Including Vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings. Volume One: 1622-1850. Pp. 268(last advertisement), text illustrations, endpaper map, indices; narrow cr. 4to; lower joint starting; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips at head of backstrip, the backstrip slightly damp..... More
The Loss of the Schomberg and Loch Ard. Pp. xiv+194, 8 plates, 1 full page map, appendices, index; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, with publisher's ISBN sticker on lower wrapper, corners a trifle rubbed; Burgewood Books,Melbourne, 1996. [Third edition]. *Signed by the author on the title page. First published (Angus &..... 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; occasional slight soiling; [Terang Express Print, Terang, Victoria], 1954. Third printing. *Poem about the famous Victorian shipwreck; first published in 1948. More
The wreck of the 'Vergulde Draeck' and the abandonment and escape from the southland of Abraham Leeman in 1658. Pp. xiv+218, illustrated double title-page, text illustrations and maps (some full page), bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial French fold stiff paper wrappers; St George Books, Perth, 1983. Second printing. 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. 114(last blank), 3 full page illustrations (2 coloured), 2 sketch maps; cr. 8vo; grey papered boards, spine lettered in white, edges slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, back panel faintly soiled; Black Inc., Melbourne, 2005. First Australian edition. *In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was..... More
(State-by-State including maps and diving notes). Pp. 120, 8 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations and maps, appendices, bibliography, index; tall cr. 4to; green papered boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, the backstrip faded; Reed, Sydney, 1981. First edition. More
Exploring the fate of 129 ships lost along the East Gippsland Coast from Corner Inlet to cape Howe between 1797-1945. Pp. viii+182(last blank), illustrated throughout, pictorial endpaper map, appendix, index; super roy. 8vo; emerald cloth, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper; the author, Meerlieu, Vic., 2003. 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