Admiralty Navigation Manual 1938 - Volume I
London: H.M.S.O., 1943. Reprint, pp x, 446, diagrams, maps, fold map at rear, cloth boards, edges rubbed, wear to corners, water stain to lower fore-edge.
Maritime
Admiralty Navigation Manual 1938 - Volume II
London: H.M.S.O., 1939. 1st ed.,, pp ix, 275, diagrams, maps, errata slip tipped-in to t.p., cloth boards, edges rubbed, wear to corners, very good condn.
Admiralty Navigation Manual Volume II 1938
London: H.M.S.O., 1938. 1st ed., octavo, pp vi, 268, (2 adverts), b/w frontis, diagrams, cloth boards, water stain lo lower fore-edge, otherwise good.
Danube Steamship Company. Summer Service. 1906. (First Imperial Royal Private Danube Steamship Company)
Vienna: Danube Steamship Company, 1906. 1st ed., tall, slim octavo, original quarter-cloth and papered boards, b&w illus, map, pp 146 plus section of blank pages for notes. Profusely illustrated. Ex-library with fairly minimal markings, spine faded, good condition.
Lis Sails the Atlantic
London: Routledge, 1935. Octavo, original cloth boards, map, b&w plates, pp xvi, 240. With a gift inscription (unrelated to author, but mentions having met the author's parents). Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition. Across the Atlantic with her family at the age of eleven (Denmark, Buenos, Aires, Cape Town, New.....
Nautilus - 90 - North
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. With Clay Blair. 8vo, pp. 190, b/w frontis, b/w plates, endpaper maps, light foxing edges, original cloth bds, few minor makrs, edges rubbed, in d.j.edges rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed. The voyage of the first atomic submarine under the polar ice pack...
A Maritime History of Australia [with autograph letter signed by John Bach]
Sydney: Book Club Associates, 1976. 1st ed., octavo, pp.xiv, 481, incl. Index, b&w ills., map, pictorial endpapers, original cloth boards, cnrs & edges rubbed and worn, otherwise good condition in very good d.j. Includes a reply autograph letter dated 20 April 1993, signed 'John Bach' to one of his colleagues.....
The White Divers of Broome: the True Story of a Fatal Experiment
Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2007. 8vo, wraps, b&w plates, pp xv, 301. Previous owner's stamp inside front wraps, remants of original price sticker rear wrap, o/w v.g.
The Middle Passage
London: Macmillan, 1939. pp (viii), 410, small mark to pages at bottom edge, prev. owner's name, bookstore blind stamp to f.f.ep, cloth boards, very lightly flecked, otherwise good. A hard to find novel of slave trading set in the early 1800's.
Yachting: The Golden Age
London: Hachette, ( 2004). 1st ed., folio, pp.171, (vi), incl Index, profusely illustrated with col. & b/w plates, or. Cl. Bds., near fine in d.j. A beautifully illustrated book of photographs, paintings and memorabilia on yachting and sailing during the late 1800's through to the early 1900's by the author.....
Australian Shipwrecks, including Vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings: Volume One, 1622-1850
Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1972. Small 4to, original boards, dustwrapper, b&w illus in text, endpaper maps, index, pp. 268. Minor edgewear to d.j. o/w clean, firm, very good condn.
Australian Shipwrecks, Including Vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings, Volume One: 1622 - 1850
Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1982. Reprint, roy 8vo, pp 267, Index, b/w photos & illustrations, stiff wraps, v.g.
Pioneers of the Royal Australian Navy
NSW: The Author, 1967. 8vo, pp. 108, b/w ills., page edges slightly yellowed, bookseller sticker verso front wrap, wraps, stapled spine, spine and edges lightly yellowed, minor marks rear. Tales of Australian naval men.
Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator
Sydney: The Library of New South Wales, 1970. 2nd edition, octavo, pp. xvi, 894, Index, original cloth boards, lightly rubbed edges, in d.j. edges a little creased, few minor marks rear. Revised edition, comprehensive record of manuscripts, charts, pictures, and relics.
Tramps and Ladies, My Early Years in Steamers
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1959. 8vo, original cloth boards, colour frontis, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp xvi, 315. Spine slightly faded, clean, good condn. Early twentieth-century steamships. Includes several chapters on the sinking of the Titanic (the author was an officer on the Carpathia).
G.L. Watson. The Art and Science of Yacht Design
Limerick: Peggy Bawn Press, 2011. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour frontis plate, colour and b&w illus, pp 495. Previous owner's bookplate and pencilled annotations front endpaper, otherwise fine condition in fine d.j. Scarce. Very heavy, please inquire regarding postage. Biography of the peerless Scottish yacht designer, George Lenox Watson (1851-1904).....
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. Including An Account Of The Mutiny […]
Sydney: Hutchinson, 1979. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, illustrations (including folding plates), frontis portrait, pp xii, 264. Near-fine in very good d.j.
Merchantman Rearmed
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. Illus. Muirhead Bone. Original quarter leather boards, author frontis portrait, b&w illus, top edge gilt, pp xx, 332. Number 23 of a limited edition of 160, signed by the author. Previous owner's bookplate. Small bump front board. Near fine condition. Memoirs of a life in.....
Merchantmen-at-Arms. The British Merchants' Service in the War.
London: Drawings by Muirhead Bone; introd. H.M. Tomlinson, 1929. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w plates, pp xxii, 311. 'New' edition, first published 1919. Previous owner's bookplate. Previous owner's signature.
American Practical Navigator, An Epitome of Navigation.
U.S. Naval Oceanographic Institute, 1966. ("Originally by" Nathaniel Bowditch. Corrected Print.). Large 8vo, original cloth boards, b&w illus, figures, maps, colour plates (astronomy, with titled overlays), tables, index, pp 1524. Small address label and name stamp front free endpaper, o/w very good condn. First published in 1802, extensively revised and.....
From Carrack to Clipper, A Book of Sailing-Ship Models
London: Halton & Company Limited, 1948. Rev ed., Royal 8vo, pp. vi, 74, 66 b/w plates, col frontis, b/w plates and ills., prev owner's inscr., minor foxing front eps., orig cl bds., small stain front bd., minor fishing top edge, faint cup ring reartop front cnr bumped, in worn d.jedges.....
Drake
London: Readers Union, 1967. Reprint, pp. 251, Index, b/w plates, orig. boards, corners bumped, in torn remains of d.j. Informative biography of Sir Francis Drake.
Some Recollections
London: John Murray, 1918. pp xii, 328, 4 adverts, 2 b/w portraits of author plus frontis portrait, previous owner's inscription and bookplate, lacking tissue guard from frontispiece, cloth boards, edges rubbed, corners a little bumped and worn, spine sunned, slightly frayed head & tail of spine Sir Cyprian's reminiscences from.....
Alarm Starboard! A remarkable true story of the war at sea
Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1982. 8vo, pp. 280, b/w plates, original cloth bds., tail of spine a little dented otherwise very good condition., in like d.j. Uncommon The author's naval experiences of WWII. Brooke was involved in the Pacific War, including the fall of Singapore, and also saw action in the.....
Liquid History
London: Privately Printed, 1960. 8vo, orig blue cl bds w/ gilt decoration, col frontis, b&w plates, compliments slip from Port of London Authority, pp. (xvi) 84. Two-inch light horizontal scratch to near edge of front board, o/w v.g. No marks internally, text clean and bright, binding sound and tight, near-fine.....