. No other imperfections, and internally this is near fine copy of a very rare item. 25.5 x 16.
Plates 25 to 35: National and Official Flags. Plate 36: International Code Flags and Pennants. Plates 37 to 126 "House-Flags and Funnels of Steam Vessels": Numbered from 1 to 1890 (with 145 blank spaces and 45 corrections of House-Flags / Funnels pasted down on the opposite page). Plates 127 to 132 with blank spaces for No. 1891 to No. 2016, followed by an extra page with 21 blank spaces. Plates 133 to 136 "House-Flag of Sailing Vessels and other flags": numbered 2017 to 2128 (with 19 blank spaces).
65083
LLOYD'S
LLOYD'S CALENDAR 1959
$10.00 AUD
Lloyd's. London. 1958. Yearly edition. Edited by Captain A.R. PILKINGTON, Basil LUBBOCK, et al... XVIII, 738 PP with figures (plans, sketch maps and photos), graphs, tables and illustrated advertising material, thumbnail index, plus b/w plates. Eps: Adverts. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Lower part of spine speckled. Signature on FFEP. Very good. 20.8 x 13.5.
70 tide tables. Ships' boats and inflatable life rafts. Salvage operations at sea. Glossary of Maritime terms, commercial abreviations... Collision regulations... Record sailing ship voyages...
65280
LOCKWOOD, Kim
D-DAY LANDINGS - 70th Anniversary Edition
$15.00 AUD
Wilkinson Publishing. Melbourne. 2014. 1st Ed., in the WP Discovery series. No pagination, 88 PP with 6 maps in colour, b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 32 x 24. 9781922178350
39965
LONEY, J. K.
WRECKS ON VICTORIA'S SOUTH WEST COAST
$10.00 AUD
Marine History Publication. Geelong. 1975. 3rd edition of the 1968 original. (1), 39 PP, plus 8 pages with 2 maps and 12 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Faint foxing. Very good. 20.2 x 14.
A survey of incidents from Victorian - South Australian border to Lady Bay, including Portland, Port Fairy, and Warrnambool.
43290
LONEY, Jack & STONE, Peter
THE AUSTRALIA RUN - Volume 6 in Australian Shipwrecks
$45.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Benalla, Vic. 2000. 1st Ed, Volume 6, in Australian Shipwrecks series. (10), 318, (32 indexes) PP with 1 graph, 20 maps & location maps, and over 106 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 18.5. 9780909191535
Ships lost in the run between Great Britain and Australia.
64726
LUDLOW, Peter
MORETON BAY LETTERS
$25.00 AUD
Peter Ludlow. Brisbane. 2003. 1st Ed. 151 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Note inside front cover signed by the author. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2. 095772604X
The sequel to Moreton Bay People.
65055
LURIE, Richard
UNDER THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
$10.00 AUD
Jarrolds. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 191 PP with 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos and frontispiece. Fp (in colour): Aqualung diver collecting Red Fan coral. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. Image shows title page and frontispiece. 21.6 x 14.
65278
LUSITANIA
LUSITANIA TORPEDOED (in Great Newspapers Reprinted)
$15.00 AUD
Great Newspapers Reprinted / Peter Way Ltd. London. 1972. Reprint of "The Daily Mirror", Saturday, May 8, 1915. 16 PP with b/w illustrations and a 4 pages pictorial wrapper "PGNR No. 14". Fine. 37 x 29.
16719
M'LEOD, John
THE VOYAGE OF THE ALCESTE TO THE RYUKYUS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
$15.00 AUD
Charles E. Tuttle. Rutland, Vermont. 1963. Reprint of 1817 orig. Ed. XXVII, (6), 288 PP plus 3 folded maps & 5 full-page b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Capt. Maxwell. Eps: Track of the voyage of the Alceste then the Caesar. Cloth cover, decoration on front cover, dj ((price-clipped and a few small chips). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 13.5.
John M'Leod was the surgeon on the Alceste, a 46 guns frigate. The voyage to the Yellow Sea, the coast of Korea, the islands of Lewchew (Okinawa), her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar near Java. Encounter with Napoleon at St. Helena.
48674
MACINTYRE, Captain Donald
THE ADVENTURE OF SAIL 1520-1914
$25.00 AUD
Paul Elek Productions. London. 1970. 1st edition with an introduction by Uffa Fox. 256 PP with 265 b/w illustrations. & 44 colour plates. Title-page: 17th Century Compass Card. Half-title page: The building of the Ark. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, device (Compass' Rose) in blind on front cover, dj. Dust jacket with small chips and a spine lightly sunned. Covers rubbed at hinges. Slight ageing of paper, occasional foxing. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. Oblong: 25.3 x 31.5.
Illustrated history of sailing ships and contemporary accounts of historic voyages, extracts from journals of famous mariners and classic sea tales.
21233
MADDOCK, Shirley
THESE ANTIPODES, A New Zealand Album 1814 to 1854
$20.00 AUD
Collins. Auckland. 1979. 1st Ed. X, 318 PP with b/w illust. plus 28 pages with 64 colour illust. (photos by Don Whyte). Hard cover, dj. Stamp on outside lower edge, o/wise very good. 26 x 20. 0002169584
A vivid account of New Zealand's past: its early visitors, explorers, whalers, missionaries.
65342
MALET, Christian
VOYAGES ET DECOUVERTES: du Kamtchatka au Groenland ... (in Boreales - No. 50 / 53)
$15.00 AUD
CRIN / Centre de Recherche Inter-Nordiques. Paris. 1992. Issue 50 / 53, 1992. Editorial by Henri-Claude Fantapie. 141, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps) . Soft cover, illustrated front. Name of previous owner at top of editorial page. French text Very good. 24 x 16.
65351
MALLOS, Tess (editor)
AUSTRALIA'S & NEW ZEALAND'S SEAFOOD DOWN UNDER. A Fishing, Cooking & Pictorial Book to Everyone's Taste
$15.00 AUD
Harper Macrae. Sydney. c. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by R. & K. Osborne. 335 PP with colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 31 x 23. 0958812233
18213
MALONEY, Richard C.
FIFTY NOTABLE SHIP PORTRAITS AT MYSTIC SEAPORT
$15.00 AUD
Marine Historical Association. Mystic, Conn. 1963. 1st Ed. Publication No.41. (12), 63 PP with 51 illust. (1 colour, 50 b/w). Fp (in colour): The 74-Gun ship America. Endpiece: Ship W.R. Grace. Card cover, spine faded. Very good. 25.5 x 17.8.
Glimpse of US maritime past as revealed by many well-known artists (James E. Buttersworth, James Wilson, Antonio Jacobsen, ..) and others.
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, ...
18594
MARCOMBE, David
THE VICTORIAN SAILOR
$5.00 AUD
Shire Publications. London. 1995. No.31 in Shire Album Series. Amended Ed. of 1985 orig. 32 PP with 50 b/w illust. Pict. card cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0852637136
Life of Britain's Navy and Merchant Marine sailors: their art, literature & legends, their handicrafts.
16484
MARSH, Loisette, SLACK-SMITH, Shirley
SEA STINGERS and other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates of Western Australia
$10.00 AUD
W.A. Museum. Perth. 1986. 1st Ed. X, 134 PP with 90 fig. (70 in colour). Pict. card cover. Fine. 22 x 15.3. 0730903265
Includes a quick-reference first aid treatment.
40677
MARTIN, S. I.
BRITAIN'S SLAVE TRADE
$20.00 AUD
Channel 4 Books. London. 1999. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Trevor Phillips. (X), 167 PP, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 15.7. 0752217852
The Background, The Working of the Slave Trade, Resistance - abolition, rebellion, emancipation and its aftermath. The Legacy: political, cultural ... the present day.
65526
MARZARI, Mario (editor)
NAVI DI LEGNO - Evoluzione Tecnica e Sviluppo della Cantieristica nel Mediterraneo dal XVI Secolo a Oggi
$100.00 AUD
Lint / Comune di Grado. Trieste, Italy. 1998. 1st Ed. Forewords by Giovanni Battista Salvini & Angelo Marzollo. 364, (4) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Abstracts between pages 363 and 362 (30 in English, and 8 in Italian). Pictorial soft cover. Texts of papers: 2 in French, 6 in English & 28 in Italian. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 8881900521 / 9788881900527
International Conference: "Wooden shipbuilding in the Mediterranean. Technical Evolution and Shipyards Development from the 16th century until today", held in Grado 21st to 25th May 1997. 36 papers: 2 in French - 6 in English and 28 in Italian. 38 abstracts: 30 in English and 8 in Italian (abstract of the 2 French papers are in Italian and English). An important work.
35560
MASTERS, David
CRIMES OF THE HIGH SEAS
$10.00 AUD
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1936. 1st Ed. 280 PP, plus 8 plates with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Ships laid up in the River Dart during the great slump. Cloth cover. Some foxing, covers rubbed at hinges, short note on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.
Underwriters against shipowners or operators trying to cheat them through fraudulent fires, shipwrecks...
65011
MATHER, Patricia (editor)
A TIME FOR A MUSEUM: The History of the Queensland Museum 1862-1986
$25.00 AUD
Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 1986. 1st Ed. Volume 24 of the "Memoirs of the Queensland Museum". Preface by the Honorable Peter McKechnie. X, 386 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0724216456
... Chapter 10: People and lifestyle / Anthropology, by M.C. Quinnell. Chapter 12: Pandora Box / Maritime Archaeology, by R. A. Coleman.
31272
MATSON LINES
S.S. MARIPOSA - MENU
$25.00 AUD
Halloween Dinner menu, October 31, 1965. En route Rarotonga to Auckland. Captain: M.C. Stone, U.S.N.R. Colour illustrated cover. Near fine. 30.5 x 23.
Front cover: A jungle-hidden village in Fiji (watercolour by L. Macouillard).
65158
MAUDE, Frederic Philip & POLLOCK, Charles Edward
A COMPENDIUM OF THE LAW OF MERCHANT SHIPPING, with an Appendix all the Statutes, Orders in Council and Forms of Practical ... - Vol.II
$120.00 AUD
Henry Sweet, Law Publisher. London. 1881. 4th edition by The Hon. Baron Pollock and Gainsford Bruce. 16, (4 ), V- CCCCLXXXVIII (Statutes / Appendix), 200 (Orders in Council), 81 (Index) PP. Half bound. Fore hinge split and repaired on 12 cms from the head of spine. Very good. Image shows title-page. 25 x 16.5.
Volume II: containing all the Statutes, Orders in Council, Rules and Forms of Practical Utility relating to Merchant Shipping, and tables of the Pilotage Authorities in the United Kingdom.
64509
McCALL, Bernard (editor)
COASTAL SHIPPING Vol. 4, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
Coastal Shipping Magazine. Portishead, UK. 1997. January/February 1997. 40 PP with 22 b/w and 8 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21.
64512
McCALL, Bernard (editor)
COASTAL SHIPPING Vol. 4, No. 4
$5.00 AUD
Coastal Shipping Magazine. Portishead, UK. 1997. August 1997. 121-160 PP with 29 b/w and 8 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21.
64513
McCALL, Bernard (editor)
COASTAL SHIPPING Vol. 4, No. 6
$5.00 AUD
Coastal Shipping Magazine. Portishead, UK. 1997. December 1997. 201-240 PP with 24 b/w and 8 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21.
64514
McCALL, Bernard (editor)
COASTAL SHIPPING Vol. 6, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
Coastal Shipping Magazine. Portishead, UK. 1999. February 1999. 40 PP with b/w illustrations (1 pen drawing and 31 photos) and 10 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21.
56934
McKELLAR, N. L.
FROM DERBY ROUND TO BURKETOWN - The A.U.S.N. Story
$20.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1977. 1st Ed. X, 682 PP with 76 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of the first Earl of Inchcape. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket slightly worn with rubbed patches on rear. Faint foxing, mostly on outside page edges. tiny nick at top corner of FFEP, o/wise contents are near fine. 25.5 x 16.5. 070221244X
The story of the Australasian United Steam Navigation Co., closely interwoven with the history of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
65017
MCLEOD, Roderick
THE STEAM YACHT "LUCINDA" (in The Australian Antique Collector No. 41)
$5.00 AUD
Business Press International. Sydney. 1991. 41st edition, "25th Anniversary", January-June 1991. 130 PP. Contains article on P.45 with 1 colour plate of the Lucinda. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.
64978
McMILLEN, Jan, O'HARA, John, SELBY, Wendy & COHEN, Kay
GAMBLER'S PARADISE
$15.00 AUD
Brisbane. 1996. Royal Historical Society of Queensland. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 13 b/w photos. Fp. Soft cover, pictorial front. Fine. 24 x 17.5. 0646290355
65167
McNAUGHT, Phillipa
DIRECTORY OF QUEENSLAND MUSEUMS
$15.00 AUD
Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 1991. 1st Ed. VI, 76, (2) PP with b/w illustrations (30 drawings and 14 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18.8. 0724245707
51973
McNEILL, D. C.
THE MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE. Its History and Function
$15.00 AUD
The World Ship Society - Queensland Branch. Brisbane. 1969. 1st Ed. Foreword by T. Stevens. (1), 28 PP (roneotyped, recto only). Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. Oblong: 16.8 x 20.6.
Lecture given 5th August 1969.
40228
McSWAN, Eleanor H.
MACLEAN - The First Fifty Years 1862-1912
$20.00 AUD
Maclean District Historical Society. Maclean, NSW. 1992. 1st Ed. XII, 380 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 18. 0909323127
On the Clarence River.
48076
MILLAR, Ronald
A TIME OF CHERRIES, Sailing with the Breton Tunnymen
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (10), 214 PP, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0304298425
15663
MOLLAT DU JOURDIN, Michel & HABERT, Jacques
GIOVANNI ET GIROLAMO VERRAZANO NAVIGATEURS DE FRANCOIS Ier
$125.00 AUD
Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. 1982. 1st Ed. XII, 242 PP with 29 documents and 89 bw & colour illust. (35 maps & charts) in text. Fp: Document signed by the explorer Janus Verrazanus. Eps: Portulan. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, colour vignette of the Verrazano bridge on front cover, illustrated cloth cover slipcase. French text. Ingleton bookplate. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 2110807830
Verrazano: French explorers of the Atlantic coasts of the Americas, as well as the first to cross the Indian Ocean and reach the Island of Sumatra in 1525. Giovanni Verrazano was the first European to describe the site of New York in 1524 and a bridge in this city bears his name.
38352
MORIZE, André (editor)
FACTS ABOUT FIGHTING FRANCE
$100.00 AUD
Fighting France Publications / Société des Editions de la France Libre Ltd. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 36 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Inside front cover: To All Frenchmen.. France has lost a Battle! (in colour). Inside back cover: Ultimatum sent by Rommel to General Koenig, June 3rd, 1942 (Battle of Bir Hacheim). Illustrated soft cover with a few small chips, spine repaired, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 21.6 x 14.
The Leader: Général De Gaulle - his life, his thoughts, his military doctrine. Fighting France: When? Where? Why? What it's done, what it's doing, what it wants to do. Administration Organization of Fighting France. The Trustee of French Democracy.
35777
MULVANEY, D. J.
EUROPEAN VISION AND AUSTRALIA'S HERITAGE (in Proceedings 1980-81, The Australian Academy of the Humanities)
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Canberra. 1982. 1st Ed. 213 PP with 13 b/w plates. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0909897069
Annual lecture delivered to the Australian Academy of the Humanities at its Eleventh Annual General Meeting at Melbourne on 12 July 1981.
65511
MURRAY, J. M.
MERCHANT SHIPS 1860-1960
$75.00 AUD
Lloyd's Register of Shipping. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 47 PP with 17 tables and over 29 figures (figure 19 with 3 b/w photos of ships), plus 1 large folded table (No. XI) tipped in, and 1 large folded plate for figure No. 17 at centrefold. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples. Errata slip tipped in on page 1. Fine. Rare. 28 x 21.5.
Paper read before the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, at its Centenary Meeting, 17th May 1960., by J.M. Murray Chief Ship Surveyor of Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
48379
N/A
PROGRESS IN CARGO HANDLING - Papers read at the General Technical Conference of the International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association, Naples, 1954
$20.00 AUD
Iliffe. London. 1955. 1st Ed., with a message from René Courau and foreword by Rear Admiral A. L. P. Mark-Wardlaw. Introduction by A.C.HARDY. 342, (IX adv.) PP with figures and b/w photos. Cloth cover (slightly marked), gilt title on a sunned spine. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pags. Very good. 24.7 x 15.5.
25 papers read at the general technical Conference of the International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association (I.C.H.C.A.), Naples, 1954. U.S. Port Organization and its Effect on Cargo Handling, by Frank W. Herring. The Transport of Containers by Sea, by A. Vincenti. The Next Step in Unitized Cargo, by George Chernowitz...
48898
N/A
BLUE PETER - Australian Maritime Journal - Volume 1, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
Blue Peter / World Ship Society, Victoria Branch. Melbourne. 1969. Quarterly Journal (Volume 1, No. 1), Autumn 1969. Edited by R.E.J. VARNS, P.J. WILLIAMS & D.K. ROBERTSON. 20 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 18.7.
War veteran last visit (Asahi Maru, previously Fort Bell). Wreck of the Reliance. Plus regular articles: Around the coast. Naval intelligence. Pictorial round up...
65036
N/A
THE BOAT BOOK
$10.00 AUD
M.P. Graphics Pty. Ltd. Brisbane. 1976. 1976 edition. 224 PP with period advertisements, b/w illustrations (including 13 maps, cartoons, photos) and 6 pages with colour illustrations [Flags of the International Code (letters & numbers), Weather forecast indicators and Navigation Lights]. Pictorial card cover. Signature on front cover, o/wise very good. 21.6 x 13.5.
The History of Ocean Racing in Queensland, by Joshua Peter Bell. ...
65406
NAA
THE LOG - Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia - Volume 3, No. 6 & Volume 4 No. 1
$15.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Limited. Melbourne. 1970 & 1971. Vol. 3, No. 6 (November 1970): Edited by T. S. Stevens. Background of ...: pages 113 to 116 and front cover with 2 waterline profiles. Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1971: Vessels owned by ...: pages 6 to 11, plus 1 waterline profile of Lakemba on plate I. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 21.
W.R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.
65407
NAA
THE LOG - Quarterly Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia - Volume 14, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Limited. Melbourne. 1981. Vol. 14, No. 1 (February 1981). Edited by W.G. Volum. 34 PP with 4 b/w photos, plus 2 b/w plates with 6 photos. Pictorial soft covers (Willowbank). Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 21.
The NYK: Japanese Mails to Australia, by B. A. Wilkinson. Tasmania's Transport Commission Shipping Services, by I. G. Cooper.
65409
NAA
THE LOG - Quarterly Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia - Volume 14, No. 4
$5.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Limited. Melbourne. 1981. Vol. 14, No. 4 (November 1981). Edited by W.G. Volum. 99-128 PP with 4 b/w photos, plus 2 b/w plates with 6 photos. Pictorial soft covers (Deer Sound). Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 21.
Pages 100 to 109: The Noumea-Sydney Connection, by B. A. Wilkinson. Tasmania's Transport Commission Shipping Services, by I. G. Cooper.
44271
NANCE, R. Morton
SAILING-SHIP MODELS - A Selection from European and American Collections with Introductory text by ..
$75.00 AUD
Halton and Truscott Smith. London. 1924. 1st limited edition of 1750 copies (unnumbered copy). VIII, 80 PP with 3 head-pieces, 1 tail-piece and 22 drawings, plus 124 b/w plates with 139 illustrations (9 of the plates with tissue guard). Fp (in colour): Flemish Carrack (circa 1450). Original gilt decorated cloth cover has light wear gilt title on front and spine, top edge gilt. Endpapers repaired at fold. Head and foot of spine repaired. Light foxing on some of the non glossy paper plates, and both endpapers and a little foxing on outside page edges. Still a nice copy of the scarce first edition. 32 x 26.
Contents include: The growth of the Ship-Modeller's Art, with drawings by the author, the Development of Square-Rigged Ships, Notes on the models illustrated (124).
64918
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
HISTORY SALVAGE FROM THE SEA / COLONIZATION AND TRADE IN THE NEW WORLD
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1977. Folded poster. Double sided supplement to Volume 152, No. 6, December 1977. History side with artworks by Richard Schlecht. Colonization side with chart by William Peele and Richard K Rogers. Few repaired tears at fold. Very good. Poster size: 57.5 x 76. Folded size: 28.8 x 19.
65079
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1979. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w & colour illust. Hard cover, simile leather, device on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a sunned spine, o/wise a near fine copy. 26 x 18. 0870442546
Ancient India: cities lost in time, by Tee Loftin. Easter Island: Brooding Sentinels of Stone, by Ron Fisher ...
65081
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
INTO THE WILDERNESS
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1978. 1st Ed. 208 PP with colour illustrations by H. Tom Hall and with foreword and photos by Lowell Georgia. Hard cover, illustrated front board, dj. Dust jacket with a sunned spine, a few chips or closed tears and a small rub, o/wise a near fine copy. 26 x 18. 087044252X
64787
NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED [THE]
Post Card - 1st CLASS LOUNGE : S.S. REMUERA & S.S. RUAHINE
$15.00 AUD
New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd. Wellington. c. 1920. Built in 1911 and 1909. Employed on the run: Southampton to New Zealand, via Panama. Unused colour postcard. Fine. 9 x 14.
Southampton - New Zealand, via Panama.
64788
NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED [THE]
Post Card - 1st CLASS PROMENADE DECK : S.S. REMUERA & S.S. RUAHINE
$15.00 AUD
New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd. Wellington. c. 1920. Built in 1911 and 1909. Employed on the run: Southampton to New Zealand, via Panama. Unused colour postcard. Fine. 9 x 14
Southampton - New Zealand, via Panama.
40300
NEWELL, Gordon
OCEAN LINERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$10.00 AUD
Bonanza Books. New York. c.1968. 2nd Bonanza reprint (B) of the 1963 original by Superior Publishing Company. 192 PP with b/w illustrations. Title-page: United States & Independence off New York Pier & Company flags from Aberdeen & Commonwealth to Union Steam Ship of N.Z. Eps: Passenger accommodation plans of S.S. President McKinley. Cloth cover, dj. Stamp of previous owner, o/wise very good. 27.4 x 21.2.
45874
NEWHAM COLLINGWOOD, G. L.
A SELECTION FROM THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF VICE-ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD: INTERSPERSED WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE
$100.00 AUD
James Ridgway. London. 1828. 3rd Ed. XVI, 578 PP. Fp: Vice Admiral, Lord Collingwood, by F. Howard. Folded engraved battle plan of Trafalgar between pages 126/127. Pages 197/198 misbound, viz: P.199/200 precedes them. Signature of previous owner at top of title page. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages. Half bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Outside edges of covers and hinges rubbed. Covers have become detached and now in need of rebacking/rebinding. Internal hinges still tight. Overall, a very good copy of a scarce item. 21.5 x 13.8.
Covers the period from 1785 until his death in 1810.
64975
NICHOLSON, John
CEDAR, SEALS AND WHALING SHIPS
$40.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2007. 1st edition (juvenile). No. 2 in the "Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia 1788-1830s" series. 32 PP with colour illustrations by the author. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 27.5 x 22. 9781741750034
35568
NORDHOFF, Charles
WHALING AND FISHING
$25.00 AUD
Dodd, Mead & Co. New York. 1895. Reprint of the original 1855 edition. X, 11-383 PP with 19 head pieces and 3 b/w illust. Decorated cloth cover, spine soiled and a little frayed at extremities although still tight. Paper ageing/browned. Former owner's neat stamp on FFEP. Internally near fine. 16.2 x 11.
Whaling cruise out of New Bedford to the Azores, Tristan da Cunha, grounds off Madagascar, Mascarenas, Seychelles... Shipwrecked in Algoa Bay...
65474
NORMAN, J. E. de B. & NORMAN, G. V.
A PEARLING MASTER'S JOURNEY: in the wake of the schooner Mist
$80.00 AUD
Mrs. G. V. Norman. Sydney. 2007. 1st Ed. XIV, 338 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps (in colour): charts of NW and NE Australia. Pictorial laminated boards. Occasional foxing. Near fine. Oblong: 24.8 x 25.8. 9780980358100
64168
NOYE, John & RADOK, Rainer
A Preliminary Study of WAVES AT PORT NEILL - Research Paper No. 5, "Horace Lamb Centre for Oceanographical Research"
$10.00 AUD
The Flinders University of South Australia. Adelaide. 1966. Research Paper No. 5: (1), 3, (11) PP (recto only) with 1 table and 8 figures (2 maps, 8 graphs/plots). Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 28 x 21.5.
Waves at Port Neill, South Australia, in March 1965.
64984
O'BRIEN, D. A. (editor)
QUEENSLAND GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Vol. LXI
$15.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland). Brisbane. 1963. Vol. LXI, 1962-1963. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (diagram, facsimile document, photos and portraits) and 2 colour photos, plus 2 folded plates (Generalised Geological Map and 2 diagrams "Geological Sequence"). Card covers a little browned around edges. Previous owner's signature on top of front cover, o/wise fine. 23.8 x 15.3.
5 articles. Geological Sequence in the Early Bores in the Roma District / The Queensland Oil Position today / Australia and the Pacific Ocean, by H. I. Jensen. Oil and Gas values, by D.A. O'Brien. Bishop Island.
33115
OXENHORN, Harvey
TUNING THE RIG - A Journey to the Arctic
$10.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1990. 1st paperback edition. X, (8), 281 PP with 1 map on double page and 2 plans of the Regina Maris. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 0060163518
Account of a scientific voyage on board a barquentine to study humpback whales off Newfoundland, Labrador & Greenland, as well as the birds & animals of these lands.
47149
P&O
LIST OF FARES
$5.00 AUD
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Sydney. 1949. Issued July 1949. No pagination, 4 PP with 5 tables. Illustrated soft covers. Near fine. 18.4 x 13.4.
51097
P&O
S.S. STRATHEDEN - MENU
$30.00 AUD
Dinner menu, 5th August 1958. Le Beau Danube, No. 11 in a series of 12 paintings of Ballets by R.B. Sutcliffe. Light foxing at the fold, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.3.
Front cover: Le Beau Danube, produced at Theatre de Monte Carlo, 1933. Originally presented by Diaghilev as Le Beau Danube Bleu.
51098
P&O
S.S. IBERIA - MENU: "The Polynesians"
$10.00 AUD
Dinner menu, September 1970. The Polynesians, in The Early Navigators series, by David Cobb. Near fine. 25.7 x 17.7.
Front cover: The Polynesians emigrated to New Zealand in large double canoes in A.D. 1350.
64426
PACHECO, Diego
A FUNDACÃO DO PORTO DE NAGASAQUI e a sua cedência a Sociedade de Jesus/ THE FOUNDING OF THE PORT OF NAGASAKI and its cession to the Society of Jesus
$30.00 AUD
Centro de Estudos Maritimos de Macau. Macau. 1989. Trilingual edition of July 1989. 67, (3) PP. Text in Portuguese (pages 7 to 25), in English (pages 27 to 45) and Japanese (pages 47 to 67). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.
33797
PACIFIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: A Unique Area for Scientific Investigations - Contribution No.4 of the Charles Darwin Foundation
$30.00 AUD
Charles Darwin Foundation. San Francisco. 1963. Contribution No. 4 of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands. Reprint from the Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 44. 154 PP with 50 figures. Fp: Colour photos of Academy Bay, Isla Santa Cruz and Sulivan Bay, Isla San Salvador. Soft cover a little browned around the edges, o/wise near fine. Fine. 25.4 x 17.1.
A Symposium presented at the 10th Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, University of Hawaii, 21st August to 6 September 1961. Bathymetry, Climate, Archaeology...
17123
PARSONS, Ronald
THE PORT OF MARYBOROUGH
$15.00 AUD
Author. Adelaide. 1976. 1st Ed. VI, 118 PP, plus 1 folded map of Maryborough plus 14 pages with b/w illustrations (1 painting, 3 drawings and 15 photos. Pictorial card cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. Oblong: 16.5 x 20.5. 090941808X
20812
PARSONS, Ronald
STEAMERS IN THE SOUTH
$5.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1979. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 21.5. 0727008927
A selection of photos from State Archives of South Australia, issues of the Australasian sketches as well as from private collectors.
65046
PARSONS, Ronald
FLEET LIST OF BURNS, PHILP AND COMPANY, Sydney ...
$15.00 AUD
Australasian Maritime Historical Society. Woodville, S.A. 1970 & 1972. 1st Ed. no pagination, 34 PP (typescript), with the 1 page "addendum dated June 1972". Soft covers with a few marks, cloth spine. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. Oblong: 17 x 21.
64430
PARSONS, Ronald & PLUNKETT, Geoff
SCUTTLED AND ABANDONED SHIPS IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS
$15.00 AUD
Ronald Parsons. Lobethal, S.A. 1998. Revised edition of the May 1995 original. Typescript monograph. IV, 55 PP, plus 1 plate with 5 b/w photos. Stapled soft covers. Stamp of previous owner on front cover and title page. Very good. 21 x 14.5. 0909418616
21617
PARSONS, Ronald H. (editor)
GEELONG CUSTOMS REGISTER OF SHIPS - Vessels registered at the Port of Geelong Victoria before 1900.
$10.00 AUD
Author. Lobethal, S.A. 1969. 1st Ed. (V), 22 PP. Stapled typescript monograph. Soft covers, browned around edges. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 21.
64994
PEARN, John & O'CARRIGAN, Catherine (editors)
AUSTRALIA'S QUEST FOR COLONIAL HEALTH. Some Influences on Early Health and Medicine in Australia
$25.00 AUD
Department of Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital. Brisbane. 1983. 1st Ed. (2), XII, 304 PP with 4 head pieces, 1 map, 1 plan and 18 b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, photos, portraits). Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly soiled. Signed by both authors / editors on title page. Near fine. 21.2 x 15. 0877760796
Chapter 1: the medical men of the First Fleet, by Noel Dan. Chapter 2: Medical aspects of the Second Fleet, by Mervyn Cobcroft... Chapter 5: French Doctors at Sydney Cove. Gallic contact in the second decade after Phillip....
16601
POPE, Elizabeth & McDONALD Patricia
EXPLORING BETWEEN TIDEMARKS, An Introduction to Seashore Ecology
$10.00 AUD
Australian Museum. Sydney. 1968. 4th Ed. 48 PP with b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.
57160
PREBBLE, John
THE DARIEN DISASTER
$10.00 AUD
Secker & Warburg. London. 1968. 1st Ed. (X), 366 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 b/w plates. Eps (in colour): A large draught of the Gulf of Dazrien. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0436380062
The Colony of Darien on the Isthmus of Panama.
62566
[PRINTS]
Windjammer: GORCH FOCK (colour print)
$10.00 AUD
Mobil Oil Corporation. New York. c. 1970. Print on art paper of a colour photograph supplied by the German Information Center in New York. Near fine. Format: 51 x 35.5.
62613
[PRINTS]
Bark ORIENT - colour print
$5.00 AUD
Chronik der Seefahrt / Verlag Egon Heinemann. Hamburg. c. 1990. Colour print of the original oil painting held at the Heimatmuseum Bremen-Vegesak. On the verso: details of the Orient in German and English. Faint foxing. Fine. Oblong format: 32 x 41.
65119
PURSEY, H. J.
MERCHANT SHIP STABILITY, A companion to "Merchant Ship Construction"
$10.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1945. 1st Ed. X, 153 PP with 73 figures, plus 2 folded plates at rear of book. Cloth cover. Protective cover pasted down on covers. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24.5 x 18.
65037
PURTON, Rowland W.
DISCOVERING PORTS AND HARBOURS
$10.00 AUD
University of London Press Ltd. London. 1964. 1st Ed., in "The Discovery Reference Books" series. Foreword by Alys L. Gregory. 128 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 6 pages with 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19.3 x 13.5.
64939
Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
HERITAGE TRAILS OF THE GREAT SOUTH EAST
$20.00 AUD
Brisbane. 2000. State of Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. 1st Edition. 168 PP with 9 maps in colour and over 500 b/w or colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 22.5 x 23.8. 073451008X
35346
QUEENSLAND MUSEUM
HUMPBACK WHALES (in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volume 30, Part 2)
$30.00 AUD
Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 1991. July 1991. Edited by P.A. JELL & R.A. PATERSON. P. 239-354 with 14 tables, 10 colour photos and 61 b/w figures (drawings, graphs and b/w photos). Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 24.3 x 18.3.
14 papers presented at the Humpback Whale Conference hosted by the Queensland Museum in September 1990.
20939
QUINN, David B. & QUINN, Alison M. (Editors)
THE ENGLISH NEW ENGLAND VOYAGES 1602-1608
$10.00 AUD
The Hakluyt Society. London. 1983. 1st Ed. Publication 161 in the Hakluyt Society second series. XXIV, 580 PP with 36 figures ( maps, charts, illust.). plus 1 folded plate with 2 maps. Cloth cover, rubbed dust jacket. Occasional foxing and small stains on front edge, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.2. 090418014X
Voyage to North Virginia: Captain Batholomew Gosnold in 1602, Martin Pring's voyage in 1603, The voyage of George Waymouth in 1605...
64776
RAN
THE RAN IN WORLD WAR II - Conference Program: May 25-26 1995
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Darling Harbour, Sydney. 1995. Program for the conference. 29 PP (recto only). Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Conference held in May 1995, jointly hosted by The R. A. N. Maritime Studies Program, The Australian Naval Institute and the Australian National Maritime Museum. 27 participants and abstract of the 16 papers presented.
64468
RANSOME-WALLIS, P.
ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1961. 2nd edition. 64 PP with 2 cut-aways, 47 b/w photos, and 1 page with Marks of Ranks of Royal Navy Officers and Badges of Royal Navy Ratings. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 18.4 x 12.4.
64916
RAWLINGS, Alfred
A SEA ANTHOLOGY, selected and illustrated by Alfred Rawlings
$20.00 AUD
Gay & Hancock Ltd. London. 1913. 1st Ed. (VII), 171 PP, plus 12 colur plates. Fp: The Thunder of the crowding waves upon the rocks. Green cloth cover is a little speckled, title in blind on front cover and gilt title on spine which is still bright. Signature of previous owner on inside front cover. Ageing of paper and foxing (not affecting the plates). Very good. 17.3 x 14.
Image shows frontispiece and title-page.
65126
REEMAN, Douglas
TORPEDO RUN
$10.00 AUD
Arrow Books. London. 1982. 1st paperback edition of the 1981 original. 290 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Signed by the author on title page. Near fine. 17.8 x 11. 0099283808
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.
37798
RITCHIE, Robert C.
CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE WAR AGAINST THE PIRATES
$15.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1986. 1st Ed. X, (2), 306 PP with 2 maps and 2 illustrations, plus 18 pages with 19 b/w illustrations. Vignette (portrait of Captain William Kidd) on title page. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Two small closed tears to the dust jacket, o/wise fine. 24.2 x 16. 0674095014
65054
ROBINSON, J. S.
ARMS IN THE SERVICE OF QUEENSLAND 1859-1901
$100.00 AUD
J. S. Robinson / S.F.R. Enterprises. Brisbane. 1997. Special Presentation Edition limited to 20 hand numbered copies (No. Ten). 240 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Fine. 24.6 x 18.7. 0949749346
Section 4: Forts and Ships / H.M.Q.S. Gayundah, Paluma, Mosquito, Otter ...
65196
RONSIN, Albert (editor)
1507 - BAPTEME DE L'AMERIQUE à Saint-Dié / THE BAPTISM OF AMERICA in the City of Saint-Dié / AMERIKAS TAUFE zu Saint-Dié
$50.00 AUD
Imprimerioe Municipale de Saint-Dié. Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. 1982. Trilingual edition limited to 1500 copies. (4), 54, (1 colophon) PP with 20 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front (Cosmographiae Introdu.). Text in French, English and German. Near fine. 21 x 15. 290030136X
25th April 1507: 1st naming (baptism) of "America" the continent. Comments on 10 documents exhibited in the "Treasure Room" of the Municipal Library of Saint 'Dié.
63873
ROSS, Bob (editor)
AUSTRALIAN SAILING MAGAZINE - 1989
$20.00 AUD
Australian Sailing / Ron Calcutt. Sydney. 1989. January to December 1989. 12 issues for a total of 1028 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 27.3 x 20.6.
63874
ROSS, Bob (editor)
AUSTRALIAN SAILING MAGAZINE - 1990
$20.00 AUD
Australian Sailing / Malcolm Mcguire. Sydney. 1990. January to December 1990. 12 issues for a total of 1012 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 27.3 x 20.6.
63875
ROSS, Bob (editor)
AUSTRALIAN SAILING MAGAZINE - 1991
$20.00 AUD
Australian Sailing / Malcolm Mcguire. Sydney. 1991. January to December 1991. 12 issues for a total of 976 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 27.3 x 20.6.
63876
ROSS, Bob (editor)
AUSTRALIAN SAILING MAGAZINE - 1992
$20.00 AUD
Australian Sailing / Malcolm Mcguire. Sydney. 1992. January to December 1992. 12 issues for a total of 944 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 27.3 x 20.6.
63871
ROSS, Bob & DUDLEY, Vanessa (editors)
AUSTRALIAN SAILING MAGAZINE - 1987
$20.00 AUD
Australian Sailing. Sydney. 1987. January to December 1987. 12 issues for a total of 992 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 27.3 x 20.6.
21656
ROSS, John O.
WILLIAM STEWART, Sealing Captain, Trader and Speculator
$15.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1987. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society publication No. 37. IX, 219 PP, plus 8 pages of b/w illust. FEP: Map of Australia, N.Z., Tasman Sea & Southern Ocean. REP: Chart of N.Z., North, South & Stewart Is. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.6. 0909434288
64952
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - JOURNAL - Vol. IV, No. 4
$25.00 AUD
The Historical Society of Queensland (Inc.). Brisbane. 1951. Journal Vol. IV, No. 4, December 1951. Foreword by G. Greenwood. 447-590 PP with 2 b/w plates. Soft covers, browning around edges and spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 13.7.
8 papers read to the Society in 1951 "The Jubille Year" (Second half-century of Australia existence) by: Allan A. Morrison, Clem Lack, Glenville Pike, C.G. Austin, Arthur Laurie...
64953
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - JOURNAL - Vol. IV, No. 5
$25.00 AUD
The Historical Society of Queensland (Inc.). Brisbane. 1952. Journal Vol. IV, No. 5, December 1952. 591-738 PP with 2 b/w plates. Soft covers with browning around edges and spine, tape repair at top near spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise internally near fine. 21.4 x 13.7.
9 papers read to the Society in 1952 by: Allan A. Morrison, Arthur Laurie ... Thomas Welshby, by C. G. Austin. ... Port of Brisbane, by E.V. Stevens.
64954
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Year-book of Proceedings : Vol. V, No. 2
$25.00 AUD
The Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1954. Journal Vol. V, No. 2, 1954. 867-1003 PP with 1 b/w photo. Soft covers, faded around edges and spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.5.
9 papers read to the Society in 1954 by: Raphael Cilento... J.W. Collinson ... Kennedy Expedition, by Glenville Pike. The History of the A.U.S.N. Co. Ltd and its Predecessors, by Commander N. S. Pixley.
64957
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Year-book of Proceedings : Vol. IX, No. 4
$15.00 AUD
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1972-73. Vol. IX, No. 4, 1972-73. 177 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 21.3 x 13.7.
10 papers. "Queensland - Harbours, Rivers and Marine" & "Captain Charles Smith: A Master of Enterprise", by Norman S. Pixley. Two Brisbane Shipowners of the last century, by G. Roderick McLeod. ... A Thumbnail history of Numismatics pertaining to Queensland, by George D. Dean. German New Guinea: A Diplomatic, Economic and Political Survey, by Peter Overlack ...
64958
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Year-book of Proceedings : Vol. IX, No. 5
$15.00 AUD
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1973-74. Vol. IX, No. 5, 1973-74. 163 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 21.3 x 13.7. 0858810123
9 papers. "Consuls in Queensland", by Norman S. Pixley. History along the Waterways - The abandoned hulks of the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay", by G. Roderick McLeod. ...
64964
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Vol. XII, No. 2
$20.00 AUD
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1985. Vol. XII, No. 2, September 1985, edited by John D. Kerr. 165-284 PP with b/w illustrations. Card covers. Fine. 20.7 x 13.8. 0858810123
9 papers. ... Captain Foster Fyans and Mrs Eliza Fraser, by Professor J. S. Ryan. The last voyage of "Firefly" and Captain Kirby, by Allan McInnes.
64965
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
SPECIAL JOURNAL "Centenary of Queensland 1859-1959": Vol. VI, No. 1
$50.00 AUD
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1959. 293 PP. Hard cover, title on front board, cloth spine. Near fine. 21.2 x 13.8.
16 papers read to the Society in 1958 and 1959. "The Discovery of Australia" / "Wild White Men in Queensland", by Sir Raphael Cilento. Some Reminiscences of Early Queensland, by E.C. Davies. Queensland-One Hundred Years of Defence, by Commander N.S. Pixley. The Taming of the Great Barrier Reef (lighthouses on the coast)", by Clem L. Lack. ... Tug-Boats of the Brisbane River, by A.A. Jordan.
73953
ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES
T.S..S. "NIEUW HOLLAND" -
$20.00 AUD
Royal Interocean Lines / Ye Olde Printerie. Hong Kong. 1948 1st Ed. 4 PP with 1 b/w photo. Soft covers, illustrated front (T.S.S. Nieuw Holland, in Hong Kong Harbour). 1 page on reconditioning of a model of the Nieuw Holland, in "Ship Building, Repair & Services" of November 1949, loosely inserted. Near fine. Oblong: 14 x 19.
RIL - War record of the Nieuw Holland, reconversion and particulars.
65033
ROYAL PACKET STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
ISLES OF THE EAST - An illustrated guide to Australia, Papua, Java, Sumatra, Singapore etc.
$300.00 AUD
KPM / Royal Packet Steam Navigation Company. Batavia. 1912. Deluxe edition of January 1912. Edited by W. LORCK. LII (adverts), 244 PP, followed by LIII-CXXI (adverts) and b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 b/w plate : portrait of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; 1 plate "Time Table 1912; 1 folded plate "Accommodation plan of KPM Steel Screw Steamer "Tasman" and 2 colour plates: painting by C. H. Hoyt "Middle Harbour, Sydney, from Mosman Heights, and "Samples of Javanese Art Work..." . Papered boards with a colour illustration on front board by Tindall, cloth spine. Front cover with small pieices missing at corners of front edge. Spine has been reinforced (crudely). The first few pages (up to VIII) are somewhat damaged at the gutters (without loss) and most of Page III/IV has been torn off. The guide was published on superior glossy paper thus conserving its clarity and brightness. A very good copy of quite a rare item. 25.3 x 15.5.
Section I, Chapter 1 (P. XXXIII to L): The "KPM": A Twenty Years' Record. Chapter III (P 38 to 155): A trip to Java by a KPM Steamer (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Port Moresby ... Borneo, Celebes, Singapore). Section II,Chapter 1 (P.156-243): Commercial Section - Rotterdamsche Lloyd, The Railways of Java, Sumatra Railways, Batavia, The Tea Industry, Bandoeng, Soerabaya.. Chapter II (P.LIII - CXXI): Advertisements: period advertisements for hotels, transport companies, import/export, ... Gives an insight to life in these areas at the time.
17107
RUHEN, Olaf
OPENING THE OCEANS
$15.00 AUD
Nautical Press. Sydney. 1987? 1st Ed. 189 PP, plus 31 pages of prints and 1 folded chart of the voyages of Captain Cook in pocket at rear of book. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 26.8 x 19.5. 0949756067
Study of exploration of the Pacific: Anson, Wallis & Carteret, Cook, followed by the French, Spanish, Russians, Americans...
65070
RYAN, Jenny
FORCEFUL'S PROUD DAY
$15.00 AUD
Burbank Productions. Brisbane. 1988. 1st Ed. (1), 36 PP with 1 b/w photo of the Forceful, 6 b/w & 13 colour illustrations by Andrea Smith. Pictorial soft cover. A 20 page booklet "The Forceful Story", by Brian Martin and Rod McLeod loosely inserted. Fine. 23.5 x 16.8. 0958798303
Coal-fired steam tug built in 1925 in Glasgow, and now part of the Queensland Maritime Museum, South Brisbane.
17544
SALTER, Harold
BASS STRAIT KETCHES
$40.00 AUD
St.David's Park Publishing. Hobart. 1991. 1st Ed. XI, 330 PP with b/w illustrations (photos, paintings, sketches ...). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Scarce. 24.8 x 17.7. 0724625607
The activities of the mosquito fleet of ketches and schooners plying the waters of Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia.
65129
SCANLON, Herbert
BON JOUR DIGGER: France Revisited - A Charming Collection of Short Stories
$15.00 AUD
H.H. Watson / Author. Sydney. c. 1922. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 6 illustrations by George Colville. Soft cover, ilustrated front. Covers repaired at spine. Staples removed. Ageing of paper and foxing spots. Very good. 18.2 x 11.5.
39838
SHINYA, Michiharu
THE PATH FROM GUADALCANAL
$25.00 AUD
Outrigger Publishers. Auckland. 1979. 1st English edition, translated from the Japanese original by Eric Hardisty Thompson. 160 PP with 2 maps and 6 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 21 x 15.5. 0908571275
Torpedo Officer on the IJN destroyer Akatsuki. Sunk off Guadalcanal during the Naval Battle of Guadacanal. Prisoner of War in New Caledonia, then at Featherston Camp in New Zealand...
64690
SHIPBUILDERS' ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN ...
SHIPBUILDING IN JAPAN - 2005
$25.00 AUD
Japanese Marine Equipment Association / Shipbuilders' Association of Japan / Japan Ship Exporters' Association & The Nippon Foundation. Tokyo. 2005. Annual edition. 34 PP with colour illustrations (2 maps, 8 graphs, 1 cut-away, 1 plan and 16 photos (11 of ships). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29/7 x 21. /ISSN1344-3127
75320
SMITH, Windas
H.M.A.S. LATROBE - The Story of an Australian Corvette, 1942-1946
$30.00 AUD
Author. Hobart. 1987. 1st Ed. (I), 87 PP with b/w illustrations (1 menu, 2 crests and 3 photos), plus 1 large folded map of Australia's Northern reaches and Appendix tipped-in on inside back cover. Title page: Crest of "Latrobe". Pictorial soft cover with light soiling and light wear, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 24.5 x 17. 0731609808
One of the 60 Bathurst Class minesweepers, related by her last war-time Captain.
65399
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH
MARINER'S MIRROR [THE], The International Quarterly Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 97, No. 3)
$10.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 2011. Volume 97, No. 3, August 2011. Edited by Hugh Murphy. 113-270, (2) PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.2.
The Pechili Trader: A hull lines plan, by Michael Trimming. ... South Korea's ascent in the shipbuilding Industry, 1970-1990, by Lars Bruno & Stig Tenold. ...
65400
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH
MARINER'S MIRROR [THE], The International Quarterly Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 97, No. 4)
$10.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 2011. Volume 97, No. 4, November 2011. Edited by Hugh Murphy. 270-398, (2) PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.2.
William Campbell and the Harrington: Privateering in Chilean Waters in 1804, by Michael Ellery
65401
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH
MARINER'S MIRROR [THE], The International Quarterly Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 98
$40.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 2012. Volume 98, No. 1, February 2012 to No. 4, November 2012. Edited by Hugh Murphy. 528, (8 contents) PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 7.2.
No. 1: SNR Annual Lecture 2011: HMS Trioncomalee, by Captain David Smith. The Jade Gragon Wreck, Sabah, East Malaysia, by Michael Flecker. No. 2: A Social History of Mersey watermen, by Michael Stammers. No. 3: A winter in Yalong Bay (South coast of Hainan Island), by Stephen Davies. No. 4: Depiction of Indo-Arabic ships on an Eighteenth-century Sea Chart, by Norbert Weismann.
65449
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH
MARINER'S MIRROR [THE], The International Quarterly Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 99, No. 2
$10.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 2013. May 2013. Edited by Martin Bellamy. 129-254, (2) PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.2.
Obituaries: Michael K. Stammers. ... Decline of Antarctic Whaling Industry, by Bjorn L. Basberg.
65132
STACK, John
ARMADA
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. London. 2012. 1st Ed. (6), 400 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 9780007389865
A novel. 1587- Two nations. One bitter conflict.
48232
STEENE, Roger
CORAL SEAS
$30.00 AUD
Bathurst. 1998. Crawford House. 1st Ed. (14), 272 PP with 340 colour photos. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Very good. Large format: 32.2 x 27.7. 1863331441
Life of world's coral reefs. Brilliant photography.
65275
STEINER, Sue & LISTON, Robin
ST HELENA - ASCENSION - TRISTAN DA CUNHA
$55.00 AUD
London. 2007. Bradt Travel Guides. 2nd edition of the 2002 original, updated by Robin Liston. (6), VIII, 199 PP with b/w illustrations (3 plans, photos, 12 maps and drawings of flora) and colour illustrations (1 location map, 3 maps of the islands and 17 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.6 x 13.5. 1841621986
42240
STERNDALE, Handley Bathurst
MY ADVENTURES AND RESEARCHES IN THE PACIFIC, by a Master Mariner
$40.00 AUD
Mulini Press. Canberra. 2001. 1st edition of some 40 articles published in a serial form by the Australian Town and Country Journal between January 1871 and February 1872. Introduced and edited by Dirk H.R. Spennemann and Jane Downing. XLIV, 327 PP, with 1 map and 15 b/w woodcuts. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.7. 0949910864
Reminiscences ?? Beche-de-mer trade in the Caroline Islands in the 1860s... Year 1871/1872, for the Pacific Island Trading Company limited, on the atoll of Suwarrow, where he was rescued by Bully Hayes... Chapter 6 on Pearl fishing. Chapter 7 on the Beachcombers...
41261
STEWART, I. G.
BRITISH TRAMPS and their Peacetime Contribution to World Shipping History
$125.00 AUD
Ian Stewart Marine Publications. Perth. 1997. 1st Ed. VI, 514 PP with over 110 plans & profiles, and 880 b/w photos. Fp: "Imperial Valley". Pictorial laminated boards. Dedicatory note on front endpaper, dated and signed by the author. Newspaper clipping dated 7 June 1998, on this book and its author loosely inserted. Fine. 30.5 x 22. 0646222716
The British tramp ship: background, development, new trends in designs during the late 1950s. British Standard tramps, and Liberty Ship replacements...
63023
STEWART, I. G.
LIBERTY SHIPS IN PEACETIME, and Their Contribution to World Shipping History
$120.00 AUD
Ian Stewart Marine Publications. Rockingham Beach, W.A. 1992. 1st edition limited to 500 numbered copies. (2), 322 PP profusely illustrated with b/w & colour photos. Fp: "Pacific Nomad". Pictorial laminated boards. Certificate pasted down on front endpaper, hand numbered (054/500), dated and signed by the author. A tiny bump to top front corner, o/wise a fine copy. 30 x 21.5. 0646059874
The standard tramp vessel designed to last a few months & its contribution to the Allied Forces' war effort.
65041
STOTT, Harry J. (editor)
QUAYSIDE, the Quarterly Journal of the Montreal Branch of the World Ship Society - Volume One, No. 1
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society, Montreal Branch. Montreal. 1971. Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall issue. 12 PP (typescript on recto only). Soft wrappers, illustrated front (Newfoundland Schooner Miss Margaree). Very good. 28 x 21.5.
64877
STRACHAN, Shirley
SILTS IN THE SIGHT GLASS: Protectors and Raiders of the SS CITY OF LAUNCESTON - 1863-1865
$10.00 AUD
Heritage Victoria. Melbourne. 2000. 1st Ed. 79 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover, folded back cover with location map and plan. Fine. 21 x 21. 0730686701
Sunk by SS Penola in Port Phillip Bay, 19th November 1865.
38333
SYDNEY GAZETTE
THE SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER - Volumes four & five March 16, 1806 to August 30, 1807
$35.00 AUD
Public Library of New South Wales / Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1968. 1st facsimile edition. The William Dixson Foundation, Publication No. 8. No pagination (8), (200), (42 index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 37.5 x 25.
Volume 4 & 5 - No. 157 (Sunday, March 16, 1806) to No. 227 (Sunday, August 30, 1807).
39941
SYDNEY GAZETTE
THE SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER - Volume one: March 5, 1803 to February 26, 1804
$20.00 AUD
Public Library of New South Wales / Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1963. Facsimile reprint of the 1899 original. Introduction by J. A. Ferguson. The William Dixson Foundation, Publication No. 2. No pagination (2), XII, (210), (23 index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Back part of dust jacket with traces of dampness. Foxing spots on outside edges. Sellotape marks on endpapers. Stamp (chop) of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 32.4 x 23.5.
Volume I - No. 1 (Saturday, March 5, 1803) to No. 52 (Sunday, February 26, 1804).
19918
TABULO, Tom
PACIFIC SURF LIFE SAVING CLUB, The First Forty Years 1947-1987
$15.00 AUD
Weldons. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 117 bw photos in text. Laminated pictorial boards. Near fine. 23 x 20. 0947116443
History and development of the Pacific S.L.S.C. of Palm Beach on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
18064
TEMPLE, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Richard Carnac
NEW LIGHT ON THE MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY OF THE WORCESTER 1704-1705, An Episode in the Long Struggle between England and Scotland for Union as Great Britain 1603-1707
$20.00 AUD
Ernest Benn. London. 1930. 1st Ed. 491 PP with 2 figures in text, plus 3 maps & 8 b/w plates. Fp: The Custom House of 1714, showing a merchant frigate of the description of the Worcester. Cloth cover. Covers slightly worn, spine sunned. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages, o/wise a very good copy. Ingleton bookplate & Ingleton Catalogue No.12077. 24.2 x 15.5.
The seizure at Leith of the Worcester, on her return from a successful voyage to India. Hanging of her Captain in April 1705, and the ensuing controversy.
65073
Van ASPEREN DE BOER, J. R. J. (editor)
STUDIES IN CONSERVATION - Volume 17, Number 1
$10.00 AUD
The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. London. 1972. Vol. 17, No. 1, February 1972. 44PP with b/w illustrations, plus the folded IIC News supplement 4 folds. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 18.3.
Some applications of Rheology to the treatment of panel paintings, by Richard D. Buck. ... Pages 30-38: The recovery of the Graveney Boat, by W.A. Oddy and Van Geersdaele, P. C. Some aspects of conservation of Iron Objects from the Sea, by S. G. Rees-Jones.
64938
VILLIERS, Alan
THE QUEST OF THE SCHOONER ARGUS, A Voyage to The Banks and Greenland
$30.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1951. 1st Ed. XI, 256 PP with 1 plan of the Argus, 1 diagram and 3 maps, plus 48 pages with 94 b/w photos by the author. Fp: The Doryman. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic Ocean. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, top outside edge tinted, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with a few small chips and in a protective sleeve. Signature of previous owner at top of FFEP which has a little offsetting, light foxing on outside fore edge, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 23 x 15.
Sailing in 1950 with the Portuguese cod-fishing fleet to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and to the Greenland fishing grounds of the Davis Straits.
51635
VILLIERS, Alan & PICARD, Henri
THE BOUNTY SHIPS OF FRANCE - The Story of the French Cape Horn Sailing Ships
$45.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's. New York. 1972. 1st US edition. 240 PP with 2 maps of France, 3 plans, and 57 b/w photos. FEP: Map of the French Sailing Ship World Showing the Principal Routes & Ports. REP: Sailing Plan & Sails of a Full-rigged ship. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 25.4 x 18.5. 684131846
Reasons for regular calls at Hobart. In Chapter I, the Australian Captain/Author found that The French were different.
68625
WALKER, Leedham C.
SAIL ON THE TIDE. The Story of Flinders Island Shipping 1953-1994
$40.00 AUD
Author. Hobart. 1994. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 3 tables and b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 document and 20 photos). Pictorial soft cover with a small discolouration on front. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by the author. Near fine. Scarce. 21 x 14.5. 0646227998
65472
WALLACE, Frederick William
IN THE WAKE OF THE WIND-SHIPS. Notes, Records and Biographies pertaining to the Square-rigged Merchant Marine of British North America
$50.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1927. 1st Ed. XII, 282 PP, plus 60 pages with 84 b/w photos. Fp: Ship "Ocean Monarch". FEP: Map of the maritime provinces of Canada. Dark green cloth cover, vignette in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Front and back covers of the dust jacket trimmed and loosely inserted. Offsetting of endpapers and foxing throughout, but still a very good copy. 22.5 x 14.2.
11481
WALMSLEY, Leo
BRITISH PORTS AND HARBOURS
$5.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1942. 1st Ed., in the Britain in Pictures series. 48 PP with 23 b/w illustrations, plus 8 plates with 9 colour illustrations (2 on double-page). Decorated boards. Edges rubbed and a little worn. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. 23 x 16.7.
Colour plates include: Liverpool in 1846 - lithography by T. McGahey, Whitby - oil painting by Richard Eurich, 1934, Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour - oil painting by J. Lynn, 1846, Falmouth Harbour, c.1840, by Newman & Co., Bristol - water colour by J.B. Pyne ...
64995
WARD, Wayne
THE LAST SEAMAN
$30.00 AUD
Keith Rudkin Copy Centre / Trafford Publishing. Newcastle, Australia / Victoria, B.C., Canada. 2004. Australian reprint of the Canadian original. (2), 609 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Dated and signed on title page by the author. Fine. 20.8 x 14.7. 1412006570
An Australian one at least. Historical novel.
57412
WILLSTEED, Theresa (editor)
NELSON MEERS FOUNDATION: Heritage Collection 2009
$15.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Regina Sutton. VI, 42 PP with 10 b/w and 20 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.2. 0731371933
Catalogue to an exhibition held in 2009. Mapping of Antarctica, 1657-1990. James Cook: Death of a hero. Art of the Surveyor...
17351
WILSON, E. A.
SOVIET PASSENGER SHIPS 1917-1977
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1978. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 ship profile and 137 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0905617045
History and fleet list.
64949
WILSON, Roy
PASSENGER STEAMERS OF THE GLASGOW & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY
$10.00 AUD
Twelveheads Press. Truro, Cornwall. 1991. 1st Ed. 96 PP with Fleet List and b/w illustrations (1 map, facsimile of a menu and 107 photos). Pictorial card cover. Inside covers with sellotape marks. Near fine. 19.6 x 21. 090629424X
65080
WINDSOR, Merrill
AMERICA'S SUNSET COAST
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1978. 1st Ed. 224 PP with colour illustrations, including photos by James A. Sugar. Hard cover, device on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a sunned spine and a few small chips, o/wise a near fine copy. 26 x 18. 0870442538
64915
WOODING, Jonathan
THE VIKINGS
$10.00 AUD
Lansdowne Publishing Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1998. Reprint of the 1997 original. 160 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, cloth spine, gilt title. Fine. 21.5 x 14 1863025235
21007
WORTH, Jack
BRITISH WARSHIPS SINCE 1945, Part 4: Minesweepers
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. c. 1984. 1st Ed. 160 PP with tables, and 121 b/w photos. Title page: Minesweeper M 295. Pict. card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0907771122