A guide to the historic shipwrecks at Port Phillip Heads. Pp. iv+84, coloured and black & white text and endpaper illustrations, appendix, glossary, references, index; broad oblong roy. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Heritage Council Victoria, Melbourne, 1997. First edition. More
Pp. viii+118, frontispiece, full page text illustrations including maps, bibliography; small cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Gemcraft Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, 1985. First edition. *The story of the wreck of the Port au Prince in Tonga in 1806, and the Eliza in Fiji in 1808. More
A narrative of 1868. With wood engravings by John Worsley. Pp. [vi]+x+106(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and 3 text illustrations (2 full page), plus pictorial head & tailpiece, the publisher's device at colophon printed in orange; cr. 4to; blue buckram, lettered & decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed;..... More
The story of a shipwreck. Pp. 20, illustrated; small cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; a little faint creasing and soiling; [Terang Express Print, Terang, Victoria], n.d. *Poem about the famous Victorian shipwreck; first published in 1948. More
New Zealand's worst sea disaster. Pp. xvi+158(last blank), full page illustrations and map, appendices; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; inked ownership inscription at head of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves a trifle marked; Cassell New Zealand, [Auckland], 1975. *Originally published in 1968 as New Zealand's worst sea disaster: the wreck..... More
Pp. 108, coloured and black & white text illustrations, appendices, index (list of vessels, list of people & organisations); cr. 4to, pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled; the author, Perry Bridge, Vic., 2015. More
Pp. [ii]+152+x(indices, last blank), coloured and black & white text illustrations, endpaper maps, indices; demy 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; the author, Perry Bridge, Vic., 2018. First edition. More
The Wreck of the Brig Maria off Hinchinbrook Island in 1872. Pp. 174+[ii](publisher's advertisements), 8 plates, text illustrations (maps), appendix, sources, endnotes; narrow cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, Qld., 2000. First edition. More
Pp. 32, illustrated; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, stapled, backstrip extremities a trifle rubbed; the author, Geelong, n.d.[c. 1980]. *In 1891 the Joseph H. Scammell, bound for Melbourne with 22 passengers and crew and a general cargo, was wrecked at Torquay, en route to Melbourne. More
With an Account of Life and Manners at the Fijii Islands. Pp. [9]-122(complete), 2 text figures; brown papered boards, worn and lightly soiled, the corners chipped, lacking most of the spine including part of the printed paper title label, the joints tender; later (but not recent) endpapers, with bookplate and..... More