Ships & the Sea
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The Lighthouse Keepers
$30.00 Add to cartStuart Buchanan
Samford: Coral Coast Publications, 2000. -
Seaman’s Log Book of 8 Voyages from England and Scotland to Australia, India, the United States, Canada, and the Mediterranean on Merchant Ships, 1868-1872
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20.5cm x 16cm. [340] pages, original manuscript. Half leather, marbled papered boards, marbled endpapers.
Manuscript logbook recording the daily observations of a merchant seaman, E. Acton, on eight voyages aboard the merchant ships Duke of Edinburgh, S.S. St. David, and S.S. Fern Tower for the White Star Company, Montreal Ocean Steam Ship Company, and others. While at sea the log largely records details about the weather and sailing conditions, as well as latitude and longitude, and distanced travelled, “October 7, 1868. Lat 33.08.S. Long. 154.53.E. Dist 167 miles. Course EbyN. Fresh breeze and clear.” While in port the observations also pertain to the comings and goings of people and goods, including deserters as at Newcastle, N.S.W. “September 3, 1868 Commenced at noon to put out ballast. Captain Aberdeen of the Ship “Glouerra” came on board, with the Police, and took 3 of our crew to gaol viz Curran, Hislop and Lawley, who had deserted from his ship in Melbourne where we had shipped them, the former men got 2 months, and the latter 3 months imprisonment.”. Lengthy descriptions are often given when a pilot is on board arriving and departing harbours. Each voyage is given its own title page, listing the ship, a drawing of the flag sailed under, locations visited, and a crew and passenger manifest (crew names are given, passengers are given as a count of the types of passengers). The voyages taken are: 1st Voyage: Duke of Edinburgh, White Star Company, from Liverpool to Melbourne, Vict., thence to Newcastle, N.S.W., thence to San Francisco, Cal., [thence to Cork], thence to Liverpool (April 22nd, 1868 to June 8, 1869); 2nd Voyage: Duke of Edinburgh, Thames & Mersey Line, from Liverpool to Melbourne, Vict, thence to Geelong, Victoria, thence to London (August 7, 1869 to May 13, 1870); 3rd Voyage: Duke of Edinburgh, T. H. Holderness, Esq., from London to Bombay, thence to Liverpool (August 17, 1870 to August 6, 1871); 4th Voyage: St. David, Montreal Ocean Steam Ship Company, from Glasgow to Quebec and Montreal, and back to Glasgow (August 22, 1871 to September 30, 1871); 5th Voyage: St. David, M.O.S.S. Co., from Glasgow to Quebec and Montreal and back to Glasgow (October 4, 1871 to November 11, 1871); 6th Voyage: St, David, The Anchor Line, from Glasgow to The Mediterranean calling at the following places, Talmouth, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Marseilles, Valentia, Malaga and Gibraltar, thence to New York and Liverpool (November 17, 1871 to February 11, 1872); 7th Voyage: St. David, M.O.S.S. Co., from Liverpool to Portland, Maine, W.S., and back to Liverpool (February 15, 1872 to May 3rd, 1872); 8th Voyage: S. S. Fern Tower, from Cardiff to St. Nazaire, thence to L’Orient and back to Cardiff (September 24, 1872 to October 8, 1872).
Spineback worn off, the upper board and first gathering nearly detached, the first few sheets inside that gathering loose. The rest of the binding is sound. Some foxing to verso of endpapers and first page, else interior is very clean and bright. The manuscript is clean, neat, and easy to read. Good Condition. -
Early Shipping in Moreton Bay, 1846 – 1863 (2 Volumes)
$50.00 Add to cartWinifred Davenport; Betty Mottram
Brisbane: Winifred Davenport and Betty Mottram, 1998-2002.
Volume 1: June 1846 – December 1859. Volume 2: January 1860 – December 1863 (Second Edition). A history of the ships that came and went from Moreton Bay taken from The Moreton Bay Courier and includes all named passengers and many other interesting details. -
Mirror of the Australian Navigation
$60.00 Add to cartJacob Le Maire
Sydney: Hordern House, 1999.
Australian Maritime Series No. 5. A facsimile of the ‘Spieghed der Austalische Navigatie…’ being an account of the voyage of Jacob Le Maire and William Schouten, 1615 – 1616, published in Amsterdam in 1622. With an introductory essay by Edward Duyker, New South Wales History Fellow, and English text by Alexander Dalrymple. -
Sailing Directions for the Coast of New South Wales (Gabo Island to Tweed Heads)
$120.00 Add to cartDepartment of Navigation, N. S. W
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, 1920.
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Alaska Schedules 1939
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23cm x 20cm. [8] pages, black and white illustrations, map. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Very minor general wear. Vertical fold (as issued). Near Fine Condition. -
Looking Ahead to Alaska
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51cm x 39cm (sheet size), 25.5cm x 19.5cm (folded size). Colour map.
A Good-Natured Map of Alaska Showing the Services Offered by “The Alaska Line” and Suggesting Some of the Most Interesting Features of the Territory.
Small staple holes and very minor holes on folds. Very minor insect damage to edges. Very Good Condition. -
The Alaska Line: Let’s Go Sailing Sheltered Seas
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25.5cm x 19.5cm. [20] pages, illustrations, some colour. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
I’ll Go No More A-roving
$150.00 Add to cartCharles Ladds
Brisbane: The Bunyip Press, 1945.
Charles Ladds (1903-1971) was an Australian writer who ran away to sea at the age of fourteen, and at the ripe old age of twenty-two wrote this story of his adventures, fist published in 1934. It earned praise from the critics, including G. K. Chesterton. He later lived at Burleigh Heads. -
Rules and Regulations as to Masters’ Certificates
$10.00 Add to cartAmalgamated Navigation Committee
Grimsby: Albert Gait, 1913.
Includes examination questions and answers. -
Official Handbook: The Port of Sydney, N.S.W.
$850.00 Add to cartThe Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners
Sydney: The Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners, 1919. -
New York via the Panama Canal and Havana
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23cm x 10cm. Single sheet, black and white illustrations. Quadfold.
Timetable and fares for cruises on the Dollar Steamship Line in Ships named after American presidents. May 15, 1937 issue.
Very minor chipping. Near Fine Condition. -
The Kangaroo Heads South: Midshipman Cruise Alfa – USS Canberra – June 8 to August 6, 1957
$80.00 Add to cartCanberra (Guided missile heavy cruiser : CAG-2)
Norfolk: Tidewater Offset Printing Service, [1957].
Being a Pictorial Voyage of the Kan-Do Kangaroo, on a Midshipman Training Cruise from the US east coast to South America and back. A cruiser of the United States Navy named to honour the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. The first USN warship named after a foreign capital city. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the crew and illustrations of kangaroos. A ship tune, ‘sail on, Canberra’, sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Inscribed by a US Navy Captain to the front cover. 1 copy in OCLC at the United States Naval Academy. -
Early Australian Steamers
$250.00 Add to cartA. B. Portus
Sydney: The Builder Printing Works, 1905.
A paper on early steam boats in Australia by Alexander Brown Portus (1834-1905), late Superintending Engineer of Dredges for the Public Works Department of New South Wales, read before the Australian Historical Society, 30th June, 1904. Describes the ships, their arrivals, movements, events, repairs, wrecks, and other historical minutiae, largely in New South Wales, but also of their movement and events in Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, and New Zealand. -
Narrative of the Wreck of HMS Porpoise
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 15.5cm. [viii], iii, 134 pages. Quarter cloth, blue papered boards, gilt lettering, illustrated french fold jacket.
“A lively account of sailing with Matthew Flinders, written by a young surgeon in the Royal Navy who survived the wreck of HMS Porpoise off the Queensland coast in 1803.” (rear cover)
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Hospital Ships
$30.00 Add to cartRupert Goodman
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2016.
Foreword by B. T. Treloar, AO, Rear Admiral RAN (Rtd). -
Petro Pirates: The hijacking of the Petro Ranger
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Alaska for an Air-Cooled Vacation
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23cm x 20.5cm. [6] pages, black and white illustrations, map. Trifold.
Very minor chipping to edges. Vertical fold (as issued). Very Good Condition. -
Steamers Platypus, Kate, and Souchays
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29cm x 17cm. 7 pages. Side-stapled.
Queensland Legislative Assembly paper, 3 July 1866, recording the costs of the purchase, running, and the revenue from the steamers Platypus and Kate, and the expenses incurred in running and repairs to Souchays.
Minor soiling. 2cm tear to spine edge of first page with minor loss. <1cm closed tear to fore-edge through all pages. Minor ink annotation to blank rear panel. Good Condition. -
A Souvenir of the Mackay Outer Harbour
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First Edition.
25cm x 31.5cm. [50] pages, illustrations, some colour. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
To be Officially Opened on Saturday, 26th August, 1939, by the Rt. Hon. W. Forgan Smith, M.L.A., LL.D., Premier of Queensland. The History of the Development of Mackay as a Port, and of the Construction of its 1,000,000 pound Artificial Harbour, told in Picture and Story.
Minor soiling to wrappers. Minor foxing to edges. Minor tanning to some pages. <1cm tear to top edge of one leaf. Very Good Condition. -
Seeing Seattle by Water
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23cm x 20.5cm. [8] pages, black and white illustrations, colour map. Illustrated self wrappers.
Very minor chipping to edges. Minor tanning. Vertical fold (as issued). Very Good Condition. -
Alaska..With the Alaska Steamship Company
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19.5cm x 27cm. [28] pages, illustrations, some colour, map. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
5.5cm split to spine tail. Minor to moderate insect damage to wrappers. Good Condition. -
This is Alaska
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25cm x 19.5cm. [24] pages, black and white illustrations, map. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Splits at crown and tail of spine. 1cm closed tear to top edge of wrappers front panel. Good Condition. -
The Landsman’s Lexicon
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15cm x 11.5cm. 32 pages, black and white illustration. Lettered saddle stapled wrappers.
Ships of the Past, Navigation, Nautifcal Glossary. INGLETON 12633, with his bookplate.
Very minor soiling. Near Fine Condition. -
Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1960-61
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First Edition.
22cm x 33cm. 57 adv., xxiv, 437 pages, black and white illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt and blind lettering.
Minor shelf wear. Very minor foxing and soiling. Previous owner’s name, crossed out. Very Good Condition. -
Coast of Tragedy
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First Edition.
19cm x 12cm. 256 pages. Quarter orange cloth, orange lettering, no jacket.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Discolouration to spine. Fore-edge corners lightly bumped. Previous owner’s inscription. Good Condition. -
Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast
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First Edition.
22cm x 15cm. 166, [11] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Crease to tail fore-edge corner of wrappers rear panel. Very Good Condition. -
Jane’s Pocket Book 21: Hovercraft and Hydrofoils
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First Edition.
11.5cm x 18cm. 255 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated PVC wrappers.
Minor handling wear. Minor foxing to wrappers. Very Good Condition. -
A Log of Great Australian Ships
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First Edition.
19cm x 26.5cm. 160 pages, black and white illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, jacket.
Rubbing to board edges. Foxing to edges. Good Condition. -
South Sea Supercargo
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First Edition.
24cm x 15cm. [v], 194 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
First Australian Edition. Published simultaneously with the University of Hawaii Press edition.
Jacket clipped. Minor to moderate foxing. Good Condition.