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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 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: Robinson, James William (edited by Michael Nash).
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 2009
Seller ID: 26088
A limited edition of 500 numbered copies. 240x165mm. x, 178pp, frontis portrait, colour and b&w illustrations. Case-bound with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0908528345 ***Written in retirement in 1904, Robinson's ‘tough account of a rough life’ has never before been published. The Captain worked mainly in the pelagic whaling industry out of Hobart, but also carried a variety of cargoes to all the Australasian colonies, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies,... View more info
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' View more info
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. View more info
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm: 1976
Seller ID: 11180
Translated by Olaf Richter. Small 4to. 424pp, well illustrated in b&w, including 88 maps. Original cloth with dustwrapper (head and tail of spine a little rubbed, spine sunned). Edges lightly foxed, a lesser amount at head of first and last couple of leaves, otherwise a nice clean copy. Good to very good. ISBN 9022199975 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
By: Spain, Edward:
Price: $150.00
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 on ffep. Near fine. ***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. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Ernest Benn: 1930
Seller ID: 33119
From the papers of her English Charterer, Thomas Bowrey, discovered in 1913 by John Humphreys and now in the possession of Lieut.-Colonel Henry Howard. 491pp, frontis, 7 plates, 2 text figures, 3 maps. Original blue cloth, faded, more so on spine, light flcking, corners a little bumped. Edges yellowed, clean inside. A good copy. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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 ... View more info
By: WALKER, Frank B.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Budgewoi NSW, Kingfisher Press: 1990
Seller ID: 30898
180pp, 16pp b&w photographic illus. Soft covers. The book is slightly canted, owner's name stamp on half-title and title pages, the first two leaves with a slight vertical crease; otherwise a good+ clean copy. ISBN 0646005413 *** 'A wrong decision cost 100 lives, but produced an epic of sea surival and an act of sublime heroism.' View more info
By: WALKER, Ian.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Hobart, Navarine Publishing: 2006
Seller ID: 21088
Large 8vo. 152pp, illustrations, coloured endpaper maps. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 097513311X ***Copping worked in the bay whaling and fishing industries before going off-shore whaling at the age of 18. He commanded several Tasmanian whaling vessels and ending his sea-going career as master of the 'Harriet McGregor' and 'Lufra', two of Hobart's finest sailing ships. Copping's memoirs have not before been published: his story also... View more info
By: WEILLIAMS, Peter J. & Roderick Serle.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Maritime Historical Productions: 1963
Seller ID: 34767
'Limited edition' (but limitation not stated). 8vo. 92pp, illustrated, index. Soft covers; top front corner of cover and first few leaves slightly curled, otherwise a very good clean copy. View more info
By: WERNICK, Robert.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, Time-Life Books: 1980
Seller ID: 24082
(The Seafarers.) 4to. 176pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w, endpaper maps. Imitation leather with inlaid coloured illustration. Very good. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
