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.
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.
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.
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.
Edinburgh: Constable & Co, 1827. Duodecimo, original boards, b&w w frontis illus of 'Tippahee a New Zealand Chief' and illus vignette title page, both engraved W. Archibald. With the bookplate of Clan Dundas ("Dundas of that Ilk"). Corners and edges rubbed, prevous owner's signature, preliminary pages hinges weakening, good condition.....
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.
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.....
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...
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.....
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.
London: James Nisbet & Co, n.d. (c. 1915). pp (viii), 175, 8 adverts, colour frontis, b/w ills., previous owner's inscriptions, foxing to prelims and latter leaves with scattered foxing throughout, pictorial cloth boards, front board rubbed with a few dirty marks Adventures of the British Navy.
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.
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.....
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.
Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1982. Reprint, roy 8vo, pp 267, Index, b/w photos & illustrations, stiff wraps, v.g.
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.
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.
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).
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).....
Sydney: Hutchinson, 1979. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, illustrations (including folding plates), frontis portrait, pp xii, 264. Near-fine in very good d.j.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....