Ocean of Islands. Pp. [x]+176, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece, 40 black & white plates, text illustrations and maps, title page printed in red & black; cr. 4to; maroon cloth over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, boards a trifle marked; a little light foxing; Seward, Melbourne, n.d.[c..... More
Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Pp. [x]+118, frontispiece, title page vignette and most of the text illustrations printed in green & black (several full page), endpaper map; pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled and a trifle sprung, the crest and motto of the Presbyterian Ladies' College (Melbourne) stamped in gilt on..... More
The story of whaling in Australian waters and other Southern Seas related thereto, from the days of sails to modern times. Pp. xxiv+286(last colophon), frontispiece, plus 34 plates, endpaper map printed in dark blue, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; blue cloth, slightly marked, the spine gilt dulled, corners of boards..... More
to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, 1826-1829 in the corvette Astrolabe, and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Torres Strait, 1837-1840, in the corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee. Translated from the French and edited by Helen Roseman. Pp. liv+312+ xii+[313]-634, 44 plates (12..... More
A Supplement to The South Sea Whaler . . . Pp. 62; impl. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers; Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1991. First edition. More
A whaling sketch book. Pp. xiv+128(last blank), frontispiece and full page text illustrations, publisher's advertisements on upper and lower endpapers; med. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, N.Y., 2004. First edition. Dover Maritime Books. *Pictorial outline of a typical mid-19th century whaling voyage, first published in 1932..... More
employed in the sperm whale fishery, under the command of Capt. John May. First published at Beccles and London in 1838. Edited, with an Introduction, notes, chronology, and index, by Robert M. Warneke, and faithfully reprinted from the original. Pp. [x]+[ii](blank)+vi+318, frontispiece portrait, notes, chronology, references, index; qr. grey goatskin..... More
Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska, about HMS Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin. Edited by John Bockstoce. In two volumes. Pp. xiv+318+vi+319-584, frontispiece, text illustrations, 5 maps (1 folding), appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; gilt lettered and decorated light blue cloth, ruled in blind; demy 8vo; dust..... More
relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Pp. xxiv+698(last blank), index; roy. 8vo; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown;The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1972. First U.S. edition. *Includes references to whalers and whaling. More
Sailors and Sailing Ships in the Pacific. Drawings by Don Hermansen and Paul Dwillies, from original drawings and research by Peggy Morton. Pp. xxviii+498, 52 plates, numerous text figures, endpaper map, notes, glossary, selected bibliography, index; super roy. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, the backstrip and small section of..... More
being a geographical index of ports of origin and destination, and places discovered, visited or remarked upon by Sydney shipping of the period. Pp. [iv](with double page map)+x+218(last blank)+[iv](with double page map), text illustrations and maps (some full or double page); small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, edges and upper..... More
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[Two works in one volume]. Foreword by Eric Reece, Premier of Tasmania]. Pp. 114(last blank)+iv(index)+32, 20 plates, title page vignette, plus a folding map at end, indices; demy 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in silver and faintly creased; dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges chipped and split, piece torn from top..... More
The journal of Lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. 'Blossom', 1825-1828. Edited by Barry M. Gough. Pp. x+272, frontispiece portrait plus 3 plates, 4 maps (one folding double-sided, one double and one full page), appendix, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt and ruled in blind..... More
With illustrations from photographs &c. Pp. xvi+80(last blank)+[4](folding facsimile of the 1840 South Australian Act for the Regulation and Protection of Whale Fisheries), 3 plates; printed paper wrappers, edges and backstrip lightly faded, the backstrip slightly chipped at extremities; staples rusting, a little light foxing and creasing;The Mail Newspapers Limited..... More
A personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876. Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings from his journals. Foreword by Major Roger Swire. Introduction by G. Herbert Fowler. In two volumes. Pp. 192+168+[2](colophon, blank), 10 hand coloured plates with tissue guards, numerous black &..... More
The life of William Henry Thomes... Pp. 70 (last colophon, blank), marginal vignettes, the title page and colophon printed in red & black; narrow demy 4to; cloth backed pale blue/grey papered boards, with printed paper title label (slightly chipped) on spine, and pictorial label featuring the publisher's colt device at..... More