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  1. ADAM-SMITH  PATSY  There Was A  Ship.  Patsy Adam-Smith's story of  her years at sea. illus. with many  text  plates t/out.  pub. Melb. Nelson 1983 or.cl. d/w. sm.4to.  pp.240. v/fine copy.     Price: $35.00
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  2. AINSLIE KENNETH   Pacific Ordeal with double page maps & 6 b/w. illustrations; pub. London Rupert Hart-Davis 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.252. Captain Ainslie set out with a seagoing tug to haul four old wooden minesweepers from Panama to Manila, faced with storms, broken towlines, mutiny, amateur surgery, engine failure, marooning he pushed on under sails made of hatch covers and blankets. Tape ghosts to d/w. past-down boards, name to free e/paper otherwise a very good copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  3. ALBION  ROBERT GREENHALGH Square-Riggers On Schedule. New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports. illus. with frontis., title page vign. 14 full page plates t/out. pub. U.S.A. & Lond. Princeton Uni. Press 1938 or.blk.cl. 8vo. pp.XIV.372. fine.     Price: $150.00
     
  4. ALLISTON JOHN Destroyer Man. Covers author's  experiences as Commander of H.M.A.S. Warramunga during the  Philippines campaign  during  W.W.II. with e/paper illus. 8  full  page plates  t/out.,  6  maps pub. Melb.  greenhouse  Pub.  1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.188.     Price: $45.00
     
  5. AMERICA'S  CUP  1962 Souvenir Program  of  the  Eighteenth International  Yacht Race for the America's Cup.  Challenge by Gretel-and  the  man behind  the  challenge  Sir  Frank Packer.  profusely illus. with plates, advts.  t/out.  some full  page  &  col. pub. U.S.A. 1962  or.  col.  illus.wps. roy.4to. pp.80. fine.     Price: $50.00
     
  6. ANDERSON JOE  Murray Riverman. The life of George Freeman. pub.  Melb. Hill of Content 1985 1st.ed. p/b. 8vo.  pp.190. v/fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  7. ANDERSON Captain LINDSAY Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft  illus. with frontis. & 2 full page plates t/out. pub. Melbourne Heritage Book Group 1992 facsimile reprint of 1892 edition, or. burgundy faux leather with gilt lettering 12mo. pp.VIII.284. Anderson's story of his travels by sea in the nineteenth century, through the south china seas with landings including China and Japan.    Price: $35.00
     
  8. ANDERSON WILLIAM R. USN Nautilus 90 North. The astonishing feat  of the first Atomic Submarine and its voyage beneath the  Polar  Ice Pack. with illus. e/papers & 16  full  page plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton  1959  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.190.   Price: $35.00
     
  9. ANDREWS GRAEME A Log Of Australian Ships. profusely illus. t/out.  pub.  Syd. Reed 1980 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.obl. pp.160.    Price: $45.00
     
  10. ANDREWS GRAEME Australian Ships Of Australia And New Zealand. profusely illus. t/out.  pub.  Syd. Reed 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  cr.4to.obl. pp.136. List of Australian and New Zealand veteran ships at rear.    Price: $35.00
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  11. ARCHIBALD  E.H.H. The Wooden Fighting Ship. In  the  Royal  Navy AD 897-1860. with illus. e/papers & many dwgs.  t/out. some  col.  &  full page pub. Lond.  Blandford  Press  1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.174.    Price: $75.00
     
  12. AUSTRALIAN Naval History-Outline Of. illus. with frontis. 5 full  page plates t/out. & folding map at rear  pub.  Melb. R.A.N. Education Service 1955 or.blu.bds. 8vo. pp.48. fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  13. AUSTRALIAN  WAR MEMORIAL H.M.A.S. Written and prepared  by serving  personnel of the R.A.N. with e/paper  illus. col. frontis.  cartoons,  dwgs., plates, some col. &  full  page pub. Canberra Aust. War Memorial 1942 1st. ed. or.cl. 4to. pp.200.   Price: $25.00
     
  14. AUSTRALIAN  WAR  MEMORIAL  H.M.A.S.  Mk.II. Written and prepared  by  Service personnel of the R.A.N.  with  illus. e/papers col. frontis. plates, dwgs., cartoons t/out.  some col.  & full page pub. Canberra Aust.  War  Memorial  1943 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.200. Very good copy in the slightly chipped d/w.   Price: $30.00
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  15. AUSTRALIAN  WAR  MEMORIAL  H.M.A.S.  Mk.III. The R.A.Ns Third Book,  with e/paper illus.  col. frontis. cartoons, dwgs., plates  t/out.  some full page pub. Canberra Aust. War Memorial 1944 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.200. List of awards to RAN Personnel between September 1943 and September, 1944. Dustwrapper slightly chipped otherwise near fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  16. AUSTRALIAN WAR  MEMORIAL H.M.A.S.  Mk.IV.  Written and prepared  by  serving personnel of the R.A.N.  with  illus. e/papers  col. frontis. dwgs., plates, cartoons  some  full page & col. pub. Canberra Aust. War Memorial  1945  or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.200. fine in d/w. which has piece lacking to spine & front fore-edge.  Price: $30.000
     
  17. BACON Admiral Sir R.H.  The Concise Story Of The Dover Patrol illus. with portrait frontis. 25 photo plates, charts, 12 diagrams and maps three of which are fold out; pub. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1932 2imp. or. navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine 8vo. pp.320.The work of the Dover patrol 1915-1917. Very good copy.    Price: $65.00
     
  18. BAKER III A.D. Allied Landing Craft of World War Two    London: Arms & Armour, 1986 Reissue, "Originally published in 1944, as ONI 226-Allied landing craft and ships by the U. S. Division of Naval Intelligence, with subsequent supplement ONI 226/1 "- the essential handbook issued during WW2; illus. with over 350 b/w. photographs throughout; or.cl. d/w. 8vo. oblong pp.unpaginated (150 approx.) Short closed tear to rear of d/w. else fine.   Price: $60.00
     
  19. BAKER SIDNEY J. My Own Destroyer. A biography of Capt. Matthew Flinders R.N. illus. with frontis. & 7 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Currawong Pub. 1962 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.146. small, neat inscription f/free e/paper else fine.    Price: $50.00
     
  20.  BAKKA DAG Speed & Service. Wilhelmsen's first century in Australia. with illustrated endpapers, b/w. illustrations, sources; Sydney, Maritime Heritage Press, 1995 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.160; fine copy.    Price: $60.00
     
  21. BALL  ADRIAN & DIANNA WRIGHT S.S. Great Britain. Launched in 1843 and after refitting for nearly twenty years carried nearly 1/4 million passengers to Melbourne. Story of rescue from the Falkland Is. and restoration, along with  examples of ephemera from the ship. illus. with plates t/out. 6 col. pub.  Lond.  David  &  Charles  1981  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 4to.obl. pp.96.    Price: $75.00
     
  22. BALLANTYNE Captain The Cool Weather Rout. To and From Australia  by Passenger Steamer in the 1880's. illus.  with plates,  maps,  dgms, dwgs, t/out. pub.  Adel.  Rigby  1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.134. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  23. BARRINGTON  GEORGE An Account Of  A Voyage To New South Wales. 1775-1840. The first hand  account of one man's part in the saga of  Australia's unique  history.  with 13 illus. some col. pub.  Syd.  View Productions 1985 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.120. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  24. BARROW Sir JOHN  The Mutiny Of The Bounty. Illustrated by Nigel Lambourne pub. London Blackie 1961 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.318. Published to coincide with the bicentenary of the mutiny of the Bounty. Based on his research of unpublished documents and the papers of Captain Peter Heywood—a midshipman on the Bounty--Sir John Barrow answers the two crucial questions raised by the incident: why the crew of the Bounty mutinied in the first place, and why an officer prompted and led the mutiny. Sir John Barrow, was Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty. In 1831, his classic history of the Bounty mutiny was published. Sir John Barrow had access to the papers of Captain Peter Heywood, a midshipman on the Bounty, whose story he tells in full.    Price: $25.00
     
  25. BARTLETT NORMAN The Pearl Seekers. Story of the Australasian pearling industry. illus. with e/paper maps, frontis. & 36 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Andrew Melrose 1954 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.312. Very good copy.    Price: $40.00
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  26. BARTROP PAUL R. GABTIELLE EISEN The Dunera Affair. Documentary Resource Book. illus. with numerous plates some full  page co-pub. Melb. Schwatz & Wilkinson &  The  Jewish Museum of Aust. 1990 illus.wps. 4to. pp.424. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  27. BASS GEORGE F. A History Of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archaeology. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. text drawings; pub. Lond. Thames & Hudson 1972 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.320. Almost fine copy    Price: $65.00
     
  28. BASSETT-LOWKE LTD.  Model Ship Catalogue (Section S) illus. with b/w. photo plates of model steam, electric engines, ships, yachts, fittings, etc. with descriptions and prices; pub. London Bassett-Lowke & Co. 1910 or. black & white wrappers, roy.8vo. pp.66. Little chipped to spine otherwise very good.   Price: $350.00
     
  29. BASSETT MARNIE Realms & Islands. The World Voyage of Rose de  Freycinet  in the Corvette Uranie 1817-1820.  From  her Journal and Letters and the Reports of Louis de Saulces  de Freycinet  Captaine  de Corvette. Round  the  world  voyage which included a shipwreck and a visit to Australia and New Guinea. illus. with frontis. & 22 full page plates t/out. 3 maps, e/paper maps pub. Lond.  Oxford  Uni.  Press  1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.276. Fine copy.    Price: $145.00
     
  30.  BASSETT  MARNIE Behind The Picture.  H.M.S.  Rattlesnake's Australia  New  Guinea  Cruise 1846 to  1850.  illus.  with frontis. & 20 full page plates t/out. e/paper & 2 text maps fold out col. plate at rear of H.M.S. Rattlesnake in  Evans Bay,  Cape  York 1849 by Oswald Brierly pub.  Melb.  Oxford Uni.  Press  1966  or.grn.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.XII.112.  Very good copy.    Price: $60.00
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  31. BATESON CHARLES The Convict Ships 1788-1868. illus. with frontis. & 19 full page plates t/out. pub. Glasgow Brown & Son 1959 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp. X.356. Almost fine copy    Price: $150.00
     
  32. BATESON CHARLES Gold Fleet For California. Forty Niners from Australia and New Zealand. with 6 full page plates t/out. illus. folding e/papers, pub. Syd Ure Smith 1963 1st ed. or.cl. fore edge pages rough cut, d/w. 8vo. pp.172. Almost fine copy.    Price: $60.00
     
  33. BATESON  CHARLES Australian Shipwrecks. Including Vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings. Vol.I.  1622-1850.  Lists all wrecks in  documentary  form. illus.  with several text plates t/out. e/paper maps  pub. Adel. Rigby 1972 1st.ed. or.brn.cl. 4to. pp.268. Fine copy.    Price: $95.00
     
  34. BATESON  CHARLES Dire Strait. The history of Bass  Strait. profusely  illus. with plates t/out. many full page &  col. pub. Syd. for B.H.P. 1978 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.112. Fine.    Price: $35.00
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  35. BATY SCOTT Ships That Passed. The Gorious Era of Travel to Australia and New Zealand. profusely illus. with text plates t/out. International passenger shipping services in Australian waters. Pictorial and biographical 'roll call' of those liners from past decades. pub. Syd. Reed 1984 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. 328. Fine copy.    Price: $95.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs

  36.  BAYERSTOCK  W. The America's Cup.  Challenge  from  Down Under.  The  story of the brash Australian  challenges  for yachting's Holy Grail. profusely illus. with plates  t/out. many  full page & col. pub. Syd. K.G. Murray Pub. Co.  1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.176. fine in the sl. torn d/w.    Price: $45.00
     
  37. BAXTER  RICHARD  Stand by To Surface.  Submarine  warfare, W.W.II.  illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub.  Lond. 1944 or.brn.cl. 8vo. pp.208. Very good copy. Price: $35.00
     
  38. BAYNHAM HENRY From The Lower Deck. The Old Navy 1740-1840. illus.  with  col. frontis. & 12 full  page  plates  t/out. folding  diagram of full-rigged ship at rear.  pub.  Lond. Hutchinson 1969 1st.ed. or.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.XII.200. Price: $20.00  
     
  39. BEAGLEHOLE  J.C. Ed. by.  The Journals Of Captain James Cook. 3 Vols. Vol.I. pp.CCLXXXIV.684 The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771, illus. with col. frontis. Maps, some folding b/w. plates text figures, appendices, bibliography, indices; pub. 1955 Vol.II. pp.CLXX.1022 The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775 illus. with col. frontis. Maps, some folding b/w. plates pub. 1961, and Portfolio with slip-case of Charts and Views Drawn by His Officers and Reproduced from the Original Manuscripts, folio. Volume IV. being The Life Of Captain James Cook, concludes the series. pp.XI.760. pub. Lond. Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society or. blue cl. gold embossed figure of Cook on all vols. glt. ltg. to spine d/w.'s on three vols. roy.8v. 1st ed. fine set. Includes Cook and the Russians. An addedum or. wrappers 8vo. pp.10.    Price: $1900.00    Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
    BEAN C.E.W. The Dreadnought Of The Darling. with frontis. & 6 full page plates t/out. e/paper illus. pub. Syd.  Angus & Robertson 1956 (first pub. 1911) or.red.cl. school  crest (prize) embossed  to f/bd. pp.XII.256.  or.red.cl. d/w. pp.XII.256. new  preface written for this ed. by the author. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.   Price: $150.00
     
  40. BEAVIS BILL Sailors' Crafts. profusely illus. with  plates & dwgs.  t/out. some full page pub. Lond. George  Allen  & Unwin 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.122. sl. marked else very good.    Price: $45.00
     
  41. BEDDINGTON CLAUDE    We Sailed From Brixham. Cruise in a small yacht from England and around the Mediterranean illus. with frontis. dgms. of yacht & 53 plates t/out. pub. Lond. Peter Davies 1938 or.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.304. Mediterranean, Red Sea and West African coast sailing in 'Cachelot', a 76' gaff-rigged ketch built on the lines of a Brixham trawler. Excellent description of passages and places visited, with historical accounts of more interesting places visited. Mapped endpapers for each voyage. Light stain to spine, boards shelf worn else good copy.     Price: $45.00
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  42. BEEBE WILLIAM Half Mile Down. History of diving and story of  exploring  in a bathysphere off  Bermuda.  illus.  with frontis. e/paper  maps, 7 full page plates in col.  &  123 b/w. pub. Lond. John Lane The Bodley Head 1935 1st.ed. or. blk. illus. cl. roy.8vo. pp.XX.348. Very good copy.    Price: $100.00
     
  43. BEKKER C.D. Swastika At Sea. The Struggle and  Destruction of the German Navy 1939-1945. illus. with frontis.  &  24 full  page  plates  t/out. pub. Lond.  Wiliam  Kimber  1954 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208. account from eye-witnesses of the struggle and destruction of the German Navy during WW2Very good copy.  Price: $45.00
     
  44. BENSON E.F.   Sir Francis Drake. with e/paper maps, frontis. &  7  full page plates pub. Lond. Bodley Head  1927  or.cl. 8vo. pp.315. v/good copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  45. BENT  MIKE   Steamers Of The Fjords. Bergen  Shipping  Since 1839. profusely illus. with b/w. text plates t/out.  &  50 pages of  line  dwgs.  of  the  ships  pub.  Lond.  Conway Maritime Press 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.224.    Price: $70.00
     
  46. BERCKMAN  EVELYN Victims Of Piracy. The Admiralty Court 1575-1678.  wth e/paper illus. & 8 full page plates  t/out. pub.  Lond. Hamilton 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.134.    Price: $40.00
     
  47. BERESFORD Lord CHARLES The Memoirs Of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford.  Written by Himself. Covers war in the  Sudan & Egyptian  War in 2 Vols. illus. with frontis. & 23  full  page plates  t/out. pub. Lond. Methuen 1914  1st.ed.  or.blu.cl. glt. illus. & ltg. to f/bds. & spine 8vo. pp.578,30  advts. ex.lib.  sl.  rubbed, spotting to edges &  e/papers,  lacks f/free  e/paper (one vol.) internally clean, no lib.  marks except on rear past-down e/paper.   Price: $100.00
     
  48. BERTRAND  JOHN As told to Patrick Robinson. Born To Win. Lifetime Struggle to Capture the America's Cup. illus. with 24  full page plates pub. U.S.A. Bantam Books 1985  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXIV.386.    Price: $35.00
     
  49. BISSET  SIR  JAMES Sail Ho! My early years  at  sea.  with illus. e/papers  & 16 full page plates  t/out.  pub.  Syd. Angus & Robertson 1959 or. blue cl. 8vo. pp.XVI.288. sl.  rubbed otherwise fine.    Price: $40.00
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  50. BISSET  JAMES Author was Ex-Commodore of the Cunard Line. Tramps and Ladies. My early years in Steamers. with e/paper maps  col. frontis. & 14 full page plates t/out. pub.  Syd. Angus & Robertson 1960 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.316. fine in sl. torn d/w. lacks f/free e/paper.    Price: $35.00
     
  51. BLIGH  Lieutenant WILLIAM A Voyage To  The  South  Sea. Undertaken  by Command of His Majesty, For the  Purpose  of conveying  The Bread-Fruit tree to the West Indies, In  His Majesty's Ship The Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant  William Bligh. Included An Account of the Mutiny On Board the  Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's  Boat, From Tofoa, one of the Friendly  Islands,  to Timor,  A  Dutch Settlement in the East Indies.  the  Whole Illustrated  with  Charts,  &c. (7  folding)  Published  by Permission  of  the Lords Commissioners of  the  Admiralty. pub.  Lond.  1792.  This facsimile  ed.  pub.  Adel.  State Library of S.A. 1969 or. lt.brn.cl. cr.4to. pp.264.    Price: $250.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
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  52. BLIGH  Lieutenant WILLIAM A Voyage To  The  South  Sea. Undertaken  by Command of His Majesty, For the  Purpose  of conveying  The Bread-Fruit tree to the West Indies, In  His Majesty's Ship The Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant  William Bligh. Included An Account of the Mutiny On Board the  Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's  Boat, From Tofoa, one of the Friendly  Islands,  to Timor,  A  Dutch Settlement in the East Indies.  the  Whole Illustrated  with  Charts,  &c. (7  folding)  Published  by Permission  of  the Lords Commissioners of  the  Admiralty. pub.  Lond.  1792.  This facsimile  ed.  pub.  Honolulu Rare Books 1967 or. lt. blue cl. cr.4to. pp.264.    Price: $200.00
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  53. BLIGH  Lieutenant WILLIAM A Narrative Of The Court Martial. And BLIGH'S ANSWER On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And the Subsequent Voyage of part of the Crew In The Ship's Boat.  From Tofoa, one of the Friendly  Islands,  to Timor,  A  Dutch Settlement in the East Indies.  Illustrated  with  Charts, (1790) with MINUTES OF THE COURT MARTIAL held at Portsmouth Aug. 12 1792, on Ten Persons charged with Mutiny Charts, with an appendix containing a full account of the Real Causes and Circumstances of that unhappy transaction, the most hitherto have been withheld from the public. By Edward Christian (1794) BLIGH'S ANSWER TO CERTAIN ASSERTIONS CONTAINED IN The Appendix to a Pamphlet entitled Minutes of the Proceedings on the Court Martial  held at Portsmouth (1792) EDWARS CHRISTIAN'S SHORT REPLY to Captain William Bligh's Answer. Published Melb. this facsimile ed. is the second volume of The Australian Facsimiles and is printed for Georgian House P/L by The Advertiser Printing Office Adelaide 1954 or. full leather bound, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. The four items above in one vol. cr.4to. pp.IV.88 IV.80 II.32 folding plan of Bounty's launch & 3 charts (folding) Limited to 1000 numbered copies of which this is No.209. very fine, bright copy.    Price: $400.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  54. BLIGH WILLIAM  The Mutiny On Board  H.M.S.  Bounty 1789.Facsimile   extracts  of  William  Bligh's   `Bounty'   Log recording  the  mutiny  and a  day-by-day  account  of  the hazardous 4,000-mile open-boat voyage that followed. illus. with  frontis. 2 facsimile eng. plates & several text  pub. Lond. Pageminster   Press   1981   or.cl.   d/w.   folio. pp.unnumbered (XII.200).    Price: $55.00
     
  55. BLOND GEORGES  Ordeal Below Zero illus. with 20 b/w photos, pub. London: Souvenir Press, 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200. Account of the allied convoys of supplies to Murmansk and Archangel in Russia through the Arctic Ocean during WW2. Tape marks to e/papers and d/w. name to Contents page, else good clean copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  56. BONE DAVID W. Merchantmen-At-Arms. The British Merchants' Service  in  the War. illus. with frontis. & 15  full  page reproduced  dwgs.  by  Muirhead Bone pub.  Lond.  Chatto  & Windus 1929 or.lt.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.XXII.312. sl. rubbed.    Price: $45.00
     
  57. BONNEMAINS JACQUELINE ELLIOTT FORSYTH and BERNARD SMITH Ed. by. Baudin In Australian Waters. The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands 1800-1804. With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.A. Leueur and N.M. Petit from  the Lesueur  Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle,  Le Harve, France. with e/paper maps & many plates t/out.  many full  page  & col. bibliography, general index and scientific index. pub. Melb. Oxford  University  Press  in Acssoc.  with  Aust.  Academy of  Humanities  1988  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. folio pp.348. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Geographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and landscape, studying the habits of Aborigines, and collecting specimens of the region's indigenous animal life. This book is a collection of the ethnographical and zoological drawings and paintings resulting from Baudin's voyage. Now housed at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Le Havre, these rare and beautiful illustrations--over 300 in all--depict a wide range of human and animal life, from Aboriginal rites, habits, and homes, to sponges, fish, birds, and mammals, including a number of now-extinct species. Sl. faded to top of d/w. else fine.   Price: $350.00
     
  58. BOOTH E.C. TALBOT Founded, Compiled, Drawn and Edited by. Assisted by E.B.R. SARGENT Merchant Ships 1943. illus. with over  900 half-tone plates and 2.400 line dwgs.  of  ships, 840  line  dwgs.  of House Flags and 1,520  line  dwgs.  of funnels for recognition. pub. Lond. Sampson Low, Marston  & Co.  1943 The Standard Work of Reference on Merchant  Ships of  the World. or.dk.bl.cl. 4to.obl. pp.unnumbered  (approx 800). v/good copy.    Price: $350.00 
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  59. BOWDEN KEITH MACRAE George Bass 1770-1803. His Discoveries, Romantic life and Tragic Disappearance. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. map, pub. Melb. Oxford Uni Press 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.170. very good copy.    Price: $60.00
     
  60. BOWDEN KEITH Ed. by. Mathew Flinders' Narrative Of Tom Thumb's Cruise To Canoe Rivulet. illus. with frontis. & full page plates t/out. one map, pub. Melb. South East Historical Assoc. 1985 or.lt.ornge. wps. cr.4to. pp.XVI.34. Fine copy.    Price: $25.00
     
  61. BOWEN FRANK  C. A Century Of Atlantic  Travel 1830-1930. illus.  with  frontis. & 62 full page  plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. Sampson  Low  Marston  nd.193-?   or.blk.cl.   8vo. pp.X.374. fine.    Price: $75.00
     
  62. BOWNESS EDWARD Modelling The Cutty Sark. illus. with many text dgms. & plates t/out. pub. U.K. Model and Allied  Pub. Argus Books 1979 or.yell. & blk. wps. 4to. pp.58.    Price: $25.00
     
  63. BOWKER R.M. & C.T. WILLIAM BLIGH R.N. In his Official Log. Mutiny!! Aboard H.M. Armed Transport ``Bounty'  in  1789. with  e/paper illus., map, frontis. 7 plates &  chart  pub. Sussex U.K. 1978 or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.388. Fine.    Price: $55.00
     
  64. BRADFIELD  RAYMOND A. Serving A Sea-Girt Land. Some Early Maritime  History. with 12 full page plates &  text  illus. pub.   Vic.   &  printed  by  Castlemaine   Mail   nd.198-? or.illus.wps. 8vo.obl. pp.unnumbered (88 approx). fine.    Price: $20.00
     
  65. BRADLEY  WILLIAM A Voyage To New South Wales. The  Journal of  Lieutenant William Bradley of H.M.S. Sirius  1786-1792. in  two vols. vol.I and vol.II portfolio of 25 charts  pub. Syd. reproduced in facsimile from the original  manuscript by  the Trustees  of the Public Library  of  N.S.W.  1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.496. Fine set.    Price: $150.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  66. BRASSEY Mrs   A Voyage In The Sunbeam Our home on the ocean for eleven months. illus. with frontis. and 66 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson Chiefly after drawings by The Hon. A. Y. Bingham; ship's log at back; pub. London Longmans, Green, and Co 1879 New Edition (first pub. 1879 or. green gilt pictorial cloth with gold illus. of the Sunbeam in full sail plus palm-trees and ship's wheel on front board, spine shows pic in gilt of family and ships ropes, all edges gilt. 8vo. pp.XIV.492. Voyage from England to South America, South Sea islands, Japan, China, Ceylon and Suez. "The Victorian public welcomed Annie Brassey's (1839-1887) books with an enthusiasm reserved nowadays for episodes of a soap opera. She was rich, carefree, idyllically happy with a handsome, distinguished husband and bonny children, and spent her life enjoying genial adventures at sea. " Lacks map else fine and bright.    Price: $300.00
     
  67. BRAYNARD  FRANK O. S.S. Savannah. The Elegant  Steam Ship. llus.  with  24  full  page  plates  t/out.  pub.   U.S.A. University  of Georgia Press 1963 or. lt.blu.cl. glt.  ltg. to  spine  8vo. pp.XII.250. little browned  to  spine  else very good.    Price: $50.00
     
  68. BREMER  STUART Australia's Golden Era of Ships.  Story of the  principal  shipping  companies involved  in  trade  to Australia and around its coastline from 1900 to the  1970s. illus. with plates t/out., & e/paper, many full page  pub. Syd. Bullion Books 1989 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.224. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  69. BREMER  STUART Home And Back. Australia's Golden  Era  of Passenger  ships.  with e/paper illus. &  profusely  illus. with  plates  t/out. many full page pub.  Syd.  Dreamweaver Books 1986 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.224.    Price: $45.00
     
  70. BREMERTON U.S.S. The Tenth Anniversary Cruise Of The U.S.S. Bremerton CA-130. Anniversary of the US cruiser Bremerton. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page some col. pub. U.S.A. 1954 or. brown and gold cl. 4to. pp.112. fine.    Price: $75.00
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  71. BRENNECKE J.H. Ghost Cruiser H.K. 33 William Kimber, London 1954 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208, 8 adverts, The story of Germany's most successfull raider in WWII. As the ‘Penguin’ this converted merchant ship sank or captured 28 ships of more than 136, 000 tons, before succumbing herself to HMS Cornwall in 1941. Compiled with the help of her survivors. Very fine d/w. e/papers have old tape marks, inscription f/free e/paper, else very good copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  72. BROMBY  ROBIN German Raiders Of The South Seas. The Naval threat to Australia, New Zealand 1914-17. illus. with  many b/w. plates t/out. pub. Syd. Doubleday 1985 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.208. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  73. BROOKS EWART   Turmoil illus. with 28 plates t/out. pub. London Jarrolds Publishers 1956 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.180. Story of the tug Turmoil which saved the American freighter Flying Enterprise in the Eastern Atlantic. Tape marks to d/w. e/papers, d/w. torn, name to free e/paper else good clean copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  74. BROWN ALEXANDER  CROSBY The  Old  Bay  Line.  1840-1940 Baltimore  Steam  Packet  Co. illus. with  many  b/w.  text plates t/out. pub. N.Y. Bonanza Books 1990 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.176. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00  BULL J.C.  Small Ships And Adze Chips. illus. with frontis. &  22  full page plates t/out. text plates,  e/paper  maps, pub. Vic. Metung by author 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200. Very good copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  75. BROXAM GRAEME & MICHAEL NASH Tasmanian Shipwrecks. Vol. 1 1797-1899. illus. with several plates t/out. some full page pub. A.C.T. Navarine Pub. Roebuck Series No.51 1998 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. XVI.348 Fine copy.    Price: $85.00
     
  76. BUCKRICH JUDITH RAPHAEL The Long And Perilous Journey A History of the Port of Melbourne. with numerous b/w and colour illustrations throughout, glossary, notes, bibliography, index of names and places; pub. Melbourne Books, 2002 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. boards gilt titles, 4to. oblong pp.240. Fine copy in white pictorial d/w.   Price: $50.00
     
  77. BULL  J.C. & PETER WILLIAMS Story Of  Gippsland  Shipping. Discoveries  of  the  early  navigators,  lakes   steamers, coastal windjammers, shipwrecks and famous captains. illus. with 24 full page plates t/out. pub. Vic. Metung by authors 1967 1st.ed. or.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.110. fine.    Price: $40.00
     
  78. BULL  J.C. & PETER WILLIAMS Story Of  Gippsland  Shipping. discoveries  of  the  early  navigators,  lakes   steamers, coastal windjammers, shipwrecks and famous captains. illus. with  24  full page plates pub. Vic.  Gippsland  Lakes,  by authors 1967 or.illus.wps. 8vo. pp.110. fine.    Price: $25.00
     
  79. BULL  J.C. Sailing  Ships And Paddle  Wheels  And  Other Gippsland  Shipping.  illus. with frontis. & 42  full  page plates  t/out.  one  map pub. Vic. Metung  by  author  1974 1st.ed. or. light blue cl. 8vo. pp.230.    Price: $50.00
     
  80. BULLEN FRANK T. The Cruise Of The "Cachalot." illus.  with frontis.  folding  map  & 7 full  page  plates  pub.  Lond. Macmillan Colonial Library 1904 ed. or.dk.blu.cl. post.8vo. pp.XX.380.8 advts. fine.    Price: $60.00
     
  81. BURRELL  HENRY  Mermaids Do Exist. with e/paper  maps,  21 full  page plates & map pub. Melb. Macmillan  1986  1st.ed. or.cl. dw. 8vo. pp.X.318. Fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  82. BURTT FRANK Cross-Channel And Coastal  Paddle  Steamers. illus. with col. frontis. & 60 full page plates t/out., two folding  diagrams pub. Lond. Richard Tilling 1934  or.  red cl. 8vo. pp.440. very sl. sunned to spine else almost  fine.    Price: $200.00
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  83. CABLE BOYD A Hundred Year History Of The P.& O. Peninsular and  Oriental  Steam Navigation Company  1837-1937. illus. with col. frontis. (crest) & 18 full page plates t/out.  of which 8 are col. pp.9 of Silhouettes of past and present P &  O Vessels. or.blu.cl. glt.ltg. to spine and glt.  crest to front bd. 4to. pp.X.290. fine.    Price: $100.00
     
  84. CALVERT JAMES Commander. Surface At The Pole. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. The Adventurers Club 1963 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.212. sl. foxed to edges else fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  85. CAMPBELL GEORGE  China Tea Clippers. profusely illus.  with dwgs. & dgms. t/out. by author many full page  pub.  Lond. Adlard Coles Ltd. 1974 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.156. Fine copy.    Price: $75.00
     
  86. CAMPBELL GORDON  My Mystery Ships illus. with 18 plates including frontis, 21 text drawings pub. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. 1936 or. blue cloth, 8vo. pp.XX.300. Rear-Admiral Campbell, a master sub-hunter of WWI, describes how the Royal Navy used armed merchant vessels to decoy German submarines to the surface. Very good copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  87. CAMPBELL LORD G. Log Letters From 'The Challenger.' illus. with folding lithograph map with partial colour (frontis.). 1 small text plan. London: Macmillan And Co., 1876 1st. ed. Rebound in blue cloth, gold ltg. to spine, 8vo. pp.4.448. An informal and unscientific account, consisting of extracts from Campbell's log, of this important scientific expedition, 1872-76. Included are chapters and sections on Australia, the Fiji Islands, Moluccas, Philippines, New Guinea, Japan, Hawaii. Newly re-bound, Fine copy.    Price: $200.00 .      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  88. CARR WILLIAM GUY By Guess And By God. The story of British Submarines  in the 1st. W.W. illus. with frontis. & 7  full page plates pub. Lond. Hutchinson nd.1930? or.red.cl. 8vo. pp.288. v/good copy, lacks f/free e/paper.    Price: $35.00
     
  89. CARR WILLIAM GUY Out Of The Mists. Great deeds of the Navy in the war. The story of the  Royal Naval Air Service and the Harwich flotillas  in  1917-1918 when the ships and men struggled to fight and beat the foes forever lurking behind mists in the North Sea. illus.  with frontis. & 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Hutchinson nd.194-?  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.176. v/good in  the  chipped d/w.    Price: $50.00
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  90. CARVEL  JOHN  L.   Stephen Of Linthouse. A  Record  of  Two Hundred  Years  of  Shipbuilding  1750-1950.  illus.   with frontis. & 49 full page plates t/out. of which 18 are  col. pub. Glasgow Alexander Stephen & Sons 1950 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.212.Almost fine copy.    Price: $85.00
     
  91. CASSELLS VIC The Capital Ships Their Battles and Their Badges illus. with coloured & b/w. plates., diagrams, appends., bibliog., index, pub. Sydney Kangaroo Press 2000 1st ed. . (Australia’s Naval Heritage series) or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp. IX,222 Comprehensive account of Australia’s Capital Ships. Inc full lists of Commanding Officers, casualties and Battle-Honours for each ship    Price: $50.00
     
  92. CASSELLS VIC The Destroyers Their Battles and Their Badges illus. with coloured & b/w. plates., diagrams, appends., bibliog., index, pub. Sydney Kangaroo Press 2000 1st ed. (Australia’s Naval Heritage series) or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp. XIV,250 Comprehensive account of Australia’s Capital Ships. Inc full lists of Commanding Officers, casualties and Battle-Honours for each ship    Price: $50.00
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  93. CASSON  LIONEL The  Ancient  Mariners.  From  the   dim beginnings of sea-conquest to the great maritime empires of antiquity.  with e/paper maps & 16 full page plates  t/out. text dgms. pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1959 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.286. fine.    Price $35.00
     
  94. CHADWICK LEE Lighthouses & Lightships. Includes lighthouse characteristics for England and Wales. illus. with  e/paper maps  & 16 full page plates t/out. text dgms &  maps  pub. Lond. Dennis Dobson 1974 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.166. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  95. CHAPELLE  HOWARD  I. The History Of The  American Sailing Navy.  The  Ships and Their Development. illus.  with  col. frontis.  16  full page plates t/out. 32  plans,  155  text dwgs. pub.  N.Y.  Bonanza  Books  1949  or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.XXII.558. Fine.    Price: $85.00
     
  96. CHARLWOOD  D.E. The Wreck Of The Lock Ard. End of a Ship, End of an Era. illus. with 14 full page plates t/out.  pub. Syd. Angus  &  Robertson 1971  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.122.    Price: $40.00
     
  97. CHARLWOOD DON The Long Farewell. Settlers Under Sail. Life on  board  ship coming to Australia during the  19th  cent. illus.  with  text  plates  t/out.  from  dwgs.,  eng.   in contemporary  books  and periodicals, pub.  Melb.  &  Lond. Allen Lane 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.338. fine in the torn d/w.    Price: $40.00
     
  98. CHATTERTON  E.  KEBLE Whalers And Whaling.  The  Story of Whaling  Ships  up to the Present Day. frontis. &  34  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. T. fisher Unwin 1925  1st.ed. or.  blu.cl.  8vo.  pp.248. little  rubbed  to  spine,  sl. sunned, v/good otherwise.    Price: $75.00
     
  99. CHATTERTON  E. KEBLE Old Ship Prints. with col. frontis.  & 67  full page plates t/out. of which 6 are col.  pub  Lond. Spring Books 1965 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.182. Price: $55.00
     
  100. CHICHESTER  FRANCIS Gipsy Moth Circles The  World.  illus. with  15 full page col. plates, 13 line dwgs. &  maps  pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1967 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.270.    Price: $40.00
     
  101. CHICHESTER  FRANCIS  The  Lonely  Sea  And  The  Sky. Autobiography  Of  Francis Chichester. with  16  full  page plates  t/out.  &  10  line  illus.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder  & Stoughton 1967 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.352.    Price: $40.00
     
  102. CHICHESTER  SIR  FRANCIS  The  Romantic  Challenge. e/paper  illus.,  24  full page plates & 1  map  pub.  N.Y. McCann  & Geoghegan 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.226. v/fine.    Price: $40.00
     
  103. CHICHESTER  SIR FRANCIS Along The Clipper Way. Account of the  route he sailed alone in Gypsy Moth  IV.  Incorporates descriptions  by other famous men who have sailed the  same route around  the  world.  Extracts  from  Francis  Drake, Shackleton,  Slocum  and  Smeeton, Dana  and  Ann  Davison, Bardiaux  and Basil Lubbock, Bullen,  Bombard  and  Connor O'Brien, Dumas and Allan Villers, John Masefield and Joseph Conrad.  with e/paper illus. frontis. 12 full page  plates t/out. & map pub. U.K. Brockhampton Press 1967 or.cl.  d/w. 12mo. pp.192.    Price: $30.00
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  104. CHICHESTER FRANCIS Biography by Anita Leslie. illus.  with col.  frontis.  &  16 full page plates  t/out.  pub.  Lond. Hutchinson 1975 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254.    Price: $30.00
     
  105. CHUSAN ss 4496 tons 4,000 hp The Chusan Gazette. Notes and incidents of a voyage 19th March to 8th March 1888. To London forn Sydney. (For Private Circulation Only). illus. with 2 decorative engraved ships at heading and ending. Ship may have been sail and screw as eng. at rear shows. pub. London/Sydney by author E. Lytton Hitchins 1888; or. dark blue stiff wrappers 4to. pp.16. Privately published description and documentation of a voyage on P. & O. "Chusan" Sydney to London .."Leaving Sydney 0:20pm March 19th 1888, cleared the Heads, 0:.42pm run 289 miles to noon. March 20th, position lat. 38,9 S long 14 8, 58 E. Arrived Port Phillip Heads March 21st. Made fast to Williamstown Pier, 10am…'' Then to Adelaide. Crossing the Equator April 9th. Colombo, Aden, Suez Canal (by electric light) Brindisi, Malta, Gibraltar, Arrived Plymouth Sound, Gravesend May 8th. Officers, Henry Wyatt Commander, R.L. Haddock 1st Officer, G.H. Wallace 2nd Officer etc.. Probably the Passenger Liner, UK/India and Far East services the 'Chusan.' Designed for rapid conversion to armed merchant cruiser or troopship if required, built in 1884. 'Chusan's' hotel fittings were comfortable although less ornate than those of the vessels on the Australian run, though she had electric light throughout her passenger accommodation, and she was a great favourite. She could carry up to 107 First Class and 44 Second Class passengers. She did one round voyage UK/Australia (two more in succession beginning 26 August 1887). Two large chips form rear wrapper else very good condition.   Price: $1125.00
     
  106. CLANCY ROBERT & ALAN RICHARDSON  So They Came South.  Story of the discovery and subsequent mapping by Europeans of the Australian  continent and New Zealand. Told mainly  through the maps they drew. with e/paper maps, & profusely  illus. with  plates,  maps  t/out. many full  page  &  col., some double page. pub. Syd. Shakespeare Head Press 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.176.    Price: $85.00
     
  107. CLARK ARTHUR H. The Clipper Ship Era. An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, builders, commanders, and Crews 1843-1869. illus. with frontis. & 38 full  page  plates t/out. pub. N.Y. & Lond.  Putnam's  Sons 1911 or.grn.cl. 8vo. pp.XII.404. ltg. to spine sl.  faded, else fine copy.    Price: $85.00
     
  108. CLEMENTS  REX  A  Gypsy Of The Horn. The  narrative  of  a voyage  round the world in a Windjammer twenty years  ago. illus.  with  frontis.  15 full page plates  t/out.  &  one folding map pub. Lond. Heath Cranton Ltd. 1925  or.glt.blu. illus.cl.  8vo. pp.260. lacks folding sketch map of  voyage at rear, sl. rubbed, fine otherwise.   Price: $55.00
     
  109. CLIFFORD L.E. The Leader Of The Crocks. The story of H.M.A.S. Stuart. illus. with 14 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1945 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.222. presentation copy signed  by author. Wartime pages little browned otherwise fine copy. Author served as signalman on "Stuart."    Price: $95.00
     
  110. CLIFFORD L.E. The Leader Of The Crocks. The story of H.M.A.S. Stuart. illus. with 14 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1945 or. dark blue cl. 12mo. pp.222. Wartime pages little browned otherwise fine copy. Author served as signalman on "Stuart." Activities and achievements of HMAS Stuart in 1940 and 1941 mainly in the Mediterranean (Malta, Greece, Crete, Tobruk)   Price: $65.00
     
  111. CLUNE FRANK Bound For Botany Bay. Narrative of a Voyage in 1798 aboard the Death Ship Hillsborough. with e/paper illus. & 16 full  page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus &  Robertson  1964 1st.ed.  or. cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.204. Slight shelf wear, else v/good.    Price: $65.00
     
  112. CLUNE FRANK  & P.R. STEPHENSEN The Pirates  Of  The Brig Cyprus.  Mutiny  at Recherche Bay Van Diemen's  Land 1829. illus.  with  one  map pub. Lond.  Rupert  Hart-Davis  1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.206.    Price: $50.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  113. COCKRILL W. ROSS Antarctic Hazard. An exciting  first-hand account  of  a modern Antarctic  whaling  expedition.  with e/paper  maps  frontis. & 12 full page plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.230. Almost fine copy    Price: $50.00
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  114. COLLINS SIR JOHN As Luck Would Have It. The  reminiscences of  an  Australian sailor. illus. with frontis. &  24  full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1965 1st. ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.192. Admiral Collins was Australia's most distinguished naval personality before and during WWII, holding important commands in the Mediterranean and Pacific, commanding the RAN post-war before becoming a diplomat. Stain to rear e/paper otherwise fine.    Price: $40.00
     
  115. COLUMBUS  CHRISTOPHER The Life Of The Admiral Christopher Columbus By His Son Ferdinand. Translated and annotated  by Benjamin  Keen.  with  title page vign.  e/paper maps,  11 plates  &  8  maps.  pub.  Lond.  The  Folio  Society 1959 or.hf.cf. roy.8vo. pp.272. v/fine in the slipcase.    Price: $40.00
     
  116. COLWELL  MAX  Ships And Seafarers In  Australian  Waters. profusely  illus.  with plates t/out. 10 full page  &  col. pub.  Melb.  Lansdowne  Press  1973  1st.ed.  or.cl.   d/w. 4to.obl. pp.128. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  117. COLWELL MAX Whaling Around Australia. illus. with 16  full page  plates  t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1969  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.180. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  118. COMPTON-HALL  RICHARD  Submarine  Versus  Submarine. Tactics and Technology of Underwater Confrontation.  illus. with plates, dgms. t/out. some full page & col. pub.  Lond. 1988 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.192.    Price: $35.00
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  119. CONNER  DENNIS BRUCE STANNARD Comeback. My  Race for The America's cup. with illus. e/papers 14 full page plates &  dgms.  t/out.  text pub. Melb.  Macmillan  1987  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XV.239.    Price: $35.00
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  120. COOK CAPTAIN Captain Cook And The South Pacific. Banks' Artists and his "Endeavour" collections, by A.M. Lysaght; illus. with many plates t/out. some full page, pub. Lond. The British Museum Yearbook 3. 1979 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.250. Fine copy.    Price: $60.00
     
  121. COOPER  BRYAN  The Battle  Of  The  Torpedo  Boats. with e/paper  illus.  &  8 full page plates  t/out.  pub.  Lond. MacDonald 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.296. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  122. COOPER GORDON Treasure-Trove. Pirates' Gold. Includes chapters on buried treasure, Incas & Aztecs, The Spanish Main, Europe's buried treasure &c. &c. illus. with frontis. & 16 full page plates t/out. e/paper maps, pub. Lond. Lutterworth Press 1951 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.186. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  123. CORDINGLY  DAVID Marine Painting In  England  1700-1900. profusely  illus. with plates t/out. many full page &  col. pub. N.Y. Crown Pub. 1973 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.200. Fine copy.    Price: $85.00
     
  124. COTTEE KAY First Lady. A History Making Solo Voyage Around the  World.  with e/paper maps & 24 full page  col.  plates t/out.  maps,  pub. Melb. Macmillan 1989 or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.226. Very fine copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  125. COURSE Captain A.G. The Wheel's Kick And The Wind's  Song. illus.  with  frontis.  11 full page plates  t/out.  and  2 diagrams  of rigging for early ships. pub.  Lond.  Percival Marshall 1951 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.266. Almost fine copy    Price: $45.00
     
  126. COUSTEAU  JACQUES-YVES Diving For  Sunken  Treasure. Undersea  Discoveries  of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.  with  112 col.  plates  &  many text dgms. pub.  Lond.  Cassell  1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.302. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  127. COX BERNARD Paddle Steamers. profusely illus. with  plates t/out.  many  full page, pub. Lond.  Blandford  Press  1979 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.224. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  128. COX G.W.  Ships In Tasmanian Waters. Riverboats, Ferries And The Floating Bridge illus. with 20 full page plates t/out. pub. Hobart Fullers Bookshop 1971 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XII.224. inscript. f/free e/paper, closed tear to d/w. fine otherwise.   Price: $75.00
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  129. COLE HARRY & VALDA - Mr. Bass's Western Port, The Whaleboat Voyage illus. with 11 figures (charts and sketch-plans) and 24 b/w illus. pub. Victoria. Hastings-Western Port Historical Society. 1997. 1st ed. or. green cl. cr.4to. pp. XIV.98 gilt title on front cover and spine; Limited edition of 750 numbered copies. George Bass, and his exploration from Port Jackson. Sailed in the Whaleboat 3rd December 1797, stay in Western Port 5th to 17th January 1798... Fine    Price: $45.00
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  130. COLLINS  DAVID  Account  Of A  Voyage  To Establish  A Settlement   In Bass's  Straits  To  Which  Is  Added   A Description  Of Port Phillip And An Account Of The  Landing At The Derwent In 1804. Edited from Despatches  of  David Collins Esq. Lieut-Governor by John Currey. illus. with  2 plates  & several facsimile letters, dwgs. pub.  Melb.  The Colony Press 1986 1st.ed. or. mbld.bds. quarter bound  clf. 4to,  pp.258. fore-edge rough-cut; Edition limited  to  320 copies of which this is No.118. Fine.    Price: $400.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  131. COULSON HELEN Paddle Steamer Adelaide-Recommissioned By Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales 29th October 1985 as Part of Victoria's 150th Anniversary Celebrations. illus. with b/w. and sepia photographs, index and bibliography, pub. Wangaratta: McCabe Prints or. card covers, 8vo. pp.64 Fine copy.    Price: $20.00
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  132. CUMPSTON J.S.  Shipping Arrivals And Departures Sydney, 1788-1825. illus. with frontis. & 3 full page plates t/out. maps, Parts I & II combined plus Index vol. III pub. Canberra 1963 or. grey-green wrappers 4to. pp.164,26 part III,50 fine set.    Price: $125.00
     
  133. CURRY Dr. MANFRED - Yacht Racing - The Aerodynamics of Sails and Racing Tactics; Revised and enlarged from the German by Robert W. Atkinson and Charles E. Curry. with b/w illus. (sketches, graphs, drawings and photos). pub. London: G. Bell and Sons 1st English edition of 1928 or. dark green cl. cr.4to. pp.308 very good copy.    Price: $90.00
     
  134. DAKIN WILLIM JOHN  Whalemen Adventurers. The story of whaling in Australian waters and other Southern seas related thereto, from the days of sails to modern times. illus. with frontis. & 38 full page plates t/out. 2 maps pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1934 1st ed. or. blue cl. roy.8vo. pp.XX.264. bds. sl flecked else v/good copy.    Price: $175.00
     
  135. DALLAS K.M.  Trading Posts Or Penal Colonies. Cook's route to Pacific trade. The commercial significance of cook's New Holland Rout to the Pacific. with frontis. e/paper illus & map pub. Hobart Fuller's Bookshop 1969 or. white and brown illus. stiff card wrappers; cr.8vo. pp.132. Fine copy.    Price: $25.00
     
  136. DARBY MADGE  Who Caused The Mutiny On The "Bounty"? with title page vign. & text dec. pub. Syd. Angus  &  Robertson 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.128. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  137. DARCH MALCOLM  Modelling Maritime History. A guide to the research  and  construction  of  authentic  historic   ship models.  illus.  with plates, dgms. t/out. many  full  page pub.  U.K. David & Charles Pub. 1988 or.cl.  d/w.  4to.obl. pp.160. Fine copy.    Price: $55.00
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  138. DARROCH VIN  Barque Polly Woodside. (Rona). illus. with many plates t/out. pub. Melb. Lothian 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. pp.XXIV.142. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  139. DARROCH VIN Barque Polly Woodside.  (Rona). illus. with many plates t/out. pub. Melb. Lothian 1979 paperback ed. 8vo. pp. pp.XXIV.142.    Price: $20.00
     
  140. DARROCH VIN On The Coast Maritime Industry Life And Language illus. with drawings, plates pub. Melbourne Lothian Publishing Company, Port Melbourne 1984 or. stiff blue and white illus. wrappers, 8vo. pp.160. An insight into a slice of Australian Maritime history in the form of work terms, expressions, slang, and nicknames for wharfies and sailors alike. Prev. owner’s name to e/papers else very good copy.    Price: $25.00
     
  141. DARWIN CHARLES Journal Of Researches During The Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle." Section on Australia. illus. with 15 photo plates  pub. Lond. Collins nd.190-? or.red dec.cl. glt.  to spine & f/board 8vo. pp.428,2.advts. sl. rubbed.    Price: $45.00
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  142. DAVEY RICHARD INNES The Sarah Island Conspiracies. Being an account of twelve voyages by one G.K. to Macquarie Harbour on the Western coast of Van Dieman’s Land 1822-1833. illus. with numerous  b/w. plates  t/out.  some full page, pub. Tas. Strahan The Round Earth Co. 2002 or. stiff card wrappers, cr.4to. pp.182. Fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  143. DAVID ANDREW (Chief Editor) The Charts And Coastal Views Of Captain Cook's Voyages. Vol. 1: Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. With Descriptive Catalogue of all the known original surveys and coastal views and the original engravings illus. with tipped-in colour frontis. port., profusely illus. within the intro., followed by "a full descriptive and illustrated catalogue comprised of 320 items of all the charts and coastal views produced on board the Endeavour and their related engravings, together with the small number of drawings made on the voyage of the Endeavour and her boats." pub. London: The Hakluyt Society, In Assoc. with The Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988 or. black cloth folio, d/w. Vol. 1: pp.LXIV.328. Fine.    Price: $600.00
     
  144. DAVID ANDREW The Voyage of HMS Herald. To Australia and the South-west Pacific 1852-1861 under the command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham. illus. with 8 plates 2 maps pub. Melb. Miegunyah Press 1995 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XXVIII.522. Limited to 1200 copies. Fine.    Price: $110.00
     
  145. DAVID RICHARD (editor) Hakluyt's Voyages - A Selection with 7 maps and 16 b/w illus. frontis. Navigational Instruments from "Mariner's Mirror". e/papers Voyages - The six areas of Exploration. pub. London. Chatto & Windus. 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.640 The North-East passage, Muscovy, and Persia - The Mediterranean and the East - Guinea - Newfoundland and the North-West Passage - The Caribbean, Virginia, and Guiana - The Straits of Magellan and beyond. Mint copy.    Price: $65.00
     
  146. DAVIS CHARLES  G. Ships Of The  Past.  Building  models. illus. with plates, dwgs. & plans t/out. pub. N.Y.  Bonanza Books 1969 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.X.170. Fine copy.    Price: $65.00 .
     
  147. de  MIERRE  H.C.  Clipper  Ships  To  Ocean   Greyhounds.   Autobiography,  fifteen years of clipper ships  with  James Nourse Ltd. covers trip to Newcastle, N.S.W. with  e/paper maps & numerous text plates t/out. pub. Lond. Harold Starke 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.320. Sailing with the Nourse Line, a first-hand account of life at sea in clipper ships at the turn of the century. Calls in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney & Newcastle. Fine copy.    Price: $65.00
     
  148. de FRAGA CHRISTOPHER 100 Years Of Yachting On Port Phillip  A  history of the Royal Brighton Yacht  Club.  illus. with  maps,  plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hawthorn  Press  1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.210. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
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  149. de  GROOT  IRENE ROBERT VORSTMAN Ed. Sailing  Ships. Prints  by  the  Dutch Masters from the  Sixteenth  to  the Nineteenth  Century. profusely illus. with b/w.  full  page plates t/out. pub. N.Y. Studio Books in co-operation  with the  printroom of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam  1980  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.284. sl. torn d/w. otherwise fine.    Price: $115.00
     
  150. DOAK  WADE  The Elingamite And Its Treasure. Shipwreck  off the New Zealand coast and the excitement of a modern search for gold. with e/paper maps & 16 full page  plates  t/out. pub.  Lond. & Auckland Hodder &  Stoughton  1979  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. The 'Elingamite', a passenger steamer on the run from Sydney to Auckland, was wrecked with a loss of 45 lives on one of the lonely Three Kings Islands, north of New Zealand in 1902. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  151. DOMVILLE-FIFE    C.W.   Ed.   by.  Square-Rigger    Days. Autobiographies  of  sail. illus. with frontis. &  55  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Seeley Service & Co.  nd.193-? or. dk.blu.cl. cr.4to. pp.256. almost fine copy.    Price: $100.00
     
  152. DONOVAN ROBERT The War-Time Adventures Of President John F. Kennedy illus. with maps, & 14 full page plates t/out. pub. London Anthony Gibbs & Phillips 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.160 ex libris usual cancellation markings, else very good copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  153. DOORLY  CAPTAIN GERALD S. In The Wake. Reminiscences, and includes  description  of voyage to Antarctica  to  relieve Scott's  "Discovery" expedition, of H.M.S. 'Worcester'; Wind jamming around the Horn; of the wreck of the 'Waikare' in NZ, and of the 'Aparima' tragedy; and the story of Teddy Evans and his voyage to the Antarctic. illus. with frontis.  &  5 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Robertson & Mullens 1936 or.wps.  8vo.  pp.311.  backstrip  sunned,  edges  spotted, otherwise v/good copy.   Price: $35.00
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  154. DORLING  TAPRELL  (Taffrail) Blue Star Line. A  Record  of Service 1939-1945. illus. with 5 full page plates t/out.  & 2 maps one folding np.(Lond) nd.(1948) or.blu.cl.  glt.ltg. to spine & f/bd. pp.160,14 list of Seafaring personnel lost at sea through enemy action 1939-1945. Almost fine copy    Price: $75.00
     
  155. DORLING  TAPRELL Captain. (Taffrail) Men o'  War. Author's sketch of the careers of five sea officers who were in  the past much in the public eye. illus. with frontis. & 7  full page  plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. Philip Allan  &  Co.  1929 1st.ed.  or.lt.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.XII.308 fore-edge  and  tail rough-trimmed. sunned to spine else v/good.    Price: $65.00
     
  156. DOUGLAS Major A. J. A. & P. H. Johnson The South Seas Of To-Day   illus. with thirty-nine illustrations (b/w. plates) and three charts. Maps on end-papers. pub. London Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1926 1st. ed. original blue cloth with gilt lettering, 8vo. pp.296. An account of a cruise of the yacht "St. George" to the south Pacific. While the voyage was undertaken for the purpose of scientific research, this book has been written for the general reader. Little spotting else almost fine copy.       Price: $75.00
     
  157. DRAGE WILLIAM  & MICHAEL PAGE  Riverboats  And Rivermen. illus. with plates pub. Adel. Rigby 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.221. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  158. DRAKE-BROCKMAN H. Voyage To Disaster. The Batavia Mutiny. The  Life of Francisco Pelsaert. illus. with e/paper  maps, frontis.  14  full  page plates & map, pub.  Syd.  Angus  & Robertson 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.318. Fine copy.    Price: $65.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  159. DUCKWORTH CHRISTIAN LESLIE GRAHAM EASTON LANGMUIR West Highland Steamers. illus. with col. frontis. & 32 full page plates  t/out. pub. U.K. T. Stephenson & Sons  1967 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.204. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  160. DUGAN JAMES  The  Great Iron Ship.  Story of  the  Great Eastern  iron ship. illus. with 14 full page plates  t/out. pub. Lond. Hamilton 1953 1st.ed. or.blu.cl. 8vo. pp.224. Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  161. DUNBABIN  T.  Slavers Of The South Seas. pub. Syd. Angus  & Robertson  1935  or.cl.  d/w. 12mo.  pp.XIV.308.  some  sl. spotting otherwise fine. Price: $100.00
     
  162. DUNCAN  SYLVIA PETER The Sea My Steed The Personal Story Of Captain Donald Sorrell.  Captain who docked Queen Mary without  tugs, and early days in Windjammers. illus. with 8 full page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. Robert Hale 1960 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. v/fine.    Price: $60.00
     
  163. DUNMORE JOHN Prof. Introduction and Notes. Fragmens Du Dernier Voyage De La Perouse. Publisher: Canberra. 1987. N.L.A.; Facsimile Edition, limited to 500 copies. illus. with 1 folded map of voyages of La Pérouse. Two volumes in a slipcase. Vol.I: Facsimile edit. of original, published at Quimper in 1797: IV, 55 PP. Vol.II: Translation & commentary: pp.VIII, 50 In French/English. Fine.    Price: $100.00
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  164. DURRANT LAWRENCE The Seawatchers. The story of Australia's Coast Radio Services. illus. with many text plates & dgms. t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XII.248. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  165. d'URVILLE DUMONT Two Voyages To The South Seas. To Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829 in the Corvette Astrolobe, and to the Straits on Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the Corvettes Astrolobe and Zelee. Translated from the French by Helen Rosenman illus. with 29 maps & charts, 56 col. & b/w. plates; pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1987 2 vols. cr.4to. Vol.I. Astralobe 1826-1829; pp.XII.312. Vol.II. Astrolobe and Zelee 1837-1840; pp.XII.314. or. cl. glt. eng. spine on red vignette, on the 2 vols. In slipcase, fine set.    Price: $250.00
     
  166. EASTY JOHN Private Marine. Memorandum Of The Transactions Of  A Voyage From England To Botany Bay 1787-1793. A  First Fleet Journal. illus. with facsimile frontis. (sample of manuscript),  pub. Syd. The Trustees of The Public  Library of  New South Wales in Assoc. with Angus & Robertson  1965, or.cl. roy.4to. pp.184. Fine copy.    Price: $175.00
     
  167. EATON J.H.O. A Short History Of The River  Murray  Works. illus.  with  plates, maps t/out. 2  folding  pub.  S.Aust. River Murray Commission nd.195-? or.brn.cl. 4to. pp.70. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
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  168. EDWARDS HUGH Islands Of Angry Ghosts. History, discovery & salvage  of  the  wreck Batavia off the  W.A.  coast.  with e/paper maps & 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1966 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208. Fine copy.     Price: $60.00
     
  169. EDWARDS  HUGH Australian and New Zealand Shipwrecks & Sea Tragedies.  profusely illus. with plates t/out.  many  full page & col.  pub. Syd.  Mathews/Hutchinson  1978  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.136. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  170. ELLIS CAPTAIN FREDERICK D. The Tragedy Of The Lusitania illus. with . Illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs (32). No Publisher, 1915 or. black cloth 8vo. with dull gilt lettering, embossed illustration pp.356 'Vivid and graphic description' of the sinking of the 'Lusitania'. Combines eyewitness testimony with a narrative history of the event that heralded America's entry into World War I. Fine copy.     Price: $150.00
     
  171. ELLIS WILLIAM Voyage By Captain Cook An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-West Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America. 2 volumes. illus. throughout with numerous black & white reproductions, plus a black & white fold-out map at beginning of volume 1. pub. Amsterdam, N Israel, New York, Da Capo Press, Facsimile Edition 1969. A facsimile of the original prepared by Assistant Surgeon to Captain Cook's vessels "Resolution" and "Discovery". Published in London, 1782; or. off-white faux vellum with titles stamped in gilt over blue on spine and front cover; 8vo. pp.Volume I contains X.358 pages and Volume II contains VI.348 pages. Nos. 55 & 56 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. The two volumes, Vol. II. d/w. torn, else fine in original protective mylar dustwrappers.   Price: $200.00
     
  172. ENNIS HENRY Remarks on Board His Majesty's Ship Tamar: In a Voyage from England to Port Praia, Cape of Good Hope- New South Wales. And from thence along the Coast of Australia, to Port Essington in the Coburg Peninsula, and thence to Bathurst and Melville Islands, Apsley's Straits, between 27th February & 13th of November 1824; and continued in the ship Countess of Harcourt, to the Isle of France, to 7th January 1825. This ed. Of "A Voyage To New South Wales" is limited to 160 copies of which this is No.41. illus. with frontis. (facsimile woodcut) & title page vign. pub. Melb. Richard Griffin Pub. 1983 or. hf.cf. dw.roy.8vo. pp.34. all pages rough-trimmed. Fine.     Price: $275.00
     
  173. EVANS ALUN  A Navy For Australia illus. with picture endpapers (The Australian Fleet Unit's arrival, 1913. Venetian Carnival in Sydney Harbour 1913) 8 b/w. plus 16 pages with 30 plates pub. Melbourne ABC Enterprises, 1986or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.IV.172 Traces the history of the Royal Australian Navy from 1913 when the colonial navies merged as one. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  174. EVANS D. WARRINGTON (Compiled by) An Account Of A Voyage Round The World With a Full Account of the Voyage of the Endeavour in the Year MDCCLXX Along The East Coast of Australia by Lieutenant James Cook Commander of his Majesty's Bark Endeavour. illus. with folding plates and maps pub. Brisbane: Printed and Published by WR Smith and Paterson: 1969 1st. ed. or. green cl. glt. to spine and front board; 4to. pp.XXX.481-661.5 Excerpts from 1st. pub. account of voyage of the Endeavour. Near fine in the pictorial slipcase.     Price: $100.00
     
  175. EVANS WILSON P. Through The Rip. Ships and Seamen of Old Port  Phillip.  with e/paper illus. & 16 full  page  plates t/out.  pub.  Adel.  Rigby 1978 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.232. v/fine copy.      Price: $45.00
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  176. EVANS WILSON  P. Deeds Not Words.  The  Victorian  Navy. illus.  with  30 full page plates t/out.  pub.  Melb.  1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  177. EVERETT MARSHALL Wreck And Sinking Of The Titanic  The Ocean's Greatest Disaster. Memorial edition, illus. with b/w photographs and illustrations. pub. L.H. Walter, 1912; or. green cloth boards with gilt lettering and pictorial paste-down, boards gilt 8vo; 320 pages. Account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls. Giving exciting escapes from death and acts of heroism not equaled in ancient or modern times, told by the Survivors. Including History of Icebergs, the terror of the seas, wireless telegraphy and modern shipbuilding. boards are little rubbed at spine, else very good..    Price: $275.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
     
  178. FELL W.R. The Sea Surrenders. Story of salvage  operations in Port Said and around U.K. after the war. illus. with  16 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.238. Story of William Fell, a New Zealander, who entered the Royal Navy in England in 1914 and went on to firstly the Submarine Branch and then on to salvage operations which this book is mainly concerned with. It deals in depth with clearing the harbour at Malta and Port Said in 1956. Fine copy.     Price: $70.00
     
  179. FERRIS  J.H.  History Of 100 Years Of The  Royal  Melbourne Yacht Squadron 1876-1976. illus. with several plates t/out. pub. Melb. 1976 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.96. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00
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  180. FERRIS  J.H. The Long Hard Beat. A History of  the  Royal Melbourne  Yacht  Squadron. with e/paper  illus.  and  many plates  t/out.  some  full page pub.  Melb.  by  the  Yacht Squadron 1990 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. Fine copy.     Price: $45.00
     
  181. FESTBERG ALFRED N. Heraldry In The Royal Australian Navy. illus.  with many text dgms. t/out. pub.  Melb.  Silverleaf Pub. 1981 or.wps. 4to. pp.198. Fine copy.     Price: $75.00  
     
  182. FINKEL GEORGE The Dutchman Bold. Abel Tasman.  illus.  with 1  map  pub.  Syd.  Angus  & Robertson 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.152. Fictional biography of the 'Dutchman Bold' Fine copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  183. FIRKINS  P.  Of Nautilus And Eagles. History of  the  Royal Australian Navy. illus. with plates, maps pub. Syd. Cassell 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.270. fine in the sl.  torn d/w.    Price: $40.00
     
  184. FITCHETT  T.K. The  Vanished  Fleet.  Australian Coastal Passenger  Ships  1910-1960.  fine col.  illus.  by  author t/out. some full page pub. Adel. Rigby 1976 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.112. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
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  185. FITCHETT  T.K. The  Great Liners.  P & O Orient ships on the Australian trade.   with col.  illus.  by  author t/out. some full page pub. Adel. Rigby 1977 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.80. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  186. FITZROY CAPT. ROBERT selected and ed. by David Stanbury. Narrative  Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Beagle. Being passages from the narrative written by Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N., together with extracts from his logs, reports and  letters; additional  material from the diary and letters of  Charles Darwin, notes from Midshipman Phillip King and letters from Second Lieutenant Bartholomew Sulivan. with col. frontis. & 10  full  page  col. plates t/out.  pub.  Lond.  the  Folio Society 1977 or.illus. cl. roy.8vo. pp.360. Fine.    Price: $45.00
     
  187. FITZGERALD  LAWRENCE   Java La  Grande. The Portuguese discovery of Australia Circa 1521. illus. with maps, plates t/out. some  full page pub. Hobart `The  Publishers'  1986 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.140. Fine.    Price: $50.00
     
  188. FLAGG JAMES MONTGOMERY    All In The Same Boat. with b/w and red illus. on every page by Flagg; pub. New York Life Publishing 1908 or. illustrated beige board covers 12mo. pp.106. A satirical look at a ship's passengers. James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960) was an American artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his posters. His most famous poster was created in 1917 to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I. It showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Lacks spine paper strip, replaces with cloth strip, covers lightly soiled, good otherwise.    Price: $50.00
     
  189. FLEXNER  JAMES  THOMAS Steamboats  Come  True. American Inventors   In  Action.  Author  uncovers  the   intriguing evidence  of  simultaneous invention of the  steamboat  and other tinkerers,  dreamers,  crackpots,   and   financial entrepreneurs  all  pursuing  the same  goal.  illus.  with frontis. & 16 plates t/out. many full page, e/paper  illus. pub. U.S.A. Little Brown 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXII.406. Fine.    Price: $60.00
     
  190. FLINDERS MATHEW Observations On The Coasts Of Van Diemen's  On Bass's Strait and its Islands And On Part Of  The Coasts of New south Wales; Intended to Accompany The Charts Of The Late Discoveries In Those Countries. originally pub. Lond. 1801 this facsimile pub. Adel. Libraries Board of S.A. 1965 (Australiana Facsimile Editions No.66) or.blu.grn.cl. roy.4to. pp.36. fine.    Price: $125.00
     
  191. FORCE NINE  And More. High Winds, Wild  Seas  -Stories  of Australians  who  fought  them and  survived.  with  illus. e/papers  and many b/w. plates t/out. some full  page  pub. Syd. Murray 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.168. Fine copy.    Price: $40.00
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  192. FOSTER  CECIL  Master  Mariner  (Captain  of   the   S.S. `Trevessa'). 1700 Miles In Open Boats. The story  of  the loss  of the S.S. Trevessa in the Indian Ocean, and  voyage of  her boats  to safety.  The  ship  left  Freemantle  W. Australia.  on her last voyage. illus. with frontis.  &  32 full  page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Martin  Hopkinson  1924 or.dk.bl.cl. 8vo. pp.XII.174 folding map of voyage at rear, n/paper clipping loosely inserted. bds. sl. rubbed.    Price: $125.00
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  193. FOSTER LEONIE Port Phillip Shipwrecks. An Historical Survey. 4 vols. illus. with several text plates, maps pub. Melbourne, Victorian Archaeological Survey, Dept. of Conservation and Environment 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 or. yellow illus. wrappers, black cl. binding to spines, 4to.tall pp.Vol.I.132 Vol.II.170 Vol.III.138 Vol.IV.150. fine set.    Price: $160.00
     
  194. FOWLES  JOHN Shipwreck. profusely illus. with  b/w.  photo plates t/out. by the Gibsons of Scilly many full page  pub. Lond. Jonathan  Cape  1974 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  4to.obl. pp.unnumbered (48). Fine copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  195. FRAME TOM - Where Fate Calls The HMAS 'Voyager' Tragedy illus. with 16 full page plates throughout, 32 figures pub. Sydney Hodder and Stoughton 1992 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.448. The sinking of HMAS Voyager. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  196. FRANK WOLFGANG The Sea Wolves. The Story of the German U-Boats at War. illus. with frontis. & 12 full  page  plates t/out.  folding  map  at  rear,  pub.  Lond.  Weidenfeld  & Nicholson  1955  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.252. fine  in  the chipped d/w.    Price: $35.00
     
  197. FRASER IAN Frogman V.C. with e/paper illus. frontis. &  10 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. & Syd. Angus & Robertson 1957 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.216. Almost fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  198. FREESTON  EWART C. Prisoner-Of-War Ship Models  1775-1825. illus.  with  col. frontis. & numerous b/w.  plates  t/out. some full page pub. Lond. Nautical Pub. Co. in assoc.  with George Harrap 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.XVI.174. A survey of the bone ship models made by French and American prisoners during and after the Napoleonic Wars, including the prison conditions, the working conditions, the tools and methods of sale. Fine copy.    Price: $125.00
     
  199. FRERE-COOK GERVIS The Decorative Arts Of The  Mariner. profusely  illus. with plates t/out. many full page &  col. pub. Lond. Cassell 1966 or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.296. Ancient Egyptian ceremonial model ships : painted Eskimo canoe paddles : South Seas symbolic ornaments : rare early charts on vellum : nautical instruments by Seventeen contributors. Fine copy.    Price: $150.00
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  200. FROST ALAN Arthur Phillip 1738-1814. His  Voyaging.  with e/paper  maps  and numerous plates t/out.  some  col.  pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1987 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  sm.4to. pp.320. Fine copy.    Price: $55.00
     
  201. FRYER JOHN The Voyage Of The Bounty Launch. John Fryer's Narrative, with an introduction by Stephen Walters. illus. with 2 col. plates, (portrait) folding map, facsimile documents (photo plates) drawings; pub. U.K. Genesis Publications in association with Rigby Ltd. Adel. 1979, The narrative in facsimile, or dark blue.half leather, marbled bds. glt. ltg. & dec.to spine cr.4to. pp.42, unpaginated (approx. 160 single sided); signed and limited to five hundred copies of which this is No.443. Fine in the original slip-case.    Price: $700.00
     
  202. FUCHIDA MITSUO & Masatake Okumiya; Midway The Battle That Doomed Japan : The Japanese Navy's Story illus. with e/paper maps b/w. photographs (37) line drawings (10); pub. London Hutchinson 1957 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.264. Very good copy, chipped d/w.    Price: $45.00
     
  203. FULLFORD R. K. We Stood And Waited. Sydney's Anti-Ship Defences 1939-45. illus. with pub. Sydney Royal Australian Artillery Historical Society 1994. or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.250. Covers strategy, organisation, tactics and extended defences; training, duties and morale, the fortress system, batteries, ammunition, etc. Fine.   Price: $50.00
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  204. FULTON PAMELA JEANNE Translated and ed. by. The Minerva Journal Of John Washington Price. A Voyage from Cork Ireland, to Sydney New South Wales, 1798-1800. illus. with title page vign. & 30 col. plates t/out. 3 maps, facsimile letter, pub. Melb. Miegunyah Press 2000 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.XVIII.290 Fine copy.    Price: $110.00
     
  205. FURNEAUX RUPERT- What Happened On The Mary Celeste   illus. with map pub. London: Max Parrish, 1964 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.172. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  206. GABY JAMES Captain. The Restless Waterfront illus. with col. frontis. & 4 plates t/out. pub. Sydney Antipodean Publishers 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.252 Since first stepping on the Sydney Waterfront in 1922, and through the next thirty two years Captain Gaby witnessed tumultuous change to the stevedoring practices, the equipment and man power and work practices. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
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  207. GABY  CAPT. JAMES Mate In Sail. with photo plates  &  full page  col.  illus. t/out. pub. Syd.  Antipodean  Pub.  1974 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.288. Almost fine copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  208. GAUNT WILLIAM Marine Painting profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. N.Y. 1976 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.264. Survey of marine painting from ancient to present times, in Europe, United States, the Orient. Includes 18 pages of brief biographies of the artists (text & illus.). Fine copy.    Price: $65.00
     
  209. GATACRE  Rear  Admiral G.G.O. Reports  Of  Proceedings. Naval Career 1921-1964. profusely illus. with plates, dwgs. t/out.  some  full page pub. N.S.W. Nautical Press  &  Pub. 1982 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.380. Fine copy.    Price: $50.00
     
  210. GERBAULT  ALAIN  In Quest Of the Sun. The Journal  of  the "Firecrest." The voyage of Alain Gerbault Around the  World. illus. with frontis. 15 full page plates t/out. &  3  maps one  folding  pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1930  bound  in full cf. glt.dec. spine mbld. e/papers & to edges, glt. ltg. & crest `Scotch College' to f/bd. 8vo. pp.316. sl. faded to top of bds. otherwise v/good.    Price: $100.00
     
  211. GILL  G.  HERMON Royal Australian Navy  1939-1942.  illus. with  numerous  plates  t/out.  pub.  Canberra  Aust.   War Memorial   1957-68   1st.ed's.  roy   8vo.   or.cl.   d/w's pp.Vol.I.XVIII.686 Vol.II.XVIII.754. 2 vols. fine.    Price: $200.00
     
  212. GILLETT ROSS Warships of Australia profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page and col. indexes, illustrations by Colin Graham: pub. Adelaide Rigby 1977 1st edition or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.296, Standard reference to the ships of the RAN, Inc. Colonial Navies. Fine copy    Price: $100.00
     
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