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Image for A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War : Captain John Parker. Performed and written by his widow; for the advantage of a numerous family.

A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War : Captain John Parker. Performed and written by his widow; for the advantage of a numerous family.

By: PARKER, Mary Ann.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hordern House for the National Maritime Museum: 1991

Seller ID: 12232

(The Australian Maritime Series, no 1.) Facsimile edition limited to 750 copies of which 675 thus. First published in 1795 (Ferguson 229), reissued with commentary by Gavin Fry of the Australian National Maritime Museum. 8vo. 34, xxxii, 150pp, illustrated. Hand-bound in quarter maroon Scottish calf with marbled paper sides. A fine clean copy.
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Paddle Steamers of Australasia

By: PARSONS, R.H., with J.C. Tolley.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Lobethal SA, Author: 1967

Seller ID: 36516

With the main contribution on River Murray system vessels by J.C. Tolley. Foolscap; duplicated typescript: vi, [ii] (3 maps), 196pp; two single-sheet inserts (supplement and p84a) folded once and loosely inserted. Staple-bound in stiff lettered wrappers (the corners a trifle curled). A very good clean copy. ***Part I: Expansion & intercolonial development, short sea, estuary & coastal river trades in six Australian states, on the coasts, rivers & lakes of New Zealand, etc. Part II: List & description of vessels with details of their runs.
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The Log of the Grand Turks.

By: PEABODY, Robert E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Duckworth: 1927

Seller ID: 32037

First edition. 249pp, 25 b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very good to fine.
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Australian Coastal Shipping.

By: PEMBERTON, Barry.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Melbourne University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 22370

First edition. Oblong 4to. 327pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0522841317
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Image for A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands. [Volume I]: Books I to III, comprising Chapters I to XXI. [Volume II] Second Edition 1824. Book IV, comprising Chapters XXII to XXXIV. With the ATLAS.

A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands. [Volume I]: Books I to III, comprising Chapters I to XXI. [Volume II] Second Edition 1824. Book IV, comprising Chapters XXII to XXXIV. With the ATLAS.

By: PERON, François, continued by Louis de Freycinet. Atlas by Mm Leseur et Petit.

Price: $700.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia: 2003-08.

Seller ID: 36545

Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Each part published in an edition of 400 copies of which 99 of the two text volumes and 150 of the Atlases were numbered and bound in half-leather. This is the standard binding in blue linen, blind-stamped ship device on the upper boards, blind rules, spines lettered in gilt. [I] Introduction by Anthony J. Brown. 430pp, frontis & 13 plates (6 in colour), folding chart in text, large folding map in rear pocket (Freycinet's Carte Generale de la Nouvelle Hollande). [II] Foreword by John Ling. Introduction by Anthony J. Brown. xxxviii, 278pp, 2 b&w ...
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Around the World Single-handed : the cruise of the "Islander".

By: PIDGEON, Harry.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1960

Seller ID: 10329

(The Mariners Library, no 12.) Second impression thus. Small 8vo. 216pp, 24 illustrations, 2 plans, double-page map. Cloth with dustwrapper (price-clipped, spine slightly dulled, top edge a trifle rubbed, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. Owner's name.
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H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839 : the accounts of Captain Edward Belcher and Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simpkinson.

By: PIERCE, Richard A. & John H. Winslow (eds)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Kingston, Ontario, Limestone Press: 1979

Seller ID: 31833

(Materials for the Study of Alaska History no 12.) 8vo. 144pp, 13 illustrations on coloured paper, 9 other illus, map, pictorial endpapers. Black cloth, as issued without dustwrapper. Very good.
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In the Grips of the Eagle : Matthew Flinders at Ile de France 1803-1810.

By: PINEO, Hughette Ly-Tio-Fane.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Port Louis, Mauitius, Government Printer: 2004

Seller ID: 36515

Second edition. 316pp, illustrated. Pictorial papered boards (as issued, without wrapper). A fine clean copy. ISBN 9990310084
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D'Entrecasteaux en Nouvelle-Caledonie 1792 et 1793.

By: PISIER, Georges.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Noumea, La Societe d'Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Caledonie: 1976

Seller ID: 33069

(Publications de la Societe d'Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Caledonie, no 13.) 4to. 148pp, illustrations, 2 folding maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy.
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Lighthouses of the Atlantic.

By: PLISSON, Philip and Guillame (photography) and Daniel Charles (text).

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 2001

Seller ID: 19437

Folio. 240pp, colour photographs, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0304356530
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California Gold Rush Voyages 1848-1849 : three original narratives.

By: POMFRET, John E. (ed)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Marino CA, The Huntington Library: 1954

Seller ID: 32710

x, 246pp, 2 maps, index. Cloth-backed decorated papered boards with dustwrapper (some silverfishing, now in protective sleeve). Edges a little yellowed but a good to very good clean copy, in a good-only wrapper
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Ships, Seas, and Scientists : U.S. naval exploration and discovery in the nineteenth century.

By: PONKO, Vincent.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press: 1974

Seller ID: 31838

xii, 284pp. Cloth with dustwrapper (spotted on the inside, extremities a little rubbed, in protective sleeve). A little pale spotting on the edges, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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The Royal Tour 1901. Or the Cruise of H.M.S. Ophir.

By: PRICE, Petty Officer Harry.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Exeter, Webb & Bower: 1980

Seller ID: 7135

4to. Unpaginated facsimile holograph with numerous coloured illustrations, frontis author portrait. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. Owner's name. ***Being a lower deck account of their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York's voyage around the British Empire.
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THE BLUE CONTINENT.

By: QUILICI, Folco.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1954

Seller ID: 10671

Photographs by the author in collaboration with Viorgio Ravelli. 169pp, 26 colour, 35 b&w photographs. Cloth (trifling wear). Some spotting. Very good.
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Image for Jorgen Jorgenson's Observations on Pacific Trade; and Sealing and Whaling in Australian and New Zealand waters before 1805. Part I: Jorgenson's Observations. Part II: Jorgen Jorgenson in New Zealand in 1804 and 1805.

Jorgen Jorgenson's Observations on Pacific Trade; and Sealing and Whaling in Australian and New Zealand waters before 1805. Part I: Jorgenson's Observations. Part II: Jorgen Jorgenson in New Zealand in 1804 and 1805.

By: RICHARDS, Rhys (ed).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Wellington, Paremata Press: 1996

Seller ID: 4759

Part I translated by Lena Knight, Part II by Rhys Richards. 4to. 152pp. Soft covers. An erratum slip points out that page 130 has been misplaced between pages 125 and 126; there is a small damp stain to the head of the front cover and (less so) the half-title, and the top corners throughout have a small bump; otherwise a good clean copy.
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Image for The Explorations of Australia, 1696-1697, by Willem de Vlamingh. Extracts from two log-books concerning the voyage to and explorations on the coast of Western Australia, and from other documents relating to this voyage.

The Explorations of Australia, 1696-1697, by Willem de Vlamingh. Extracts from two log-books concerning the voyage to and explorations on the coast of Western Australia, and from other documents relating to this voyage.

By: ROBERT, Willem C.H.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Philo Press: 1972

Seller ID: 21950

Original Dutch texts, edited with English translations, a critical introduction, notes, a bibliography and an index. (Contributions to A Bibliography of Australia and the South Sea Islands, Supplement 1.) 8vo. 206pp, frontis & 4 folding plates/charts. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy.
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Deep Water & Shoal.

By: ROBINSON, William Albert.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1957

Seller ID: 17181

(The Mariners Library no 4.) Introduction by Weston Martyr. 318pp, b&w photographs, maps, line illus. Cloth with dustwrapper (price clipped, spine dulled and missing small pieces from head and tail, and corners, now in protective sleeve). The book itself in very good clean condition. Owner's name.
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A Cruising Voyage Round the World, first to the South-Seas, thence to the East Indes, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finished in 1711...

By: ROGERS, Capt. Woodes.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Amsterdam/New York, N. Israel/Da Capo Press: 1969

Seller ID: 31358

(Bibliothecha Australiana #63.) Facsimile of the London, 1712 edition. xxii, 428, 56, [14]pp; 5 folding maps. Simile vellum with blue title patches, clear dustwrapper. Fine. ***In the ships Duke and Duchess of Bristol. Includes 'an account of Alexander Selkirk's living alone four years and four months in an island'
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Sailor Souvenirs : stoneware, faiences and porcelain of three centuries.

By: RUDOLPH, Wolfgang.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Edition Leipzig: 1985

Seller ID: 7923

Large square 8vo. 152pp, well illus in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a couple of short clean tears repaired). A very good clean copy.
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Australia Unveiled : the share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia.

By: SCHILDER, Gunter.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm: 1976

Seller ID: 36159

Translated by Olaf Richter. Small 4to. 424pp, well illustrated in b&w, including 88 maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 9022199975
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The Conway History of Seafaring in the Twentieth Century.

By: Seafaring:

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press: 2000

Seller ID: 11776

Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. 224pp, 24 b&w photographs. Cloth-textured papered boards with d/w. Fine. ***With contributions by Alastair Couper, Philip Dawson, Ian Dear, Valerie Fenwick, Norman Friedman, Alison Gale, Eric Grove, Antony Preston, Peter Quatermaine and Ann Savours.
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A Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea, perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London...

By: SHELVOCKE, Capt. George.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Amsterdam/New York, N. Israel/Da Capo Press: 1971

Seller ID: 31357

(Bibliothecha Australiana #71.) Facsimile of the London, 1726 edition. xxxvi, 468pp; 4 plates (two folding, large folding map. Simile vellum with blue title patches, clear dustwrapper. Fine.
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H.M.A.S. Latrobe : the story of an Australian Corvette 1942-1946.

By: SMITH, Windas.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Waterloo, Tasmania, Author?: [1987]

Seller ID: 31265

Large 8vo. 88pp, illustrated, folding map, single-page Appendix tipped to inside rear cover (Details of Bathurst Class minesweepers built in Australia). Stapled in stiff pictorial wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. ***Signed and inscribed by the author. ISBN 0731609808
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Image for 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.

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.

By: Spain, Edward:

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Sydney, St Mark's Press: 1989

Seller ID: 8029

With an engraving by Edward Stafford. #17 of 104 numbered copies signed by the publisher. Small 8vo. [vi], 84pp. Hand-set and printed on hand-made rag paper. Cloth-backed paste-papered boards with leather spine label. Edges faintly yellowed. Inscribed by the publisher. A very good to fine clean copy. ***The second book of the press. Spain was pressed into naval service, and later served with Arthur Phillip. The manuscript journal is held by the Mitchell Library in Sydney.
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Image for The Tregurtha Log : relating the adventurous life of Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha. The Napoleonic Wars - The East India Company's China run - Whaling in the South Seas - Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District.

The Tregurtha Log : relating the adventurous life of Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha. The Napoleonic Wars - The East India Company's China run - Whaling in the South Seas - Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District.

By: SPROD, Dan (ed).

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1980

Seller ID: 5074

600 numbered copies, signed by the editor. Foolscap folio. 166pp, frontis portrait and two colour plates (tipped-in), other illustrations, endpaper maps. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528035 ***Captain Tregurtha ended his career sailing from the port of Launceston in northern Tasmania.
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The Tregurtha Log : relating the adventurous life of Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha. The Napoleonic Wars - The East India Company's China run - Whaling in the South Seas - Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District.

By: SPROD, Dan (ed).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1980

Seller ID: 36371

Foolscap folio. 166pp, frontis portrait and two colour plates (tipped-in), other illustrations, endpaper maps. SOFT COVERS (see below). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0908528035 ***The Tregurtha Log was issued in an edition of 600 numbered copies, signed by the editor, printed on quality paper and case-bound in buckram with dustwrapper. This soft-cover version, identical in content but printed on lesser quality paper (and neither numbered nor signed) was one of a handful produced with the sole purpose of qualifying the publication for the government subsidy ('printing bounty') then in operation,...
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My Cathedral in the Sea : a history of the Conway.

By: STANTON, Harley.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2019

Seller ID: 36139

Square 8vo. 222pp, illustrated. Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0648532895
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The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842.

By: STANTON, William.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1975

Seller ID: 31924

Large 8vo. 434pp, illustrations, endpaper maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. Very good. ISBN 0520025571
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No Case to Answer.

By: STEVENSON, Jo.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sydney, Alpha Books: 1971

Seller ID: 21701

208pp, black & white photographs, endpaper diagrams. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a couple of closed tears to top edge, now in protective sleeve). Edges yellowed, gift inscription on front endpaper. A good+ clean copy. ***The collison in the South China Sea between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans, and the subsequent board of inquiry, by the wife of the former's captain.
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A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, and round the globe, in His Majesty's ship the Centurion, under the command of Commodore George Anson... from its commencement in the year 1740 to its conclusion in 1744...

By: THOMAS, Pascoe.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Amsterdam/New York, N. Israel/Da Capo Press: 1971

Seller ID: 31365

(Bibliothecha Australiana #72.) Facsimile of the London, 1745 edition. 8vo. [xvi], 348, 40pp. Simile vellum with blue title patches, clear dustwrapper. Fine.
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The Lawson History of the America's Cup : a record of fifty years.

By: THOMPSON, Winfield M. & Thomas W. Lawson.

Price: $285.00

Publisher: Southampton, Ashford Press: 1986

Seller ID: 35416

#518 of this facsimile reprint of 1500 copies; first published 1902. 4to. [viii] xvi, 402pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Cream cloth, decorated in gilt on the upper board and in blue and gilt on the spine. All edges gilt, place ribbon. Trifling bump to foot of the upper joint, otherwise a fine clean copy. ISBN 0907069401
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HMS Beagle : the story of Darwin's ship.

By: THOMSON, Keith Stewart.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Norton: 1995

Seller ID: 5312

Drawings by Townsend Moore. 320pp, illustrated. Quarter cloth and papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0393037789
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Voyage of the 'Parma' : the great Grain Race of 1932 from Australia to Falmouth by way of Cape Horn.

By: VILLIERS, A.J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Geoffrey Bles: 1947

Seller ID: 13555

Second impression. 22pp, illustrated with b&w photographs taken by the author. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (small pieces missing from head and tail of spine, now in protective sleeve). A good+ clean copy.
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Give me a Ship to Sail.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1958

Seller ID: 18974

First edition. 256pp, illus. Original cloth with dustwrapper (slightly rubbed). Gift inscription. Good to very good. ***Part 1 - 'Some Wandering Adventures'; Part 2 - The 'Mayflower [replica] Story'.
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The Quest for the Schooner Argus : a voyage to the Banks and Greenland.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1951

Seller ID: 5803

Illustrated with the Author's photographs. First edition. 256pp, frontis, 46 plates, 4 maps, endpaper maps, 1 diagram. Navy blue buckram with dustwrapper (dulled, edges rubbed and with a few small chips, now in protective sleeve). Some spotting on the edges and offsetting on the endpapers, otherwise a good clean copy.
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The Way of a Ship: the story of the square-rigged Cape Horner.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1954

Seller ID: 5804

Illustrated with the author's photographs, and diagrams and drawings by Harold A. Underhill. First edition. Tall 8vo. 288pp, well illustrated with black & white photographs, line illustrations, endpaper maps. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (spine a little faded but quite rubbed, as are the edges, large chip from head of spine, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy in a good-only wrapper. ***title continues: "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...
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The Coral Sea.

By: VILLIERS, Alan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Museum Press: 1949

Seller ID: 36477

Maps by Stephen Voorhies. First edition. 310pp, illustrated, maps and endpaper maps. Cloth with dustwrapper (lacking small pieces from most of its corners, spine sunned, now in protective sleeve ). Edges yellowed and with some light spotting, the first 20 pages also with light spotting; otherwise a good clean copy.
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Magnificent Voyagers. The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.

By: Viola, herman J. & Carolyn Margolis (eds).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution: 1985

Seller ID: 22055

4to. 304pp, profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers, corners a trifle rubbed. Very good.
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The Venturesome Voyages of Capt. Voss.

By: VOSS, Captain J.C.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Tokyo / Yokohama, Geiser & Gilbert / Japan Herald Press: 1913

Seller ID: 26305

[Printed by the Japan Herald Press?] 8vo. xvi, 394pp, b&w frontis portrait (with tissue guard) & 13 b&w plates, 2 coloured maps (one folding). Original red cloth, lettered in gilt, blind rules; slight damp marking to foot of lower board, spine a little faded and extremities slightly rubbed. The front free endpaper adhered to the paste-down (always thus?). A nice clean copy. Very good. ***John Claus Voss was a Canadian from British Columbia. He sailed around the world in 1901-04 in 'Tilikum', a modified dugout canoe.
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Wrecked on Bruny Island : three of Tasmania's finest ships were lost at Adventure Bay in 1909 during two weeks of fierce storms.

By: WANE, Greg.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wallington (Vic), Author: 2014

Seller ID: 32758

Small 8vo. 88pp, maps, illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0980866324
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National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain.

By: WHEATLEY, Keith.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Exeter, Webb & Bower: 1990

Seller ID: 33881

Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Preface by Richard Ormond, Director of The National Maritime Museum. 4to. 208pp, well illustrated in black & white and colour, endpaper maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (pice-clipped, spine sunned). Large presentation plate on verso of front fly-leaf. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0863502687
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Fighting Sail.

By: WHIPPLE, A.B.C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Time-Life Books: 1979

Seller ID: 20161

(The Seafarers.) 4to. 184pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w, ep maps. Imitation leather with inlaid coloured illus. Very good.
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THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE.

By: WYNNE, Barry.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Souvenir Press: 1966

Seller ID: 7026

158pp, photographs. Cloth-textured papered boards with d/w. Very good. ***Teehu Makimare's 2,000 mile drift in an open boat across the South Seas.
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