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Maritime History

127872
BLIGH, LIEUT. W. COMMANDER.: Narrative Of The Mutiny Of The Bounty On A Voyage To The South Seas. To Which Are Added Some Additional Particulars, And A Relation Of The Subsequent Fate Of The Mutineers, And Of The Settlement In Pitcairn's Island.
Demy 8vo; pp. 72; bound in later half green leather with green boards, title in gilt on spine, spine scuffed and worn, browning to endpapers and page edges, good copy.
London; (The Universal Library); (1853).
Ferguson. 7149 Click here to Order

AUD$100

127835
CARLIN, BEN.: Half-Safe: Across the Atlantic by Jeep. (Signed).
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 279; endpaper maps, text with 30 pages of b/w. photographs, several text maps, several text drawings, bound in publishers' original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, unclipped dustjacket, dustjacket with minor chips on edges, minor spotting on page edges, inscribed and signed by author on title page, very good copy.
London; Andre Deutsch Limited; 1955. Click here to Order

AUD$95

127587
CARTER, ROBERT.: Windjammers: The Final Story.
First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 254; endpaper maps, text illustrated with 48 pages of plates and photographs mostly coloured, glossary, bibliography, index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket very good copy.
Dural, NSW; Rosenberg Publishing Pty. Ltd.; 2004. Click here to Order

AUD$55

127855
COLLINGRIDGE, GEORGE.: The Discovery Of Australia. A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the arrival of Lieut. James Cook, in the "Endeavour," in the year 1770. With Illustrations, Charts, Maps, Diagrams, &c. Copious Notes, References, Geographical Index and Index to Names.
First Edition; Super Royal 4to; pp. xvi, 376; 87 b/w maps and illustrations, indices, original maroon cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, decoration in gilt on front board, pages untrimmed and partly unopened, binding worn and marked spine splitting on top edge, some minor foxing, fair copy only.
Sydney; Hayes Brothers; 1895.
Ferguson. 8465. Click here to Order

AUD$195

127808
DRAKE-BROCKMAN, H.: The Wicked and the Fair.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii 379; map endpapers, acknowledgements, bound in publishers original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket chipped and damaged, minor flecking to top edge of pages, good copy.
Sydney; Angus and Robertson; 1957.
Based on the wreck of the "Batavia" off the West Australian coast. Click here to Order

AUD$30

127859
HUNTER, JOHN.: An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. With the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the official papers; Including the journals of Governor Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages From the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that Ship's company to England in 1792.
Facsimile Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xvi, 584; b/w portrait frontispiece, b/w illustrations and text maps, two, fold out maps, bound in original publishers quarter leather bound with pattered papered boards, title in gilt on spine, title lettered in gilt on spine, some minor spotting to edges and first and last few pages otherwise a very good copy.
Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1968.
A facsimile of the 1793 edition, from the Australiana Facsimile Editions, No. 148. Click here to Order

AUD$165

127682
LAWLOR, LAURIE.: Magnificent Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook's Final Expedition.
First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xx, 236; illustrated endpapers, titlepage vignette, text with numerous b/w. illustrations, several maps, time line, glossary and diagram of a full-rigged ship, source notes, bibliography, index, bound in original quarter blue cloth, with lime coloured papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
New York; Holiday House; 2002. Click here to Order

AUD$35

127717
LOVE, DON.: Shipwrecks on Victoria's West Coast.
First Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. xii, 248; endpaper maps, text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographs and text drawings, several maps, list of shipwrecked vessels, list of other vessels mentioned, index of people and organisations, bound in original mustard cloth, title lettered in white on spine, dustjacket, signed by the author, fine copy.
Perry Bridge, Vic.; Don Love; 2009.
Exploring the fate of 146 vessels lost along Victoria's west coast, from Barwon Heads to the South Australian border, between 1834-1945. Click here to Order

AUD$60

127849
MILIUS, PIERRE-BERNARD.: Voyage Aux Terres Australes.
Demy 4to; pp. [vi], x, 82; 15 maps, 7 full page b/w. plates, 1 full page colour plate, text illustrations, index, text in French, bound in quarter cloth, with marbled boards, original illustrated wrappers bound-in, fine copy.
(La Havre); Societe Havaraise D'Etudes Diverses Museum D'Histoire Naturelle Du Have; (1987). Click here to Order

AUD$150

127556
NICHOLAS, F.W.; NICHOLAS, J.M.: Charles Darwin in Australia.
First Paperback Edition; Post 8vo; pp. xxii, 214; 16 pages of b/w. photographic plates, several text maps, summary of documents, sources, notes, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, inscription on title page, otherwise a very good copy.
Melbourne; Cambridge University Press; 2002. Click here to Order

AUD$26

127617
PARKIN, RAY.: H. M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place In Australian History; Two Volumes. With and Account of her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770. With Plans, Charts and Illustrations by the Author.
Demy 4to; Vol. I. pp. xii, 468; numerous text illustrations, charts and plans, Notes, Bibliography, Index of Individuals and Locations, Vol. II. Case of 15 detailed folding ship drawings and plans. Both volumes in original red cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines and front boards, housed in original illustrated red cloth slipcase; a fine set.
Melbourne; The Miegunyah Press; 1997.
H.M. Bark Endeavour is a fitting companion and supplement to the standard works on Cook's voyages. The work is the result of a most painstaking study of the Endeavour and a unique account of a great journey of discovery up the east coast of New Holland (Australia) in the year 1770. The text is accompanied by a series of plans and figures depicting the ship's architecture and construction, her deck plan, rigging, sails, armaments, boats, cables, anchors and accommodation. Click here to Order

AUD$80

127863
PRICE, JOHN WASHINGTON. (Transcribed and edited with an introduction by Pamela Jeanne Fulton).: The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798 - 1800.
First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xviii, [ii], 290, [1]; illustrated title page, 3 maps, 29 colour plates, notes, appendix, bibliography, index, original brown cloth, red title label on spine, title lettered in gilt on spine label, dustjacket, silk page marker, fine copy.
Melbourne; The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press; 2000.
John Washington Price was the surgeon of the transport Minerva which sailed from Cork for Sydney in 1799 carrying two hundred convicts. Many of them United Irishmen transported for their role in the 1798 rebellion. During the voyage price received lessons in drawing and natural history from fellow-traveller, the artist John William Lewin, and a highlight of the journal is the inclusion of Price's twenty-nine watercolour illustrations. In Sydney, where he stayed for a month, Price was a frequent visitor to Government House. He met such leading figures as Bennelong, Dr Balmain, D'Arcy Wentworth, George Barrington and Reverend Samuel Marsden and his observations of town life contain a great deal previously unrecorded information. Click here to Order

AUD$225

127634
SAKANISHI, SHIO.: A private Journal of John Glendy Sproston, U. S. N. With a new Foreword by George Alexander Lensen.
Second Edition Revised and Reset; Super Royal 8vo; pp. xvii, 128; large folding coloured illustration "First landing of Americans in Japan", text with 19 b/w. plates, bibliography, index, bound in quarter beige cloth with blue papered boards, contrasting title label on spine, title lettered in gilt on label, dustjacket very good copy.
Rutland, Vermont& Tokyo, Japan; Sophia University Tokyo in cooperation with Charles E. Tuttle Company; 1968. Click here to Order

AUD$45

127833
SCHILDER, GUNTER.: Australia Unveiled. The Share of the Dutch Navigators in the Discovery of Australia.
Limited Signed First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xi, 424; b/w frontispiece, 44 plates, 61 figures, numerous maps, index of persons, index of localities; bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front, dustjacket, dustjacket a little chipped and worn on edges, good copy.
Amsterdam; Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm Ltd; 1976.
Limited numbered signed edition of 250 copies of which this is numbered 196. Click here to Order

AUD$100

127685
THIERCELIN, LOUIS; MORTELIER, CHRISTIANE; Editor.: Travels in Oceania: Memoirs of a Whaling Ship's Doctor, 1866.
First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. 351; illustrated frontispiece and title page, text with numerous b/w. illustrations, notes, bibliography, sources of illustrations, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy.
Dunedin, NZ; University of Otago Press; 1995. Click here to Order

AUD$50

127542
VILLIERS, ALAN.: By Way of Cape Horn. Illustrated with photographs taken By Ronald Gregory Walker and the author.
First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xii, 227; map endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, text illustrated with 32 b/w. photographs, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on front and spine; spine browned, page edges flecked, mark on front of cloth, good copy.
London; Geoffrey Bles; 1930. Click here to Order

AUD$50

127827
WILLIAMS, V.: The Mahogany Ship.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 320; original light brown boards, spine and front board have title and author in black; stain to rear endpaper and bottom edge of book, chipped and damaged dustjacket, good copy in a poor dustjacket.
London; Ward, Lock& Co., Limited; 1920.
A Scarce Book. Each of the thirty-two chapters weaves the story from markings on rock, trees, maps, and fascinating information about the story of the Mahogany ship and its treasure. Click here to Order

AUD$300