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
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. [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 bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, name in ink on preliminary blank..... More
Pp. xii+266(last blank), text figures, maps, tables, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial laminated boards; The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2010. First edition. More
Pp. [xii]+92, numerous illustrations, full page map, appendices, index; demy 8vo; bound in qr. navy morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, grey art. leather boards, the spine a trifle faded and rubbed; original pictorial stiff paper wrappers bound in; Maritime Historical Productions, Melbourne, 1963. First limited edition (the..... More