Maritime, Voyages from Lawrence Jones

Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1994. ix, 223pp, index, appendix, bw ills. Papered boards with purple cloth spine in jacket. Very light foxing to endpapers, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Narrative recounting the clandestine transport of Holocaust survivors to Palestine by the Jewish underground and volunteer American seamen. The story is told by the captain of one of te rescue ships, the… Read more about this item

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1870. x, 510pp, glosary, notes, folding map, num bw ills- all edges gilt. Rebound with original red pictorial cloth laid on to front, rear and spine. Bottom half of map missing with further loss to lower left of remaining half, occasional foxing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo.

Arorangi, Cook Islands: Cook Islands Library & Museum, 1976. 102pp, bibliographyline drawings. Red pictorial card with red cloth tape spine. Tiny bump to bottom corner.. Second Edition, Revised & Augmented.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

London: Hakluyt Society, 1981. x, 310pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, map. Or blue cloth in jacket. Minor rubbing/light edge wear to jacket. The Jean-Baptiste expedition entered the Pacific by way of the northern Philippines, made landfall in the Solomon Islands, sailed to New Zealand (where it narrowly missed encountering Cook's Endeavour) and crossed the southern Pacific to Peru.. First… Read more about this item

Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994. 52pp. Black and white card with black cloth tape spine. A little foxing to cover, brief gift note on title page. Australian colonial artist Conrad Martens' diary of his voyage to Australia in the second quarter of the 19th century.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Rosenberg, 2010. 216pp, index, endnotes, bibliography, glossary, bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Near new. The significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia's early maritime history. The focus is the indigenous people who sailed on English ships through Port Jackson to destinations throughout the world between 1788-1850.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Small 4to.

Portland, Me: The Southworth Press, 1924. xvi, 335pp, index, bw ills, endpaper maps. Blue cloth, no jacket. Light foxing to page edges and prelims. Very bright fresh copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Sydney: Barlow Music, 2001. 192pp, index, family trees, num bw ills. Pictorial card. Minor crease to top corner of first few pages, otherwise extremely light edgewear to cover. SIGNED with personalised inscription by author to title page. Includes the journal of Mark Blasdall; the diary of John Thomas; the Hodgson family story; the Bee Miles connection and Kempsey NSW in… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1934. xx, 263pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, maps, endpaper maps. Blue cloth in jacket. Jacket worn with several tears, chips and creases, offset toning to endpapers, page edges evenly toned, foxing to prelims. Prev owner name to top and bottom edges and top of Chapter 1. Quite scarce with jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hamlyn Guides, 1973. 48pp, large folding map at rear. Brown card titled in gold. One page creased at bottom corner. No date - c1973. Prepared for use with the map included at rear. Text printed in brown.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Moulins, France: Les Marmousets, 1982. HEAVY. 154pp, bw ills, maps. Full maroon leather with laid on image of Timorese woman, in maroon slipcase. As new. Deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies of which this #036. Peron's voyage to Australia at the start of the 19th century. Text in French/en Francais.. Deluxe Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. Folio.

Rutland, Vt: Charles E Tuttle Co, 1971. HEAVY. xl, 320pp + clvii pp appendix, tables, bw & col ills, folding maps in rear pocket. Red cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, light even toning to page edges. A nice edition of this work on polar exploration. Includes Richardson's account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward.… Read more about this item

Sydney: New Holland, 1997. xiv, 257pp, bw ill, maps, endpaper maps. Black cloth in jacket. Near new. In 1797, the merchant vessel Sydney Cove was on a speculative trading voyage from Bengal to Port Jackson. Near the end of the trip the ship foundered off Preservation Island, Bass Strait, in the aftermath of a hurricane. There followed an extraordinary adventure… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Bloomings Books, 1999. xx, 171pp, index, bibliography, appendix, col ills. Brown cloth in jacket. Lightest of edge wear to jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

Moka, Mauritius.: Mahatma Gandhi Institute, 1988. 223pp, appendices, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. Minor rubbing and light edge wear to covers, front cover creased near spine, prev owner on front blank, occasional foxing, loosely inserted new clipping with associated offset toning. The captivity of Mathhew Flinders by the French at Mauritius during the Napoleonic wars.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good… Read more about this item

Surrey, UK: The National Archives, 2005. 272pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw & col ills. Blue cloth in jacket. As new. Follows the voyages of convicts sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Norfolk Island, and Van Diemen's Land. Considers the consequences-intended and unintended- of transportation and brings out the real dimensions of a system in which, for example, only one convict… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010. xvii, 435pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers, very light foxing to prelims. To Australia's monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island came Australia's earliest explorers, greatest hydrographic explorers, the whole of her pearling fleets, trepang and trochus gatherers of the East Indies, seaborne missionaries of… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1988. x, 262pp, index, references, bibliography, glossary, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or card covers with integral flaps. Near new. The stories of the men and the ships-well known and obscure- tracing the discovery and exploration of the Queensland coast from the growth of the Spanish and Portuguese sea power in the 15th century to the mid-19th century… Read more about this item

Sydney: View Productions, 1985. 120pp, bw & col ills. Black cloth in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket.Barrington was sentenced to 7 years transportation to Botany Bay. In return for his aid in suppressing a mutiny on board the convict ship he was released and made superintendant of convicts in the colony. This volume recounts the true story of… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hordern House, 1999. 32, 63, 63pp, col & bw maps. Marbled boatds with goatskin leather spine. Edition limited to 950 copies. Slight fading to spine otherwise excellent. Presents the text as originally published and in English translation as An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages in the South Pacific Ocean. Dutch Voyages. The Voyage of James Le Mair… Read more about this item