53296 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 20, Nos. 1 & 2, 1998
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1998. Edited by G.R. HENNING. No. 1: 72 PP with 15 figures, 6 graphs and 12 tables. No. 2: 73-144 PP with 2 figures, 1 map and 5 b/w photos. Card covers. Very good. 24 x 16.3.
No. 1: The influence of Rating Rules and Aero- and Hydrodynamics on the design of sailing yachts, by N. Theo van Harpen. German Windships at the beginning of thz 20th century, by Timm Weski... No. 2: Shipping Freight costs: South Australian Copper and Copper-ore cargoes, by Mel Davies. Indonesian Divers in Australia's Northern Waters, by M. McCarthy.
74096 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History - Volume 20, No. 2, 1998
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1998. Edited by G.R. HENNING. No. 2: 73-144 PP with 2 figures, 1 map and 5 b/w photos. Card covers. Near fine. 24 x 16.3.
No. 2: Shipping Freight costs: South Australian Copper and Copper-ore cargoes, 1845-1870, by Mel Davies. Indonesian Divers in Australia's Northern Waters, by M. McCarthy.
20575 ADAMS, R.B. RED FUNNEL AND BEFORE
$10.00 AUD
Kingfisher Railway Productions. Southampton. 1986. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 1 map, 3 plans, 3 profiles & 194 bw photos. Title page: Normandie anchored at the Motherbank off Ryde. Eps: Advertisements for daily steamers excursions from Southampton. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28 x 21.8. 0946184216
Ships of the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 1861-1986.
14593 ANDERSON, K. S. A PORT IS BUILT
$10.00 AUD
Portland Harbor Trust. Melbourne. 1981. 1st Ed. 83 PP with 1 map and 20 b/w illust. Eps: Portland jetties. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 24.7 x 18.8. 072413378X
The harbour of Portland, Victoria. From a rambling jetty in 1950, to a modern sheltered harbour inaugurated in 1980.
52069 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Special Publication No.2
$30.00 AUD
AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1984. VI, 60 PP with 21 figures (3 maps, drawings and b/w photos). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.
Cavalier de La Salle vessel, wrecked in 1679, Lake Huron, Great Lakes. The Griffon Cove Wreck: a case study in archaeological reconstruction of timber hull remains, by Paul F. HUNDLEY.
59397 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 6, 1982
$15.00 AUD
AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1982. Edited by Jeremy GREEN. II, 84 PP with 36 figures. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples, cloth spine. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Wreck of the Sydney Cove, by Ken Atherton and Shirley Lester. Shipwrecks on the Margaret Brock Reef, off Cape Jaffa, S.E of South Australia, by Terry Drew and Bill Jeffery.
36573 AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING 1980
$5.00 AUD
A.G.P.S. / Department of Transport. Canberra. 1980. 33rd edition. IV, 68 PP with 19 tables. Pictorial card cover . Near fine. 25 x 17.5. 064205665X
Data as at 30 June 1980. Trading Vessels... Trades... Passenger ferries... Ships imported & ships constructed. Dry docks and patent slipways.
21761 BAADER, Juan THE SAILING YACHT
$15.00 AUD
W. W. Norton. New York. 1979. 1st American edition of the 1974 (2nd edition) German text "Segelsport-Segeltechnik-Segelyachten" translated from the 1962 original Argentinian text "El Deporte de la Vela". 392 PP with 91 b/w photos and 275 diagrams. Fp: Alysina, a Half Tonner. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (spine lightly sunned). Near fine. 28.2 x 22.4. 0393032205
19354 BABBAGE, Ross RETHINKING AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE
$20.00 AUD
UQP. Brisbane. 1980. 1st Ed. XXII, 312 PP with 9 figures and 9 tables. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Discreet signature & date on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.6. 0702214868
54483 BACH, Joanne (editor) BETWEEN THE FLAGS: 100 Years of Surf Lifesaving
$20.00 AUD
National Museum of Australia Press. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed. with a foreword by Craddock Morton. XII, 52 PP with 32 b/w and 52 colour illustrations (20 of objects). Folded poster loosely inserted. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 22 x 22. 1876944498
30555 BALLARD, Robert & ARCHBOLD, Rick GHOST LINERS, Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1998. 1st Australian Ed., paintings by Ken Marschall. 64 PP with b/w and colour illust. throughout. Half title page: Alvin explores the severed bow section of the Titanic. Title page: Delta illuminates the anchor of Lusitania. Eps: Titanic leaving Southampton. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.2. 186448831X
Titanic - Empresss of Ireland - Lusitania - Britannic ...
61908 BARTIMEUS MALTA INVICTA
$15.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1943. 4th impression. 32 PP, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Small crease at top corner of front cover. War economy paper. Near fine. 19.8 x 13.
11882 BATES, John THE LAST ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Boolarong. Brisbane. 1993. 2nd edition, updated of the 1990 original. 120 PP with 1 drawing, 5 maps, 9 b/w & 29 colour photos. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20.8 x 14.8. 0864391684
History of the Whitsunday and Cumberland Islands.
68487 BEAUFORT, The Duke of and WATSON, Alfred E.T. (Editors) BADMINTON LIBRARY - YACHTING (VOLUMES I & II)
$50.00 AUD
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1894. 1st Ed., in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Vol. I: XVI, 439 PP with 93 text illustrations by R. T. Pritchett, plus 3 colour plates (Racing Flags - Solent Owners Racing Colours, Commercial Code of Signal) and 17 b/w plates. Vignette on title page: Before the Start. Fp (in colour): The Jack of 1606 A.D. & The Union Jack. Vol. II: XVI, 456 PP with 160 text illustrations by R. T. Pritchett, plus 3 colour plates (Yacht Club Burgees - Yacht Club Flags - Mermaids an Water-wags of Dublin Bay) and 31 b/w plates. Vignette on title page: Varuna, Vendetta and Lais. Fp (in colour): Old Flags . Brown cloth cover, illustrated front cover, title on spine. Spine of each volume lightly sunned and frayed at head and foot (shelf wear). Each volume with the Book Plate of the "Union Club Sydney - Library" on front endpaper, and gilt device "Union Club Sydney" on front board. Foxing spots throughout, but still a good set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 19.5 x 14.
Ocean Cruising, by Lord Brassey. Sliding keels and centreboards by R.T. Fritchett... Yachting on the Norfolk Broads, by G. Christopher Davies. Yachting in New Zealand, by the Earl of Onslow... The America Cup Races, 1893.
48578 BEAVER, Paul BRITISH NAVAL AIR POWER 1945 TO THE PRESENT
$15.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1985. 1st Ed., No. 33 in the Warbirds Illustrated series. 66 PP with 8 colour and 117 b/w photos. Title spread: Scimitar. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 18.6. 0853687102
34784 BERLITZ, Charles & VALENTINE, J. Manson WITHOUT A TRACE
$10.00 AUD
Souvenir Press. Adelaide. 1977. 1st Australian edition. X, (2), 180 PP with 6 b/w illust, plus 24 pages with 37 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0285622862
More evidence from the Bermuda Triangle.
45334 BILLINGHURST, Jane (editor) THE SPIRIT OF THE WHALE - Legend, History, Conservation
$20.00 AUD
Colin Baxter. Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. 2000. 1st Ed. 135, (9 appendix, bibliography, index) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Near fine. 28.7 x 22.2. 1841070661
Part 2 (pages 39 to 66): Of Whales and Gods (legends). Part 3 (pages 67 to 104): Of Whales and Men (whaling industry).
40438 BLACKMORE, Howard L. HUNTING WEAPONS
$20.00 AUD
Barrie & Jenkins. London. 1971. 1st Ed., in Arms and Armour series. XXX, 401 PP with 137 b/w illustrations, plus 40 pages with 151 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Light foxing on outside edges and the first and last leaves. Note on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 15.5. 0257656405
Swords, Knives and Bayonets, Staff Weapons...
44139 BLAKE, George THE BEN LINE - The History of William Thomson and Co. of Leith and Edinburgh, and of the Ships owned and managed by them 1825-1955
$20.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson. London. 1956. 1st Ed. X, 222 PP with 1 genealogical table, plus 30 pages with 1 map and 35 b/w illustrations. Fp: Ben Lomond at Hong Kong in 1890. FEP: 3 maps (North and Baltic Seas, the Firth of Forth, South East Asia). REP: Map of the world. Cloth cover, gilt House Flag on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has a few chips and is protected. Occasional light foxing around edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.
21941 BONSALL, Thomas E. GREAT SHIPWRECKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
$15.00 AUD
Gallery Books. New York. 1988. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 176 b/w & 32 colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 29.5 x 21.5. 0831777818
Recollection of the important passenger ship disasters of this century from the General Slocum to the Mikhail Lermontov, including Titanic, Lusitania, Normandie, Andrea Doria, ...
49843 BOWEN, Frank C. THE KING'S NAVY
$20.00 AUD
Methuen. London. 1925. 1st Ed. VIII, 252 PP with 9 drawings, plus 30 plates with 46 b/w photos by Stephen Cribb. Fp: Hoisting the Colours. Cloth cover, device and title on front cover and spine. Offsetting on endpapers. Foxing, o/wise very good. 22 x 17.
15493 BRADFIELD, Raymond A. SERVING A SEA-GIRT LAND, Some Early Maritime History
$15.00 AUD
Castlemaine Mail. Castlemaine, Vic. c. 1975. 1st Ed. 98 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 16. 0959450920
Pot pourri of early Australian maritime history.
20111 BRENNAN, Frank THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH SHIPPING LINE
$10.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1978. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society publication No. 20. VII, 72 PP plus 24 pages with 39 photos in b/w, 2 b/w maps. Fp: Sketch of Australian cargo ships, Class D & E. REP: Certificate of Discharge, recto-verso. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small nicks, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 18. 0909434115
Creation of the Commonwealth Shipping Line in 1915, to serve Australian needs during and just after WWI (up to 1927).
37026 BRODIE, W. A. D. MELBOURNE, the water's edge
$15.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1978. 1st Ed. 95 PP with 1 map, 2 b/w illust. and 66 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong. 22.2 x 28.7. 0727004735
ShipPax Information. Halmstad, Sweden. 2006. 2006 edition. 248 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, profiles and photos of ships). Pictorial (Maersk Dunkerque) soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 8 to 111: Maersk Dunkerque / Focus on Norfolk Line, by Philippe Holthof. Samsung Heavy Industries, by Jonathan Boonzaier. ... Market Observationseport.
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 69th year of publication. 32, 700 PP with tables and advertising material, plus 80 pages of advertisements. Illustrated papered boards, worn cloth spine. A very good copy. 21.3 x 14.
55744 BROWN, David THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE FALKLANDS WAR
$35.00 AUD
Leo Cooper. London. 1987. 1st Ed. 384 PP with 7 maps and 135 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 16 colour photos. Eps: map of the Falklands Islands. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0850520592
Story of the fleet of vessels (Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Merchant Navy) sent 7000 miles from England to take back the Falkland Islands in 1982.
50878 BROWN, Ernest B. RADAR NAVIGATION MANUAL
$20.00 AUD
Defence Mapping Agency/Hydrographic Center Washington. 1971. 1st Ed. Publication No. 1310, with a foreword by Captain F. L. Slattery. No continuous pagination, XII, 178 PP with 122 figures. Stiff plastic covers. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 20.5 x 27.
68398 BRYAN, Marilyn (compiler) THE HISTORY OF IRON POT LIGHTHOUSE
$20.00 AUD
Author. Hobart. 1990. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 1 b/w photo. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples. Fine. 21.2 x 14.6.
19075 BRYANT, Arthur SAMUEL PEPYS, The Years of Peril
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1952. 3rd reprint of the 1948 new edition, (orig. of 1935). XIV, 466 PP, plus 6 full-page plates. Fp: The Britannia of 1682. FEP: The Thames and Medway. REP: London under Charles II. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.2.
The rising Admiralty servant: 1669-1683.
68498 BURGESS, Douglas R., Jr. SEIZE THE TRIDENT, The Race for Superliner Supremacy and How It Altered the Great War
$15.00 AUD
International Marine / McGraw-Hill. Camden, Maine. 2005. 1st Ed. X, 296 PP, plus 6 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. . Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers, title page and top outside edge. Rubbed patch at foot of spine. Internally very good. 23.5 x 15.5 0071430091
67833 BYRSKI, Liz SPECTACULAR AUSTRALIAN SEA RESCUES
$20.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. XII, 211 PP with 12 sketch maps, plus 16 pages with 12 bw & 13 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.7 x 13.5. 1864363010
Rescues from foundering ships, yachts, or rafts: inshore, coastal waters, or deep south in Antarctic waters. The unusual: hot-air balloonists plucked from the sea after drifting over the Coral Sea.
49275 CALLENDER, Geoffrey THE NAVAL SIDE OF BRITISH HISTORY
$20.00 AUD
Christophers. London. 1924. 1st Ed. IX, 10-305 PP, plus 18 bw plates. Fp: Sir Francis Drake. Eps: The Globe, after the map made by Martin Behaim of Nuremberg 1492. Cloth cover, gilt vignette on front cover and gilt title on spine. Spine slightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Signature of previous owner on verso of frontispiece. Near fine. 22 x 14.2.
Genesis of British sea-power, the Royal Navy...
68355 CALVERT, Hedley & GRAEME-EVANS, Alex ALWAYS A COMPETITOR - Hedley Calvert Tasmanian Yachtsman, Orchardist and Raconteur
$25.00 AUD
Tasbook. Hobart. 1997. Limited edition. Foreword by Mike Fletcher. V, 311 PP with b/w illustrations, ribbon page-marker. Endpapers: Colour photos of Huon Valley. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0646343947
68561 CAMPBELL-JONES, Susan WELSH SAIL - A Pictorial History
$20.00 AUD
Gomer Press. Dyfed, Wales. 1976. 1st edition with an introduction by Alun Richards. 103 PP with 6 figures and 77 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine copy. 21.7 x 18.7. 850883067
18169 CANNELL, David & LEATHER, John MODERN DEVELOPMENT IN YACHT DESIGN
$15.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1976. 1st Ed. (8), 152 PP with 79 b/w illust. (plans, sketches,..) & 17 b/w photos in text. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled, now in protective sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges. Still a very good clean copy. 28.3 x 22.5. 0229115187
Sailing and motor yachts, spars, rigs & sails, materials & construction.
40539 CAPPER, D. P. MOAT DEFENSIVE - A History of the Waters of the Nore Command 55 BC to 1961
$15.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1963. 1st Ed. XI, 251 PP with 2 drawings and 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illust. Vignette on title page. Eps: A prospect of Chatham Dock. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped and a few chips). Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5..
Published at the time of the closing of the Nore Command (South East corner of England).
32194 CARR, Frank G. G. LESLIE A. WILCOX, R.I., R.S.M.A.
$40.00 AUD
F. Lewis. Leigh-on-Sea. 1977. Limited edition to 600 copies. VI, 7-47 PP, plus 38 pages with 2 colour plates tipped in and 72 b/w plates. Title page: Colour plate of the American clipper Blue Jacket pasted down. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dust jacket tipped-in on front endpaper. Ingleton bookplate. Fine. 29.2 x 22.6.
Catalogue of 267 of his works.
18648 CARRISON, Daniel J. THE NAVY FROM WOOD TO STEEL 1860-1890
$10.00 AUD
Franklin Watts. New York. 1965. 1st Ed. in the Watts Histories of the United States Navy series. (6), 186 PP plus 16 pages with 34 bw illust. Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped and rubbed. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24 x 16.4.
The Civil War and the actions of the Union and Confederacy Navies. Subsequent changes in naval strategy and rise of steel hulls in combat.
68453 CHAMBERS, Admiral B. M. SALT JUNK - Naval Reminiscences, 1881-1906
$25.00 AUD
Constable. London. 1927. 1st Ed., illustrated by the author. X, 364 PP, (2 adv.) with 44 b/w text-illustrations, plus 4 b/w plates (2 engravings and 2 photos) and a colour frontispiece. Fp: Rio de Janeiro (water colour). Blue cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine somewhat faded, a little light foxing, a library vignett and stamp on FFEP and former owner's name/address on half-title page. Small closed tear/chip on the top of the first 5 pages, o/wise contents very clean and overall a very good copy. 22.7 x 14.5.
Between February 1913 and April 1914, Admiral B. M. Chambers was the first Captain of the Royal Australian Naval College, Osborne House, Geelong.
15845 CHARLWOOD, Don SETTLERS UNDER SAIL
$15.00 AUD
Government Printing Office. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 1 map, 2 plans, 1 colour photo, and 43 bw illust. Inside back cover: tall ship. Pictorial soft cover. "Compliments Card" by Premier of Victoria loosely inserted. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
38271 CHRISTOPHER, Peter ... TO SAVE THE LIVES OF STRANGERS - (Famous Shipwrecks of South Australia)
$15.00 AUD
Author. Adelaide. 1989. 1st Ed. 40 PP with 2 maps, 6 facsimile of newspaper cuttings and 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0958804419
Admella in 1859... Geltwood... Lady Kinnaird... Portland Maru in 1935.
68353 CLARK, Gerry THE TOTORORE VOYAGE
$25.00 AUD
Homelands Publications. Kerikeri, NZ. 2000. 1st paperback edition by Homelands Publications (an updated edition of the 1988 original). Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. (12), 374 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, head and tail pieces) and 29 maps, plus 24 pages with 74 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Light bump on lower corner of back cover and around 30 pages, o/wise near fine. 23 x 15.2. 0780473064310
Circumnavigation of the Antarctic Ocean on the Sailing Research Vessel Totorore, between 1983 and 1986. Gerry Clark was lost with his "Totorore" on the Antipodes Island in June 1999.
68457 COLE, Sanford D. SHIPMASTERS' HANDBOOK TO THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS
$20.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1933. 4th edition of the 1913 original. XVII, (3), 268 PP. Blue cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Light foxing. Name of previous owner and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front endpaper. Some pencilled marginal lines or underlining of text, o/wise near fine. Image shows title-page. 21.8 x 14.2.
Being a practical guide to the Acts and Regulations for Shipmasters and all connected with the Mercantile Marine.
37537 COLLINS, Bruce E. THE WRECK OF THE PENGUIN
$25.00 AUD
Steele Roberts. Wellington. 2000. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (maps & plans, drawings, paintings and photographs). Title page: the Penguin leaving Wellington. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 20 x 28. 1877228281
Wreck of the New Zealand Union Steam Ship Penguin, 12th February 1909, with loss of 72 lives.
68557 COPPING, A. E. GOTTY AND THE GUV'NOR
$25.00 AUD
Mallard Reprints. Lavenham, Suffolk. 1979. Reprint of the 1907 original. XIV, 201 PP with 1 portrait and 6 endpieces, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.5 x 14.5. 090462398X
49578 CORNFORD, L. Cope A CENTURY OF SEA TRADING 1824-1924. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED
$45.00 AUD
A & C Black Ltd. London. 1924. 1st Ed., illustrated by W L Wyllie and J Spurling. Preface by the Right Hon. Viscount Inchcape. X, 182 PP with 1 map and 3 b/w illustrations, plus 26 plates with 8 colour and 20 b/w illustrations. Decorated cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Presentation plate (June 1924) pasted down on front endpaper. Offsetting on endpapers, foxing, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 22.5 x 16.5.
71605 CORNFORD, L. Cope A CENTURY OF SEA TRADING 1824-1924. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED
$50.00 AUD
A & C Black Ltd. London. 1924. 1st Ed., illustrated by W L Wyllie and J Spurling. Preface by the Right Hon. Viscount Inchcape. X, 182 PP with 1 map and 3 b/w illustrations, plus 26 plates with 8 colour and 20 b/w illustrations. Decorated cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note to the Port Commandant (Pat Leeper) and signed by Reg Grout , Fayid (Ismalia), March 1952. Light foxing, otherwise a very nice clean copy. Scarce. 22.5 x 16.5.
18186 CORNWELL, E. L. (editor) THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Octopus. London. 1979. Reprint of the 1979 original published by New English Library. 479 PP with 355 b/w & 465 col. illust. Half-title page: Argentinian Libertade. Fp: Frigate. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing. Near fine. 34.5 x 24.5. 0706411560
From the beginnings (papyrus, balsa or dug-out) to nuclear powered vessels, commerce & trade, discovery & exploration, oceanography, safety at sea, dangers & disasters... Most comprehensive.
18851 COWSILL, Miles BRITTANY FERRIES
$10.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. Kilgetty, UK. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ian A. Carruthers. 36 PP with 2 maps, 19 colour, and 61 bw photos. Inside front cover: Prince of Brittany. Inside back cover: the Prince of Brittany passes the Channel Island ferry Corbiere. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 1871947006
68482 CUTHBERTSON, Bern SMALL SHIPS THAT SHAPED MY LIFE
$35.00 AUD
Bern Cuthbertson. Hobart. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Captain David Cowles. (6), 196 PP with 1 map and 22 b/w photos, plus 24 pages with 71 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with 2 colour photos, clear plastic protection, spiral bound. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
An autobiography containing memories of 70 years of exciting maritime adventures and tales of the Tasmanian fishing industry and its history.
46762 DAVISON, Julian TURNING THE TIDE. British Naval Engagements during the Napoleonic Era
$10.00 AUD
Antiques of the Orient. Singapore. 1994. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 14 b/w illustrations (3 portraits and 11 paintings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 9810055773
An Introductory Essay to an Exhibition and Sale of hand-coloured aquatints from James Jenkins: The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793-1817.
22078 DEAN, Frederick E. SHIPS OF THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD
Odhams. London. 1964. 1st English edition of the 1963 French original Bateaux d'Aujourd'hui by Jean Riverain. 64 PP with colour illustrations throughout. Title page: French Aircraft Carrier and tanker of Compagnie Navale des Pétroles. Pictorial laminated boards (France II) . Very good. Large format: 35.5 x 26.5.
50827 DICKSON, Rod (editor) TO KING GEORGE THE THIRD SOUND FOR WHALES. A voyage aboard the British Whaling Vessel KINGSTON of London, Captain Thomas Dennis 1800-1802
$55.00 AUD
Hesperian Press. Perth. 2006. 1st Ed. Transcribed from the Original Ship's Logbook. XIV, 159 PP with 1 plan, 1 illustration, 5 facsimile of logbook pages, and 9 charts. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj, ribbon page-marker. Near fine. 25 x 17.2. 0859053725
Sailed from England, January 1800... South Africa. Reached Albany, Western Australia, mid August 1800. Sailed the coast of West Australia until mid December 1800... Return via Baie de St. Augustin (Tulear), Madagascar, South Africa, St Helena...
68521 DURHAM, Dick THE LAST SAILORMAN
$20.00 AUD
Terence Dalton Ltd. Lavenham, Suffolk. 1989. 1st Ed. VIII, 160 PP with 88 b/w photos. Fp: Bob Roberts aboard the smack "Stormy Petrel". Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.2 x 18. 9780861380671
68367 DUYKER, Edward A DICTIONARY OF SEA QUOTATIONS: From Ancient Egypt to the Present
$40.00 AUD
The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2007. 1st Ed. XXIV, 440 PP with 87 b/w illustrations including frontispiece and 27 headpieces. Hard covers with a small bump at top and bottom of spine, near fine dust jacket. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. A near fine copy. 24.8 x 18. 9780522857311
74939 EDWARDS, Herbert W. UNDER FOUR FLAGS
$35.00 AUD
Percival Marshall. London. 1954. 1st Ed. 223 PP plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Fp: Steel-built three-masted barque at the end of the nineteenth century. Hard cover, chipped dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, o/wise contents are fine. 22.2 x 15.
Apprentice on the Norwegian square-rigger Solheim. Under the Red Ensign of the British Merchant Service, the Blue Ensign of the RNR and the White Ensign of the RN.
68564 EGLINTON, Edmund The MARY FLETCHER: Seven Days in the Life of a Westcountry Coasting Ketch
$25.00 AUD
University of Exeter Press. Exeter, 1990. 1st Ed. Exeter Marine Studies No. 5. Edited and introduced by Basil Greenhill. X, 85 PP with b/w illustrations (4 maps by Peter Allington and 43 plates). Laminated boards, pictorial front. Spine lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 25 x 17. 085989326X
10222 EISLER, William & SMITH, Bernard (editors) TERRA AUSTRALIS - The Furthest Shore
$30.00 AUD
Art Gallery of NSW. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 239 PP with b/w or colour drawings, paintings & charts. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Joseph Banks. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 31 x 22. 0642134642
Catalogue of an exhibition held for the Bicentennial celebrations of Australia. Visions of Terra Australis in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Helen Wallis. Crossing the Equator: The Historical Background to Portuguese Navigational Techniques in the Age of Discovery by Luis de Albuquerque. The Dutch and the Southern Continent 1569-1756 by Ernst van den Boogaart...
68538 ELLIOTT, Colin SAILING FISHERMEN IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
$15.00 AUD
Tops'l Books. Reading, U.K. 1978. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 50 b/w photos. from the Ford Jenkins Collection. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.4. 0906397006
The old sailing smacks of the North Sea, Scotland & English Channel and the men who sailed them.
51222 EUSSEN, Dick TRIALS OF THE NORTH: The Settlement of Port Essington (in Australian Heritage No. 4)
$10.00 AUD
Hallmark Editions. Brighton, Victoria. 2006. No. 4, Spring 2006. 88 PP. Contains article between P.79 and 85 with 1 map, 3 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.7 x 21.
Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land. Also contains articles: Ian Bowen's Hobart, by Phillip Tardiif, The Wreck of the Sydney Cover, by Michael Nash..
65919 EWER, Dr. Peter WOUNDED EAGLE - The Bombing of Darwin and Australia's Air Defence Scandal
$30.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers (Australia). Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. 240 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map of Australia, 1 plan of Darwin and 17 photos. Hard cover, illustrated front. As new. 22.5 x 18.5. 9781741108255
41884 FENTON, Roy & CLARKSON, John SHIPS IN FOCUS RECORD 19
$15.00 AUD
Ships in Focus Publications. London. 2002. Issue Number 19. 64 PP (129 to 192) with 1 map, 1 flag and funnel, 2 sketch-plans and 92 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 1901703169
Fleet in Focus: Houlder's post-war Granges, by John Hill. Tasmanian Traders by Rex Cox and Ken Wriedt. Sunderland in Focus, by John Lingwood.
64475 FILDES, R.D. THE SHIPS THAT SERVE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, VOLUME ONE: Australian and New Zealand Flag Vessels
$10.00 AUD
Searail Productions. Sydney. 1975. 1st ed. VIII, 200 PP with b/w photos throughout. Fp: The BP Australia Ltd. tanker BP Endeavour. Decorated hard cover (the Australian Trader), dj. Dust jacket has a few chips, o/wise near fine. Includes a tipped in errata and addendum slip. Oblong: 14.5 x 21.5. 0909096015
Ships and shipowners, historic & preserved vessels, Australia & New Zealand naval vessels.
68523 FINCH, Roger SAILING CRAFT OF THE BRITISH ISLES
$25.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1976. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 51 location maps as head-pieces, 108 line drawings (many coloured) and 29 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy. 24.6 x 17.5. 0002197103
Origins, history, building methods & materials. Fishing methods and study of 52 different types of boats with location maps, plan of the hull & rigging together with a pencil sketch for each. A delightful book.
18143 FINCHAM, John A HISTORY OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE
$60.00 AUD
Scolar Press. London. 1979. Reprint of 1851 orig. Ed. Introduction by John Leather. XI, (3), VIII, (XI), LXXXIV, 415 PP with numerous figures & tables in text, 58 plates numbered 1 to 47. Gilt-engraved papered boards, blue cloth spine, dj. Plain slipcase. Dust jacket is sunned/browned at spine and has a small crease and repairs at extremities. An otherwise fine copy. 24.8 x 16. 0859675696
A summary of the evolution of naval architecture, from log rafts & canoes, the Phoenicians, Greeks & Romans... up to the British Navy at the time.
62063 LE FLEMING, H.M. WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR I, No. 3 Destroyers (British and German)
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1962. Reprint. 80 PP with tables, 3 pages of drawings & 67 b/w photos. Title page: H.M.S. Tempest (Admiralty 'R' Class) dropping depth charges. Pict. card cover. Very good. 18 x 12.
827 British and German destroyers of the WWI period.
41001 FLEXNER, James Thomas THE WORLD OF WINSLOW HOMER 1836-1910
$15.00 AUD
Time Inc. New York. 1974. Reprint of the original (c.1966), in the Time-Life Library of Art series. 190 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Fisherman, Lake St. John, Canada. REP: Two men in a canoe. Hard cover, pictorial slipcase. Near fine. 31 x 23.5.
53069 FOLEY, Captain John C. H. REEF PILOTS - The History of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service
$15.00 AUD
Banks Bros. & Street. Sydney. 1882 1st Ed. Foreword by Norman Rogers. XIX, 202 PP, plus 64 pages with b/w and colour photos. Fp: Chart of Torres Strait. Title page: Seal of the Torres Strait Pilot Service. Eps: Charts of Queensland Coasts. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0959335803
History of the Queensland Coast & Torres Strait Pilot Service.
68348 FORNASIERO, Jean, MONTEATH, Peter & WEST-SOOBY, John ENCOUNTERING TERRA AUSTRALIS: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders
$50.00 AUD
Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2004. 1st Ed. XII, 412 PP with 2 head pieces and 130 b/w illustrations (maps and plans, charts and coastal views, drawings and engravings), plus 16 pages with 2 b/w and 35 colour illustrations. Title page: Portrait of Ouriaga (Bruny Island). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 23.8 x 17.5. 9781862546257
58042 FOSTER, Dr. Leonie THE WILD COAST WRECKS
$25.00 AUD
Heritage Victoria. Melbourne. 1996. 1st Ed. (6), 142 PP with 48 b/w illustrations (maps, sketches, photocopies and photographs). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.4 x 20.8. 0730686191
State of Victoria.
68347 FOX, Uffa UFFA FOX'S SECOND BOOK - A Companion Volume to "Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction"
$80.00 AUD
Peter Davies. London. 1950. Reprint of the 1935 original. XII, 376 PP with over 350 plans, photos and diagrams. Fp: The author at work on the design of Wishbone. Blue cloth cover, silver device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. Light foxing on top outside edge, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce.. 28 x 21.5.
60158 FROST, Alan BOTANY BAY: The Real Story
$20.00 AUD
Black Inc. Melbourne. 2011. 1st Ed. XIII, 276 PP with 1 sketch map. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 9781863955126
67829 GARDNER, John SAILING SHIPS PRIVATEERS: English "Golden Hind", 1579 - Dutch "De Vlissinger", 1782 - American "Prince de Neufchatel", 1814 - Swedish "Neptunus", 1714 - Danish "Mandal", 1808.
$15.00 AUD
Hempel's Marine Paints. London. c. 1980. 5 "Frameable" prints in colour by John Gardner. Fine. Oblong format: 28 x 42.
5 Privateers in the Age of Sail.
37592 GARDNER, Richard E. THE FLYING NAVY
$15.00 AUD
Almark Publishing. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w illustrations (2 profiles, 9 sets of plans and photos) and 8 colour photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket lightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 15. 0855240407
50087 GIBB, Sir Alexander PORT OF BURNIE - Proposed Extensions
$55.00 AUD
Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners. London. 1937. 1st Ed. 26 PP, plus large folded plan Port of Burnie, plan showing future breakwaters and ultimate development of port. Cloth cover, title on front cover. Fine. 34.5 x 22.
Port on the North Coast of Tasmania.
68516 GIBBS, Jim SENTINELS OF SOLITUDE: West Coast Lighthouses
$15.00 AUD
Ez Nature Books. San Luis Obispo, Ca. 1989. Revised edition of the 1981 original. 88 PP with b/w illustrations (4 maps & insets and 4 photos) and colour photos by Chad Ehlers. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. Oblong: 20.8 x 27. 0945092067
34736 GIBSON, Alex J. SOME NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWER IN A DOUBLE-ENDED SCREW STEAMER
$20.00 AUD
Sydney University Engineering Society. Sydney. 1909. 1st Ed. 28 PP with 12 figures. Soft cover (chipped). Near fine. 25.6 x 20.4.
Paper read before the Sydney University Engineering Society, on 14th July, 1909.
32496 GODDARD, Roy H. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JAMES MILSON
$30.00 AUD
Georgian House. Melbourne. 1955. 1st Ed. XII, 206 PP with 6 maps and plans and 21 head pieces by Geoffrey C. Ingleton, plus 22 pages with 26 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of John Milson. FEP: Map of the County of Cumberland, NSW. REP: Genealogical table. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Paper ageing somewhat around edges with light foxing, dust jacket with a few small chips and is in a protective sleeve, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 18.5.
Migrated on the 362-ton whaler Albion, 18th August 1806...
38959 GRAHAM, Lydia S. PORT TO PORT - A Description of Real Journeys, made by Real People, under Modern Conditions
$20.00 AUD
A. Wheaton. Exeter. 1938. 2nd impression. 136 PP with 22 figures (21 maps and plans) and 27 b/w photos. Fp: Eden gardens and Pagodan, Calcutta (the second city of the Empire). Eps: World map. Attractive illustrated cloth cover. Near fine. 21.8 x 14.
Round the world voyages westward and eastward. Written by a headmistress who describes journeys made by herself and recounted to her pupils in an endeavour to stimulate their imagination and interest and to give them a general idea of the relation of one part of the world to the rest. It even includes some simple questions put to the students.
68382 GRASSO, Glenn (compiler) SONGS OF THE SAILOR - Working Chanteys at Mystic Seaport
$65.00 AUD
Mystic Seaport. Mystic, Connecticut. 1998. 1st Ed. Compiled and edited by Glenn Grasso, and transcribed by Marc Bernier. 67 PP with 18 b/w illustrations and 33 musical scores. Soft covers with a few small creases, pictorial front, spiral bound. Former owners' label on title page, o/wise a near fine copy. 25 x 20. 0913372846
25 shanties from the Great Age of Sail.
16827 GRAY, Ernest (editor) MAN MIDWIFE, The further experiences of John Knyveton, M.D., late Surgeon in the British Fleet, during the years 1763-1809
$20.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 211 PP plus 6 bw plates. Hard cover, dj (a few chips). War economy paper. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2
Life ashore as a fashionable consultant after swallowing the anchor after the end of the Seven Years War.
33569 GREEN, Jeremy (editor) MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Papers from the First Southern Hemisphere Conference on ...
$15.00 AUD
Ocean's Society of Australia. Melbourne. 1977. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illust. (maps, graphs, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.1 x 15.7. 0868959645
Maritime archaeology in Europe, New Zealand & Australia: legislation, conservation & preservation.
21264 GUNSON, Niel THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by Warren Horton. XII, 140 PP with 12 b/w illust. Eps: Facsimile of Log Book. Hard cover, scrimshaw illustration on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 24.8 x 17.4. 0642105057
A British account of whaling in the South Seas on board the Phoenix in 1823-25 and the Harriet 1826-29.
31977 HARRIS, David (editor) THE NELSON ALMANAC - A book of days recording Nelson's Life and the Events that shaped his Era
$25.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press & Warwick Leadlay Gallery. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 150 b/w and colour illust. Half title page: quotation taken from "Nelson" by Carola Oman. Title spread: "Victory of Trafalgar in the Van", by Robert Dodd. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28 x 22. 0851777554
44122 HARROD, Dominick (editor) WAR, ICE & PIRACY, The Remarkable Career of a Victorian Sailor - Journals and Letters of Samuel Gurney Cresswell
$15.00 AUD
Chatham Publishing. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 1861761384
Fighting the Malay Pirates in 1843 to 1846. HMS Investigator and navigation in the Arctic, 1848-1853. HMS Archer in the Baltic during the Crimean War.
50455 HAVARD, Ward and Olive A FRENCHMAN SEES SYDNEY IN 1819 (in Journal and Proceedings of the R.A.H.S. - Volume XXIV, Part I, 1938)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1938. Volume XXIV, Part I, 1938. 84 PP. Contains article between P.17 and 42 with the portrait of Jacques Etienne Victor Arago. Soft cover. Very good. 21 x 13.6.
Translated from the Letters of Jacques Arago, who sailed on Uranie, Captain Louis Claude Desaulse de Freycinet. Author of the 1822 Promenade autour du Monde, translated in English and published in 1823 as Narrative of a Voyage Around the World in the Uranie and Physicienne...
31552 HENDERSON, James SENT FORTH A DOVE - Discovery of the Duyfken
$20.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 1999. 1st Ed. XIV, 218 PP with 8 sketch-maps, b/w and colour illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 24.8 x 17.4. 1876268247
The story of the Dutch discovery of Australia in 1606 on the Duyfken (dove), and of the Duyfken 1606 Replica Project.
36492 HENRY, Fred SHIPS OF THE ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET CO. LTD.
$5.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1967. 2nd edition of the 1962 original. 64 PP with 1 portrait, 2 maps and 24 b/w photos. Stapled pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.5 x 12.2.
49686 HMSO HYDRAULICS RESEARCH 1957
$10.00 AUD
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research / HMSO. London. 1959. Reprint of the 1958 original. Edited by W.P. Shepherd-Barron. VI, 69 PP with 4 tables and 26 figures, plus 8 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Staples removed. Bookshop sticker on front cover. Very good. 24.4 x 15.2.
Transport of solids by flowing water. The Tidal Trent. The Thames estuary. The Mersey estuary... Eyemouth harbour.. Ship-Mooring problems arising from Wave-Disturbance at a Jetty... Radioactive tracer experiment off the Norfolk Coast...
49687 HMSO HYDRAULICS RESEARCH 1958
$10.00 AUD
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research / HMSO. London. 1959. 1st Ed. Edited by G.A. Wilson. VI, 74 PP with 1 table and 29 figures, plus 8 plates with 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Bookshop sticker on front cover. Very good. 24.4 x 15.2.
Transport of solids by flowing water. The Tidal Trent. The Thames estuary. The Mersey estuary... Eyemouth harbour.. Ship-Mooring problems arising from Wave-Disturbance at a Jetty... Radioactive tracer experiment off the Norfolk Coast...
68276 HONOURABLE COMPANY OF MASTER MARINERS DINNER AT THE MANSION HOUSE - 26th April, 1937 (By kind permission of the Lord Mayor)
$30.00 AUD
F. Howard Doulton & Co. Ltd. London. 1937. Booklet with the proceedings of the evening including the Menu and Wine list, the Toast list, the Programme of Music from the Orchestra of the H.M. Royal Marines. 4 PP followed by a large fold-out table plan for over 350 attendees with an index of names on the verso. Card covers with crest on front and ribbon tie. Covers lightly soiled with a small closed tear on rear cover. Still a very good copy of a rare item. 21.7 x 14.
20301 HORN, Daniel MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS, The Imperial German Naval Mutinies of World War One
$10.00 AUD
Leslie Frewin. London. 1973. 1st UK edition of the 1969 US original. XIII, 347 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0856320595
Revolts of August 1917, and October-November 1918. Origins: Social conflict within the Navy. Evolution of a conflict between the adherents of the old order (feudalized naval officers), and the proponents of a new, and more democratic system (enlisted men).
32228 HOUGH, Richard MAN O'WAR - The Fighting Ship in History
$15.00 AUD
J.M. Dent. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 60 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0460043579
Evolution of the Man-of-War from the Ark Royal, an English galleon of 1587, to the US Battleship New Jersey of 1943.
37062 HUNT, William R. TO STAND AT THE POLE - The Dr. Cook - Admiral Peary North Pole Controversy
$20.00 AUD
Stein and Day. New York. 1981. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 288 PP, plus 18 pages with 21 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0812827732
Who was the first man to reach the North Pole.
68552 HURST, Alexander A. (editor) THE MEDLEY OF MAST AND SAIL II - A Camera Record
$100.00 AUD
Teredo Books. Brighton, UK. 1981. 1st Ed. XXI, 473 PP with 523 b/w photos & maps. Fp: French schooner "Bretonne" and ketch "Vigilant" ready to sail. FEP: The "C.B. Petersen". REP: "Moshulu". Cloth cover, gilt decoration on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is a littled rubbed/chipped around edges, else a fine copy of a scarce item. 24.8 x 19.5. 0903662076
Pictorial voyage through various types of sailing ships: exotic (prahu or moliciero), to coastal or inter-colonial traders, to tall ships.
11571 HYDE, Francis E. FAR EASTERN TRADE 1860-1914
$15.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1973. 1st Ed. in the Merchant Adventurers Series. XII, 229 PP with 3 maps & 13 tables in text. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine 22 x 14. 064931110
The growth and expansion of Western trade with Japan, China, Indochina, Indonesia. Development with changing means of communications: telegraph, steamship..
36393 JACKSON, Robert DESTROYERS, FRIGATES AND CORVETTES
$10.00 AUD
Grange Books. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 2 colour and 2 b/w photos, and 300 side-view artworks with detailed specifications tables. Half title page: Canadian anti submarine Destroyer of the Athabascan class. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 17 x 13. 1840133171
From the Abukuma to the Zieten.
68335 JEFFERY, W. & AMESS, J. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CONFERENCE ON MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
$50.00 AUD
South Australian Department of Environment and Planning. Adelaide. 1983. 1st Ed. VI, (2), 452 PP with 47 figures and 91 b/w plates. Soft cover, illustrated front. Stamps of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front cover and title page. Stamp of "Australian Maritime College" on title page and last page. Very good. 29.7 x 21. 724346686
47 papers presented in March 1982: Maritime Archaeology in Australia, and developments in each state - Maritime Archaeology in other countries - Research and Survey - Site management and protection...
17190 JENKINS, David HITTING HOME - The Japanese Attack on Sydney 1942
$40.00 AUD
Random House. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Kevin Fewster. 88 PP with b/w illustrations (diagrams, maps and photos) and 8 colour sketches. Foreword and caption of illustrations in English and Japanese. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 28 x 21. 0091826683
The attack in Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines on 31st May, 1942.
31993 JOHNSTON, Ivy and Judy BLACK AND GOLD - The Story of Life Saving in the Borough of Queenscliff - A History of Point Lonsdale Surf Life Saving Club. 1947-1987
$30.00 AUD
Authors. Port Phillip. 1987. 1st Ed. V, 336 PP with 3 maps and 190 b/w illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Top of the rear hinge repaired, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 1862529108
Entrance to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria.
68334 JOUFFROY-GAUJA, F. K., BEAULIEU, J - P. & DONATOWICZ, J. C. SECRET GARDEN AT RECHERCHE BAY - 1792
$40.00 AUD
Ancient Art of the South Seas. Hobart. 2016. 1st edition of February 2016. 96 PP with 4 sketch maps, 28 b/w and 24 colour illustrations. Title page: Lahaye's garden on chart of Port du Nord. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 21. 9782953563559
Felix Lahaye and the French Garden set on 23 April 1792 at Recherche Bay, during the expedition led by Rear-Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux.
18624 KAUFMAN, Y. & STILLWELL, P. SHARKS OF STEEL
$15.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1993. 1st printing. XXII, 152 PP with colour photos. Cloth cover, device in blind on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 31 x 23.2. 1557504512
The story of the submarine and their crew: selection, training, performance ...
68233 KEMBLE, John Haskell THE PANAMA ROUTE 1848-1869
$15.00 AUD
Macdonald & Jane's. London. 1974. 1st UK edition in the "Macdonald Maritime History" series. Reprint of the 1943 original edition by University of California Press. VIII, (4), 316 PP with 2 maps, plus 10 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Fp: The Steam Clipper "Golden Gate" of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 1851. Decorated hard covers, top edge tinted, dj. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" / "Australian Maritime College" on endpapers and title page. Very good. 21.8 x 14. 0356047563
The ships employed on the runs along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and their link: the railroad crossing of the Panama isthmus.
68465 KEMP, Peter (editor) HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$15.00 AUD
Arthur Barker, Ltd. London. 1969. 1st Ed. 304 PP with 18 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (maps paintings, photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped, rubbed and chipped). Stamps of the "State Library of Tasmania" on endpapers and of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Very good working copy. 28.5 x 22.5. 213179113
17258 KLUDAS, Arnold GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Volume 3, 1924-1935
$20.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1986. Reprint of the 1976 UK edition. 240 PP with b/w photos. Fp: Roma. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 24.5 x 20.3. 850592453
Passenger vessels over 10,000 G.R.T.
39181 KNECHT, G. Bruce THE PROVING GROUND - The inside story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2001. 1st Australian edition. XII, 289 PP, plus 16 pages with 46 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.2. 1865085561
Boxing Day 1998. 153 boats set out from Sydney but only 43 reached Hobart... 7 boats abandoned, 5 sank, 6 sailors died and 55 had to be pulled from the water.
58528 LAMOTHE, Guy & HAPGOOD, Barbara PORT LINCOLN: Tuna and Isolation (in Geo Australasia Volume 7, No.2, June-August 1985)
$10.00 AUD
Australasia's Geographical Magazine. Sydney. 1985. Includes article P. 52 to 59 with 1 location map and 7 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 20.2.
63674 LATHWELL, Jennifer & David FROM FRANCE TO FREYCINET - The background to the French names on the East Coast of Tasmania
$20.00 AUD
Glamorgan Spring Bay Council. Hobart. 2008. 2008 reprint sponsored by The Embassy of France. No pagination, 32 PP with 1 chart in b/w and 33 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21. 9780646496870
68547 LEATHER, John BARGES
$70.00 AUD
Granada Publishing / Adlard Coles. London. 1984. 1st Ed. XVI, 236 PP with 127 b/w figures (sketches, lines, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing on top outside page edges, o/wise fine. Oblong: 19 x 25.5. 0229115942
An in-depth study of the traditional transport sailing barges. Various types of British barges and American barges (gundalows and scows).
14612 LEWIS, David ICE BIRD, The First Single-Handed Voyage to Antarctica
$15.00 AUD
Book Club Associates. Sydney. 1975. Reprint of the original by Collins. 224 PP with 9 bw illust. in text plus 8 pages with 13 bw photos and 16 pages with 19 col. photos. Eps: Map of Antarctica and inset maps of Anvers Island and South Orkney islands. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine. 22.2 x 14.
59737 LEWIS, Tom BY DERWENT DIVIDED - The story of the Lake Illawarra, the Tasman Bridge and the 1975 Disaster
$35.00 AUD
Tall Stories. Darwin. 2006. 2nd edition of the 1999 original. (2), 70 PP with 2 maps, 3 cartoons and 61 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 30.2 x 21.6. 0957735111
22844 LOCKWOOD, Douglas THE FRONT DOOR: Darwin 1869-1969
$10.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1968. 1st Ed. (14), 288 PP, plus 20 pages with 42 bw illust. FEP: Plan of Goyder's original Darwin layout. REP: Plan of modern Darwin (1968). Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Ageing of front endpaper, signature previous owner on title page, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
19650 LONEY, J. K. VICTORIAN SHIPWRECKS, All Wrecks in Victorian Waters and Bass Strait, Including King Island and the Kent Group
$10.00 AUD
The Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1971. 1st Ed. 10, (III), 177 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illust. FEP: Key to locations on the Victorian Coast & Inland Waters. REP: 4 location maps (mahogany ship, obsolete vessels..). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 15.8. 725600454
68493 LUBBOCK, Basil THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS - Volume I
$50.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1948. 3rd Impression of the 1927 original. XIV, (2), 518 PP, plus 74 pages with 126 b/w illustrations. & 17 pages of plans (11 of them folded). Fp: "Quathlamba". Eps: Chart of the world. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24.9 x 19.
68494 LUBBOCK, Basil THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS - VOLUME II
$40.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1935. 2nd edition of the 1929 original. XVI, 443 PP, plus 2 plates with 40 House Flags in colour, 17 plans (16 of them folded one) and 96 plates with 173 b/w illustrations (paintings, photos, portraits). Eps: Chart of the world. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine. Copy lacking half title page and frontispiece. Covers lightly soiled. Ex "Circulating Library" with plate on front board and stamp on recto of rear endpaper. Spine with tears and back hinge split at head. Occasional foxing. Internally a very good clean copy. 25 x 19.5.
The last boom in sail, the lime-juicers, the carriers of the 90's, the square-riggers of the 20th century, small fry.
50268 LUMB, R. D. THE LAW OF THE SEA AND AUSTRALIAN OFF-SHORE AREAS
$10.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1966. 1st Ed. (6), 86 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 21.3 x 13.7.
38056 LUNDEBERG, Philip K. SAMUEL COLT'S SUBMARINE BATTERY - The secret and the enigma
$15.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 1974. 1st Ed. No. 29 in the Smithsonian studies in history and technology series. V, 90 PP with 43 figures. Pictorial card cover. Back cover lightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. 27.8 x 21.7.
Mines, minefields for coastal protection and undersea warfare.
16098 MAGUGLIN, Robert O. THE QUEEN MARY, The Official Pictorial History
$15.00 AUD
Wrather Port Properties/Sequoia. Long Beach. 1985. 1st Ed. 120 PP with profuse b/w & colour photos on glossy paper. Pictorial card covers. Very good. 30.2 x 23. 0866790152
The career of Cunard's Queen Mary, the stateliest ship, from her launching in 1934 until 1967 when she was sold to the City of Long Beach.
20334 MANNING, Captain T.D. THE BRITISH DESTROYER
$15.00 AUD
Putnam. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 148 PP, plus 70 pages with 1 plan and 135 b/w photos. Fp: Hornet and Diamond on their trials. Cloth cover. Some speckling around edges and spine of covers. Internally contents fine. 25.4 x 19.5.
Their names, builders, development. The various classes: River, Tribals, G, H, I,... V, W... Weapon, Hunt, ..
40089 MARITIME SERVICES BOARD OF NEW SOUTH WALES SAILING DIRECTIONS NEW SOUTH WALES COAST - 1976
$15.00 AUD
The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales. Sydney. 1976. 9th Ed. 323 PP with 2 charts, 2 maps, 35 b/w photos (aerial views of port entrance), tables and figures (b/w or colour). Hard cover. Supplement loosely inserted. Very good. 24 x 16.
From Gabo Island near the Victorian border to the Tweed River on the Queensland border.
14386 MARRIOTT, Leo TYPE 22 - MODERN COMBAT SHIPS 4
$30.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1986. 1st Ed., No. 4 in the Modern Combat Ships series. 112 PP with b/w photos throughout. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (light shelf wear). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 17.5. 0711015937
Class of Frigates of the Royal Navy.
32428 MARTIN, Captain Henry Byam THE POLYNESIAN JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN HENRY BYAM MARTIN, R.N., in Command of HMS GRAMPUS - 50 guns at Hawaii and on station in Tahiti and the Society Islands August 1846 to August 1847
$15.00 AUD
Peabody Museum of Salem. Salem, Massachusetts. 1981. 1st US Ed. 192 PP with 1 map, over 36 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 20 colour paintings by author. Fp: portrait of Captain Martin. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket is a little rubbed and has a few small nicks, o/wise a near fine copy. 23.5 x 15.5. 0875770606
The sojourn of one year (the fatal one), in which the French subjugated the Tahitians by bloody force and made the island a protectorate of France.
18079 MATTINGLY, Garrett THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
$15.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 1959. Second impression of October 1959. 382 PP with 2 maps plus 16 pages with 20 bw illust. Fp: Queen Elizabeth I, the Armada Portrait. Eps: The track of the Spanish Armada. Hard cover: marbled boards and cloth spine, dj (rubbed). Foxing of first and last pages, and on outside edges, o/wise very good. 23.5 x 16.
Operations of 1587 & 1588. Battles along the South Coast of Cornwall and England: 29th July to 9th of August 1588.
16600 MAWSON, Vivienne, TRANTER, David J. & PEARCE, Alan F. CSIRO AT SEA, 50 YEARS OF MARINE SCIENCE
$30.00 AUD
CSIRO Marine Lab. Hobart. 1988 1st Ed. (4), 216 PP with b/w illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine (as new condition). 25.5 x 18.2. 0643048359
Early years of marine science in Australia. The men and women who contributed to the fisheries research and oceanography.
15906 McALISTER, A. A. & GRAY, Leonard H. HOGARTH & SONS LIMITED, BARON LINE, A Short History and Fleet List
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1976. 1st Ed. 56 PP with 2 colour and 53 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Baron Inchcape (IV). Inside back cover: Baron Belhaven (IV). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 0905617002
68543 McKEE, Eric WORKING BOATS OF BRITAIN - Their Shape and Purpose
$85.00 AUD
Conway / National Maritime Museum. London. 1983. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Dr. Basil Greenhill. 256 PP with 182 b/w drawings (lines, sketches & graphs) by the author. Titlespread: Inshore boats of Abersoch. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a sunned spine anda repaired closed tear. Light foxing on top outside edge, otherwise a fine copy. 28.5 x 22. 0851772773
Study of the working boats of Britain. Factors affecting boat shapes, propulsion & steering.
62356 McLAREN, Ian F. AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS BY SEA, LAND AND AIR 1788-1988 - Volumes 1 to 9
$200.00 AUD
University of Melbourne Library. Melbourne. 1988, 1990, 1991. 1st edition limited to 500 copies. Vol. 1: XVIII, 320 PP with 3 maps. Vol. 2: XVII, 254 PP with 3 maps and 13 b/w illustrations. Vol. 3: XVIII, (2), 304 PP with 4 maps and 15 b/w illustrations. Vol. 4: XVIII, 333 PP with 3 maps and 11 b/w illustrations, plus 2 plates with 3 colour illustrations. Fp: The Burial of Burke. Vol. 5: XVI, 306 PP with 2 maps. Vol. 6: XVI, 316 PP with 1 map and 1 b/w illustration. Vol. 7: XVI, 308 PP with 1 map. Vol. 8: XVI, 331 PP with 1 map. Vol. 9: XXXIII, 291 PP with 8 maps. Soft cover, illustration (Statue of Matthew Flinders, St Paul Cathedral, Melbourne) on front cover. Faint foxing. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 29.4 x 20.7.
Bibliography recording and describing printed works by, and about, explorers and explorations of Australia and its land. Volumes 1, 2, & 3: References and Index. Volumes 4 to 9: Bibliographical Register. 4: A - B. 5: C - F. 6: G - Legge. 7: Leichhardt - Mitchell. 8: Moir - Symonds. 9: T-Z. then Addenda & Corrigenda (pages 200 to 218) and Index (pages 219 to 291).
64732 McLAREN, Verne THE CAPE JAFFA LIGHTHOUSE STORY
$20.00 AUD
Author / Kingston National Trust. Kingston, S.A.. 1977. 1st print. Foreword by G. W. Toogood. 60 PP with 28 b/w photos. Inside covers: Cape Jaffa chart. Soft cover, illustrated front. Very good. 18.4 x 11.8. 0958067600
68035 McMURTRIE, Francis E. JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1935 (issued December 1935)
$300.00 AUD
Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. London. 1935. 1st Ed., 39th year of issue. 45 adv, XVIII, 543 PP with hundreds of bw illust. (photographs, plans, profiles & silhouettes, flags & uniforms). Fp: "Admiral Scheer", "Nürnberg", "U.1" & "U.7" surfacing. Navy cloth covers, gilt title on spine, title in blind on covers. A near fine copy and rare in this condition Oblong: 21.5 x 33.5.
Publication coinciding with the Naval Conference of London, when a program of construction for Capital ships was already under way.
21466 McNAB, Robert THE OLD WHALING DAYS - A History of Southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840
$20.00 AUD
Golden Press. Auckland. 1975. Reprint of the 1913 original, in the New Zealand Classics series. XIII, 508 PP. Hard cover, dj. Paper ageing around edges, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.5. 0855584327
The competition between French, American and British whalers for the sperm whale.
42743 McNIVEN, Ian J., RUSSELL, Lynette &, SCHAFFER, Kay (editors) CONSTRUCTIONS OF COLONIALISM - Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck
$20.00 AUD
Leicester University Press. London. 1998. Paperback edition. VIII, (2), 192 PP with 3 maps and 8 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 0718501713
Dinner menu (folded), 25th December 1940. Outside: House-Flag of "Melbourne Steamship Line", Programme of Music and List of Officers, Commander I. L. Lloyd. Inside: Dinner menu for Christmas, with Christmas decorations. Foxing spots. Near fine. Scarce. 19.5 x 12.
Front cover with House-Flag (in colour) of Melbourne Steamship Line.
16256 MILLMAN, Lawrence LAST PLACES, A Journey in the North
$15.00 AUD
Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 1990. 1st Ed. (6), 242 PP. Eps: North Atlantic Ocean above 40th Parallel. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Fine. 21.5 x 14.5. 039543615X
A voyage in the footsteps of the Vikings from Norway to Newfoundland.
18921 MOODY, B. OCEAN SHIPS - 1974
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1974. 5th edition of the 1964 original. 352 PP with tables and 254 bw photos. Title spread: Manora, P & O Cargo Division. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (Royal Viking Star). Price-clipped dust jacket. Near fine copy. 19 x 13. 0711005613
Passenger Liners and Cargo Ships. Cruise Ships. Tankers.
16359 MOSCOW, Alvin COLLISION COURSE, The Story of the Collision between the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm
$20.00 AUD
Grosset & Dunlap. New York. 1981. Reprint of the 1959 original. 345 PP, plus 32 pages with b/w illustrations. Eps: Andrea Doria sinking. Cloth cover, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0448120194
62094 MURRANT, Jim ROYAL SYDNEY YACHT SQUADRON 1862 - 2000
$40.00 AUD
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. (10), 186 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 10 Heritage plans of the Clubhouse. Eps: Map in colour "Port Jackson & Middle Harbour", also "Parramatta & Lane Cove Rivers". Hard cover, crest and title on front board, gilt title on cloth spine. Fine. 28 x 21.8. 0646385631
Model Boats Magazine / Argus Specialist Publications. Hemel Hempstead. 1985. Vol. 35, No. 407, January 1985. Edited by John CUNDELL. 58 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.7 x 21.
The Norfolk Wherry, by Michael Booth... Victoria, a Thames Saloon Launch, by Basil Harley...
63741 N/A LOW HEAD PILOT STATION MUSEUM
$10.00 AUD
Low Head Historic Museum. Low Head, Tasmania. c. 2010. 3 flyers. Low Head Fog Horn: 3 folds with 4 colour illustrations (1 plan and 4 photos). Low Head Pilot Station Museum: 3 folds with colour illustrations (1 location map, 1 plan of Museum and 6 photos). Low Head Pilot Station: 4 PP with colour illustrations (1 painting and 9 photos). Format - flyer: 21 x 15 and folded flyer: 21 x 10.
68466 N/A "IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF TASMANIA'S PORT SYSTEM" - Report of the Tasmanian Port Policy Review Working Party
$25.00 AUD
Ministry for Transport and Works. Hobart. 1993. April 1993 Report. (6), 19, (3), 135 PP with 1 organigram, 5 maps, 8 plans and 42 recommendations. Soft cover, title on front cover, cloth spine. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front cover. 2 articles from "The Advocater" tipped in inside front cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Report to the Honourable Ian Braid, MHA, Minister for Transport and Works.
54833 NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW: 1972 - 1976
$30.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1972 to 1976. Issues for December 1972 and 1973 and 4 issues for years 1974, 1975 and 1976. Edited by Lewis J. LIND. A total of 14 issues for 616 pages with b/w illustrations. Bound copies of the 14 issues retaining their original pictorial soft cover. Cloth cover, gilt title R.A.N. Naval Historical Review Vol. 1, 1972 - 76 on spine. Faint foxing, o/wise a fine set. 24.3 x 18.8.
In 1976, the June issue started as: New Series No. 1. The September issue started as: New Series, Volume 1, No. 2.
30984 NIGHTINGALE, Tony THE PACIFIC FORUM LINE - A commitment to regional shipping
$10.00 AUD
Clerestory Press. Christchurch, N.Z. 1998. 1st Ed. XVIII, 142 PP with 1 diagram, 3 maps, 5 ship's profiles and 64 b/w illustrations, plus 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Eps: Map of Pacific Forum Line world, We run the Pacific regularly. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0958370648
Published to mark PFL's first twenty years of regular and efficient shipping to the Pacific Island Nations.
15212 NOBLE, Captain John PORT PHILLIP PANORAMA - A Maritime History
$15.00 AUD
Hawthorn Press. Melbourne. 1975. 1st Ed. (6), 169 PP plus 8 pages with 14 b/w charts & photos & 3 line drawings. FEP: map of Southern portion Port Phillip Bay. REP: Southern portion Port Phillip Bay. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Near fine. 21.6 x 14. 0725601493
The maritime history of Port Phillip, the development of the ports of Melbourne & Geelong.
75707 NORMAN, Leslie HAUNTS OF THE BLUE WHALE
$30.00 AUD
O.B.M. Publishing. Hobart. 1978. 1st Ed. XVI, 156 PP with 12 tables, plus 12 pages with 20 b/w photos. Fp: A full rigged whaler at sea. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed with a few chips and in a protective sleeve, otherwise contents are near fine. 25 x 17.5. 0959903453
The whaling industry as it applied to the old port of Hobart Town: whaling on the seven seas as well as whaling fleets taking shelter, refitting & victualling.
68562 O'DRISCOLL, Patricia, ELLIS, Tony, PEARCE, Barry & PERKS, Richard HUGH BELOW SEA REACH
$20.00 AUD
Society for Spritsail Barge Research. Ipswich, Suffolk. 1987. 1st Ed. with 17 drawings by Barry Pearce and 54 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0950051519
Edith May and Remercie, "Pig Dog", Rot and Dockers, Barging in the Sixties, Barge Trades and Bargemen ...
68409 OLSON, Wesley BITTER VICTORY - The Death of HMAS Sydney
$35.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2000. 1st soft cover edition.. X, 437 PP with b/w illustrations (1 diagram, 2 plans, 3 ship's profiles, 7 maps, 2 paintings by Ross Shardlow, and 27 photos), plus 1 large folded plan. Pictorial soft covers with light shelf wear, o/wise near fine. 24 x 17. 1876268913
19 November 1941.
68158 ORIENT LINE RECORDS OF A VOYAGE - S.S. ORMONDE, Voyage 58 "Home", 1938
$150.00 AUD
Orient Steam Navigation Co. London. 1938. Folder with 2 pockets. Left pocket with 4 folded Dinner Menus (Tourist Class) with illustrated front cover (S.S. Ormonde / Lithograph (in colour) of Hampton Court Palace, by Barnett Freedman / At the Equator / Horse (in colour). The Landsman's Lexicon (small format with 32 pages). 2 roneotype information pages for the calls at Colombo and Gibraltar. Right pocket with 5 folded "Port Information" (4 pages each, plus a map/plan in colour) for: Colombo, Aden, Naples, Toulon and Gibraltar. 4 folded brochures for places visited (Fall of Pompei with 6 pages and Gibraltar with 4 pages) or seen from the Ormonde (Stromboli, Corsica & Elba). Cloth covers. Very good. Scarce. 21 x 14.7.
68152 P&O s.s. "CARTHAGE" - Dinner Menu - LE LAC DES CYGNES (SWAN LAKE)
$30.00 AUD
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. On board. 1955. Folded "Dinner Menu", 28th May 1955. Cover: LE LAC DES CYGNES, No. 8 of a series of 12 colour Paintings of Ballets by R.B. Sutcliffe, and details on Ballet. Fine. 21.5 x 14.3.
Front cover: Le Lac des Cygnes produced in its entirety at Maryinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, January 1895.
68322 P&O PASSENGER LIST - HIMALAYA 1965
$15.00 AUD
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, Co. Sydney. 1965. List of Passengers by Himalaya - Tasman Sea Cruise. 18 PP with 2 pages with Badges of Rank in colour, list of Officers and List of Cruise Passengers. Stapled card covers. Near fine. 19 x 12.5.
Leaving Sydney, 22nd December 1965, cruising to Hobart, Auckland, Bay of Islands (Russell) and off Lord Howe and Ball's Pyramid.
65430 P&O / ORIENT LINES PORT OF CALL INFORMATION: MELBOURNE
$10.00 AUD
P & O / Orient Line. London. 1962. June 1962 edition. Folded brochure (5 folds) with history, places of interest etc... and 2 maps in colour: Melbourne and Port Melbourne. Fine. Small format: 18.7 x 12.5.
Gives places of interest and information for passengers.
68569 PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE MACQUARIE ISLAND
$20.00 AUD
Parks & Wildlife Service. Hobart. 2001. 1st Ed. 36 PP with 1 map with location map (in colour), 4 b/w and 50 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Rear cover with a crease, o/wise contents fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.7. 0724662731
22028 PARSONS, Ronald PORT LINCOLN SHIPPING, Whalers, disasters, and the sea link with Adelaide
$15.00 AUD
Ronald Parsons. Magill, S.A. 1981. 1st Ed. III, 73 PP, plus 6 pages with 1 sketch and 6 b/w photos. Stapled typescript monograph. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. Oblong: 15.8 x 20.6. 0909418195
Port Lincoln: early history, whaling, advent of steam, shipwrecks and casualties.
15949 PAYNE, Stephen M. GRANDE DAME, Holland America Line and the S.S. ROTTERDAM
$20.00 AUD
Rina. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 132 PP with b/w & colour photos & 12 plans & diagrams. FEP: "Rotterdam" steaming out of New York. REP: SS Rotterdam. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 20.8. 0903055120
The building, technical features, passenger accommodation of the SS Rotterdam. The transition by Holland America Line from Atlantic ferry to cruise ship operators.
68502 PETERSWALD, Rob and Rosemary BEYOND THE SHORE: Sailing, Seafood, Wine ... East Coast Australia
$15.00 AUD
Maroceania II Enterprises. Hobart. 2004. 1st Ed. 252 PP with b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.7 x 25.2. 9780646435619
Yacht "Oceania II", on the East coast of Australia: Port Davey in Tasmania to the top of Cape York Peninsula.
31807 PHILLIPS-BIRT, Douglas A HISTORY OF SEAMANSHIP
$15.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 64 colour and 170 b/w illust. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in on endpapers, Ingleton bookplate. Near fine. 25.5 x 19. 0046230092
Exploration of the whole art & science of seamanship.
37570 PONKO, Vincent Jr. SHIPS, SEAS, AND SCIENTISTS - U.S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the Nineteenth Century
$15.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1974. 1st Ed. XII, (2), 283 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.6 x 15.6. 0870216414
Expeditions of discovery, exploration and scientific research: Wilkes to the South Sea and Antarctic 1838-1842 - Perry to China Sea and Japan 1852-1854...
10917 POOLMAN, Kenneth GUNS OFF CAPE ANN - The Story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake
$25.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 175 PP, plus 10 pages with 11 b/w illust. Fp: Sir Philip Vere Broke. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.2.
The war of 1812 between the United States and England. Battle of the 1st June, 1813.
68346 PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY P.L.A. MONTHLY - Vol. 43, No. 514 - AUSTRALASIAN NUMBER
$50.00 AUD
Port of London Authority. London. 1968. Magazine of the Port of London Authority. Edited by Alan Cameron. Issue No. 514, Volume 43, August 1968. Forewords by Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand and John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia. XXVI (advertisements), 257 to 310 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, maps, photos...). Pictorial wrappers with light creases, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.8 x 18.2.
Transport Links with Australasia, by Sir Alan Westerman. "That Untravell'd World..." (Part 2 - Cook's Voyages in the Pacific, by Alison Lockett). From London to the South Sea, by Garth Roydhouse. The PLA in Australasia, by Cyril Webb. The Port of London's trade with Australia and New Zealand. The Freeze that brought New Zealand Prosperity. Captain Cook's debt to Tahiti and the Tahitians, by Robert Langdon.
68400 PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY P.L.A. MONTHLY - Vol. 44, No. 524
$15.00 AUD
Port of London Authority. London. 1969. Magazine of the Port of London Authority edited by Alan Cameron. Issue No. 524, Volume 44, June 1969. XVI, 167-206, XVI-XXIV PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial wrappers with light insect damage on back cover and last few pages without text loss. A very good clean copy. 24.8 x 18.2.
2 articles on "Nonsuch" - the ship that helped to make a Nation (Hudson Bay Company / Canada), by A. Cameron. Hornblower on the Thames Severn Canal, by Alan Cameron..
68401 PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY P.L.A. MONTHLY - Vol. 44, No. 525
$15.00 AUD
Port of London Authority. London. 1969. Magazine of the Port of London Authority. Edited by Alan CAMERON. Issue No. 525, Volume 44, July 1969. XII, 207-242, XIII-XX PP with b/w illustrations. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Fine copy. 24.8 x 18.2.
South West India Dock, 1911, by Captain A.G. Course.
38416 PORTEUS, Stanley THE RESTLESS VOYAGE - Being an Account by Archibald Campbell, Seaman, of his Wanderings in Five Oceans from 1806 to 1812
$15.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1949. 1st Ed. 280 PP. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with small pieces missing. Occasional foxing. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
Wanderings in five oceans from 1806-1812 & his experiences: impressed into His Majesty's Navy, deserter, shipwrecked in the Aleutian Is., stay in Hawaii, return to Scotland.
37968 PRESTON, Diana A FIRST RATE TRAGEDY - Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions
$15.00 AUD
Constable. London. 1999. Reprint of the 1999 paperback edition of the 1997 original. XVI, 269 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23.3 X 15.5. 094795304
53208 PURVES, Alec A. FLAGS FOR SHIP MODELLERS AND MARINE ARTISTS
$10.00 AUD
Percival Marshall. London. 1950. 1st Ed. (8), 84, (1 errata) PP with 104 figures. Rebound copy retaining original front cover, clear plastic, spiral bound. Front cover rubbed. Name of previous owner. Signs of water damage, o/wise very good. 18.4 x 12.4.
Gives a brief history of flags at sea.
12054 PUTZ, George & SPECTRE, Peter H., & GETCHELL, David R. (editors) THE MARINER'S CATALOG, Volume 2
$10.00 AUD
National Fisherman & Int'l Marine. Camden, Maine. 1975. 2nd Printing of the 1974 original. 192 PP, profusely illustrated with photos, sketches, drawings, diagrams, etc... Pictorial soft cover. Former owner's stamp at top of title page. Faint foxing. Very good. 27 x 21. 0877420467
Small boats for work or pleasure. Information on tools, boatbuilding,... information sources, boat models..
16144 QUARM, Roger & WILCOX, Scott MASTERS OF THE SEA, British Marine Watercolours
$15.00 AUD
Catalogue published for the exhibition: Masters of the Sea. British Marine Watercolours 1650-1930. Watercolours from Alexander through Chambers, Constable, Cooke, Moore, Turner... to Van de Velde.
13126 RAYNER, Commander D. A. ESCORT - The Battle of the Atlantic
$20.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1955. Second edition, October 1955 of the September 1955 original. Edited by Captain S. W. Roskill. XVIII, 19-250, (6 adv.) PP with 4 maps, plus 12 pages with 17 b/w photos. Fp: Author. FEP: Map to show approximate distances on convoy routes. REP: Map to show limits of escort at various dates & the air gap. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and a small piece missing on top of rear. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
38561 REES, Sian THE FLOATING BROTHEL - The extraordinary story of the Lady Julian and its cargo of female convicts bound for Botany Bay
$10.00 AUD
Hodder. Sydney. 2001. 3rd printing of the 2001 original. (8), 248 PP with 1 map and 1 vignette, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Vignette on title page: Lady Julian, 1782. Inside covers: colour illustration Men of War, bound for the Port of Pleasure. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 0733613047
Voyage of the Lady Julian, July 1789 to June 1790.
43974 REGAN, Geoffrey THE GUINNESS BOOK OF MILITARY BLUNDERS
$10.00 AUD
Guinness Publishing. London. 1995. 11th reprint of the 1991 original. (4), 188 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 19. 0851129617
45751 RICE, Desmond & GAVSHON, Arthur THE SINKING OF THE BELGRANO
$15.00 AUD
Secker & Warburg. London. 1984. 1st Ed. XV, 218 PP with 2 maps and 1 facsimile of document, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (spine sunned) . Foxing, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0436413329
The Falklands War of 1982 and the torpedoing of the Argentinian Cruiser Belgrano (decision and aftermath).
68419 RICHARDS, Rhys SEALING IN THE SOUTHERN OCEANS 1788-1833
$70.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2010. 1st Ed. 278 PP with 7 tables, & facsimile of log book page, 1 b/w photo, 2 engravings and 18 maps (some with insert). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.9 x 17.5. 9780473164805
Collection of 12 articles, chapters and notes written from 1977 to 2006. Chapter 2: Prince Edward, Marion and Crozet islands. Chapter 3: St.Paul and Amsterdam Islands. Chapter 4: Desolation Island. Chapter 5: Kerguelen and Heard Islands. Chapter 6: Macquarie Island and Antipodes Islands. Chapter 7: First foreign sealing in New Zealand waters. Chapter 8: Murihiku and the Southern Islands of New Zealand. Chapter 9: The Auckland Islands. Chapter 10: Foreign sealing at the Chatham Islands. Chapter 11: Searching for Nimrod Islands. Chapter 12: Sealing in the Antarctic in 1821.
68444 RICHARDS, Rhys BOLD CAPTAINS: Trans-Pacific Exploration and Trade 1780-1830 (in 2 Volumes)
$70.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2017. 1st Ed. Volume I: 300 PP with b/w illustrations (2 charts, 15 sketch maps and 44 drawings, paintings, letters). Volume II: 301 - 590 PP with b/w illustrations (2 charts, 16 sketch maps and 40 drawings, paintings and portraits). Pictorial soft cover. As new. 22 x 15.5. 9780473405182 & 9780473405199
Collection of 24 articles, chapters and notes written between the 1970s and 2000. Simon Metcalfe: The American Fur Trader. Captain Roger Simpson and the Bass Islands. William Hutchings: a Boston Captain trading for the Dutch at Japan in 1800... Abraham Bristow: Whaling Master. Captain Robert Rhodes : an excellent Chart Maker, and pioneer whaler. Captain Louis Charles Ruault Coutance: French Naval Officer, Privateer and Trans-Pacific Trader. ..;
72532 RICHARDS, Rhys SEALING IN THE SOUTHERN OCEANS 1788-1833
$70.00 AUD
Paremata Press. Wellington. 2010. 1st Ed. 278 PP with 7 tables, & facsimile of log book page, 1 b/w photo, 2 engravings and 18 maps (some with insert). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.9 x 17.5. 9780473164805
Collection of 12 articles, chapters and notes written from 1977 to 2006. Chapter 2: Prince Edward, Marion and Crozet islands. Chapter 3: St.Paul and Amsterdam Islands. Chapter 4: Desolation Island. Chapter 5: Kerguelen and Heard Islands. Chapter 6: Macquarie Island and Antipodes Islands. Chapter 7: First foreign sealing in New Zealand waters. Chapter 8: Murihiku and the Southern Islands of New Zealand. Chapter 9: The Auckland Islands. Chapter 10: Foreign sealing at the Chatham Islands. Chapter 11: Searching for Nimrod Islands. Chapter 12: Sealing in the Antarctic in 1821.
18527 ROBINSON, Gregory SHIPS THAT HAVE MADE HISTORY
$20.00 AUD
Peter Davies. London. 1936. 1st Ed. VI, (2), 190 PP with 14 b/w drawings, plus 8 plates in colour. Eps: The weather & lee positions. Cloth cover, device and title on front cover and spine, very good dj (price clipped). Twelve ships are described: the Santa Maria, the Mayflower, the Royal Sovereign, the Bonhomme Richard..... [There were originally 12 colour plates. Those missing are the Santa Maria, Golden Hind, Susan Constant & Endeavour]. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Some browning of paper with traces of foxing. Very good. 25.5 x 19.
Plates present: A Fourteenth-Century Ship, The Spanish Treasure Frigate, The Revenge, The Mayflower, The Royal Sovereign, The Andrew, The Royal Charles and The Bon Homme Richard.
68442 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY AUSTRALIA'S NAVY 1998
$20.00 AUD
Department of Defence / AGPS. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. Edited by Lieutenant Pauline REYNOLDS. (1 advertisement), 120 PP, (5 Head of Chapter) with b/w & colour illustrations and 13 advertisemnts in colour. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 30.5 x 21.5.
56293 SAMUELS, John SOMEWHERE BELOW. The Sydney Scandal Exposed
$20.00 AUD
Halstead Press. Sydney. 2005. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 23 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Advertisement for this title, pasted down inside front cover. Name of previous owner on title page. 17 pages with scoring and notes (pertinent) in red ink. Very good. 23 X 15.2. 01920831312
HMAS Sydney: 19th November 1941.
32715 SAYER, Edmund Sears SHIPS OF OTHER DAYS
$25.00 AUD
Author. Nice, France. 1930. Limited and numbered edition (No. 42/1000). Numbered and signed by the author. No pagination, 38 PP with 12 head or tail pieces, plus 10 plates. All pages with a rope drawing around, title page and plates protected by tissue paper. Title page: Sail drying. Silver coloured endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title and gilt decorated vignette on front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 25 x 32.2.
Album dedicated to the Unnamed and the Unsung Heroes of the Great Armada who sailed the seas in centuries past. Caravel Fleet of 1492. The Mayflower in 1620. The Soleil Royal sunk 1759 by the Dutch and English combined Fleet. The Bon Homme Richard...
33570 SHANKLAND, Peter BYRON OF THE WAGER
$15.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 7 b/w illust. Eps: Anson's squadron off St. Catherine's Harbour on the coast of Brazil. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22 x 14.2. 0002160560
The Wager of Anson's fleet was wrecked while rounding Cape Horn. The ensuing mutiny and rebuilding of a boat with salvaged timber. The return to England.
56139 SIMPKIN, Julie (editor) CHARLES DARWIN: An Australian Selection
$30.00 AUD
National Museum of Australia. Canberra. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Craddock Morton. Introduction by Michael Pickering. XII, 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 23.7 x 17.5.
Pages 1 to 81: Extract from Darwin's Beagle Diary, transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. Pages 83 to 13: Three essays. Great Expectations by Tom Frame. A Daring Theory, by Nicholas Drayson. Insights & Origins, by Robyn Williams.
32579 SLOCUM, Captain Joshua SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD
Dover. New York. c. 1975. Reissue of the 1956 Dover original (reprint of the 1900 edition by Century Co). Introduction by Geoffrey Mott-Smith. XXIV, 294, (2 blank), (16 publications) PP with 1 head piece & 65 b/w illustrations by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Fp: The Spray in Australian waters. Pictorial stiff covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 20.2 x 13.6. 0486203263
15995 SOMNER, Graeme BLAND GIBRALTAR
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. London. 1981. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w photos throughout. Inside front cover: New Mole, Gibraltar, 1866. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 15. 0905617169
History & fleet list.
55508 STANBURY, Myra (editor) JOURNEYS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: French Exploration of Terres Australes
$10.00 AUD
Western Australian Museum - Maritime. Perth. 2008. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Diana S. Jones. 28 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside covers: Species discovered and description. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26 x 24. 9781920843380
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Fremantle October 2008 to October 2009. The Age of Enlightenment - Le Siècle des Lumières, by Myra Stanbury. Rose de Freycinet and the Uranie, by Dr. Michael McCarthy. The Lapérouse Collection by Valérie Vattier.
55517 STANIFORTH, Mark & NASH, Michael (Editors) MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY: Australian Approaches
$45.00 AUD
Springer. New York. 2008. 1st soft cover printing of the 2006 original. The Springer series in Underwater Archaeology. XVII, 222, (4) PP with tables and 30 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.3 x 15.6. 9780387769851
Articles by various contributors, including: Theoretical Approaches, Artifact Studies, Thematic Studies in Australian Maritime Archaeology, Individual Shipwreck Site Case Studies (Sirius, Pandora, Sydney Cove), Nautical Archaeology in Australia, the Indian Ocean and Asia, Innovative Approaches in Underwater Cultural Heritage Management, Maritime Museums and Maritime Archaeological Exhibitions, Cultural Tourism and Diver Education..
10474 STANNARD, Bruce BEN LEXCEN - The Man, the Keel and the Cup
$10.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 149 PP with 7 sketch maps, 9 plans, and 37 b/w photos. Fp: Ben Lexcen. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25 x 19. 0571133967
17484 STAPLETON, Austin "IN ALL RESPECTS READY ....
$30.00 AUD
Ronald Parsons. Adelaide. 1982. Typescript monograph. 188 PP with 13 b/w drawings & 1 map and 2 pages with a Glossary of Terms. Gilt-engraved hard cover. Fine. 20.8 x 17.2. 0959309306
Life of the seamen who served during WWII in the Small Ship companies of Water Transport, a unit of the Royal Australian Engineers.
68416 STEPHEN, Martin SEA BATTLES IN CLOSE-UP: World War 2
$25.00 AUD
Ian Allan Ltd. London. 1988. 1st Ed. (edited by Eric Grove). 224 PP with 60 detailed maps & 150 bw selected photos. Title spread: the German Navy "Prinz Eugen". Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Stamp of the Devonport Maritime Museum and donation vignette on FFEP and one stamp on the rear endpaper, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.2 x 17.8. 0711015961
10 crucial naval engagements of World War II: Battle of the River Plate, Attack on Taranto, Battle of Matapan, Sinking of Hood and Bismarck, Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, Escape of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Battle of the Barents Sea, Sinking of Scharnhorst.
67773 STIRLING, Ross THE BRIARS: an encounter with the Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte (in Australian Heritage No. 6)
$10.00 AUD
Hallmark Editions Pty. Ltd. Brighton, Victoria. 2007. Issue No. 6, Autumn 2007. Contains article between P.15 and 19 with 1 portrait, 1 b/w illustration and 7 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.9 x 21.2.
Homestead of the Balcombe family on the Mornington Peninsula. Also, includes articles on Pearling in the North-West and The Race of the Clipper Ships.
68376 STODDART, Michael TASSIE'S WHALE BOYS - Whaling in Antarctic Waters
$30.00 AUD
40 / Forty South Publishing. Hobart. 2017. 1st edition with a foreword by Nick Gales. XV, 192 PP with tables, b/w or colour illustrations. FEP: The Antarctic Continent (in colour). REP: Map of the Ross Sea (in colour). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 9780995408227
68411 STRANG, Herbert (editor) THE WAR AT SEA
$25.00 AUD
Henry Frowde . Hodder & Stoughton. London. c. 1915. 1st Ed. No pagination, 110 PP with 2 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (15 headpieces and 31 in text, plus 7 plates with 3 b/w and 4 colour illustrations. Vignette in colour on title page. Fp (in colour): Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. Illustrated boards, title on spine. Wear around edges, brief note dated Xmas 1916 at top corner of front endpaper. A very good clean copy. Scarce. 22.7 x 18.
67719 SWINGLE, Charles F. ACROSS MADAGASCAR by Boat, Auto, RailRoad, and Filanzana (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 66, No. 2)
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1929. Volume LVI, No. 2, August 1929. 131-252 PP. Contains article from page 178 to 211 with b/w illustrations (3 maps and 42 photos by the author and Professor Henri Humbert). Newspaper article on the land of the lemur loosely inserted. Soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
49230 TALBOT, Frederick A. LIGHTSHIPS AND LIGHTHOUSES
$30.00 AUD
William Heinemann. London. 1913. 1st Ed. XII, 325 PP with 16 figures, plus 96 pages with 112 b/w photos. Fp: The 43,000,000 candle-power beams thrown from the Heligoland lighthouse. Red cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned, edges with light shelf wear. Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, o/wise a very good clean copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.5 x 14.5.
Contents: The Origin of the Lighthouse, The Eddystone Lighthouse, The Bell Rock and Skerryvore Lights, The Guardian Lights of Canada's Coast, Some Lighthouses in Australian Waters, A Flaming Sentinel of the Malacca Straits, Floating Lighthouses....
68455 TEMPLE, Philip THE SEA AND THE SNOW - The South Indian Ocean Expedition to Heard Island
$50.00 AUD
Cassell. Melbourne. 1966. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. (8), 188 PP with 2 maps, and 1 plan of the "Patanela", plus 12 pages with 32 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Heard Island. Hard cover, dust jacket with a few small chips/rubs and now in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. Scarce. 22 x 14.4.
Expedition/exploration of Heard Island in 1965. Calls at the Kerguelen Islands.
17404 TERZIBASCHITSCH, Stefan SUBMARINES OF THE US NAVY
$20.00 AUD
Arms and Armour. London. 1991. 1st UK edition translated by M. J. Shields. 214 PP with tables, ship profiles and b/w photos. Fp: Bows-on view of Razorback. Eps: Drawing plans of the Tang class (SS-563). Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 27.5 x 21.5. 185409145X
Story of the development of the US submarine force: their armament, their electronic equipment...
68010 THOMSON, Max (compiler) 8TH DIV HOME FROM CHANGI 1945 (H.M.A.S. Hawkesbury) - Addendum: USS MOUNT HOOD EXPLODES 1944 (Monograph No. 11)
$5.00 AUD
The Naval Historical Society of Australia, Inc. Garden Island, Sydney. c. 1989. Monograph No. 11: (1), 13 PP (recto only) with 8 b/w photos (photocopy quality). Soft cover, clear plastic protecton. Very good. 29.7 x 21.
Papers read to the Society in 1988 and 1989.
41714 TOMLINSON, H. M. GALLIONS REACH - A Romance
$30.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1949. 2nd edition of the 1927 original, No. 6 in the Mariners Library series. 240 PP. Cloth cover, device on front cover, illustrated dj. Dust jacket is price-clipped and in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 19 x 13.
10924 VILLIERS, Alan PILOT PETE
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1963. Reprint of the 1953 original. 64 PP with 61 illustrations by H. T. Cauldwell. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Small stain on lower part of front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Note on the verso of the front endpaper, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.
Novel set on a rocky island, far away in the South Pacific.
34449 WEAVER, Mary Anne WHERE OLD SHIPS GO TO DIE AND BE RECYCLED (in Smithsonian, Volume 21, No. 3)
$10.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution. Washington. 1990. Volume 21, No. 3, June 1990. Contains article from page 30 to 41 with 14 colour photos by Kay Chernush. Soft cover. Very good. 28.2 x 21.
On Gadani Beach in Pakistan.
55320 WEGE, Juliet, GEORGE, Alex, GATHE, Jan, LEMSON, Kris & NAPIER, Kath (editors) MATTHEW FLINDERS AND HIS SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMEN: The Expedition of HMS Investigator to Australia, 1801-05
$65.00 AUD
Western Australian Museum. Perth. 2005. 1st Ed. VIII, 184 PP with 90 b/w and colour illustrations. Decorated end papers. Vignette on title page (in colour): Matthew Flinders, ca. 1800. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 31 x 22.8. 1920843205
14 papers presented at the Investigator 200 Symposium held in Albany, W. A., in December 2001. Matthew Flinders: the man and his life, by Miriam Estensen. ... Flinders' place in the coastal exploration of Australia, by Robert T. Sexton... Robert Brown on HMS Investigator, by David T. Moore... Ferdinand Bauer..., by Janette Gathe & Ellen Hickman. William Westall, by Kay Stehn & Alex George. Peter Good, by Mark Webb ...
37068 WHEELER, Sir Mortimer (editor) SWANS HELLENIC CRUISES - Handbook for 1971 Cruises
$15.00 AUD
W. F. & R. K. Swan (Hellenic) Ltd / The Hellenic Travellers Club. London. August 1970. 10th Ed. of the 1962 original. 326 PP with 1 page with photos of coins, 4 pages with drawings and 104 maps & plans. FEP: Map of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. REP: Map of Western Mediterranean and map between Turkey and Egypt. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 26 x 20.7.
Notes for the would be traveller: History, Greek deities, Heroes... Greek Architecture, Greek Sculpture... Countries from Algeria, Bulgaria... to Syria, Turkey...
Hesperian Press. Perth. 2010. 1st Ed. V, 96 PP with 1 sketch. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780859050203
Sojourn of H.M.S. Sulphur in Western Australia between June 1829 and August 1832.
16766 WILCOX, L. A. MR. PEPYS' NAVY
$15.00 AUD
G. Bell & Sons. London. 1966. 1st Ed. X, 189 PP with 74 b/w illustrations by the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Small chips to the dust jacket, foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 25.2 x 15.8.
A reconstruction of the day-to-day administration of the Navy, from the passages in his diary dealing with naval affairs.
68410 WILHELMSEN, Wilh. 1861-1961 WILH. WILHELMSEN - A short history of 100 years' activity
$35.00 AUD
Wilh. Wilhelmsen. Oslo. 1961. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Fp (in colour): House-Flag & Royal Norwegian Mail Flag. Decorative papered boards. Discreet signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 25.6 x 20.4.
A family shipping line which developed and still covers the world. Covers: From Sail to Steam, From Tramp to Liner and Tanker Trade, plus the period of the war years until the post war period (1945-1961).
36889 WILLIAMS, Neville THE SEA DOGS - Privateers, Plunder and Piracy in the Elizabethan Age
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1975. 1st US Ed. 278 PP with 15 colour plates and 154 b/w illust. Title spread: A 16th-century merchantman. Eps: Mappemonde. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket tipped in, Ingleton bookplate. Near fine. 25.4 x 19.
Collective achievements and daring exploits of: Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh.., who helped estabish England as The Maritime and Colonial Power in the 1500's.
68240 WILSON, Andrew OLD SEA DOGS OF TASMANIA - Book 2
$75.00 AUD
Everything Pty. Ltd. Hobart. 2016. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sean Langman, and introduction by Peter Campbell. 260 PP (5 of these pages are double-folded) with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial hard covers, title on front board and spine. Signed by the author on page 3. Fine. 26.7 x 22. 9780992303631
48551 WINTON, John SIR WALTER RALEGH
$15.00 AUD
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. New York. 1975. 1st US edition. 352 PP with 100 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 19 colour plates. Title-page: Bark Ralegh, built by Ralegh, renamed Ark Royal. Hard cover, dj (rubbed). Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.3 x 19.5. 0698106482
Soldier (France, Ireland, Low Countries), explorer to North & South America, raids against Cadiz and the Azores, twice arrested, his execution.
19898 WRIGHT, Louis B. GOLD, GLORY AND THE GOSPEL, The Adventurous Lives and Times of the Renaissance Explorers
$15.00 AUD
Atheneum. New York. 1970. 1st Ed. XVIII, 362 PP. FEP: Maps of Spain & Portugal, and of Africa. REP: Maps of Middle America, the Caribbean and South America. Cloth cover, dj (with a small chip). Former owner's address label on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 15.5.
Prince Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, .. and the opening of the world.
