69007 ACE - CRC ANTARCTIC CLIMATE & ECOSYSTEMS CRC - Year in Review 2010
$15.00 AUD
Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. Hobart. 2011. 1st edition with a foreword by A.J. Press, CEO. 52 PP with colour illustrations: 1 map and 50 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21
68659 ALBION, Robert Greenhalgh & POPE, Jennie Barnes SEA LANES IN WARTIME - The American Experience 1775 - 1942
$15.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1943. 1st UK edition. 367 PP (war economy paper) with 6 tables. Cloth covers rubbed with number on bottom of spine and remnants of a label. Stamps of State Library of Tasmania on endpapers, title page and lower corner of page 101. Faint foxing. Contents very good. 21.5 x 15.
42680 ALLEN, James JOURNAL OF AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIP BY THE "LADY AUGUSTA", ON THE RIVER MURRAY
$35.00 AUD
LBSA / Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1976 Facsimile reprint of the 1853 original, No. 202 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. (2), (2 cover), XIV, 86 PP. Fp: Swan Hill. Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on spine. Fine. 21.2 x 13.7. 0724300554
53137 ALLON, Dr. Fiona, & NICE, Rosie SAILOR STYLE: Art . Fashion . Film
$40.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. Foreword by Mary-Louise Williams. 40 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (cutaway at centrefold). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 097514281X
69061 ARASARATNAM, Pr. S., ARMSTRONG, Pr. John, BURNINGHAM, Nick, ... STANIFORTH, Mark AAMH / ICMH - NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARITIME HISTORY CONFERENCE- Fremantle December 1993
$150.00 AUD
Australian Association for Maritime History / International Commission of Maritime History. Fremantle. 1994. 1st Ed. 24 papers with a total of 565 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Each paper with its proper soft cover, staples. Fine set. 21 x 14.5.
Conference held at Fremantle 6-10 December 1993. 24 papers. Diet, Disease and Death at Sea 1837-1839, by Mark Staniforth. ... Aboriginal Maritime Art, by Nick Burningham... Stevedoring efficiency at Fremantle. P&O and the Australian Trades 1870-1914, by Dr. Freda Harcourt. Danish Maritime Historical Research 1976-1992, by Dr. Poul Holm... The Port of Liverpool, by Dr. Adrian Jarvis. The Admiralty Charts of John Septimus Roe, by William H. Lamble... Before Broome, by Mike McCarthy... Anglo-Portuguese Mercantile Co-operation in the Bay of Bengal, by Professor K. McPherson... India and the Indian Ocean Maritime Trading Network, by Pr. Om Prakash... Newfoundland Sealing Strikes: 1830-1914, by Pr. Shannon Ryan... Traditional Arab Shipping and Seafaring in the Indian Ocean, by Hassan Saleh Shihab..
68477 AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL HMT ARAB IN THE FJORD: a young Australian Sailor in Norway (in Wartime - Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, issue 78)
$5.00 AUD
Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 2017. Issue No. 78, Autumn 2017. Edited by Andrew McDonald. 72 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Article from P. 52 to 54 by Chris Goddard. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Lieutenant Ernest Lees of the Royal Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve on board HMT Arab. Action at Namsos, April 1940...
69251 BAIONE, Tom (editor) NATURAL HISTORIES: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library
$30.00 AUD
Sterling Signature. New York. 2014. 1st Hardcover edition of the 2012 original. Foreword by Ellen V. Futter. XII, 164 PP with over 200 b/w or colour illustrations. FEP: A two-toed sloth climbing upright. REP: Trigla Volitans (Flying Gunard). Hard cover, pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.3. 9781454812149
Forty essays by Museum experts or notable masterworks, spanning 400 years. The First Animal Book, by Richard Ellis (Historia Animalium in five volumes , by Conrad Gessner, published 1551 to 1558). ... Discovering a New World: François Péron's Voyage to Australia, by Richard Pearson (Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes ... ). ... Sailing to the South Pole: Dumont d'Urville and the Discovery of East Antarctica, by Ross D. E. Macphee ....
69314 BALLARD, Robert D. & ARCHBOLD, Rick RETURN TO MIDWAY
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic / Madison Press Book.Washington, D.C. 1999. 1st US edition. 192 PP with b/w and colour photos, and underwater paintings by Ken Marschall. Half title page: 3 b/w period photos. Title spread: Quadruple 1.1 inch gun mounts of the Yorktown. Eps: Firefighters on deck of an aircraft carrier. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22.4. 0792275004
Battle of the 4th June 1942. Search, then discovery in May 1998 of the remains of the USS Yorktown.
19828 BAPTIST, Captain C. N. T. SALVAGE OPERATIONS
$30.00 AUD
Stanford Maritime. London. 1979. 1st Ed. (4), 155 PP with 1 facsimile of document (Salvage Agreement), 1 table and 15 maps & plans, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name and address of previous owner at top of FFEP which has some offsetting, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.2 x 16.2. 0540073784
Principle of marine salvage, salvage companies, wartime salvage tugs. 15 examples of salvage operations after stranding, grounding, fire...
68568 BARRACLOUGH, E.M.C. (editor) FLAGS OF THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD
Frederick Warne. London. 1971. Revised edition. IX, 284 PP with over 375 text drawings, plus 40 plates with over 370 flags in full colour and tissue guard paper with captions. Fp (in colour): Flags of the United States of America. Hard cover, gilt device on front board and gilt title on spine, dj. Head of spine with short tears at hinges. Dust jacket rubbed. Library stamps and markings on endpapers and title page. Internally very good. 23.4 x 16.5. 0723213380
A very comprehensive work.
69055 BEAN, C. E. W. FLAGSHIPS THREE
$120.00 AUD
Alston Rivers, Ltd. London. 1913. 1st edition. XVI, 340 PP with 25 head-pieces, 6 tail-pieces by the author plus 4 b/w plates. Fp: The first flagship at Gokstad. Cloth cover, gilt title and decoration on front cover & spine. Spine frayed at extremities and a little sunned and light shelf wear on corners. Gutter of front endpaper starting. Occasional light foxing, o/wise a very good bright clean copy of the scarce first edition. 22.2 x 14.5.
The creation of the Royal Australian Navy and its role, decided at the Naval Conference of 1909. Describes the settlement of England by seafarers (Vikings, Normans), the Royal Navy and its expansion (rule Britannia..), the U.S. Navy and finally, the Royal Australian Navy.
22794 BEAVER, Paul NATO NAVIES OF THE 1980s
$10.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1985. 1st Ed., No. 3 in the Warships Illustrated series. 72 PP with 14 colour and 129 bw photos. Title spread: Alongside at Portland Naval Base, UK. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 18.6. 0853687234
19564 BENSTEAD, C.R. SHALLOW WATERS
$10.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 304 PP, plus 18 pages with 28 b/w illust. Fp: The "Royal Sovereign". FEP: Map of the "Shallow Waters", British Isles. REP: Maps of the East Coast of England and of the Orkneys Islands. Hard cover. Ex-library copy with label at foot of spine, and stamp on title-page and its verso. Flap of dust jacket pasted down on half-title page. Three other stamps in the margins, not affecting text. A very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
A maritime history of the British Isles: fishermen, life-boatmen, smugglers, pilots of Trinity House, men of the Royal Navy and the Merchant service...
31697 BLACK, Jeremy MAPS AND HISTORY - Constructing Images of the Past
$20.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven, USA. 1997. 1st Ed. IX, 267 PP with 51 b/w and colour illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.3 x 17.7. 0300069766
Role, development, and nature of historical atlases. Their impact on the presentation of the past...
72636 BONE, David W. THE BRASSBOUNDER
$20.00 AUD
The Citadel Press. London. 1949 Revised edition of the 1910 original. XXII, 202 PP. Hard cover, dust jacket (price-clipped and in a protective sleeve). Ex-library copy with a stamp on title page and rear endpaper. Lacks the front free endpaper. Contents clean and overall still a very good copy. 19 x 13. 9781409991687
43265 BOVE, Margrethe JENS SORENSEN - Spion og sokorttegner for Christian V / Spy and hydrographer to the Royal Danish Navy
$45.00 AUD
Eget Forlag. Copenhagen. 1998. 1st bilingual edition (English text translated by Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen). 80 PP with 1 b/w and 48 colour illustrations (35 charts and plans). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. Danish and English text. 8798695908
Hydrography of the Baltic, and the North Sea, in the 1690s and the early 1700s.
69406 BOWEN, John (editor) SCALE MODEL SAILING SHIPS
$25.00 AUD
Conway. Greenwich. 1977. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 100 plans & diagrams, 150 photos in text. Fp: Model gathering. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 24.5 x 19. 0851771114
68405 BRADFORD, Ernle THE STORY OF THE MARY ROSE
$10.00 AUD
The Mary Rose Trust / Hamish Hamilton. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 207 PP with numerous b/w and 19 colour illustrations (engravings, paintings, photos, plans, sketches, ..). Title-page: The "Henry Grace à Dieu". Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Stamps and markings of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on endpapers and title page. Endpapers reinforced at gutter. Very good reading copy. 25.3 x 19.5. 0241107687
The warship which sank without firing a shot, in an engagement against the French fleet. Her story and salvage.
62384 BRAYNARD, Frank O. "WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP", THE STORY OF THE LEVIATHAN - Volume 2
$70.00 AUD
South Street Seaport Museum. New York. 1974. Volume II: 382 PP with b/w illustrations (over 200 photos), plus large folded "cut out plan" (in colour) of the S.S. Leviathan, United States Lines. Eps: Eight plans "General Arrangement" as the Leviathan. Cloth cover, gilt-title on spine and front cover, dj (painting by Albert Brenet). Signed by the author on the verso of the free fly of the front endpaper. Dust jacket with corners of inside flaps trimmed. Fine condition. 28.5 x 22.
Her life as the "Leviathan" of the United States Lines.
68793 BRETT, Bernard THE FIGHTING SHIP
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1985. 1st edition in "Rebuilding the Past" series. 96 PP with colour illustrations by John Batchelor and Ivan Lapper. Laminated hard cover, illustrated front and back boards. Covers rubbed/worn around edges and spine. Library marking on front endpaper and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page, o/wise very good. 28.2 x 22.5. 0192731556
32402 BROXAM, Graeme A STEAMSHIP FOR HOBART, S.S. REEMERE 1909
$20.00 AUD
Navarine. Canberra. 1992. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies (No. 423/1000). Foreword by Ken Wriedt. II, 60 PP with 1 plan, 1 map & 46 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Signed by author. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646113291
Story of small trading craft plying Tasmanian bays, rivers and inlets. The need to preserve and restore the SS Reemere, launched in 1909.
69074 BROXAM, Graeme THE BASS STRAIT FERRY "CITY OF MELBOURNE', Pioneer Australian Screw Steamship
$20.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2008. 1st edition limited to 259 Ccopies. VI, 54 PP with 2 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (chart of Bass Strait at centrefold, 4 engravings, 2 plans, and 8 photos). Pictorial stiiff covers. Signed on title page by author and publisher.. Fine. 21 x 14.8., 9780975133132
69290 BROXAM, Graeme THOSE THAT SURVIVE, Vintage & Veteran Boats of Tasmania
$50.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1996. 1st Ed. No. 49, in the Roebuck series. XIV, 146 PP with 208 b/w photos in text. Pictorial card cover. Signed by the author on title-page. A near fine copy of a scarce title. 24.8 x 17.5. 0958656126
Yachts, fishing vessels, ocean sailing ships, river steamers, harbour craft. Hulks and wrecks.
Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 2000. 1st Ed., No. 54 in the Roebuck series. XIV, 402 PP with 7 maps and 207 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 25.8 x 18.2. 0958656169
72646 BRYER, Robin JOLIE BRISE, A Tall Ship's Tale
$25.00 AUD
Secker & Warburg. London. 1982. 1st Ed. XIII, 255 PP with b/w illust. in text plus 16 pages with 31 b/w photos. Hard covers a little cocked, dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Ex-library copy with a few stamps, o/wise a very good clean copy. 24.5 x 16. 0436071819
The career of this famous ship, built as pilot cutter in Le Havre in 1913.
68343 BURTON, Robert, DEVANEY, Carole & LONG, Tony THE LIVING SEA - An illustrated encyclopedia of marine life
$10.00 AUD
G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York. c. 1970. 1st US edition. 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with repaired tears. Very good. 29.5 x 23. 399117482
69326 BUSHELL, Pat PIERS & PADDLE STEAMERS IN CAMERA
$15.00 AUD
Quotes Limited of Buckingham. Buckingham. 1989. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 70 b/w illustrations (poster, paintings and photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. Oblong: 15.5 x 21.7. 086023360X
69363 BUTZ, Richard & MONTAGUE, John BUILDING THE WEEKEND SKIFF
$25.00 AUD
Tiller Publishing. St Michaels, Maryland. 1997. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w illustrations: photos and drawings, line drawings, plans, sketches by John Montague. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 1888671106
48424 CAMPBELL, Archibald A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD From 1806 to 1812
$50.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of the 1816 edition. No. 50 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. 288 PP, plus 1 folded map Track of the Eclipses longboat. (a Vocabulary of the Language of the Sandwich Islands between pages 227 and 251). Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette. Fine. 22 x 15.
Reminiscences of an English seaman who sailed with the Russian American Company from 1806 to 1812. Voyage... in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands were visited.
58870 CARLTON, Mike CRUISER: The Life and Loss of HMAS PERTH and Her Crew
$35.00 AUD
William Heinemann. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. XIV, 706 PP with 1 plan and 4 maps, plus 24 pages with 10 colour illustrations and 64 b/w photos. Eps: White Ensign, Royal Navy. Hard cover, dj. Neat ex-libris stamp of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 16. 9781741668391
69167 CASTLE, Colin & MacDONALD, Iain GLENLEE - The Life & Times of a Clyde-Built Cape Horner
$65.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd Glasgow. 2005. 1st Ed. X, 166 PP with tables and facsimiles of documents, plus 8 pages with 8 colour photos and 32 pages with 46 b/w illustrations. Eps: World map in colour (FEP: "Ports of Call" / REP: "Prevailing & Trade Winds"). Laminated boards, pictorial front. Fine (mint condition). 21.7 x 15. 0851747272
1893: built at Anderson Rodger's Shipyard. Owners: Archibald Sterling & Co. ...
10822 CHILDERS, Colonel Spencer (editor) A MARINER OF ENGLAND - An Account of the Career of William Richardson from Cabin Boy in the Merchant Service to Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy [1780 to 1819] as told by Himself
$20.00 AUD
Conway / United States Naval Institute. London / Annapolis. 1970. New impression of the 1908 original. XVI, 317 PP. Fp: Basque roads, 12 April 1809. Eps: Fight between Formidable and Caesar. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, dj (spine sunned). Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.8 x 14.5. 0870218468
Slave trade, war in the Indian Ocean and the West Indies. Lisbon and the Peninsular War.
68624 CLIFFORD, Robert, LOWRIE, Kim et al. INCAT - THE FIRST 40 YEARS
$75.00 AUD
Baird Publications. Melbourne. 1998. 1st Ed. 204 PP with b/w and colour illust. (photos, plans, graphs...). Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. Scarce. Oblong: 21.7 x 30.5. 0958701369
Achievements and inroads into fast ferry transportation made by Incat Tasmania.
55516 CORFIELD, Richard THE SILENT LANDSCAPE: In the Wake of HMS Challenger 1872-1876
$20.00 AUD
John Murray / Hodder Headline. London. 2004. 1st Ed. XIV, (4), 286 PP with 18 headpieces, 1 map and over 15 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 0719565308
69072 CRESSWELL, Captain W.R., R.N. A FEDERAL AUSTRALIAN LIFE-SAVING SERVICE (in The Review of Reviews, 1896)
$40.00 AUD
The Review of Reviews for Australasia. Melbourne. 1896. Australasian edition of June 1896 edited by W. H. Fitchett. XII, (2), 539 to 652 PP. Contains article Page 574 to 581 with b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 painting and 5 b/w photos). Soft wrappers fragile and chipped. Ageing of paper with occasional foxing. Very good copy of a scarce item. 25.5 x 19.7.
A study of the South Australia Service.
69437 CUNNINGHAM, Doug & SOFILAS, Mark TWO DECADES OF CHALLENGE
$120.00 AUD
Advance Australia Challenge / Terra-Graphics (W.A.) Pty. Ltd. Perth, W.A. 1983. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies hand numbered and signed by the artist Mark Sofilas (No. 277). 52 PP with 57 duo-tone illustrations and 15 colour plates tipped in. Eps: The "America's Cup". Leather bound, gilt devices and title on front board. Fine. Large folio : 43 x 34. 0959284400
69042 DALTON, Anthony WAYWARD SAILOR: In Search of the Real Tristan Jones
$25.00 AUD
International Marine / McGraw-Hill. Camden, Maine. 2003. 1st Ed. XVIII, 350 PP with 4 maps (2 on double page), plus 16 pages with 41 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 16. 0071402519
59503 DAVID, Andrew (editor) WILLIAM ROBERT BROUGHTON'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC 1795-1798
$70.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. London. 2010. 1st Ed. Series III, Volume 22. Introduction by Barry Gough. LXXXII, 315 PP with 12 maps and 9 figures. Errata page tipped in between pages LXX and LXXI. Fp: William Robert Broughton. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 18. 9780904180978
44700 DEACON, G. E. R. (editor) OCEANS - An Atlas-History of Man's Exploration of the Deep
$10.00 AUD
Paul Hamlyn. London. 1968. 2nd edition of the 1962 original. 297 PP with b/w & colour illust. (maps, plans, photos,..). illustrated title-page. Eps: Shells. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 28.3 x 21..
Contains contributions by distinguished authorities including: Men against the Sea by Edward Shackleton, Life in the Sea by Maurice Burton, Sunken Cities and Forgotten Wrecks by H.C. Flemming... Oceanography (currents, food chain, ..)
68925 DENNING Harold W. HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE TWEED
$20.00 AUD
Tweed Shire Council. Murwillumbah, NSW. 1988. 1st Ed. (2), 105 PP with 56 b/w photos. Hard cover. Title and Coat-of-Arms of the Tweed Shire on front board. Fine. 30.2 x 21.2. 0959658971
32858 DIBNER, Bern THE VICTORIA AND THE TRITON - Two global expeditions reveal the advance in marine technology with the passage of four and a third centuries
$15.00 AUD
Burndy Library. Norwalk, Conn., USA. 1962. 1st Ed., publication No. 19 of the Burndy Library. 58 PP with 30 b/w illust. (1 map, 8 photos, and engravings), plus 1 folded coloured map of Maris Pacifici. Cloth cover binding the original copy (pictorial card covers), gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note on front endpaper signed by the author. Small bump on top of front cover, o/wise near fine. 27.8 x 21.5.
First circumnavigation by the Victoria of the Magellan expedition, 1519-1522. Submerged circumnavigation on the nuclear-propelled USS Triton, 1960.
69313 DICKENS, Admiral Sir Gerald (compiler) THE DRESS OF THE BRITISH SAILOR
$15.00 AUD
Trustees of the National Maritime Museum / HMSO. London. 1977. 2nd edition of the 1957 original. 24 PP with 6 colour and 30 b/w illustrations. Inside covers: colour photos of Ordinary Seamen and Non Commissioned Officers. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner at top corner of front cover. Near fine. 19.8 x 21. 0118814001
69262 DYMOND, Ralph THE HISTORY OF H.M.A.S. VOYAGER I
$35.00 AUD
Southern Holdings. Hobart. 1992. 1st Ed. IV, 196 PP with b/w illustrations (photos, maps). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.1. 0949089214
Her diary, from construction in 1917 for the Royal Navy, her transfer to the Royal Australian Navy in 1933, her war service and her end in September 1942 in Timor.
69328 EDGECOMBE, Jean FLINDERS ISLAND and Eastern Bass Strait
$15.00 AUD
Edgekirk. Sydney. 1986. 1st paperback edition. IX, 159 PP with b/w illust. (maps & plans, draw. & photos) plus 8 pages with 20 colour photos. FEP: Chart of Southern Furneaux Is. by M. Flinders. REP: Chart of Bass Strait, 1806. Pictorial card covers. Front cover with light creases. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.6. 1862527849
Discovery & exploration, sealers.. The Furneaux Group and the group of islands South of Wilson's Promontory.
69137 EDMOND, Stuart MEMORIES OF A BEN LINE MAN
$40.00 AUD
Bassman Books. Balbair, Dingwall, UK. 2015. Second impression of the 2015 original. (2), 215, (2) PP with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with small bump at top corner, o/wise a fine copy. 21 x 14.7. 9780956790866
40983 EDWARDS, Hugh THE REMARKABLE DOLPHINS OF MONKEY MIA
$5.00 AUD
Author. Perth. 1989. 1st Ed. (6), 110 PP with 1 map , 1 colour photo and b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 66 colour photos. Title page (in colour): Dolphin. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.2. 0731679822
69324 ELLIS, Tony THE SAILING BARGES OF MARITIME ENGLAND
$15.00 AUD
Shepperton Swan. Shepperton, Middlesex. 1982. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings, paintings and photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.5 x 21. 0906986036
45747 EMMONS, Frederick THE ATLANTIC LINERS 1925-70
$20.00 AUD
Bonanza. New York. 1976?. Reprint of the 1972 US original. 160 PP with b/w illust. throughout. (ships' profiles). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0517209837
Ships engaged in passenger services on the North Atlantic. Over 286 ships illustrated.
69211 ESSO WHEN WILL THE WELLS DRY ?
$10.00 AUD
Corporate Affairs Department, Esso Australia Ltd. Sydney. 1988. February 1988 edition. 8 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
69135 FLAYHART, William Henry III PERILS OF THE ATLANTIC: Steamships Disasters, 1850 to the Present
$15.00 AUD
W.W. Norton & Co. New York. 2003. Advance Uncorrected Proof copy (without any illustrations). 357, (3 blank) PP. Soft cover. Sticker on front cover. Internally fine. 23.4 x 15.3.
Includes the wreck of the Arctic in 1854, the White Star liner Atlantic in 1873, the Ville du Havre, the Loch Earn, the Cunard liner Oregon, the steamship Rusland, Holland America's Veendam, the Titantic, Empress of Ireland, Lusitania, Morro Castle ....
69411 FOX, Uffa ACCORDING TO UFFA, Handling Sailing Boats
$30.00 AUD
Newnes. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 174 PP with b/w illustrations (maps, plans, ..), plus 24 pages with 22 b/w illustrations (1 chart and 21 photos). FEP: The Clyde. REP: The Solent. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Light foxing, o/wise a fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
How to sail and how to care for the sailing boat, mast, rigging, sails. The elements: sea & wind, and their effects on boat design and performance.
45206 FRANTZ, Douglas & COLLINS, Catherine DEATH ON THE BLACK SEA - The untold story of the Struma and World War II's holocaust at sea
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2003. 1st Australian edition. XIV, 352 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 23 b/w illustration. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 0732278244
Sailed from Constanta, Romania on the 12th December 1941... Torpedoed on the 24th February 1942, 1 survivor, around 800 dead.
42246 FRISINGER, H. Howard THE HISTORY OF METEOROLOGY: to 1800
$20.00 AUD
Science History Publications. New York. 1977. 1st Ed., in Historical Monograph series of American Meteorological Society. X, (2), 148 PP with 39 figures, 2 facsimile of title pages to Descartes' Discours de la Méthode and to Robert Hooke's Micrographia, and 16 portraits. Cloth cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 26.2 x 18. 0882020366
69084 FURNISS, Harry P & O SKETCHES IN PEN AND INK
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1987. Reprint of the original published by The Studio of Design. 204 PP with 98 sketches on full page. Cloth cover, gilt title and illustration on front cover. Covers have a few marks/speckling on spine and back edge, otherwise contents are fine. Oblong: 21.2 x 29.8. 0297791958
69250 GALLAGHER, C. Pamela FOR THOSE IN PERIL
$25.00 AUD
B.E.D's Books. Brisbane. 2002. Second edition of the 1991 original. VI, 154 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map, 1 cartoon, 8 drawings, 10 photos. Soft cover, illustrated front cover, title on spine and front cover. Copy signed by the author inside front cover. Copy of "words reflect life", an article about the author published in "Westside News", Brisbane and dated 14/10/2003; loosely inserted. Soft cover slightly soiled. Very good. 20.6 x 14.7. 00958515042
Life on lighthouses of the Queensland coast, after World War II.
69359 GARDNER, John MORE BUILDING CLASSIC SMALL CRAFT
$30.00 AUD
International Marine Publishing Company. Camden, Maine. 1990. 2nd paperback printing of the 1984 original (Building Classic Small Craft, Vol. 2). XI, (3), 241 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, line drawings, plans, sketches & photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 0877422745
How to build 23 traditional boats: from Herreshoff rowboat to Mower Dory.
69360 GARDNER, John CLASSIC SMALL CRAFT YOU CAN BUILD
$30.00 AUD
Mystic Seaport Museum. Mystic, Connecticut. 1993. 1st Ed. (10), 195 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, line drawings, plans, sketches & photos) and 18 headpieces. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 0913372668
How to build 16 traditional boats: from Skiff and Bateau to 20-Foot outboard Oyster Skiff.
75454 GEEVES, Lance SOUTHWARD HO! - A Southland Argosy which sought and found the golden fleece of freedom in the Huon, Tasmania
$70.00 AUD
Lance Geeves / Huon Newspaper Co. Ltd. Geeveston, Tasmania. 1988. 1st edition of July 1988. 232 PP with 28 b/w illustrations. FEP: Sketch map of Tasmania and map of Southern Tasmania. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.8 x 14. 0731645847
The author was a former editor of the weekly newspaper "Huon News". The sub-title on front cover is: A history of the origin, culture and characteristics of people who settled the Great South Land.
69235 GEEVES, M. D., GRIGGS, G. C., HONEYSETT, J. L., JOHNSTON, R. A. et al... SAILING ON... A History of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania 1880-1980
$20.00 AUD
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. Hobart. 1980. 1st edition, with a foreword by His Excellency The Honourable Sir Stanley Burbury. XII, 256 PP with 2 maps and 84 b/w photos (82 on full page). Fp: Mouth of the Derwent River. Eps: Cadet Dinghies, Invitation Race, 1970. Cloth cover, simile leather, gilt device and title on front cover and spine, dj. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 18. 0959621415
73696 GEEVES, M. D., GRIGGS, G. C., HONEYSETT, J. L., JOHNSTON, R. A. et al... SAILING ON... A History of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania 1880-1980
$50.00 AUD
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. Hobart. 1980. 1st edition, with a foreword by His Excellency The Honourable Sir Stanley Burbury. XII, 256 PP with 2 maps and 84 b/w photos (82 on full page). Fp: Mouth of the Derwent River. Eps: Cadet Dinghies, Invitation Race, 1970. Cloth cover, simile leather, gilt device and title on front cover and spine, dj. Dedicatory vignette signed by the Commodore Clive Simpson with congratulations in becoming a RYCT Member in 201O (100th anniversary). A fine copy. 24 x 18. 0959621415
68927 GIBBONS, Mark PRINTS: "BERTHA" & "CHARLOTTE RHODES"
$10.00 AUD
Exeter Maritime Museum. Exeter. c. 1976. Prints of 2 b/w washes of Traditional Crafts at the Exeter Marime Museum, by Mark Gibbons. Lower corner of the "Charlotte Rhodes", Exeter Quay 1976, with light creases. Both prints laminated. Near fine. Image shows the Bertha. Oblong: 21 x 29.7.
17592 GLEESON, Max SHIPWRECKS, STORMS & SEAMEN OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES COAST
$15.00 AUD
Author. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed. 168 PP with 1 map, 7 drawings, 46 b/w & 15 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 17. 0646280198
Stories on 11 of the shipwrecks of the NSW coast. Cawarra in 1866 off Nobby's Headland (Newcastle), .. Keilawarra in 1886 near North Solitary Island (Coffs Harbour), .. Merimbula in 1928 on Beecroft Head (North of Jervis Bay).
52274 GONZALEZ, Francisco Jose & MARTIN-MERAS, Luisa LA DIRECCION DE TRABAJOS HIDROGRAFICOS (1797-1908) - Tomo I: Historia de la Cartografia Nautica en la Espana del siglo XIX
$45.00 AUD
Ministerio de Defensa / Ministerio de Fomento / Lunwerg Editores. Madrid. 2003. 1st Ed., with Preamble by Fernando Riano Lozano and Prologue by Jose Ignacio Gonzalez-Aller Hierro. 252 PP with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Spanish text. Fine. 29.7 x 22.2. 8477829616
69184 GORDON, Harry DIE LIKE THE CARP! - The story of the greatest prison escape ever...
$15.00 AUD
Cassell Australia. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. 240 PP, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w photos. Eps: Plans of the P.O.W. camp near Cowra. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.2. 0726932434
5th August 1944: escape of over 1100 Japanese POW from the camp at Cowra.
35101 GOSS, Pete CLOSE TO THE WIND
$10.00 AUD
Hodder Headline. London. 1998. 1st paperback edition. (6), 282 PP with 1 map and 2 facsimile of faxes, plus 16 pages with 1 b/w and 42 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23.2 x 15.2. 074727519X
Autobiography, early years yachting and racing. Round-the-world yacht race Vendée Globe of 1996-97 on the Aqua Quorum and rescue in the Southern Ocean of fellow competitor Raphael Dinelli.
68652 GREEN, Jeremy (editor) MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Papers from the First Southern Hemisphere Conference on ...
$10.00 AUD
Ocean's Society of Australia. Melbourne. 1977. 160 PP with b/w illust. (maps, graphs, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum"' on title page. Very good. 21.1 x 15.7. 0868959645
Maritime archaeology in Europe, New Zealand & Australia: legislation, conservation & preservation.
49804 GREEN, Jeremy, GAINSFORD, Matthew & STANBURY, Myra (editors) DEPARTMENT OF MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY, WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MARITIME MUSEUM - A compendium of projects, programmes and publications 1971-2003
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 2004. 1st Ed. Special Publication No. 9. Foreword by Graeme Henderson. XII, 133 PP with tables, 2 b/w and 55 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.8 x 16.8. 1876465301
68893 GREEN, P. H. THE ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL COASTAL NAVIGATION
$10.00 AUD
Hadley Publications. Hawthorn, Vic. 1969. 2nd edition of the 1967 original. VI, 7-80 PP with 76 figures, plus large folded chart at rear of book. Soft cover, illustrated front with previous owner's number on top, spiral bound. Occasional foxing. Very good. 28.6 x 22.5.
43224 GREGORY, Augustus Charles and Francis Thomas JOURNALS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATIONS 1846-1861
$15.00 AUD
Hesperian Press. Perth. 2002. Reprint of the 1884 original published in Brisbane. (6), (4), 210 PP with 5 portraits and the frontispiece of the 1884 edition. Pictorial soft cover. Note: the 5 maps mentioned on the contents page were not printed at the time of the reprint. Fine condition. 24 x 16.2. 0859052583
69128 GUNN, George SHIPS & SHORT SPLICES
$20.00 AUD
Gomer Press. Llandysul, Ceredigion. 2002. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commodore R.C. Hastie. 120 PP with over 70 b/w illustrations: documents, ephemera, sketch maps and photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 17 x 24.5. 1859029361
46793 HAFFNER, L. A L'ASSAUT DES OCEANS
$40.00 AUD
Editions du Gerfaut. Paris. 2001. New edition of the 1936 original, with a different iconography. 180 PP with drawings and colour illustrations by the author. Hard cover, dj. French text. Near fine. 30.5 x 24.5. 2914622015
Conquest of the Oceans: evolution of ships, seamanship, navigation methods....
69219 HAUSER-SCHAUBLIN, Brigitta, KRUGER, Gundolf et al. JAMES COOK - Gifts and Treasures from the South Seas / Gaben und Schatze aus der Sudsee
$50.00 AUD
Prestel. Munich. 1998. 1st Ed. 352 PP with 51 colour plates and 422 b/w illustrations. Fp: Engraving with adzes, club and shell trumpet from New Zealand. FEP: Map of the 3 voyages of exploration of Captain Cook. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. English and German text. Fine condition. 30.5 x 24.5. 3791318683
The Cook / Forster Collection owned by the University at Gottingen, Germany.
62054 HAWS, Duncan MERCHANT FLEETS - 7 - NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING & FEDERAL S.N. CO.
$30.00 AUD
Duncan Haws. London. 1985.. 1st Ed., No. 7 in Merchant Fleets series. 112 PP with 111 scale profile drawings by author (scale: 1/1800). Pictorial card cover, spine a little sunned, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.7. 0946378029
Chronological history, livery, routes and fleet lists of The New Zealand Shipping Company with 108 vessels. The Federal Steam Navigation Company with 95 vessels.
56116 HEINES, Donald S. (editor) WHALING WITH CAPTAIN PENNIMAN. Log of Thomas Knowles
$30.00 AUD
Donald S. Heines. Orleans, Ma. 1995. 1st Ed. Foreward by Donald S. Heines. 23, (5) PP with b/w illustrations (1 portrait and silhouettes of Whales), plus 4 pages facsimile pages of original log with 3 wood block prints of whales. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.3 x 15.
Whaling in the North Atlantic Ocean on the bark Minerva of New Bedford: May/August 1860.
69264 HEYERDAHL, Thor EARLY MAN AND THE OCEAN
$25.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1978. 1st English edition. 392 PP with 21 figures. Eps: Mappemonde with routes of European discoverers and track of Kon-Tiki, Ra I & Ra II rafts. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0045720223
The beginning of navigation & sea-borne civilizations, the sea being no barrier to migration of early Man.
69075 HICKLING, Vice Admiral Harold ONE MINUTE OF TIME - The Melbourne - Voyager Collision
$20.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1965. 1st Ed. 235 PP with 9 diagrams, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w photos. Fp: The mariners' compass. Eps: Interpretation of events with map reconstructing the collision. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.
10 February 1964: collision between the destroyer H.M.A.S. Voyager and the aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Melbourne.
69362 HILL, Thomas J. & STETSON, Fred ULTRALIGHT BOATBUILDING
$20.00 AUD
International Marine Publishing Company. Camden, Maine. c. 1990. 3rd paperback printing of the 1987 original. (X), 134 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, line drawings, plans, sketches & photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 0877422443
68478 HMSO ADMIRALTY MANUAL OF NAVIGATION - Volume III, B.R. 45(3)
$25.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1955. New edition. Volume III, B.R. 45 (3): X, 437 PP with 280 b/w or colour figures. Front endpaper: "Amendments" columns, with stamp for the change made. Cloth cover, gilt anchor in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Covers soiled and rubbed. Light foxing on top outside edge. Near fine internally. 24.8 x 16.
B.R. 45 (3): 1958 reprint of the 1955 edition , incorporating amendments 1 and 2.
69432 HOPKINS, David L. TASMANIA'S GOLDEN YEARS REVISITED: from Boom to Bust and back in the Island State of Tasmania
$125.00 AUD
Peregrine Publishing. Hobart. 2013. 1st edition. Foreword by Eric Reece and Saul Eslake. (2), 420 PP. Design with over 1650 artworks and illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches and photos) by David Hopkins (3 in colour, others in b/w). Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Half title page with sticker of the "Printing Industries Gold Award Winner - 2013", and signed by the author. Mint condition. 31.5 x 24. 9780958709293
69433 HOPKINS, David L. THE CONVICT ERA IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
$85.00 AUD
Peregrine Publishing. Hobart. 2016. 1st edition in a combined form of the 3 separate books of 1993. Foreword by Michael Field. (6), 114 PP. Design with b/w or colour artworks and illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches and photos) by David Hopkins. Pictorial soft covers. Half title page signed by the author. Mint condition. 29.7 x 21. 978097576663
69003 HORNER, D. M. (editor) THE COMMANDERS - Australian Military Leadership in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1984. 1st edition. XX, 355 PP with 27 maps and 44 illustrations. Fp. Eps with 8 portraits each (1 b/w and 7 in colour). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 24.7 x 19. 0868614963
69214 HORNER, Frank LOOKING FOR LA PEROUSE, D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793
$90.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. No. 7 in the Second Miegunyah Press series. XIV, 318, (2) PP with 4 pages ship plans, and 11 maps, plus 12 pages with 10 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj. Copy dated and signed by the author on half title page. Near fine. 24.3 x 16. 0522844510
The valuable discoveries made by the D'Entrecasteaux expedition while searching for the French explorer whose fate was unknown after sailing from Botany Bay in 1788. Explorations on the West and South Coast of Australia, in Tasmania, the coast of New Caledonia and in the Solomons and New Guinea.
68600 HOUGH, Richard CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
$10.00 AUD
Coronet Books / Hodder & Stoughton. London. c. 2000. 15th printing of the 1995 Coronet "soft cover" edition. XX, 492 PP with 2 drawings and 12 maps, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light creases. Paper ageing , o/wise very good. 18 x 11. 0340617233
A biography of the last and greatest of the romantic sailors.
69230 HOVGAARD, William MODERN HISTORY OF WARSHIPS, Comprising a Discussion of Present Standpoint and Recent War Experiences
$45.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1971. New impression of the 1920 original, with a foreword by Anthony Preston. XVI, 502 PP with 2 tables and 209 figures (6 of them on supplementary folded plates I to VI). Top edge tinted. Hard cover, dj, ribbon page-marker. Dust jacket has a few small tears at head of spine , o/wise a near fine copy. 24.5 x 16. 0851770401
Battleships, Cruisers... Aircraft. Their design and construction of hull, machinery, ordnance...
45909 HUGHES, David & HUMPHRIES, Peter IN SOUTH AFRICAN WATERS - Passenger Liners since 1930
$35.00 AUD
O.U.P. Cape Town. 1977. 1st Ed. (10), 133 PP with 106 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and with short closed tears, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 15 x 21.5. 0195701208
From the Bank Line, and the Blue Funnel Line to the South African Marine Corporation and the Union-Castle Line.
53545 HUNGERFORD, T. A. G. A KNOCKABOUT WITH A SLOUCH HAT: an autobiographical collection 1942-1951
$15.00 AUD
Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Fremantle. 1985. 1st Ed. 164, (9 picture album) PP with 22 b/w photos (9 headpieces and 13 in picture album). Soft cover, dj. Fine. 21.5 x 16.6. 0909144877
74374 IBBOTSON, John LIGHTHOUSES OF AUSTRALIA - Images from the End of an Era
$75.00 AUD
Australian Lighthouse Traders. Surrey Hills, Victoria. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by Clive Davidson, A.M.S.A. VI, 282 PP with 12 detailed location maps and 500 colour photographs. Title page: Whaler Point lighthouse, Portland, Victoria. Eps: Map of Australia showing the location of lighthouses. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 31 x 27.5. 064641674X
220 of the Australian Lighthouses.
68648 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE] PICTURE RECORDS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR / SOUVENIRS DE LA GUERRE EUROPEENNE
$15.00 AUD
Newspaper Illustrations / The Illustrated London News & Sketch. London. 1917. 1st Ed. 12 b/w photographic plates selected from the Official Photographs of the French Government 1914-1917. All captions in English and French. Soft cover, illustrated front "The Soldier's Divertisements / Les Divertissements du Soldat". Plates and covers bound with a tie. Covers with a little light wear/soiling, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 16.2 x 22.7.
Selection of Official photographs of the French Government, 1914-1917 : ... Sabot Wood, Somme Battles ...
68649 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE] PICTURE RECORDS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR / SOUVENIRS DE LA GUERRE EUROPEENNE
$15.00 AUD
Newspaper Illustrations / The Illustrated London News & Sketch. London. 1917. 1st Ed. 12 b/w photographic plates selected from the Official Photographs of the French Government 1914-1917. All captions in English and French. Soft cover, illustrated front "Another One: Shells ... / Encore Un: Obus ...". Plates and covers bound with a tie. Covers with light wear/soiling, o/wise near fine. Oblong. 16.2 x 22.7.
Selection of official photographs of the French Government, 1914-1917 : Midnight Mass at Fort Douaumont, 24th December 1916 ... Verdun. Somme Front ... Destroyed Churches (Betheny, Arras, Reims).
41289 INGRAM, C. W. N. & WHEATLEY, P. O. NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS 1795-1960
$40.00 AUD
Reed. Wellington. 1961. 3rd edition of the 1936 original. VIII, 408 PP, plus 32 pages with 121 b/w illustrations. Fp: Rigs of sailing vessels. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Spine of dust jacket a little sunned. Traces of old sellotape marks on inside front and back covers, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.7 x 19.5.
13246 IRWIN, Geoffrey THE PREHISTORIC EXPLORATION AND COLONISATION OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
C.U.P. Cambridge. 1996. Paperback reprint. VIII, 240 PP with 83 figures & 22 tables, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illustrations of "Canoes". Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 0521476518
The author claims that, rather than sailing randomly in search of unknown lands, the Pacific islanders expanded settlement by exploring upwind so as to ensure their safe return.
69311 JENKINS, A. J. GIGS AND CUTTERS OF THE ISLES OF SCILLY
$30.00 AUD
Integrated Packaging Group Ltd & the Isles of Scilly Gig Racing Committee. Isles of Scilly. 1975. 1st Ed. 72 PP with colour illustrations (1 map and 9 photos, duotone illustrations and 40 b/w photos. Eps: drawings and line drawings of the Gig Shah. Hard covers, illustrated boards. Near fine. Oblong: 20 x 21.
69114 JONES, Davy & NEPTUNUS REX CROSSING OF THE LINE CERTIFICATE - S.S. MARIPOSA
$25.00 AUD
On Board. 1939. Certificate issued by Davy Jones, His Majesty Scribe and delivered by Neptunus Rex, Ruler of the Raging Main. illustrated in colour. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 29 x 21.5.
Crossing of the Equator, by 165° 35' West, on board Mariposa, on the 24th August 1939.
69366 JONES, Tristan ONE HAND FOR YOURSELF, ONE FOR THE SHIP, The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing
$20.00 AUD
Granada/Adlard Coles. London. 1983. Reprint of 1982 1st Ed. XII, (2), 226 PP with 5 graphs, 7 tables and 42 drawings by author. Hard cover, dust jacket. Name of previous owner on top of FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 16. 0229116981
Rigs & rigging, self-steering, accommodations, navigation (scraps and celestial), anchors... List of recommended books.
19460 JONES, Vincent SAIL THE INDIAN SEA
$10.00 AUD
Gordon & Cremonesi. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 168 PP plus 16 pages with 31 b/w illust. FEP: Probable route of Vasca da Gama's first voyage. REP: Moorish trade routes before da Gama. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 17.5. 0860330214
Vasco da Gama: his travels, dominions and navigation. The discovery of the sea route to India.
41616 KEMP, J. F., & YOUNG, Peter SHIP STABILITY NOTES AND EXAMPLES
$10.00 AUD
Stanford Maritime / Royal Australian Navy. London. 1977. Reprint of the 1971 second edition (metric), of the 1959 original. 128 PP with many figures. Stapled soft cover (Royal Australian Navy Apprentice Training Establishment). Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0853090424
Published for the Royal Australian Navy.
74397 KERR, Garry & McDERMOTT, Harry THE HUON PINE STORY - The history of harvest and use of a unique timber
$50.00 AUD
Mainsail Books. Portland, Vic. 2000. 1st soft cover edition. (8), 299 PP with 4 maps, numerous b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Huon Pine (young tree), by S. Dean. Title page: Marble Cliffs, Gordon River, World Heritage Area, Tasmania. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21. 0957791704
Chapter 8: The Rivermen. Chapter 9: the Piner's Punt. Chapter 10: The Riverboats.
68783 KERR, Garry J. (editor) AUSTRALIAN and NEW ZEALAND SAIL TRADERS
$40.00 AUD
Lynton Publications. Blackwood S.A. 1974. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 5 plans and 102 b/w photos. FEP: Sail plan of a 3 masted schooner. REP: Line drawings of Irazu. Illustrated hard cover. Fine. Scarce. 25 x 18.5. 0869461362
Pearling fleet of W.A., S.A. sail traders, whiting boats of Spencer Gulf, N.Z. scow, sailing traders of Southern Tasmania, Auckland mullet boats, Queenscliff couta boats, cray boats...
50391 KNIGHT, Thomas EARLY CHINESE MAPS (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol.16, No.3)
$15.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1972. March 1972. Contains article between P.30 and 35 with 3 colour and 6 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
69138 LARSON, Erik DEAD WAKE - The Last Crossing of the LUSITANIA
$15.00 AUD
Doubleday. London. 2015. 1st paperback edition. XVI, 430, (2) PP with 1 map "Great Britain and Environs - 1914". Fp: Lusitania. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23.3 x 15. 9780857521828
68998 LAWSON, Mary KNOTS
$10.00 AUD
Methuen Australia. Sydney. 1984. 1st edition in the "Leisure Time" series. 64 PP with over 100 b/w illustrations by Richard Gregory. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Occasional foxing. Very good. 18 x 11. 0454008244
69030 LAWSON, Will & The Shiplovers' Society of Tasmania BLUE GUM CLIPPERS AND WHALE SHIPS OF TASMANIA
$10.00 AUD
D. & L. Book Distributor. Launceston. 1986. Facsimile reprint of the 1949 original. 261 PP, plus 30 b/w plates. Fp: Sailing ships at New Wharf in 1881. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Early whaling, trading and shipbuilding in Tasmania.
69082 LAXON, W. A., DICK, H. W., FARQUHAR, I. J. & STEVENS, T. S. HUDDART PARKER: A Famous Australasian Shipping Company, 1876-1961
$30.00 AUD
Melbourne. 2008. Nautical Association of Australia. 1st Ed. XII, 236 PP with b/w illustrations (8 portraits, 3 posters and 124 photos, 113 of ships). Inside covers: advertising material. Pictorial soft cover, partly sunned as is the spine. An other wise fine copy. 25 x 17.6. 9780975689615
68971 LEHAN, Mike & PERKINS, Bob (editors) HMAS ALBATROSS: 1998 - Commemorative Air Day Souvenir Programme & SLIPSTREAM / Fly Navy, Vol. 9, No. 4
$20.00 AUD
HMAS Albatross. Nowra. 1998. 2 items: 1 - Official Souvenir brochure with a foreword by Commodore Geoff Cole. 36 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks & photos). 2 - Slipstream , October 1998: 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Celebrating 50 years of Naval Aviation.
69079 LENTON, H. T. BRITISH BATTLESHIPS AND AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
$30.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1972. 1st Ed., in the Navies of the Second World War series. 160 PP with tables, 1 plan and 68 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj with small crease, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.5. 356038696
69253 LEPINE, Mike DUNKIRK - The Disaster ... and the Miracle
$25.00 AUD
Dannan Publishing Ltd. London. 2017. 3 items: 1 magazine: 1st edition. 80 PP with 10 maps in colour and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. New. 29.5 x 23. Together with 2 DVD: "Little Ships" (60 minutes) by Dan Snow, published in 2010 / "Churchill, a Giant in the Century" (90 minutes), published in 2013. 9780995479494
May & June 1940.
69396 LEWIS, John A TASTE FOR SAILING
$25.00 AUD
Adlard Coles Ltd. London. 1969. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 9 charts, 10 plans & sketches, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 21.7 X 17. 022997371X
69401 LEWIS, John SMALL CRAFT CONVERSION
$40.00 AUD
Granada Pub. London. 1977. Reprint of 1972 orig. 288 PP with 125 drawings (36 full-page construction plans & 65 photos in text plus 7 pages of glossary). Hard cover, dj. Slight speckling of top edges of covers, spine of dust jacket is a little faded, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 25.2 x 17.5. 0229586803
The material and the knowledge amassed by the author after 25 years of small boat conversion.
69216 LEWIS, Tom SENSUIKAN I-124, a history of the Imperial Japanese Navy fleet submarine sunk in Northern Territory waters
$35.00 AUD
Tall Stories. Darwin. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Honourable Daryl W. Manzie. 131 PP with 2 maps, 11 plans and sketches and 65 b/w photos. Letter from editor to The Mercury newspaper loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover lightly soiled. Very good. Scarce. 29.5 x 21. 0646322184
Sunk by HMAS "Deloraine" 20th January 1942 in 150 feet of water off Darwin. Early salvage attempts (for the code books). Historic shipwreck since 28th June 1977.
68497 LIVERSIDGE, Douglas THE LAST CONTINENT
$10.00 AUD
Travel Book Club / Jarrolds. London. 1958. 1st Book Club edition. 248 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (chipped). Occasional foxing spots on outside edges, some pages and inside the dust jacket. Very good. 22 x 14.
30761 LLOYD, W. W. P&O PENCILLINGS
$60.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1987. Reprint of the original published for "The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company". No pagination, 48 PP with 24 colour and 25 b/w plates. Fp: In the River. Title page: The pilot leaving the ship off the Isle of Wight. Illustrated half title page & last leaf: Quis Separabit. Cloth cover, gilt title and illustration on front cover. Near fine. Scarce. Oblong: 21.2 x 29.8. 0297791966
Illustrations by the author of life aboard a P&O voyage from London, through the Mediterranean, via the Suez Canal with views of Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Suez Canal, and Red Sea.
69266 LONEY, J. K. WRECKS ON SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S SOUTHERN COASTLINE
$20.00 AUD
Author. Geelong. 1972. Revised and enlarged reprint of the 1971 original Wrecks on South Australia's South East Coast. 40 PP, plus 24 pages with glossary and index and 26 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 19.8 x 13.9.
Shipwrecks and strandings from Victor Harbour to Port MacDonnell.
69187 LY-TIO-FANE PINEO, Huguette IN THE GRIPS OF THE EAGLE: Matthew Flinders at Ile de France 1803-1810
$110.00 AUD
Government Printer. Port Louis, Mauritius. 2004. Revised edition of the 1988 original. Foreword by Robert Barnes. XXXII, 314, (1) PP with 7 maps, 11 b/w and 13 colour illustrations. Fp: The Imperial Eagle. Pictorial laminated boards. Signed by the author at top of half title page. Tiny bump along bottom edge, o/wise fine, near new condition. 24 x 17.7. 9990310084
Revised edition published for the 200th anniversary of Flinders arrival and subsequent confinement at Mauritius. Ile de France under Governor Decaen and the circumstances in which Matthew Flinders was held prisoner there from December 1803 to June 1810. Reasons for his release prior to the invasion and occupation by British forces.
30334 MABER, John M. CHANNEL PACKETS AND OCEAN LINERS 1850-1970
$10.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1980. 1st Ed. Volume 6 in The Ship series edited by Basil Greenhill. 60 PP with 43 illust. FEP: Plans of the Britannia 1840 Cunard Line. REP: Plans of the Andes 1939 and the Orient 1879. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. Oblong: 20.5 x 21.2. 0112903169
15807 MARCHANT, Leslie R. AN ISLAND UNTO ITSELF: William Dampier and New Holland
$30.00 AUD
Hesperian Press. Perth. 1988. 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 208 PP with 5 graphs, 5 maps & 40 pages with b/w illustrations. Fp: Cygnet crew and aborigines filling water barrels in New Holland in 1688. Errata slip and folded table loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.7 x 14.5. 085905120X
A comprehensive account of Dampier's scientific explorations in New Holland. 1688 on board the Cygnet, 1689 on board the Roebuck, ...
17727 MARIN LA MESLEE, Edmond THE NEW AUSTRALIA, 1883
$10.00 AUD
Heinemann Educational. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Australian paperback edition of the 1973 UK edition. Translated from the French original of 1883 L'Australie Nouvelle, and edited with a critical introduction by Russel Ward. XXVII, 222 PP with facsimile of title page of French Edition, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Copy lacking the frontispiece. Faint foxing. Very good. 21.5 x 13.7. 0858592002
A presentation of Australia to the French public by one who settled there and worked for the Department of the Surveyor General, Sydney. The author arrived in March 1876 in Melbourne after residing for many years in Mauritius.
48382 MARSHALL, Michael W. OCEAN TRADERS, From the Portuguese discoveries to the present day
$25.00 AUD
New York. 1990. Facts on File. 1st US edition. 192 PP with 7 maps, and 137 bw illust. (plans, photos, paintings, engravings...). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Remainder mark on bottom outside edge, o/wise fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0816024200
The ships (caravel, carrack, galleon), building, crewing, navigating. Europeans in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Rise and fall of the sailing trader. Compound engine and containership.
69002 MARTINDALE, Rod POWER-BOATING in Australia and New Zealand
$15.00 AUD
Murray Publishing. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, sketches & photos). Hard covers, dj. Stamps/signatures of previous owners on front endpaper and title page. Faint foxing. Very good. 20.5 x 17.5.
54243 MAWSON, Douglas MACQUARIE ISLAND, ITS GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY. AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1911-14 - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - SERIES A - Vol. V
$150.00 AUD
Alfred Henry Pettifer, Government Printer. Sydney. 1943. 1st Ed. 194 PP with 44 figures and 34 b/w plates, plus 1 map in colour tipped in, and 1 folded map in colour and 3 folded b/w photographic plates loosely inserted. Fp (in colour). Soft covers. Few pages lightly chipped, with dog-eared corners and old watermarks in margin. Covers, title page, folded map and the 3 folded plates are laser print. An internally very good copy. Large format: 31.5 x 24.5.
... based mainly on the records of Leslie Russel Blake.
69190 MAYS, Nicole INDUSTRIOUS, INNOVATIVE, ALTRUISTIC: The 20th Century Boat Builders of Battery Point
$85.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2017. 1st edition with a foreword by John Lucas. 366, (2), (4 blank) with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Newspaper clipping on launch of book, loosely inseted. Signed by the author on title page. Near fine. 29.8 x 21. 9780992366049
56564 McCAFFRIE, Jack (editor) POSITIONING NAVIES FOR THE FUTURE: Challenge and Response - Proceedings of the Royal Australian Navy Sea Power Conference 2004
$40.00 AUD
The Sea Power Centre - Australia / Halstead Press. Canberra. 2007. 1st Ed. Foreword by Vice Admiral C. A. Ritchie. 272 PP with 1 table and 1 map. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 23.7 x 15.8. 1920831339
24 papers: Strategies - Operations - Technology - Challenges (Royal Australian Navy, Asia-Pacific Navies) and Responses (USN, RAN, RNZN, French Navy).
68475 McCUTCHAN, Philip TALL SHIPS, THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL
$20.00 AUD
Weidenfeld and Nicholson. London. 1976. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: The "Carradale" under sail. Eps: Plan of a 3-masted fully-rigged ship. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with small chips. Very good. 28.5 x 22. 0297771744
From the fast Baltimore packet to the clipper ships. The various trades: Far East, Australian passages for cargo & passengers ....
69175 McINNES, Robin THE ISLE OF WIGHT illustrated
$30.00 AUD
Author. Newport, Isle of Wight. 1989. Subscribers hardback edition limited to 500 copies (No. 340/500). 160 PP with 52 b/w and 39 colour illustrations. The 4 pages "Subscribers" loosely inserted. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a small hole at foot of spine. Free fly of front endpaper with Gift plate hand numbered and signed by the author, and a dedicatory note to previous owner. Fine copy. 27 x 19. 0950973955
69001 McKEE, Alexander HOW WE FOUND THE MARY ROSE
$10.00 AUD
Souvenir Press. London. 1982. 1st paperback edition. 144 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, sketches, photos), plus 16 pages with 37 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on half title page, ex-library stamps on half title page, title page & rear endpapers, shelf number at lower corner of front cover. Contents clean and still a very good copy. 23 x 17.5. 0285625446
21085 MEAR, Roger & SWAN, Robert IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT
$15.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 1987. 1st Ed. XIV, 306 PP with 106 b/w, col. photos. Fp: Ice cliffs of Barne Glacier. FEP: Antarctic continent. REP: Routes of Shackleton, Scott & Southern Journey of 1985. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5. 0224014183
The polar march by three scientists, following the 883 miles of Scott's route of 1912 and climbing Mount Erebus.
69329 MIDDLETON, Empson Edward THE CRUISE OF THE KATE
$10.00 AUD
Granada. London. 1985. Reprint of the 1984 edition. Introduction by Arthur Ransome. XXVI, 166 PP with 2 maps and 6 drawings. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21.4 x 13.5 0246123109
Cruise around the coast of England, June to September 1869.
18877 MIGDALSKI, Edward C. & FICHTER, George S. THE FRESH & SALT WATER FISHES OF THE WORLD
$15.00 AUD
Bay Books. Sydney. c. 1990. Reprint (d) of the 1976 U.S. original. Introduction by Dr. James W. Atz.. 316 PP with over 500 full-colour illustrations & 186 drawings by Norman Weaver. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 31 x 24.2. 0517416700
Over 1000 species representing all the 43 orders and the 212 most commonly-known families.
16050 MILLER, Byron S. SAIL, STEAM AND SPLENDOUR, A Picture History of Life Aboard the Transatlantic Liners
$30.00 AUD
Times Books. New York. 1977. 1st US Ed. 288 PP with b/w & colour illust. throughout. Hard cover, gilt-engraved cloth spine, dust jacket has one small chip on top of spine, o/wise a fine copy. Oblong: 27 x 36. 1812906381
The conquest of the Atlantic, emigrant ships, floating palaces, war experiences, last crossings..
21915 MILLER, Harry PIRATES OF THE FAR EAST
$30.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1970. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 3 maps, plus 12 pages with 20 bw pictures. Hard cover, dj. (price clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 070911429X
69127 MILLER, William H. DOOMED SHIPS. Great Ocean Liner Disasters
$30.00 AUD
Dover. New York. 2006. 1st Ed. X, 118 PP with 193 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 22.4. 0486453669
The lavish interiors of the magnificent liners which sailed between the 1890's and the 1980's.
34623 MILLHOLLAND, Ray THE SPLINTER FLEET OF THE OTRANTO BARRAGE
$20.00 AUD
The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis. 1936. 1st Ed. 307 PP, plus 16 plates with 21 b/w photos. Fp: The ace of the Splinter Fleet - Lieutenant Maclear Jacoby. Eps: Map showing all the various scenes of action in the Splinter Fleet in the Mediterranean. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 15.2.
Action of the US Navy submarine chasers in the Mediterranean during the last year of World War I.
69966 MINTO, Captain Tom & STEVENS, Eric THE SEARCH FOR THE "KOBENHAVEN" and Other True Stories of the Depression Years
$20.00 AUD
Graeme K. Andrews. Sydney. 1984. Edition limited to 1000 hand numbered copies (No. 13 / 1000). 52 PP with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a few rubs, lower margin of a few pages with old water stains in the margin, o/wise contents near fine. 23.5 x 16.5. 0959672311
Graphic descriptions of life on a square-rigger in 1936 and on a coal burner ship in 1929. The last voyage of the Parma by Eric Stevens.
68948 MOODY, Bert FOREIGN OCEAN LINERS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 52 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover ("Argentina" of Moore-McCormack Lines). Front cover with a rubbed patch, stamp of 'The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Very good. Small format: 18.2 x 12.2.
68383 MOSCOW, Alvin COLLISION COURSE, The Story of the Collision between the "Andrea Doria" and the "Stockholm"
$15.00 AUD
Longmans. London. 1959. 1st Ed. XII, (2), 238 PP with 3 plans and 2 diagrams, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos, 2 plans and 2 graphs. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Head and foot of spine of dust jacket rubbed. Front endpaper with signature of previous owner and a rubbed patch. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.2.
68934 MUNDLE, Rob 18FT SKIFF GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT, and Rob Brown (in Australian Sailing, April 1994)
$5.00 AUD
Australian Sailing. Sydney. 1994. April 1994 issue, edited by Bob Ross. 76 PP. Contains article pages 24 to 29 + 78 with 2 b/w and 9 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
69428 MURRANT, Jim THE BOATING BIBLE: An Essential Handbook for Every Sailor
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1991. 1st Ed. (10), 310 PP with b/w illustrations and 16 pages with colour illustrations (International - Code of Signals, Buoyage, Light Configurations, Charts, Symbols). Laminated boards, pictorial front, dj. Name and address of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise fine. 26.8 x 19. 0207161666
Model & Allied Publications. Hemel Hempstead. 1983. Vol. 32, No. 388, June 1983. Edited by John Cundell. P.281-336 with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 20.
The Restoration of Waterlily, by Basil Harley... Battlecruisers of the Twenties: the cancelled Battlecruisers of Britain, America and Japan, by M.W. Williams.
Model & Allied Publications. Hemel Hempstead. 1983. Vol. 32, No. 389, July 1983. Edited by John Cundell. P.337-392 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 20.
Steam Launch Miranda, by Basil Harley... Battlecruisers of the Twenties.
Model & Allied Publications. Hemel Hempstead. 1983. Vol. 32, No. 390, August 1983. Edited by John Cundell. P.393-448 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 20.
Challenge Publications / Sea Classics. Canoga Park, Ca. 1978. Vol 11, No. 2, March 1978. Edited by Ed. SCHNEPF & Jim SCHEETZ. 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 28 x 21.4.
Treasures from the Viking Golden Era, by Edward C. Miller. The Queen's Sterling Review 1952-1977, by Neil McLane Heckman. Mystery Ship "Joyita", by James T. Fitzpatrick.
Challenge Publications / Sea Classics. Canoga Park, Ca. 1978. Vol 11, No. 3, May 1978. Edited by Ed. SCHNEPF & Jim SCHEETZ. 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 28 x 21.4.
Those remarkable Ships of "Home Lines", by Allan E. Jordan. HMS Belfast, by Neil McLane Heckman ...
69282 N/A SEA BREEZES. The Magazine of Ships and the Sea - Volume 45
$45.00 AUD
Sea Breezes. Liverpool. 1971. 12 monthly (January to December 1971) issues of Volume 45, Nos. 301 to 312. Edited by Craig J.M. CARTER. Over 934 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, profiles, photos). Index to Volume 45 with 32 pages. Issues and Index bound with their original pictorial soft cover. Leather bound, gilt title on spine. Fine set. Format: Issues 21 x 13.5 and Binding: 21.4 x 14.5.
69414 N/A THE MOTORBOAT AND YACHTING MANUAL
$20.00 AUD
Temple Press. London. 1954. 15th edition of the 1907 original. vii, 420 PP, with drawings, plans and b/w photos throughout plus 3 folded plates. Hard cover. Very good. 19 x 12.
Covers all aspects of general design and construction of motor boats... handling yachts and motor boats, cruising equipment...
68972 NAVAZ, M. Z. THE CARRIAGE BY SEA OF HAZARDOUS CARGOES REQUIRING ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
$10.00 AUD
Lloyd's Register of Shipping. London. 1971. Paper and Discussion No. 59. Reprint: 221 - 244 PP with tables and 7 figures. Decorated soft cover, title on front cover. Near fine. 28 x 21.8.
31083 NAYDLER, Merton THE PENANCE WAY: The Mystery of PUFFIN's Atlantic Crossing
$5.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1968. 1st Ed. XIX, 252 PP with 2 maps and 17 figures, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Fp: Puffin during tests carried out by the author (in colour). Eps: Map of the North Atlantic with tracks of the English Rose III and Puffin. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Failed attempt in 1966 to row the Atlantic from the Chesapeake to UK.
12315 NORTHCOTE PARKINSON, C. PORTSMOUTH POINT, The British Navy in Fiction 1793-1815
$15.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1949. 1st US Ed. 154 PP with 20 b/w illustrations (plans & tail-pieces), plus 12 pages with 8 b/w photos. Fp: Portsmouth Point, c.1799. Eps: Maps of Spithead and Portsmouth/Portsea. Cloth cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 22 x 14.
An anthology of naval fiction, giving a picture of naval life afloat and ashore during the Napoleonic Wars. (All the writers had firsthand experience of the sea).
14903 NORTON, Peter THE END OF THE VOYAGE - An Account of the Last Sailing Craft of the British Coasts
$25.00 AUD
Percival Marshall. London. 1959. 1st Ed. XIV, 146 PP with 20 plates (drawings), 35 plans & 39 b/w photos. Fp: Thames Barge. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is chipped and plastic protected. Label of former owner on FFEP. An otherwise near fine copy. 23.5 x 16.
Nineteen different craft: barges, pilot cutters, hookers, trawlers, punts, bawleys...
55638 ODLUM, Matthew (editor) GULF WAR DIARIES (in Daily Telegraph Mirror)
$10.00 AUD
Nationwide News Pty Ltd. Brisbane / Canberra. 1991. Special issue. 32 PP with b/w illustrations. Centrefold (in colour): Operation Desert Storm. Pictorial soft cover. Large format: 40.5 x 29.
Australia deployed 6 Royal Australian Navy warships: Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide, Westralia and Success.
19086 P & O THE P. AND O. POCKET BOOK (Fourth Issue)
$60.00 AUD
Adam & Charles Black. London. 1926. 4th issue. XXXI, 375 PP with 1 map and 2 figures, plus 36 pages with 40 maps (one folded with a small crease) and plans in colour, 16 colour plates (2 by Spurling), 4 colour plates with flags (16 House Flags and Funnels, 15 British and colonial Flags, 18 Merchant vessels Flags, and 29 Flags and pennants). Blue cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Small inscription on inside front cover and short verse opposite half-title page. Small neat drawing of a revolver on inside back cover. Light offsetting of endpapers and minimal foxing. A near fine copy. Scarce. 16.7 x 11.
History of P. & O. and of British India with description of countries & ports of call of both these companies.
44387 P. & O. ABOUT OURSELVES - P & O Staff Journal
$50.00 AUD
P & O S. N. Co. London. 1954/55. Issue Vol. II, Nos. 8 to 15, March 1954 to December 1955. (2 index), 366 PP with b/w illustrations (cartoons, drawings, plans and photos), plus 3 plates (2 photographs on double page and folded plan of Arcadia). Marbled endpapers with tape repairs. Bound copies, cloth cover, gilt title on sunned spine. Contents near fine. 24.5 x 19.
This is our Company. Ship news. Personal news. Photographic Competition... Very informative.
Pacific Logistics, S.A. / Seabridge. Hong Kong. c. 1972. 1st Ed. 16 PP with 1 map, 16 crests or funnels and 34 colour photos, plus 7 large folded plates in rear pocket (Area of Operations and Route Map in colour, Plan of a cargo freighter, Plan of a Pacific Logistics tugboat, Deadweight scale for Lusteveco Barges, Deadweight scale for Lusteveco flat barges, Lusteveco Tugboat data, Lusteveco Tanker data). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine condition. Oblong: 21.5 x 27.8.
Sea Transport in South East Asia during the Vietnam Conflict.
17241 PADFIELD, Peter ARMADA, A celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588-1988
$20.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1988. 1st US Ed. 208 PP with 28 colour and 56 bw illust. Title page: Dutch Silver Medallion. Fp: The Armada in the Strait of Dover. Half title page: The Merchantman Griffin. Eps: An Armada Track chart. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, medallion and title in blind on front cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 30.2 x 23.5. 0870210068
Contents include: The Prudent King, The Virgin Queen, The Sea Rovers, The Craft and Mystery of the Sea, The Guns, the Gunner and the Crew, The Battle of Gravelines, Wreck and Massacre ...
69083 PADFIELD, Peter THE TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN
$25.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 318 PP with table & diagrams, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, Typescript note pasted down on inside front cover indicating details of the Californian and it's position when torpedoed. Covers lightly soiled with light shelf wear, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5.
The author disproves the theory upheld by two Courts of Inquiry, that the Leyland liner "Californian" was within sight of the disaster which 'beset' the Titanic.
22660 PAGE, Michael FITTED FOR THE VOYAGE - The Adelaide Steamship Company Limited 1875-1975
$40.00 AUD
Rigby Limited. Adelaide. 1975. 1st Ed. (8), 340 PP with b/w illust. Eps: Map of Australia with branch offices and shipwrecks of the Company. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A quite fine copy of this now hard to find title. 25 x 19. 0851799183
69385 PARKER, Reuel B. THE SHARPIE BOOK
$15.00 AUD
International Marine. Camden, Maine. 1994. 1st paperback edition. XIII, 179 PP with b/w figures (drawings, sets of plans, sketches & photos). Fp: Florida Sharpie, c. 1890. Pictorial card covers. Crease on front cover, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 18.7. 0877423040
39101 PARRY, J. H. THE DISCOVERY OF SOUTH AMERICA
$30.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1979. 1st Australian edition. 320 PP with 4 pages of maps and insets, and 120 b/w illustrations (sketch-maps, charts, engravings, paintings...). Fp: La Virgen del Buen Aire. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 25.5 x 19.5. 0195505735
History of the discovery and penetration of South America by Europeans adventurers. The Huexpected Continent, The Indian Empires, The Empty Spaces...
18101 PERLMUTTER, Tom (editor) WAR MACHINES, SEA
$10.00 AUD
Octopus Books. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 140 PP with tables, and b/w or colour illustrations (plans, photos, drawings). Title-page: Nuclear submarine. Eps: English three-decker running in full sail before the wind. Decorated hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Very good. 28.6 x 21.2. 0706404157
From Phoenician galleys to Polaris submarines.
56645 PERNETTA, Dr. J.C. (editor) PHILIP'S ATLAS OF THE OCEANS
$25.00 AUD
Philip's / Octopus Publishing. London. 1995. Reprint of the 1994 edition. Foreword by Colin Summerhayes. 208 PP with colour illust. (maps, charts, photos...). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 30.5 x 22.8. 0540078743
Atlas mapping every ocean to show its resources, human impact, threatened species, topographical features...
69218 PERRYMAN, John & MITCHELL, Brett AUSTRALIA'S NAVY IN VIETNAM. Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965-72
$35.00 AUD
Topmill / Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2012. 2nd edition. (8), 96, (8) PP with 5 maps, 32 b/w photos, and colour illustrations (maps, crests, badges, documents and hundreds of photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
69163 PETERSWALD, Rob and Rosemary FROM THE SEA - Images of Tasmania's glorious Sailing Waters Seafood and Wines
$40.00 AUD
Oceania II Enterprises. Hobart. 2001. 1st Ed. VI, 154 PP with 12 maps, 1 page of b/w photos (from the family album) and hundreds of colour photos accompanying 21 recipes (from the galley and from the cellar). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.7 x 25.2. 0957923503
The beauty of the Tasmanian coasts, and the enjoyment of fine seafood and wine.
69053 PFENNIGWERTH, Ian THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY AND MACARTHUR
$35.00 AUD
Rosenberg. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 4 figures, 8 maps, 96 b/w photos. Fp: General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister John Curtin. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 9781877058837
16229 PHILLIPS-BIRT, Douglas THE LOVE OF SAILING
$10.00 AUD
Octopus. London. 1976. 1st Ed. 96 PP with colour illustrations. Illustrated hard cover, dj. Very good. 32 x 24. 00070640453
All aspects of sailing: from tall ships to small dinghies, from ocean-racing to round-the-world feats of the lone sailor.
22603 PLOWMAN, Peter EMIGRANT SHIPS TO LUXURY LINERS - Passenger Ships to Australia & New Zealand, 1945-1990
$65.00 AUD
NSW University Press. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. 296 PP with 283 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 16 colour plates. Fp: "New Australia" at Circular Quay. Half-title page: profile of the "Britanis". Eps: Advertising material / posters on sea travel. Hard cover, dj. Review tipped in on half-title page. Tiny bump near bottom of spine, o/wise a fine copy. 29.2 x 22. 0868403792
Stories of the Builders & Owners, the Crew & Passengers of these great ships.
66845 PLOWMAN, Peter NAIRANA - Ship of War and Peace, in Australian Sea Heritage- Magazine of the Australia's Maritime Museums - Nos. 29 & 30
$10.00 AUD
Australian Sea Heritage / Sydney Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1991. Issues Nos. 29 (Winter 1991) & 30 (Summer 1991), edited by Peter Plowman. Each issue: 32 PP with b/w photos. Contains article No. 29 Part 1 (pages 14 to 18 with 6 b/w photos) and No. 30 Part 2 (pages 12 to 14 with 4 b/w photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine condition. 27.7 x 21.
69404 PLOWMAN, Peter THE WHEELS STILL TURN - A History of Australian Paddleboats
$30.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. 157 PP (3), with b/w illust. (maps and photos), plus 20 pages with 41 colour plates. Fp: P/S "Maid of Sker". Eps: 5 paddle-wheel steamers. Hard cover, dj. No marks or signatures and a fine copy. 29 x 22. 0864174284
Comprehensive overview of the role of paddle-steamers in each colony, overseas as well as colonial trade.
61917 POULSON, Bruce RECHERCHE BAY - A Short History
$35.00 AUD
Management Committee of the Southport Community Centre. Southport, Tasmania. 2005 Reprint of the 2004 original. V, 83 PP with b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: sketch map of Recherche Bay. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 21.
Bay at the southern tip of Tasmania, first explored by Bruny d'Entrecasteaux. Garden of Recherche Bay "Jardin du Roi", by Felix Lahaie. ... Whaling.
68797 PRESTON, Antony CRUISERS
$15.00 AUD
AP Publishing. Sydney. 1980. 1st Australian edition. 192 PP with tables, b/w photos, 18 coloured maps & battle plans, and 16 colour illust. (1 cut-away, 1 profile and 14 photos). Titlespread: The old armoured cruisers, HMS Suffolk and USS Brooklyn at Vladivostock during the Allied Intervention, January 1919. Hard cover, dj. Stamps and markings of "University of Tasmania" / "Australian Maritime College"on front endpaper and title page, o/wise very good. 30.5 x 21.5. 0868270652
An illustrated history of the Cruisers, 1880-1980.
68798 PRESTON, Antony BATTLESHIPS
$10.00 AUD
AP Publishing / Bison Book. Sydney. 1981. 1st Australian edition. 192 PP with 13 maps & battle plans, 27 colour illust. (7 profiles and cut-aways), tables and b/w photos. Title spread: HMS Nelson firing her starboard 6-inch secondary guns, 1940. Hard cover, dj. Stamps and markings "University of Tasmania" / "Australian Maritime College" on front endpaper and title page, o/wise a very good clean copy. 30.5 x 23. 0868270857
The rise and fall of the battleship.
69165 PRIDMORE, Walter B. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND TO TASMANIA ... 1642-1856
$20.00 AUD
Walter B. Pridmore. Murdunna, Tas. 2008. 1st Ed. (4), 67 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (including 7 watercolours by Rose Solomon). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9780980533200
Explorers, Administrators ...
69263 PUXLEY, W. L. STRAYED AMONG LONELY ISLANDS
$30.00 AUD
Williams & Norgate. London. 1949. 1st Ed. 176 PP, plus 6 pages with 6 b/w illustrations and the Fp: Photo of W. Lavallin Puxley. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped and with small pieces missing. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.
Travels and natural history in Australia, New Zealand and some remote islands. Mauritius, Kerguelen (in 1928), Kermadecs, Lord Howe, Galapagos.
51253 RAN R.A.N.C. CRESWELL. The Royal Australian Naval College
$10.00 AUD
Director of Recruiting, Department of Defence. Canberra. 1965. Recruiting Publication - Navy 4, November 1965. 24 PP with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Crest of Creswell). Fine. 24 x 18.
Gateway to a Naval Career.
68479 RAN AUSTRALIAN WARSHIP - No. 96
$10.00 AUD
Australian Warship / Topmill. Sydney. 2017. Issue No. 96 (2/2017). Edited by Ross Gillett. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (HMAS Leeuwin). Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Calls in Australia of the Italian Navy frigate "Carabiniere". HMVS Cerberus through the Suez Canal, 19th to 25th December 1870.
68778 RAN AUSTRALIAN WARSHIP - No. 98
$10.00 AUD
Australian Warship / Topmill. Sydney. 2017. Issue No. 98 (11/2017). Edited by Ross Gillett. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (HMAS Adelaide). Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
HMAS Hobart commissioned. Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2017. Russia's Navy today: Fleet celebrates 100 years.
69047 RAN "ENGLAND EXPECTS..." - Trafalgar Sesqui Centenary / Garden Island, Sydney / 22nd October 1955
$25.00 AUD
Navy League of Australia (N.S.W. Division) & White Ensign Club. Nowra, N.S.W. 1955. 1st edition with the "Trafalgar Day" message from Rear-Admiral H. J. Buchanan. 28 PP with period advertisements and b/w illustrations, Trafalgar Day Programme, Timetable and plan of Garden Island at centrefold. Pictorial soft cover (HMAS "Anzac"). Very good. 21.5 x 13.7.
Nelson's tradition is part of the R.A.N., by the Honourable Jos. Francis, Minister for the Navy.
70619 RAN AEROGRAM - ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Public Relations, Navy Office.P.M. Line / Royal Packet Navigation Company. Canberra. c. 1972. 7 folds: 2 folds for address "Tracker Aircraft" and correspondence. Front fold with "skyhawk jets prepare for take-off", and 11 colour photos of vessels of the RAN. Aerogram: 76 x 15.4. Folded format: 10 x 15.3.
69265 REID, Dr. Richard AUSTRALIANS AT WAR: Key Dates & Data since 1901
$15.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 1999. March 1999 revised edition of the 1997 original. Message by Bruce Scott, MP, Minister for Veterans' Affairs. 62 PP with 64 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.7. 0642373981
16333 RONALD, Peter EXPLORING SHIPWRECKS OF WESTERN VICTORIA
$15.00 AUD
Author / Osburne Group. Warrnambool. c. 1990 1st Ed. 52 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 18.8 x 24. 0731619226
Pictorial records of the wreck sites of: La Bella, Falls of Halladale, Schomberg, Loch Ard, ..
21918 ROSIGNOLI, Guido BADGES AND INSIGNIA OF WORLD WAR II: Air Force - Naval - Marine
$10.00 AUD
Exeter Books. New York. 1983. 1st US Ed. as a combined volume of Air Force Badges and Insignia of WWII, and Naval and Marine Badges and Insignia of WWII. 363 PP with 6 bw, and 144 colour plates. Decorated hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.3 x 14.2. 0671060082
Over 2500 colour illustrations of badges, insignia, shoulder straps, cap tallies...
68935 ROSS, Bob SAIL SYDNEY REGATTA: Shades of Year 2000 (pre Sydney Olympics) (in Australian Sailing, June 1994)
$5.00 AUD
Australian Sailing. Sydney. 1994. June 1994 issue, edited by Bob Ross. 76 PP. Contains article pages 28 to 33 with 1 b/w and 11 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.
68936 ROSS, Bob & BERTRAND, John AMERICA'S CUP - The Anzac Assault: "Why One Australia Went Down" (pre Sydney Olympics) (in Australian Sailing, May 1995)
$5.00 AUD
Australian Sailing. Sydney. 1995. May 1995 issue, edited by Bob Ross. 76 PP. Contains article pages 28 to 35 with 10 b/w and 11 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
69444 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY Commissioning Ceremony of HMAS MANOORA and the Official Welcoming of HMAS KANIMBLA
$15.00 AUD
Navy Public Relations. Sydney. 1994. November 1994 edition. 8 PP with 2 "Crest and Motto of HMAS Manoora and HMAS Kanimbla", 2 b/w and 2 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (HMAS Manoora). Fine condition. 21 x 14.8.
History of the 2 previous Manoora and Kanimbla.
69445 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY NATIONAL R.A.N. FLEET AIR ARM REUNION 1st November 1998, Golden Jubilee - HMAS ALBATROSS
$25.00 AUD
Navy Public Relations. Sydney. 1998. 8 PP for the Ecumenical Church Service, Naval Hymn, National Anthem. Together with 5 other items and 5 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover, illustrated front cover. Fine condition. 21 x 14.5.
Includes: Invitation to the Official RAN Cocktail party. Invitation for the Golden Jubilee Ball. Sticker for "Fly Navy". Sticker for Golden Jubilee. 5 duo-tone photographs.
61514 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: LXXIX, No. 2
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1932. Vol. LXXIX, No. 2, February 1932. Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. VIII (advertisements), 81-160 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 8 plates with 15 b/w photos and a large folded map in colour "Mnyera Ruaha". Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol.LXXIX - No. 2: The Basin of the River Parana, by W.S. Barclay. Railway Development in Tanganyika Territory, by Brigadier E. M. Jack. The Head Waters of the Mnyera Ruaha, by Michael A. Unwin Heathcote.
61516 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: LXXIX, No. 4
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1932. Vol. LXXIX, No. 4, April 1932. Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. XII (advertisements), 256-352 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 12 plates with 21 b/w photos and 2 large folded maps in colour "Eastern Karakoram" / "East Africa Lakes". Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol.LXXIX - No. 4: A Journey to the glaciers of the Eastern Karakoram, by Professor Giotto Dainelli. The Lakes of Kenya and Uganda, by Dr. E. B. Worthington. The Lötschental, by J. F. Unstead. The Livingstone - Stanley Memorials in Africa, by Captain C. H. B. Grant.
61520 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: LXXX, No. 3
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1932. Vol. LXXX, No. 3, September 1932. Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. VIII (advertisements), 193-272 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 8 plates with 1 map & 16 b/w photos and a large folded map in colour "Bakhtiari Country". Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol.LXXX - No. 3: The Bakhtiari Country, South-Western Persia, by J. V. Harrison. Akpatok Island, by Hugh Clutterbuck.
61521 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: LXXX, No. 5
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1932. Vol. LXXX, No. 5, November 1932. Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. VIII (advertisements), 369-464 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 12 plates with 2 sketches and 18 b/w photos and 2 large folded maps in colour "Kharga Oasis". Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
No. 5: The Prehistoric Geography of Kharga Oasis (Lybian Desert), by G. Caton-Thompson & E. W. Gardner.
43968 SCHAAP, Dick & SCHAAP, Dick A BRIDGE TO THE SEVEN SEAS - Holland America Line Centennial
$25.00 AUD
Meijer Pers bv. Amsterdam. 1973. 1st Ed. 120 PP with b/w & colour illust. (photos, posters, postcards,..). Eps: Dutch & US flags. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and gilt on spine, dj. Near fine. 27 x 26.6.
Pictorial history of a century of ocean travel aboard the ships of the Holland America Line. Migrants from Europe to Ellis Island (N.Y.). Luxury passengers between the two continents.
69376 SHANE, Victor DDDB / DRAG DEVICE DATA BASE- Using Parachutes, Sea Anchors and Drogues to Cope with Heavy Weather
$100.00 AUD
Para-Anchors International. Summerland, Ca. 1998. 4th edition, revised, expanded & updated from the 1990 original. Foreword by Lin and Parry Pardey and Preface by Earl Hinz. (11), VII, 269 PP with b/w illustrations. Fp: 2 photos of S.S. Caltex Rotterdam. Soft cover, pictorial front. Light creases on front cover. Address of previous owner at top of title page. Near fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 1878832034
Over 120 documented case histories.
69261 SHAW SAVILL PLAYING CARDS - SOUTHERN CROSS
$40.00 AUD
Shaw Savill Line. London. c. 1955. Single pack (circa 1955) with colour picture of Southern Cross on recto. Still unopened pack, clear wrapper and gilt seal/sticker "Made in England". Box with colour illustration of Southern Cross on front and a map of the world with Shaw Savill house-flag on back cover. Fine. Small format, Oblong: 6 x 9.
68993 SHAW, A. G. L. THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Faber & Faber Ltd. London. 1972. Revised edition of the 1955 original. 336 PP with 1 map (plus 3 inserts) on double page and 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, pictorial front. Very good reading copy. 19.8 x 13. 0571068774
69017 SINGHJ, Daljit & ARASU, V.T. (editors) SINGAPORE - An Illustrated History 1941-1984
$20.00 AUD
Information Division, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Singapore. Singapore. 1984. 1st Ed. 397 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Large folded map of 1986 (English and Chinese script) loosely inserted. Near fine. 30 x 24. 9971750305
62303 SMITH, Eugene W. PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD, PAST AND PRESENT
$30.00 AUD
George H. Dean. Boston. 1963. 1st Ed. (4), IV, 1002 PP with 182 b/w photos. Fp: "Savannah" (1961), World's first nuclear powered merchant ship. Cloth cover, gilt title (dulled) on front cover and spine, dj (a little rubbed). One tiny repaired tear on title-page, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Small format: 17.2 x 11.6.
Vast encyclopedia of oceanic passenger transportation. Trans-Atlantic Passenger Ships, Trans-Pacific Passenger Ships, Trans-Pacific Passenger Ships via Panama Canal, Latin American Passenger Ships, and Passenger Ships to Africa and the Eastern Oceans. Index: P. 957 to 1002, on two columns.
55868 SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH MARINER'S MIRROR [THE]. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 65, No.2: "The Captain Cook Commemoration"
$20.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. London. 1979. Volume 65, No. 2, May 1979. (16), (II), 103-196 PP with b/w illustrations. Contains articles: pages 105 to 135 with 14 figures. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.
Captain Cook Commemoration, by Professor C. C. Lloyd. Captain Cook's Ships, by A. P. McGowan. The principal Scientific Instruments taken on Captain Cook's Voyages of Exploration, 1768-80, by Derek Howse.
49499 SOLOMON, G. D. A POOR SORT OF MEMORY. A Personal Memoir of The Royal Military College, Duntroon
$20.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1978. 1st Ed. Publication No. 24 of the Roebuck Society. XII, 236 PP with drawings by G. D. W. Irvine, plus 20 pages with 23 b/w photos. FEP: Aerial view, Duntroon 1938. REP: Aerial view, Duntroon 1978. Illustrated hard cover, dj. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing spots around outside edges. 24.8 x 17.5. 0909434166
69364 STAMBAUGH, Karl GOOD SKIFFS - How They're Designed and Built
$35.00 AUD
Devereux Books. Marblehead, Massachusetts. 1998. 1st Ed. X, 223, (5) PP with headpieces and b/w illustrations: photos and drawings, line drawings, plans. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. 0964007037
69038 STAUNTON, Anthony (editor) SABRETACHE - The Journal and Proceedings of "The Military Historical Society of Australia", Vol. L, No. 1, March 2009
$5.00 AUD
Military Historical Society of Australia. Canberra. 2009. Vol. L, No. 1, March 2009. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
Melbourne's Peace Day riots, July 1919, by Peter Hopper. ... The Mobile Riverine Force (Mekong Delta, Vietnam), by Rohan Goyne. ... Julian Corbett and Maritime versus Continental Strategy, by Justin Raward.
69039 STAUNTON, Anthony (editor) SABRETACHE - The Journal and Proceedings of "The Military Historical Society of Australia", Vol. L, No. 2, June 2009
$5.00 AUD
Military Historical Society of Australia. Canberra. 2009. Vol. L, No. 2, June 2009. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
"Goodbye Bels", the story of the Belconnen Naval Transmission Station, by Rohan Goyne. ... War at the end of the world, The Chaco War: Bolivia versus Paraguay 1932-1935, by Graham Wilson.
69256 STEWART, Douglas (editor) VOYAGES TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE & VOYAGES ... Continuing the Journey
$30.00 AUD
Douglas Stewart Fine Books. Melbourne. 2011. 2 catalogues: Voyages ...: 68 PP. Oblong. Voyages ... Continuing the Journey: 24 PP. Both items with b/w or colour illustrations. Fine. Format: 29.7 x 21.
Exhibition at the 38th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair of 2011. Voyages...: 51 items. Voyages ..., continuing the Journey: 98 items.
64877 STRACHAN, Shirley SILTS IN THE SIGHT GLASS: Protectors and Raiders of the SS CITY OF LAUNCESTON - 1863-1865
$10.00 AUD
Heritage Victoria. Melbourne. 2000. 1st Ed. 79 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover, folded back cover with location map and plan. Fine. 21 x 21. 0730686701
Sunk by SS Penola in Port Phillip Bay, 19th November 1865.
69192 TAYLOR, Joely BACKTRACKS: Recollections of remarkable Australians
$15.00 AUD
Billycan Press / Well Writ. Melbourne. 2015. 1st Ed. (6), 90 PP with 26 b/w illustrations: 1 cartoon, 8 portraits and 17 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780994237026
4 remarkable Australians: Captain Donald L. Garnham, Cape Horner. Jean Nysen (McKenzie), WRANS. ...
22749 THOMAS, David ROYAL ADMIRALS 1327-1981
$15.00 AUD
André Deutsch. London. 1982. 1st Ed. (6), 200, (6 Index) PP with b/w illust., plus 8 pages with 12 colour illust. Eps: Genealogy tree of the Royal Admirals. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 17. 023397427X
The relationship over 700 years between the Royal Navy and English royalty.
53168 THROWER, Norman J. W. (Editor) THE THREE VOYAGES OF EDMOND HALLEY IN THE PARAMORE 1698-1701 - Volume II
$10.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. Glasgow. 1981. Volume 157 Second Series. Vol. II: 3 folded charts in portfolio. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. 0904180026
Halley's first two voyages were to test his geomagnetical theories and the third voyage to investigate tidal phenomena.
69334 TOGHILL, Jeff CIRCUMNAVIGATING AUSTRALIA'S COASTLINE - 2, The Ports and Anchorages, A Yachtman's Manual
$25.00 AUD
Reed Books. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. 263 PP with maps and location maps of ports. Pictorial soft cover, dj. Near fine. 26 x 16. 0730102130
42020 TOOLEY, R. V. & BRICKER, Charles LANDMARKS OF MAPMAKING - An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers
$45.00 AUD
Phaidon. Oxford. 1976. 1st UK edition of the 1968 original published by Elsevier-Sequoia. Preface by Gerald Roe Crone. 276 PP with over 350 illustrations, including 6 illustrations in four colours, 4 fold-out maps printed in two colours and 10 fold-out maps in facsimile printed in six colours. FEP: Decoration of the title page of a Dutch edition of the Mariners Guide (1592). REP: Engraving from Theory and Practice of the Geometric Quadrant (1594), by Levinus Hulsius. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title and devices on a cloth spine, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 40 x 28. 0714817589
69365 TOPOLSKI, Daniel HENLEY - The Regatta
$15.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1984. 1st soft cover edition. 12 PP with 9 b/w photos, plus 100 pages with 94 b/w photos by Rogerr George Clark. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 28 x 18.5. 0719547199
69303 UGLOW, Captain Jim SAILORMAN - A Barge-Master's Story
$25.00 AUD
Conway. Greenwich. 1975. 1st Ed. 164 PP, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos by Tony Farnham. Fp: Captain Navvy Brooks, the Author and "Passengers". Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0851770851
In London River and the Docks, they call the sailing Bargeman "Sailorman". Not the last, but one of the very best "Sailormen".
69229 UNITED STATES NAVY AUSTRALIA - UNITED STATES - "CORAL SEA CELEBRATION 1961"
$25.00 AUD
USN / US Navy. Sydney. 1961. Folder with 2 pockets containing the Official Portraits of 5 US Navy Commanders, and the Official photographs of 4 Destroyers of the Destroyer Squadron Five. Front part with Title and Crest of Squadron V. Foxing spots on outside card covers, 2 rusty staples. Very good. 29 x 21.5.
Portraits: Capt. T./S. King, Commander Destroyer Squadron Five. CDR: Jack Bernard Sledge, George (H) Greenie, Wayne D. Surface and R.E. Kipe. Destroyers: USS Southerland, DDR 743 / USS Rowan, DDR 782 / USS Gurke DD 783 & USS Somners, DD 947.
Trinder. London. 1940? 1st Ed. (5), 46 PP printed on recto only plus 7 full-page b/w illustrions (3 of tall ships) with tissue guard & Fp: Coloured Flag of West Australian Steam Navigation Company. Printed letter by Harvey Trinder (Australia) Limited, explaining delays in publication loosely inserted. Original cloth cover, gilt title on front cover. Very good. A scarce book. 25.5 x 19.5.
Being the story of the Historic Assocation of Trinder, Anderson & Company with the State of Western Australia and How They Both Grew and Flourished in Concept (Sub-title).
67807 VAN DE VELDE, Willem COLOUR PRINTS, by Willem van de Velde I & II
$30.00 AUD
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ? Amsterdam. c.1990. 6 frameable reprints of original paintings. 1 by by Willem van de Velde I ( 1611-1693) and 5 by Willem vandeVelde II (1633-1707). Colour painting (29.5 x 38) with caption in English on lower margin. Fine condtion. Format: 29.5 x 38.
Willem van de Velde I: Episode from the Four Day Battle at Sea, 11th-14th June 1666. William va de Velde II: The Y off Amsterdam with the Gouden Leeuw, the former flagship of Cornelis Tromp. The Battle of Solebay, 7th June 1666. Four captured Men-of-War brought into the Goeresse Gat. The Capture of the "Royal Prince", 13th June 1666. Ships anchored offshore.
69043 WALDUCK, Jane (editor) THE FRANKLIN QUILT - A story of Franklin
$20.00 AUD
Huon Valley News / Jane Johnson. Franklin, Tas. 2015. May 2015 edition. 8 PP with 29 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.2.
Celebration of the Town of Franklin and its relationship with the Huon River, with 24 hand sewn quilts and presented at the International St Ayles Skiff Regatta of February 2015.
69368 WALKER, David A. & BARRETT, Wayne SMALL WOODEN BOATS OF THE ATLANTIC
$15.00 AUD
Nimbus Publishing Ltd. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1990. 1st Ed. Introduction by Marven E. Moore. VII, (3), 94 PP with 90 colour photos by Wayne Barrett. Fp: Small outboard-powered round bilge boat, Tidnish River, N.S. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 22.2 x 28. 0921054548
68625 WALKER, Leedham C. SAIL ON THE TIDE. The Story of Flinders Island Shipping 1953-1994
$40.00 AUD
Author. Hobart. 1994. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 3 tables and b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 document and 20 photos). Pictorial soft cover with a small discolouration on front. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by the author. Near fine. Scarce. 21 x 14.5. 0646227998
16652 WALLS, Rear Admiral R. A. K. (editor) ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY IN RETROSPECT
$5.00 AUD
Navy Public Affairs. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 12 colour and 164 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.
A photographic overview up to the early 1980's. The RAN in peace and at war.
14881 WALSH, Richard KATHLEEN - The Biography of a Sailing Barge
$25.00 AUD
Terence Dalton. Lavenham, U.K. 1986. 1st Ed. X, 190 PP with 106 b/w illust. (line of ships, photos). Fp: Undersail. Eps: Harbour, docks & wharves served by the sailing barge Kathleen. Hard cover, dj. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 23.2 x 28.2. 0861380460
The Kathleen, launched at Gravesend in 1901, and now a houseboat in Holland. Construction, sailing, owners, crew & refitting.
68729 WARWICK, Ronald W. & FLAYHART III, William H. QE2
$10.00 AUD
W.W. Norton. New York & London. 1985. 1st Ed. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: 10 QE2 Deck Plans. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with short closed tears. Donation plate to and stamps of the "Devonport Maritime Museum & Historical Society" on endpapers. Internally contents near fine. 26 x 22. 0393018857
Background on Cunard Line, and history of the Queen Elizabeth 2: construction, launching, maiden voyage... refitting after her return from the Falklands conflict.
69377 WEBB, Martyn and Audrey EDGE OF EMPIRE
$75.00 AUD
Artlook Books. Perth. 1983. 1st edition. Foreword by Ellis Godwin. IX, 387 PP, (4 epilogue), (8 bibliography), (14 index) with b/w illustrations (engravings, maps, plans, photos and facsimile of documents. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on top of outside edges. Note on page opposite title page and signed by both authors on title page. Fine condition. 26.7 x 19. 0864450281
Extensive history of Western Australia and in particular the Pilbara region (Onslow - Ashburton Shire) from early times including hostilities, station life... A massive work.
45897 WEXHAM, Brian SHIPWRECKS OF THE WESTERN CAPE
$20.00 AUD
Howard Timmins. Cape, South Africa. c. 1985. 1st Ed. 124 PP with 1 map on double page, 1 chart, b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 24. 0869782517
HMS Sceptre, 1799. Birkenhead, 1852...
69318 WHITE, E. W. BRITISH FISHING-BOATS AND COASTAL CRAFT - Historical Survey and Catalogue of the Collection
$10.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1973. Reprint. 110 PP with 1 location map for British ports & waterways, plus 38 plates with b/w photos. Card cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Survey based on the Ship-Model collection of the Science Museum.
69139 WOLFF, Geoffrey THE HARD WAY AROUND: The Passages of Joshua Slocum
$20.00 AUD
Vintage Books. New York. 2011. 1st Ed. (14), 220, (4) PP with 24 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, illustrated front. Fine. 20.3 x 13. 9780307745453
69369 WYRTKI, Klaus OCEANOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE INTERNATIONAL INDIAN OCEAN EXPEDITION
$80.00 AUD
National Science Foundation / University of Hawaii. Washington, D.C. / Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1971. November 1971 edition. (4), XI, 531 PP with 36 b/w photos of Oceanographic Research Vessels, 5 tables (A to E), over 10 b/w figures and colour illustrations (diagrams & graphs, location maps & maps). Fp: Painting (in colour) of the seabed of the Indian Ocean, with illustrated protective tissue guard. Hard cover, gilt crest of the NSF and title on front board and spine. Covers with very light wear. Faint foxing. Near fine copy. 31.5 x 40.
69186 YOUNG, Ruth THE PALAIS THEATRE: A Social History of Franklin's Town Hall 1912-2012
$60.00 AUD
Ashwood Books & Franklin Palais Management Committee. Franklin. 2013. June 2013 reprint of the October 2012 original. (6), 244 PP with b/w illustrations (documents, ephemera, plans, photos ...). Pictorial soft cover. Fine (mint condition). 29.7 x 21. 9780987411112