Maritime Catalogue #114

77965
ADAMS, Brian
THE FLOWERING OF THE PACIFIC, Being an Account of Joseph Banks' Travels in the South Seas and the Story of his Florilegium
$20.00 AUD

Collins. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. 8, 194 PP with b/w & colour illust. & 16 full-page colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has small piece missing at bottom corner and is in a protective sleeve. Light foxing, otherwise near fine. 28.7 x 21.3. 0002174723

20575
ADAMS, R.B.
RED FUNNEL AND BEFORE
$10.00 AUD

Kingfisher Railway Productions. Southampton. 1986. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 1 map, 3 plans, 3 profiles & 194 bw photos. Title page: Normandie anchored at the Motherbank off Ryde. Eps: Advertisements for daily steamers excursions from Southampton. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28 x 21.8. 0946184216

Ships of the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 1861-1986.

77509
AITKEN, Richard
PLANTING DREAMS: Shaping Australian Gardens
$35.00 AUD

NewSouth Publishing / State Library of NSW. Sydney. 2016. 1st Ed. Foreword by Indira Naidoo. VIII, 248 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: The "Quadrangular Passion-flower. Eps: "Garden Palace, Sydney", ink & watercolour drawing by J.T. Richardson. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 23.5. 9781742234649

77064
AL NAIB, S. K.
DISCOVER LONDON DOCKLANDS - A to Z Illustrated Guide
$15.00 AUD

S. K. Al Naib / Ashmead Press. London. 1992. 1st printing, June 1992. 136 PP with 2 maps (Rail & Tube / Road & River) in colour inside covers, and b/w illustrations: 35 maps & plans, and over 200 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 9781874536000

An illustrated account of the River Thames views, new commercial and residential waterside developments, restored historic buildings, conservation areas and heritage trails in East London.

77543
ALBAOLA Itsas Kultur Faktoria
LE PAYS BASQUE MARITIME, Depuis le Baleinier "SAN JUAN"
$50.00 AUD

Elkar Argitaletxea / Albaola Elkartea. Pasai San Pedro, Spain. 2023. 2nd French edition of the 2017 original. Translated from the Spanish original by Irati Fernandez. Preface by Xabier Alberdi Lonbide. 123, (2 Index) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 25.6 x 21.2. 9788490277591

Seafaring Basque Country through the prism of building of the replica of the whaling ship "San Juan" (wrecked at Red Bay, on the coast of Labrador, Canada, in 1565).

77497
ANDERSON, Romola & R.C.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SAILING SHIP
$15.00 AUD

Dover. New York. 2003. Unabridged republication of The Sailing-Ship: Six Thousand Years of History, originally published in 1926. 212 PP with 134 figures, plus 16 pages with 20 half-tone plates. Pictorial soft covers. Bookplate of previous owner on FFEP. A near fine copy. 21.4 X 13.5.

History of the sailing ship: Egypt & Greece, Phoenicia & Rome, Northern & Southern ships, the ship of the line, the last days of the sailing ship.

77912
APPELDORFF, Gwendolyne
MORE MEMORIES OF COLLINSVALE
$20.00 AUD

Walter B. Pridmore / Regal Press. Launceston. 2005. 1st Ed. Foreword by Walter B. Pridemore and Professor Saxby A. Pridmore. 56 PP with 29 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front cover, staples. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0975123939

Settlement of "Bismark" started in 1872, by immigrants from Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Name changed to "Collinsvale" at the outbreak of World War I.

49852
APPLEYARD, H. S.
THE CONSTANTINE GROUP
$15.00 AUD

World Ship Society. Kendal, UK. 1983. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (1 funnel, 4 house-flags and 82 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 21.6 x 14. 090561724X

77508
ARTHUR, Dr. Paul Longley
VIRTUAL VOYAGES: Travel writing and the antipodes 1605-1837.
$45.00 AUD

Anthem Press / Wimbledon Publishing. London. 2001. 1st edition in the "Anthem Studies in Travel" series. XXIII, (3), 190 PP with with 31 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.2. 9780857284082

Chapter 4: Finding Paradise and Utopia in the Pacific. Chapter 5: Australia's Mythic Inland.

77964
ASHLEY, Clifford W.
THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS
$120.00 AUD

Doubleday & Company. Garden City, N.Y. 1993. Reprint No. 24 of the 1944 original. X, 620 PP with 7000 drawings representing 3824 knots, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w plates. Blue cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a few small chips, otherwise a near fine copy. 28.5 x 21.5. 0385040253

Every practical knot, what it looks like, who uses it, where it comes from, how to tie it...

77705
ATTENBOROUGH, David
JOURNEYS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD - Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist
$20.00 AUD

Two Books / Hachette UK company. London. 2018. 1st Ed. XII, 413, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (4 headpieces, 4 drawings, 5 maps and over 100 photos), plus 16 pages with 3 b/w and 16 colour photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 9781473666641

Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, Madagascar, Northern Australia.

78015
AUSTIN, K. A.
THE VOYAGE OF THE INVESTIGATOR 1801-1803 - Commander Matthew Flinders, R.N.
$30.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1964. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 11 line charts, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Matthew Flinders (in colour). Cloth cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, dust jacket with a few chips, otherwise near fine. 24 x 15.5.

Explorations & adventures of the first circumnavigator of the Australian continent and the first to name it "Australia".

77312
AUSTIN, Kevin (editor)
KARUMBA - Outback by the Sea
$15.00 AUD

Visual Obsession Pty. Ltd. Karumba, Qld. 2009. 1st Ed. 26 PP with 24 b/w and 50 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

34400
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 18, No. 2, 1994
$20.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide. 1994. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 44 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 29.6 x 21.

Contains articles: Stone-shank anchors of the Arab-Indian trade, by Gerhard Kapitän. Chinese Maritime History and nautical archaeology, by Hans Van Tilburg. The Batavia Project, by Robert Parthesius. Maritime Graffiti in Oman, by Sarah Kenderdine & Tom Vosmer.

73791
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA)
THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 18, No. 1, 1994
$25.00 AUD

AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide. 1994. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 29.6 x 21.

Contains articles: River Boats and "Rotten Rows': Wreck sites of the River Murray, by Sarah Kenderdine. The "Nelcebee", a South Australian coastal steamer, by R.T. Sexton.

77741
BAERT, Annie
LES CONDITIONS PRATIQUES DES VOYAGES DE MENDAÑA ET QUIROS EN OCEANIE
$300.00 AUD

Université Française du Pacifique. Papeete. 1994. Thesis under the guidance of Professeur Paul de Deckker and Eric Conte. 187 PP (typescript recto only) with XV b/w illustrations (2 portraits, 2 signatures of Mendaña and Quiros, 3 charts on full page, 1 folded sketch chart by Prado y Tovar, 3 folded maps of the 2 voyages of Mendaña and the voyage of Quiros and Vaez de Torres). Soft covers with light foxing, illustrated front page, spiral bound. French text. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

Mémoire de D. E. A. "Espaces, Temps et Sociétés dans le Pacifique Insulaire".

77828
BAILEY, Garry (editor)
HOBART'S BICENTENARY : 1804-2004 (Special Commemorative Souvenir Magazine)
$25.00 AUD

The Mercury. Hobart. 2004. Special Supplement: 20th February 2004. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft covers. Fine. 40 x 27.5

A celebration of our city: Looking Forward, ...

75456
BAILEY, Lieutenant-Colonel F. M.
MISSION TO TASHKENT
$15.00 AUD

The Folio Society. London. 1999. 1st Folio edition, (reprint of the 1992 amended edition, 1946 original). Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. XXIV, 270 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Fp: Author as a Russian soldier. Quarter bound, gilt title on cloth spine, illustrated covers, slipcase. Near fine. 25 x 17.

Collapse of the Russian Empire in 1918: aftermath in central Asia.

77429
BAINES, Jocelyn
JOSEPH CONRAD - A Critical Biography
$20.00 AUD

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1969. September 1969 edition, in the "Weidenfeld Goldbacks" series. (12), 507 PP. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Very good. 21.5 x 14. 0297747282

77245
BAIRD, Neil (editor)
FISHING VESSEL YEARBOOK, Volume 4 - 1984
$10.00 AUD

Baird, McPherson Publishing. South Yarra. 1984. Yearly edition. 206 PP with tables, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page, otherwise very good. 29.8 x 21.

Pages 11 to 149: Review of close to 50 vessels. ... Pages 151 to 194: Gear, Gadgets Guidance. Pages 207 to 1444: Australian Fishing Industry Directory and Buying Guide.

15893
BAKER, W.A. & TRYCKARE, Tre
THE ENGINE POWERED VESSEL, From Paddle-Wheeler to Nuclear Ship
$15.00 AUD

Crescent Books. New York. 1972. 1st U.S. edition. 268 PP with 225 b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, decorated boards, dj. Very good. Oblong: 25.7 x 27.2.

The development of increased efficiency in the use of energy by ships, the key steps which led to a revolution in marine transport.

77350
BANISTER, Dr Keith & CAMPBELL, Dr Andrew (editors)
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF UNDERWATER LIFE
$35.00 AUD

George Allen & Unwin. London. 1985. 1st Ed. No. IV, in the "Unwin Animal Library". XVI, 288, XVII-XXXII PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, location maps and photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 28.8 x 22. 9780045000357

16468
BANNISTER, Dr. Keith
THE BOOK OF THE SHARK
$15.00 AUD

Apple Press. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w or colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 28.6 x 22.3. 185076123X

Full listing of species in the 8 orders of sharks. Description of the startling nature of the shark's sense mechanism, anatomy, physiology ...

77861
BARRON, Steve
THE WORLD'S LARGEST WOODEN SHIP (in Ships Monthly Vol. 57, No. 9)
$10.00 AUD

Kelsey Publishing. Yalding, Kent. 2022. September 2022 issue, edited by Nicholas Leach. 68 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article, pages 28 to 32, with 5 b/w and 7 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.5 x 20.

Career of "Solano", a Train Ferry (LOA: 129 m / Breadth: 35 m and Draught: 2 m), built in America in 1879, for crossing the Carquinez Strait, San Pablo waters / San Francisco Bay. Other articles: Remembering "Todd Pacific Shipyard, by Patrick Boniface / Six Dreadful Months: The Royal Navy's wartime low point from 1941 to 1942, by Conrad Waters.

77388
BARTER, Susan (editor).
DEVONPORT - A Pictorial Past
$20.00 AUD

Devon Historical Society. Devonport, Tas. 1988. 1st Ed. No pagination, 56 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map, 5 drawings, 5 advertisements and c. 130 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. 1 newspaper clipping, loosely inserted. Fine. 24.8 x 18.3. 0959321926

77868
BASTOCK, John
SHIPS ON THE AUSTRALIA STATION
$140.00 AUD

Child & Associates. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear-Admiral David Martin. 175 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, sketch plans & photos), plus 12 pages with 15 colour paintings by the author. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 29.3 x 22.4. 0867773480

The first illustrated listing of all the ships which served on the Australia Station.

77562
BELASH, Constantine A.
BRAIDING AND KNOTTING Techniques and Propjects
$15.00 AUD

Dover Publications, Inc. New York. 1974. Unabridged republication of the 1936 original by Beacon Press. IV, 126, (16 catalogue of Publications) PP with 57 plates by Charles E. White, Jr.. Stiff covers, illustrated front cover. Front cover with slight rubbing. Very good. 20.3 x 13.8. 9780486230597

77552
BELIN, René
LA FAYETTE, La Passion de la Liberté
$35.00 AUD

Imprimerie Villière / Bibliotheque du Patrimoine. Le Puy-en-Velay. 2012. April 2012 edition. 141, (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. French text. Fine. 19 X 15. 9782366790016

50 panels/views on the life and destiny of Marquis de La Fayette.

77670
BENITEZ-JOHANNOT, P. & BARBIER, Jean Paul
SHIELDS - Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania, from the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum
$40.00 AUD

Musée Barbier-Mueller & Prestel Verlag. Geneva / Munich. 2000. 1st Ed. Foreword by Alain-Michel Boyer. 255 PP with b/w illustrations (23 maps including 21 location maps, drawings and over 130 figures), and 100 colour plates. Fp: Engraving of Massai Warrior. Cloth cover, dj. A fine copy. 31 x 23.5. 9788881182077

Art of New Ireland.

77704
BENJAMIN, Thomas
THE ATLANTIC WORLD - Europeans, Africans , Indians qnd Their Shared History, 1400-1900
$35.00 AUD

Cambridge University Press. New York. 2009. 1st paperback edition. XXX, 721 PP with 38 tables, 40 maps and 60 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Front cover with a crease at lower fore corner and a short tear at foot of spine (repaired). Very good. 25.3 x 18. 9780521616492

77669
BENT, John G.
MAN'S FIRST WINGS: The Romance of Tall Ships - A photographic Essay
$40.00 AUD

American Crest Enterprises, Inc. Providence, Rhode Island. 1976. 1st Ed. Introduction by Barclay H. Warburton III. Essay: 12 pages with 26 b/w photos with Literary Commentary by John M. Formwalt, plus 24 colour photos tipped in on Black Suppoprt (Photos: 27.2 x 20. 5 / Support: 32 x 32). Contained in a brown hard cover slipcase. Gilt device and title on front cover, gilt title on spine. Front cover of "Photographic Essay" with minor insect damage. Copy lacking the colour photo "Three tall ships: Dar Pomorza, Poland / Tovarisch, USSR / Mircea, Romania, riding at Anchor on a misty early mornig in Newport". An otherwise near fine copy. 33.5 x 33.5.

73351
BICHENO, Hugh
ELIZABETH'S SEA DOGS: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas
$20.00 AUD

Conway. London. 2013. 1st paperback edition of the 2012 original. 399 PP with tables and 48 b/w illustrations (1 graph, 1 plan, 2 armorial crests, 2 engravings, 8 charts and 16 maps, 18 drawings of "ship types"), plus 16 pages with 1 b/w and 20 colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9781844862146

77880
BINKS, Chris
JULIE BURGESS - The Story of a Bass Strait Fishing Ketch
$35.00 AUD

Devonport City Council. Devonport, Tas. 2012. 1st Ed. VIII, 55 PP with 32 b/w illustrations (1 sail and rigging plan, 1 pen and wash drawing by John Cole and 30 photos). Eps: sketch map of Bass Strait. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine. 23.5 x 15.8. 9780646580463

77694
BISSET, Sir James & STEPHENSEN, P. R.
COMMODORE - War, Peace and Big Ships
$125.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1961. 1st Ed. X, 470 PP, plus 32 pages with 50 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): H.M. Transports Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth off Sydney Heads, 4th April 1942. Eps: Decks of a troopship. Hard cover, spine lightly sunned. Dedicatory note on recto of frontispiece, dated and signed by the author, and a short letter dated and signed by the author tipped in on verso of "Contents" page. Near fine. A rare item. 22.2 x 15.

The life at sea of Sir James Bisset between 1913 and the end of WWII from Mate to Captain of the Queen Mary.

77695
BISSET, Sir James & STEPHENSEN, P. R.
SAIL HO! - MY EARLY YEARS AT SEA
$125.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1959. Reprint of the 1958 original. XVI, 288 PP, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Coloured frontispiece: A full-rigged ship with all sail set in a fair breeze at dawn (painting by John Allcot). Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears and small pieces missing at head and foot of spine and in a protective sleeve. Dedicatory note on the verso of title page signed by the author. Contents near fine. Scarce. 22 x 14.

The first 21 years of the life of Sir James Bisset. A full account of his voyages as an apprentice, able-seaman and second-mate in cargo-carrying sailing vessels.

77639
BLAINEY, Geoffrey
IN OUR TIME
$20.00 AUD

Information Australia. Melbourne. 1999. 1st Ed. VI, 194 PP. Hard covers, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 16. 9781863502726

Collection of articles written in the 1990s. The Black Armband View of History. ... Who is The Typical Australian ? ... Cyclone Keating ... What Kind of a Republic ?

77476
BLASHFORD-SNELL, John & SNAILHAM, Richard
KOTA MAMA - Retracing the Lost Trade Routes of Ancient South American Peoples
$15.00 AUD

Headline Book Publishing / The Scientific Exploration Society. London. 2000. 1st Ed. XIV, 272, (1) PP with b/w illustrations (4 maps and 22 head-pieces), plus 16 pages with 43 colour photos. Title page: the 2 reed boats. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 15.7. 9780747222811

The Kota Mama Expedition and trade between Lake Titicaca and Buenos Aires.

77730
BLEWITT, Mary
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION FOR YACHTSMEN
$15.00 AUD

Adlard Coles Nautical. London. 1997. 11th edition of the 1950 original. 72 PP with tables and 38 figures. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.8. 9780713646238

56380
BOLE, A. G., DINELEY, W. O., & NICHOLLS, C. E.
THE NAVIGATION CONTROL MANUAL
$20.00 AUD

Heinemann. London. 1987. 1st Ed. X, 306 PP with over 5 tables and over 90 figures. Laminated boards. Name of previous owner on front endpaper and title page, o/wise near fine. 25 x 19. 0434901652

77094
BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline & TERRY, Martin (editors)
TERRE NAPOLEON, An Encounter
$40.00 AUD

Alliance Française/State Library of South Australia. Adelaide. 1986. 1st Ed., with a foreword by John Bannon, Premier of South Australia and a preface by Jean Terrassin. X, 28 PP with 6 b/w illustrations (4 portraits (2 photos, 2 drawings) and 2 drawings by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, and 5 advertisements, plus 4 pages with 4 colour plates. Stiff covers, illustrated front (Bust of an aborigine, by Nicolas Petit). Covers with light wear. Letter dated 10 November 1986, from Barbara Perry, Pictorial Librarian, National Library of Australia, to His Excellency Mr. E. R. Pocock, Australian Ambassador to the USSR, thanking him for the loan of his watercolour "Animaux de la Nouvelle Hollande, 1807" by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, loosely inserted. Near fine. Scarce. 24 x 16.7.

Catalogue of the exhibition organised for the Sesquicentenary of South Australia, with the Collection "Lesueur" from Le Havre.

66206
BONNER, Kit and Carolyn
WARSHIP BONEYARDS
$35.00 AUD

MBI Publishing. Osceola, Wi. 2001. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 27 x 21. 0760305943

On the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facilities and the National Defense Reserve Fleets of the USA.

77793
BORTHWICK, David, BELCHER, Barbara & HUTSON, Jonathan
REVIEW OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK ACT 1975 - Review Panel Report
$30.00 AUD

Department of the Environment and Heritage / Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Hon. Ian Campbell, Senator. XIV, 204 PP with 13 figures 14 tables and 27 maps in colour. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 064255305X

32535
BOWEN, John (editor)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 14 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$25.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1975. Number 14, December 1975. P. 103-208 with b/w illust. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 21.5 x 19. 0851770932

Contents: Lake Champlain by John Bowen; The French galley La Reale, Part 4 by P. Heriz-Smith; River Murray steamers by R.T. Sexton; Modelling the paddle steamer Albion, Part 1 by Brian King; The Denny collection of plans by David Lyon; Researching wooden warships, Part 2 by Robert Gardiner.

41106
BOWEN, John (editor)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 75 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$15.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1991. Number 75, March 1991. 72 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0851775713

Contents: The Naval Gig by Douglas Hamby; Steam Whaler Hope (1873) by Donald McNarry; In Search of a Prototype: L'Astrolabe by Peter Heriz-Smith; HM Torpedo Boat No.80 by Dana L. McCalip; Flat Bottom Fishing Boats of the French Mediterranean Shore by Walter Gaspard; Queen of the Jute Clippers: Coriolanus (Part III) by R. McCarthy; Hull Frame Line Mould Models by Clyde M. Leavitt; Paddle Tug Mana (1890) by Phil Thomas; Miniature Merchantmen; SS Politician 'The Whiskey Ship' by John Bowen, ...

45515
BOWEN, John (editor)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 24 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$20.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1978. Number 24, June 1978. 72 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Inside front cover: The "Leudo", approaching Sestri Levante, 1903. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.

Contents: US Gunboat Number 12 by Clem Robinson; HMS Fidget by Ray Cattle; Wonder 1860: An Itchen Ferry Boat by Alastair Brown; The Genoese Leudo by G. Morino; The Lateen Mizzen in Europe by Peter Hodges; Blue Funnel Cargo Liner Machaon, Conclusion by Geoff Michell; Classic Ships No.3: Endeavour by R.A. Lightley, ...

45866
BOWEN, John (editor)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 20 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$25.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1977. Number 20, June 1977. 98 PP ( 290-388) with b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 24 x 18.5.

Contents: The Thornycroft Plans Collection, Part 3 by David Lyon; 'Bar' class Boom Defence Vessels by P.N. Thomas; A Dutch Yacht by Dr. Giovanni Santi-Massini; Fittings for Wooden Warships: Part 3, Guns, by Robert Gardiner; The Coasting Ketch 'Clara May' by Alistair Brown; A Working Model 'cigar Ship' by Colin Gross; Stuart Yacht, Part 3 by John Blight; Minnewaska by John Bowen, ..

45872
BOWEN, John & GARDINER, Robert (editors)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 19 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$20.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1977. Number 19, March 1977. 98 PP ( 194 -292) with b/w illustrations. Fp: American Revolutionary War Privateer "Oliver Cromwell". Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 18.8. 0851771033

Contents: Stuart Yacht Part 2 by John Blight; Fittings for Wooden Warships, Part 2 by Robert Gardiner; Bomb Ketches: Part 1, 1670 to 1700 by David Wray; Building a Model Whaleboat by Jack Kitzerow; Grenado, Part 4 by Bob Lightley; Ships that Served: Clyde Ferries by P.N. Thomas, ...

45873
BOWEN, John & GARDINER, Robert (editors)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 18 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$25.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1976. Number 18, December 1976. 98 PP ( 96- 196) with b/w illustrations. Fp: New York pilot schooner. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 18.8. 0851771025

Contents: Gun Mountings 1: 12 pounder QF gun by John Roberts; Grenado, Part 3 by Bob Lightley; Single Hatch Coasters by P.N. Thomas; The Thornycroft Collection of Plans, Part 2 by David Lyon; Olivebank, Part 4 by Harry Boyd; Stuart Yacht, Part 1 by John Blight; Miniature Merchantmen: Megantic by John Bowen, ...

46057
BOWEN, John & GARDINER, Robert (editors)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 16 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$20.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1976. Number 16, June 1976. 100 PP with b/w illustrations. Fp: American Continental frigate Raleigh of 1776. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 18.8. 0851771017

Contents: An Extract from Falconer's Marine Dictionary; Brigantine Raven of Rye by Roger Glen; Thames Paddle Steamer Orlando by Bob Leader; Olivebank, Part 2 by Harry Boyd; La Reale, Part 6 by P. Heriz-Smith; Grenado by Bob Lightley...

46183
BOWEN, John & GARDINER, Robert (editors)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 15 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$25.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1976. Number 15, March 1976. 106 (206-312) PP with b/w illustrations. Fp: Model of a Stuart Royal Yacht (1661). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 18.8. 0851770940

Contents: Mersey Flats by Mike Stammers; The four masted barque Olivebank, Part 1 by Harry Boyd; The French galley La Reale, Part 5 by P. Heriz-Smith; The steam yacht Alva by Ian Sharpe; Mediaeval ships: The Kalmar Boat by Dr. G. Santi-Mazzini, The Nyvaig of Islay 1156 AD by J. Andrew ...

17216
BOWEN, John (Edit.)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 10 - A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models
$15.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1974. Number 10, December 1974. P.95-192 with b/w illust. Pictorial card covers. Near fine. 21.5 x 18.5. 851770827

Contents include: Steam Tug Seaway by P.N. Thomas; HMS Spey: Warship Modelling in Plastic, Part 1 by E.N. Wilson; HMS General Wolfe, by Alan Raven; Sea going Galleys of the Pharaohs by Fenton F. Robb, ...

44383
BOWEN, John L. (editor)
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT 11 - "A Quarterly Journal of Ships and Ship Models"
$20.00 AUD

Conway. London. 1975. Number 11, March 1975. (4), 192- 288 PP with b/w illust. Pictorial stiff cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 18.5. 851770835

Contents: Black Prince, Part 3 by J.L. Schofield; A Radio Controlled Chinese Junk by A.J. Brown; The French Galley La Reale, Part 1 by E.P. Heriz-Smith; HMS Sultana by Dana L. McColip; HM Armed Vessel bounty (1787) by N. Batchelor; Variations on a Ropemaking Theme by Ewart C. Freeston, ...

77804
BOYNE, John
MUTINY: A Novel of the Bounty
$20.00 AUD

Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press. New York. 2009. 1st US edition. XIV, 398 (1) PP with 2 maps on double page and 5 headpieces. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Remainder dot on bottom outside edge. Near fine. 24.4 x 16.3. 9780312538569

Maps of "Voyage of the Bounty" & Voyage of the Bounty's Launch.

77970
BREWINGTON, Dorothy E.R.
MARINE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS IN MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM
$60.00 AUD

Mystic Seaport Museum. Mystic, Conn., USA. 1982. 1st printing. IX, 219 PP with 476 bw illust. plus 18 plates in full colour. Fp: Gray Fog, by Clifford Warren Ashley. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing on prelims and last few pages, otherwise a near fine copy. 29.3 x 21.3. 0913372250

Catalogue of 635 entries covering American, European and Oriental Artists.

77205
BROMBY, Robin
AUSTRALIAN NAME TRAINS OF THE '70s
$15.00 AUD

Cromarty Press. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 1 map of Australia and 56 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong. 15 x 21. 0949675016

19301
BROWN, SON & FERGUSON
BROWN'S TRAWLERS AND FISHERMEN'S GUIDE, to the Board of Trade examinations for Second Hand and Skipper
$10.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1942. 2nd reprint of the 10th edition of 1937. VIII, 246 PP with bw and colour illustrations, plus 6 plates with charts (4 folded), and 3 colour plates (signals, national flags and buoyage). Cloth cover frayed and speckled. Dust jacket with pieces missing. Occasional foxing. War economy paper. Still a good copy. 19 x 12.5.

77403
BROXAM, Graeme
SHIPPING ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES - TASMANIA - Volume III: 1843-1850
$35.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing / Roebuck Book. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society Publication No. 45. XIV, 603 PP with 2 graphs,and 65 b/w illust. FEP: Map of Tasmania, c. 1850s. REP: An 1830s engraving of the Paddle steamer Seahorse. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 25.8 x 18. 0958656134

77408
BROXAM, Graeme
SHIPWRECKS OF TASMANIA'S WILD WEST COAST
$75.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. No. 44 in the Roebuck Books series. Foreword by Jack Loney. XXX, 471 PP with b/w illustrations (plans, maps, portraits, photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 24.8 x 17.6. 0646163817

Includes the wreck of the schooner Grondy late 1815, a study of the total wrecks, strandings, boating disasters... the hulks at Strahan, flotsam & jetsam.

77761
BROXAM, Graeme
A COLONIAL ENTERPRISE: The Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company 1852-1892
$55.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2025 1st Ed. 208 PP with tables and 40 colour photos and 74 b/w illustrations (1 map, documents, schedules & time tables, newspaper clippings, 15 portraits, postcards and photos). Half title page: crest of TSNC. Fp: House Flag. Pictorial laminated boards. Signed by the author on title page. New. 26.2 x 16.5. 9781763725942

Started in 1882 as a reliable link between Hobart Town and Melbourne. Amalgamation with Union Steamship of New Zealand in 1991.

77404
BROXAM, Graeme & NASH, Michael
TASMANIAN SHIPWRECKS - Volume 1 1797-1899
$75.00 AUD

Navarine Publishing. Canberra. 1998. 1st edition with a foreword by the Honourable John White. No. 51 in the Roebuck series. XVI, 342 PP with 7 maps and 87 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dated and signed by Graeme Broxam, co-author and publisher, on title page. Fine. 25.8 x 17.2. 0958656150

41844
BRUNTON, Paul (editor)
MATTHEW FLINDERS - Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life
$20.00 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

77395
BRYDEN, E. (editor)
SCRIMSHAW
$25.00 AUD

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 1963. 1st edition with a preface by Alfred W. Pedder, and a foreword by W. Bryden. 24 PP with 21 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front. Light soiling of covers with a little insect damage on front cover. Blind stamp of the "T.M.R. Library of T.M. Ramsay". Contents clean and a near fine copy. 24.6 x 18.4.

77633
BRYSON, Bill & TURNEY, Jon (editors)
SEEING FURTHER - The Story of Science and The Royal Society
$15.00 AUD

William Collins. London. 2019. Paperback edition of the 2010 original, with a preface by Sir Paul Nurse, President, The Royal Society (2010-15) Introduction by Bill Bryson. 464 PP with b/w illustrations (including 22 head pieces), plus 16 pages with 14 b/w and 36 colour illustrations. Title page: Vignette with Reflective telescope made by Newton in 1669. Soft covers. Near fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9780008301620

Chapter 3 - Lost in space: The Spiritual Crisis of Newtonian Cosmology, by Margaret Wertheim. Chapter 7 - A New Age of Flight: Joseph Banks goes Ballooning, by Richard Holmes. ... Chapter 12: Ten thousand wedges: Biodiversity, Natural Selection and Random Changes, by Steve Jones. ... Chapter 19: Confidence, Consensus and the Uncertainty Cops: Tackling Risk Management in Climate Change, by Stephen H. Schneider.

77841
BUJDEGAN, Andrew (editor)
THE TRADE - Newsletter for the Deep Thinker - Edition 2, 2013
$10.00 AUD

Defence Publishing Service. Canberra. 2013. Special Issue: 25th Anniversary of the Submarine Escape & Rescue Centre. Message from Commodore P.M.J. Scott, Director General Submarine Capability Navy Strategic Command. 56 PP with colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 30 x 21.

AE1 Memorial Service, by Leut Jack Abbott. Summarising the recent research into the Mystery of AE1. Excercise Talisman Sabre 2013. HMAS Dechaineux visits the South China Sea. ...

77872
BULL, Tas
FORE AND AFT (mostly sea stories)
$65.00 AUD

Halstead Press. Sydney. 2005. 1st edition with a foreword by Greg Combet (ACTU) & Padraig Crumlin (MUA). 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 27.8 x 22.

Life at sea and on the waterfront of this seafarer and union representative, hailing from Tasmania. Family history of his forebears from Norway.

76433
BULLEY, Anne
THE BOMBAY COUNTRY SHIPS 1790-1833
$120.00 AUD

Curzon Press. Richmond, Surrey. 2000. 1st Ed. Foreword by Anthony Farrington. XVI, 288 PP with 6 maps, and 12 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with small rub at top corner of front cover and in a protective sleeve. Bookplate of Professor Adrian Horridge on front endpaper. Foxing spots on top outside edge and a faint old stain at top of FFEP, otherwise this is a near fine copy. Scarce. 24 x 16. 9780700712366

Private merchant ships of India, dockyards and Parsi master builders.

77819
BURENHULT, Göran (editor)
GREAT CIVILIZATIONS - Society and Culture in the Ancient World
$20.00 AUD

Fog City Press / Weldon Owen Pty Ltd. San Francisco. 2003. 1st Ed. Volume 2, in The Illustrated History of Humankind series. 460 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title-page: Inka fortress at Cuzco. Half-title: Mycenae Gold Mask. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Short note to previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 27.3 x 21. 9781877019296

Mesopotamia and the first cities. ... Dynasties in China. Occupation of the Pacific Islands. Stone built Monuments of the South Pacific...

48424
CAMPBELL, Archibald
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD From 1806 to 1812
$50.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of the 1816 edition. No. 50 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. 288 PP, plus 1 folded map Track of the Eclipses longboat. (a Vocabulary of the Language of the Sandwich Islands between pages 227 and 251). Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette. Fine. 22 x 15.

Reminiscences of an English seaman who sailed with the Russian American Company from 1806 to 1812. Voyage... in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands were visited.

77818
CAMPBELL, Kay (editor)
TEMPEST - A Journey Log
$30.00 AUD

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Hobart. 2016. 1st edition with a foreword by Janet Carding, Director TMAG. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Stiff covers. Very good. 23.5 x 17

Exhibition of around 200 objects: Tasmania, Islands and Storms, and held at TMAG: 10 June to 20 November 2016. Guest Curator, Juliana Engberg. Painting: A shipwreck off a Rocky Coast, by Phillippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. Explorer and Hydrographer: Atlas du Voyage de d' Entrecasteaux, by Charles François Beautemps-Beaupre. ... Shipbuilding & Ship Models ... A Mountain Top by William Charles Piguenit ...

53230
CARCASSON, R. H.
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE REEF FISHES of Tropical Australia and the Indo-Pacific Region
$30.00 AUD

Collins. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 737 drawings, plus 48 plates with 400 illustrations in colour. Eps: Map of Northern Australian waters. Pictorial boards. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 20 x 13. 002196654

Close to 1800 species described.

77044
CARILLET, Jean-Bernard, ANDERSON, Gavin & HARRISON, Pete
DIVING & SNORKELING RED SEA
$15.00 AUD

Lonely Planet. Melbourne. 2001. 2nd edition of the 1995 original. 199, (1) PP with colour illustrations (18 maps & dive sites maps and photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 23 x 15.3. 9781864502053

Geography & History. Dive sites from gulf of Aqaba and Suez, to Yemen and Djibouti. Marine Life with 52 photos of fishes and Hazardous Marine Life with 12 photos. ...

77811
CARRUTHERS, Steven L.
JAPANESE SUBMARINE RAIDERS, 1942: A Maritime Mystery
$45.00 AUD

Casper Publications. Sydney. 2006. Revised edition of the 1982 original. 264 PP with 1 plan, 4 graphs, 8 maps and 63 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dated and signed on title page by the author. A fine copy. 23 x 16. 0977506304

Japanese midget submarine against the US defences at Pearl Harbour, the British forces at Diego Suarez and in Sydney Harbour.

76932
CHARLWOOD, Don
THE LONG FAREWELL
$15.00 AUD

Penguin Books. Melbourne. 1983. 1st paperback edition of the 1981 original. X, (2), 338 PP with b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 18. 0140047190

Settlers under sail from diaries kept by emigrants. The perils faced, the route, the ships, on board (accommodation & crew, surgeons & health...).

63129
CHEETHAM, Chris & HEINIMANN, Max
MODERN RIVER SEA TRADERS
$25.00 AUD

Authors. Teignmouth, Devon. 1992. 1st Ed. (6), 129 PP with graphs, tables and b/w illustrations (maps, plans, photos). Pictorial soft cover. A 10 page "Supplementary List" dated 08/02/1994, loosely inserted. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0951631713

Rivers of Europe (Austria to Yugoslavia), Russia, Turkey and Japan.

77869
CHITTLEBOROUGH, Anne, DOOLEY, Gillian, GLOVER, Brenda & HOSKING, Rick
ALAS, FOR THE PELICANS !: Flinders, Baudin & Beyond: Essays and Poems
$30.00 AUD

Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2003. Reprint of the 2002 original. Foreword by Lester-Irabinna Bigney. XVI, 222 PP with musical scores, 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. 9781862546035

Encounters - Flinders and Baudin, by Anthony J. Brown. Taming the Unknown: The Representation of Terra Australis by the Baudin Expedition 1801-1803, by Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby.

34192
CHRISTIAN, F. W.
EASTERN PACIFIC LANDS - Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands
$100.00 AUD

Robert Scott. London. 1910. 1st Ed. 269 PP, plus 6 maps (2 of them folded) and 56 b/w plates. Fp: A group of Tahitian men in festal attire. Rebacked copy retaining original red cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed, ageing of paper, o/wise very good. Scarce. 23.3 x 16.5.

Travel, adventure, and historical inquiry amongst the islands of Eastern Polynesia at the beginning of the 20th century.

39183
CHRISTIE'S
HISTORIC AUSTRALIA - Books, Manuscripts, Furniture, Silver
$15.00 AUD

Christie's Australia Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. 208 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 21.

Catalogue of a sale held in Sydney on 17th August 1998 with 794 items.

77969
CLARK, Arthur H.
THE CLIPPER SHIP ERA, An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews, 1843-1869
$40.00 AUD

G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 1911. January 1911 reprint of November 1910 original. XII, (2), 404 PP with Appendix & Index, plus 33 plates with 39 b/w illustrations. Fp: The Flying Cloud. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers with light edge wear. Signature of previous owner at top of FFEP and bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover. A little light foxing on prelims, otherwise a very good clean copy. 20.5 x 14.

77930
CLARK, Mary Shelley
SHIPS AND SHORES AND TRADING PORTS. A Social and Working Life of Coastal Harbours and River Towns in New South Wales
$35.00 AUD

Waterways Authority of NSW. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Honourable Carl Scully. VII, 8-218 PP with 31 location maps and 125 b/w photoss. Inside covers: sketch maps of the coasts of New South Wales (North Coast & South Coast). Pictorial soft covers with light wear and a small repaired chip. Near fine. 29.8 x 21. 0731388984

A Centenary of Federation Celebration.

36366
CLEGG, W. Paul
LONDON - DOCKS AND PORTS: 2
$20.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1987. 1st Ed. No. 2 in "Docks and Ports" series. 96 PP with 7 plans, 7 engravings and 136 b/w photos. Title page: London and St Katharine Docks, in the early 1950s. Half title page: A "Flat-iron" motor collier passes under Westminster Bridge in 1965. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 24 x 17.3. 0711016739

History of the Port's development. Port of London Authority... Developments at Tilbury.

77728
CLODE, Danielle
VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS. In Search of Terres Australes
$45.00 AUD

The Miegunyah Press & State Library of Victoria. Melbourne. 2007. 1st Ed. No. 87 in the Second Numbered series. XVI, 315, (3) PP with headpieces (on double page), 37 portraits and facsimile of manuscripts, plus 32 pages with 32 colour plates. Hard cover, dj. Small bump at top corner of back cover. Near fine. 20.5 x 13.5. 9780522852646

33793
CLUTTERBUCK, R. J.
ONE MAN'S LIST OF NAUTICAL WORDS, with a few notes on seamanship and some reminiscences of the Royal Navy
$30.00 AUD

Author. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. 108 PP with sketches by the author and 5 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 29.8 x 21.

From "Afterguard" a word helping to differentiate between yacht owner and the paid skipper and crew living forward, to "Yarn" and "Yawl".

76887
COAD, David
PIONEERS of Petcheys Bay, Wattle Grove and Lower Wattle Grove
$80.00 AUD

David Coad. Battery Point, Tasmania. 2024. 1st Ed. (6), 230 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 9781763606302

75313
COEN, A. J. (Tony)
RIVER & COASTAL VESSELS TRADING OUT OF HOBART 1832-2015
$120.00 AUD

Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd. Hobart. 2017. 1st Ed. Foreword by Hon. Craig Farrell. XII, 372 PP with hundreds of b/w and colour illustrations. FEP: Shipping Apples from Huonville. REP: ... A Way of Life. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine (as new condition). 30.2 x 21.5. 9780995408258

77907
COLEMAN, Ron
LAST VOYAGE OF LA PEROUSE - Missing: Explorer's disappearance creates a 200-year-old puzzle (in Australian Geographic)
$20.00 AUD

Australian Geographic Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1987. Volume 8, Issue Oct / Dec 1987. 119 plus (5) PP. Contains article from P. 84 to 99 with 1 map, 2 b/w illust. and 30 colour photos, plus 1 large folded colour plate (recto: map of Vanikoro Island / verso: plan of the Coral Graveyard ). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.8 x 21.

The 1986 Archaeological expedition to Vanikoro, Solomon Islands, on the wrecks of la Boussole and l' Astrolabe.

77600
COLLIER, Phil
RAINFOREST PLANTS OF TASMANIA - Plant Identikit
$15.00 AUD

Society for Growing Australian Plants Tasmanian Region. Hobart. 1992. 1st edition, March 1992. 64 PP with 1 b/w map of Tasmania and 67 colour illustrations by Betty Ellis, Nell Frankcombe, Christine Howells, Pat Hudspeth and Pat Kerrison. Inside front cover: map of Tasmania. Inside back cover: Index of Common Names. Stapled pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 16 x 11. . 0909830444

77601
COLLIER, Phil
WILDFLOWERS OF MT WELLINGTON - Plant Identikit
$15.00 AUD

Society for Growing Australian Plants Tasmanian Region. Hobart. 1988. May 1988 edition. 64 PP with 1 b/w map of Tasmania and 54 colour illustrations by Nell Frankcombe, Christine Howells and Laurel Thomas. Inside front cover: Map of Tasmania. Inside back cover: Index of Common Names. Stapled pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 16 x 11. . 0724620904

77414
COLLIN, David R.
KIRKCUDBRIGHT'S "PRINCE OF DENMARK" and her voyages in the South Seas
$30.00 AUD

Whittles Publishing. Dunbeath, Scotland. 2013. 1st Ed. X, 214 PP with 45 b/w illustrations (including 10 sketch maps, and 9 colour photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 24 x 17. 9781849950886

... Whaling, Bay Whaling, shipwrecked on Chesterfield islands 19th March 1863.

77640
CONRAD, Joseph
NOSTROMO - A Tale of the Seaboard
$25.00 AUD

Heron Books / Edito-Services S. A. Geneva. 1968. 1st edition in the collection "Joseph Conrad - Complete Works" distributed by Heron Books. XX, 366 PP, plus 16 plates with illustrations by Graham Byfield. Fp: Portrait of Joseph Conrad. Eps: in the rigging. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, blue ribbon page marker. Near fine. 20.6 x 12.2.

77641
CONRAD, Joseph
VICTORY - An Island Tale
$25.00 AUD

Heron Books / Edito-Services S. A. Geneva. 1968. 1st edition in the collection "Joseph Conrad - Complete Works" distributed by Heron Books. XX, 412 PP with 1 map, plus 10 plates illustrated by Pietro Sarto. Fp: Portrait of Joseph Conrad. Eps: in the rigging. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, blue ribbon page marker. Fine. 20.6 x 12.2.

77642
CONRAD, Joseph
LORD JIM - A Tale
$25.00 AUD

Heron Books / Edito-Services S. A. Geneva. 1968. 1st edition in the collection "Joseph Conrad - Complete Works" distributed by Heron Books. General introduction to the collection, by Malcolm Elwin. XXX, 418 PP, plus 10 plates illustrated by David Knight. Fp: Portrait of Joseph Conrad. Eps: in the rigging. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, blue ribbon page marker. Fine. 20.6 x 12.2.

77643
CONRAD, Joseph
ALMAYER'S FOLLY - A Story of an Eastern River / TALES OF UNREST
$25.00 AUD

Heron Books / Edito-Services S. A. Geneva. 1968. 1st edition in the collection "Joseph Conrad - Complete Works" distributed by Heron Books. (8) PP. Almayers Folly: 212 PP, plus 6 plates illustrated by Mick Müller. Tales of Unrest: 213-425 PP plus 5 plates illustrated by Jutta Ash. Fp: portrait of Joseph Conrad. Eps: in the rigging. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, Blue ribbon page marker. Fine. 20.6 x 12.2.

Tales of Unrest - Karain: A Memory, The Idiots, An Outpost of Progress, The Return, The Lagoon. The Lagoon was his first short story.

77644
CONRAD, Joseph
THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS" / TYPHOON / FALK
$25.00 AUD

Heron Books / Edito-Services S. A. Geneva. 1968. 1st edition in the collection "Joseph Conrad - Complete Works" distributed by Heron Books. (10) PP. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": 180 PP. Typhoon: 181- 282 PP. Falk: 283 - 382 PP. Plus 10 plates illustrated by Virginia Smith. Fp: portrait of Joseph Conrad. Eps: in the rigging. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, Blue ribbon page marker. Fine. 20.6 x 12.2.

77629
CONWAY, Roger & Navy Public Relations
NAVY - Afloat and Ashore 1992
$15.00 AUD

Showcase Publications Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. 32 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.8 x 21

Royal Australian Navy in 1992. RAN Afloat: Guided Missile Destroyers & Frigates, Destroyer Escorts, Submarines, Mine Warfare, Patrol Boats, Landing Ship Heavy, Landing Craft Heavy, Oiler Replenishment ... General Purpose Vessels, Support Craft. RAN Naval Aviation. Navy Ashore (17 establishements): HMAS Albatros ... HMAS Waterhen, HMAS Watson....

77711
COOPER, H. M.
THE UNKNOWN COAST, Being the explorations of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. along the shores of South Australia 1802
$225.00 AUD

H. M. Cooper. Adelaide. 1953. 1st edition limited to 500 hand numbered copies (No. 153/500). (14), 173 PP with 50 figures (12 charts and plans, coastal views, portraits...). Fp: Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. 1774-1814. Hard cover, spine sunned/browned. Offsetting of endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. 25.4 x 20.5.

43836
CORSINI, Capitano di Vascello Andrea & RESTANY, Pierre
AMERIGO VESPUCCI
$20.00 AUD

Dante Bigji. Milano. 1986. Revised edition of the 1983 original. 173 PP with colour photographs between pages 27 and 171. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, dj. Fine. Italian and English text. 30.5 x 24.5.

Three-masted sailing ship (with auxiliary engine power) of the Italian Navy. Launched 22 February 1931 at the Italian naval dockyard of Castellammare di Stabia.

77962
COTTON, Sir Evan & FAWCETT, Sir Charles
EAST INDIAMEN. The East India Company's Maritime Service
$40.00 AUD

Batchworth Press. London. 1949. 1st Ed. 218 PP plus 14 pages with 11 b/w plates. Fp: The Company's and other flags flown in Eastern waters (in colour). Cloth cover, dj. (price clipped and with a few chips, now in a protective sleeve). Neat signature of previous owner at top of FFEP, light foxing on outside edges, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.2.

The merchantmen fleet of the Honourable East India Company. The men and their ships, life on board, the Indiaman's sailors, the Company's flag, the voyages, some of the fights against the Dutch, the French and pirates.

77390
COWBURN, Joe & COX, Rita (compilers & editors)
NEW NORFOLK'S HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS - Series III
$25.00 AUD

New Norfolk Council's Bicentennial Community Committee / Derwent Printery. New Norfolk, Tas. 1987. Reprint of the 1986 original. X, 174 PP with b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Signature of previous owner and notes on title page. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 1862523037

77795
CRASE, Jann
INDIGENOUS MANAGEMENT OF MARINE TURTLE AND DUGONG: Legal and Policy Opportunities and Impediments
$15.00 AUD

North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance / Jann Crase Consulting. Darwin, NT. 2008. 1st Ed. 76 PP with tables and 3 diagrams. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780977588626

Consultancy Report.

77773
CROMAR, John
JOCK OF THE ISLANDS - Early Days in the South Seas: The Adventures of John Cromar
$100.00 AUD

Faber and Faber Ltd. London. 1935. 1st Ed. X, 344 PP, plus 16 ²²plates. Fp: Portrait of 'Jock' - John Cromar, 1934 - Seventy-Five years old. Red cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Small gift note on FFEP, 2 photos have faded annotations in margin, and one small marginal annotation on page 136. Light foxing on outside page edges, minimal foxing elsewhere and a near fine copy. Scarce. 20.7 x 14.

... Sometime Recruiter and lately Trader of Marovo, British Solomon Islands Protectorate told by himself.

77735
CULOTTA, Nino
COP THIS LOT
$30.00 AUD

Ure Smith Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1960. 4th impression (July 1960) of the June 1960 first edition. 220 PP with illustrations (endpapers, title page, 1 headpieces, 10 tailpieces and 1 endpiece) by "Wep". Illustrated hard covers, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears at head of spine. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 20.5 x 13.

Sequel to "They're a Weird Mob".

77834
CUNNINGHAM, Christopher (editor)
SMALL BOATS - 2022 Edition
$15.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Publications. Brooklin, Maine. 2022. March 2022 edition. 112 PP with line drawings, & plans, and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.5 x 20.7. 0928103402

A guide to trailerable small craft you can store and maintain at home. Some of the best of Small Boats Magazine.

45785
DALE, Paul W.
SEVENTY NORTH TO FIFTY SOUTH - The Story of Captain Cook's Last Voyage Wherein are Discovered Numerous South Pacific Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Coast of North America, and Alaska
$25.00 AUD

Prentice-Hall. New York. 1969. 1st Ed. XII, (2), 370 PP with 2 pages of sketches, 8 charts & maps, and 26 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Captain James Cook. Eps: Track of Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover, gilt decoration on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 17.

13811
DAVIS, Charles G.
SHIPS OF THE PAST
$15.00 AUD

Bonanza. New York. c. 1977. 1st Bonanza reprint (a) of the 1929 original. Introduction by Irving R. Wiles. X, 170 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 38 pages with b/w photos & line drawings. Fp: Knockabout Fishing Schooner "Helen B. Thomas" of Boston. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips, o/wise a very good copy. 28.2 x 21.7. 0517225492

18492
DAVIS, Charles G.
THE BUILT-UP SHIP MODEL
$25.00 AUD

Dover Publications Inc. New York. 1989. Unabridged reprint of 1933 original. VIII, 206, (18 publications) PP with 92 b/w plans & sketches, plus 40 pages with 37 b/w plates. Fp: Model of United States Revenue Brig Washington. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Attractive bookplate pasted down on recto of frontispiece. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 9780486261744

Modelling the US Brig Lexington.

76919
DAVIS, Charles G.
THE SHIP MODEL BUILDER'S ASSISTANT
$125.00 AUD

Marine Research Society. Salem, Mass. 1926. 1st edition. Publication No. 12 of the Marine Research Society. VIII, 275 PP, 3 PP (1 List of publications & 2 blanks), with tables and 280 figures (illustrated by author). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dust jacket browned around edges and in a protective sleeve. Attractive bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. Scarce. 24 x 16.

Different types of ship models. Masting, rigging & fittings.

77424
DAVOLL, Captain Edward S.
THE CAPTAIN'S SPECIFIC ORDERS, on the Commencement of a Whale Voyage to his Officers and Crew
$15.00 AUD

Trustees of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. New Bedford, Massachusetts. 1981. 1st edition. No. 81 in the "Old Dartmouth Historical Sketch" series. Foreword by Richard C. Kluger. 16 PP with portrait of Edward S. Davoll 1822-1863. Stapled card covers. Fine. 21.5 x 14.

Sketch Number 81, published 5th June 1981, on the occasion of the Opening of the Whaling Museum Library, New Bedford.

77785
de BROSSARD, Capitaine de Vaisseau
RENDEZ VOUS AVEC LAPEROUSE A VANIKORO
$35.00 AUD

Editions France-Empire. Paris. 1964.. 1st Ed. 304 PP with 9 maps, plus 24 pages with 40 b/w photos. Soft covers with some wear and a chipped dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Faint foxing, o/wise very good. French text. 19.3 x 14.

Voyage of Laperouse... and diving on the site of the shipwrecked vessels, Vanikoro Islands, Solomon Islands. .

77500
DE GROOT, Irene & VORSTMAN, Robert
MARITIME PRINTS BY THE DUTCH MASTERS
$50.00 AUD

Gordon Fraser. London. 1980. 1st UK edition. 284 PP with 290 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Fine. 30.5 x 28. 0860920526

Breughel, Rembrandt, Bol... P. 272 to 278: biographies. P. 279 To 281: glossary.

77878
DE JONG, Adriaan (compiler)
SPICE ADVENTURERS. The Original Logs of the Ship Gelderland 1601-1603
$100.00 AUD

Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation. Fremantle. 2002. 1st English edition translated from the original Dutch manuscript by Adriaan de Jong. Foreword by Graeme CocksIV, 216 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches, charts and coastal views). Inside front cover: Chart (in colour) with the route of the Gelderland from Holland to the Netherlands East Indies. Inside back cover: Chart (in colour) of the Netherlands East Indies. Pictorial stiff covers. A small foxing spot near the edge of last leaf 215-216. Otherwise a fine copy. 34 x 24. 9780958053617

Voyage from Holland to the Spice Islands of Ternate and Tidore.

73565
DE LA PEROUSE, Jean F.G.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1785, 1786, 1787 AND 1788 BY THE BOUSSOLE AND ASTROLABE (Volume I, Volume II and ATLAS)
$300.00 AUD

N. Israel / Da Capo. Amsterdam / New York. 1968. Reprint of 1799 English edition. Translated from the French original published by order of the National Assembly and L. A. Milet-Mureau. Volumes Nos. 27, 28 & 29 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (2), VIII, LVI, 539 PP. Volume II: (2), VIII, 532 PP (14 Index), (2 errata). Atlas: (6), 69 plates (views, plans, charts, engravings). Simile vellum, gilt title on blue label on front board and spine of each volume. Labels on front board rubbed in parts, and on spine with gilt lettering sunned. Very light foxing. A near fine set. Vol. I & II: 26 x 20. Atlas: 40 x 27. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.

Voyage of exploration towards "What Captain Cook had not discovered". Calls: Easter Island, California, Alaska, Macau.. Botany Bay.

77516
DEAR, Ian & KEMP, Peter (editors)
AN A-Z OF SAILING TERMS
$10.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1997. 2nd paperback edition of the 1992 re-issue. (6), 217 PP with 150 clear and informative illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front. Front cover with creases and wear around edges, otherwise contents are very good. 19.6 x 12.8. 019280068X

Detailed explanations of nearly 1 500 sailing terms.

77056
DICK, Michael
HALF OF GLASGOW'S GONE
$25.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd. Glasgow. 1986 1st Ed. XII, 128 PP with b/w illustrations (1 notice, 2 plans & 83 photos), plus 1 large folded sketch map "Clyde River". Stiff covers. Fine. 22 x 14.3. 0851745091

19373
DIXON, Douglas
THE KING'S SAILING MASTER - The authorized story of the life of Major Sir Philip Hunloke, G.C.V.O., Legion d'Honneur, etc. and of the House of Yvery, the Family of Hunloke in Derbyshire, together with a History of Yachting
$50.00 AUD

George G. Harrap. London. 1948. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 8 illustrations and diagrams, plus 36 pages with 57 b/w illustrations and 4 pages with 76 flags in colour. Fp: Sir Philip Hunloke. FEP: Map of the Thames estuary. REP: Map of the Solent waters. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, no dust jacket. A near fine copy. Scarce. 25.4 x 16.

Sir Hunloke, was for many years the King's Sailing Master. His history of yachting starts in the days of Charles II, and ends with the founding of the Royal Ocean Racing Club.

77991
DRAGE, Charles
TAIKOO
$50.00 AUD

Constable. London. 1970. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 9 sketch-maps, plus 30 pages with 35 b/w photos. Cloth covers with light edge wear, dj. Light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5. 0094569800

History of the firm John Swire and Sons founded in 1866 in Shanghai as Butterfield and Swire.

77765
DU RIETZ, Rolf
BIBLIOTHECA POLYNESIANA. A catalogue of some of the books in the Polynesiana collection formed by the late BJARNE KROEPELIEN and now in the Oslo University Library
$255.00 AUD

Heirs of Bjarne Kroepelien / Almqvist & Wiksell Boktryckeri AB. Oslo, Norway. 1969. 1st edition limited to 800 copies. Preface by Dagny Kroepelien schou Trygve Kroepelin. LXVIII, (4), 456 PP. Fp: Portrait of Bjarne Kroepelien. Cloth cover, red vignette with gilt lettering "Kroepelien Collection" on front cover, gilt title "Bioblitheca Polynesiana" on spine. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP. Compliment Card by Trygve Gran Kroepelien tipped in on front endpaper. A near fine copy. Scarce. 30.2 x 22.

Over 1368 entries, from: Finn Aasen and Aberdeen (No. 1) to Heinrich Zimmermann (No. 1368). Addenda and Corrigenda between pages LX and LXIV (concerning 64 of these entries).

72770
DUYKER, Edward
NATURE'S ARGONAUT - Daniel Solander 1733-1782, Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks
$45.00 AUD

The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1998. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. No. 17 in the Second numbered series of Miegunyah Volumes. XX, 380, (2) PP with 1 figure and 4 maps, plus 38 pages with 17 colour and 34 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj, ribbon page-marker. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 24.3 x 16. 0522847536

First full biography of the Swedish naturalist, who sailed on Endeavour for the first voyage of exploration of Captain Cook.

77333
DUYKER, Edward (editor)
THE DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA, Journal Extracts from the Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne
$45.00 AUD

St.David's Park. Hobart. 1992. 1st Ed. XIV, 106 PP with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial hard cover. Signed by Edward Duyker on half-title page. Name of previous owner at top of half-title page and title-page, otherwise a fine copy. 24.4 x 16.8. 0724622411

Transcription & translation into English of the journal extracts from the first two European expeditions to Tasmania: the Dutch with Tasman & the French with Marion Dufresne, respectively in 1642 & 1772.

77375
DVA / RAN
AUSTRALIA AND THE VIETNAM WAR
$20.00 AUD

Department of Veteran's Affairs. Canberra. 2023. 1st Ed. 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 9780645409321

77875
DYER, Colin
THE FRENCH EXPLORERS AND SYDNEY 1788-1831
$35.00 AUD

University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 2009. 1st Ed. XVI, 200 PP with about 10 tables, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Top corner of back cover with a light crease. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 9780702237034

During the calls at Sydney of 7 French Expeditions: Laperouse (1788) / Baudin (1802) / Freycinet (1819) / Duperrey (1824) / Hyacinthe de Bougainville (1825) / Dumont d'Urville (1826) / Laplace (1831).

77622
EAKIN, Chris
A RACE TOO FAR
$15.00 AUD

Ebury Press / Penguin Random House Group. London. 2016 1st paperback edition of the 2009 original. 320 PP with 5 maps, plus 16 pages with 38 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 19.7 x 12.7. 9781785034503

The tragic story of Donald Crowhurst and the 1968 "Golden Globe" round-the-world race (solo and non stop)..

77513
EDGAR, Graham
An Initial Survey of Potential MARINE RESERVES IN TASMANIA
$20.00 AUD

National Parks & Wildlife Service - Tasmania. Hobart. 1981. 1st Ed., May 1981. Occasional Paper No. 4. (4), 87 PP (typescript) with 6 colour photos, 5 tables and 15 figures (1 graph, 14 sketch maps and location mapsmaps). Soft covers, pictorial front, staples and cloth spine. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.2. 0724617612

77502
EDWARDS, Hugh
ISLANDS OF ANGRY GHOSTS - Murder, Mayhem and Mutiny: The Story of the BATAVIA
$20.00 AUD

HarperCollins. Sydney. 2002. Reprint of the 2000 revised edition, of the 1966 original. XII, 227 PP with 1 map (double-page) and 37 b/w illustrations (23 head pieces, 1 plan, 3 prints and 10 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 23.5 x 15.2. 9780732266066

20th century skin divers discover a 17th century shipwreck & treasure and reveal the final truth about the infamous Batavia mutiny.

77947
EDWARDS, Hugh
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SHIPWRECKS & SEA TRAGEDIES
$20.00 AUD

Mathews/Hutchinson. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. 136 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Wreck finds on the Gilt Dragon. Hard cover with shelfwear at bottom edge and dust jacket has a few repaired chips and is in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine.. 26.7 x 20. 090800110X

Wrecks & events from the earliest Dutch losses to the foundering of the Wahine, the Tasman Bridge disaster and the havoc created by Cyclone Tracy.

69324
ELLIS, Tony
THE SAILING BARGES OF MARITIME ENGLAND
$15.00 AUD

Shepperton Swan. Shepperton, Middlesex. 1982. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings, paintings and photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 14.5 x 21. 0906986036

77372
EVANS, Kenneth J.
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH ... A Christian pioneering journey through Circular Head from the past to the present
$75.00 AUD

K. J. Evans / Circular Head Chronicle. Smithton, Tas. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Trevor Marshall. 122 PP with 20 family trees and b/w illustrations: 4 plans of towns, 2 letters, 1 newspaper clipping, 85 photos & 6 portraits. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 28.8 x 21.2. 0731617126

74526
EYRE, Edward John
JOURNALS OF EXPEDITIONS OF DISCOVERY INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1 (in 2 Volumes)
$150.00 AUD

Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1964. Facsimile Reprint of the 1845 original. No. 7 in the "Australiana Facsimile Editions" series. Volume I: (2), XVIII, (2), 448 PP, plus 11 plates (6 of them on some new animals), and 1 folded map of Australia inside pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Fp: Tenberry with wife and child. Volume II: (2), VI, 512 PP with 1 drawing, plus 11 b/w plates and 1 large folded "Map of Mr. Eyre's Routes in Central Australia" inside the pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Fp: Distribution of flour at Moorunde. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. A near fine copy. 21.8 x 14.5.

..Sent by the Colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government, including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans.

77666
FAULKNER, Alan.
WILLOW WREN - The Story of a Canal Carrying Company
$25.00 AUD

Waterway Productions. Burton-on-Trent, UK. 1986 1st Ed. 40 PP with 2 tables, 1 map, 6 colour and 51 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover, pictorial front (Redshank and Greenshank on the Coventry Canal). Near fine. 24.7 x 18.5. 1870002008

Attempts to revive (1953-1970) "Canal" transport in England.

62062
LE FLEMING, H.M.
WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR I, No. 1 - Battleships (British and German Battleships and Battle Cruisers)
$5.00 AUD

Ian Allan. London. 1961. Revised edition of the 1959 original, in the ABC series. 64 PP with 65 b/w photos & 4 pages with drawings recognition features. Pict. card covers with slight insect damage around front edge. Contents very good. Small format: 18 x 12.5.

From wooden walls to steel battleships (1861-1893) and dreadnoughts, naval events 1906-1918.

77721
FORESTER, C. S.
HORNBLOWER GOES TO SEA
$5.00 AUD

Puffin Books / Michael Joseph. London. 1975. Reprint of the 1972 edition in the Puffin Books series. Selection by G. P. Griggs. 188, (4) PP with b/w illustrations by Geoffrey Whittam. Fp: Soames standing up in the sternsheet... Pictorial soft covers. Covers with creases. Name on front margin of half-title page, occasional foxing. Very good. 18 x 11.

77722
FORESTER, C. S.
THE HAPPY RETURN
$10.00 AUD

Penguin Books / Michael Joseph. London. 1987. Reprint of the 1951 paperback edition. 237 PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 18 x 11. 9780140008357

Hornblowers orders are to sink and destroy.

77724
FORESTER, C. S.
BROWN ON RESOLUTION
$10.00 AUD

Triad / Mayflower Books. St. Albans, Herts. 1977. 1st paperback edition of the 1929 original. 155 PP, (4 publications). Pictorial soft covers with a few marks. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18 x 11. 0583128181

Autumn 1914: Leading Seaman Albert Brown and his war against the German raider Ziethen, on the island of Resolution, Galapagos Archipelago, Pacific Ocean.

77732
FORESTER, C. S.
THE SKY AND THE FOREST
$20.00 AUD

Michael Joseph. London. 1948. 1st Ed. 219 PP. Top outside edge tinted. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine. 19 x 13.

Historical novel.

77763
FORREST, Thomas
A VOYAGE TO NEW GUINEA AND THE MOLLUCAS: 1774 - 1776
$175.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Kuala Lumpur. 1969. 1st edition in the "Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints" series (facsimile reprint of the 2nd edition of 1780). Introduction by D. K. Bassett. (4), 22, XXIV, 412 PP with 2 musical scores on page 304, plus 33 plates, most of them folded: Portrait of Thomas Forrest, General Map, Views, Charts , Coastal Views, Plans ... Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed on front and with repaired tear at head of spine, now in a protective sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 27.5 x 22.

Voyages performed on the "Tartar Galley", a native craft of 10 tons burden from Balambangan, Northern tip of Borneo (9th of Novmber 1774) to Mollucas, North West part of New Guinea, Southern part of Mindanao...Return to North Borneo in June 1776.

75312
FOX, Uffa
SAIL AND POWER
$100.00 AUD

Peter Davies. London. 1948. 3rd reprint of the 1936 original. VIII, 388 PP with over 400 plans, photos and diagrams. Fp: Roland Von Bremen, winner of this year's Transatlantic Race from Bermuda to Cuxhaven. Blue cloth cover, gilt device on front cover. Hinges lightly rubbed. Slight ageing of the paper around the edges. Still a near fine copy. Image shows title page and frontispiece. 27.8 x 21.5.

A companion volume to "Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction" and Uffa Fox's Second Book.

77709
FUNNELL, William
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF CAPTAIN DAMPIER'S EXPEDITION INTO THE SOUTH-SEAS IN THE SHIP ST.GEORGE IN THE YEARS 1703 AND 1704
$35.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of the 1707 original. No. 57 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. (26), 300, (18 Index) PP, plus 4 folded maps & 10 plates with 33 b/w figures. Fp: Folded map of the world. Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine), glassine protection. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 9060720067

77720
GALL, Jennifer
IN BLIGH'S HAND: Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty
$30.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2010. 1st edition in the National Library of Australia Collection Highlights series. Foreword by Peter Cochrane. (6), 234 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: Chart of the South West Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Near fine. 25.7 x 22.5. 9780642277053

75761
GANDY, Captain Dick
THE AUSTRALIAN BOATING MANUAL
$25.00 AUD

Sydney Maritime College, Group P/L. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed. 572 PP with hundreds of b/w or colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips. Name of previous owner on FFEP, otherwise a near fine copy. 27.6 x 20.5. 0959319980

77825
GARNER, John
HOW TO MAKE AND SET NETS, or The Technology of Netting
$25.00 AUD

Fishing News (Books) Ltd. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 95, (8 adverts) PP with 2 charts and 58 figures (40 in text & 18 in appendix). Cloth covers, gilt title on front cover. Spine with a sunned title, and top of spine is torn with cloth missing on 6 cms. Occasional foxing. Price punched out at lower corner of front endpaper. Internally clean and still a very good reading copy. 25.2 x .19.

Pages 78 to 95: Dictionary of Fishing Gear and Terminology (approximately 1000 terms.

77186
GARRATT, Colin (editor)
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF BRITISH STEAM TRAINS
$25.00 AUD

Milepost Publishing / Arcturus. Newton Arthur, UK. 1995. 1st Ed., with introductions by Colin Garratt on the work of The Rev. A.W.V. Mace. No pagination, c. 190 PP with c. 252 b/w photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 29.6 x 23.. 9781900193054

GWR: Great Western Railway / LMS: London Midland & Scottish Railway / LNER: London & North Eastern Railway / SR: Southern Railway.

34604
GARRIGUE, Claire & GREAVES, Jacqui
NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE, UN RENDEZ-VOUS POUR LES BALEINES - New Caledonia, A Rendezvous for the Humpback Whale
$130.00 AUD

Editions Catherine Ledru. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 1 map, 1 duotone illust., and hundreds of colour photos. Includes an audio CD of Humpback whale songs recorded in the lagoon of New Caledonia. Hard cover, dj. Fine. French and English text (preface and acknowledgments in Japanese). 25.5 x 25.5. 2950578411

The humpback whale at a glimpse. Life and behaviour of the humpback whale.

77487
GEE, Helen & FENTON, Janet (editors)
THE SOUTH WEST BOOK - A Tasmanian Wilderness
$30.00 AUD

Australian Conservation Foundation. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Ed. Foreword by Sir Mark Oliphant. Introduction by Professor W.D. Jackson. XII, 308 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & paintings, graphs, maps, plans, photos...), plus 12 pages with colour illustrations (1 map on double page and 23 photos). Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears in a protective sleeve. Very good. 28.5 x 21.5. 0858020564

77892
GELL, Phil, STUART, F.E. & FORSTER JOY, W.H. (editors)
THE AUSTRALIAN MOTOR BOAT & YACHTING MONTHLY - VoL. II, No. 3 - July 1926
$25.00 AUD

Australian Motor Boat & Yachting / Royal Motor Yacht Club of New South Wales. Sydney. 1926. 52 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft wrappers. Lower corner of front cover torn. Staples removed. Very good. 28 x 22.5.

Articles: A Southern Cruise "Telopea" tempest tossed. Whirling Westerlies, Historic Associations. Port Stephens and the beautiful Myall Lakes, by Syd. M. Dempster.

77893
GELL, Phil, STUART, F.E. & ULM, E. G. (editors)
THE AUSTRALIAN MOTOR BOAT & YACHTING MONTHLY - VoL. IV, No. 4 - August 1928
$20.00 AUD

Australian Motor Boat & Yachting / Royal Motor Yacht Club of New South Wales. Sydney. 1928. 44 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft wrappers. Front cover slightly rubbed and soiled. Staples removed. Very good. 28 x 22.5.

Articles: Fire !!! Are You Prepared ? The grim spectre that haunts you - Yachtsmen must fight the danger. "Saugenay" Merry Trip: Melbourne to Sydney and return, by R. Champion.

77610
GIBSON, Eve
WALKS AROUND HISTORIC BELLERIVE
$20.00 AUD

Bellerive Historical Society, Inc. Bellerive, Tas. 2010. 1st Ed. (4), 68 PP with 27 b/w and 83 colour illustrations (4 plans and 79 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780975809938

74521
GILES, Ernest
AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED:The Romance of Exploration, being a Narrative compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 (in Two Volumes)
$150.00 AUD

Doubleday. Sydney. c. 1980. Facsimile limited deluxe edition of the 1889 original, (No.71/100). Front endpaper of Vol. I, with text and number of this limited edition. Volume I: LX, 320 PP with 11 b/w illustrations, plus 3 large folded maps and 11 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Ernest Giles. Volume II: X, (2), 363 PP with 12 b/w illustrations, plus 3 large folded maps and 9 b/w plates. Fp: View on Peterman Range. Hard covers, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj (glassine protection). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 23 x 15. 0868240168

77591
GILLETT, R. & MELLIAR-PHELPS, M.
A CENTURY OF SHIPS IN SYDNEY HARBOUR
$25.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1980. 1st Ed. 160 PP with over 200 b/w photos. Title spread: Argentinian training ship, Sydney Harbour 1970. Eps: Great Ferry Race of 1980. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 26 x 21. 0727012010

Sydney's sailing ships, ferries, tugs, liners, warships ...

48432
GILLETT, Ross
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WARSHIPS 1914-1945
$20.00 AUD

Doubleday. Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed. 360 PP with 600 b/w photos & 100 line drawings. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a few repaired tears and faded spine. Signature of previous owner on FFEP. Very good. 26.2 x 26.2. 0868240958

77885
GIORGETTI, Franco
HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF SAILING YACHTS
$25.00 AUD

White Star. Vercelli, Italy. 2000. 1st edition, translated from the Italian by Neil Frazer Davenport. 304 PP with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Hard cover, gilt title in blind on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. Large format: 36.2 x 26.5. 8880954466

A lavish publication full of information.

77713
GOETZFRIDT, Nicholas J. (compiler)
INDIGENOUS NAVIGATION AND VOYAGING IN THE PACIFIC: A Reference Guide
$110.00 AUD

Greenwood Press. Westport, Ct. 1992. 1st Ed. No. 6 in the Bibliographies and Indexes in Anthropology series. XVII, (5), 294, (1) PP with 1 map on double page. Cloth covers, gilt title on black vignette on front cover and spine. Fine. 24 x 16. 0313277397

694 books studied (bibliographic data and short summaries). Pacific - General (1 to 114), Polynesia (115 to 512), Micronesia (513 to 673) and Melanesia (674 to 694) .

77410
GOOCH, Ruth
SEAL ROCKS and Victoria's primitive beginnings
$45.00 AUD

Ruth Gooch / Warrangine Word. Hastings, Vic. 2008. 1st Ed. X, 166 PP with b/w illustrations (3 sketch maps, 16 drawings and 22 photos) Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 9780646495668

77400
GRADY, Don
SEALERS AND WHALERS IN NEW ZEALAND WATERS
$45.00 AUD

Reed Methuen. Auckland. 1986. 1st Ed. 307 PP with location maps, b/w & colour illustrations. Eps: Map of the N.Z. & neighbouring whale fishing grounds. Hard cover, title on front cover and spine, device on rear cover, dj. A near fine copy. Scarce. 24.6 x 19. 9780474000508

Pictorial & narrative history of the sealing & whaling industry in NZ waters which started in 1792 with the Britannia landing party at Dusky Sound, to the closure of the Perano's in 1964.

77886
GREALY, Michael & MCBEY, Leah ...
ROAD TO REMEMBRANCE - "Lest We Forget", Centenary of Armistice 1918-2018 (in The Examiner / The Advocate)
$25.00 AUD

The Examiner & The Advocate / Fairfax Media. Launceston. 2018. Special Publication, Saturday October 27, 2018. 60 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft wrappers. Fine. Large format: 38.5 x 27.3.

100 years on - A Day for Grief, Thanks and Hope, by Leah McBey. Ask every day if we are worthy of such sacrifice, by Dr. Brendan Nelson, Director Australian War Memorial... Road to Remembrance (13 articles), by Michael Grealy.

77867
GREENHILL, Basil & HACKMAN, John
THE GRAIN RACES, The Baltic Background
$45.00 AUD

Conway Maritime Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 190 PP with 151 b/w photos. Fp: "Viking" lying in Mariehamm with a deep laden galeas alongside her. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0851774156

History of the Aland Islands and the seafaring activities of the Erikson family up to the present day.

43224
GREGORY, Augustus Charles and Francis Thomas
JOURNALS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATIONS 1846-1861
$15.00 AUD

Hesperian Press. Perth. 2002. Reprint of the 1884 original published in Brisbane. (6), (4), 210 PP with 5 portraits and the frontispiece of the 1884 edition. Pictorial soft cover. Note: the 5 maps mentioned on the contents page were not printed at the time of the reprint. Fine condition. 24 x 16.2. 0859052583

65277
GREGORY, C. Dickson
AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT
$300.00 AUD

The Richards Press Ltd. London. 1928. 1st Ed. Foreword by Granville Ryrie. 260 PP, plus 6 colour plates (full page) and 138 pages with 276 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): H.M.S. "Ophir" 6814 tons. Original blue buckram covers, gilt decorated front cover, gilt title on spine, top edges gilt. Covers a little rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Short neat note to previous owner on front endpaper. Frontispiece with repaired closed tears. Colour plate facing page 152 has some scribble but not affecting the illustration. Light foxing, not affecting illustrations. Very good copy of a scarce item. 25.7 x 20.

The history of steam navigation in Australian waters, beginning in 1831 with the arrival of the Sophia Jane.

77925
GREY, Jeffrey
UP TOP: The Royal Australian Navy and Southeast Asian Conflicts 1955-1972
$150.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin/Australian War Memorial. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed., in the Official History of Australian's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 series. XX, 380 PP with 12 tables, 23 maps & diagrams, and 110 bw photos. FEP: Map of Southeast Asia in 1955. REP: Map of Southeast Asia in 1972. Hard cover, dj. Ex-library copy with a few neat stamps (Half-title page, Title-page and its verso). An otherwise near fine copy. Quite scarce. 24.9 x 18.5. 1864482907

During: the Malayan emergency, the Confrontation with Indonesia to protect Malaysia, and the Vietnam war (logistic support with HMAS Sydney, warships working with the USN 7th Fleet...).

77588
GRIBBIN, John
WEATHER FORCE - Climate and its Impact on our World
$15.00 AUD

G.P. Putnam's Sons Publishers / Bison Book. New York. 1979 1st Ed. 188, (4) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, paintings and photos). Title spread:Tornado/Twister. Hard covers, dj. Near fine. 29 x 21.8. 0399124004

77440
GROOM, Linda
FIRST FLEET ARTIST: George Raper's Birds & Plants of Australia
$75.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jan Fullerton. VIII, 146 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, 16 maps or plans, 57 colour illustrations and 77 plates in colour (8 headpieces and 69 in the portfolio). Title page: "Fringe Lily" (Thysanotus Tuberosus). Pictorial boards with a hint of fading around edges, otherwise fine. 29 x 24. 9780642276810

16549
GROSS, Meredith Grant
OCEANOGRAPHY, A View of the Earth
$20.00 AUD

Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1987. 4th Ed. XI, 406 PP with 308 illust. in text plus 16 pages with 50 colour plates. Laminated colour boards. Fine. 28.5 x 22. 0136296920

History, ocean basis, plate tectonics, ocean structure, circulation, biology, ...

77331
GRUNBACH, A., SUTHERLAND, D. R., I. K. WINNEY
ALONG THE LINE IN TASMANIA - Book 2: Private Lines
$15.00 AUD

Australian Railway Historical Society. St. James, NSW. 1983. Reprint of the 1972 original. II, 52, III-IV PP with b/w illustrations (1 map and 56 photos). Pictorial soft covers (Emu Bay Railway 4-8-0, No. 8 in colour). Fine. Oblong: 18.5 x 25. 0909650195

77883
GUILER, Eric R.
GONE AND ALMOST FORGOTTEN - Jetties in Southern Tasmania
$120.00 AUD

Eric R. Guiler. Sandy Bay, Tas. 1998. 1st Ed. (10), 469 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: (1 plan, 22 sketch maps with insets for location of jetties). Pictorial stiff covers with light wear. Only 300 copies were printed so it has become a scarce item. A near fine copy. 21 x 14.7. 0646348043

65623
GUILLIATT, Richard & HOHNEN, Peter
THE WOLF: How one German Raider terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War
$15.00 AUD

William Heinemann. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. XIII, (3), 366 PP with 1 cutaway of SMS Wolf and 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 45 b/w illustrations (2 documents, 3 newspaper clippings and 40 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 23.2 x 15.2. 9781741666243

77573
H.M.S.O.
MANUAL OF SEAMANSHIP 1951 Volume I, B.R. 67 (1)
$30.00 AUD

HMSO. London. 1951. 1st Edition (02/51). VIII, 290 PP with 245 figures, plus 1 b/w plate "Chart of Port Liberty", 1 folded plate with colour "Types of Buoys and Buoyage of Port Liberty" and 8 plates in colour (1 semaphore code, 2 Naval and International codes and 5 with 39 Flags and Pendants). Blue cloth covers rubbed and worn. Pages 7/8 with repaired tear (loss of 3 words on page 8). Ageing of paper and foxing. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. A good copy. 25 x 15.5.

77574
H.M.S.O.
ROYAL NAVAL HANDBOOK OF PARADE AND RIFLE DRILL - B.R. 1834 (49)
$20.00 AUD

HMSO / Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division -Admiralty. London. 1953. March 1953 reprint of the 1959 edition. st Ed. XX, 176 PP with over 74 figures. Cloth covers are soiled, worn around edges and have some fade spots. Front hinge split. Amendments updated to May 1961. Very good. 24.5 x 16.

77839
HAIG, Captain Andrew
A TRADING VOYAGE FROM CALCUTTA TO THE AMERICAS 1820-23, by way of the Malacca Strait, Singapore Strait, the China Sea, the Ballingtang Channel, the North Pacific & Mas-Afuera
$185.00 AUD

G.B. (Ned.) Thayer / Huon Design and Print. Franklin, Tasmania. 2024. Limited edition of 10 soft cover copies, hand numbered (No.3/10) . Transcribed, edited and signed by G.B. Thayer. VI, 171, (10 maps: A to J) PP with a very useful "Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations & Locations" between pages 157 to 171. Stiff covers, title on front cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Logbook of the Brig "Snipe". 1820: Sailed from Calcutta on 19th July, left the Hooghly River 26th July, call at Singapore Road: end August, South China Sea and Ballingtang Channel 16 September, passed the Bonin and Volcano archipelagoes 12th October... Coast of California end of November, reached the Southern end of Baja California in early January 1821 and started trading towards the Western coast of South America... Up to sailing from Lima to Guayaquil on 6th February 1823, i.e.: covering 2 years 6 months and 9 days since Calcutta and trading on the Western coast of North and South America for 2 years and 2 months. In 1824, Captain Haig settled in Hobart Town, where his family joined him in 1835. They lived at "Narryna", a fine Geogian Mansion, Battery Point.

77840
HAIG, Captain Andrew
A TRADING VOYAGE FROM CALCUTTA TO THE AMERICAS 1820-23, by way of the Malacca Strait, Singapore Strait, the China Sea, the Ballingtang Channel, the North Pacific & Mas-Afuera
$375.00 AUD

G.B. (Ned.) Thayer / Huon Design and Print. Franklin, Tasmania. 2024. Limited edition to 5 hard cover copies hand numbered (No.3/5). Transcribed, edited and signed by G.B. Thayer. VI, 171, (10 maps: A to J) PP with a very useful "Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations & Locations" between P. 157 to 171. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Fine. 30.2 x 21.7.

Logbook of the Brig "Snipe". 1820: Sailed from Calcutta on 19th July, left the Hooghly River 26th July, call at Singapore Road: end August, South China Sea and Ballingtang Channel 16 September, passed the Bonin and Volcano archipelagoes 12th October... Coast of California end of November, reached the Southern end of Baja California in early January 1821 and started trading towards the Western coast of South America... Up to sailing from Lima to Guayaquil on 6th February 1823, i.e.: covering 2 years 6 months and 9 days since Calcutta and trading on the Western coast of North and South America for 2 years and 2 months. In 1824, Captain Haig settled in Hobart Town, where his family joined him in 1835. They lived at "Narryna", a fine Geogian Mansion, Battery Point.

66523
HAMILTON, George
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN HIS MAJESTY'S FRIGATE PANDORA
$80.00 AUD

Hordern House / Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1998. Australian Maritime Series, No.4. Reissue of the 1793 original with a foreword by Alex Allan, British High Commissioner, and an essay by Peter Gesner, Curator of Maritime Archaeology, Queensland Museum. Limited edition to 950 copies. 38, 164 PP with 7 b/w illustrations (1 portrait of George Hamilton, 1 chart, 1 photo, and 4 engravings). Fp: A manuscript chart of the coast of New Holland sketched by William Bligh whilst in the Bounty's Launch. Hand bound in quarter cherry Scottish calf with marbled papered sides, gilt title on bordeaux vignette on spine. A hint of foxing along top outside edge, o/wise a fine copy22.7 x 14.2. 1875567224

HMS "Pandora" was despatched by the Admiralty to capture the mutineers of the "Bounty".

77906
HANSEN, Anita & HANSEN, Brita (editors)
POLES APART: Fascination, Fame and Folly
$60.00 AUD

The Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart. 2018 1st Ed. Forewords by Richard Catlow, Royal Society, and Professors Ross Large & Matt King, The Royal Society of Tasmania. 256 PP with 205 figures (b/w and colour illustrations) and Index loosely inserted at rear. Pictorial hard covers. As new. 25 x 21.5. 9780648141389

Pages 58 to 123: The Arctic (search for the North West Passage / search for the Franklin expedition ...). Pages 124 to 189: The Antarctic.

77909
HANSEN, Anita and DAVIES, Margaret
THE LIBRARY AT THE END OF THE WORLD - Natural Science and its Illustrators
$100.00 AUD

Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart. 2014. 1st limited edition of 1000 copies. Copy no.765/1000. IV, 234 PP with colour illustrations throughout (over 200) , Bibliography, List of Figures, Index and a ribbon page-marker. Laminated pictorial boards. As new. Scarce. Signed by both authors. 25.5 x 22. 9780992516215

Covers Vascular Plants, Lichens, Orchids in the Antipodes, Crustaceans, Insects, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals and the beautiful illustrations of their artists: from early voyages and settlement to mid last century and includes information on the artists.

77561
HASLUCK, Paul N.
HANDBOOK OF KNOTTING AND SPLICING
$15.00 AUD

Dover Publications, Inc. N. Y. 2005. 1st Dover edition. Unabridged republication of the 1904 original "Knotting, and Splicing Ropes and Cordage". 159 PP with 208 figures. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21.6 x 13.6. 9780486443850

77413
HAWES, Martin
ABOVE ME ONLY SKY - A Portrait of the Tasmanian Wilderness
$50.00 AUD

Drinkwater Publishing. Hobart. 1981. 1st Ed. Preface by Manning Clark. 112 PP with 50 colour photos by the author. Cloth cover, Gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 21.3 x 27.5. 0949903027

69012
HAWS, Duncan
MERCHANT FLEETS - ANCHOR LINE - 9 - ANCHOR LINE
$15.00 AUD

TCL Publications. London. 1986. 1st Ed. No. 9 in the Merchant Fleets series. 100 PP with 100 ship profiles. Pictorial card cover (spine a little sunned). Stamps of "University of Tasmania" & "Australian Maritime College" on half title page, title page and front outside edge. Very good. 23.2 x 15.6. 0946378053

Anchor Line chronological history, routes, fleet list of 174 ships.

77718
HEERES, Professor J. E.
HET AANDEEL DER NEDERLANDERS IN DE ONTDEKKING VAN AUSTRALÏE 1606--1765 / THE PART BORNE BY THE DUTCH IN THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA 1606--1765
$450.00 AUD

Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap / Royal Dutch Geographical Society. Leiden & London. 1899 1st bilingual edition, with Dutch and English translation on facing page. (2), 6, XVII, 100, 101-106 PP (number of pages appearing twice for Dutch and English text), with 19 maps (9 of them covering both text, 10 reproduced twice for each text and the 2 large folded charts with colours (No. 5 & No. 14) at end of book. Title page: Little map of the world from the Journal of the Nassau Fleet, 1626). Hard covers, half bound (marbled boards with cloth at corners and spine). The 2 "Contents" pages not properly stitched. Dutch and English texts. Near fine copy. 35 x 25.5.

Published in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society. Ferguson: No. 10355 / Ingleton: No. 6551 & 10355.

66095
HENDERSON, Graeme & STANBURY, Myra
THE SIRIUS - Past and Present
$30.00 AUD

Collins. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 168 PP with tables, 5 b/w & 30 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Title page with dedicatory note dated and signed by Myra Stanbury, co-author. Fine. 19.7 x 13. 0732224470

The Baltic trading ship Berwick, then Sirius of the first fleet, shipwrecked on Norfolk Island. Diving expeditions and preservation of artefacts.

77937
HILL, Kenneth
THE HILL COLLECTION OF PACIFIC VOYAGES at the University of California, San Diego
$150.00 AUD

William Reese Company & Hordern House, Ltd. New Haven & Sydney. 2004. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Foreword by Lynda Corey Claassen. Biography of "Kenneth Evan Hill as a Book Collector", by Jonathan A. Hill. Preface of original edition, by Melvin J. Voigt. XXIV, 792 PP. Fp: Dorothy and Kenneth Hill. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 26.2 x 18.5. 0939226103

Bibliography relating to voyages to the Pacific Islands with 1937 Entries (pages 1 to 685), References (pages 687 to 691), Chronological Index (pages 693 to 737) and General Index (pages 739 to 792).

77351
HISCOCK, Eric C.
THE YACHTING YEAR - Volume I: 1946-7
$50.00 AUD

Eric C. Hiscock / W & J Mackay & Co. Chatham, UK. 1947. 1st Ed. 172, (XX advert.) PP with 1 map, 1 drawing, 14 figures, 33 sets of plans and 83 b/w photos. Fp: "... the steady fore-foot snores...". Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Covers lightly rubbed, gilt lettering sunned. Slight ageing of paper. Leaf 17/18 with repaired cuts. Very good. 24.7 x 18.8.

The Bermuda Race, by Alfred F. Loomis. Cowes Week, by K. Adlard Coles... A Cornish Venture, by Eric C. Hiscock.

40027
HOBART GAZETTE
THE HOBART TOWN GAZETTE AND SOUTHERN REPORTER - Volumes III & IV January 3, 1818 to December 25, 1819
$25.00 AUD

Public Library of New South Wales / Platypus Publications. Hobart. 1967. 1st facsimile edition. The William Dixson Foundation, Publication No. 9. No pagination (2), IV, (238), (47 index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 31.8 x 23.2.

Volume 3 - No. 84 (Saturday, January 3, 1818) to No. 188 (Saturday, December 25, 1819).

77933
HOFER, Hubert
THE WRECK OF THE SS QUETTA - Cape York 1890
$25.00 AUD

Hubert Hofer / Tableland Printing Service. Atherton, Qld. 2004. 1st Ed. 35 PP with 16 b/w b/w illustrations (1 chart, 2 newspaper clippings, 3 plans, documents, drawings and 5 photos) and 28 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8.

66154
HOLTHOUSE, Hector
SHIPS IN THE CORAL: Explorers, Wrecks and Traders of the Northern Australian Coast
$25.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1986. Expanded and revised edition of the 1976 original. XIV, 337 PP with 2 maps and 32 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0207153108

59646
HOPE, Penelope
LONG AGO IS FAR AWAY - Accounts of the Early Exploration and Settlement of the Papuan Gulf Area
$25.00 AUD

Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1979 1st Ed. XIII, 264 PP with 3 maps, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w plates. Eps: Sketch map of 1926 , Delta Division, Papua. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed on edges, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 16. 070811346X

69432
HOPKINS, David L.
TASMANIA'S GOLDEN YEARS REVISITED: from Boom to Bust and back in the Island State of Tasmania
$125.00 AUD

Peregrine Publishing. Hobart. 2013. 1st edition. Foreword by Eric Reece and Saul Eslake. (2), 420 PP. Design with over 1650 artworks and illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches and photos) by David Hopkins (3 in colour, others in b/w). Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Half title page with sticker of the "Printing Industries Gold Award Winner - 2013", and signed by the author. Mint condition. 31.5 x 24. 9780958709293

77977
HORNER, Frank
LOOKING FOR LA PEROUSE, D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793
$60.00 AUD

Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1995. No. 7 in the Second Miegunyah Press series. XIV, 318 PP, (2), with 2 double-page ship plans & 11 maps in text plus 12 pages with 10 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj, ribbon page marker. Minimal foxing on outside page edges, otherwise a fine copy. 24.3 x 16. 0522844510

The valuable discoveries made by the D'Entrecasteaux expedition while searching for the French explorer whose fate was unknown after sailing from Botany Bay in 1788. Explorations on the West and South Coast of Australia, in Tasmania, the coast of New Caledonia and in the Solomons and New Guinea.

77961
HOWE RYAN, Sheila
VOYAGE OF THE "CAPTAIN COOK" - 1952
$30.00 AUD

A. Cunningham. Napier, NZ. 2010. 1st Ed. (4), 21 (printed diary), 3 PP with 3 b/w and 3 colour illustrations.(2 documents and 4 photos). Inside front cover: Prologue. Inside back cover: Epilogue. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780473166953

Voyage in 1952 on the T.S.S. "Captain Cook", an Emigrant Ship bound for New Zealand. Glasgow 3rd February 1952, to Wellington 19th March 1952, with calls in Curacao, and Panama Canal, and Sighting of Pitcain Island. For this voyage, the TSS Captain Cook, was captained by Captain James Cook (Survivor of the sinking of "Athenia", first ship torpedoed by the Germans on the 3rd of September 1939).

77727
HOWELL, Capt. F. S.
NAVIGATION PRIMER FOR YACHTSMEN
$25.00 AUD

Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd. Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. 1980. 1st Ed. XII, 229 PP with 37 pages of tables, 1 page in colour (figure 147) "Buoyage System A", and 151 b/w figures (charts, drawings, sketches and photos) . Card covers with light soiling. Very good. 21 x 15. 0852880715

53164
HOWGEGO, Raymond John
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPLORATION 1850 TO 1940: The oceans, islands and polar regions: a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization in the oceans, the islands, New Zealand and the polar regions from 1850 to the early decades of the twentieth century
$200.00 AUD

Hordern House. Sydney. 2006. 1st Ed. XII, 690 PP. Eps: H.M.S. Investigator and the ice pack. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 21.5. 1875567410

521 articles/entries. From Louis William ABBOTT to Ferdinand von ZEPPELIN.

77207
HULME-MOIR, Dorothy
THE EDGE OF TIME
$25.00 AUD

Christian Outreach Book Service. Newtown, NSW. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jessie M. Scotford, OBE. XIV, 218 PPwith 8 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Signed by the author on half title page. Near fine. 20 x 14. 0949786187

Life in the outback of New South Wales (Brewarrina, Kelso ... Deniliquin), between 1888 and 1910.

77771
HURST, Doug
THE FOURTH ALLY - The Dutch Forces in Australia in WWII
$100.00 AUD

Doug Hurst. Canberra. 2001 1st edition. Foreword by Albert J.A.M. Nooij, Ambassador of the Netherlands and Introduction by Peter R. Phillips, National President of RSL. VIII, 187 PP with 2 newspaper extracts, 2 artworks, 6 maps and 73 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 9780957925205

38267
HUTCHEON, Robin
SHANGHAI CUSTOMS - A 20th century taipan in troubled times
$45.00 AUD

Galisea Publications. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. 246, (4 index) PP, plus 20 pages with 36 b/w illustrations (photocopy quality). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 20.7 x 14.8. 0646382608

Life and activities of George Ernest Marden in Shanghai, then in Hong Kong.

73190
IDRIESS, Ion L.
DRUMS OF MER
$35.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1944. 12th edition of the 1933 original. Foreword by W. H. MacFarlane. XVI, 342 PP. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Small ink stain on page VII (Foreword), affecting 3 words. Note on front endpaper. War economy paper. Very good.. 18.7 x 13.

15075
INGLETON, Geoffrey C.
MATTHEW FLINDERS, Navigator and Chartmaker (In Two Volumes)
$750.00 AUD

Genesis Publications / Hedley Australia. London. 1986. De Luxe Edition limited to 500 copies and numbered (No. 249/550). Volume I: XXIV, 467 PP with 252 text illustrations plus 16 colour plates & 16 b/w plates. Fp: Flinders' Investigator and Baudin's Le Géographe, 8th April, 1802. Volume II: Matthew Flinders, Private Journal 1803-1814. VI, 366 PP. Fp: Chart of Isle of France or Mauritius. Handbound in quarter leather and master printed on archival paper, all edges gilt. Gilt decoration on front cover, spine with raised bands. The gilt lettering and gilt on decorations on spines have largely been lost. Cloth cover slipcase. Signed by the author. A near fine set. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Large folio: 31 x 23. 0904351327

77687
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH-AUSTRALIAN RELATIONS (ISFAR)
EXPLORATIONS - Bulletin devoted to the study of Franco-Australian Links, No. 29
$15.00 AUD

Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations / ISFAR. Melbourne. 2000. Issue No. 29, December 2000. Edited by CLANCY, Patricia, de SAINT-FERJEUX, Jacques & THORNTON-SMITH, Colin. 52 PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.7.

Pages 6 to 45: French Perceptions of "Australian Federation", by Ivan Barko.

72178
JANES, Hurford
FULL AHEAD - The Story of Brown, Jenkinson & Co. Limited: 1860-1960
$20.00 AUD

Harley Publishing. London. 1960. 1st Ed. Foreword by Chairman of Glyn, Mills & Co. 70 PP with 27 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine (dulled). Very good. 21.5 x 14.5.

The story of this shipbroking company.

58806
JARMAN, Robert
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE "JAPAN", employed in the Sperm Whale Fishery, under the Command of John May
$650.00 AUD

Edition Renard. Melbourne. 2009. Reprint of the 1838 original, in a limited edition of 30 numbered copies (No. 21). Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Chronology, and Index by Robert M. Warneke. X, (2 blank), VI, 318 PP. Fp: Portrait of Robert Jarman in 1877. All edges tinted. Marker ribbon. Full grey goatskin, gilt title on spine, cloth slipcase with title on labels. Fine. 24.3 x 17.

Voyage: June 1831 to August 1834. London, Cape of Good Hope, St Paul Island (Indian Ocean), Indonesia, Japan, Hawai'i, Tonga, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati ... New Zealand, Cape Horn, Azores, London.

77951
JEFFERY, Tim
BEKEN OF COWES - SAILING THOROUGHBREDS
$50.00 AUD

The Harvill Press. London. 1998. 1st Ed with a foreword by HRH The Princess Royal. 205 PP with full-page colour photographs throughout. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket. A near fine copy. Large format: 36 x 26.5. 1860463452

Spirit of Tradition, Cruiser-Racers, Grand-Prix Elite, Descriptions of the Yachts...

77343
JETSON, Tim
HISTORY OF THE MIDLANDS - Central Plateau Region: Printed Sources
$50.00 AUD

Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies / University of Tasmania. Hobart. 1991. 1st Ed., in the "Historical Bibliographies of Tasmania: No. 2". XIII, 126 PP with 2 b/w photos, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Fp: "Mona Vale", Ross & Shepherd's Hut. Illustrated soft covers. Fine. 20.3 x 14.8. 0859014940

Total of 643 entries. Natural Region: 54. History: 68. Aborigines: 55. Explorations: 31. ... Recreation and Entertainement: 50. Almanacs, Year Books...: 20

77870
JOHNSON, Dianne
BRUNY D'ENTRECASTEAUX and his encounter with Tasmanian Aborigines: From Provence to Recherche Bay
$45.00 AUD

Blue Mountain Education and Research Trust. Lawson, NSW. 2012. 1st Ed. Dedication to Bob Brown. IXII), 121 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover with light creases. Note at top of title page to previous owner. Near fine. 29.8 x 21. 9780646570563

77904
JORDAN, Humfrey
LANDFALL THEN DEPARTURE
$10.00 AUD

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 287 PP. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with rubbed patches and in a protective sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21 x 14.

Novel.

67168
JOUFFROY-GAUJA, F. K., BEAULIEU, J. P. & DONATOWICZ, J. C.
SECRET GARDEN AT RECHERCHE BAY - 1792
$60.00 AUD

Ancient art of the South Seas. Hobart. Hobart. 2016. 1st edition of February 2016. 96 PP with 4 sketch maps, 28 b/w and 24 colour illustrations. Title page: Lahaye's garden on chart of Port du Nord. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by Professeur Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, co-author, on title page. Fine. Scarce. 25 x 21. 9782953563559

Felix Lahaye and the French Garden set on 23 April 1792 at Recherche Bay, during the expedition led by Rear-Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux.

77571
KAINBACHER, Paul
DIE ERFORSCHUNG AFRIKAS - Die Afrika-Literatur über Geographie und Reisen 1486 - 1045: Eine Bibliographie von A - Z
$125.00 AUD

Mag. Dr. Paul Kaimbacher. Baden, Austria. 2016 1st Ed. I, 536 PP. REP: Advertisement "Antiquariat Kainbacher". Illustrated hard covers. German text. Fine. 24.5 x 18. 3950130292

Bibliography covering 6500 works.

77668
KEARNS, Des
WORLD WANDERER - 100,000 miles under sail
$45.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. 72 PP, plus 16 pages with 39 b/w photos and 32 pages with 49 colour photos . Eps: Mappe Monde with track of journeys by author. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24.8 x 18.4. 0207122636

Wanderings on all seas & oceans on board three schooners, a barque, a sloop & a ketch.

77707
KELLY, Celsus (editor)
CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS - Spanish Voyages in the South Pacific from Alvaro de Mendana to Alejandro Malaspina 1567-1794 and the Franciscan Missionary Plans for the Peoples of the Austral Lands 1617-1634
$75.00 AUD

Franciscan Historical Studies. Madrid. 1965. 1st Ed. XXVIII, 470 PP with 4 tables, plus 3 folded sketch maps and 37 b/w plates (charts, maps, drawings, photos). Fp (folded): Aerial view of Bay of San Felipe y Santiago in La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with small chips at foot of spine. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 22.4 x 15.2.

77347
KELMAN, James
VOYAGE OF "DAWN WIND", Australia to Essex, England, 1998-1999 (in Classic Yacht Association of Australia Magazine)
$20.00 AUD

CYAA Administration. Williamstown, Victoria. 2019. Issue 42, May 2019. 40 PP. Article pages 3 to 20 with 40 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers with initials at top of front cover. Near fine. 29.8. x 21.

Sydney, Great Barrier Reef, Darwin, Christmas Island, Coco-Keeling, Chagos Archipelago, Red Sea ... Falmouth Yacht Haven.

18346
KEMBLE, John Haskell
SAN FRANCISCO BAY - A Pictorial Maritime History
$15.00 AUD

Bonanza Books. New York. 1978. Reprint (F) of the 1957 original by Cornell Maritime Press. XV, 194 PP with over 350 b/w illust. (photos, maps, paintings). Fp: Sailing scene at Golden Gate. Eps: Map of San Francisco Bay area. Hard cover, cloth spine (discoloured), dj. Near fine. 28.3 x 21.7. 0517016982

San Francisco Bay, the river ports, carriers of the Bay and rivers...

77719
KENNEDY, John Clarke (editor)
YACHTING MAGAZINE - 1936 / 1937
$100.00 AUD

Kennedy Brothers, Inc. Concord, NH. 1936 / 1937. 5 bound issues. Volumes No: LIX, No.I (January 1936) / LIX, No. III (March 1936) / LIX, No. V ( May 1936) / LX, No. I (July 1936) / LXI, No. II (February 1937). Circa 500 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 5 colour plates (The Limejuicer, by Johannes Holst / Blue Water, by Howard French / Ready to go Overboard, by Rolf Klep / A Matter of One Second, by Benjamin Stephenson / A Breezy Day on Long Island Sound, by Charles Rosner)". 5 issues with original illustrated front covers. Cloth covers frayed at top and bottom of spine and rubbed at corners. Gilt title on spine "Yachting - Vol. 3". Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Contents are near fine. 33 x 25.5.

LIX, No. I: Sails in Moonlight, by Warwick M. Tompkins. So you are going to sail across!, by Frederic M. Gardiner. Ocean Racing, Part III: "Coronet" and "Dauntless" race to Ireland, by Alfred F. Loomis. In the World of Yachting: Hugh Kilmer. LIX, No. III: Ocean Racing: The event of 1905, the Heyday of Racing in large yachts, by Alfred F. Loomis. Small boat sailing in the Navy, by Melvin F. Talbot. American Pilot boats, part III: The Boston Model, by H. I. Chapelle. In the World of Yachting: William McKinley Horn. : LIX, No. V: Photography for the Yachtsman, by Ellsworth Ford. Working Ship: The Handling of Square Rigged Vessels and the old time words of Command, by Captain E. T. Morton. In the World of Yachting: Kenneth F. Trimingham. LX, No. I: To Sea with Red Spritsails, by C. H. J. Snider. Watchdogs of the Sea - US Coast Guard by Charles Frederick McKivergan. Eastward in the Joseph Conrad, by Alan Villiers. In the World of Yachting: N. Bayard Dill. LXI, No. II. In the Wake of the Clippers, by Warwick M. Thompkins. "Arielle" single-handed voyage by Marin Marie. "Director" comes to Melanesia, by Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock. In the World of Yachting: Frederic A Fenger.

77530
KENNEDY, Ludovic
NELSON'S BAND OF BROTHERS
$15.00 AUD

Odhams Press Ltd. London. 1951 1st Ed. 352 PP with 3 "Battle Plans" (the Nile / Copenhagen / Trafalgar), plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illustrations Fp: Horatio, Viscount Nelson. FEP: Map of the Mediterranean Sea. REP: Maps of the Baltic Sea and of the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine (rubbed). Head of spine bumped with a short tear. Slight ageing of paper. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on front endpaper. Name of previous owners, at top of half title page. Very good. 21.5 x 14.

Captains who sailed with Nelson: John Jervis, Thomas Fremantle, Troubridge...

77672
KERRISON, A. Rex & JOHNSON, Richard A.
EBBS AND FLOWS - A Short History of the Derwent Sailing Squadron: 1906 - 2006
$40.00 AUD

Derwent Sailing Squadron, Inc. Hobart. 2006. 1st Ed. VIII, 216 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (ephemera, memorabilia, plans and photos). A fine copy. 24.5 x 17. 0646456547

77738
KEV (cartoonist)
HOW TO PLAY BRIDGE!
$20.00 AUD

Mercury-Walch. Hobart. 1975 1st Ed. No pagination, 64 PP (recto only), with b/w illustrations (1 photo and 42 cartoons by Kev). Pictorial stiff covers with light wear. Very good. Oblong: 16 x 22.3

Aftermath of the sinking of Lake Illawarra and her crash into the Tasman Bridge, as described by Kev, cartoonist of "The Mercury" & "Saturday Evening Mercury".

77361
KING ISLAND
SHIPWRECKS, An Account of Shipwrecks around King Island from 1801 to 1976
$15.00 AUD

News Office. Currie, King Island. 1970. 5th Reprint, in "Echoes of the Past" series. 12 pages with 1 sketch map and 1 double-page map with location of wrecks at centrefold. Soft cover, front cover with wreck of a windjammer, back cover with a location map of King Island, staples. Ageing of paper. Very good. 20 x 12.7.

Fifty-seven wrecks on the 120 miles of King Island's coast since 1801. "The marine graveyard of Bass Strait".

41005
KING, Peter (editor)
SCOTT'S LAST JOURNEY
$20.00 AUD

HarperCollins. New York. 1999. 1st US edition of the 1999 UK original, with a foreword by Beryl Bainbridge. 192 PP with 1 map, 2 sketches and 140 b/w photos (most by Herbert Ponting). Fp: Track chart of main southern journey British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.8 x 22.2. 006019670X

77298
KIRSOP, Wallace (editor)
EXPLORATIONS - Bulletin devoted to the study of Franco-Australian Links, No. 10
$15.00 AUD

Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations / ISFAR. Melbourne. 1991. Issue No. 10 June 1991. 42 PP. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 25.8 x 17.7.

The Grand Bibliophile: William LeGrand, by John Holroyd. French-Australian Relations in War Time, by Roger London. Taking Liberties: A tale of two Bicentennials, by Stephen Alomes.

75139
KNAPP, Wilfrid
TUNISIA
$15.00 AUD

Thames and Hudson. London. 1970. 1st edition in the "New Nations and Peoples" series. 224 PP with 3 maps and 27 b/w illustrations. Hard covers, gilt device on front cover, gilt tile on spine. Very good. 21.5 x 15.5. 050012020X

77826
KNIGHT, Eric
THIS ABOVE ALL
$25.00 AUD

Cassell & Co. Ltd. Sydney. 1945. 7th reprint in June 1945 of the First Australian edition of January 1942. 427 PP. Cloth covers with light wear around edges. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 21.8 x 14.

Novel set in the first year of World War II. Phoney War/Sitzkrieg, Blitzkrieg of May 1940, evacuation of Dunkirk, Battle opf Britain, then ...

52653
KOSKIE, Jack L.
SHIPS THAT SHAPED AUSTRALIA
$25.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1987. 1st edition with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. 132 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (drawings, paintings & sketches) by the author. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25 x 25. 0207155607

Description of 34 ships which played an essential part in the growth of Australia: details, highlight of career accompanying an oil painting.

77584
KOVEL, Ralph M. & Terry H.
DICTIONARY OF MARKS - POTTERY AND PORCELAIN
$15.00 AUD

Crown Publishers, Inc. New York. 1973. 21st printing of the 1953 oriuginal. X, 278 PP with 4 tables and hundreds of marks. Cloth covers. Covers with speckled patches and rubbed outside edges. Very good. 20.7 x 14.

67697
LABAYLE, Eric
DE LA REVANCHE A LA LIBERATION - L'ECOLE DES ELEVES-ASPIRANTS DE CHERCHELL-MEDIOUNA (1942-1945)
$70.00 AUD

Author. Paris. 1996. 1st edition limited to 1250 copies (No. 222/1200). Preface by Colonel Pierre Carles. 717 PP with b/w illustrations (badges, graphs, tables, maps & plans, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title and decoration on covers and spine, ribbon bookmark. All edges gilt. French text. Fine. 30.5 x 23.5.

77764
LABILLARDIERE, M.
VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF LA PEROUSE 1791-1794
$120.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1971. Facsimile reprint of the 1800 edition. No. 67 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. (2), XVIII, (2), 17-476, 32 (Appendix with Vocabulary of the language of the Malays, the Savages of Dieman's Land, the Friendly Islands, the Natives of New Caledonia, and the Natives of Waygiou), 38 (tables of the route of the Esperance, etc...), plus 45 b/w plates on full page and 2 maps (one large folded). Fp: Dance of the Friendly Island. Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Fine. 25.8 x 20. 9060720865

An account of a voyage in search of La Pérouse, undertaken by order of the Constituent Assembly of France and performed in the years 1791-1794 in the "Recherche" and "Espérance", under the command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.

75241
LAL, Brij V. (editor)
PACIFIC PLACES, PACIFIC HISTORIES: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste
$120.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 2004 1st Ed. (6), 190 PP with 16 b/w photos (including 14 headpieces). Title spread: Maipa Village. Hard covers, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). Scarce. 23.3 x 16. 9780824827489

14 contributions, including: Playing with Canoes, by Ben Finney.

77805
LALOR, Peter
THE BRIDGE: The Epic Story of an Australian Icon - the Sydney Harbour Bridge
$35.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2006. 1st paperback edition of the 2005 original. 382 PP with b/w illustrations (14 headpieces, plans, sketches and photos), plus 4 plates with 2 b/w and 2 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23 x 17.5. 9781741750270

Published for the 75th anniversary of the Bridge Opening.

12096
LANGLEY, Martin & SMALL, Edwina
LOST SHIPS OF THE WEST COUNTRY, A Guide to Forgotten Craft from Poole to Gloucester
$25.00 AUD

Stanford Maritime. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 9 head pieces, 16 maps and 123 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 19.5. 0540074314

Story of the wrecks visible on the coasts of Devon, Cornwall and Gloucester.

77549
LATREILLE, Francis & GAUBERT, Yves
L'HERMIONE - Une Frégate pour la Liberté
$45.00 AUD

Editions Gallimard. Paris. 2015. New edition of the 2010 ortiginal. Preface by Benedict Donnelly. 205 PP with b/w and colour illustrations selected by Gilbert Maurel, plus 6 pages with colour illustrations of "Hermione" (including a cutaway). Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial boards. French text. Fine. Oblong: 24.5 x 29.5. 9782742435005

38412
LEWIS, Albert B.
THE MELANESIANS - People of the South Pacific
$15.00 AUD

Chicago Natural History Museum. Chicago. 1945. Second printing of the 1932 original, with additions and corrections. Foreword by Paul S. Martin. 275 PP with 56 figures (over 90 b/wphotos), plus 2 folded maps and 2 b/w plates (frontispiece & 1 photo). Fp: Man from New Britain. Soft covers, illustrated front. Spine with creases has been reinforced with Archival Tape (transparent). Neat stamp of previous owner at top of preliminary page. Very good. 21.7 x 14.7

77452
LEWIS, John
VINTAGE BOATS
$20.00 AUD

David & Charles. London. 1975. 1st UK ed. 191 PP profusely illustrated with b/w photos & drawings. Fp: Oyster smack Boadicea. Hard cover, dust jacket (laminated). Name and address of previous owner on FFEP, otherwise near fine. 25.5 x 24. 0877420548

77812
LIND, L. J. & PAYNE, A.
SCRAP IRON DESTROYERS - The Story of HMA Ships Stuart, Vampire, Vendetta, Voyager and Waterhen
$50.00 AUD

Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1976. 1st edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (No. 949). (4), 200 PP, plus 8 pages with 18 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Lines of H.M.A.S. Stuart. Inside back cover: Lines of H.M.A.S. Voyager. Pictorial card covers with light wear/soiling, otherwise near fine. 21.3 x 14. 0909153043

Accurate history of the five ships known as Scrap Iron Destroyers: "Stuart", "Waterhen", "Vampire", "Vendetta" and "Voyager". WWII in the Mediterranean and in Australian waters.

77890
LINDSAY, Norman
NORMAN LINDSAY'S BOOK: No. II
$150.00 AUD

New South Wales Bookstall Co. Ltd. Sydney. 1915. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches...) accompanying 7 of the texts and illustrated stories like Some Sea Chanties and 13 period advertisements on full page (2 of them with artwork by Norman Lindsay). Soft wrappers with some wear and light soiling, front cover by Norman Lindsay, back cover Orient Line advetisement with R.M.S. Orama. Front cover repaired (hinge & gutter) with archival tape. Slight ageing of paper. Contents are clean and overall near fine. Scarce. 24.4 x 18.

A Melodrama "Judah and the Giant, by Montague Grover, and 6 stories: A game of Billiards, by Louis Stone / Warner's Horrors, by Henry Lawson / A Night Out, by C.J. Dennis / A Boy's Day, by Edward Dyson / A Matter of Time, by Charles P. Smith / The Outcasts, by Norman Lindsay. Some Sea Chanties (3): Storm Along (Halliards) / Paddy Doyle (Furling and Reefing) / Reuben Ranzo (Halliards).

77681
LINDSAY, Patrick
FROMELLES - The Story of Australia's Darkest Day / The Search for our Fallen Heroes of World War One
$20.00 AUD

Hardie Grant Books. Melbourne. 2007. 1st Ed. VIII, 407 PP with 4 tables and b/w illustrations: 1 artwork, 6 documents, 5 maps and over 110 photos. Fp: Rue Petillon Cemetery. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781740665117

19th July 1916: 5533 casualties.

77387
LONG, Charles R.
THE TASMANIAN HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION - Part I: Stories of Australian Exploration / Part II: The Story of Tasmania
$55.00 AUD

Whitcombe and Tombs. Melbourne. Foundation Day, 1913. Revised "Juvenile" edition of the 1903 original. 224 PP with PP with 64 b/w illustrations (maps, portraits and drawings), plus 2 folded maps (Oceania & Tasmania). Fp: "Outline map of Oceania". "Tasmania" tipped in on back cover. Cloth covers, Map of Australia on front cover, title on front cover and spine. Covers rubbed and soiled. Top margin of 2 first leaves partly cut at the top on 1.5 cm. South West corner of map of Tasmania torn. Name of previous owner on front endpaper and its verso. Occasional foxing and soiling A good reading copy. Scarce. 18.4 x 12.3.

Australian National Bibliography, No. 26564. Australia: pages 9 to 197. Tasmania: pages 198 to 223.

46323
LONG, Dwight
SAILING ALL SEAS IN THE IDLE HOUR (No. 11 in the Mariners Library series)
$35.00 AUD

Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1950. 1st edition in the Mariners Library (original of 1938). Preface by Alan Villiers. 320 PP with 1 map on double page and 2 plans, plus 11 b/w plates. Hard cover, top edge tinted, dj (price clipped and in a protective sleeve). A very good copy of a scarce title. 19 x 12.5.

On board the Idle Hour, from Seattle to London after crossing the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

77796
LUBBOCK, A. Basil
ROUND THE HORN BEFORE THE MAST
$20.00 AUD

John Murray. London. 1923. October 1923 reprint of the 1911 "Cheap Edition" (original of 1902). l. (8), 375 PP with 1 map, 1 sketch of "Clinching the Crossjack Leechline" and 1 deck plan with key to plate. Fp: Map to illustrate author's voyage round Cape Horn. Cloth covers with light wear, decorated front board, git title on a sunned spine. Copy lacking the free fly of the front endpaper and with traces of sellotape marks. A very good reading copy. 18 x 12.

A voyage from San Francisco to Liverpool on the 4-masted barque "Royalshire" in 1899.

58075
LUBBOCK, Basil
THE DOWN EASTERS - American Deep-water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
$45.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1971. 3rd reprint of the 1929 original. XVI, 288 PP, plus 84 pages with 118 bw illust. & 4 folded plans. Fp: Stowing topsails. FEP: Map of North America. REP: Type of rigging. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 18.8.

The San Francisco grain trade, the clippers in the Cape Horn trade, down-easters in the 70's, 80's & 90's. The last of America's square-riggers.

77708
LUBBOCK, Basil
THE CHINA CLIPPERS
$60.00 AUD

James Brown & Son. Glasgow. 1914. 2nd edition. XV, 387, XXXIII (appendix) PP, plus 1 colour plate with 12 House Flags and 24 b/w plates [frontispiece, 1 map, 8 plans (3 of them folded) and 22 illustrations]. Fp: Taeping & Ariel racing up Channel. Cloth cover, vignette on front cover, title on front and spine. Vignette on front cover with small rubbed spots. Pencil annotations on front endpaper and margin of contents pages. Slight ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges. An otherwise very good copy. 22 x 14.

The history of the celebrated clipper ships in the opium and tea trades.

71817
LUNNEY, Bill & FINCH, Frank
FORGOTTEN FLEET - A history of the part played by Australian men and ships in the U.S. Army Small Ships Section in New Guinea, 1942-1945
$125.00 AUD

Forfleet Publishing. Medowie, NSW. 1996. Reprint of the 1995 original. Foreword by Con Sciacca, Minister for Veteran's Affairs. 192 PP with 5 maps, 46 drawings and 105 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note on title page, dated and signed by Bill Lunney, co-auhor. 1 flyer for this title and 2 letters to the editor of the "The Mercury" of Hobart, signed by Bill Lunney, loosely inserted. Top corner of front cover with a short crease. Near fine. Scarce. 29.6 x 21. 0646260480

History and personal narratives of some of the 3000 Australians who served with the Americans. P.130 to 153: List of ships with known information on their history.

69187
LY-TIO-FANE PINEO, Huguette
IN THE GRIPS OF THE EAGLE: Matthew Flinders at Ile de France 1803-1810
$110.00 AUD

Government Printer. Port Louis, Mauritius. 2004. Revised edition of the 1988 original. Foreword by Robert Barnes. XXXII, 314, (1) PP with 7 maps, 11 b/w and 13 colour illustrations. Fp: The Imperial Eagle. Pictorial laminated boards. Signed by the author at top of half title page. Tiny bump along bottom edge, o/wise fine, near new condition. 24 x 17.7. 9990310084

Revised edition published for the 200th anniversary of Flinders arrival and subsequent confinement at Mauritius. Ile de France under Governor Decaen and the circumstances in which Matthew Flinders was held prisoner there from December 1803 to June 1810. Reasons for his release prior to the invasion and occupation by British forces.

77344
LYONS, Joan
MEMORIES OF BADGER HEAD
$20.00 AUD

Joan Lyons / Regal Publications. Launceston. c. 1992. 1st Ed. IV, 38, (8) PP with b/w illustrations (1 plan, 2 newspaper clippings and 20 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0949457531

Bass Strait, West of the Tamar River.

77677
MAC ORLAN, Pierre
PAGES DE GLOIRE DE LA LEGION ETRANGERE
$150.00 AUD

André Martel, editeur / Service d' Information de la Légion Etrangère. Givors, Rhone, France. 1952. 1st edition limited to 2900 numbered copies (No. 1476/2900). Preface by General Koenig. 40 PP with 14 head pieces (portrait of a Légionnaire), plus 16 colour plates illustrated by André Rosenberg. Card covers with card dust jacket. Minimal insect damage at top corner of dust jacket and cover. French text. Near fine. 25.3 x 20.

Algeria 1831-1885 / Crimean War 1854-56, / Italy 1859 / Mexico 1862-1867 / France 1870-1871 / Tonkin 1883-1885 / Dahomey 1892 / Madagascar 1895-1905 / France 1914-1918 / Morocco 1907-1933 / Syria 1925 / WW II 1939-1945 / Indochina 1946-1952.

77628
MACINTYRE, Donald
THE BATTLE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN
$10.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1970. Paperback edition of the 1964 original. 234, (6) PP with 6 maps (1 on double-page map and 5 on full page), plus 4 pages with 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with name of previous owner at top and a rubbed patch at lower edge. Paper browning. Very good. 17.7 x 11. 0330025252

The actions of the British sea power to protect Malta, Greece and Tobruk and to starve the Afrika Korps in Libya.

77391
MACLEAN, J. Alan
GREENY'S - The Story of the first public school on the northern shore of the early colony of new Wales of the South...
$40.00 AUD

The Old Lions Inc. Sydney. 2015. 1st Ed. Forewords by Jane Dennett, Principal, Killara High School. 216 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (1 organisation chart, drawings, newspaper clippings, plans, photos and portraits). Pictorial stiff covers. 2 newspaper clippings and a folded flyer loosely inserted. Fine. 22 x 18. 9780994411808

43001
MAENPAA, Sari, MATIKKA, Hannu
NAUTICA FENNICA 1995 - A WOMAN AT SEA - Women on the Sailing Ships of Gustaf Erikson 1913-1937 / REPAIRING TRADITIONAL SHIPS
$15.00 AUD

The Finnish Association for Maritime History. Turku. 1996. Annual Report 1995. 80 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Finnish and English text. Oblong: 20 x 20.5. 951907595X

77715
MAGGS, B. D. & E. U. (editors)
AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS - Catalogue No. 491.
$75.00 AUD

Maggs Bros. London. 1927. 1st Ed. (2), 281, (11 Indices: 8 for Authors & Titles / 3 for Subjects) PP, plus frontispiece and 28 b/w plates. Fp: Captain Cook landing at Hawai. Bound copy retaining original soft covers, black cloth covers, title on a red cloth label pasred down on spine. Original spine, retained and used as a book mark. Foxing on the original soft covers. Near fine. 24/6 x 19.

18020
MALMO
MALMO FREE PORT and the Main Features of its Organisation
$15.00 AUD

Malmo Frihamns Aktiebolag. Malmo. 1922. 27 PP with 14 b/w photos in text printed on superior paper plus 2 folded maps at rear (map and port plan). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.

77879
MARCHANT, Leslie R.
FRANCE AUSTRALE - The French search for the Southland and subsequent explorations and plans to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia 1503-1826
$85.00 AUD

Scott Four Colour Print. Perth. 1998. Completely refurbished volume of the 1982 original edition. XVI, 384 PP with 16 explanatory maps, 20 colour and 82 b/w illust., plus 8 plates in full-colour. Illustrated endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards. Some discreet highlighting on 14 pages between pages IV, then XIV to P.37, and affecting about 40 lines. Otherwise an excellent copy. 24.2 x 16.2. 0958848718

77774
MARKHAM, Sir Clements (editor)
THE VOYAGES OF PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS (Two volumes bound in One)
$125.00 AUD

Kraus Reprint. Millwood, NY. 1967. Reprint of the 1904 original volumes (XIV & XV 2nd series) published by the Hakluyt Society, translated from Spanish texts by Sir Clements Markham. XLVIII, 320 + VIII, P.321 to 555 with facsimile of Title Page of Volumes XIV & XV, plus 3 folded maps bound between the 2 volumes. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.8 x 14.5 .

77626
MARSH, John & ANSON, Lyman
SKELETON COAST
$20.00 AUD

Pan Books. London. 1961. 1st paperback edition, revised by the authors, of the 1958 original. 221, (3 publications) PP with 1 map, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Covers lightly rubbed. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Good reading copy. 17.8 x 11.

Historical novel, based on the wreck of the Dunedin Star on the North coast of Namibia, in November 1942.

16484
MARSH, Loisette, SLACK-SMITH, Shirley
SEA STINGERS and other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates of Western Australia
$15.00 AUD

W.A. Museum. Perth. 1986. 1st Ed. X, 134 PP with 90 fig. (70 in colour). Pict. card cover. Fine. 22 x 15.3. 0730903265

Includes a quick-reference first aid treatment.

45907
MASTERS, David
S.O.S. A BOOK OF SEA ADVENTURE
$10.00 AUD

Eyre and Spottiswoode. London. 1937. Reprint of the 1933 original. (10), 340 PP plus 14 plates with 15 b/w photos. Fp: Vice-Admiral Evans. Rebacked copy, cloth cover. Lacks the half title page. Ageing and foxing of paper. Very good internally. 22.3 x 14.5.

Fire at sea, shipwreck, exploding volcano.

77874
MASTERS, W. E.
THE SEMAPHORE TELEGRAPH SYSTEM OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
$45.00 AUD

Cat & Fiddle Press. Hobart. 1973. 1st edition, limited to 500 copies. X, 46 PP with 6 b/w illustrations (1 map, 2 engravings and 3 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. Scarce. 22 x 14. 0858530090

77871
MATHESON, Marny
CLIPPERS FOR THE RECORD - The Story of the Ship "Thermopylae", S.S. "Aberdeen" and Captain Charles Matheson
$40.00 AUD

Spectrum Publications. Melbourne. 1984. 1st Ed. (12), 161 PP with 21 b/w illustrations (1 track chart of the Ship Thermopylae, 12 portraits and 8 photos). Pictorial card cover. Light crease at lower corner of covers. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0867860510

77338
MATHEWS, Phillip
THE WATERWAYS OF SYDNEY HARBOUR
$20.00 AUD

Phillip Mathews Book Publisher. Crows Nest, NSW. 1997. 1st Ed. 104 PP with colour illustrations: 4 pages with drawings, 12 sketch maps (with keys) and 50 photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 26 x 19. 0646329693

42777
MAUK, David C.
THE COLONY THAT ROSE FROM THE SEA - Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn, 1850-1910
$20.00 AUD

The Norwegian-American Historical Association / The University of Illinois Press. New York. 1997. 1st Ed. XVI, 272 PP with b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 26.2 x 18.4. 0877320861

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 bookplate 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.

77777
McEWAN, Marcia
GREAT AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS
$20.00 AUD

Bay Books. Sydney. 1985. Revised edition of the 1979 original. (VIII), 459 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts, drawings, sketch maps & maps, paintings, portraits & photos). Hard covers, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 26.5 x 17.5. 0858358646

Discovery: Tasman - Cook - Bass - Flinders - King. Early European Settlement, The Mountain Men, Southward Ho!, The River Riders, The Overlanders, Trials and Tragedy in the North, The Great Overland Race, The Westerners, Ships of the Desert, ...

45116
McHUGH, Evan
SHIPWRECKS - Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters
$15.00 AUD

Viking / Penguin. Melbourne. 2003. 1st Australian edition. XVI, 336 PP with maps 1 compass rose, 13 headpieces and 15 maps, plus 16 pages with 16 colour and 17 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 23 x 15. 9780670040193

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.

77363
McKAY, Gary & TRETHEWIE, Harold (editors)
THE PORT OF STANLEY - Stories from 160 years of Wharf Activity (Vol. 2, No. 3)
$25.00 AUD

Circular Head Local History. Stanley, Tasmania. 1986. Spring Issue, September 1986. 48 PP with b/w illustrations (1 table "Scale of Provisions", 1 newspaper clipping, 3 plans, 14 photos). Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 212 x 14.8.

The Place for a Port & Sleepers for China, by Harold Trethewie. Work on the Wharf, by Cyril Smith. ...

77967
McKINNEY, Sam
BLIGH, A True Account of Mutiny Aboard His Majesty's Ship Bounty
$40.00 AUD

International Marine Publishing Co. Camden, Maine, USA. 1989. 1st Ed. X, 210, (3) PP with 42 drawings by Nathan Goldstein. Fp: portrait of Captain William Bligh. Eps: Map on the Voyage of the Bounty. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise a near fine copy. 26 x 18. 0877429812

20887
McLEAN, Gavin
CANTERBURY COASTERS
$40.00 AUD

NZ Ship & Marine Society. Wellington. 1987. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies (No. 213/1000). 96 PP with numerous b/w illust. (photographs & line drawings by S.V. Lampard). Half title page: Funnel of a Canterbury coaster. Title spread: M/V Calm Ashore Waiweranui Pt. Inside front cover: sketch map of New Zealand. Pictorial card cover. Copy hand numbered and signed by the author on half title page. Fine. 26 x 18.5. 0959783407

The "Canterbury Steam Shipping Company".

73120
McMULLEN, R. T.
AN EXPERIMENTAL CRUISE, Single Handed in the 'PROCYON', 7-Ton Lugger
$150.00 AUD

Edward Stanford & Charles Wilson. London. 1880. 1st Ed. (4), 139, (3) PP with b/w illustrations: vignette 'Anchorage at night' on title page, plus 2 folded plates (plan of the lugger & map of the English Channel) and 2 plates on full page (map of Thames Estuary and Calais to Dover & woodcut 'Five Miles to Dover'). Cloth cover, gilt decoration and title on front cover, gilt title on spine. Covers with minimal wear, light foxing on outside edges. An unusually bright and near fine copy of a scarce item. 18.8 x 13.

Passage in 1873 from Greenhithe to the Isle of Wight and Lymington.

77399
McNAB, Robert
THE OLD WHALING DAYS - A History of Southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840
$25.00 AUD

Golden Press. Auckland. 1975. Reprint of the 1913 original, in the "New Zealand Classics Giant" series. XIII, 508 PP. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Paper ageing around edges, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.5. 0855584327

The competition between French, American and British whalers for the sperm whale.

76933
MEAD, Tom
NORTH HEAD GOES SOUTH
$20.00 AUD

Newspaper & Media Services. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. Foreword by Robin Grey, Premier of Tasmania inside front cover. 48 PP with 3 plans, 21 b/w and 16 colour photos by John Darroch & Richard Bennett. Centrefold: "North Head" overtaking "Eye of the Wind", on the way to the Derwent River. Includes a loosely inserted newspaper cutting about Jim Hickman who worked on the restoration of the vessel. Pictorial card covers lightly soiled, otherwise near fine. 21 x 15. 0731620895

Built 1913 as the steam ferry "Barrenjoey", refitted and motorized in 1948/1951 to become "North Head". End of service in Sydney waterways in 1985. Since 1987, based at Sullivans Cove, Hobart.

60905
MEAD, Walter Russell
GOD AND GOLD: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World
$15.00 AUD

Atlantic Books. London. 2007. 1st UK edition (with own preface) of the US original. XVII, 449 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781843547235

12522
MELVILLE, Herman
TYPEE
$150.00 AUD

London. Hodder & Stoughton. N.D. circa 1925. Reprint of original 1842 edition. IX, 289 PP plus 8 full page colour illustrations by Mead Schaeffer. Frontispiece (in colour) tipped in: "Fayaway and I had a delightful little party on the Lake". Illustrated title-page & endpapers (discovering the waterfall and velley of Typee). Cloth covers, title and gilt decoration on front cover, gilt title on spine. Small name of previous owner and date at top of half-title page. A little light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages. Covers are a little bumped at corners with a small frayed part at top of spine and near hinge. Overall a very good clean and bright copy. 24 x 18.

77457
MENZIES, Gavin
1421 - The Year China Discovered the World
$15.00 AUD

Bantam Press. London. 2002. 1st Ed. XXIX, 520 PP with 19 head pieces, 22 text illustrations, 3 diagrams and 34 maps, plus 32 pages with 54 colour illustrations. Eps: Caravel and Chinese Junk. Hard cover, dust jacket. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0593050789

77918
MICHENER, James A. & DAY, Grove A.
RASCALS IN PARADISE
$50.00 AUD

Secker & Warburg. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 383 PP. Eps: Map of the South Pacific Ocean, with location of the 9 different stories. Hard cover, dj price-clipped). Light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise a near fine copy in like dust jacket. 21.7 x 14.

True-life stories of 9 people who pursued fame & fortune in the Pacific: Bully Hayes, Charles Marquis de Rays, Will Mariner, Edgar William Leeteg,...

77710
MILIUS, Pierre Bernard
MILIUS, Last Commander of the Baudin Expedition, The Journal 1800-1804 / MILIUS, Le Dernier Commandant de l'Expédition Baudin, Le Journal 1800-1804 (in two volumes)
$200.00 AUD

Australian Capital Equity (Kerry Stokes Collection) & National Library of Australia. Perth & Canberra. 2013. 1st bilingual edition, edited by Peter Hamly. Forewords by Kerry Stokes and Michel Rocard. Prefaces by Rear-Admiral François Bellec and Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. Introduction by Anthony J. Brown. English volume: XX, 380 PP. French Volume: XX, 348 PP. Each volume with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a folded map in rear pocket. Eps: 1808 Map of New Holland, by M.L. Freycinet. English volume with: List of Illustrations and Index. Hard covers, illustrated front and back, cloth spine. Set of 2 volumes contained in an illustrated box. Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Volumes: 24.6 x 19.5. & illustrated box: 25 x 20. 9780642277930

77353
MITCHELL, Carleton
ISLANDS TO WINDWARD - CRUISING THE CARIBBEES
$50.00 AUD

D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc. New York. 1948. 1st Ed. XVI, 287 PP with all illustrations by the author: 1 sail plan and 3 maps, plus 18 pages for 9 colour photos and 92 pages with 1 plan of "Carib" on double page and 142 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Cloth cover, gilt decoration on front cover, gilt title on spine. Covers slightly soiled and a sunned spine. Near fine. 28.5 x 22. 087044021

77309
MITCHELL, Chris & DIXON, Geoff (editors)
WWII - 60TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES (in The Australian)
$20.00 AUD

News Limited & Qantas. Sydney. 2005. Special 13-Part Commemorative series. A total of 228 PP with b/w and colour photos. Each issue with pictorial soft cover. 2 punch holes close to the spine for use with a ring binder. Near fine. 30.2 x 22.2.

Part 1: The Bomb. Part 2: Battle of Britain. Part 3: Pearl Harbour. Part 4: Stalingrad. Part 5: D-Day. Part 6: Fall of Berlin. Part 7: Australia's War. Part 8: Home Front. Part 9: Singapore. Part 10: El Alamein. Part 11: Battle of the Coral Sea Part 12: Kokoda and New Guinea. Part 13: Peace.

74960
MITCHELL, W. H. & SAWYER, L. A.
EMPIRE SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II
$20.00 AUD

Sea Breezes. Liverpool. 1965. 1st Ed. VIII, 120 PP with 32 line drawings by John S. Lindsay & 7 b/w photos. Fp: Photo of Empire Maldon. Pictorial laminated boards. Old tape marks on endpapers and light foxing on prelims. An otherwise very good clean copy. 25.5 x 19.

Vessels built in British yards, purchased, requisitioned, captured & confiscated from the enemy and controlled by the Ministry of Shipping which renamed them using the "Empire" prefix. Included cargoes, tankers, colliers, tugs, ...

75114
MITCHENER, E. A. (Ted)
ICE IN THE RIGGING - Ships of the Antarctic, 1699-1937
$50.00 AUD

Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Hobart. 2015. 1st edition by Peter Boyer and Graeme Broxam. Foreword by Patrick G. Quilty. XXII, 353 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, ribbon bookmark, dj. Fine (as new condition). 26.8 x 21.8. 9780646934556

77150
MOKRE, Jan
DAS GLOBENMUSEUM der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
$25.00 AUD

Globenmuseum / Palais Mollard. Wien, Austria. 2005. Bibliophile Edition. 72 PP with 6 b/w and 40 colour illustrations. Inside front cover: plan of the Museum with globes. Inside back cover: Sphaerae Artificiales. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. German text. Fine. 22 x 12.

77929
MORGAN, Rex
THE HERMES ADVENTURE
$80.00 AUD

Runciman Press. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. 288 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Minimal shelf wear along bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. Oblong: 21.8 x 29.5. 0858900157

The aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes during World War II. Sunk off the Island of Ceylon by Japanese forces on the 9th of April 1942. Dive on her wreck in August 1982 by the author, son of the official naval photographer to the British Admiralty who survived the sinking.

77936
MORTIMER, John & STEVENS, David (editors)
PRESENCE, POWER PROJECTION AND SEA CONTROL: The RAN in the Gulf 1990-2009
$45.00 AUD

Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2009. 1st Ed. Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs No. 28. XVIII, 357 PP with b/w illustrations (1 graph and 16 photos) and colour illustrations (5 maps and 48 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Crease on front cover, otherwise fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780642297068

16 Papers, edited following a Seminar held at SPC - A, in November 2003.

68051
MORTON, Harry
THE WHALE'S WAKE
$30.00 AUD

University of Otago Press. Dunedin. 1982. 1st Ed. 396 PP with 30 tail pieces by Peggy Morton, plus 40 pages with 108 b/w illustrations. FEP: Australasia whaling grounds. REP: Whaling harbours & shore station locations of New Zealand. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with small repaired tears. A near fine copy. 24 x 15.4. 0908569297

Whaling in New Zealand waters from 1792 to the late 1850's, its impact on Maori culture and the shaping of the NZ character.

77775
MOSSMAN, Samuel
HEROES OF DISCOVERY: Livingstone, Park, Franklin, Cook, Magellan
$35.00 AUD

Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier. Edinburgh. ca. 1890. New edition. (4), 349 P, plus 5 portraits. All edges gilt. Cloth covers, decorated front and spine, gilt title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing and offsetting on endpapers. Prize plate dated April 1904, pasted down on front endpaper. Near fine copy. 21 x 15.

77362
MULLEN, Eric E. (editor)
THE WEST TAMAR, its Past, Present, Future
$20.00 AUD

Municipality of Beaconsfield / The Examiner. Launceston. 1968.. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 63 advertisements and b/w illustrations (1 map of the Tamar River, 1 photo of the Public Relationss Committee - 1968, and 1 drawing of the Schooner "Rebecca"). Soft covers, illustrated front cover (Batman Bridge). Near fine. 21 x 13.3. 187626013

Batman Bridge, designed by Maunsell & Partners. Rural Industries, by R.M. Hooper. Fruit Industry on West Tamar, by T.D. Wivell.

77934
MURAVIEV, Alexey D.
THE RUSSIAN PACIFIC FLEET: From the Crimean War to Perestroika
$15.00 AUD

Royal Australian Navy / Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs - No. 20. X, 70 PP with 3 tables, 2 maps in colour and 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9780642296672

34791
MURRAY, Bill
CRISIS, CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS - Selected documents illustrating 200 years in the making of Australia
$20.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1984. 1st Ed. XI, 343 PP with 92 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.1 x 17. 0727018418

145 topics, starting with Captain Cook's description of his first landings...

64692
MUSEUMS
HELLENIC MARITIME MUSEUM
$30.00 AUD

Hellenic Maritime Museum. Piraeus. 1984. 1st Ed., with a prologue by Pan. Kanellopoulos. Edited by MAKRIS, E., TZAMTZIS, A. I. & LACHANOS, N. 127 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.

Ancient Years, Byzantine Years, Turkish Occupation, Recent Years, Navigation and Hydrography, Exploratory Voyages, Historical Archives...

71619
MUSK, George
CANADIAN PACIFIC - The Story of the Famous Shipping Line
$30.00 AUD

David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1981. 1st Ed. 272 PP with 4 maps and 106 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with light wear around edges, faint foxing on prelims and last pages, o/wise near fine. 25.5 x 22.5. 0715379682

The shipping line with the advertising slogan: "Canadian Pacific Spans the World".

53453
N/A
WOODENBOAT - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers - Issues 86 - 97
$80.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Magazine. Brooklin, Maine. 1989, 1990. Twelve issues for years 1989 and 1990. No. 86 January/February 1989 to No. 97, November/December 1990. A total of 1920 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Original pictorial soft cover. 12 issues contained in special binder. Fine set. 28.2 x 21.

58633
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Volume 14, No. 3, January, 1948
$20.00 AUD

Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover (The Cane Cutter). Covers with light wear, otherwise contents are near fine.. 30.2 x 24.

Articles include: The Sugar Shield, by Ruth Ann Curtis. Melanesian Arcadia, by J. G. Coombs. Townsville by Emerson Curtis. ... Mountain of Iron, by George Farwell, Gnangara Pines by James Pollard, A Wooden Ship is Built, by John McPherson, The Quality of Mercy by M. Kathleen Woodburn, ...

68437
N/A
SEA CLASSICS MAGAZINE - Volume 4 (1971) & Volume 5 (1972)
$40.00 AUD

Challenge Publications / Sea Classics. Canoga Park, California. 1971 & 1972. Edited by Ed. SCHNEPF, Joe MIZRAHI & Jim SCHEETZ. 12 issues for a total of 816 pages with b/w and colour illustrations. 12 issues with their stapled pictorial soft covers, protected in the special binder stamped "Sea Classics Vol 4 - 5" on spine. Some old damp stains, however none of the pages are stuck and no loss of text. Very good reading set. 27.7 x 20.7.

75437
N/A
WOODENBOAT - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers - 1977, issue 17
$15.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Magazine. Brooklin, Maine. 1977 No. 17, July-August 1977. Edited by Jonathan Wilson. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front (Riva's 28' mahogany Aquarama Special on Lake Iseo). Fine. 27.7 x 20.8.

Surfing Sea Bright Style, by Gerald Bouchal. Riva: pages 70-72 with 4 colour photos, by John Watney.

75511
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 22, No. 8, August, 1956
$20.00 AUD

Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Ski instructor demonstrating a jump turn, Mt. Buller, Victoria). Very good. Format: 32 x 25.

Articles include: The Smallest Shells in the World (Charles F. Laseron), Norfolk Island - Cinderella of the Pacific (J.Y. Waterworth), Voyage to the Yasawas (Fiji Is.) by D. Hanna, Corinna by the river (Tasmania) by William Nolan, ..

75512
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 22, No. 10, October, 1956
$20.00 AUD

Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Poplar Gums, Valley of Lagoons, Queensland). Light insect damage on edge of front cover, o/wise very good. Format: 32 x 25.

Articles include: The Harvest of the Seas (J.M. Thomson), New Caledonia - Australia's Exotic Next-Door Neighbour (Helen M. Wrigley), Lonely Islands of Bass Strait ...

75769
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Volume 20, No.7, July 1954
$20.00 AUD

Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1954. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photos throughout. Stapled pictorial covers (Mount Warning viewed from Echo Point on the NSW-Qld border). Covers with light wear near spine, otherwise contents are near fine. 31 x 24.

Articles include: Tasmania by Rex Ingamells, Wooden Implements of the Aborigines by Dr. Charles Fenner, Last of the Tasmanians by Ernestine Hill, Nattai River and Burragorang Valley by Russell M. Kefford, The Fearsome Huhu bny R.V. Francis Smith, ...

77313
N/A
WOODENBOAT - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers - Issue 128
$10.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Magazine. Brooklin, Maine. 1996. Issue No. 128, January / February 1996. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Original pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.

No. 128: The Potomac River Dory-Boat, by Richard Dodds. The Potomac gets a new Dory-Boat, by Joe Youcha. The Return of "Bloodhound", a new Thames 40-tonner, by Matthew Murphy. Designing the Replica "Bloodhound", by Michael Richardson. ...

77314
N/A
WOODENBOAT - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers - Issue 130
$10.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Magazine. Brooklin, Maine. 1996. Issue No. 130, May / June 1996. 168 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Original pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.

No. 130: The evolution of the "Adirondack Guideboat", by Robert W. Stephens. The "Knarr Fleet", where wood still reigns, by Shimon-Craig Van Collie. From NAHMA to ENDURABLE, the People of Collingwood (South Shore of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay), by Jim Algie. "Round Our Skiff Be God's Aboutness" - The Carpenter's Boatshop, by Peter H. Spectre.

77315
N/A
WOODENBOAT - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers - Issue 294
$10.00 AUD

WoodenBoat Magazine. Brooklin, Maine. 2023. Issue No. 294, October 2023. 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 21.

No. 294: "Matawa", a plywood Pioneer, by Nic Compton. Sally and Branta, the last of the Burgess 10-Meters, by Randall Peffer. The "Matthew Turner", A Sausalito tall ship and its genesis, by John Skoriak & John Rüse. Elmer Collemere, the legacy of a One-Man shipyard, by Roger Allen Moody.

77468
N/A
YACHTING WORLD ANNUAL 1966
$30.00 AUD

Ilife Books Ltd. / Yachting World Publication. London. 1965. 1st Ed. (2), 144, VIII (advert.) PP with drawings, sets of plans, plus 34 pages with 1 plan, 6 drawings and 60 b/w photos. Fp: S.H.R. Clarke at the helm of Quiver IV. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, top outside edge tinted, dj. Dust jacket with small chips and in a protective sleeve. Occasional foxing. Very good. 28.2 x 22.

The Hauraki Gulf, by John and Tessa Duder. On the Wine-Dark Sea, or Aegean Sea, by Gordon Winter. The fishing boats of Sesimbra, a small fishing boat south of Lisbon, by John Lewis.

77469
N/A
YACHTING WORLD ANNUAL 1967
$30.00 AUD

Ilife Books / Yachting World Publications. London. 1966. 1st Ed. (2), 144 PP, XVI (adverts.) PP with drawings, sets of plans, plus 32 pages with 92 b/w photos. Fp: Winter moorings. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket repaired on rear cover and in a protective sleeve. Very good. 28.4 x 22.

A Tale of "Mischief" (to the Antarctic islands of Southern Hemisphere), by David Cobb (with his illustrations).

77551
N/A
LAFAYETTE ET L'HERMIONE
$25.00 AUD

Productions du Pertuis. Nieul-les-Saintes. 2021. June 2021 edition. 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings & sketches, cutaways & line drawings, photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. French text. 24.5 x 16.5. 9782847023374

Lafayette nous voila !

77813
N/A
YACHTING WORLD ANNUAL 1962
$45.00 AUD

Iliffe Books. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 184 PP followed by XVI of advertisements, with drawings, plans, and b/w photos throughout. Fp: Freemew, Brigadier P.O.G. Wakeham, O.B.E., broad reaching in the fresh conditions at the start of the Cowes-Dinard Race. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (price-clipped with a few small chips and in a protective sleeve). Small rub-out at top of FFEP, otherwise a near fine copy. 28.2 x 22.

The Bijou Boat - or little and often, by Colin Mudie with his illustrations. Arms and the Yachtsman, by David Cobb (with his illustrations). Designed for Speed and Comfort, by Peter du Cane and D. Phillips-Birt, Training for the America's Cup, by Erroll Bruce, ...

77814
N/A
YACHTING WORLD ANNUAL 1957
$40.00 AUD

Iliffe Books. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 192 PP followed by XXIV of advertisements, with drawings, plans, and b/w photos throughout. Fp: Racing in the handicap for cruising yachts in the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta during Cowes Week. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 28.2 x 22.

Cruising in the Gulf of St. Malo by Adlard Coles. Le Bateau de Mon Oncle ... by David Cobb (and his illustrations). Honeymoon Cruise, by Ann Davison. Science and the Sailing Yacht, by Douglas Phillips-Birt. The Lisbon Race, by Dudley Pope. Keel Boat Classes 1956, by John Chamier....

77815
N/A
YACHTING WORLD ANNUAL 1960
$40.00 AUD

Iliffe Books. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 192 PP followed by XVI of advertisements, with drawings, plans, and b/w photos throughout. Fp: Yacht Griffin II and her gaff-rigged predecessor Griffin (a study in colour by David Cobb) Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 28.2 x 22.

Sail and Oar, A Life-boat Rescue, by David Cobb (with his illustrations). The Bekens write about their work, by Frank and Keith Beken. Fight your way through the flat spots, by Colin Mudie. Seascape by Mooonlight, by D. Phillips-Birt. The Dory and the Banker, by Dan Troop...

77913
N/A
THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY - Fourth Series
$35.00 AUD

Cassell, Petter & Galpin. London. c. 1860. 1st Ed. (4), 160, (4 publications) PP, plus 20 colour plates (chromo-lithography of portrait, and signature), with tissue guard. Decorated cloth covers, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers rubbed and spine is worn at top and bottom. Hinge of back cover split on 6 cm at foot. Internally a very good copy. 28 x 21.5.

Fourth Series - Twenty Portraits of most Distinguished Celebraties: Lord Penzance / Admiral H.J. Rous (R.N.), Arctic Navigation, Search for Franklin Expredition... / James Anthony Froude, Sir John Lubbock, ...

56764
NAA
THE LOG - Quarterly Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia Inc. - Volume 41
$20.00 AUD

Nautical Association of Australia Limited. Melbourne. 2008. Vol. 41 (new series), Nos. 1 (February 2008) to 4 (November 2008). Edited by R.A. PRIEST. 224 PP with 21 b/w and 92 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Light old damp marks on No.4, not affecting text, otherwise near fine. 21 x 15.

No.1: The Wainui Dispute, The TSS Fiona Story, The Mystery of the Steamer Douglas Mawson of 1914. No.2: On the Banana Run - The AUSN's Fiji Connection; No.3: He Stole his own Ship from the US Navy; No.4: A Deadly World War II Battle, RMS Orsova - A Ship Owner's Tribute, On the Banana Run - Part 3.

61723
NAA
THE LOG - Quarterly Journal of the Nautical Association of Australia Inc. - Volume 44
$20.00 AUD

Nautical Association of Australia Limited. Melbourne. 2011. Vol. 44 (new series), Nos. 1 (issue 183) to 4 (issue 186) & Index. Edited by R.A. PRIEST. 244 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 15.

No.1: The Australian National Line - the 1980s, Queen of Bermuda and Awatea; No.2: The Rescue of the Passengers of Balclutha by the Crew of the Aurifera in 1869; Vol 3: Sydney Harbour Ferries - 60 Years Ago, A Voyage to Punta Arenas; Vol 4: Queenscliffe to Papua and the Origins of Steamships Trading Company, HMAS Wongala,...

14280
NAPIER, William, GILBERT, John, & HOLLAND, Julian
EASTERN ISLANDS, SOUTHERN SEAS - A History of Discovery and Exploration
$15.00 AUD

Aldus Books / Jupiter Books. London. 1973. Reprint of the 1971 edition. 488 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj (protected). Clear plastic film covering the dust jacket pasted down on endpapers. Very good. 26.7 x 19.5. 490002927

Towards the lands of spice and treasure, by William Napier. Charting the vast Pacific, by John Gilbert. Lands of the Southern Cross, by Julian Holland.

77769
NARBOROUGH, John
AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH AND NORTH
$75.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of 1694 original. No. 62 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. XXIX, (7), 196 PP, plus 2 large folded maps, and 207 PP, plus 6 folded plates and 14 plates on full page. Simile vellum, gilt-title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 9060720075

An account of several voyages: Narborough to the Straits of Magellan, Captain Tasman towards Terra Incognita Australis, etc...

77302
NASH, Michael
CARGO FOR THE COLONY, The Wreck of the Merchant Ship Sydney Cove
$20.00 AUD

Braxus Press. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed. X, 118 PP with 4 maps, 6 colour & 21 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 20.2 x 14.2. 1875818014

Wrecked in 1797, on a voyage Calcutta to Port Jackson, on Preservation Island in the Furneaux Group. First merchant ship wrecked after the establishment of the colony of New South Wales.

77876
NASH, Michael
THE BAY WHALERS - Tasmania's shore-based whaling industry
$50.00 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

35240
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
GENERAL CATALOGUE OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS - Volume II: Merchant Sailing Ships
$20.00 AUD

National Maritime Museum. Greenwich. 1976. 1st Edition with a foreword by Basil Greenhill (Director). XII, 193, (20 Index) PP, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Covers a little soiled and worn around edges with a few small creases and a few dog-eared pages. Otherwise, very good. 27.4 x 19.5.

77602
NAUGHTON, Peter (editor)
FOREST TREES OF TASMANIA - Field Guide
$25.00 AUD

Forest Resources / Boral Timber. Longreach. Tas. 1995 Revised edition of the 1979 original. 116 PP with 4 colour photos (covers) and b/w illustrations, 7 plates with 28 artworks, 39 location maps, 39 sketches and hundreds of photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 16.3 x 11.

54309
NAVAL ARCHITECTS
TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS. Volume 100 - 1958
$20.00 AUD

Institution of Naval Architects. London. 1958. Annual edition. Vol. 100. Edited by Captain A.D. DUCKWORTH. LII, 465 PP with tables, figures and b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt decoration on front board. Lacks the spine but still intact. Covers speckled and rubbed. Ageing of paper, signature of previous owners on FFEP. Still a good copy and contents are clean. 28.5 x 22.5.

Merchant ship design, by Laurence Dunn... Progressive towing trials..., by J. M. Sweet... Symposium on The use of Plastics for Marine Applications with 6 papers (58 pages)... The Hydrofoil Boat: Its History and Future Prospects by P.R. Crewe, ...

54310
NAVAL ARCHITECTS
TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS. Volume 101 - 1959
$35.00 AUD

Institution of Naval Architects. London. 1959. Annual edition. Vol. 101. Edited by Captain A.D. DUCKWORTH. LVIII, (2), 448 PP with tables, figures and b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt decoration on front board, gilt title on front board and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 28.5 x 22.5.

Some Aspects of Naval Architecture in the Eighteenth Century by W.F. Stoot, Vibration in Ships by J. Dieudonné, Considerations on Motor Tankers, by M.Jean Perrachon, A Linear Theory for the Steered Motion of Ships in Waves by L.J. Rydill, The Design of Inflatable Liferafts by C.H. Latimer-Needham, The Development of Air Conditioning in Ships by S.J. Jones, and J.K.W. MacVicar, Fishing Vessel Development by A. Hunter and G.C. Eddie, Cargo Container Ships by Doros A. Argyriadis, Train and Car Ferries by J.P. Campbell.

57143
NAVAL ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
WHITE ENSIGN: the Official Quarterly Journal of the Naval Association of Australia - 1986, Vol.2, Nos.1, 2, 3 & Supplement "Souvenir Edition"
$20.00 AUD

Naval Association of Australia. Sydney. 1986. Edited by Frank WELCH. 4 issues with a total of 368 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

When the Royal Australian Navy turned 75 years.

77321
NAVY NEWS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY NEWS PICTORIAL: Volume 22 - 1979
$50.00 AUD

Navy News. Sydney. 1979. Volume 22, No. 1, 26 January 1979 to No. 22, 14 December 1979. Bound issues: 296 PP with advertisements and b/w or colour photos. Near fine. Large format: 42 x 30.

Souvenir newspaper full of information on the Royal Australian Navy.

77322
NAVY NEWS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY NEWS PICTORIAL: Volume 28 - 1985
$50.00 AUD

Navy News. Sydney. 1979. Volume 28, No. 1, 25 January 1985 to No. 28, 13 December 1985. Bound issues: 312 PP with advertisements and b/w or colour photos. Near fine. Large format: 42 x 30.

Souvenir newspaper full of information on the Royal Australian Navy.

77323
NAVY NEWS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY NEWS PICTORIAL: Volume 21 - 1978
$50.00 AUD

Navy News. Sydney. 1978. Volume 21, No. 1, 10 February 1978 to No. 21, 15 December 1978. Bound issues: 296 PP with advertisements and b/w or colour photos. Card cover, clear plastic front. Near fine. Large format: 42 x 30.

Souvenir newspaper full of information on the Royal Australian Navy.

64648
NEW ZEALAND SHIP AND MARINE SOCIETY
NEW ZEALAND MARINE NEWS, Journal of the New Zealand Ship and Marine Society - Volume 20
$25.00 AUD

New Zealand Ship and Marine Society. Wellington. 1968 / 1969. Volume 20, No. 1 (Winter 1968) to No. 4 (Autumn 1969). 4 issues: Edited by D.F. GARDNER. 128 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 21.5 x 14.

Each issue with 3 or 4 articles, and permanent headings: Editorial, Mail Barrel, Ship Shape and For The Records.

64649
NEW ZEALAND SHIP AND MARINE SOCIETY
NEW ZEALAND MARINE NEWS, Journal of the New Zealand Ship and Marine Society - Volume 22
$25.00 AUD

New Zealand Ship and Marine Society. Wellington. 1970 / 1971. Volume 22, No. 1 (Winter 1970) to No. 4 (Autumn 1971). 4 issues: Edited by D.F. GARDNER. 128 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 21.5 x 14.

Each issue with 3 or 4 articles, and permanent headings: Editorial, Mail Barrel, Ship Shape and For The Records.

77921
NEWALL, Peter
ORIENT LINE. A Fleet History
$50.00 AUD

Ships in Focus Publications. Preston, UK. 2004. 1st Ed. 184 PP with 380 b/w photos (c. 365 on ships), and 39 colour illustrations (2 Coat of Arms, 2 funnel colours, 7 house flags, 5 paintings and 23 photos). Half title page: Orient Line coat of arms (in colour) granted in 1957. Fp (in colour): 1930s Orient Line cruise poster. Hard cover, dj. Small rub at bottom of title-page, otherwise a fine copy in a like dust jacket. 30.5 x 21.5. 1901703460

... Australian connections between pages 139 and 142.

77976
NEWBY, Eric
THE LAST GRAIN RACE
$20.00 AUD

Readers Union / Secker & Warburg. London. 1958. Reprint of the 1956 original. IX, 237 PP, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w photos. FEP: The course of Moshulu on a mappe monde. REP: Sail plan and diagram of running rigging. Hard cover, title on spine. Very good. 20.8 x 13.

Belfast-Port Lincoln, Port Victoria and return to Queenstown in 1938/39 as an apprentice for the last grain race under sail.

50275
NEWGASS, Edgar
THE LOG OF A SEA DOG. An Amphibious Causerie
$15.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1945. 2nd edition of the November 1944 original. 144 PP with 9 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 1 head piece and 7 tail pieces), plus 8 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Eps: Sketch map of Southern England. Cloth covers, dj (price clipped). Repaired dust jacket now in a protective sleeve. . Signature of previous owner at top of half-title page. War economy paper. A very good copy. 19 x 12.5.

22211
NICHOLSON, Ian
LOG OF LOGS, Volume Two
$100.00 AUD

Roebuck Society. Nambour, Qld. 1993. 1st Ed. Publication No.47. XII, 608 PP with b/w figures & photos. Bound copy of the original stiff covers edition. Hard cover, gilt-engraved spine. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 25.5 x 17.8. 0646091824

A complement to the first volume which generated much response and provided a great deal of fresh material making a second volume necessary.

22609
NOBLE, Captain John
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAIL OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
$15.00 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.

77746
NOICE, Alison (editor)
RYA V.H.F. RADIO - Short Range Certificate: Syllabus & Sample Exam Question
$10.00 AUD

The Royal Yachting Association. Southampton. 2008. 1st Ed. 32 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24.5 x 17. 9781906435325

77341
NYMAN, Lois
THE WEST TAMAR PEOPLE: The Story of the Early Settlement and its well-established families
$30.00 AUD

Lois Nyman / Regal Publications. Launceston. 1994. 1st Ed. X, 195 PP with over 120 b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, plans, portraits and photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 15. 187626013

43691
O'BRIAN, Patrick
THE UNKNOWN SHORE
$15.00 AUD

HarperCollins. London. 1998. 1st paperback edition by HarperCollins (original of 1959). (6), 266 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19.7 x 13. 9780006497950

2nd novel by Author. During the circumnavigation of Commodore Anson, the Wager was wrecked on the coast of Chile.

77479
O'BRIAN, Patrick
JOSEPH BANKS - A Life
$15.00 AUD

The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, USA. 1997. Paperback reprint of the 1993 US edition. 328 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 portrait, family tree, 1 map "Bank's Voyages" &, 2 prints, plus 6 pages with 1 map on double page and 4 drawings or paintings. Fp: . Soft covers, pictorial front. . Slight ageing of paper and foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.7 x 14.25. 9780226616285

The biography of Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist, explorer and one of Australia's founding fathers.

64984
O'BRIEN, D. A. (editor)
QUEENSLAND GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Vol. LXI
$15.00 AUD

Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland). Brisbane. 1963. Vol. LXI, 1962-1963. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (diagram, facsimile document, photos and portraits) and 2 colour photos, plus 2 folded plates (Generalised Geological Map and 2 diagrams "Geological Sequence"). Card covers a little browned around edges. Previous owner's signature on top of front cover, o/wise fine. 23.8 x 15.3.

5 articles. Geological Sequence in the Early Bores in the Roma District / The Queensland Oil Position today / Australia and the Pacific Ocean, by H. I. Jensen. Oil and Gas values, by D.A. O'Brien. Bishop Island.

77806
O'BRIEN, Frederick
MYSTIC ISLES OF THE SOUTH SEAS
$65.00 AUD

The Century Co. New York. 1921. 1st Ed. XV, 534 PP plus 62 pages with 74 b/w illustrations (3 silverpoints by George Biddle and 71 photos) and 1 folded map in colour "The South Seas Islands" with insert "Tahiti & Moorea". Fp: River at Mataiea, with tissue guard. Illustrated cloth cover and spine with gilt title on both. Short note to previous owner dated Christmas 1924 on front endpaper. Repaired gutter of front endpaper. Otherwise a near fine copy. 22.7 x 15.5.

Vivid impressions of the author in Moorea and Tahiti at the beginning of the 20th century.

77807
O'BRIEN, Frederick
ATOLLS OF THE SUN
$65.00 AUD

The Century Co. New York. 1923. Third printing of 1922 first edition. (16), 508 PP, plus 56 pages with 1 map of the "Tuamotu Archipelago" and 59 b/w illust. Fp: Nature's mirror showed him why he could not leave. Illustrated cloth covers, title on front board and spine, dj. Faint foxing. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.5.

Experiences, impressions & dreams in the strange & lonely islands: Moorea, Tuamotus, Marquesas. Chapter VIII: Seventh--Day Adventist on mutineers of the Bounty and Pitcairn Island ...

77903
O'COINEEN, Enda
THE UNSINKABLE KILCULLEN - Acrosss the Atlantic in Inflatable and Other Ways to Get Wet
$10.00 AUD

The Bodley Head. London 1987. 1st Ed. XVI, 192 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps on full page and sketches & plans), plus 16 pages with 32 photos (16 colour and 16 b/w). Hard covers, dj. Ex Library copy with stain on lower corner of 11 pages (not affecting text), stamps on title page (recto/verso), sellotape marks, and renewed endpapers. A very good reading copy. 22 x 14.5.

77920
OPPENHEIM, Peter
THE FRAGILE FORTS: The Fixed Defences of Sydney Harbour 1788-1963
$60.00 AUD

Australian Military History Publications. Sydney. 2005. 1st Ed. XXVI, 326 PP with b/w illustrations (35 drawings, 6 maps, 20 photographs). Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 18.3 x 25.5. 1876439343

77649
ORIENT LINE
R.M.S. ORMONDE - Tasmanian Cruise, January 1939: Hobart and Port Arthur
$15.00 AUD

Orient Line. Sydney & London. 1939. 1 - Abstract of Log - Cruise to Tasmania by SS Ormonde. 2 - Information for Passengers. 3- Programme in Hobart (roneotyped). 3 - 2 (plain) Menus: Luncheon and Children's Tea. Port Arthur flyer, (3 folds) with information, 1 map of South-Eastern Tasmania and 1 plan of Port Arthur. 5 items. Light foxing. Very good.

Call at Port Arthur (weather permitting). General description and History of Port Arthur.

64723
PARKER, Captain Walter H.
LEAVES FROM AN UNWRITTEN LOG-BOOK
$120.00 AUD

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. c. 1931. 1st Ed. XVI, 272 PP, plus 10 b/w plates with 1 caricature, 2 paintings and 10 photos. Errata slip tipped in on "contents" page. Fp: Portrait of the author. Red cloth cover with light wear around edges. Spine lightly sunned. Slight ageing of paper and some light foxing. Discreet stamp on top outside page edges and a faint signature on inside front cover, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 24.2 x 16.5.

Captain Parker (in 1931), was Captain of the R.M.S. Olympic.

59395
PARKER, Derek
ARTHUR PHILLIP: Australia's First Governor
$35.00 AUD

Woodslane Press. Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. XVI, 296 PP, plus 8 plates with 5 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 9781921203992

77073
PARKINSON, Richard
THIRTY YEARS IN THE SOUTH SEAS - Land and People, Customs and Traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on German Solomon Islands
$120.00 AUD

Crawford House Publishing / Oceania Publications, University of Sydney. Sydney. 1999. 1st Australian edition, translated from the 1907 German original by K. J. Dennisson. XXXVIII, 378 PP with 4 maps on double page, 56 b/w plates and 141 figures. Fp: Facsimile of title page of the German edition. Half title page: Portrait of the German Professor Richard Parkinson. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 29.5 x 22. 1863331670

77394
PARSONS, Ronald
A GUIDE AND INDEX TO SHIP REGISTERS IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA
$25.00 AUD

Ronald Parsons. Murray Bridge, S. A. 1999. March 1999 edition. (4), 56 PP. Stapled typescript monograph. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.6. 0909148640

60859
PAYNE, Charles B.
PORT CAMPBELL: Report On by Captain Payne
$25.00 AUD

John Ferres, Government Printer Melbourne. 1878. Report from Department of Ports and Harbors, dated 25th July 1878. 2 page document (recto/verso). Top margin chipped. In a protective plastic envelopee. Very good. 351.5 x 21.5.

Report presented to both Houses of Parliament. Visit on board the steamer Pharos in mid July 1878: Lay out, suitability, improvments ...

77932
PEACOCK, Sandy (editor)
AUSTRALIA'S YEARBOOK OF SAIL 1
$15.00 AUD

Lansdowne Press Sydney. 1983. 1st Ed. 208 PP with colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots inside the dust jacket, otherwise a near fine copy. 31 x 24.

The first annual edition: The hunt for the American Grail. 1982 Sydney Hobart. Geelong sorts out the Flying Dutchmen...

77703
PEARL, Cyril
THE DUNERA SCANDAL
$20.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Melbourne. 1985. Paperback edition of the 1983 original. VI, 234 PP with 29 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Faint foxing, and remainder mark on top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 21.2 x 13.7. 0207152454

The internment in Australia of 2542 Germans & Austrians refugees (either political or racial). They were deported on the British India liner "Dunera".

64994
PEARN, John & O'CARRIGAN, Catherine (editors)
AUSTRALIA'S QUEST FOR COLONIAL HEALTH. Some Influences on Early Health and Medicine in Australia
$25.00 AUD

Department of Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital. Brisbane. 1983. 1st Ed. (2), XII, 304 PP with 4 head pieces, 1 map, 1 plan and 18 b/w illustrations (facsimile of documents, photos, portraits). Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly soiled. Signed by both authors / editors on title page. Near fine. 21.2 x 15. 0877760796

Chapter 1: the medical men of the First Fleet, by Noel Dan. Chapter 2: Medical aspects of the Second Fleet, by Mervyn Cobcroft... Chapter 5: French Doctors at Sydney Cove. Gallic contact in the second decade after Phillip....

77902
PEARSON, Michael
GREAT SOUTHERN LAND: The Maritime Exploration of Terra Australis
$30.00 AUD

The Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed. Foreword by Senator the Hon. Ian Campbell, Minister for the Environment and Heritage. IV, 155 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial boards, dj. Names of previous owners on FFEP together with a loosely inserted note about their kayak trip across the Baie du Nord where they discovered the rock garden wall left by the d'Entrecasteaux expedition at Recherche Bay. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 0642551855

36610
PERCY, Betty J.
WELCOME ABOARD THE TAMAR BOATS
$300.00 AUD

Betty J. Percy. Launceston. 1993. 1st Ed. XII, 260 PP with 152 b/w illust., plus large folded map in colour of the Tamar River tipped in at centre of book Fp (in colour):: "Ronda-Lisa" under storm jib only. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, decorated front cover, dj. Dust jacket has light shelf wear and is in a protective sleeve. Near fine. Scarce. 26.6 x 19. 0646136496

Stories of 750 craft built on, and launched from the banks of the Tamar River, Tasmania.

77922
PERRYMAN, John & MITCHELL, Brett
AUSTRALIA'S NAVY IN VIETNAM. Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965-72
$40.00 AUD

Topmill/Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2012. 2nd edition. (8), 104 PP, (8) PP b/w and colour illustrations throughout (maps, crests, badges, documents and hundreds of photos). Laminated boards with illustrated dust jacket. Fine. 31 x 21.5.

61046
PIGNEGUY, Dee
SALTWATER IN HER HAIR - Stories of Sisterhood at Sea
$20.00 AUD

VIP Publications. Auckland. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by Captain Jim Varney. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (documents, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Crease on the spine. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by the author. Near fine. Oblong: 20.8 x 25.7. 0958227705

35 Women in the New Zealand maritime industry.

77328
PINK, Kerry
100 YEARS OF WESTERN TASMANIAN MINING
$15.00 AUD

West Coast Pioneer's Memorial Museum / Advocate Marketing Services. Zeehan / Burnie. 1975. 1st Ed. Foreword by Hon. E. E. Reece, Premier of Tasmania. VII, 59 PP with b/w illustrations (2 geological cross section, 3 portraits and 40 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 25 x 20.3. 0959829504

76391
PLOWMAN, Peter
THE SITMAR LINERS: Past and Present
$150.00 AUD

Rosenberg. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. 287 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title page: vignette of the Fairstar. Fp: Fairstar at sea. Eps: Castle Felice off Fort Denison. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. Quite scarce. 31 x 23.3. 1877058254

77420
POOLE, Philippa
OF LOVE AND WAR - The Letters and Diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and his Family 1939-1945
$15.00 AUD

Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed.. 280 PP with b/w illustrations (15 headpieces, 1 plan, 3 maps, 12 documents, 1 family tree, 6 letters and c. 80 photos). Hard covers, dj. Fine. 25.5 x 19. 0701815981

Malaya Campaign, fall of Singapore, Prisoner of War at Changi ...

39564
PORTS
TEES AND HARTLEPOOL PORT AUTHORITY - Report and Accounts 1986
$5.00 AUD

Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority. Cleveland. 1986. 1st Ed. (4), 28, (4) PP with 15 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

41826
PORTS
PORT OF BLYTH - Northumberland
$10.00 AUD

Charter International Publications/Blyth Harbour Commission. King's Lynn. 1987. Brochure: 40 PP with 2 plans, 2 maps, 6 graphs and 34 colour photos. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.7.

41849
PORTS
PORT OF TYNE
$10.00 AUD

British Publishing Company / Port of Tyne Authority. Gloucester. 1987. Folder containing: 1 booklet General Information 16 PP with 4 b/w photos. 1 handbook Port of Tyne 1986-1987 160 PP with advertisements, tables, plans and colour photos, plus 1 large folded plan at back of book. Near fine. 30 x 22.5.

50613
PORTS
AUSTRALIA'S PORT OF DARWIN
$15.00 AUD

Darwin Port Authority. Darwin. c. 1999. 1st Ed. Edited by Paul TYRRELL. (4), 20 PP with 2 b/w photos and colour illustrations (1 map, 3 plans of the port, 3 flags, 7 signal flags, and 6 photos). Inside front cover: 2 b/w photos. Inside rear cover: plan of East Arm Port, stage 2. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 20.8.

60923
PORTS
THE PORT OF SHOREHAM
$10.00 AUD

Shoreham Port Authority. Shoreham, UK. c. 1987. Folder containing - "Your Invitation to the Port of Shoreham": 4 PP with 1 plan and 3 Sketches. "The Port of Shoreham", July 1983: 7 PP + 1 table"Traffic handled 1982 to 1986". A folded plan (diagrammatic). "Shoreham Port Authority Report and Accounts 1986" 20 PP and pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

77523
PRETOR-PINNEY, Gavin
THE CLOUDSPOTTER'S GUIDE
$15.00 AUD

Sceptre Publication / The Cloud Appreciation Society. London. 2007. 1st paperback edition of the 2006 original. 320 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings and sketches, newspaper clippings, photos ... and 13 headpieces by Bill Sanderson). Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 19.7 x 13. 9780340895900

77770
PRICE, A. Grenfell
THE WESTERN INVASIONS OF THE PACIFIC AND ITS CONTINENTS - A study of moving frontiers and changing landscapes 1513-1958
$35.00 AUD

Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1968. Reprint of the 1963 original. VIII, 236 PP with 7 tables, plus 11 plates (3 b/w photos, drawings, graphs, maps and plans). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Spine of dust jacket is sunned. Faint foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.

77206
PROCTOR, Ralph
LAUNCESTON MUNICIPAL TRAMWAYS
$10.00 AUD

Regal Publications. Launceston. c. 1980. 1st Ed. 28 PP with b/w illustrations (3 tickets and 30 photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. Oblong: 15 x 21. 0949457566

78010
PUDNEY, John
LONDON'S DOCKS
$20.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson London. 1975. . 1st paperback edition. 192 PP with 116 bw illust. Fp: The gate of West India Dock in 1932. Pictorial card cover. Very good. 23.6 x 17. 0500270589

77691
PUREY-CUST, Commander H.E.
THE ERUPTION OF AMBRYM ISLAND, NEW HEBRIDES, SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC, 1894
$25.00 AUD

Royal Geographic Society. London. 1896. Extract pulled out of Issue. Pages 585 to 602 with 10 b/w illustrations: 1 map of the New Hebrides, 3 sketches and 6 photos, plus 1 folded map of Ambryn Island , surveyed by Commander H.E. Purvey-Cust, on board H.M. Surveying Ship Dart. Soft covers, plastic spine. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.

Paper read at the Royal Geographical Society, June 22, 1896.

77853
RABAN, Jonathan
PASSAGE TO JUNEAU - A Sea and Its Meanings
$15.00 AUD

Picador. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 435 PP with 2 maps of the Inside Passage with location maps, and 2 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 19.7 x 13. 9780330346290

Voyage from Seattle to Juneau in Alaska, through the labyrinthine sea route called the "Inside Passage".

77355
RAE, Lou
THE ABT RAILWAY on Tasmania's West Coast
$20.00 AUD

Lou Rae Publisher. Sandy Bay, Tasmania. 1988 1st Ed. 72 PP with 1 map "West Coast Mining Region) in colour inside front cover, 60 b/w illustrations (1 map and 59 photos) and 24 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 0959209816

77737
RAN
RANR: Navigating, Watchkeeping and Command Log Book
$20.00 AUD

Royal Australian Navy. Canberra. 1978. November 1978 edition. Log Book PT 68. No pagination, 42 PP (recto only). Soft covers, spiral bound. Log Book in a protective hard cover (plastic) with title on front cover. Page 2-2, BWC 3 Bridge Watchkeeping Log, partly filled in for duties performed in August & September 1980 and January 1981. Otherwise near fine. 21.5 x 16.

Theoretical and practical knowledge, and ship handling evolution...

77916
RAN
WARSHIP - Australian Warship Review - Vol. No. 19
$10.00 AUD

Australian Warship Review / Topmill. Sydney. 2004. Volume No. 19 / 2003. Edited by Maurice Kelly. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Centrefold: HMAS Queensborough. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Australia's Auxiliary Minesweepers 1917-1945. British Naval African Expedition 1915-1918 (Mimi & Toutou). Japanese Colour, by Brian Morrison. Royal New Zealand Navy Museum. HSV (High Speed Vessel) 2 "Swift", US Navy, built by Incat, Hobart.

77917
RAN
WARSHIP - Australian Warship Review - Vol. No. 12
$10.00 AUD

Australian Warship Review / Topmill. Sydney. 2002. Volume No. 12 / 2002. Edited by Maurice Kelly. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

Preserved Warships: Battleship USS New Jersey/ Aircraft Carrier USS Intrepid, by Trevor Piper. Seven Navies visit Australia. Scandinavia : Sweden's Visby / Norway's Navy and Coast Guard. DDGs - for the Record by Joe Straczek.

77889
RICHARDSON, Nick & BESTER, Damian (editors)
AUSTRALIA AT WAR - The Great War 100-year Anniversary (in Mercury / Sunday Tasmanian)
$25.00 AUD

Mercury/Sunday Tasmanian. Hobart. 2014 A Mercury Special Feature: Sunday, April 25, 2014. 16 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft wrappers. Very good. Large format: 38 x 26.7.

Tasmania in the shadow of war, by Reg. A. Watson. History's Greatest Chain Reaction, by Les Carlyon. ...

77794
ROBINSON, William Albert
DEEP WATER AND SHOAL
$25.00 AUD

Jonanthan Cape. London. 1933. 6th impression of the 1932 original. 359 PP with 1 map and 1 sail plan, plus 32 pages with 24 b/w photos and 1 folded plan by John Alden (line drawings) of the Svaap at rear of book, top edge tinted. Fp: In the Indian Ocean. Cloth covers with light wear/soiling. Very good copy. 20.5 x 13.5.

62358
ROSKILL, Captain S. W.
THE WAR AT SEA 1939-1945 (set of 3 Volumes in 4)
$250.00 AUD

H.M.S.O. London. 1954, 1956, 1960 & 1961. Edited by J. R. M. Butler (then Sir James Butler), in the History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military series. Volume I: 1st Ed. XXII, (2), 664 PP with 8 maps and 26 tables, plus 37 folded maps and 44 pages with 56 b/w photos. Fp: Admiral of the Fleet Sir A. Dudley P.R. Pound. Volume II: 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 523 PP with 7 maps and 38 tables, plus 35 folded maps and 36 pages with 64 b/w photos. Fp: The Tilting of the Balance. Volume III, Part I: 1st Ed. XVI, 413 PP with 1 map and 20 tables, plus 20 maps (9 of them folded) and 32 pages with 72 b/w photos. Fp: The submission of the Italian Navy, 10th September 1943. 1 errata slip tipped in on title page. Volume III, Part II: 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 502 PP with 4 maps and 20 tables, plus 21 maps (8 of them folded) and 38 pages with 80 b/w photos. Fp: The defeat of the German Navy 1945. Errata slip tipped on title page. All volumes with dark green cloth covers, gilt title on black label on spines and dust jackets. Dust jackets slightly defective: top of spine of Volume II with piece missing, Volumes II and III are price clipped, and all are lightly soiled and with sunned spine. Front endpaper: Volume I with bookplate and Volume II with name of previous owner. Some foxing spots on outside edges, the endpapers and a very few pages, o/wise a nice set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25 x 17.

Volume I: The Defensive, from the start of WWII to December 1941 and the fall of Hong Kong. Volume II: The Period of Balance, January 1942 to May 1943. Volume III: The offensive, Part I: 1st June 1943-31st May 1944. Part II: 1st June 1944 -14th August 1945.

50058
ROSS, Bob & MALLITTE, John (editors)
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND COMPLETE BOOK OF BOATING
$20.00 AUD

Summit Books / Paul Hamlyn. Sydney. 1977. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1975 (1972 original). 543 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Chart with approaches to Port Stephens. Hard cover, illustration on front cover, title on front cover and spine, dj (with a few small chips). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 28.5 x 21. 0727100963

77799
ROWAN, Dana & McPHEE, John (editors)
AUSTRALIAN FOLK AND POPULAR ART IN THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY
$15.00 AUD

Publications Department / Australian National Gallery. Canberra. 1988. 1st Ed. 58 PP with colour photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0642130884

65033
ROYAL PACKET STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
ISLES OF THE EAST - An illustrated guide to Australia, Papua, Java, Sumatra, Singapore etc.
$300.00 AUD

KPM / Royal Packet Steam Navigation Company. Batavia. 1912. Deluxe edition of January 1912. Edited by W. LORCK. LII (adverts), 244 PP, followed by LIII-CXXI (adverts) and b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 b/w plate : portrait of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; 1 plate "Time Table 1912; 1 folded plate "Accommodation plan of KPM Steel Screw Steamer "Tasman" and 2 colour plates: painting by C. H. Hoyt "Middle Harbour, Sydney, from Mosman Heights, and "Samples of Javanese Art Work..." . Papered boards with a colour illustration on front board by Tindall, cloth spine. Front cover with small pieices missing at corners of front edge. Spine has been reinforced (crudely). The first few pages (up to VIII) are somewhat damaged at the gutters (without loss) and most of Page III/IV has been torn off. The guide was published on superior glossy paper thus conserving its clarity and brightness. A very good copy of quite a rare item. 25.3 x 15.5.

Section I, Chapter 1 (P. XXXIII to L): The "KPM": A Twenty Years' Record. Chapter III (P 38 to 155): A trip to Java by a KPM Steamer (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Port Moresby ... Borneo, Celebes, Singapore). Section II,Chapter 1 (P.156-243): Commercial Section - Rotterdamsche Lloyd, The Railways of Java, Sumatra Railways, Batavia, The Tea Industry, Bandoeng, Soerabaya.. Chapter II (P.LIII - CXXI): Advertisements: period advertisements for hotels, transport companies, import/export, ... Gives an insight to life in these areas at the time.

77747
RUNYAN, Timothy J. (editor)
THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE - A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History & Arts - Volume: 54, No. 2
$20.00 AUD

Peabody Museum. Salem, Mass. 1994 Spring 1994. 81- 160 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (line drawings & plans, paintings & photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front (Launching of the Ship "Fame", 1802). Fine. 27.5 x 21.5.

From Hog Islanders to Liberty Ships: The American Government and Merchant Ship Construction, by Deborah A. Hirshfield. Oak Trees and Balance Sheets: James Davidson, Great Lakes Shipbuilder and Entrepreneur, by John O. Jensen. The Reconstruction of Coasting Schooners from Tonnage Admeasurements, by Edward G. Brownlee.

77748
RUNYAN, Timothy J. (editor)
THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE - A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History & Arts - Volume: 54, No. 3
$20.00 AUD

Peabody Museum. Salem, Mass. 1994 Summer 1994. 161 - 240 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (line drawings & plans, paintings & photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front - Queen Victoria's Close Encounter, 1851. Fine. 27.5 x 21.5.

Forbidden Prizes, by Donald A. Petrie. The Early Revolution of the Sloops on the Hudson River, 1620-1800, by Paul F. Fontenoy. Prisoners of War versus Internees: Merchant Mariner Experience of World War II, by Charles Dana Gibson. The Periagua: A Traditional Workboat of the New York/New Jersey Area, by Kevin K. Olsen. The John William Stark Shipping Papers by Victor A. Lewinson.

77749
RUNYAN, Timothy J. (editor)
THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE - A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History & Arts - Volume: 54, No. 4
$20.00 AUD

Peabody Museum. Salem, Mass. 1994 Fall 1994. 241 -320 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (line drawings & plans, paintings & photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front (Cutter "Chiquita" in Boston Harbor). Fine. 27.5 x 21.5.

Marine Paintings as Fine Art: The example of James Edward Buttersworth, by Richard Grassby. The Female Sailor on the "Christopher Mitchell", by Elizabeth A. Little. The USS Keasarge, Sixteen Irishmen and a dark and stormy night, by Edward W. Sloan. The Captain as Healer: Medical Care on Merchantmen and Whalers, 1790-1865, by Eleanora C. Gordon. Periaguas in the Hudson River, by Robert Gerard.

77750
RUNYAN, Timothy J. (editor)
THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE - A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History & Arts - Volume: 54, Special Supplement
$25.00 AUD

Peabody Museum. Salem, Mass. 1994 Special Supplement "UNITED STATES TRADE WITH CHINA, 1784 - 1814", by Rhys Richards. Foreword by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith. 76 PP with tables. Stiff covers, pictorial front (Whampoa Anchorage, ca 1845-50). Fine. 27.5 x 21.5.

First Two Decades, 1784-1804, by Rhys Richards & Mary Malloy. Third Decade 1805-1814, by Rhys Richards & Briton C. Busch.

77963
RUSSELL SHAW, George
KNOTS - Useful & Ornamental
$50.00 AUD

Bonanza. New York. 1984 Reprint of original of 1933. (10), 194 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Hard cover, dust jacket. Light foxing on prelimns and last pages, otherwise a near fine copy. 23.3 x 15.5.

77473
RUTTER, Owen
THE PIRATE WIND - Tales of the Sea-Robbers of Malaya
$15.00 AUD

Hutchinson & Co. London. No date. 6th Thousand. XVIII, 19-256 PP. Cloth covers, front part of dust jacket pasted down on front. Ex Library copy with stamps. Ageing of paper. Good reading copy. 18 x 12.

Vivid account of piracy in Malayan seas in the 18th & 19th centuries. Victories and defeats, mainly against British frigates.

76054
SAINT DAHL, Henry
DAHL'S LAW DICTIONARY / DICTIONNAIRE Juridique Dahl - An Annotated Legal Dictionary, including Definitions from Codes, Case Law, Statutes, and Legal Writings (French to English / English to French) / Dictionnaire Juridique annoté, avec des définitions tirées des Codes, de la Jurisprudence, des Lois, et de la Doctrine (Français-Anglais / Anglais-Français)
$50.00 AUD

William S. Hein & Co. / Editions Dalloz. Buffalo, N.Y. / Paris. 2001. 2nd bi-lingual edition. Note on the French Language by V. Bourgoing-Dumonteil. XXVI, 675 PP. Laminated hard covers. Text in English and French. Fine. 26 x 19.2. 9780575886742

16433
SAND, Peter H.
MARINE ENVIRONMENT LAW IN THE UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME, an Emergent Eco-Regime
$30.00 AUD

Tycooly. London. 1988. 1st Ed. XXVI, 265 PP with 1 map and 10 tables in text. Decorated laminated boards. Near fine. 25 x 17.5. 1851480242

Global guidelines: Off-shore mining, Geneva 1981 - South West Pacific: Nouméa convention and protocol, Rarotonga 1982 - Indian Ocean: Nairobi convention and protocols 1985 - Red Sea: Jeddah convention and protocol 1982 ...

77939
SCHILDER, Günter
AUSTRALIA UNVEILED, The share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia
$250.00 AUD

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd. Amsterdam. 1976. 1st English edition, translated from the 1973 German original by Olaf Richter. Limited edition of 250 copies hand numbered (No. 51) and signed by the author, reserved for the Australian National University. XII, 419, (5 index) PP with 61 figures, XLIV plates, and 88 maps. Fp: A gore from a terrestrial globe by Vincenzo Coronelli. In "Libro dei Globi", Venice 1699. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed around edges and is in a protective sleeve. Label (No. 51/250) for this special edition pasted down on half title page above the author's signature. Occasional foxing on outside edges and first 4 leaves. Near fine. Scarce. 25.5 x 17.8. 9022199975

Dutch discoveries of the Northern, Western and Southern coasts of Australia.

77926
SCOTT, Dick
YEARS OF THE POOH-BAH, A Cook Islands History
$200.00 AUD

C.I.T.C. & Hodder & Stoughton. Rarotonga. 1991. 1st Ed. 320 PP (1 corrigenda), with b/w illust. including in margin & tail-pieces. Fp: Facsimile of a pamphlet, a Poo-bah of the Pacific. Eps: Views/plans of the City of Avarua in 1893. Hard cover, dust jacket. A fine, as new copy. Quite scarce. 25.6 x 18.8. 0340554894

Pooh-bah: a pompous self-important official holding several offices at once and fulfilling none of them. History commissioned for the Centenary of the Cook Islands Trading Corporation.

77762
SCOTT, Ernest
TERRE NAPOLEON - A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
$70.00 AUD

Methuen. London. 1911. 2nd edition of the 1910 original. XX, 296 PP, plus 2 folded maps and 8 plates. Fp: Le Géographe and Le Naturaliste. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine Spine sunned and with a very small tear at head. Foxing throughout. Near fine. 22.5 x 15.

49707
SCOTT, Lieutenant Commander C. J. de C.
THE MARINER'S HANDBOOK
$20.00 AUD

The Hydrographer of the Navy. London. 1973. 4th edition of the 1962 original, with a preface by Rear-Admiral G. P. D. Hall. Sailing Directions No. 100. VIII, 139 PP with 10 tables, and 12 diagrams, and 41 Ice Photographs (4 in colour, and 37 bw), plus 3 folded charts, 4 charts, 4 colour plates (buoyage), and 14 pages with 12 diagrams (3 on meteorology). Fp: New Symbols and Colours on Metric Charts. Eps: Table for converting Feet and Fathoms to Metres. Supplement No. 3 - 1985 loosely inserted. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.2.

Supplement 3, corrected up to 25th May, 1985.

76461
SEACRAFT
POWER & SAIL SEACRAFT - Aquatic Magazine Covering the Australasian Waterfront. Vol. 8, No. 5, January 1951
$25.00 AUD

Hudson Publications. Sydney. 1951 Edited by Norman O. Hudson.& Colin Ryrie. 305 - 372. with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear (Brooke Marine's attractive 25-ft cabin launch). Some children's scribble on front cover and first few pages containing advertisement only, otherwise contents are near fine. 27.5 x 22.

Amazing Rig Experiment, by J. Szabo, lowspeed aerodynamist. ... Pages 338 to 341: Hobart was Base for great Whaling Fleet (with 8 b/w illustrations), by H. G. Taylor.

77197
SEACRAFT
POWER & SAIL SEACRAFT - Aquatic Magazine Covering the Australasian Waterfront. Vol. 21, No.6 (January 1959)
$10.00 AUD

Ken G. Murray. Sydney. 1959. Edited by Paul Hopkins. 68 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers ("Solo" foams along, hell-bent for Hobart). Covers have some wear/soiling but contents are very good. 27 x 21.5.

Articles include: Hobart Results: Hobart Race to Siandra by Brian Cuthbertson with 16 b/w photos of the yachts; How I won the World Championship by Rolly Tasker; Science takes over, Polythene Ropes and Twines by John Burgess; Where will it end?, Fibreglass boats up to 200 feet seem possible .... by C. I. Paine; Watch these Crowdpleasers; Speedboating in Queensland, by Alan Gibbons, ...;

77198
SEACRAFT
POWER & SAIL SEACRAFT - Aquatic Magazine Covering the Australasian Waterfront. Vol. 22, No.2 (March 1959)
$10.00 AUD

Ken G. Murray. Sydney. 1959. Edited by Paul Hopkins. 68 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Most photographed speedboat in Australia - Diane). Covers have some wear/soiling and some pages are dog-eared but contents are still good. 27 x 21.5.

Articles include: Fastest Dinghy Afloat by J.R. Sharples; Tactics Win in Moths by Paul Hopkins; The Other Man's Boat; "Zeehan" by Max Barnett; Dutchman on Top by Ronald F. Jackson, ....

77609
SEFTON, Alan & KEATING, Larry
EXPOSED - The Dark Side of America's Cup
$25.00 AUD

Adlard Coles Nautical/Bloomsbury. London. 2017. 1st Ed. (6), 288 PP, plus 8 pages with 3 b/w and 19 colour photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Very good. 24 x 16. 9781472942890

41485
SEXTON, Rae
BEFORE THE WIND - Tracing the impact on a small community and shipping company by the shipwreck in 1888 of the Star of Greece
$20.00 AUD

Australasian Maritime Historical Society. Adelaide. 1982. 1st edition numbered and signed. X, 110 PP with 1 map, 17 b/w photos and drawings. Fp: Construction plans & rigging plans of the Star of Greece. Eps: Sketches showing the total wreck of the Star of Greece. Hard cover, illustrated front. Copy No. 197 with signature of the author on verso of title page. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21 x 13.8. 0959944834

Shipwrecked off Willunga, South Australia, on Friday the 13th of July, 1888.

77340
SHIP MODELS
CATALOGUE OF MODELS OF REPUTE
$15.00 AUD

The Web Model Fitting Co. Poole, Dorset, UK. c. 1970. 11th edition (8th edition illustrated). 48 PP with 64 b/w photos, describing hundreds of items with a 7 page price list inserted. Stiff covers. Very good. 25 x 18.5.

77651
SHIPBUILDING
INSTRUCTIONS and REGULATIONS relating to the MEASUREMENT OF SHIPS AND TONNAGE, under the MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894.
$50.00 AUD

HMSO. London. 1895. 1st edition of December 1895. 116 PP with Copy of Certificate of Survey, tables, a sketch and 3 figures, plus a large folded plate (recto/verso) "Survey 50", Class 5. Soft covers, green buckram with creases. Gilt title on front cover. Folded plate with repaired tear. Signs of old dampness on all pages (paper ruffled), and discoloration on the front endpaper, title page and up to page 15 but text is still legible. Good. Scarce. 21.2 x 14..

77662
SHIPLOVERS' SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
THE ANNUAL DOG WATCH - Volume 38
$20.00 AUD

Shiplovers' Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1981. Issue No. 38. Edited by S.A.E. STROM & T.E. GOLDFINCH. Foreword by Darren Baillieu. 132 PP with 7 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers, illustrated front cover (Barquentine "Alexa", owned by On Chong of Sydney, the last square-rigged ship owned in Australia). Front cover with creases. A very good copy. 21 x 14.5.

The Bosun, by R.N. Thiele. The Mahogany Ship Mystery, by J.M. Mackenzie. "Desdemona", by the late Captain D. Cowling. The wreck of the Barque "Eleanor Lancaster", heroic rescue of the Crew.

56921
SHIRAI, Shohei
THE STORY OF PEARLS
$20.00 AUD

Japan Publications, Inc. Tokyo. 1970. 1st printing, May 1970. 132 PP with 62 b/w and 63 colour photos. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 19.

77714
SILVEIRA DE BRAGANZA, Ronald Louis, & OAKES, Charlotte (editors)
THE HILL COLLECTION OF PACIFIC VOYAGES (in 3 volumes)
$500.00 AUD

University Library, University of California. San Diego. 1974, 1982 & 1983.. Vol. (I): 1st edition, with annotations by Jonathan A. Hill, and a preface by Melvin J. Voigt. XV, 333, (3) PP with 4 head pieces, and 10 b/w plates. Vignette on title page. Fp: Lopez de Gomara, Cronica de la Nueua Espana, 1554. FEP: Mappemonde by Wytfliet, Histoire Universelle des Indes, 1605. REP: Chart of the track of the Boudeuse and Etoile under the command of M. Louis de Bougainville. Vol. II: 1st edition with a preface by Milicent D. Abell and a prologue by Kenneth E. Hill. XX, 337 - 627, (2) PP with 1 vignette on title page, 7 headpieces or tailpieces and 11 plates (frontispiece in colour, and 10 in b/w). Fp: An Officer of the King of the Sandwich Islands. Eps: . Mappemonde by Wytfliet "Histoire Universelle des Indes", 1605. Errata slip loosely inserted on title page. Vol. III: "Indexes Volume". XIII, 629 - 766, (2) PP with vignette on title page, 1 headpiece and 2 tailpieces. Eps. Each volume bound with cloth cover, gilt device (compass rose) on front cover, and gilt title on spine of Volume II and Volume III. Faint ageing & foxing on outside edges of Volume (I). Bookplate of previous owner at top corner of each front endpaper. A near fine set. 26.5 x 17.5.

Bibliography relating to voyages to the Pacific Islands, especially Polynesia and Micronesia, and to Western America, from Alaska to Chile. Volume (I): edition limited to 1000 copies. Vol. II: edition limited to 800 copies. Vol. III: edition limited to 950 copies.

51133
SMITH, Coultman
SHADOW OVER TASMANIA
$15.00 AUD

J. Walch & Sons. Hobart. 1993. 24th impression of the 1941 original. 150 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map with an inset map, and 15 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.3 x 12.6. 0950093335

For the first time - the truth about the state's convict history.

72065
SMITH, Ian
THE NEW ZEALAND SEALING INDUSTRY - History, archaeology, and heritage management
$50.00 AUD

Department of Conservation / Te Papa Atawhai. Wellington. 2002. 1st edition of June 2002. (V), 72 PP with 6 tables and 21 figures (graphs, maps, photos & sketches). Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. Scarce. 29.8 x 21. 0478222505

77517
SORRELL, George, A. B.
THE MAN BEFORE THE MAST, being the Story of Twenty Years Afloat
$10.00 AUD

Methuen. London. 1928. 1st Ed., with an introduction by C. Fox Smith. XXXVIII, 154, 8 (publications) PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: the whaler "Truelove". Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on a frayed spine. Copy lacking 4 of the 12 plates called for. Lower part of the last page of the text (153/154) torn (not affecting the text). Foxing and soiling on many pages. A good reading copy.. 19.2 x 13.

First went at sea on the "Tintern Abbey", a Quebec-built full-rigger of 1400 tons. First call in Australia on the "Tweed", in 1882... Sailing in Australian waters in 1889 with Howard Smith... Sailed on the Murray River on the stern paddle-wheeler Lady Daly.

75472
SPAIN, Edward
THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD SPAIN - Merchant Seaman and sometimes Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy describing the conditions of life at sea during the American Revolution and the wars with France
$145.00 AUD

The St. Mark's Press. Sydney. 1989. Limited edition of 104 numbered copies (hand number 17 and signed by the publisher). Introduction by Charles Fitzhardinge-Bailey, Printer and Publisher. (6), 89, (2 colophon) PP on Cambewarra Shoalhaven all rag hand-made paper. Vignette on title page: engraving by Richard Stafford. Bound in specially designed paste papers at the Press, cloth spine with gilt title on label. Dedicatory note to previous owner at top of front endpaper signed by Charles Fitzhardinge-Bailey. Scarce. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0947346015

Chapter IV: "Captain Phillip, R.N., and Mr Brewer" (his clerk). Experience with Captain Phillip on HMS Salisbury, of 50 guns, on a crossing from Portsmouth to Madras with calls at San Iags, Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Ioanna /Anjouan, Comoro Islands. . ...

77320
STALLMAN, R. W. (editor)
THE ART OF JOSEPH CONRAD: A Critical Symposium
$25.00 AUD

Encore Edition / Ohio University Press. Athens, Ohio. 1982. Reprint of the 1960 original. Preface by David Leon Higdon, Introduction by R.W. Stallman. XXXII, 354 PP. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0821405837

Part I - Appraisals of Joseph Conrad in 1924, by: André Gide / H.R. Lenormand, on a sojourn in Corsica / The Art of Conrad, by Ramon Fernandez... Part II - Scrutunization of his works individually and chronologically by: J. D. Gordon / Vernon Young / Gustaf Morf... Albert J. Guerard / Douglas Hewitt ...

77900
STENHOUSE, Commander J. R.
CRACKER HASH - The Story of an Apprentice in Sail
$25.00 AUD

Percival Marshall. London. 1955. 1st Ed. Foreword by Lieut-Commander I. M. Bates. VIII, 240 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait Cdr. J. R. Stenhouse. Hard cover, title on dulled spine. Renewed endpapers. Light foxing. Two pages with some scribble, but not affecting text. Very good. 22 x 14.

Early voyages on windjammers. The author was later part of the expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton on the "Aurora".

77778
STOKES, Edward
TO THE INLAND SEA - CHARLES STURT'S EXPEDITION, 1844 - 45
$35.00 AUD

Hutchinson of Australia. Melbourne. 1986. 1st Ed. VIII, 248 PP with b/w illustrations (portrait of Charles Sturt and 4 maps) and c. 100 colour photos. Fp: Portrait of Charles Sturt, 1795-1869. Hard covers, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 28.5 x 26. 0091572207

In the footsteps (in 1984) of the explorer, with the help of his published "Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia", and his hand written daily Journal.

58761
STONE, Peter
DIVE AUSTRALIA - A Guide to Scuba diving locations and services in Australia
$15.00 AUD

Oceans Publications. Yarram, Victoria. 1990. 3rd edition of the 1982 original. 288 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, location maps, photos...). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 0731683471

22838
SULLIVAN, R. & BRADY, J. (editors)
THE CHANGING VALLEY
$20.00 AUD

History Department at Tweed River High School. Tweed Head, NSW. 1983. 1st Ed. 104 PP. Pictorial card cover. Light foxing on the prelims, o/wise near fine. 26.5 x 20.8.

A collection of photographs of the Tweed Valley from 1886 to 1982. Building of the training walls and breakwaters, shipping out of the Tweed River and up to Murwillumbah.

77716
SYDNEY GAZETTE
THE SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER - Volume Two: March 4, 1804 to February 24, 1805
$30.00 AUD

Public Library of New South Wales / Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1965. 1st facsimile edition. The William Dixson Foundation, Publication No. 3. No pagination (2), IV, (210), (32 index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with small chips. Foxing spots on dust jacket and outside edges. Name and address of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 32.4 x 23.5.

Volume 2 - No. 53 (Sunday, March 4, 1804) to No. 104 (Sunday, February 24, 1805).

77717
SYDNEY GAZETTE
THE SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER - Volume One: March 5, 1803 to February 26, 1804
$25.00 AUD

Public Library of New South Wales / Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1963. Facsimile reprint of the 1899 original. Introduction by J. A. Ferguson. The William Dixson Foundation, Publication No. 2. No pagination (2), XII, (210), (23 index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly soiled, with small chips and few foxing spots. Foxing spots on outside edges. Name of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 32.4 x 23.5.

Volume I - No. 1 (Saturday, March 5, 1803) to No. 52 (Sunday, February 26, 1804).

41518
TAFFRAIL (Captain Taprell Dorling, D.S.O., R.N.)
CYPHER K
$15.00 AUD

The Brockhampton Press. Leicester. 1950. 1st edition in the Brock Books for older boys and girls series, of the 1932 original. 191 PP with 15 b/w illustrations by Caney. Fp: Foxy Elliott. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Few foxing spots on outside edges. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 19 x 12.7.

77827
TASMANIA
TASMANIA - LET'S MAKE OUR STATE GREAT (in Mercury - 2 Issues: 20th & 21st September 2012)
$15.00 AUD

The Mercury. Hobart. 2012. 26 Essays compiled in 2 Issues. A total of 32 PP with table and colour photos. Soft cover. Near fine. Large format: 41 x 30.

Part 1: Tasmania at a glance. Food for thought, by Dick Smith. Welcome to Foodie Paradise, by Matthew Evans. Priority No. 1: National Sea Highway, by Peter Brohier. Let the Debate begin, by David Walsh. Irrigating our future, by John Ramsay. Raise your glass: Wine by Nick Glaetzer and Whisky, The Best Drop of All, by Bill Lark. Value in the Deep, by Dr Gretta Pecl. Part 2: Building an Intelligent Tasmania, by Barry Jones. Embrace Change, by Saul Eslake. From Out of the Blue (Salmon Industry), by Dr. Adam Main. Healthy Future by Professor Andrew Palmer. Antarctic Gateway, by Dr. Tas van Ommen. Ancient Footsteps, Tasmania's Secret Heritage, by Greg Lehman.

77859
TAYLOR, Griffith
DOUGLAS MAWSON
$15.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1962. 1st Ed., in the "Great Australians" series. (2), 30 PP with 10 b/w illustrations (3 maps and 7 photos). Soft covers, stapled, illustrated front. Ex library copy with 5 stamps: on front cover, title page and endpapers, and 2 rubbed patches on rear endpaper. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.

18064
TEMPLE, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Richard Carnac
NEW LIGHT ON THE MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY OF THE WORCESTER 1704-1705, An Episode in the Long Struggle between England and Scotland for Union as Great Britain 1603-1707
$20.00 AUD

Ernest Benn. London. 1930. 1st Ed. 491 PP with 2 figures in text, plus 3 maps & 8 b/w plates. Fp: The Custom House of 1714, showing a merchant frigate of the description of the Worcester. Cloth cover. Covers slightly worn, spine sunned. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages, o/wise a very good copy. Ingleton bookplate & Ingleton Catalogue No.12077. 24.2 x 15.5.

The seizure at Leith of the Worcester, on her return from a successful voyage to India. Hanging of her Captain in April 1705, and the ensuing controversy.

77945
THOMAS, David
BATTLE OF THE JAVA SEA
$50.00 AUD

André Deutsch. London. 1968. 1st Ed. 260 PP with 6 maps, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w photos. Eps: Map of South East Asia. Hard cover, top edge tinted, dj. (price clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 233960724

First full account of one of the major naval campaigns of the Second World War. Sinking of USS Houston, HMAS Perth, HMS Exeter & Electra...

77772
THOMAS, Julian
CANNIBALS & CONVICTS: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific
$150.00 AUD

Cassell & Co. London. 1886. 1st Ed. XVI, 407 PP, (1 appendix: "Petition by the inhabitants of Tanna to be annexed by Australia"), (14 publications), plus 1 map (in colour) and the frontispiece. Frontispiece with tissue guard has 5 portraits (Author, Maafu, Thakambau, The Rev. James Chalmers and Commandant Servan). Tinted endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, gilt title and decoration (Portrait of Thakambau) on dulled spine. Hinges and gutters either splitting or fragile. Occasional foxing. Name of previous owner at top of title page (crossed out). Discreet small name stamp of a previous owner on recto of frontispiece, Page V, top of Contents page and head of Chapter I. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. 19.8 x 13.

The first journalist to visit New Caledonia and New Hebrides at the time of the Kanak insurrection of 1878 (while exploring the Anglo-Saxon world in the Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, New Guinea) and why the New Hebrides should become Australian. They hated the Man Wee Wee, ("oui oui"), ie.: the French. ... Life on board a "Labour Vessel". A visit to Port Moresby.

77882
THOMPSON, Captain Barry
ALL HANDS AND THE COOK - The Customs and Language of the British Merchant Seaman 1875-1975
$45.00 AUD

Captain Barry Thompson / The Bush Press. Salisbury, Wilts. 2008. 1st Ed. 383 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, documents, sketches) and including silhouettes and drawings by Eric Talbot-Booth. Hard covers, dj. Neat bookplate and address of previous owner at top of title-page, otherwise fine. 21.6 X 15.5. 9780908608720

Over 2000 entries, such as the title: "All Hands and the Cook". Refers to everyone on board, and is derived from Sailing Ship days where the maximum of people were required to take in sail when bad weather endangered the ship.

22687
TIPPING, Marjorie
CONVICTS UNBOUND - The Story of the "Calcutta" Convicts and their Settlement in Australia
$100.00 AUD

Viking O'Neil. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. XIII, 353 PP with b/w illust. Title spread: HMS Calcutta, off Rochefort, Bay of Biscay. Eps: Map of Van Diemen's Land. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 29.2 x 21.7. 9780670900688

The lives and experiences of the 308 convicts transported on board HMS Calcutta in 1803.

76757
LE TOUMELIN, Jacques-Yves
KURUN AROUND THE WORLD
$25.00 AUD

Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1954. 1st Edition. 300 PP with 7 maps, 3 plans plus 16 pages with 19 b/w photos. Hard cover, price-clipped dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Top edge tinted, light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise a near fine copy. 22 x 14.5.

Circumnavigation September 1949 to July 1952.

77873
TRICKETT, Peter
BEYOND CAPRICORN: How Portuguese Adventurers Secretly Discovered and Mapped Australia and New Zealand 250 years before Captain Cook
$60.00 AUD

East Street Publications. Adelaide. 2007. 1st Ed. XII, 386, (2) PP with 2 maps, 16 sketch maps and 13 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 14 b/w and 14 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Small crease at top corner of back cover. Near fine. 23.4 x 15.3. 9780975114599

77505
TRIEBEL, L. A. & BATT, J. C.
FRENCH EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA, with Special Reference to Tasmania
$25.00 AUD

Government Printer. Hobart. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword in French by His Excellency Monsieur Renaud Sivan, French Ambassador to Australia (English translation on pages 93/94). 94, (2) PP, plus 12 pages with 5 maps or charts & 12 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, title on front cover. Spine of cover slightly sunned. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.

Marion du Fresne, La Pérouse, D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Dumont d'Urville,..

59120
UNDERHILL, Harold A.
MASTING AND RIGGING - The Clipper Ship & Ocean Carrier
$40.00 AUD

Brown, Son & Ferguson. Glasgow. 1958. Reprint of the 1946 original. X, (2), 304 PP with 22 tables, 181 figures and 50 b/w plates, plus 1 large folded b/w plate (No. 51). Fp: Ship "Mount Stewart". Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Signature of previous owner on FFEP. A very good clean copy. 24.8 x 18.5.

With authentic plans, working drawings and details of the nineteenth and twentieth century sailing ship.

77682
VALENTINE, D. T.
MANUAL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK FOR 1853
$350.00 AUD

McSpedon & Baker, Printer. New-York. 1853. 1st Ed. (2), IX, 10- 505 PP with 17 headpieces, plus 16 plates and 6 folded plates (1 table, 2 diagrams and 4 plans/maps). Title page Vignette with crest of the City. Fp: large folded plan of the "City of New York 1853". Embossed cloth covers, gilt device (coat of Arms of New York on front and back covers, gilt title on spine). Head and foot of spine rubbed. 3 of the folded plans with small closed tears. Slight ageing of paper. Small hand-written dedicatory note on FFEP dated 1884. A very good clean copy. Scarce. 19.3 x 12.7.

77316
VAN LOLMO, Richard (Compiler)
WILLEM DE VLAMINGH'S JOURNEY
$10.00 AUD

Rio Bay Enterprises Pty. Ltd. Nedlands, WA. 1996. (iii), 20 PP with 7 b/w illustrations. Stapled card covers. Fine. Small format: 14.5 x 10.5.

Self-published by a descendant of Leendert Laurensz van Lolmo who was in the service of the V.O.C.

74467
VILLIERS, Alan
GRAIN RACE
$100.00 AUD

Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1938. Reprint of 1933 1st US edition. viii, (4), 331 PP plus 30 pages with 38 b/w photos and FP: "The Finnish four-masted barque Parma in the North Atlantic". Green cloth covers, gilt title on front cover on slightly dulled spine. Covers with shelf wear around edges and a little bumped at top corners, contents are near fine. Signed note "with all good wishes" by the author. A scarce signed copy. 22 x 15.

The last of the sailing-ships from Australia to the English Channel, completing the trilogy which included "Falmouth for Orders" and "By Way of Cape Horn".

77679
VILLIERS, Alan
THE WAY OF A SHIP - The Story of the Square-Rigged Cape Horner, Being some Account of the Ultimate Development of the Ocean-going Square-rigged Sailing Vessel, and the Manner of Her Handling, Her Voyage-Making, Her Personnel, Her Economics, Her Performance, and Her End
$45.00 AUD

London. 1954. Hodder & Stoughton. 1st UK Ed. 287 PP with 38 diagrams and drawings by Harold A. Underhill, plus 48 pages with 74 bw photos. Fp: A Laeisz ship near Cape Horn. Eps: Sailing routes and system of ocean winds. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers with rubbed and worn patches, and hinge of back cover starting. Spine sunned and damaged at head with top missing on 1.5 cm and rubbed at foot. Occasional foxing. Stamp "Commanding Officer, HMAS Hawk" on front endpaper. A very good reading/working copy. 24 x 16.

77881
VILLIERS, Alan
FALMOUTH FOR ORDERS - The Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race Around Cape Horn
$65.00 AUD

Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1972. New edition of the 1929 original, with an Introduction by Alan Villiers. XXIV, 232 PP, plus 24 pages with 41 b/w photos and frontispiece. Fp: Herzogin Cecilie in the English Channel. FEP: Map with course of Herzogin Cecilie and Beatrice. REP: Sails plans of the Finnish Herzogin Cecilie and the Swedish Beatrice. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Top outside edge tinted. Fine. 25.2 x 19. 0684129345

The race between "Herzogin Cecilie" and the "Beatrice". A beautiful book.

78004
VILLIERS, Alan
THE CORAL SEA
$30.00 AUD

Museum Press. London. 1949. 1st UK edition. 292 PP with 6 maps, plus 24 pages with 37 b/w photos. Fp: Into the Coral Sea. Eps: Map of the SW Pacific with routes of the Pacific explorers. Green cloth cover, gilt title on white vignette on spine. Signature of previous owner on half-title page. Light foxing. A very good copy. 22.5 x 14.5.

Adventure & exploration of the Coral Sea from the Polynesians to WWII.

72352
VIRGA, Vincent & The Library of Congress
CARTOGRAPHIA - Mapping Civilizations
$30.00 AUD

Little Brown and Company. New York. 2008. 3rd printing of the 2007 original. Introduction by Ronald E. Grim. Afterword by James H. Billington. (VI), 266 PP with 202 plates with b/w or colour illustrations. Half title page: Claudius Ptolomy. Title spread: Detail from Ruysch Map of the Known World. Eps: Detail from "Pictorial Map on cloth of the Vale of Kashmir". Pictorial laminated boards ("Waldseemüller Map of the World"), dj (Southeast Africa, from a secret Portuguese Atlas, 1640). A fine copy. 33.5 x 26.3. 9780316997669

77359
Von STIEGLITZ, Karl R.
THE STORY OF THE PIONEER CHURCH IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
$15.00 AUD

K.R. von Stieglitz. Launceston. 1954. 1st Ed. Preface by G. F. Cranswick. 72 PP, plus A pages with 5 b/w illustrations (1 drawing 2 portraits and 2 photos).

A Book for Tasmania's Sesquicentenary Year.

50316
WALKER, W. H.
D.T.I. YACHTMASTERS EXAMINATION. Notes and Guidance
$20.00 AUD

Kandy Publications. Sevenoaks, Kent. 1972. 1st Ed. X, 86 PP with 8 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Very good. 19.8 x 12.6. 0853090521

77779
WALLIS, J. P. R.
THOMAS BAINES - His Life and Explorations in South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia 1820-1875
$55.00 AUD

A. A. Balkema. Cape Town. 1976. New (second) edition of the 1942 original. Introduction and Captions by F. R. Bradlow. XX, 235 PP with 1 poster, 2 maps and b/w illustrations (drawings & prints), plus 8 water-colours, 178 of these illustrations are by Thomas Baines. Fp: Portrait of Baines, by William Howard Schröder. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (with water-colour "Wagon with boat", vignette on front cover). Dust jacket has small piece missing at head of spine and is in a protective sleeve. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. A near fine copy. 2..8 x 26.8.: 0869619597

38822
WALTHEW, Kenneth
FROM ROCK AND TEMPEST - The Life of Captain George William Manby
$15.00 AUD

Geoffrey Bles. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 175 PP, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with small rub at top corner of front part. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 713802871

The Manby apparatus projects a life-line to stranded ships, then uses the breeches buoy...

76377
WARDWELL, Allen
ISLAND ANCESTORS, Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection
$45.00 AUD

University of Washington Press & Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit. 1994. 1st edition with foreword by Samuel Sachs II, and preface by Ellen Napiura Taubman. XIV, 282 PP with 2 maps on double page maps, 4 b/w & 144 superb colour illustrations (mostly full-page) depicting the most stunning objects from the Masco Collection. Fp: Male ancestor. Eps: Tapa cloth. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 29.3 x 22.5. 9780295973302

The Oceanic Cultures: Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, Australia : history of the island groups, settlement, societies, artistic styles, ... The Masco Oceanic Collection is one of the great corporate collections in America. A beautiful publication.

77768
WATERS, David W.
THE ART OF NAVIGATION IN ENGLAND IN ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART TIMES
$150.00 AUD

Hollis & Carter. London. 1958. 1st Ed., with a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma. XXXIX, 696 PP with plate II and 43 figues & 30 tables, plus 86 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Sebastian Cabot, the father f English navigation. Top outside edge tinted. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Very small nick in front gutter, light foxing spots on outside edges. Ownership label pasted down on front endpaper. A near fine copy of a scarce title. 25.3 x 16.5.

A most comprehensive work by an authoritative naval historian.

77866
WATERSON, Steve (editor)
WESTERN AUSTRALIA - An Insider's Guide to our Largest and most Fascinating State
$10.00 AUD

Nationwide News / The Australian. Sydney. 2021. Issue 30 June 2021. 42 PP with advertising material and circa 70 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.5 x 23.

Southern Sensation, by Helen Trica. Perth's Suite Spot, by Carolyn Beasley. Out of the Shadows (surfing), by Fred Pawle. Beautiful Prey, by Victoria Laurie.

77422
WATTS, Cedric
JOSEPH CONRAD - A Literary Life
$15.00 AUD

Macmillan. London. 1989. 1st paperback edition. X, 156 PP. Soft covers, illustrated front. Underlining of text and marginal notes on some pages in the first two paragraphs, otherwise very good. 21.5 x 13.5. 9780333417201

Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski went to sea in France on the windjammers "Mont Blanc" and "Saint Antoine", then joined the British mercantile Marine at a time when his knowledge of English was "... did not know six words of English"...

77680
WELLARD, James
THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION
$10.00 AUD

André Deutsch. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 142 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, paintings & photos) and 14 colour photos. Title page: A Méhariste. Eps: Attack on Constantine. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Ex library copy with stamp on recto of title page and a rubbed patch on front endpaper. Sellotape marks on covers and endpapers. Good reading copy. 25 x 17. 0233965602

77374
WELLS, Stewart & LEHMAN, Greg
AN INTENSE SCRUTINY - Tasmanian Aerial Photography
$40.00 AUD

Calway Publishing. New Town, Tas. 2007. 1st Ed. No pagination, 88 PP wih colour ilustrations: 1 sketch map of Tasmania with location for the c. 110 aerial photographs by Stewart Wells. Hard covers, dj. Fine. 31.2 x 21.8. 9870975723784

... study of the changes that people have wrought on the landscape of Tasmania.

77952
WHITTAKER, Paul & REID, Robert
PATANELA IS MISSING - Australia's Greatest Sea Mystery
$60.00 AUD

Bantam Books. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. 248 PP with one map on double page, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Note on half title page dated and signed by Paul Whittaker. Letter to the previous owner, signed by the author, loosely inserted. Foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 21 x 13.5. 1863590870

77357
WILKS, Trevor Owen
A HISTORY OF KANGAROO VALLEY - LENAH VALLEY 1847 - 1995
$25.00 AUD

Trevor Owen Wilks / Newsprint Pty. Ltd. Huntingfield, Tas. c. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by General Sir Phillip Bennett, Governor of Tasmania. (2), 104 PP with 52 b/w illustrations (1 drawing, 1 portrait, 2 documents and 48 photos). Illustrated stiff covers. Dated and signed by the author on preliminary page. Small rub on back cover, otherwise a fine copyt. 21 x 14.8.

72393
WILLIAMS, Glyndwr
CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 1768-1779
$60.00 AUD

The Folio Society. London. 1999. 3rd printing of the 1997 edition. XXXIV, (2), 552 PP with 8 maps, plus 12 pages with 17 colour plates and 20 pages with 37 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Captain James Cook by Nathaniel Dance, 1776. Eps: map with tracks of the three voyages. Cloth cover, illustrated front cover and spine. Slipcase. Fine (as new condition). 25.2 x 17.5.

77810
WILLIAMS, Mal (Doc)
H.M. AUSTRALIAN SHIP KAPUNDA, "A Fine Little Fighting Ship"
$45.00 AUD

Kapunda Association / Eureka Press. Adelaide. c.1991. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 1 diagram, 2 maps, 9 drawings on full page by Leading Signalman Doug Fraser and 29 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Offsetting on title page and last page. Near fine. 21.3 x 15.

Story of the Australian corvette Kapunda during WWII. The battles to save New Guinea, then the advance North through the islands.

22655
WILLIAMS, Neville
THE SEA DOGS - Privateers, Plunder and Piracy in the Elizabethan Age
$25.00 AUD

Macmillan. New York. 1975. 1st US Ed. 278 PP with 15 colour plates and 154 bw illust. Title spread: A sixteenth-century merchantman. Eps: Mappemonde. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Very good. 25.4 x 19.

Collective achievements and daring exploits of: Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh.., who helped estabish England as The Maritime and Colonial Power in the 1500's.

78001
WILLIAMSON, Captain A. R.
EASTERN TRADERS - Some Men and Ships of JARDINE, MATHESON & Company and their Contemporaries in the East India Company's Maritime Service
$100.00 AUD

Privately printed by Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. London. c. 1975. 1st Ed. (6), 212 PP with 4 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): The Canton waterfront showing the French, American, British and Dutch factories. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. Scarce. 26 x 16.8.

A collection of articles by Captain A. R. Williamson, Liveryman of the Honourable Company of Master Mariner, Sometime Maritime Superintendent of Jardine, Matheson & Company's Shipping Interests.

77733
WILLIS, D. D. & MULLINS R. F. (editor)
TASMAN'S CENTENARY REGATTA - Official Souvenir Programme (19th February to 22nd February 1938)
$60.00 AUD

Mercury Press / Royal Hobart Regatta Association. Hobart. 1938. 1st Ed. Foreword by Albert Ogilivie, Premier of Tasmania. 84 PP with 5 b/w portraits (2 paintings, 3 photos) and b/w illustrations (1 plan of courses, 1 painting, 8 head of chapters and 5 photos). Soft covers with illustrated front. Covers slightly rubbed, soiled and with creases. Leaf 29/30 with repaired tear.. Staples removed leaving rusty marks close to spine. Few pages with "dog-eared" lower corners. Contents near fine. In need of a good binding. Scarce. 24.7 x 16.7.

To Commemorate the Discovery of Tasmania by Tasman in 1642: Rowing, Sailing, Power Boats, Swimming, Amusements, Naval Section, Miscellaneous & Chopping. Call in Hobart of: H.M.A.S. Canberra, HMS Leander, New Zealand Squadron, HNM Flores, Royal Nederlands Navy, Rigaut de Genouilly, French Navy and Monte Cuccoi, Italian Navy.

65810
WILLMOTT, H. P.
WORLD WAR I
$15.00 AUD

DK / Dorling Kindersley Limited. London. 2012. 2nd edition of the 2003 original. Introduction by Richard Overy. 335 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (graphs, maps, facsimile of documents, plans, photos) and a 16-page "Guide to WWI Battlefields and Memorials" (pages 310 to 325). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.6 x 21.4. 9781409376521

Illustrated account of the first global conflict.

77568
WOODCOCK, Percy
CRUISING FOR THE NOVICE
$20.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1944. 2nd edition of the 1938 original. 96 PP with 41 figures. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Front endpaper with an attractive bookplate. Faint foxing. Discoloured patch on front cover. Very good. 16 x 11.5.

Sequel to "Sailing for the Novice". Glossary pages 90 to 96 with 121 words.

77569
WOODCOCK, Percy
SMALL YACHT RACING
$15.00 AUD

Frederick Muller. London. 1950. 4th edition of the 1938 original. 125, (3 notes) PP with 42 figures. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Front endpaper with an attractive bookplate. Dust jacket with small tears. Light foxing. Very good. 15.7 x 11.5.

77914
WOODWARD, Admiral Sandy & ROBINSON, Patrick
ONE HUNDRED DAYS - The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
$20.00 AUD

HarperCollins Publishers. London. 1992 1st Ed. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher. XXIII, 360 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps on double page and 18 headpieces, by the author), plus 12 pages with 33 b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24 x 16 9780002157230