MARITIME & NAUTICAL from Bookhome Sydney

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992. 1st translated ed.. Paperback large wide octavo (with flaps), very good condition, black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear, minor foxed spots edges & endpapers, bottom corners last three pages little creased, owner's name front flyleaf. 304 pp. During two voyages across the South Seas in the corvettes Astrolabe (1826 - 1829), Astrolabe and… Read more about this item

London: Clarendon Press, 1968. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), maps (including fold-out at front), black & white drawings, light foxing edges, reverse side jacket lightly foxed & toned (front flap price-clipped, spine little rubbed, few tiny rubbed parts, some edgewear corner tips), boards slightly marked, small lightly rubbed patch free flyleaf, endpapers lightly foxed,… Read more about this item

Basingstoke, Hamps: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white illustrations, map, tables, minor edgewear jacket (light foxing reverse side). 248 pp. This book is both a history and the story of the doctors who looked after the emigrants on the voyages to Colonial Australia. The doctors not only… Read more about this item

Adelaide, Brighton: Self-Published: D. R. Rickard, 1999. Paperback large octavo, good condition, black & white photos, few black & white drawings, top corner rear cover & the last few pages creased, light creases in covers, spine ends little rubbed, edges lightly toned, minor edgewear. 158 pp. D. R. Rickard provides a lighthearted look at life in the Royal Australian… Read more about this item

Sydney, Garden Island: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1976. Paperback small thin trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear, pages lightly toned, minimal foxing top edge, few light creases covers, minor edgewear, faint rubber stamp inside front cover (with biro mark). 64 pp. David Creed, on behalf of the Naval Historical Society of Australia, demonstrates an… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Black Inc. / Schwartz Publishing, 2010. Paperback small, good condition, pages toned as common, rear cover creased, minor edgewear. 111 pp. Two maritime essays by Simon Leys (a pen-name), a literary cr itic and sinologist. The first essay relates the tale of the wreck of the Dutch East India Company ship 'Batavia' on the Abrolhos Islands off the… Read more about this item

Plymouth: Channel View Publishing, 2006. Paperback octavo, very good condition, spiral bound, thick card covers (with flaps), colour text-photos, alphabetical index, charts, few black & white drawings, spine ends lightly bumped, minor edgewear. 101 pp. Stewart Lenton provides a brief guide to places associated with the fishing industry past and present in Devon; and a contemporary photographic record of… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hordern House / Australian National Maritime Museum, 1996. Facsimile ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket (as issued), very good condition, marbled heritage cover (quarter-bound, leather spine, gilt bands & lettering), large foldout map, six large foldout plates (drawings) at rear, frontispiece portrait, minor edgewear, bookplate. 150 pp. An account of the maritime discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean… Read more about this item

Mystic Seaport, CT: Marine Historical Association / Weslayan University Press, 1973. Hardback large wide octavo, no jacket, very good condition, black cloth covers, black & white drawings (including frontispiece), few black & white photos, endpaper drawings with boat plan, cover corners slightly bumped, small mark top edge, minor edgewear, bookplate inside front cover (slightly overlaps boat plan, but the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1971. Translated ed.. Hardback large quarto, two dustjackets (one paper, one clear plastic), very good condition (in good dustjacket), blue cloth boards, gilt title cloth cover & jacket, frontispiece, maps, colour illustrations, fore-edge pages untrimmed (roughly cut), edges paper jacket chipped (spine & title faded, closed tears), top corners plastic jacket few small tears.… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, Nautical Publishers, 1933. 56th ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, good condition, thick papered card covers (slight loss bottom edge rear cover), red cloth spine, black & white drawings, few sepia (brown-tinted) text-photos, four red & yellow-tinted pages with black & white drawings, charts, tables, adverts, spine ends slightly frayed, minimal… Read more about this item

Canberra: Australian Archives, 1991. 1st ed.. Paperback quarto, good condition, fold-out map at rear, faint foxing edges, two small ridges spine, covers & corner tips little creased, small crush & tear top edge rear cover, some edgewear, internal pages clean. 172 pp. This guide lists records held by the Australian Archives regional offices relating to the administration and operation… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1977. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, good plus condition (in good plus dustjacket), black & white & colour photos (some full-page), minor edgewear jacket (slightly faded, closed tear top edge, light foxing reverse side, spine ends little rubbed), light foxing endpapers & edges, small tear on spine edge, boards slightly faded, some edgewear. Heavy, and… Read more about this item

Canberra: J. S. Cumpston, 1964. Reprint ed.. Paperback small quarto, good condition, card covers, cloth spine, stencilled text, covered staples, pages faintly toned, light foxing edges, spine faded & little mottled, slight loss spine ends, light foxing & fading & creasing covers (corners little creased), minor edgewear. 66 + 3 pp. This index, like the Index to Ships and… Read more about this item

Sydney, Circular Quay: Sydney Harbour Information Bureau / Printed by Winn & Co., 1938. Revised ed.. Paperback tall trade, fair condition only, flexible covers, concealed staples, new black cloth spine, colour frontispiece, black & white text-photos, loosely inserted folded map, staples lightly rusted, cover little marked & faded, few light stains covers, light water marks fore-edges few pages (red… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Nautical Press / Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, Nautical Publishers, 1943. 9th ed.. Hardback small, good plus condition, thick card covers, orange cloth spine (little faded), black & white drawings, colour diagrams, charts, light foxing few pages, pages lightly toned, rear cover lightly marked, minor edgewear covers, spine ends slightly rubbed & scuffed, sticker front cover, owner's written… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2018. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear. 322 pp. This intensively researched book follows the dual narratives of Captain Rostron and the daring rescue of the Titanic survivors by the ship Carpathia, and the Waring team and their dangerous determination to reach the wreck. Rich in history and drama, the true… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Dorothy M. Fyfe / Gillingham Printers, 1979. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, cover corners & spine little rubbed, minor edgewear, autograph (author's written & dated dedication title page). 64 pp. Paperback booklet. Dorothy M. Fyfe writes about Wallaroo, a port town on the western side of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. From the introduction:… Read more about this item

Melksham, Wilts: GB Publications, 1987. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, few black & white photos, staples little rusted, few creases covers & pages, minor edgewear. 45 pp. This pamphlet has selected extracts from Kendall's letters reflecting the early days of P & O, which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 1987. Franklin Richardson Kendall was born in 1839… Read more about this item

Torbay, UK: Torbay County Borough Council Printing Department, 1975. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, few black & white photos, staples rusted, spine little faded & creased, rear cover lightly marked, minor edgewear. 16 pp. This pamphlet is about the fishing industry in Brixham. This industry has, for several hundred years, been of fundamental importance to the economy… Read more about this item