64900 A-O LINE S. S. CHANGTE, Voyage 47 / AUSTRALIAN - ORIENTAL LINE
$100.00 AUD
S.S. Changte / A - O Line. On board. 1959. 10 items - Itinerary Sydney / Japan / Sydney - Race Card - 4 items "Tourism in Taiwan" - 1 Extract from the Taiwan Newspaper 21st May 1959 - 3 folded Menus on board S. S. Changte, Commander E. B. Beeham. Dinner 24th May 1959, "At Sea" - Smorgasbord, 19th June 1959, "At Sea" - Farewell 25th June 1959, "At Sea". The three menus are with various autographs and signed by the Captain (the Smorgasbord with a comment and a signature sealed with red lipstick). Each menu with a different format and colour illustration on front. Format: from 17.5 x 11.5 to 21.8 x 14.
70378 AAMH THE GREAT CIRCLE, Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History ("Inaugural Newsletter" & Vol. 1 to 4)
$100.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 1978 to 1982. Edited by Frank Broeze. Bound copies of: Inaugural Newsletter plus 4 Volumes. The first 9 issues for a total of 640 PP with b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, red buckram with gilt title on spine. Fine copy. 24.5 x 17.
Inaugral Newsletter contents include: Constitution of the AAMH, The International Commission of Maritime Histoyr, the North American Society for Oceanic History, the World Ship Society, the Bligh Museum of Pacific Exploration, the Wellington Harbour Board Maritime Museum, ...
70745 ABEND, Hallett PACIFIC CHARTER
$25.00 AUD
John Lane the Bodley Head. London. 1943. 1st Ed. (6), 183 PP. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover. Stamp and number on front endpaper. Note on verso of FEP. War economy paper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 20.5 x 13.5.
70766 AITCHISON, Sir David ROYAL STANDARD RED ENSIGN - With the Queen in the Gothic
$30.00 AUD
Pall Mall Press. London. 1958. 1st Ed. XII, 248 PP, plus 26 pages with 3 maps (1 on double page) and 22 b/w photos. Fp: The author. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has light wear with small chips/closed tears and is plastic protected. Contents near fine. Scarce. 23 x 15.
The first world tour of her Dominions by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, on board the Shaw Savill liner "Gothic" (Nov. 1953 to May 1954). Calls at Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia and Cocos-Keeling.
36694 ALAUX, Jean-Paul (editor) MAGELLAN - Le Premier Voyage Autour du Monde par le Navire La Victoire, d'après le Récit de Antoine Pigaphetta
$150.00 AUD
Editions du Galion d'Or. Paris. 1925. Limited edition of 600 copies. Trade edition of 500 numbered copies between 101 and 600 (No. 235), with a foreword by Paul Chack. (8), XXX, (2), 164 PP with wood cuts by Gustave Alaux, plus 5 plates of charts (4 folded). Fp: Arrival to the Pacific Ocean. Title page: Vignette of the Victoria. Illustrated card covers. Fine. French text. Scarce. 28.2 x 19.2.
70240 ALDERTON, Steven (Exhibition Curator) MARGARET OLLEY: HOME - Interiors at Duxford Street
$35.00 AUD
Philip Bacon Galleries / Museum of Sydney. Sydney. 2012. 1st Ed. Catalogue with a foreword by Kate Clark, Historic Houses Trust. 48 PP with 20 colour illustrations (5 photos and 15 paintings) and 6 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Portrait. Pictorial stiff covers. As new. 21 x 21. 9780646588643
Exhibition held at the Museum of Sydney: 10 November 2012 - 2 April 2013.
43825 ANDERSSON, Jan THE MAIL ROAD ACROSS ALAND
$20.00 AUD
Archaeological Section of Aland Government. Mariehamn, Aland. 2000. 1st English edition translated from the Swedish original by Jocelyn Palmer. 76 PP with 5 drawings, 15 b/w and 44 colour photos, plus 1 folded map (in colour) of the Aland Islands. Half title page: Flag (in colour) of Post Vägen. Laminated pictorial boards. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21.5 x 15.3. 9518946671
70874 ANTARCTICA HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS MARINE RESERVE MANAGEMENT PLAN
$30.00 AUD
Commonwealth of Australia, Director of National Parks / Australian Antarctic Division. Kingston, Tas. 2005. 1st Ed. Foreword by Aj Press, Director. X, 198 PP with 4 headpieces, 3 tables and 11 figures (maps & sketch maps). Pictorial soft covers. Front cover with a small nick on front edge, o/wise near fine. 25 x 17.3. 1876934085
62686 ARMSTRONG, Diane THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE - The Story of the SS DERNA and its Passengers
$20.00 AUD
Flamingo / HarperCollins. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. XII, 484 PP, plus 32 pages with 1 facsimile of crew list, 5 newspaper clippings and 61 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 07322686265
67206 ARON, Wellesley WHEELS IN THE STORM - The Genesis of the Israeli Defence Forces
$35.00 AUD
Roebuck Book. Canberra. 1974. 1st edition. Foreword by Major-General Cullen. Roebuck Society Publication No. 13. X, 196 PP, plus 20 pages with b/w illustrations (4 cartoons and 36 photos). FEP: Map of Eastern Mediterranean Sea. REP: Map of Cyrenaica. Pictorial hard covers, dj. Fine. 25.1 x 18.2. 0909434042
Jewish Palestinian troops with the British Army (Royal Army Service Corps): Egypt, Libya, Malta, Italy.
62278 AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 35
$45.00 AUD
AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2011. Volume 35, 2011. Edited by Myra STANBURY. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.8 x 21.
Early historic shipwreck at Godawaya, Sri Lanka. ... Archaeology and the HMAS Sydney, by M. McCarthy. Dampier's Roebuck, by R T. Sexton. ... Survey of the 12th to 15th-century wharf structure and house of the Concubines Mua/Lapaha, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga, by R. Hawarden, B. Alexander and C. Schab ...
70764 BADGER, G. M. (editor) CAPTAIN COOK, Navigator and Scientist
$25.00 AUD
A.N.U.P. Canberra. 1970. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Sir Macfarlane Burnet. IX, 143 PP with 4 colour & 18 b/w illust. Fp: Colour portrait of Captain James Cook, tipped in. Eps: Chart of the voyage of the Endeavour in the South Pacific 1769-1770. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 24 x 15. 0708100783
7 papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, in Canberra - 1 May 1969. J.C. Beaglehole, Sir Frederick White ...
20543 BADGER, Geoffrey THE EXPLORERS OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 248 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 12 pages with 18 colour illustrations. Fp: Map of the Pacific. Eps: Mappe Monde. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 18.5. 0864172117
The story of hazard and adventure as the explorers found their way around the Pacific Ocean.
37677 BAER, George W. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SEA POWER - The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990
$10.00 AUD
Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca. 1994. 1st Ed. (12), 554 PP. Hard cover, dj (closed tear). Near fine. 23.4 x 15.6. 0804722730
16545 BANNISTER, Dr. Keith THE BOOK OF THE SHARK
$20.00 AUD
Sandstone. Sydney. 1996. Reprint of the 1989 original edition. 128, (1 addenda) PP with bw and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.5. 1875986464
Anatomy of a shark. Shark senses, reproduction. Shark through history. Shark attack and conservation.
70155 BARNETT, Guy (compiler) OUR HEROES - TASMANIA'S VICTORIA CROSS RECIPIENTS
$25.00 AUD
Guy Barnett, Senator. Launceston. c. 2006. 1st Ed. (1), 35 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 errata page tipped on last page. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 15.
19901 BARRATT, Glynn MELANESIA AND THE WESTERN POLYNESIAN FRINGE
$35.00 AUD
University of British Colombia Press. Vancouver. 1990. 1st Ed., Volume 3 of Russia in the South Pacific 1696-1840 series. XVII, 257 PP with 14 maps, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Hint of foxing on endpapers, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 16. 077480338X
The Russians & Vanuatu in 1809, the Russians & Fiji in 1820, then to Tuvalu and Anuta in 1822.
33705 BARTON, G. B. (editor) HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FROM THE RECORDS - Volume I: Governor Phillip 1783-1789
$25.00 AUD
Hale & Iremonger. Sydney. 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1889 original. LXXXV, (3), 625 PP, plus 11 plates (1 map, 1 plan, 3 folded maps and 6 engravings). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 0908094639
70156 BATT, Neil (editor) THE HISTORY OF THE HOBART HIGH SCHOOL: FIFTY YEARS - 1913-1963
$30.00 AUD
Hobart High School. Hobart. 1963. 1st Ed. Foreword by V.R. Long. 96 PP with 1 crest in colour on title page and 80 b/w illustrations (1 artwork by L. Mckay, 1 drawing and 78 photos). Soft cover, illustrated front cover (with a light crease). Near fine. Oblong. 18 x 24.
70824 BAUMAN, Jon THE SOVEREIGNS AND THE ADMIRAL: A Biography of Isabel, Ferdinand and Colombus
$10.00 AUD
Epigram Press. Lufkin, Texas. 1991. 1st printing of the original edition. 379 PP with 1 family Tree of the Sovereigns and 3 maps. Hard cover, dj. Ex-library copy with rubbed patches on endpapers, stamps on front endpaper and the title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. 23.5 x 16. 1878096230
70950 BAVIER, Bob AMERICA'S CUP FEVER - An Inside View of Fifty Years of America's Cup Competition
$10.00 AUD
Yachting Books / Ziff-Davis Publishing. New York. 1980. 1st printing of the original edition. Foreword by Rod Stephens. XV, 240 PP with 2 sketch-plans and 81 b/w photos by Stanley Rosenfeld. Hard cover, cloth spine. Dust jacket tipped in on endpapers. Near fine. 23.4 x 18.4. 0871650606
42697 BENNETT, George WANDERINGS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, BATAVIA, PEDIR COAST, SINGAPORE AND CHINA; being the journal of a Naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833, and 1834 (in two volumes)
$120.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1967. Facsimile reprint of the 1834 original, No. 115 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (2), XVI, 440, (1) PP with 4 drawings. Fp: Bugong Mountain. Volume II: (2), VIII, 428 PP. Fp: Dutch & English portion of the European Factory at Canton. Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 22.2 x 14.5.
53665 BERNLEITHNER, E. AUSTRIA'S SHARE IN WORLD CARTOGRAPHY (In Imago Mundi, a review of Early Cartography)
$10.00 AUD
Nico Israel. Amsterdam. 1971. Article removed from issue 25. Pages 65 to 73 with 1 figure (The Klosterneuburg--Friedericus-Map of c. 1421) . Soft cover, plastic cover, clear plastic front, spiral bound. Fine. 28.7 x 20.6.
Queen Anne Press / Macdonald. London. 1986. 1st UK edition translated from the 1985 Swedish original. 116 PP with colour illustrations (3 plans of the yacht, 22 maps and 150 photos). Eps: Iceberg. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.2 x 21.2. 0356122506
Voyage of the 14-ton, double-ended, steel ketch "Northern Star". Sweden (18 June 1982) to Spitzberg, Denmark Strait, Panama, Galapagos, Easter Island, Pitcairn, Marquesas, Tahiti (September 1983), Chilean Patagonia, Antarctic Peninsula (January 1984) then to Boston (2nd June 1984).
70723 BOWDEN, K. M. CAPTAIN JAMES KELLY OF HOBART TOWN
$30.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1964. 1st Ed. VI, 126 PP with 3 maps, plus 8 pages with 8 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 21 x 13.5.
The life of the most adventurous whaling master of Hobart Town... First man around Tasmania... Shipwreck on Macquarie.
63938 BOYER, Peter SOUTHERN QUEST: A Journey of Discovery for Australian Antarctic Science
$20.00 AUD
Antarctic CRC / Cooperative Research Centre for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Hobart. 2003. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dr. Tony Press. 97, (3) PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 22 x 28.5. 1875796274
37370 BRAND, Ian ESCAPE FROM PORT ARTHUR
$15.00 AUD
Regal Publications. Launceston, Tasmania. c. 1990. Reprint of the 1978 original. VIII, 63 PP with 2 maps and 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.7. 0949457345
The thrilling true life account of escape, in February 1839, by sea, from Australia's most infamous penal colony.
70960 BRETT, Oswald SHIPS AND THE SEA, The Art and Life of Oswald Brett
$70.00 AUD
Halstead Press. Canberra. 2014. 1st Ed. Foreword by John Stobart. 172 PP with 23 b/w illustrations, documents, sketches and photos) and 61 colour illustrations (paintings and photos) throughout of his renowned marine art works. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. A fine copy. Scarce. 26 x 24.5. 9781925043044
68393 BROXAM, Graeme (compiler) TERRA LINNA - The History, Recovery and Reconstruction of Tasmania's Oldest Racing Yacht
$20.00 AUD
Wooden Boat Guild Tasmania / Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2017. 3rd edition with corrections and additions. Foreword by Ross Barnett. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (line drawing at centrefold, 1 engraving and 40 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the compiler on title page. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780975133170
Built 1881, relaunched on 23rd June 2012.
70866 BROXAM, Graeme & CHATWIN, Dale (Editors) PAPERS OF THE HOBART WHALING CONFERENCE: 6 - 7 May, 2019
$30.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2020. No. 67 in the Roebuck Series. 1st limited edition, signed by both editors. VIII, 165 PP, (2), with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 25.2 x 20. 9780648725213
Papers include: British and Australian Whale Fisheries, Colonial Australasian Whaling, Tasmanian and Hobart Whaling, Sealing, Australian Whaling ...
60494 BRUIJN, Professor Jaap SAILING SHIPS AND SAILING PEOPLE - The East Indiamen
$10.00 AUD
University Extension / The University of Western Australia. Perth. 1987. Lecture: (2), 16 PP. Soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Lecture given at the University of Western Australia on 15th January 1987.
41844 BRUNTON, Paul (editor) MATTHEW FLINDERS - Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life
$30.00 AUD
Hordern House & State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2002. 1st edition limited to 2000 copies. No. 1 in The Mitchell Heritage series. Preface by Sir Alastair Goodlad. (XII), 262 PP with 19 colour-printed illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, RN, 1774-1814, by Toussaint Antoine de Chazal. Illustrated endpapers. Bound in burgundy cloth with illustrated boards, gilt title on spine. Faint foxing. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 1875567321
54950 BRYANT, Arthur (editor) THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - April 29, 1950
$15.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News. London. 1950. No. 5793, Volume 216, 29 April 1950. 645-684 PP with advertisements and b/w illustrations (cut-aways, drawings & photos). Soft cover. Near fine. 37 x 26.
Madame Tussaud. The Royal Academy 1950: pictures by Mr. Winston Churchill. Escape from the twentieth century, by raft The Kon-Tiki expedition, by Thor Heyerdahl. Centrefold: A 20-knot Electric submarine. Marine Art at Greenwich.
54952 BRYANT, Arthur (editor) THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - January 3, 1953
$15.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News. London. 1953. No. 5933, Volume 222, January 3, 1953. 1-36 PP with advertisements and b/w illustrations (cut-aways, drawings & photos). Centrefold: the Vickers Valiant. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 37 x 26.
Dr. Alain Bombard and the crossing of the Atlantic on L'Heretique. The French liner Champollion wrecked off Beirut, 22nd December 1952. Capture of the second fossil fish Coelacanth. Dr. Hans Hass in the Red Sea...
32595 BRYCE, Graham THE SKETCHBOOK OF HMS Endeavour
$10.00 AUD
Collins. Sydney. 1983. 1st edition (juvenile). 80 PP with 32 pages of sketches (full page). Eps: HMS Endeavour under sail. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 29 x 21.7. 0001951718
A vivid picture of the epic voyage of HMS Endeavour.
11577 BURENHULT, Göran (editor) NEW WORLD AND PACIFIC CIVILIZATIONS - Cultures of America, Asia and the Pacific
$20.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1994. 1st Ed. Volume 4, in The Illustrated History of Humankind series. 240 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title-page: Inca fortress at Cuzco. Half-title: Aztec mask. Eps: Maya hieroglyphs. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.5 x 24.5. 0702226793
America (Maya, Aztecs, Andes), Asia (Japan), the Pacific (Prehistoric fishing in Oceania, the Polynesian voyaging canoe, the Roy Mata burial, Vanuatu, Moa hunting in New Zealand) and Stone-built monuments of the South Pacific (Easter Island, stone money of Yap...).
15901 BURRELL, D. C. E. THE THISTLE BOATS (The Albyn Line Story)
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1987. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 2 pages of plans, 2 funnels and house flags (in colour), and 73 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): painting of the "Thistlebrae", by L. Dunn. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0905617436
History & fleet list, houseflags & funnels.
13840 CAMERON, Ian LODESTONE AND EVENING STAR, The Saga of Exploration by Sea
$20.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1965. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 41 drawings & maps, plus 16 pages with 8 colour photos & 13 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Signature and date on FFEP, o/wise contents near fine. 23 x 14.5.
The seamen who mapped the world. From Queen Hatshepsut's expedition of 1493 B.C. to the exploration of Antarctica.
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. Kirribilli, Sydney. 2012. 1st Ed. Commodore's Message by Malcolm Levy. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside back cover: Club Information / Flag Officers & Committee. Pictorial soft cover (colour paintings of RSYS: front by Ian Hansen, 2012 & back by John Allcot, 1959). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
A 150 year history of the RSYS formed on 8th July 1862.
37696 CARSE, Robert THE AGE OF PIRACY - A History
$15.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1959. 1st UK edition of the 1957 US original. 192 PP, plus 8 pages with 8 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, dust jacket with closed tears. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2.
35309 CARTER, Jeff & Mare WHALING ... Harpoon versus Humpback in the Pacific (in Walkabout - Vol.28, No.2)
$15.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1962. February 1962. Contains article from P.25 to 27 with 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with repairs. Very good. 30 x 24.
Whaling in the 1950s and early 1960s off Byron Bay, NSW.
68207 CHAPELLE, Howard I. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SAILING SHIPS
$25.00 AUD
Bonanza Books. New York. c. 1950. 1st Bonanza reprint (I) of the 1935 original. XVII, (3), 400 PP with over 85 illustrations, plus 16 plates on double-page and 14 pages with 48 b/w photos or paintings. Cloth cover, decoration and title on front board, dj. Dust jacket chipped, rubbed and soiled. Discreet signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise contents near fine. 26 x 20.
Development of American ships, their design & construction, as well as the portrait of the men who built them.
31976 CHARLTON, Warwick THE VOYAGE OF MAYFLOWER II
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1957. 1st Ed. XI, 264 PP with 1 drawing, 1 map and 2 plans, plus 38 pages with 3 figures and 64 b/w photos. Fp: The Mayflower under sail. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Dedicatory note to previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 21.8 x 14.2.
Re-enactment of the voyage of the Pilgrims Father (building of the replica, the voyage...).
15312 CHARLWOOD, D.E. THE WRECK OF THE "LOCH ARD", End of a Ship, End of an Era
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. X, 122 PP with 5 maps and a plan of rigging & sails, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0207123160
The wreck in 1878 on the Otway coast of Victoria. Two survivors: a young passenger & her saviour, an apprentice.
70757 CHITTLEBOROUGH, Anne, DOOLEY, Gillian, GLOVER, Brenda & HOSKING, Rick ALAS, FOR THE PELICANS ! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond: Essays and Poems
$20.00 AUD
Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2002. 1st edition. XVI, 222 PP with 52 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 11 colour plates. Inside front cover: Chart of Terra Australis. Inside rear cover: Carte Générale de Terre Napoléon. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.5. 1862546037
15998 CLARK, William H. SHIPS AND SAILORS, The Story of Our Merchant Marine
$25.00 AUD
L. Page. Boston. 1938. 1st Ed., in the American Cavalcade series. 322 PP plus 32 plates with 43 b/w illust. plus a diagram of a full-rigged ship. Fp: Donald McKay of East Boston, America's greatest shipbuilder. Eps: Mappemonde with great ship routes of the Nineteenth Century. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper. A very good copy. 22.5 x 15.
From the beginning when the New England colonists turned to the sea.
34196 CLARKE, Donald (editor) SHIPS & DOCKS
$10.00 AUD
Marshall Cavendish. London. 1978. Reprint. 120 PP with 25 b/w and 90 colour illust. Title spread: Tanker Tactic. Eps: Raft Ra. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 29 x 22. 085685431X
Sailing, boatbuilding, ships. Propulsion and navigation... (material previously published in the publication How It Works).
50703 CLARKE, Marcus FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE
$5.00 AUD
Budget Books & Lloyd O'Neil. Sydney. 1979. 1st edition in the Australian Classics series. 446 PP. Illustrated hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has old damp stain at bottom of rear cover, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.2. 0908505051
59790 CLEGG, W. Paul (editor) SHIPS 'SIXTY NINE
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1968. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 81 b/w photos. Fp: Soviet passenger liner "Ivan Franko". Pictorial laminated boards. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper, title page and top of last page. Otherwise, contents are fine. 25 x 18.2.
An anthology of the shipping scene in 1969. The Hydrographer's world by David Parsons. Fairfield record breakers by William A. Connell... Fotofeature on the South African Marine Corporation.
47999 CLENDINNEN, Inga DANCING WITH STRANGERS
$15.00 AUD
Text Publishing Company. Melbourne. 2003. 1st Ed. (XII), 324 PP with 1 map on double page + 2 insets (location maps), and 1 drawing (black swan), plus 8 pages with 1 b/w and 9 colour illustrations. Illustrated front endpaper. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 16. 1877008583
69810 CLIFFORD, Dr. Robert & LOWRIE, Kim (editors) INCAT / Profile 1999 / Calendar "RAW" 2000
$10.00 AUD
Incat Group of Companies. Hobart. 1999. 3 items - Profile: 28 PP with 2 maps, 6 b/w portraits, 12 graphs, 22 profiles of Incat vessels, and colour photos (32 photos and 33 portraits). Pictorial soft cover. / Calendar RAW: 28 PP with 27 colour photos (12 of Incat Ferries). Newsletter (4 pages) on "Hales Trophy", evolution et specifications of Wave Piercing RO/PAX Catamaran. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.7.
39359 COCHRANE, Peter AUSTRALIANS AT WAR
$10.00 AUD
ABC Books. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir William Deane. IX, 10-272 PP with 22 maps and hundreds of b/w illustrations, plus 16 colour plates. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Occasional foxing. Fine. 31.3 x 24.2. 0733309178
Boer war to Vietnam war.
67959 COLLERTON, Emma & BAXTER, Stephen (curators) MADE IN QLD - Ode to the Souvenir
$20.00 AUD
Gold Coast City Gallery / Arts Centre. Surfers Paradise. 2016. 1st Ed. 44 PP with b/w and colour Illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780987141583
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the GCC Gallery 13th February to 16 March 2016.
70822 COLLINGRIDGE, George DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA - A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the Endeavour, in the year 1770
$35.00 AUD
Golden Press. Sydney. 1983. Facsimile edition of the 1895 original. XV, 376 PP with around 100 b/w illustrations (head pirces, tail pieces, drawings, portraits, maps ...), plus 13 plates with maps (5 on double page and 8 on full page). Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, dj. 2 small scratches on lower part of front cover. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Contents near fine. 32 x 25.5. 085589566
52501 COLWELL, Max, / BROWN, Peter Lancaster WHALING AROUND AUSTRALIA / AUSTRALIA'S COAST OF CORAL AND PEARL (two books in one)
$10.00 AUD
Seal Books. Melbourne. 1995. 1st combined edition, in the "True Australian Tales" series. Whaling...: (10), 168, (10 bibliography & index) PP with line drawings (head pieces and tail pieces) by Vic Hatcher, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w illustrations. Australia's Coast...: (2), 208 PP, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Stiff cover, pictorial front. Very good. 18 x 11.
Whaling days in Australia.
70929 COOLANGATTA A SHIPWRECK GAVE ITS NAME - The Story of the "Coolangatta"
$10.00 AUD
Shoalhaven Historical Society. Nowra. 1982. 2nd printing of the 1977 original. No pagination, 8 PP with b/w illustrations: sketch plans, 2 photos and 3 drawings. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 20 x 13.2. 0959968024
Built in 1843 on the Estuary of the Shoalhaven River, NSW. Wrecked 18th August 1846 at the mouth of the Tweed River.
40607 CORNISH, Richard, FENTON, Roy, LOUGHRAN, Louis, OSBORNE, Richard, PEIN, Joachim & SPONG, Harry FIFTY DYNAMIC YEARS
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Gravesend. 2000. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 72 b/w photos of ships and 24 colour illustrations of Flags and Funnels. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0905627940
Fifty years with the World Ship Society. Clipped wings: British aircraft carrier development 1947-1999 by Richard Osborne... Plus ça change: Fifty years of fashions in Flags and Funnels by J.l. Loughran... Cargo ships: The Blue Funnel experience Post War, by Robert Cornish...
63191 COWSILL, Miles, & HENDY, John FERRIES OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, Past and Present
$10.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. Kilgetty, UK. 1992. 1st Ed. 56 PP with 117 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name on title-page, o/wise fine. 21. x 14.7. 1871947138
44692 CRAWFORD, Steve TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WARSHIPS - Surface Combatants of Today's Navies
$10.00 AUD
Brown Partworks. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 90 colour photos, and 90 detailed specifications tables. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22.4. 184044097X
Each of these 90 warships with displacement, dimensions, performance and summary of career.
64421 CUMMING, Helen & WILLSTEED, Theresa (editors) NELSON MEERS FOUNDATION: Heritage Collection 2004
$15.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dagmar Schmidmaier. 52 PP with 10 b/w and 20 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.2. 0731371356
Catalogue to an exhibition held in 2004. Joseph Banks's Endeavour Journal. First Fleet journals... The Colony's early coinage. ... Ludwig Leichhardt. ... Robert Louis Stevenson...
68047 CUMPSTON, J. S. KANGAROO ISLAND 1800-1836
$20.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1986. 3rd edition. Publication No.1 in the Roebuck Society series X, 218 PP with 2 maps, plus 36 pages with over 65 b/w illustrations (6 maps, drawings, paintings and photos). FEP: Chart (part of Kangaroo Is.). REP: Kangaroo Is. Pictorial boards, dj. Dust jacket rubbed around edges and is in a protective sleeve. Contents near fine. 24.2 x 17.3. 0909434026
67865 DAUCHEZ, Fabrice & DUTTON, Jacqueline Ambiguous Australian Stereotypes in Contemporary French Literature: THE CASE OF NULLARBOR BY DAVID FAUQUEMBERG (in Explorations No. 47)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2009. December 2009. 64 PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 21. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
51896 DAVENPORT, Winifred & MOTTRAM, Betty (compilers) EARLY SHIPPING IN MORETON BAY - Volume 2: January 1860 - December 1863
$50.00 AUD
Authors. Brisbane. 2002. 2nd edition of the 1998 original. VIII, 255 PP with 6 drawings, 3 tail pieces, and 2 portraits. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. 29 x 20.7. 0958135304
A history of the ships that came and went from Moreton Bay taken from The Moreton Bay Courier and includes all named passengers and many other interesting details.
70872 DAVIE, Jim LATITUDE FORTY - Reminiscences of Flinders Island
$30.00 AUD
National Press. Melbourne. 1980. 1st Ed. Foreword by Stephen Murray-Smith. 51 PP with 1 map in text. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Name of previous owner at top of half-title page. Very good. 21.5 x 14. 090947026
60627 DENHOLM, Matthew / AUSTIN, Steve MACQUARIE ISLAND - COLD WAR: The Battle to save Australia's wildest outpost / The MUTTS that saved Macquarie / AFTER THE WAR: Back to Nature (in The Weekend Australian Magazine)
$20.00 AUD
The Australian. Sydney. 2011, 2016, 2019. Three issues - September 17-18, 2011: Pages 16 to 21 with 7 colour photos by Chris Crerar / February 20-21, 2016: pages 18 to 21 with 4 colour photos / April 27-29, 2019: pages 18 to 21 with 6 colour photos by Ryan Osland. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 31 x 25.5 / 27.5 x 23.
Battle raging against rabbits and rats, for the ecological future of Macquarie Island. Results.
Könemann. Köln. 2000. 1st trilingual edition. 336 PP with colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Text in English, German and French. Fine. 29.7 x 25 3829040601
Secret and Sacred Pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal People of Australia: Geheime und Heilige Pfade der Ngarinyin, Aborigines in Australien: Chemins Secrets et Sacrés des Ngarinyin, Aborigènes d'Australie..
30910 DUGAN, Des GUADALCANAL 1942-1992: Official Souvenir Publication
$30.00 AUD
Mace Marketing Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. 96 PP with advertising material, b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Souvenir issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle for Guadalcanal, "Turning Point" of the Pacific War.
17759 DUMONT D'URVILLE, Contre-Amiral (editor) VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE (in Two Volumes)
$500.00 AUD
Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Editeurs. Paris. 1868. New edition (corrected and updated). Volume I: (4), XI, 550, (1 index) PP with 1 head piece, plus 1 large folded chart at back, and 22 b/w plates. Fp: portraits of Bougainville, Cook, Lapeyrouse and Dumont d'Urville. Volume II: (4), 542, (1 index) PP with 1 head piece, plus 1 folded chart, and 22 b/w plates. Quarter bound, marbled boards and edges, gilt title on spine. Few pages with signs of ageing and occasional foxing, otherwise a fine set. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 27.3 x 18.
A narrative of voyages across the world's oceans and seas as discovered and charted by the explorers - Bougainville, Cook, D'Entrecasteaux, Vancouver, Baudin, Flinders, Hall, Krusenstern, Kings, Kotzebue...
70719 DUNMORE, John Mrs COOK's BOOK OF RECIPES for Mariners in Distant Seas
$15.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum / Exisle Publishing. Sydney. 2006. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 15 headpieces. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 17.2 x 13.2. 0908988648
Stewed Albatross. Beer, lemon juice and other anti-scorbutic beverages...
Kenneth Mason. London. 1969. 1st Ed. XVI, 279 PP, (1 page Addenda) with tables & 109 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Light foxing Previous owner's name and address on FFEP. Old tape marks on endpapers. Contents clean and still a good copy. 25.5 x 16. 900534389
Ships' details in Talbot-Booth style.
70546 DWIGHT, Alan SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS TO NEW SOUTH WALES (in Journal of the R.A.H.S.)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1983. Volume 68, Part 4, 1983. 257-336 PP. Contains article between pages 273 and 291. Very good. 20.7 x 13.5.
48188 DWYER, Christopher ROBERT PEARY AND THE QUEST FOR THE NORTH POLE
$10.00 AUD
Chelsea House Publishers. New York. 1992. 1st printing, in the World Explorers series. Introductory essay by Michael Collins (US Astromaut, Apollo 11). 112 PP with 2 maps, 10 colour plates and 45 b/w illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 24 x 19. 0791013162
49078 EARDLEY-WILMOT, Rear-Admiral, Sir S. OUR NAVY FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, A Concise Account of all the Principal Operations in which the British Navy has been Engaged from the Reign of King Alfred to the Present Time
$25.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. c. 1923. 4th Ed. XII, 436 PP plus full-page plans & 32 pages with 38 b/w illust. Fp: Colour portrait of Lord Nelson. Cloth cover. Covers lightly soiled, light foxing on outside edges, spine a little faded. Still a nice bright copy. 22.8 x 14.6.
70638 EASTMAN, Peter F. ADVANCED FIRST AID AFLOAT
$20.00 AUD
Cornell Maritime Press. Centreville, Maryland. 1987. 3rd edition of the 1972 original. X, 214 PP with 56 figures (tables, sketches, photos & diagrams), plus 1 colour plate for figure 29. Fp: Sloop Wa leaving Marina del Rey, California. Recto of frontispiece: Reference sketch of a child. Eps: Reference sketches of man and woman. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Dust jacket partly sunned on spine and front cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 23.3 x 15.5. 0870333763
A guide for yachtsmen and small boat skippers who venture beyond the range of immediate professional medical assistance.
70791 ELL, Gordon ABEL TASMAN: In Search of the Great South Land
$20.00 AUD
The Bush Press of Auckland. Auckland. 1992. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 35 duotone illustrations and 8 colour illustrations (1 chart, 2 paintings and 5 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 18.4. 090860856X
A popular account of the discovery of Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga and Northern Fiji in 1642-43.
70946 EMANUEL, Cedric PORTRAIT OF TASMANIA
$25.00 AUD
Rigby Limited. Adelaide. 1974. 1st Ed. No pagination, 84 PP with drawings and sketches. Title page with portrait of Abel Tasman and crest of Tasmania. Hard cover, dj. Brief note to previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 29 x 21. 0851797652
21746 ESTENSEN, Miriam DISCOVERY: THE QUEST FOR THE GREAT SOUTH LAND
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. X, 286 PP with 17 head pieces and 10 b/w illustrations, plus 12 colour plates. Fp: Title page of Gerard and Cornelis de Jode's atlas, Speculum Orbis Terrae, 1597. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 20.3 x 12.4. 1864484977
70695 EVANS, Kathryn SHORE-BASED WHALING IN TASMANIA HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECT - Volume 1: A Social and Economic History
$30.00 AUD
Parks and Wildlife Service. Hobart. 1993. 1st Ed. (1), 62 PP with tables and 2 b/w illustrations, plus 9 b/w plates. All illustrations: photocopy quality. Soft cover, pictorial front (whaling station, Wineglass Bay). Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Report dealing with the historic Tasmanian bay whaling industry.
15086 FIRSTBROOK, Peter THE VOYAGE OF THE "MATTHEW", John Cabot and the Discovery of North America
$15.00 AUD
BBC Books. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 192 PP with bw and colour illust. Title spread: the "Matthew". Hard cover, pict. dj. Near fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0563387645
John Cabot, his landing on the North American continent 500 years ago. The re-enactment voyage from Bristol in 1997. Chapter 3: designing Cabot's caravel.
45076 FISHER, Raymond H. (editor) THE VOYAGE OF SEMEN DEZHNEV in 1648 - Bering's Precursor with Selected Documents
$10.00 AUD
The Hakluyt Society. London. 1981. Second Series, No. 159. XIII, 326 PP with 3 figures and 22 maps, plus a fold-out map at end of book. Cloth cover, gilt engraved device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.2. 0904180077
70529 FITZGERALD, Alan VICTORY 1945: WAR & PEACE
$15.00 AUD
Australian War Memorial / Gore & Osment. Canberra. 1995. 1st edition in the "Australia Remembers, 50 years Ago" series. Foreword by Paul J. Keating, Prime Minister. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 1875531920
48118 FLINT, Harvey YACHT RACING
$5.00 AUD
Nicholas Kaye. London. 1949. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 12 figures and 12 b/w photos. Fp: Tuna Streamlined. Cloth cover. Water damage affecting covers and spine, and both endpapers. Foxing heavy on first and last leaves. A good reading copy (internally very good). 19 x 12.7.
13897 FOOS, Joseph THE HIGHWAY OF ALL NATIONS
$20.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. 1987. Facsimile edition of 1820 orig. 48 PP with b/w illust. at end of chapters. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.6. 087770421X
Proposition in 1819 by a State Senator of the Ohio legislature, to dig a canal linking the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, across what is now Nicaragua, by joining Lake Nicaragua to each ocean.
70153 FREDERICKSON, Arthur C. and Lucy F. SHIPS AND SHIPWRECKS IN DOOR COUNTY, WISCONSIN - Volume II
$15.00 AUD
Authors. Frankfort, Michigan. 1963. 1st edition. 76 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 cartoon, 4 newspapers advertisements (page 74) and 72 photos (including Sturgeon Bay's waterfront at centrefold). Soft cover, illustrated front cover. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.3.
Door Peninsula, between Green Bay and western shores of Lake Michigan.
70646 FREEMAN, John THE COASTS OF BRITAIN
$10.00 AUD
Bison Books. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 96 PP with colour photos; Hard covers, dj. Small chip at lower part of front cover of dust jacket. Near fine. 30.5 x 23.5. 0861242173
40675 FROUDE, J. A. OCEANA - Travellers' Tales of Early Australia & New Zealand, the tempestuous voyage of J.A. Froude, 1884 & 1885
$25.00 AUD
Methuen Haynes. Sydney. 1985. Abridged edition of the 1886 original Oceana: or England and her Colonies, edited by Geoffrey Blainey. XX, 211 PP with 10 b/w illustrations. Fp: Botanic gardens, Adelaide. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.2. 0454007329
70755 GILLETT, Ross AUSTRALIAN SHIPS
$30.00 AUD
Child & Associates. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. 145 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 60 colour photos. Half title page: Replica William the Fourth. Title page: Port Jackson pilot steamer Captain Cook (III). Eps: Launching of the Sydney ferry Collaroy in 1988. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Near fine. 28.5 x 21.5. 0867771070
Over two centuries of our maritime heritage. Chronological text from the discovery through to the bicentennial of 1988, with over 250 b/w & over 50 colour illustrations.
31748 GOLDRICK, James NO EASY ANSWERS - The Development of the Navies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka 1945-1996
$20.00 AUD
Lancer Publishing. New Dehli. 1997. 1st Ed., No. 2 in the Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs series. XIII, 225 PP with 5 tables, 1 plan and 1 map, plus 26 pages with 26 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 1897829027
Evolution of their naval forces structures... Chapter 4: The Indo-Pakistan war at sea.
49363 GRAINGER, John THE AUCKLAND STORY. New Zealand's Queen City and its citizens through the years
$15.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1953. 1st Ed. XII, 13-104 PP, plus 24 pages with 47 b/w plates. Bound copy, cloth cover, retaining original card cover (see image) tipped in on front endpaper. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Faint foxing. Near fine. Image shows the tipped-in dust jacket. 25.2 x 19.2.
15866 GRAY, Leonard & PÖPPER, R. DEUTSCHE DAMPFSCHIFFFAHRTS-GESELLSCHAFT "HANSA", 85 Years of Shipping Under the Maltese Cross, 1881-1966
$20.00 AUD
World Ship Society. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 80 PP with line drawings by Frau E. Pöpper, b/w photos, and a coloured map "trade routes served by Hansa" at centrefold. Stapled card covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.
History & fleet list of this major German shipping company.
16503 GRAY, William CORAL REEFS AND ISLANDS, The Natural History of a Threatened Paradise
$25.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. 192 PP with colour illust. (location maps, etchings, photos). Illustrated colour endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30.5 x 22.5. 034059943X
Genesis of coral islands, living reef, life between the tides, island worlds (flora & fauna), human impact...
13239 GRENFELL PRICE, A. WHITE SETTLERS IN THE TROPICS
$30.00 AUD
American Geographical Society. New York. 1939. Special Publication No. 23 of the A.G.S., with additional notes by Robert G. Stone. XIII, 311, (2 publications) PP with 31 figures, plus 22 pages with 57 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on vignette (front cover and spine), spine rubbed and sunned. Very good. 25.8 x 17.5.
Nature and history of the problem of white settlement in the tropics. Studies of some of these (Queensland, West Indies..). Some factors governing these settlements (racial, environment, climate, diet..).
62258 GROOM, Linda A STEADY HAND: Governor Hunter & His First Fleet Sketchbook
$50.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2012. 1st Ed. Foreword by Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. VI, 229 PP with 19 b/w illustrations, 16 maps or plans, 57 colour illustrations and 100 plates in colour. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales. Pictorial boards, dj. New. 29 x 24. 9780642277077
70944 GUILLAUME, Jean-Yves BREST - Métropole Océane: Ville - Rade - Paysages
$25.00 AUD
Editions ActYs. Brest. 2008. 1st edition. Bi-lingual (French/English) "Reflexions" or Introduction. No pagination, 144 PP with 1 sketch map of NE corner of French Brittany, hundreds of colour photos, and 13 b/w or colour portraits of authors of various texts. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. French text. Fine. Oblong: 22.5 x 30.5. 9782953189506
70682 GYSI, Werner M. & Family A FAMILY OF SIX AT SEA - Crossing the Atlantic on a Cement Boat
$15.00 AUD
Gooly Mooly Publishing. Enderby, B.C., Canada. 2009. 1st Ed. 320 PP with b/w illustrations: 1floor plan for Kirsty Nicole, maps, drawings, photos, portraits. Pictorial soft covers. Note on title page, signed and dated by the owner/author. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.7. 0781896424019
68195 HALEY, Neale THE SCHOONER ERA: A Lost Epic in History
$15.00 AUD
A.S. Barnes. New York. 1972. 1st edition. 192 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches, paintings and photos). Cloth cover. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers and title page and loan pocket on rear endpaper. Contents very good. 28.5 x 21.7. 0498077276
47369 HAMMATT, Charles H. SHIPS, FURS, AND SANDALWOOD: A Yankee Trader in Hawai'i, 1823-1825
$15.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1999. 1st Ed. Edited by Sandra Wagner-Wright. XXXII, 96 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 0824822587
41618 HANRAHAN, Brian & FOX, Robert I COUNTED THEM ALL OUT AND I COUNTED THEM ALL BACK - The Battle for the Falklands
$10.00 AUD
B B C. London. 1982. 3rd reprint of the 1982 original. 139 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, foxing on outside edges. Very good. 17.8 x 11.2. 0563201479
2nd April to 15th June 1982.
70777 HARDSTAFF, Commander R.J. LEADLINE TO LASER - The Hydrographic Service, Royal Australian Navy 1920-1995
$60.00 AUD
Privately published. Sydney. 1995. 1st limited edition. Hand numbered (Copy No. 419) and signed by the author. . XVI, 274 PP with 4 figures & 1 page with 9 of the Crests used on RAN Hydrographic Products, plus 48 pages with 106 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. A 12 pages errata loosely inserted. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 0646250531
Principal surveys, biographical details of personnel, surveying vessels and consort vessels. Technical notes, ... An important work.
70952 HARRIS, Craig & HORDERN, Marsden BLUE WATER WARRIORS - The early Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races
$50.00 AUD
Lightning Source. Sydney. 2018. 1st paperback edition. Foreword by John Bertrand, AO. Introduction by Marsden Hordern. XI, 272, (4) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 9780648369301
Marsden Hordern was the navigator on Mistral II for the races of: 1947, 1948, 1949 & on White Cloud for the 1954 race.
49236 HAWKINS, Clifford W. LOG OF THE HUIA. A Record of the Schooner
$60.00 AUD
Leader Press. Auckland. 1947. 1st Ed. 85 PP with b/w illustrations (52 photos, 3 plans, 1 map & 11 flags or pennants flown), plus 2 folded plans (lines and sail plan). Title-page: Off Whangaparaoa. Marbled cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (a little rubbed with a few small chips). A near fine copy of the scarce first edition. 21.5 x 14.
New Zealand topsail schooner which plied the Tasman and the Pacific for over 50 years.
61337 HAWKINS, Richard CREEKS AND HARBOURS OF PORT PHILLIP - A Guide to Cruising and Fishing
$15.00 AUD
Saltwater Publications. Mt. Martha, Victoria. 1986. 1st Ed. IV, 148 PP with 10 figures, 2 tidal maps, 2 river maps and 68 detailed maps. Amendment sheet of June 1988 loosely inserted. Eps: Sketch map of Port Phillip. Hard cover, illustrated by Joan Ingpen Bognuda. Fine. Oblong: 21.7 x 25. 0959257829
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1987. 5th edition, revised by Brendan O'Friel. VII, 136 PP with 1 map, 1 portrait and 47 b/w illust., plus 1 b/w plate Lady of Mann departing Douglas. Pictorial soft cover (small crease on front cover). Very good. 18.3 x 12.2. 0851745113
70693 HERBERT, A. P. SHE-SHANTIES
$15.00 AUD
T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. London. 1926. 1st edition. 120 PP with b/w illustrations by A.K. Zinkeisen. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth covers a little rubbed/frayed around edges, gilt illustration on front cover, gilt title on spine a little faded. Occasional foxing. Contents near fine. 19 x 12.5.
70748 HERIOT, Geoff IN THE SOUTH - Tales of Sail and Yearning
$50.00 AUD
Forty Degrees South Pty. Ltd. Hobart. 2012. 1st Ed. (10), 294 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, paintings & photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note on half title page, signed by the author. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 9780987355645
Schooner IleOla. Elliott Giles (Spuddo) and his Utiekah.
44611 HIRST, Warwick PAINTING THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Dagmar Schmidmaier. 20 PP with 7 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 24 x 14. 0731371186
Guide to an exhibition of 54 paintings held in the State Library's Picture Gallery in 2002. Short biography of 24 painters, and description of their paintings.
55531 HMSO WEST COAST OF INDIA PILOT: Maldives, Lakshadweep, Sri Lanka, with Palk Bay; The West coast of India, the coast of Pakistan
$40.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. London. 1998. 12th edition of the 1866 original. NP 38. Advertisement of the 12th edition, by Rear Admiral J. P. Clarke. Edited by ATTWOOD, Captain A. J. XII, 328, (1) PP with Index charts NP 38(a) and NP 38(b), figures, 23 maps, 19 climatic tables and 38 coastal views or lighthouses (drawings or b/w photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Faint foxing. Fine. 30.2 x 21.3.
70949 HOBBS, Richard R. MARINE NAVIGATION 2: Celestial and Electronic
$15.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1977. Reprint with corrections of the 1974 original. Foreword by Vice Admiral W. P. Mack. XI, 322 PP with figures. Cloth cover, illustrated front. Front cover lightly soiled. Contents near fine. 26 x 18. 0870213652
Coordinate systems of celestial navigation. Altitude-Intercept method. Marine sextant...
International Cultural Corporation of Australia Ltd. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed., with a foreword by R. J. L. Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia. 51 PP with 4 location maps,12 b/w & 60 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Invitation to the official opening of this exhibition, by Vice Admiral M. W. Hudson, Chief of Naval Staff, loosely inserted. Fine. 27.4 x 22. 0642123497
The great seafaring saga out of which Australia emerged as a nation. Written in conjunction with the exhibition Shipwreck.
70631 HOLLANDER, Neil & MERTES, Harald THE YACHTSMAN'S EMERGENCY HANDBOOK: A Complete Survival Manual
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1989. Revised edition of the 1980 original. 254 PP with 26 head pieces (signal flags) and 412 figures illustrations either in b/w or with colour. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. A good copy. 22.8 x 15. 0207156360
The vanishing breed of sailors & craft, harnessing wind & sea to gain their livelihood. The Nile, Chilean Coast, Brazil, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia...
70136 HORDERN HOUSE A Selection of TRAVEL, LITERATURE, NATURAL HISTORY, ART & ARCHITECTURE, Catalogued for Collectors
$20.00 AUD
Hordern House. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. Edited by Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell. No pagination, 62 PP with 80 b/w illustrations. 3 folded flyers loosely inserted. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 1875567240
66109 HORDERN, Marsden A MERCIFUL JOURNEY. Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man
$60.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2005. 1st edition, limited to 3000 copies, No. 61 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. XIV, 335 PP with 5 facsimile of documents, plus 16 pages with 34 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Australia northern waters. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dedicatory note on verso of half title page dated and signed by the author. Fine. 24.3 x 15.7. 0522851657
38284 HUIZINGA, Leonhard TAKE YOUR JACKET OFF - The chronicle of a merchant house as seen against 75 years of world history
$10.00 AUD
Hagemeyer. Amsterdam. 1975. 1st English edition of the Dutch original "Trek jij je jas eens uit". 236 PP with 1 map and 84 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, seals in blind on front and back covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing spots, o/wise fine. 26 x 18.3.
Founding of the firm in Surabaja, 1900, by Johan and Anton Hagemeijer... Agencies in Adelaide, and Brisbane , 1968.
37391 HUME, Bertram (editor) A VICTORIAN ENGAGEMENT - Letters and Journals of Walter Hume and Anna Kate Fowler during the 1860s
$20.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1975. 1st Ed. XIII, 180 PP with 1 coastal sketch, plus 12 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 21 x 14. 0702209988
70769 ILLINGWORTH, Captain J. H. WHERE SECONDS COUNT, A Text Book of Yacht Match Racing - Yacht racing lessons from the defender trials and the America's Cup Races, 1958
$25.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 1959. 1st Ed. 144 PP, plus 16 pages with 15 b/w photos. Fp: Columbia and Sceptre just after the start in the America's Cup Race of 22nd September, 1958. Hard cover, gilt device on front. Near fine. Scarce. 19 x 13.
61850 IRVINE, Lucy CASTAWAY
$10.00 AUD
Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1983. 1st Ed. 287 PP with 2 maps, 12 text illustrations by Ley Kenyon, plus 12 pages with 21 colour photos. Eps: Map of Tuin Island. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0575033401
Life on the remote uninhabited island of Tuin, Torres Strait, between May 1981 and June 1982.
39119 JEFFREYS, Max MURDER, MAYHEM, FIRE & STORM: Australian Shipwrecks
$20.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. X, 262 PP with 1 map on double page, 16 location maps and 16 head pieces (paintings or photos). Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 22.8 x 17. 9781864364453
Dutch Wrecks on West Australia coast: Batavia, De Vergulde Draeck, Zuytdorp, Zeewyk... HMS Pandora... Australian Hospital Ship Centaur.
72997 JOHNSON, Jane (editor) FRANKLIN HISTORY - "THE BOWMONT", A Story of Three Eras
$25.00 AUD
Huon Valley News. Franklin, Tas. 2011. March 2011 edition. 2-28, (1) PP with 23 b/w illustrations . Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 20.8 x 14.6.
Commercial Bank of Tasmania: 1906-1921. English, Scottish and Australian Bank: 1921-1943. Bowmont Hospital: 1945-1965. The Bowmont Community Centre.
16917 JONES, Colin WINGS AND THE NAVY
$20.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. 127 PP with 2 maps and 1 cartoon strip, plus 16 pages with 35 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover (a Sea Fury taking off from Sydney, 1949). Fine. 22.5 x 15. 9780864178367
When the Royal Australian Navy took to the sky, and commissioned the aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Sydney. Test of battle during the Korean War.
70809 JONES, Tristan A STEADY TRADE - A Boyhood at Sea
$20.00 AUD
The Bodley Head. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 255 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. dj (price-clipped). Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 22.2 x 14. 0370304721
Sailing the Channel and North Sea on the coastal sailing ketch "Second Apprentice"...
38197 KERR, George F. BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS - The War History of the P. & O. (1939-1945)
$15.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 196 PP, plus 2 colour plates, 6 pages with 13 photos & 1 large folded photo (panoramic view of Table Bay Harbour in April 1941). Fp: The North African Landing 1942. Cloth cover, dj (chipped). Light foxing, signature of previous owner on preliminary page. Very good. Scarce. 20.5 x 14.
The world's greatest merchant fleet during WWII. Armed merchant cruisers, troopships ...
70078 KINGSTON, W. H. G. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
$30.00 AUD
T. Nelson and Sons. London. 1882. 1st Ed. 460, (2) PP with over 40 b/w illustrations: 3 tail pieces, 38 text illustrations (13 on full page). Rebacked copy, cloth cover, gilt title on spine, all edges gilt. Occasional foxing. Copy lacking the frontispiece called for (but similar to plate of page 69). Very good copy. 19.3 x 13.5.
Juvenile edition: "A Book for Boys".
20207 KNIGHT, Edward F. THE CRUISE OF THE FALCON (in Two Volumes)
$50.00 AUD
Arno Press. New York. 1967. 1st Ed. in the Abercombie & Fitch Library Series. Reprint of the 1884 original. Vol. I: (6), VIII, 301 PP with 4 illust. in text plus 5 plates (1 folded map). Fp: Entrance to the Bay of Rio. Vol.II: (4), VIII, 304 PP with 1 illust. in text plus 7 plates (1 folded map). Fp: View near Olinda; beaching a catamaran. Marbled hard cover, cloth spine with gilt title on black vignette, dj. Near fine. 19.7 x 13.5.
A voyage to South America in a 30 ton yacht. Falmouth, Madeira, Cape Verde Islands, Brazil, Uruguay, Plate River and return to Bristol.
70691 LAING, Robert (compiler) ANCHORAGE GUIDE "VAN DIEMENS LAND CIRCUMNAVIGATION"
$25.00 AUD
Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. Hobart. c. 1997. 1st Ed. (2), 98, (2) PP with 1 map of Tasmania and 78 sketch maps. 2 folded pages on Macquarie harbour loosely inserted. Pictorial soft covers protected by clear plastic, spiral bound. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
74355 LAISTER, Peter MARINER'S MEMORABILIA - A Guide to British Shipping Company China of the 19th & 20th Centuries (Volume 3 and Volume 4)
$80.00 AUD
Peter & Pam Laister. Hartley, Kent. 2020 and 2021. 1st Ed. Vol. 3: PP and Vol. 4: 112 PP with hundreds of colour photos throughout. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 9781902953984 & 9781902953991
Volume 3. Brief Histories of British Short Sea & Coastal Companies and European & American Liner Companies, and Volume 4. Brief Histories of British Deep Sea Cargo and Passenger Lines and Commonwealth Companies, both volumes illustrated with examples of their 19th and 20th Century China.
70867 LANDAUER, Lyndall Baker SCAMMON - BEYOND THE LAGOON : A Biography of Charles Melville Scammon
$50.00 AUD
The Associates of the J. Porter Shaw Library & Institute for Marine Information. San Francisco & Pasadena. 1986. 1st Ed. No. 1, in the Pacific Maritime History series. Preface by David A. Hull. Foreword by Barbara Johnson. XIV, 180 PP, plus 20 pages with 20 b/w plates. Fp: C. M. Scammon. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.5. 0933185006
21803 LENTON, H.T. & COLLEDGE, J.J. WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II, Part 6 - Trawlers, Drifters and Whalers
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1963. 81 PP with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial card cover. Fine. Small format: 18.5 x 12.5.
48454 LIND, Lew & VOLLMER, Geoff AUSTRALIA'S MEN O' WAR
$10.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot. 64 PP with 19 b/w drawings and 24 colour paintings. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with small tear at top of spine. Note on lower corner of half title page. Very good. Oblong: 22.2 x 29.8. 0589502484
Paintings by a sailor after plying the seas for 18 years.
63289 LLOYD, Christopher THE BRITISH SEAMAN, 1200-1860 - A Social Survey
$5.00 AUD
Paladin / Granada Publishing. London. 1970. 1st paperback edition of the 1968 original. 287, (1) PP, plus 16 pages with 20 bw illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.7 x 11.4.
Their achievements, in spite of horrible living conditions, disgusting food, cruel punishments, interference with personal freedom...
58005 LONEY, Jack WRECKS ALONG THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
$10.00 AUD
Marine History Publications. Portarlington. 1983. 8th edition of the 1967 original. 138 PP with 4 location maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illust. (2 maps). Pictorial soft covers with light wear and soiling, o/wise very good.. 22 x 15. 0959985387
Shipwrecks on the Victorian coast, from Point Lonsdale to Portland.
69809 LUARD, Lieutenant-Commander W. B. CHANGING HORIZONS
$10.00 AUD
Nicholson & Watson. London. 1946. 1st. Ed. 192 PP. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Covers soiled. Ageing of paper and foxing. Very good. 22.5 x 15.
70792 LUBBOCK, Basil & SPURLING, Jack THE BEST OF SAIL
$70.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Ltd. Cambridge. 1975. Reprint, with introduction by Alan Villiers. (XII), 179 PP on art paper, plus 36 full-page colour plates by J. Spurling. Eps: Illustrations by W. M. Birchall. Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 31.2 x 25.7. 0850592178
Condensed version of Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships.
62749 LUDLOW, Peter MORETON BAY LETTERS
$15.00 AUD
Peter Ludlow. Brisbane. 2003. 1st Ed. 151 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2. 095772604X
The sequel to Moreton Bay People.
21966 MacKENZIE, Margaret E. SHIPWRECKS - Being the Historical Account of Shipwrecks along the Victorian Coast from Peterborough to Cape Otway 1843-1914
$5.00 AUD
National Press. Melbourne. 1954. 1st Ed. 86 PP with 1 map, plus 4 pages with 10 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Signature on half title page. Occasional foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 19 x 12.5.
Wrecks of the Joanna, Marie Gabrielle, Eric the Red, Falls of Halladale, ... The original edition.
68964 MALLETT, Alan S. IDYLL OF THE KINGS - The History of the King Line, 1889-1979
$5.00 AUD
World Ship Society. London. 1980. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft cover. Note and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Very good. 21 x 15. 090561710X
Story of the King Line, its ships and the men who sailed and managed them.
46422 MALMBERG, Thure & RAUDSEPP, Peter (editors) PASSENGER SHIPS OF THE WORLD: A HISTORY IN POSTERS / PASSAGERARFARTYG PA AFFISCHER
$70.00 AUD
Oy Raud Publishing Ltd. Helsinki / Helsingfors. 2004. 1st bilingual edition. 210 pp, (12 advertisements) with 1 b/w and 118 colour posters. FEP: Posters of Hamburg-Amerika Linie and White Star Line. REP: Posters of Messageries Maritimes and Union-Castle Line. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. English and Swedish text. Large format: 34.5 x 25.5. 9529689128
The history of the major shipping companies together with their very colourful advertising posters. A lavish publication.
70497 MARC, Joel, RAMBEAU, Marc & BLACKMAN, Ross CRUISING IN NEW CALEDONIA - A guide to the harbours and anchorages ...
$65.00 AUD
Nouméa Yacht Charters / Club Marine Services Pty. Ltd. Nouma / Brighton, Vic. 1989. 1st English edition, translated from the French original by Club Marine Services. 380 PP with numerous maps and plans, b/w and colour photos. Stiff covers with a crease on back cover, pictorial front. Occasional foxing, with foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 28 x 21. 2950853021
Details of over 170 anchorages.
64301 MARINE UNDERWRITERS' AND SALVAGE ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA LTD THE REGISTER OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING - Including Shipping Registered at Fiji and New Guinea 1908-1909
$225.00 AUD
Compiled and issued by The Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria Ltd. Melbourne. 1908. 1st Ed. 203 PP. Pages 1 to 10 printed recto/verso, P.11 to 186 recto only with a thumb index. Appendix from P.187-203 printed recto/verso. Original green cloth cover, gilt title on front cover. Covers worn around edges, the back cover and bottom of spine has a repaired tear. Small piece missing on preliminary page. Repaired closed tear on P.145. Paper ageing with a few old stains, not affecting any text. A very good copy of a scarce item. Oblong: 18.4 x 26.
"From Returns furnished by the Customs Authorities in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea".
60765 MARLOW KNOTS AND SPLICES LEAFLET
$5.00 AUD
Marlow, Kenwall, Downs & Son. Melbourne. c. 1980. Foded poster, printed recto & verso with 16 sets of duotone figures. Very good. Format: 43.5 x 64. Folded size: 14.5 x 16.
An aid to new crews and owners: The knots, bends and hitches.
61919 MAYS, Nicole FOR MANY YEARS A BOAT BUILDER: The Life and Life's Work of Jacob Bayly Chandler
$40.00 AUD
Nicole Mays. Hobart. 2011. 1st Ed. (3 blank pages), (11), 145, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, facsimile of documents, graphs, map, paintings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 18.7. 9780646546971
140 vessels built at Battery Point between 1843 and 1894.
47701 McCORMICK, Donald ISLANDS FOR SALE
$15.00 AUD
Peter Garnett. London. 1949. 1st Ed. (10), 133 PP with 9 maps, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Heron Island in the Barrier Reef group. Title page with vignette: Island for sale. Eps Map of the world. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Hinges slightly rubbed. Dust jacket tipped in on half title page (see image). Errata slip tipped in on page 13. Ingleton book plate on front endpaper, and his stamp with number catalogue 13390, on rear endpaper. Faint foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
The British Isles, The Great Barrier Reef, The Pacific, The West Indies, The Mediterranean... Islands for all Tastes.
63213 McCRORIE, Ian HEBRIDEAN AND CLYDE FERRIES of Caledonian MacBrayne
$10.00 AUD
Caledonian MacBrayne. Gourock, Scotland. 1985. 1st Ed. 32 PP with fleet list, 1 map and 31 b/w photos. Inside covers: 4 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise fine. 21 x 15.
Penguin. Melbourne. 2005. 1st Penguin Books edition, of the 2003 original. XVI, 336, (8 publications) PP with 1 sail plan, 1 compass rose, 13 headpieces and 15 maps, plus 16 pages with 16 colour and 17 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 13. 014300039X
13 shipwrecks: Trial in 1622 - Batavia in 1629 - Sydney Cove in 1797 - Stirling Castle in 1836 - Cataraqui in 1845 ... Sydney to Hobart yacht race of 1998.
70591 McKILLOP, Captain William THE LAST OF THE SAIL WHALERS: Whaling off Tasmania and Southern New Zealand by Captain William McKillop (1865-1938)
$55.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2019. 1st Ed. No. 66, in the Roebuck series. Edited by Rhys Richards & Graeme Broxam. XIV, 216, (4 blank) PP with 1 family tree, 8 colour illustrations (including a map of Tasmania) and over 60 b/w illustrations: 5 maps (2 with inset), 6 drawings, 20 sketches by Gordon Grant and 35 photos and portraits. Laminated pictorial boards. Copy signed on title page by Graeme Broxam, publisher and co-editor. As new. 26.2 x 21. 9780992366070
Born Stewart Island, NZ, Coastal trading and seaing in New Zealand southern waters. Settled in Tasmania in 1893.
16020 McLEAN, Gavin MASTERS OR SERVANTS?, A Short History of the New Zealand Merchant Service Guild and its Predecessors
$15.00 AUD
New Zealand Merchant Service Guild. Wellington. 1990. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 1 facsimile of documents and 6 tables in text plus 16 pages with 4 facsimiles of documents and 18 bw photos. Eps: Certificate of Registration and Incorporation for the MSG. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 21.8 x 15. 0473008246
42293 McLEAN, Gavin CAPTAIN'S LOG - NEW ZEALAND'S MARITIME HISTORY
$15.00 AUD
Hodder Moa Beckett. Auckland. 2001. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w illustrations. Inside covers: Map of the coast of New Zealand. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.8 x 18.2. 9781869588816
70886 McLELLAND, Tim (editor) AVRO SHACKLETON, The RAF's Cold War Sub Hunter - Aeroplane Icons Series (No.21)
$10.00 AUD
Key Publishing / Aeroplane Illustrated Magazine. Stamford, Lincs.. c. 2015. 116 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos), plus a large folded plate with 2 plans (scale 1:144). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781910415221
70692 MILLER, Alice Duer THE WHITE CLIFFS
$10.00 AUD
Hicks, Smith & Wright. Melbourne & Sydney. 1944. 8th Australian edition of the 1941 original. Preface by Sir Walter Layton. (6), 42 PP. Stapled card covers, soiled dust jacket. Signature of previous owner on half title page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18.3 x 12.5.
Poem on the USA/United Kingdom relationship.
41471 MILTOUN, Francis (editor) SHIPS & SHIPPING - A Handbook of Popular Nautical Information; with Numerous Diagrams, Plans and Illustrations
$85.00 AUD
Alexander Moring Ltd. London. 1903. 1st Ed. XIV, 366 PP with b/w illustrations (sketches, Funnel, House Flag, and profile of ships), plus 4 colour plates, 4 folded plates, and 2 folded plates of flags. Fp (in colour): Viking ship of King Alfred's day. Cloth cover, decorated front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Neat stamps of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Small format: 13.7 x 10.
Folded plates: Evolution of the Cunarder from 1840 to 1903. Interior arrangement of a modern warship. Interior arrangement of a modern Atlantic Liner. Knots. Flags of all nations (48). The new international code of signals.
43885 MISC MISC (Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Berhad): A Corporate Insight
$15.00 AUD
MISC Berhad. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1985. Revised 3rd edition. No pagination, 28 PP with 1 organigram, 4 maps, 23 colour photos and 44 silhouettes of ships. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 25.3 x 33.
Fleet list with their 44 ships registered at Penang, Malaysia.
47138 MONIE, Jo (compiler) THE FIRST FLEET - Australia's Heritage in Stamps
$20.00 AUD
Australia Post. Melbourne. 1987. 1st Ed., Book 4 in the Australian Bicentennial Collection. 52 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (maps, charts, engravings, painting photos and images of stamps), plus stamp folders in pocket inside front and back cover. Title spread: The Thames at Deptford. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 25. 0642119465
52183 MOORHOUSE, Geoffrey GREAT HARRY'S NAVY. How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power
$15.00 AUD
Phoenix. London. 2006. 1st paperback edition of the 2005 original. XXVIII, 372 PP with 2 diagrams and 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 11 b/w and 12 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing mostly on outside page edges, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 13.5. 0753820994
70873 MORRIS-MILLER, Professor E. (editor) A BRIEF PICTORIAL HISTORY OF TASMANIA
$25.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 1959. New edition of the 1957 original. Foreword by Dr. W. Bryden. 20 PP with 1 sketch map of Tasmania and 19 b/w plates illustrated by Captain D. Colbron Pearce. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. Oblong: 18.6 x 25.3.
An illustrated history of the discoverers of Tasmania, and other notable people. Abel Tasman, 1642. Marion Du Fresne, 1772. Furneaux, 1773. Cook, 1777... D'Entrecasteaux, 1792 and 1793... Baudin, 1802...
38846 MOTOR BOAT THE MOTORBOAT AND YACHTING MANUAL
$20.00 AUD
Temple Press. London. 1949. 2nd impression of the 14th edition of the 1907 original. XVI, 334, XVII-XL PP with 185 figures (drawings, plans and b/w photos), plus 5 folded plates (3 cut aways and 2 graphs). Blue cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Very good. 19 x 12.
Covers all aspects of general design and construction of motor boats... handling yachts and motor boats, cruising equipment...
44725 MOULT, Alan THE AUSSIE (America's) CUP '83
$5.00 AUD
Kevin Weldon Production. Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed., Collector's Edition. 96 PP with b/w and colour photos. Inside covers: Green and Gold Flag of the Boxing Kangaroo. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.6 x 20.
Pictorial record.
70760 MOYAL, Ann "A BRIGHT & SAVAGE LAND", Scientists in Colonial Australia
$35.00 AUD
Collins. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Illustrated half-title page, title-page & frontispiece. Hard cover, dj. Title page with a dedicatory note dated and signed by the author. Near fine. 28.5 x 21. 000217555X
The naturalists & illustrators who accompanied the explorers, navigators & scientists, the legacy of their exquisite artwork. Details of their exciting scientific discoveries.
70729 MUNDLE, Robert COOK
$30.00 AUD
ABC Books / HarperCollins. Sydney. 2015. 1st Ed. (10), 469 PP with 2 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 35 b/w or colour illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated covers (details of Cook voyages), dj. Near fine. 24.2 x 16. 9780733332340
From Sailor to Legend.
14688 N/A SOUTH AUSTRALIA
$15.00 AUD
Department of the Premier and Cabinet, South Australia. Adelaide. 1980. 1st Ed., with an introduction by David Tonkin, Premier of South Australia. 80 PP with colour illustrations (maps, engravings and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing on the inside of the covers, o/wise near fine.. 32 x 23. 0724334572
A presentation of the State of South Australia.
40962 N/A ENDEAVOUR 200
$15.00 AUD
Australian Hoechst Limited / Oswald Ziegler Publications. Sydney. 1970. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Dr. H. Von Pentz. 64 PP with 1 chart and 54 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated front cover. Near fine. 30.5 x 24.8.
A commemorative history of Australia's beginnings.
44417 N/A JOURNAL OF THE COMPANY OF MASTER MARINERS OF AUSTRALIA - Vol. XVI - April, 1952
$10.00 AUD
The Company of Master Mariners of Australia. Brisbane. 1952. 54 PP. Edited by Capt. K.F. Eager. Stapled soft covers. Signature of previous owner at top of front cover. Covers a little browned around edges, o/wise fine. 24.6 x 16.6.
Contains article by Captain M. Bruce Glasier "Odysseys of Ocean Towing. Towing of Vessels which lost their propellor: Laomedon in 1925 between NW Indian Ocean, and Malta - Troilus in 1948 between Aden and Falmouth...
Charles Birchall. London. 1938. No. 225, Volume XXIII, August 1938. IV (advertisements), 161- 200 PP with 8 house flags (with colour key) and 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (bows of L'Avenir and Comte de Smets). Corners of front cover chipped, staples removed. Very good. 24.8 x 15.5.
Articles by LYMAN, John, WEST, E. W. H., SMIT, L., et al. Sailing ships and Science. The story of Robert Dollar. A Colonial Trader: barque Peru. A Hundred years of Dutch Shipping History, by L. Smit. Sailing Ships' Roll of Honour: Robert Dollar Company, San Francisco... Boudoir Breezes... The Signal Station...
70611 N/A ANCHORAGE GUIDE: CHANNEL, BRUNY ISLAND AND HUON RIVER
$10.00 AUD
Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. Hobart. c. 1970. Folded (4 folds) map in colour (51 x 37.5), tipped in on a protective cover. Inside front cover: List of 30 of these anchorages. Illustrated soft covers. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed. Internally good. 21 x 13.5.
30 anchorages between: River Derwent and Recherche Bay.
70804 N/A THE LOG OF THE COMMISSION of H.M.S. "ASTRAEA", on the Mediterranean and China Stations
$30.00 AUD
Nabu Public Domain Reprint. La Vergne, TN, USA. c. 2010. A Nabu facsimile reprint of the 1902 original. (2), 134, (6 blank) PP with tables. Soft cover, title on front cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 19. 9781294371373
Sailed from Chatham 22 June 1899. Mediterranean Station: 3rd July to 18 September 1900. China Station: Mid October 1900 to April 1902. Returned to Chatham on 23rd May 1902.
70756 NASH, Michael THE BAY WHALERS - Tasmania's shore-based whaling industry
$30.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing / Tasmanian Heritage Office. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. VI, 170 PP with 2 graphs, 5 sketches, 9 maps, 32 colour and 20 b/w illustrations. Title spread: Whaleboat approaching for the kill. Eps: Map of the world with whaling grounds. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.9 x 18. 0958656193
70805 NELSON, Lieutenant Commander Annette HMAS HARMAN : 1943 - 2013 / A History of HMAS Harman and its people
$50.00 AUD
HMAS Harman. Canberra. 2013. 1st Ed. Forewords by CMDR Lisa Batchler. (8), 81 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft covers with light wear, title and crest on front cover, spiral bound. Dedicatory note to previous owner on title page signed by Commander Batchler. Near fine. 30 x 21.5.
Herbert Jenkins. London. 1940. 2nd printing of the 1940 edition, in the Colonial Library series. 282 PP, (6 publications) with 4 sketch maps, plus 18 pages with 33 b/w photos. Fp: in the Oasis of Gabes. Eps: Sketch map "Savoy! Corsica! Tunis!". Blue cloth cover, title on front cover and spine (yellow lettering), dj. Dust jacket with chips and small pieces missing. Foxing on outside edges and remnants of bookplate on half-title page. Contents near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
20312 NEWMAN, Peter C. EMPIRE OF THE BAY - Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company
$30.00 AUD
Madison Press. Toronto. 1989. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w & colour illust. (charts, maps, paintings, photos). Title-page: Dog sledge. Eps: Beavers of North America building a dam. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 31 x 23.2. 06708829692
History of the world's oldest continuous commercial enterprise. Its empire once stretched from the Arctic Ocean to San Francisco and from Labrador to Hawaii.
70734 NICHOLS, Peter A VOYAGE FOR MADMEN
$15.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. XIV, 305 PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 23 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight crease at lower corner of front cover. Near fine. 23.4 x 15.2. 0732271134
The 1968 Golden Globe yacht race, and the nine competitors: John Ridgway, Chay Blyth, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier, Loïck Fougeron, Bill King, Nigel Tetley, Alex Carozzo and Donald Crowhurst.
49467 NICHOLSON, I.H. GAZETTEER OF SYDNEY SHIPPING 1788-1840
$30.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1981. 1st Ed. X, 217 PP with b/w illust., plans, charts views of coast & paintings. Eps: Map of Australia & Chart of South & Central Pacific Is. Pictorial soft cover. Ingleton bookplate inside front cover. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Near fine. 24.2 x 17.5. 0909434182
Geographical index of ports of origin and destination, and places discovered, visited or remarked upon by Sydney shipping.
22609 NOBLE, Captain John THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
$10.00 AUD
Currey O'Neil. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed. IX, 118 PP with 98 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a small closed tear and in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 25 x 25. 0859021947
Collection of maritime photographs capturing the glorious and romantic days when sailors relied on wind and currents.
70725 NORMAN, L. SEA WOLVES AND BANDITS - Sealing, Whaling, Smuggling and Piracy. Wild Men of Van Diemen's Land. Bushrangers and Bandits. Wrecks and Wreckers
$30.00 AUD
J. Walch & Sons. Hobart. c. 1980. Reprint of the 1946 original. 208 PP with 1 portrait, plus 54 pages with 88 b/w plates. Fp (folded): Hobart Bridge. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner at top corner of front endpaper. Near fine. 25 x 16.
... with a chronology of curious and interesting facts relating to old Van Diemen's Land, and (from 1856) to Tasmania.
38359 NUNN, Harry W. (editor) SELECT DOCUMENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (Two volume set]
$30.00 AUD
National Australia Bank Limited. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. Volume 1: XI, 780 PP with 55 b/w illustrations. Volume 2: XI, 764 PP with 55 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 25.5 x 17.6. 090987347X
Volume 1: 1834-1872. Volume 2: 1872-1900. Eyewitness account of Australian history since the establishment of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney in 1834: pioneer outback, bushrangers, Eureka stockade, miners, leading Bankers... Publication covering select Parliamentary Committees, Royal Commissions and the origins of financial and currency legislation we live by today.
15914 O'BRIEN, Captain F. T. EARLY SOLENT STEAMERS, A History of Local Steam Navigation
$10.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1973. 1st Ed. 248 PP with 2 maps on double page, 10 line drawings and 33 b/w plates. Vignette on title page. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.5 x 14.2. 0715356542
The pioneering days of steam on the Solent which started in 1817. Steamers, excursion steamers, tugs. Shipbuilders, Owners and Masters.
70831 O'MAY, Harry HOBART RIVER CRAFT and Sealers of Bass Strait
$25.00 AUD
L. G. Shea, Government Printer. Hobart. 1973. 2nd impression. Foreword by Eric Reece, Premier of Tasmania. 113, IV, (2), 31 PP, plus 20 pages with 38 b/w photos, and 1 folded map at rear. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Brief note at top of front endpaper, o/wise fine. 21.7 x 14.5.
The craft used by the early settlers to carry goods to and from Hobart. The sealers in Bass Strait.
70797 OLIVER, W. S. (Bill) SUGAR IN THE BLOOD
$15.00 AUD
Bill Oliver. Grafton, NSW. 1997. 1st Ed. VI, 138 PP with 38 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 25 x 17.7. 0646325434
A lifetime (1944 to 1980) with the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. (CSR).
47602 OLLARD, Richard MAN OF WAR. Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy
$10.00 AUD
Phoenix Press. London. 2001. Paperback edition of the 1969 original. 240 PP with 1 genealogical table, 3 maps and 3 battle diagrams, plus 24 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.5. 1842122363
69086 P. & O. S.S. CANBERRA - Luncheon Menu "In the Indian Ocean - P&O Pencillings"
$10.00 AUD
On Board. 1990. Folded dinner menu, 4th September 1990, illustrated by W.W. Lloyd. Front (in colour) "In the Indian Ocean: Sunday Morning Muster". Back (Pen and Ink): Professional Advice. Two small annotations on inside, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 17..
Covers with 1 colour and 1 pen and ink illustrations from "P&O Pencillings" published in 1890, by William Whitelock Lloyd.
36759 PARDEY, Lin and Larry SERAFFYN 'S ORIENTAL ADVENTURE
$10.00 AUD
W. W. Norton. New York. 1983. 1st Ed. 287 PP with 10 sketch-drawings, 5 maps and 53 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (rubbed). Near fine. 24 x 15.8. 393032817
Corfu, Rhodes, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan then back to California.
70758 PEARL, Cyril THE DUNERA SCANDAL - Deported by Mistake
$25.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed. VI, 234 PP with 29 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.7. 0207147078
The internment in Australia of 2542 Germans & Austrians either political or racial refugees. They were deported on the British India liner Dunera.
70422 PELVIN, Richard AUSTRALIANS IN WORLD WAR I - ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs / Australian Government. Canberra. 2010. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 1 map on double page with 6 insets, 88 b/w and 12 colour illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Message from the Hon. Alan Griffin, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, loosely inserted. Fine. 23.5 x 23.5. 9781877007538
69255 PHILLIPS, Bronwyn & HOCK, Peter 100 YEARS TOGETHER - The Commonwealth Bank of Australia
$25.00 AUD
Focus / CommStrat. Sydney. 2011. 1st Ed. Foreword by David J. Turner, Chairman. (6), 234 PP with b/w photos. Hard cover, title in blind on front board, dj. Fine. 30 x 24.5. 9781921156632
43106 PLUMMER, Russell SUPER-FERRIES OF BRITAIN, EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 4 maps, tables and 147 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 18 colour photos. Title spread: Koningin Beatrix. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 25.2 x 19. 0850599237
70817 PONDER, Winifred AN IDLER IN THE ISLANDS
$25.00 AUD
Cornstalk Publishing Company. Sydney. 1924. 1st Ed. (10), 90 PP, plus 11 plates with 22 b/w photos. Fp: The simple savage and the suit case. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Title page with repaired closed tear. Contents near fine. 19 x 13.
Travel to: Fiji, Niaoufou (Tin Can island) and Tonga, Samoa ..
70821 POPHAM, Hugh MONSTERS AND MARLINSPIKES - Being a true account of the voyage of Lee-O! The Jolly Yachtsman ond his crew in the schooner "Pegasus" and of the Marvellous Adventures which befell them
$25.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 150 PP with 14 b/w beautiful illustrations by Graham Oakley (1 vignette on title page, 1 on double page, 4 tail pieces and 8 on full page). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 20.5 x 13.3.
70829 PRINGLE-JONES, Jennifer & JOYCE, Ray TASMANIA'S HERITAGE An Enduring Legacy
$25.00 AUD
St David's Park Publishing. Hobart. 1991. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Phillip Bennett, Governor of Tasmania. 144 PP with b/w illustrations and 288 colour photos by Ray Joyce. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly sunned on spine and top corner of front part. Near fine. 32 x 23. 072462161X
22209 PROUD, John H. 150 YEARS OF THE MALTESE CROSS 1840-1990, The Story of Tyne, Blyth and Wear Tug Companies
$45.00 AUD
Tyne & Wear Tugs Ltd. South Shields, U.K. 1993. 1st Ed. 264 PP with b/w photos, graphs, tables & colour illust. Title page: house flag. Fp: J. Batey & Son: Past & Present. FEP: The Cragsider in 1977. REP: The Endon assisting the City of Port Elizabeth. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 33 x 25. 0952272105
Covers the period 1840-1990 with a short postcript for 1991 & 1992.
33932 PURSEY, H. J. MERCHANT SHIP STABILITY, A companion to Merchant Ship Construction
$15.00 AUD
Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1962. 3rd edition of the 1945 original. X, 165 PP with 82 figures, plus 2 folded plates at rear of book. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24.5 x 18.
12055 PUTZ, Goerge & SPECTRE, Peter H. (editors) THE MARINER'S CATALOG, Volume 5
$10.00 AUD
National Fisherman & Int'l Marine. Camden, Maine. 1977. 1st Ed. 192 PP, profusely illustrated with photos, sketches, drawings, diagrams, etc... Pictorial soft cover. Former owner's stamp on title page. Faint foxing. Very good. 27 x 21. 0877420939
Boatbuilding, books about the sea, fishing, diving & underwater.
38452 RAHS THE BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER AND THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES: An Aspect of Nineteenth Century Colonial History (Volume 54, Part 1, March 1968)
$15.00 AUD
R.A.H.S.. Sydney. 1968. Contains article by Philip M. COWBURN between P.1 and 21. Soft cover. Browning of outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.3.
58285 RAHS THE CENTENARY OF HUDDART PARKER (in Journal of the RAHS)
$15.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1977. Volume 63, Part 3, December 1977. 149-220 PP. Contains article by G.A. Hardwick between P.184 and 196. Soft cover. Fine. 22.3 x 14.
64916 RAWLINGS, Alfred A SEA ANTHOLOGY, selected and illustrated by Alfred Rawlings
$20.00 AUD
Gay & Hancock Ltd. London. 1913. 1st Ed. (VII), 171 PP, plus 12 colur plates. Fp: The Thunder of the crowding waves upon the rocks. Green cloth cover is a little speckled, title in blind on front cover and gilt title on spine which is still bright. Signature of previous owner on inside front cover. Ageing of paper and foxing (not affecting the plates). Very good. 17.3 x 14.
Image shows frontispiece and title-page.
10051 RAWSON ELDER, John THE AGE OF MARITIME DISCOVERY
$30.00 AUD
Otago University. Dunedin. 1921. 1st Ed. 30 PP with 4 maps on full page. Soft cover (lightly soiled). Staples removed. Small name stamp at top of title page and a few small foxing spots, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 19 x 12.6.
Otago University Extension Lecture in History, 1921..
70776 RICE, Dr. Tony VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY - Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration
$50.00 AUD
The Natural History Museum. London. 2008. New edition of the 2000 original, with a foreword by Dr. Michael Dixon, and an introduction by Dr. David Bellamy. 336 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 26 x 22.3. 97805650269306
Voyage to Jamaica 1687-1689, by Sir Hans Sloane... Pacific crossing 1768-1771, by James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks & Sydney Parkinson. Return to the South Seas 1772-1775, by James Cook, Johann and George Forster... Fathoming the Deep 1872-1876, the Challenger expedition.
70771 ROBERTSON, Terence THE SHIP WITH TWO CAPTAINS
$15.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 14 pages with 23 b/w photos. Fp: The two captains. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket is rubbed and soiled. Offsetting on front endpaper, o/wise a very good copy. 22 x 14.2.
The war records of HMS Seraph/USS Seraph. Launched in May 1942, she sunk a whale for her first patrol. Her use before the Anglo-American landing in French North Africa.
70943 ROLLESTON, Frank NOT A CONQUERING HERO: The Siege of Tobruk - Battles of: Milne Bay, Buna, Shaggy Ridge
$75.00 AUD
Author / Hatfields Printer. Eton, Qld. 1984. 1st Ed. Foreword by Keith Payne. (8), 207 PP with over 1 extract of document, 9 sketch maps (& insets) and 96 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and a lightly sunned spine. Dedicatory note on front endpaper, dated and signed by the author. Scarce original edition. Near fine. 27 x 21. 0959140506
70547 ROSENFELD, Stanley A CENTURY UNDER SAIL - Selected Photographs by Morris Rosenfeld and Stanley Rosenfeld, Legendary Photographers of the America's Cup races
$35.00 AUD
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Reading, Mass. USA. 1984. First printing of the 1984 original edition. Foreword by Emil "Bus" Mosbacher. XII, 252 PP with over 200 b/w photographs. Hard cover, title in blind on front board and spine, dj. Spine and parts of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 31 x 25.5. 0201065711
70768 ROSKILL, Captain S. W. D.S.C., Royal Navy (Retired) WHITE ENSIGN - THE BRITISH NAVY AT WAR, 1939-1945
$35.00 AUD
United States Naval Institute. Annapolis. 1966. November 1966 reprint of the 1960 UK original The Navy at War, 1939-1945. 480 PP with 24 maps. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic Ocean. Navy blue cloth cover, colour device (White Ensign) on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has some chips/small pieces missing and old tape marks on flaps and is plastic protected. Bookplate of previous owner on verso of front endpaper, o/wise contents near fine. 23.5 x 16
A comprehensive work.
21656 ROSS, John O. WILLIAM STEWART, Sealing Captain, Trader and Speculator
$15.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1987. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society publication No. 37. IX, 219 PP, plus 8 pages of b/w illust. FEP: Map of Australia, N.Z., Tasman Sea & Southern Ocean. REP: Chart of N.Z., North, South & Stewart Is. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.6. 0909434288
70813 ROTH, Hal TWO AGAINST CAPE HORN
$20.00 AUD
W. W. Norton. New York. 1978. 1st US edition. (15), 16-288 PP with over 18 maps, b/w and colour photos. Fp: Near Cape Horn. Hard cover, title on a cloth spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 24 x 16. 039303223X
63852 ROUVRAY, Mike (editor) TACTICAL SAILING WITH MIKE FLETCHER (Nos 1 to 10)
$20.00 AUD
Tactical Sailing. Manly, NSW. 1984 & 1985. No. 1 (December/January 1984) to No. 10 (January 1985). 10 issues for a total of 80 pages with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans and photos). Issues contained in special plastic folder, illustrated front. Signs of old water stains at lower corner of issue 10, o/wise very good. 31 x 24.5.
The complete series.
16836 ROYAL NAVY FLEET AIR ARM, The Admiralty Account of Naval Air Operations
$5.00 AUD
HMSO / Ministry of Information. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 3 maps, 6 Arm Badges and 94 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 22.8 x 17.5.
Naval air power - Eyes of the Fleet - Striking forces - Escort duties...
69223 SAJIMA, Naoko & TACHIKAWA, Kyoichi JAPANESE SEA POWER: A Maritime Nation's Struggle for Identity
$25.00 AUD
The Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2009. 1st Ed. Volume No. 2, in the Foundations of International Thinking on Sea Power series. Preface by Gregory P. Gilbert. 202 PP with tables and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780642297051
55611 SANDILANDS, Spencer Scott THE PERILS OF THE MAIN
$10.00 AUD
Spencer Scott Sandilands Gallery. Melbourne. c. 1990. Catalogue No. 23. (2), 27, (3 blank) PP with 84 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (The Sailor's Farewell). Near fine. 29.8 x 20.8.
Catologue of a "Broad Ranging Maritime Exhibition", offering 332 items.
21716 SEDGWICK, Stanley & SPRAKE, Raymond F. LONDON & OVERSEAS FREIGHTERS LIMITED 1949-1977
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 60 PP with 70 b/w photos. Inside card cover: Founders of L.O.F. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.7 x 14. 0905617010
A short history & fleet list.
48795 SEXTON, R. T. (Compiler) ENCOUNTER BAY SHIPPING 1850-1864, Rosetta Cove, Victor Harbor, Port Elliot, Murray Mouth
$15.00 AUD
AMHS. Murray Bridge, SA. 2004. 1st Ed. No pagination, 64 PP. Soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 0909418772
Shipping movements to the South Coast area during the working life of Port Elliot.
37043 SHACKEL, Paul A. & LITTLE, Barbara J. (editors) HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CHESAPEAKE
$35.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 1994. 1st Ed. XIV, 299 PP with over 10 tables and 85 figures. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 22. 1560982578
18 papers.
70947 SHANKLEY, Erika FAIR WINDS AND SMOOTH SAILING - History of the Cruising Yacht Club of Tasmania, Inc. 1996-2015
$40.00 AUD
Cruising Yacht Club of Tasmania Inc. Hobart. 2015. 1st Ed. VI, 58 PP with 24 colour and 41 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780646949840
70826 SHEPPARD, Trish AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURERS
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson Publishers. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. (6), 225 PP with b/w illustrations (maps, head pieces of chapters) by Iain Finlay, b/w and colour photos. Title page: "Ice Bird" sailing in Antarctic waters. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.4 x 22. 0207149518
20 of these adventurers: Ann Gash: A grand mother sailing solo around the world. Dick Smith: flying a helicopter around the world. Paul Caffyn: canoeist around Australia. ... Ron and Valerie Taylor: Underwater photographers. Nancy Wake: Resistance fighter in occupied France, known as the White Mouse to the Allied forces and the Germans. ... David Lewis: Antarctic Sailor.
44721 SHIELDS, Cornelius CORNELIUS SHIELDS ON SAILING
$10.00 AUD
Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1964. 3rd printing. 240 PP with drawings, photos & sketches. Fp: Columbia with her spinnaker. Eps: Training for America's Cup. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 25.5 x 18.
The man as a sailor, his career winning competition and the philosophies which have won him stature and success. Skipper of Columbia in 1958.
70527 SHIPLOVERS' SOCIETY OF VICTORIA THE ANNUAL DOG WATCH - Volume 43
$10.00 AUD
Shiplovers' Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1986. Issue No. 43. Edited by S.A.E. Strom & K. Shewan. Foreword by Captain R.J.F. McDonell. Vol. 43: 132 PP. Pictorial stiff cover (s.s. Abel Tasman). Very good. 21 x 14.5.
Up for Second Mate, by E. Moodie-Heddle. Voyage in Wongala, by Desmond Jackson. ... Olivebank remembered, by Alan Glover. ...
51241 SHIRLEY, J. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SEDIMENTS ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD
Geological Society of Australia. Adelaide. 1964. Reprinted from: Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, Vol. XI, Pt. 2, Pages 331-341. 11 PP with 1 table, and 2 figures with 4 maps and 28 diagrams. Soft cover. Dedicatory note by the author, to Capt. A. H. Cooper, at top of soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.7.
20462 SHOALHAVEN NEWS TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA - A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
$10.00 AUD
Wiggins Teape. Sydney. 1970. Vol. 2, No.9, February, 1970. 12 PP with 16 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover with rubbed patches. Staples removed. Internally very good. 27.2 x 21.
A special edition to commemorate the landing at Kurnell of Lieutenant James Cook on April 29, 1770.
46902 SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH MARINER'S MIRROR [THE]. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 75, No.1
$10.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 1989. Volume 75, No.1. Contains article from P. 53 to 78 with 5 tables. Pictorial soft cover (in colour). Fine. 24 x 17.2.
Old Norse Nautical Distance Tables in the Mediterranean Sea. by Roald Morcken. Contains another article: The Serpent and the Dove: Studying Nelson 's character, by Susan Harmon.
15856 SPALDIN, B.G. & APPLEYARD, H.S. THE WEST HARTLEPOOL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED and TALISMAN TRAWLERS LIMITED
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1980. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w photos throughout. Fp: Derwenthall and Hendonhall. Soft cover (house flag on front cover). Fine. 21.5 x 14. 0905617134
History & fleet details.
36516 SPENCER, Mark THE WRECK OF THE CATTERTHUN (in Australian Geographic, No. 27, 1992)
$10.00 AUD
Australian Geographic Society. Sydney. 1992. Issue No. 27, July-September 1992. 128 PP. Contains article from P.100 to 115 with 1 location map, 1 plan, 4 b/w and 18 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.
Inter-colonial trader S.S. Catterthun owned by Eastern and Australian Steamship Co., sunk off Seal Rocks in August 1895 with loss of 55 lives.
38138 SPERRY, Armstrong DANGER TO WINDWARD
$10.00 AUD
The Bodley Head. London. 1961. Reprint of the 1952 original. 241, (3 advert.) PP with 17 b/w illustrations (12 head pieces) by author. Hard cover, device on front cover and spine. Light foxing, renewed endpapers, o/wise very good. 20.5 x 13.6.
Tales on Whaling and the South Seas.
46677 SPIRIDONOVA, Lioudmila, LOFFE, Alexandre, et al.. (editors) LA FLOTTE DE L'EMPIRE DE RUSSIE
$20.00 AUD
Romain Pages Editions. Paris. 1996. 1st French edition, translated from the Russian original by Vladimir Maximoff. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. French text. 28.7 x 20.6. 2908878798
The Imperial Russian Navy 1696 to 1917. Published for the 300 years anniversary of its founding. Chapter V: Explorations and Scientific voyages.
55513 SPURLING, Kathryn CRUEL CONFLICT: The triumph and tragedy of HMAS Perth
$30.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Vice Admiral Russ Shalders. XII, 13-336 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 1 map and 28 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Ex-libris of previous owner, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16.5. 9781741107388
Sunk off the coast of Java, 1 March 1942.
44057 STONE, Craig, BRIGNALL, John, & COWIE, David & Linda STONES OF REMEMBRANCE - Mercy Ships Pacific - The First Decade
$15.00 AUD
Marine Reach. Tauranga, New Zealand. 2000. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 21. 0473070030
On board ships servicing isolated islands. Faith and healing (minor surgery, dental assistance, eye problems, etc....).
70808 SUTCLIFFE, Trevor (editor) SAILING TO SUCCESS - Fremantle's Yachting Heritage and the History of the Fremantle Sailing Club
$30.00 AUD
Fremantle Sailing Club, Inc. Fremantle. 2000. 1st Ed. Forewords by Trevor Sutcliffe and Hugh Plaistowe, Commodore. Introduction by Patricia Brown. VI, 490 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 28.8 x 21. 0646405837
America's Cup 1987, by Max Shean.
15864 SYSE, J. P., HOWELLS, Astri & CROWDY, Michael WILH. WILHELMSEN 1861-1977 - A Brief History and a Fleet List
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1978. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w photos throughout. FEP: Wilh. Wilhelmsen Head Office (in colour). REP: Oil drilling rig Treasure Seeker (in colour). Pictorial card cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21.5 x 14. 0905617053
70846 TAPRELL DORLING, Commander RIBBONS AND MEDALS: Naval - Military & Civil (in 3 parts) / REGIMENTS AT A GLANCE
$150.00 AUD
George Philip & Son Ltd. London. 1918, 1918, 1920 / 1917. Bound copy of 4 different issues. Ribbons & Medals - Part I (6th edition of 1916 original): (8), 13-(over) 86 PP with over 125 b/w illustrations, plus 12 plates in colour for 123 ribbons and a Military Medal with ribbon and clasps. Part II (1st edition of 1918): IV, 56 PP with over 80 b/w illustrations, plus 6 plates in colour for 77 ribbons. Part III "War Supplement", Ribbons and Medals of the Great War. 1st edition of 1920): IV, 5-35 PP with 21 b/w illustrations, plus 1 plate in colour with 14 ribbons. Regiments at a Glance, A Handbook of Regimental Badges and Traditions. (1st edition of 1917): 128 PP with , plus 4 colour plates for 2 King's Colours and 2 Regimental Colours. 4 issues retaining their original front covers bound together with 26 blank pages for notes. Royal blue cloth cover, gilt title on spine reads: "At A Glance - Vol.I". Cloth covers a little rubbed at corners, slight ageing of paper, o/wise fine. A scarce item. 18.5 x 13.
70696 TASMANIA Sesquicentenary TASMANIA SESQUICENTENARY 1803-4 - 1953-4: 150TH Anniversary of the Foundation of British Settlement
$20.00 AUD
Government Printer. Hobart. 1952. Bulletin No. 1, August 1952. Foreword by Sir Ronald Cross, Governor. 30, (2) PP with b/w illustrations: 1 painting "Landing at Sullivan Cove" by Allcott and 10 portraits (4 of Governors and 6 of early Explorers). Title page with portrait of Abel Janszoon Tasman. Soft covers, ilustrated front (The Arms of Tasmania). Near fine. 24.5 x 18.5.
Events: September 1953 to November 1954.
70876 TASMANIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY HUON PINE
$20.00 AUD
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. Hobart. 1977. 1st Ed. Introduction by D. R. Gregg. Compiled and edited by the staff at TMAG. 24 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 set of 16 drawings by J.D. Hooker, 1 drawing and 13 photos). Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 27 x 19. 0724602658
Publication coinciding with an exhibition at TMAG, 28 June to 28 August 1977.
18317 THOMAS, Leslie A WORLD OF ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
St. Martin's Press. New York. 1983. 1st US Ed. 208 PP with 70 b/w photos, plus 16 Colour plates. Fp: The Citadel Canal at Corfu. Eps: Mappemonde. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 19.5. 0312892233
A voyage through some of the world's most famous and romantic islands, with their history.
54887 THOMPSON, Edward K. HUNT, George P... (editors) ASIAN SPECTACULAR (Asia's Vacationland) - Special Double Issue (in Life International)
$30.00 AUD
Time-Life International. Amsterdam. 1964. Volume 37, No. 3, August 24, 1964. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover. Very good. 34.5 x 26.5.
Pre Olympic Issue for the Games at Tokyo (October 1964). Traveler Beware, by C. Northcote Parkinson. Pages 18 to 87: Japan, by Lee Griggs, Robert Fisher, Carleton Mitchell... Pages 90 to 104 South Seas... Hong Kong, by Dong Kingman. Singapore, by Richard M. Powers... Australia by Ernest Shirley...
35321 TIAKIHANA, Tamati NORFOLK ISLAND - Being a brief history of the descendants of the "Bounty" mutineers and other settlers of Pitcairn on both Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands
$20.00 AUD
Author. Norfolk Island. 1966. 1st edition with an introduction by the Honourable Roger Nott. 82 PP, plus 14 pages with 8 colour and 9 b/w photos. Card cover, pictorial front (with light wear). Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21.4 x 14.
34460 TOGHILL, Jeff LET'S TRY SAILING
$20.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illust. (sketches, drawings and photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5. 058950066X
Chapters: An Introduction, The Basic Bits and Pieces, The Fundamentals, Getting under Way, The Spinnaker, Safe Navigastion, Out in the Open, A Few Hints and Tips, Some Common Knots, Glossary of Sailing Terms..
44797 TOGHILL, Jeff THE BOAT OWNER'S MAINTENANCE MANUAL
$5.00 AUD
Reed. Sydney. 1979. Reprint in a limp edition of the 1970 original. 308 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches, photos). Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial soft. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24.7 x 18.2. 0589501445
70839 VINCENT, Thierry An EXPLORATION of the FATE of the AUSTRALIAN and TASMANIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS brought back by the BAUDIN EXPEDITION (in Explorations No. 63)
$15.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2017. Summer 2017-2018. 108 PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 25 with 1 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
Other article: (pages 26 to 52), The Adventurous Life of Juliette Lopès-Rastoul-Henry, by Yannick Lageat & Les Hetherington.
50326 VOITH VOITH-SCHNEIDER PROPULSION
$10.00 AUD
J. M. Voith GmbH. Heidenheim, Germany. 1975. December 1975 edition of 1000 copies. 8 PP with 1 diagram, 8 b/w photos and 3 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 15
18786 VON DER PORTEN, Edward P. THE GERMAN NAVY IN WORLD WAR TWO
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1972. 2nd printing of the 1972 Pan Books edition, (original UK of 1970). XVI, 286, (2 adv.) PP with 6 maps & diagrams, plus 16 pages with 17 bw photos. Paperback. Covers with a few creases, light foxing of edges, o/wise a good copy. 17.8 x 11. 0330232355
The development of the new German Navy, following Scapa Flow (June 1919), her pre-war years (secret building programmes...).
66195 WALKER, Frank B. THE DARK BETRAYAL
$20.00 AUD
Kingfisher Press. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. XII, 326 PP. Pictorial card cover. Dedicatory note on half title page dated and signed by the author. Front cover with light crease. Near fine. 21 x 14.7. 0646337661
Novel mixing fact and fiction. An Australian sailor on the trail of traders/traitors who were dealing with Germany and Japan during World War II.
55268 WALKER, George W. A HISTORY OF ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEWCASTLE, to commemorate One Hundred Years of Service on the Laman Street Site
$20.00 AUD
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Newcastle. 1989. 1st Ed. (2), VIII, 52 PP with 18 portraits, 25 b/w illustrations (1 facsimile of document, 2 plans and 22 photos) and 7 colour photos. 3 letters loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.
17757 WALLACE, Joseph THE DEEP SEA
$20.00 AUD
Gallery Books. New York. 1987. 1st Ed. 143 PP with bw and colour illust., (over 100 colour photos). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 26 x 26. 0831721774
Discoveries, exploration and studies of the oceans, since the days of William Beebe. Life without light - robot submersibles - treasure hunts - El Nino...
31841 WARE, J. K., Naval Historian AN OUTLINE OF AUSTRALIAN NAVAL HISTORY
$10.00 AUD
Department of Defence (Navy) / AGPS. Canberra. 1976. 1st Ed. VI, 90 PP with 24 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25 x 17.5. 0642022550
From the discovery and settlement to the post-Vietnam era.
20484 WARNER, Oliver A PORTRAIT OF LORD NELSON
$5.00 AUD
Reprint Society. London. 1959. Reprint of the 1958 original. XX, 331 PP with 2 battle plans and 4 facsimile of letters & signatures plus 4 pages with 8 bw illust. FEP: Plan of Attack of the Battle of the Nile. REP: A plan of the Battle of Copenhagen. Hard cover, dj (rubbed). Foxing, o/wise very good. 19 x 12.6.
53833 WARSHIPS THE GATEFOLD BOOK OF THE WORLD'S GREAT WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Brown Books. London. 1994. 1st Ed. (8) PP with 4 colour photos, plus 36 pull-out gatefolds. Each gatefold (29.5 x 86) with a cut-away in colour, and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, spiral bound. Fine. 30.7 x 26. 1897884028
From the Roman Galley and the Viking Longship, to the Dreadnought, the Nimitz etc...
36695 WASHINGTON, George WASHINGTON'S OFFICIAL MAP OF YORKTOWN
$15.00 AUD
National Archives. Washington. 1964. Reprint of the 1952 edition. National Archives Facsimile No. 21. (2), 6 PP with 1 head piece, plus colour map at centre fold. Soft cover, title vignette pasted down on front cover, bound with a tie. Staples removed, o/wise very good. 41.6 x 27.3.
A facsimile reproduction of the map of Yorktown at the time of Cornwallis' surrender, which resulted in American independence.
52310 WATELET, Marcel (editor) GERARD MERCATOR COSMOGRAPHE, le temps et l'espace
$125.00 AUD
Fonds Mercator Paribas. Antwerp. 1994. 1st Ed. Foreword by Hugo Weckx, and preface by Maurice Wollecamp. 445, (3 colophon) PP with b/w and colour illustrations, including 4 folded plates. Fp: Portrait anonyme de Gérard Mercator. Eps: Canevas pour la construction d'un portulan. Cloth cover, gilt device (Brass Compass) on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Illustrated slip case (an astrolabe). French text. Fine. 33 x 25.3. 9061533147
41553 WELLINGS, H. P. BENJAMIN BOYD IN AUSTRALIA (1842-1849)
$5.00 AUD
Bega News Print. Bega, NSW. c. 1980. Reprint. 48 PP with 1 head piece, 1 tail piece, and 11 b/w illust. Soft cover. Very good. 21.3 x 13.8.
Shipping Magnate: Merchant: Banker: Pastoralist and Station Owner: Member of the Legislative Council: Town Planner: Whaler.
70778 WHITE, Michael W. D. AUSTRALIAN SUBMARINES. A History
$80.00 AUD
AGPS. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Vice Admiral I. D. G. MacDougall. XIV, 284 PP with 94 figures (maps, sketches, photos), plus 1 folded plate (figure 37) with profiles of J5 and J6, and AEI and AE2 (between pages 86 & 87). Fp: Author at periscope of "Otway" in 1968. Pictorial soft cover, dj. Ex library copy with stamps on half title page and title page. Covers and dust jacket lightly rubbed/creased. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Still a very good copy of a now scarce item. 25 x 17.6. 064424397X
The fortunes of the Australian Submarine Service from 1910 to the present (1992).
70807 WHITINGTON, R. S. SIR FRANK - The Frank Packer Story
$25.00 AUD
Cassell Australia Ltd. Melbourne. 1971. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Robert Menzies. XII, (2), 306 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (1 cartoon and 8 facsimiles of cards), plus 16 pages with 26 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21.7 x 14.5. 0304939978
52012 WHITLOCK, Peter & PEARCE, William H.M.S. VICTORY AND ADMIRAL LORD NELSON
$5.00 AUD
Royal Naval Museum. Portsmouth. c. 1989. Reprint. 24 PP with 8 colour photos, and 29 colour illustrations. Inside front cover: Lord Nelson's Prayer. Pictorial soft cover. Top corner of back cover with a crease. Near fine. 29.8 x 20.8.
63189 WIDDOWS, Nick CAR FERRIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES 1992/3
$10.00 AUD
Ferry Publications. Kilgetty, Wales. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Bill Moses. 56 PP with 31 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on title-page. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 187194712X
Nautical Books. London. 1987. 5th Ed. 208 PP with 124 fig. & 50 b/w photos in text. Fp: At sea, but where?. Pictorial laminated boards. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 20.5 x 19.5. 0713657006
A manual for the RYA Yachtmaster Certificate.
50174 WILKES, Kenneth EXERCISES FOR THE OCEAN YACHT NAVIGATOR
$5.00 AUD
Nautical Books. London. 1980. 2nd edition of the 1980 original. 188 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial laminated boards. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 20.5 x 19.5. 0245536183
69893 WILSON, Barry SHARK BAY: Discover Monkey Mia & Other Natural Wonders
$10.00 AUD
CALM (Department of Conservation and Land Management) Publications. Perth. 1989. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 1 b/w illustrations (Portrait of William Dampier) and colour illustrations (1 map with location map and 46 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 21. 0730925323
11703 WILSON, Bruce COLONIAL IDENTITIES - Canada from 1760 to 1815
$25.00 AUD
National Archives of Canada. Ottawa. 1988. 1st Ed., in Records of Our History series. XII, 236 PP with 113 b/w and colour reproductions of archival records (maps, engravings, paintings ..). Eps: Seal hunting. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.2. 0660126664
The period of war and uncertainties which shaped modern Canada.
21012 WINTON, John (editor) THE WAR AT SEA 1939-1945 - An Anthology of Personal Experience selected and edited by John Winton
$5.00 AUD
Pimlico. London. 1994. Reprint of the 1967 original. Volume I in the Freedom's Battle series. XX, 416 PP, plus 16 pages with 17 bw photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on outside edges, o/wise very good. 23.3 x 15.2. 071266064X
The contributors: Winston Churchill, John Masefield, C.S. Forester, ..
41405 YSKA, Redmer AN ERRAND OF MERCY - Captain Jacob Eckhoff and the loss of the Kakanui
$20.00 AUD
Banshee Books. Wellington. 2001. 1st Ed. 106 PP with 26 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0473076993
Attempted rescue of a sealing gang stranded on Macquarie Island.
