Captain Cook's Voyages, 1768-1779
London, The Folio Society, 1997 (first thus). Selected and introduced by Glyndwr Williams. More
Maritime
Australia's Coast. An Environmental Atlas Guide with Base-lines
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1976. The front free endpaper is inscribed ('With best regards on the first edition 12/4/77') and signed by the author. More
Ill-starred Captains. Flinders and Baudin
Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing, 2000. More
The First and Last Voyage of the Batavia
Perth, Abrolhos Publishing, 1993. With several related tearsheets loosely inserted. More
The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771. Edited by J.C. Beaglehole
Sydney, The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales/ Angus and Robertson, 1962. With the small ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM. Published from the original manuscript held in the Mitchell Library. More
Victor Harbor. From Pioneer Port to Seaside Resort
Victor Harbor, District Council of Victor Harbor, 1987. More
The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Géographe' and 'Naturaliste'. Assigned by Order of the Government to a Voyage of Discovery
Netley, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974 (first complete edition in English). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. More
Two Years Before the Mast
London, The Folio Society, 1986 (first thus). Introduction by Mervyn Horder. More
The Command of the Ocean. A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2005 (first US edition). More
Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia, 1837-1843
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1989. Number 4 in the Miegunyah Press Series. More
François Péron. An Impetuous Life. Naturalist and Voyager
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Number 75 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. More
A Sea Blue Boat and a Sun God's Island
London, Adlard Coles, 1971. More
Passenger Ships of Australia and New Zealand. Volume 1: 1876-1912
Sydney, Doubleday, 1981. This volume 'covers some 125 vessels that were placed in service ... by 21 companies from Australia and four from New Zealand.... The vessels are listed in the order of their entry into service, and a full history of each ship is provided'. More
The Corvettes. Forgotten Ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Adelaide, The Author/ Royal Australian Navy Corvette Association, 1982. More
Corvettes. Little Ships for Big Men
Budgewoi, Kingfisher, 1995. Includes 108 pages which provide a brief history of each Australian-built corvette, based on material supplied by the RAN and the RAN Corvettes Association. 'In the scale of naval size corvettes were pygmies, but they performed like giants' (subtitle). More
Spin Me a Dit! Tales of the Royal Australian Navy
Adelaide, The Author, 1984. Loosely inserted is a reproduced poem, 'Sabbath Partings' by one of the crew of 'HMAS Pirie', believed to be Dorky Kendrick. More
The Limber Log, 1917
London, Printed by Cassell & Co., Ltd., [1918]. A souvenir of the voyage of the troopship HMAT A15 'Port Sydney', which left Melbourne on 9 November 1917 'carrying 1200 Field Artillery Reinforcements and about 300 of other units' (including elements of the Railway Section and the AFC). It arrived at..... More
The Book of the 'Ballarat'. Left Australia, 19 February - Torpedoed Anzac Day, 25 April, 1917 - With a Few Laughs in Between [cover title]
London, Wightman & Co., Old Westminster Press [Printers], [1917]. HMAT A70 'Ballarat' was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on 25 April 1917 and sank the next day without loss of life. 'This souvenir was practically ready for publication on the eve of the disaster to the..... More
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A Tale of Two Quotas. SS 'Beltana'. Devonport [UK] to Australia, June-July 1919
Sydney, O'Loughlin Bros. (for the Editorial Committee), [1919]. The quotas, Numbers 30 and 31, for repatriation to Australia on HMAT A72 'Beltana', were from the 4th and 5th Divisions; with a six-page 'Tentative Nominal Roll'. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
The Last Grain Race
London, The Folio Society, 2001 (first thus). 'Gustav Erikson of Mariehamn in the Baltic was the last man to own a great fleet of sailing-ships. By the late 1930s the grain trade with South Australia was the only one left in which ships like his could engage with any real..... More
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
London, The Folio Society, 2002 (first thus). Introduction by J.H. Elliot. More
The Journal of Daniel Paine, 1794-1797
Sydney, Library of Australian History in association with National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1983 (first thus). 'This is the first edition of a diary kept by Daniel Paine on his voyage to Sydney in the Reliance in 1795, during his sojourn in the new settlement and his return to England via..... More
The Sirius Letters. The Complete Letters of Newton Fowell, Midshipman and Lieutenant aboard The Sirius, Flagship of the First Fleet on its Voyage to New South Wales
Sydney, Daniel O'Keefe for The Fairfax Library, 1988 (first thus). More
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as told by Selections of his Own Journals, 1768-1779
Melbourne, Georgian House, by arrangement with The Heritage Press, 1958. Edited by A. Grenfell Price. More
Treasure Ships. Art in the Age of Spices
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2015. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 13 June to 30 August 2015. More