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Title

Sub-title

Author

Publisher

Published

Pages

Size

Condition

Price

Comment

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Wake of the Invercauld

ship-wrecked in the sub-Antarctics a great-granddaughter's pilgrimage

Allen, Madelene Ferguson

Exisle Publishing

2005 reprint edition (1997)

256

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the author retraces the fate of her great grandfather, wrecked on the Auckland Islands 10 May 1864, mixing in her quest with excerpts from the narratives of the survivors

5.000000

20.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

The General Grant's Gold

 

Allen, Madelene Ferguson ; Scadden, Ken

Exisle Publishing

2009

192

8vo

P-B  Slight creases covers VG - Near Fine

20

With maps and illustrations, the wrecking of the 'General Grant' in the Auckland Islands in 1866, and the search for her gold

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Voyage of the Gale

 

Allsop, Joyce

Pettifogging Press

1982

(frontis) 35p

8vo

D-J (light fading spine) over card covers Near Fine

40

A limited edition (70/100), the 'diary' of the delivery of the 'Gale' in 1935 from Scotland to New Zealand

5.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

fast light boats 

a century of kiwi innovation

Anderson, Grahame

Te Papa Press

1999

x 182p

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

45

A century of NZ boat and yacht design, as well as yacht competition, with many illustrations

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

Ferries of Sydney

 

Andrews, Graeme

Oxford University Press, Sydney University Press

1994 3rd edition

viii 264p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, an historical study of Sydney's past - and future - harbour ferries

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

South Coast Steamers

 

Andrews, Graeme

Marine History Publications

1983

32

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the little steamers that used to ply the NSW south coast

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Ferries of Sydney

 

Andrews, Graeme

Reed

1976 (1975)

128

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

The Ferries were originally a main-stay of transportation around Sydney and up the Parramatta River inland; with many historical photographs, both in colour and B-W

6.500000

25.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Motor Ship Volume VI April 1925-March 1926

 

Anon

Temple Press

1926

xii 468p

Folio

Cloth binding, gilt titles and decoration VG

40

With illustrations and plans, all the current information on ocean-going vessels and every phase of motor ship and marine oil engine construction

14.000000

50.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

Denny Dunbarton 1844-1932 (plus 2 supplements)

 

Anon

William Denny and Brothers Ltd

1932

xxiv 113p (plate) xxv-lxiv

Oblong 8vo

Cloth boards, decoration front board VG - Near Fine

60

With illustrations and many contemporary advertisements, the founding years of this British shipping concern, with 2 supplements, 1951-1955 and 1956-1960

6.500000

40.000000

97.000000

87.000000

97.000000

Handbook of Information for the Colonies and India 1898-99 edition

 

Anon

British India and Queensland Agency Company

1898

(4p ads) 162p (26p ads) (2p ads)

8vo

Papered-boards, cloth spine VG

50

With maps, illustrations and contemporary advertisements, the 1898-99 edition of this guide to services and fleets between Europe and Australasia, the eleventh edition

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Ships on the Australian New Zealand & Islands Registers with a directory of shipping Ninth Edition

 

Anon

Marine Press Pty Ltd

1960

xxxx 378p

Oblong 8vo

Cloth binding VG

30

With illustrations and contemporary advertising, an A-Z of shipping in the South Pacific, with descriptions

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Motor Ship Volume XI April 1930-March 1931

 

Anon

Temple Press

1931

vii 566p

Folio

Cloth binding, gilt titles and decoration VG

40

With illustrations and plans, all the current information on ocean-going vessels and every phase of motor ship and marine oil engine construction

14.000000

50.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

The Motor Ship Volume V April 1924-March 1925

 

Anon

Temple Press

1925

xii 458p

Folio

Cloth binding, gilt titles and decoration VG

40

With illustrations and plans, all the current information on ocean-going vessels and every phase of motor ship and marine oil engine construction

14.000000

50.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

History of Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd 1875-1940

 

Anon

Union Steam Ship Company

1940

(frontis) 55p (1p)

4to

Plasticised boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the development of the USS company, its fleet and its widening interests

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Motor Ship Volume VII April 1926-March 1927

 

Anon

Temple Press

1927

xvi 462p

Folio

Cloth binding, gilt titles and decoration VG

40

With illustrations and plans, all the current information on ocean-going vessels and every phase of motor ship and marine oil engine construction

14.000000

50.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

Handbook of Information for the Colonies and India 1889-90 edition

 

Anon

British India and Queensland Agency Company

1889

(2p ads) (2p) 158p (33p ads) (1p ad)

8vo

Papered-boards, cloth spine VG

50

With maps, illustrations and contemporary advertisements, the 1889-90 edition of this guide to services and fleets between Europe and Australasia

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Motor Ship Volume X April 1929-March 1930

 

Anon

Temple Press

1930

viii 508p

Folio

Cloth binding, gilt titles and decoration VG

40

With illustrations and plans, all the current information on ocean-going vessels and every phase of motor ship and marine oil engine construction

14.000000

50.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

The 'Vales' of Glasgow  Andrew Crawford & Co. Ltd

 

Anon

Andrew Crawford & Co

1955

(frontis) (4p) 77p

8vo

Blue cloth binding Fading spine Owner's stamp front paste-down, FEP Browning EPs VG

25

Signed by the Chairman of the Board, with illustrations, a history of this shipping company and its ships, the 'Vales'

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Seventy Adventurous Years  the story of the Bank Line 1885-1955

 

Anon

The Bank Line, The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph

1956

136p (folding illustration at rear)

8vo

Blue cloth binding Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of Andrew Weir Shipping and Trading Ltd, and the Bank Line

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Voyage of the Vega: Maps

 

Anon

Macmillan

1882

10 folding maps

4to

Plasticised boards Ex-lib, each map with library's circular stamp impressed VG

30

Ten folding maps, in tidy library binding

8.500000

27.000000

55.000000

55.000000

55.000000

Nord Deutscher Lloyd Bremen Handbook No 2

 

Anon

NDL

1903

67p (folding timetables, folding maps)

8vo

P-B Rubbing spine, small piece of spine paper missing base  VG

40

With maps and timetables, a handbook for passengers and shippers on Imperial steamers to Eastern Asia and Australia, including fleet list, fares, destinations

5.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

A Century of Ship Agency and Brokerage  the story of Funvh, Edye & Co 1847-1947

 

Anon

Business Biographies

1947

27p (3p)

8vo

Cloth binding, gilt titles Signature front paste-down VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of this firm, beginning as Funch & Meinke in 1847, two Danes seeing the business opportunities of New York

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Australian Handbook of the Nord-Deutscher Lloyd

 

Anon

NDL

1904

114 (folding map rear)

8vo

Card covers VG - Near Fine

40

With map and illustrations, imformation for passengers and shippers, including the fleet, the fares, embarkation rules and the world service

5.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Motor Ship Volume IX April 1928-March 1929

 

Anon

Temple Press

1929

viii 506p

Folio

Cloth binding, gilt titles and decoration VG

40

With illustrations and plans, all the current information on ocean-going vessels and every phase of motor ship and marine oil engine construction

14.000000

50.000000

110.000000

105.000000

110.000000

Ships on the Australian New Zealand & Islands Registers with a directory of shipping

 

Anon

Marine Press

1950

xxiii (1p) 206p

Oblong 8vo

Cloth binding Covers lightly rubbed  Back hinge beginning to crack, but firm  VG

30

With illustrations and contemporary advertising, an A-Z of shipping in the South Pacific, with descriptions

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Story of the Edwin Fox

 

Anon

Edward Fox Restoration Society

1987

30

8vo

P-B Near Fine

15

With illustrations, the story of one of the immigrant ships for New Zealand in the 1870s, with lists of passengers for Otago and Nelson

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

'K' Line's Fleet  50 Years 1919-1969

 

Anon

K Line

1969

105p (1p)

4to

Boxed, cloth binding with material spine In plastic wrapper Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the Japanese edition (with English titles) of this Japanese line and its 'Maru' fleet

6.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Notable Shipwrecks

 

Anon

Cassell

1898 Revised, enlarged edition

(frontis) 310p (16p booklist)

8vo

Soft-cover Fading spine Owner's signature Contents page VG

20

A selection of the more famous English shipwrecks till 1898, from the wreck of the 'Halsewell' on the rocks, to the burning of the 'Amazon'

5.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Ships on the Australian New Zealand & Islands Registers with a directory of shipping

 

Anon

Marine Press Pty Ltd

1958

xlviii 341p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

Cloth binding Covers lightly rubbed  Back hinge beginning to crack, but firm  VG

30

With illustrations and contemporary advertising, an A-Z of shipping in the South Pacific, with descriptions

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The East Asiatic Company Ltd

 

Anon

EAC

1957

74p (folding fleet chart at rear)

4to

Paper over boards Rubbing base spine VG

30

With illustrations, a 60th anniversary celebration of this Danish shipping company

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A Boaties Guide to Fiordland

 

Anon

Mana Cruising Club

1994

112p (3p)

4to

Spiral bound VG

22

With drawings and sketchmaps, a guide to the Sounds of Fiordland, dealing with anchorages and navigation, as well as tourist options

5.500000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Ships on the Australian New Zealand & Islands Registers with a directory of shipping Fourth edition

 

Anon

Marine Press

1954

xxxx 277p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

Cloth binding Covers lightly rubbed  Back hinge cracked, but firm  VG

30

With illustrations and contemporary advertising, an A-Z of shipping in the South Pacific, with descriptions

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Jardine's Centenary in Japan 1859-1959

 

Anon ; Ito, Baron

Jardine, Matheson & Co

1959

47

4to

Cloth binding Near Fine

65

With illustrations, a short history of this British shipping company in Japan, with a memoir by Baron Ito

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Ravenscrag  the Allan Royal Mail Line

 

Appleton, Thomas E

McClelland and Stewart

1974

(frontis) 222p

8vo

D-J (chips, small piece missing back, price-clipped, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Canadian shipping firm and its Scottish roots

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A History of Staley, Radford & Co Ltd 1875-1975

 

Archer, JF

Phillimore & Co

1975

374

4to

D-J (slight rubbing FEs) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by Harold Radford, with illustrations, a history of this British Shipping Company

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Phantom Fleet  the scows and scowmen of Auckland

 

Ashby, Ted

Reed

1993 reprint edition (1975)

xii 167p

4to

D-J (slight fading)  Cloth binding Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a memorial to the ketches and schooners which plied the Auckland seaways between 1873 and the 1920s

8.000000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Crew Culture  New Zealand seafarers under sail and steam

 

Atkinson, Neill

Te Papa Press

2001

(frontis) xi (1p) 172p

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

30

With many illustrations, the experiences of ordinary seamen on NZ ships, both on and off the water

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

'St Michael' Goes South

 

Atkinson, Tudor

Dept of Conservation

2001

xi (1p) 136p

8vo

P-B VG

40

With maps and illustrations, the 'diary' of a 31 foot motor-sailer in support of the 1972/73 Auckland Islands Scientific Expedition

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

30.000000

32.000000

Captain Cook  (Navigator and Scientist)

 

Badger, GM (ed)

Aust Nat Uni Press

1970

xi 143

8vo

D-J (slight fading spine) VG

42

Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Canberra 1-5-69

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Waiheke Ferries of Auckland

 

Balderston, David

Grantham House

1991

xi 94p

4to

P-B Slight fading spine Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the various craft who have plied the straits to Waiheke Island in the Waitemata from 1900

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Come Wind, Come Weather

Tales of an Otago Harbour pilot

Balderston, David

Otago Maritime Society

2002

104

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

With maps, drawings and illustrations, the experiences over 13 years of a New Zealand harbour pilot in Otago waters, and the people who shared his life

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Caught by a Nazi Raider

 

Barley, Geoffrey Alan

The New Zealand Shipping Co

1941

77p (1p)

Small 8vo

P-B  Near Fine

30

The sinking of the New Zealand ship 'Rangitane' by a group of German and Japanese 'Raiders'  in November 1940, and the aftermath, told by one of the ship's engineers

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Peaceful Isle  story of Magnetic Island from 1860s

 

Barnes, Tom

Author Pub

1997

xiii (1p) 125p

8vo

P-B Author's stamp inside back cover  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the people and places of this Queensland island

5.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Dire Strait  a history of Bass Strait

 

Bateson, Charles

Reed

1973

112

4to

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the 'discovery' of Bass Strait, the dangers, and the future

6.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Australian Shipwrecks Volume One 1622-1850

 

Bateson, Charles

Reed

1972

267p (1p)

4to

D-J (slight fading spine) Plasticised boards Near Fine

28

With illustrations, Australian wrecks in chronological order, with short biographies

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Life of Captain James Cook

 

Beaglehole, JC

A&C Black

1974 Reprint ed (1974)

(frontis) xi 760p

8vo

D-J (price-clipped, fading spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding Near Fine

45

The reprint edition of this wonderful work of scholarship, the definitive biography of Cook, with illustrations and maps, a nice copy

6.000000

23.000000

51.000000

54.000000

59.000000

James Cook and New Zealand

 

Begg, A Charles & Neil C

Govt Print

1969

(frontis) (5p) 156p (15p)

4to

Papered decorated boards  Owner's plate FEP VG

30

With many illustrations, the three voyages of Capt Cook in New Zealand waters

5.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

49.000000

A history of Frank C Strick and his many shipping enterprises

 

Belt, JEB ; Appleyard, HS

The World Ship Society

1996

134

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a history of the man and the various shipping fleets and shipping services he became involved in, especially the provision of coal

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Shoestring Shipping Line

 

Blair, Captain Clough

Reed

1967

180

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of the Tasman Shipping Company

6.500000

19.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Gellatly's 1862-1962

 

Blake, George

Blackie & Son

1962

(frontis) (5p) 178p

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history this British shipping company and its developments in the Middle East

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

B.I. Centenary 1856-1956

 

Blake, George

Collins

1956

(frontis) 272p

8vo

D-J (small pieces missing front, piece missing back, price-clipped, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding  VG

20

With illustrations, the story of the British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1760-1960

 

Blake, George

Lloyd's Register of Shipping

1960

194

4to

Cloth binding Slight spotting covers  VG

25

With illustrations, the first 200 years of Lloyd's Register

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Sea Links

 

Bloxham, Stephen L

Oamaru Harbour Board

1978

(44p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

15

With illustrations, a brief history of the Oamaru Harbour Board, 1874-1978

5.500000

18.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Shipwrecks Bluff Area 1845 to 1920

 

Bluff History Group (comp)

Bluff History Group

2015

67

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the 33 ships that came to grief around Bluff before 1920

6.000000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Guns for Cotton  England Arms and the Confederacy

 

Boaz, Thomas

Burd Street Press

1996

ix 86p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the two-way commerce to keep the Confederate states in arms and the English mills in cotton

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Classic Coasters  a celebration of short-sea shipping

 

Boot, Paul ; Fenton, Roy

Ships in Focus Pubs

1997

64

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a celebration of European pre and post-war steamers and motorships which look to the authors how small ships ought to look, from Turkey to Hamburg to London

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Sailing Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company 1873-1900

 

Bott, Alan

B T Batsford

1972

160

4to

D-J (slight fading spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with illustrations in colour and b/w, the ships of one of the first lines to establish a regular service between New Zealand and England

8.000000

30.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

The Flag of the Southern Cross

 

Bowen, Frank C

Shaw Savill & Union

1939

(4p) (1p plate) 122p (1p) xxvii (12p Index)

8vo

Plasticised boards  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the history of Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd 1858-1939

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

White Wings Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850 to 1900 2 vols

 

Brett, Sir Henry

Capper Press

1976

365p (13p Index) ; (frontis) 254p (12p Index)

4to

D-J (slight rubbing top spine, light fading spine, in protective wrappers) Paper over boards Light foxing top FE VG

110

With illustrations, the ships that brought immigrants to New Zealand before 1900, and those who also brought trade

6.500000

38.000000

85.000000

80.000000

85.000000

A Century of Style

Great ships of the Union Line 1875-1976

Brewer, NH

Reed

1982

x 238p

4to

D-J  Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, featuring 36 of the passenger steamers run by the Union Steam Ship Company until the 'Rangatira' was withdrawn from the Inter-Island service in 1976

6.500000

30.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Seafarers, Ships and Cargoes

 

Brooks, Leonard (et al, eds)

University of London Press

1951

(frontis) 232p

8vo

D-J (price-clipped flap, light browning spine) Cloth binding Slight foxing EPs, FEs VG

20

With illustrations, first-hand accounts of voyages by ships of the Mercantile Marine written by members of the ships' crews

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Cuthbert Heath  maker of the modern Lloyd's of London

 

Brown, Antony

David & Charles

1980

220

4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the biography of this insurance man, and his importance to the development of Lloyd's of London and the world's shipping industry

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Shipwrecks of Tasmania's Wild West Coast

 

Broxam, Graeme

Navarine Publishing

1993

xxx 471p

4to

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

70

Signed by the author, with illustrations and maps, a detailed listing of shipwrecks from 1815

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Tasmanian Shipwrecks 2 vols

 

Broxam, Graeme ; Nash, Michael

Navarine Publishing

1998-2000

xvi 342p ; xiv 402p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

100

Signed by the co-author, with illustrations, the over one thousand ships to be wrecked around the coast of Tasmania, from 1797-1999

7.000000

44.000000

100.000000

90.000000

95.000000

Liquid History

 

Bryant, Arthur

Port of London Authority

1960

(frontis) xvi 84p

4to

Cloth binding Plastic wrapper piece missing top front  Light foxing EPs and FEs VG

25

With illustrations, a history of the Port of London authority to commemorate fifty years of its existence 1909-1959

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Sailing Ships and Paddle Wheels and other Gippsland Shipping

 

Bull, JC

Author Pub

1974

230

8vo

D-J (slight chip) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, in two parts, the first the nautical memories of the author's father, the second the nautical and Gippsland memories of the author

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Barrie & Nairn  the Den Line

 

Burrell, DCE

World Ship Society

1990

(frontis) 80p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a history of this British Shipping Company and its development int shipping agents and brokers

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

'Royal Mail' 1839-1939  a centenary history of the Royal Mail Line

 

Bushell, TA

Trade and Travel Publications

1939

xvi 270p

4to

Cloth binding FEP cut at top VG

30

With illustrations, the history of the Line and the development of ships and engines

8.000000

34.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

A Hundred Year History of The P&O 1837-1937

 

Cable, Boyd

Ivor Nicholson and Watson

1937

(frontis) x 289p

4to

Cloth binding. Bumped top, bottom spine, fore-corners  VG

25

With illustrations, the first century of this British Shipping Group

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Obscured by Waves

South Island Kayak Odyssey

Caffyn, Paul

John McIndoe

2005 edition (1979)

(frontis) (4p) 176p

4to

Laminated boards Slight fading spine Near Fine

85

Signed and inscribed by the author, Number 25 of the special signed edition of this 25th anniversary edition of the first of the author's 'odysseys', around Fiordland, and then the first circumnavigation of the South Island by kayak, with illustrations

7.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Dark Side of the Wave

Stewart Island Kayak Odyssey

Caffyn, Paul

New Zealand Canoeing Assoc

1986

ix 96p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the saga of Paul Caffyn's second NZ odyssey around the bottom of New Zealand

7.000000

20.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

Obscured by Waves  South Island Kayak Odyssey

 

Caffyn, Paul

Kayak Dundee Press

2005 2nd edition (1979)

(4p) 176p

4to

P-B Fine

50

With maps and illustrations, the reprint edition of the first of the author's 'odysseys', around Fiordland, and then the South Island, with updates

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Obscured by Waves

South Island Canoe Odyssey

Caffyn, Paul

John McIndoe

1979

192

4to

P-B Light foxing EPs, FEs  Slight rubbing spine VG

50

Inscribed and signed by the author, with illustrations, the first of the author's 'odysseys', around Fiordland, and then the first circumnavigation of the South Island by kayak

7.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Obscured by Waves

South Island Canoe Odyssey

Caffyn, Paul

John McIndoe

1979

192

4to

P-B Slight rubbing spine VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the first of the author's 'odysseys', around Fiordland, and then the first circumnavigation of the South Island by kayak

7.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Shipwreck tales of survival, courage and calamiy at sea

 

Callan, Louise

HodderMoaBeckett

2000

144

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, shipwrecks around New Zealand and the Southern Islands, from the Boyd and the Orpheus to the Niagara and the Holmglen

6.500000

19.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Burns and Laird

 

Campbell, Colin ; Fenton, Roy

Ships in Focus Publications

1999

96

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history and fleet list of this combined company and its role in developing British coastal and short sea steamship services

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

A Yachtsman's Memories of Long Ago

 

Carter, Ronald

Author Pub

1980

xii 152

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Slight insc TP-Contents Page VG

30

The reprints of Carter's stories from "Sea Spray"

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Glory of Sail  a pictorial study  of Auckland Yachts

 

Carter, Ronald ; Frommherz, Max

Reed

1954

128

4to

D-J (slight internal repair top spine, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards (strip fading spine) VG - Near Fine

50

With wonderful shots of Auckland yachts in action

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Captain Cattlin towards New Zealand

 

Chisholm, Jocelyn

Author Pub

1994

95

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the whaling journals of Edward Cattlin, his arrival in South Otago, and the 'Wentworth Indenture'

3.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Brind of the Bay of Islands

 

Chisholm, Jocelyn

Author Pub

1979

(frontis) 92p

8vo

Green leatherette boards, original plastic wrapper  Slight foxing frontis  Near Fine

70

Signed and inscribed by the author, a chronology of early shipping into this New Zealand post, and the growth of whaling 1820s to 1850s, limited (400 copies) first edition

5.000000

18.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Brind of the Bay of Islands, Brind Amplified

 

Chisholm, Jocelyn ; McCarten, Denice

Author Pub

2009

(frontis) 136p (2p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

55

Inscribed and signed by the author, with map and illustrations, the full text of the author's first limited edition dealing with Captain William Derby Brind and his life in whaling, plus the further story of the Brind family

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

Recollections of Early Business Life and Further Recollections (2 volumes)

 

Chrichton, Sir Andrew

Author Pub

ND

vi 72p; (2p) 77p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the working and life experiences of one who started offas a 'shipping clerk' with the British India Steam Navigation Company

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Hey-Day to May-Day

Bluff registered fishing boats wrecked between 1960-1985

Christiansen, Pat

Bluff History Group

2009

102

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the loss of boats and lives from Bluff during the crayfish boom years in Fiordland

5.000000

15.000000

30.000000

32.000000

34.000000

Little Ships of Patea

 

Church, Ian

Dunmore Press

1977

(2p) 125p (1p)

8vo

D-J (slight fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the story of the past of the port of Patea and the ships that used it

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

For those in Peril on the Sea  The Shipwreck Relief Society in New Zealand

 

Church, Ian

The New Zealand Shipwreck Welfare Trust

2003

104

8vo

P-B Fine

30

With illustrations, a century of the work of the Shipwreck Relief Society in New Zealand, begun in 1902

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

200 Stories from the Sea 1818-2018

 

Churchill, Nick (et al)

Sailors' Society

2018

123

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, two hundred shorter and longer stories of sea adventures

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

200 Stories from the Sea 1818-2018

 

Churchill, Nick (et al)

Sailors' Society

2018

123

4to

Cloth boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, two hundred shorter and longer stories of sea adventures

6.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Leonard Robertson, the Whangaroa & La Bella

 

Churchouse, Jack

Millwood Press

1982

xiii (1p) 162p

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight rubbing base spine) Paper over boards Owner's details verso FEP VG

28

With maps and some wonderful illustrations, a record of this New Zealand seafarer and two of the sailing boats he helped crew

5.000000

22.000000

40.000000

47.000000

51.000000

Glamour Ships of the Union Steam Ship Company NZ Ltd

 

Churchouse, Jack

Millwood Press

1981

103p (1p)

4to

D-J (fading spine, slight chips, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Slight inscription HTP VG - Near Fine

32

With illustrations and paintings by such as JE Hobbs, a history of New Zealand's outstanding maritime company, from an era when there was time to take a cruise

13.000000

22.000000

41.000000

47.000000

51.000000

The Pamir under the New Zealand Ensign

 

Churchouse, Jack

Millwood Press

1978

xi (1p) 284p

4to

D-J (fading spine, slight rubbing top, bottom spine) Paper over boards   VG - Ner Fine

75

With plans and illustrations, a record of the Pamir, a windjammer commissioned to serve New Zealand during World War Two, scarce

6.500000

35.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Sailing Ships of the Tasman Sea

 

Churchouse, Jack

Millwood Press

1984

xii 164p

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the Australasian sailing ships around the turn of the 20th century, especially those of the Craig family of New Zealand

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Lake and River Ferries

 

Clapp, Frank A

Province of British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways

1991

80

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the reaction, cable and certified ferries of British Columbia

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Clipper Ship Era

 

Clark, Arthur H

GP Putnam's

1912

(frontis) xii (1p) 404p ((3p)

8vo

Green cloth binding  Bumping top, bottom spine  Owner's details impressed FEP, TP  VG

25

With illustrations, a history of the American and British clipper ships from 1843-1869, their owners, builders, commanders and crews

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Women and Children Last

the burning of the emigrant ship 'Cospatrick'

Clark, Charles R

Otago University Press

2006

174

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With map and illustrations, the story of the burning of the 'Cospatrick' on its final journey to New Zealand and the loss of nearly 500 dead

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Totorore Voyage

 

Clark, Gerry

Century Hutchinson

1988

(6p) 357p

8vo

D-J (spine slightly faded) Paper over boards Short inscription TP VG

30

The adventure of a lifetime for the 56-year-old author, sailing in the Pacific, around the bottom of South America, and completing the circumnavigation of the sub-Antarctic waters, tragically lost in June 1999 on the Antipodes Islands

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Blue Funnel Line

 

Clarkson, John (et al)

Ships in Focus Publications

1998

192

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the ships owned by Alfred Holt's Liverpool shipping company

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Clan Line  Illustrated fleet history

 

Clarkson, John (et al)

Ships in Focus Publications

2007

(frontis) 344p

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations, the Clan Line's history and the over 300 ships associated with it

6.500000

40.000000

95.000000

85.000000

95.000000

New Zealand and Federal Lines

 

Clarkson, John ; Fenton, Roy

Ships in Focus Publications

1995

88

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the ships of the New Zealand shipping Co Ltd and Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd, merged in 1912, and then absorbed into P&O

6.500000

24.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Wreck of the Penguin

 

Collins, Bruce E

Steele Roberts

2000

128

Oblong 8vo

P-B  Near Fine

30

In 1909 the Penguin sank near Wellington with the loss of 72 lives, NZ's worst 20th century shipwreck, heavily illustrated

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

The Wreck of the Penguin

 

Collins, Bruce E

Steele Roberts

2000

128

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

35

Signed by the author, with illustrations, in 1909 the Penguin sank near Wellington with the loss of 72 lives, NZ's worst 20th century shipwreck

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Wreck of the Manuka

 

Collins, Bruce E

Craig Printing Co

2004

80

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the story of the wrecking of the Manuka on December 16, 1929, in the Catlins

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

The Wreck of the Manuka

 

Collins, Bruce E

Craig Printing Co

2004

80

Oblong 8vo

P-B Signature HTP Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of the wrecking of the Manuka on December 16, 1929, in the Catlins

4.000000

13.000000

26.000000

28.000000

30.000000

The Wreck of the SS Otago

 

Collins, Bruce E

DreamTime Publications

2006

iv 40p

8vo

P-B Fine

22

Signed by the author, the story of the 'Otago' which ran aground in the Catlins in December 1876

6.500000

18.000000

30.000000

25.000000

30.000000

Rocks, Reefs and Sandbars   A History of Otago Shipwrecks

 

Collins, Bruce E

Otago Heritage Books

1995

208

8vo

P-B Fading spine Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a detailed study of 149 vessels wrecked around the Southern NZ coastline over a period of 158 years, from the author of 'The Wreck of the Surat'

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Ritsons' Branch Line

 

Cooper, Malcolm

World Ship Society

2002

104

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the Nautilus Steam Shipping Company Limited of Sunderland 1881-1931

6.500000

24.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

J and C Harrison  the history of a family shipping venture

 

Cooper, Malcolm

Ships in Focus Publications

2012

104

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of this British shipping dynasty, memories of the crews, and fleet list

6.500000

29.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Voyages of Captain Cook

 

Cornish, Anthony

Conway, Anova Books Ltd

2008

112

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, 101 commonly asked questions about the life and explorations of Captain Cook

5.500000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

36.000000

Fifty Dynamic Years

 

Cornish, Richard (et al)

World Ship Society

2000

72

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

Written to mark 50 years of the society, a series of pieces on the development of several ship types, including bulkers, liners and aircraft carriers, with illustrations

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

The Elder Dempster Fleet History 1852-1985

 

Cowden, James E ; Duffy, John O C

Mallett & Bell Publications

1986

xvi 528p (2p)

4to

P-B Light fading spine VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a comprehensive history of this major British liner shipping fleet, beginning with trade between West Africa and the rest of the world

6.500000

40.000000

95.000000

85.000000

95.000000

Ships of Hobart Harbour

 

Cox, Rex and GW

Ron Withington

2014

xii 612p

8vo

Laminated Boards Near Fine

60

Limited edition, with illustrations, the detailed procession of the ships that have used Hobart Harbour, in peace and war

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Bailey and Leetham

 

Credland, Arthur ; Greenwood, Richard

Ships in Focus Publications

2002

48

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the history and fleet of this Hull shipping company

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Wilson Line of Hull 1831-1981

 

Credland, Arthur G ; Thompson, Michael

Hutton Press

1994

143

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Hull Shipping company, founded in 1831, purchased by Ellerman in 1916, and its subsequent development

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Whalemen Adventurers

 

Dakin, WJ

Sirius Books, Angus & Robertson

1963

xxxi 285p

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, the personalities and happenings of whaling in Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific waters

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

They Also Served  the Merchant Navy and its contribution to Allied victory

 

Daysh-Davey, John

Author Pub

1945

80

8vo

P-B Light browning spine VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the New Zealand ships in the Merchant Navy and their war service

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Of Signals, Ships and Sundry Snippets

 

De Jardine, Margaret

Author Published

1997

viii 148p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Fine

55

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the third of the author's Taranaki maritime history books, up-dating and correcting her other books and adding a section on signals and lights, and sundry incidents that have happened

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Joseph Hatch and the Loss of the Kakanui

 

De le Mare, AJ

Invercargill Licensing Trust Charitable Trust

1990

(4p) 66p (4p)

8vo

P-B Fading spine Near Fine

22

With illustrations, the background to Joseph Hatch's company, the stranding on Macquarrie Island, the sending of the Kakanui, and its loss, in 1891

5.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Ropner Story

 

Dear, Ian

Hutchinson Benham

1986

xi 165p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the histoy of this British shipping company, founded in 1874, to build one of Britain's largest tramp fleets

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Waterfront  the illustrated maritime story of Greater Vancouver

 

Delgado, James P

Stanton Atkins& Dosil, Vancouver Maritime Museum

2005

(3p) 186p

8vo

D-J Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the history of Vancouver's waterfront from the arrival of prehistoric mariners to booming Pacific port

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Transforming the New Zealand Waterfront: Les Dickson's Story

 

Dickson, Greg

Author Pub

2013

80

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the role of the author's father in shaping the way New Zealand's ports operate

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

New Zealand Shipwrecks Over 200 years of disasters at sea

 

Diggle, Lynton & Edith; Gordon, Keith (eds)

Hodder Moa, Hachette Livre

2007

(frontis) 576p (additions sheets)

4to

P-B Near Fine

60

With illustrations, the revised and updated 8th edition of this history of ships wrecked in New Zealand waters, including fishing boats

6.500000

37.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Shipwrecks of New Zealand  2nd edition Companion to New Zealand Shipwrecks 8th edition

 

Diggle, Lynton & Edith; Gordon, Keith (eds)

Author Pub

2014

160

4to

P-B Near Fine

38

With illustrations, additional information and corrections to the 8th edition, including passenger lists and the whereabouts of wreck bells

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Honourable Company

 

Disney, MH

The Honourable Company of Master Mariners

1974

71p (1p)

8vo

Cloth boards Near Fine

25

An account of the origin and progress of the HonourableCompany of Master Mariners 1921-1969

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

These Splendid Ships  the story of the Peninsular & Oriental Line

 

Divine, David

Frederick Muller

1960 2nd impression (1960)

(frontis) 255p

8vo

D-J Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the growth from a small fleet of sailing ships to a huge group of companies

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Elingamite and its Treasure

 

Doak, Wade

Hodder & Stoughton

1969

192

8vo

D-J (front flap clipped) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of this ship, its treasure, and the 1968 salvage expedition

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Clyde and other coastal steamers

 

Duckworth, CLD ; Langmuir, Graham Easton

Brown, Son & Ferguson

1939

xi (1p) 283p

8vo

Blue cloth binding, browning spine  Light foxing FEs VG

25

With illustrations, a history of the coastal vessels plying from the Clyde River, covering such fleets as Burns & Laird, Belfast Steamship Co, Clyde Shipping Co

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Shipbuilders of Brisbane Water NSW

 

Dundon, Gwen

Author Pub

1997

336

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

50

With map and illustrations, the boatbuilders and the boats built in this area around Gosford in New South Wales

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Storms and Dreams

Louis de Bougainville  Soldier, Explorer, Statesman

Dunmore, John

Exisle Pub

2005

296

8vo

D-J Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, a biography of this French explorer, circumnavigating the world at the same time as James Cook, and almost meeting off New Zealand

8.000000

32.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

Sails Beneath the Southern Cross

 

Eaddy, PA

Reed

1954

196

8vo

D-J (chips, small piece missing fore-corner, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards Owner's small stamp FEP VG

30

With illustrations, the inter-colonial sailing ships which were engaged in the timber trade between NZ and Australia

5.500000

13.000000

27.000000

29.000000

31.000000

'Neath Swaying Spars

 

Eaddy, PA

Whitcombe and Tombs

1943 2nd edition (1939)

(8p) 193p

8vo

D-J (slight chips, browning spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the 2nd, expanded edition of the story of the trading scows of New Zealand

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Logans

New Zealand's greatest boatbuilding family

Elliot, Robin ; Kidd, Harold

David Ling, Auckland Museum

2001

132

Oblong 4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

40

With plans and illustrations, an exhibition record of this family business since the 1880s, a nice creation

5.000000

19.000000

38.000000

42.000000

45.000000

Emmy  Seventy years of M-Class Yachting

 

Elliott, Robin

Vintage Viewpoint

1994

352

4to

P-B Fading spine VG

30

With plans and illustrations, a comprehensive and detailed history of this racing yacht, especially beloved around Auckland, scarce

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Full and Down  the history of Escombe, McGrath & Co

 

Escombe, WML

Escombe, McGrath & Co

1953

v 90p

8vo

Cloth binding VG

20

With illustrations, a history of this British freight brokerage business

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Where Giants Dwell a sailor's tale

 

Evans, Gerry

David Ling

1999

216

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, life at sea and in the New Zealand Seaman's Union

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Tyser Legacy  a history of the Port Line and its associated companies

 

Farquhar, Ian

New Zealand Ship & Marine Society

2006

376

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a detailed history of the Tyser family's interests in shipping between Britain and her dominions, and the companies which followed from the 'Port Line'

6.500000

34.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

The Shipping Interests of John Jones

 

Farquhar, Ian

NZ Ship and Marine Society

2014

65

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a study of this Australasian entrepreneur and his many shipping ventures, leading to the Union Steam Ship Company

6.500000

20.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Union Fleet 1875-1975

 

Farquhar, IJ

New Zealand Ship & Marine Society

1976 2nd revised edition  (1968)

61

4to

P-B Near Fine

24

With illustrations, all the ships that were operated by the USS Co in the first 100 years

6.500000

20.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Ships in Focus Record 2018

 

Fenton, Roy (ed)

Ships in Focus Publications

2018

144

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, includes articles on Ard Coasters, the fleet and history of P MacCallum and Sons Ltd, and British tramp shipping 1914-1939, with illustrations

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Ships in Focus Record 2017

 

Fenton, Roy (ed)

Ships in Focus Publications

2017

128

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, includes articles on Priestman and the Tower Deck ships, Union Castle's black ships and John Cockerill's Tilbury Service

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

British Shipping Fleets Vol 2

 

Fenton, Roy ; Clarkson, John (eds)

Ships in Focus Publications

2008

192

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, more histories of six British Shipping Companies, United Baltic, Howdens, Arthur S Davidson, Dunlops, Chellew Navigation, Glover Brothers,  the second volume in this series

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

British Shipping Fleets

 

Fenton, Roy ; Clarkson, John (eds)

Ships in Focus Publications

2000

192

4to

Laminated boards Slight fading spine Near Fine

25

With illustrations, histories of six British Shipping Companies, Manchester Liners, Fisher and Sons, Runciman and Canatlantic, Harrison-Rennie, Cardiff Hall, Carron Company, the first volume in this  series

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Ships that serve Australia and New Zealand Vol 2 overseas flag ships

 

Fildes, Bob

Searail Productions

1985 2nd edition

144

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, lists of vessels engaged in liner services till 1985, and the cargo carriers

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Ships that serve Australia and New Zealand Vol 1 Australian and New Zealand Flag Vessels

 

Fildes, RD

Searail Productions

1975

vii (1p) 200p

Oblong 8vo

D-J (chips) Paper over boards VG

30

With illustrations, the merchant ships and their owners in Australia and New Zealand

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Ships that serve Australia and New Zealand Vol2 Overseas Flag Vessels

 

Fildes, RD

Searail Productions

1977

viii 288p

Oblong 8vo

P-B (lamination lifting on covers) VG

30

With illustrations, a guide to the overseas owned merchant ships and their owners which frequently visit Australian and New Zealand ports

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Down the Bay  the story of the excursion boats of Port Phillip

 

Fitchett, TK

Rigby

1973

95

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With the author's illustrations, the ferries and little boats that plied Melbourne's Port Phillip from the 'Express' of 1854 to the 'Weeroona' of 1942

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Long Haul  ships on the England-Australia run

 

Fitchett, TK

Rigby

1980

95

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With the author's illustrations, the story of passenger ships running the longest sea route in the world

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Henderson & Macfarlane's Circular Saw Line established 1845

 

Flude, Anthony G

Author Pub

1993

208

4to

P-B Short repair base spine  VG

48

Limited edition, with illustrations, a history of what was once New Zealand's biggest shipping company, opening up trade between New Zealand and the US

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The South Sea Whaler

 

Forster, Honore (comp)

The Kendall Whaling Museum

1985

xv 157p

4to

Cloth binding Near Fine

30

An annotated bibliography of published historical, literary and art material relating to whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Reminiscences of a Liverpool Shipowner

 

Forwood, William B

Henry Young and Sons

1920

(frontis) (3p) 122p (1p)

8vo

Blue cloth binding, gilt titles  Owner's plate front paste-down, signature FEP VG

45

With illustrations, a series of historical pieces on the development from sailing ships to steam ships and the development of trade, including British shipping in World War One

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Servants of the North

adventures on the coastal trade with the Northern Steam Ship Company

Furniss, Cliff

Reed

1977

xv 201p (1p catalogue)

4to

D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards VG

32

With map and illustrations, a history of this shipping company, in its time 'the lifeline of the north'

6.500000

34.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Put not your Trust in Princes  from Bannockburn to the Burdekin, by sea

 

Gallagher, Denis

Avid Publications

2016

viii 336p

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, with illustrations, signing up for a life at sea in the 1950s with the 'Blue Funnel Line' and the years of experiences afterwards

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Union Steam Ship Company Steam Ships

 

Gardner, DF ; Hobbs, JE

Millwood Press

1982

111

Oblong 8vo

D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards Owner's details verso FEP VG

25

Illustrated by the paintings of Jack Hobbs, a pictorial record of the former USSC's fleet and the jobs they did around New Zealand and the world

6.500000

30.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Strait of Adventure

 

Gerard, Stephen

Reed

1952 (1938)

151

8vo

D-J (chips, in protective wrapper) Pages browned VG

25

With illustrations, anecdotes and stories of the sailors and experiences of the Cook Strait area

6.500000

20.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

West Coast Windjammers in story and pictures

 

Gibbs, Jim

Bonanza Books

1968

192

4to

D-J Cloth spine, paper over boards  Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of the ships and their builders

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Disaster Log of Ships

 

Gibbs, Jim

Superior Publishing Co

1971

176

4to

D-J (rubbing) Plasticised boards VG

25

With illustrations, an account of shipwrecks from California up to Alaska

6.500000

32.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Morels of Cardiff  the history of a family shipping firm

 

Gibbs, John Morel

National Museum of Wales

1982

(frontis) 183p (1p) (folding chart at end)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Welsh shipping firm and the combined families that formed it

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Brutality on Trial

 

Gibson, E Kay

University Press of Florida

2006

xix 225p (1p)

8vo

D-J Paper panel over boards, with spine panel Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the Seaman's Act of 1915 and the bringing of dignity to the common seaman

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Shipwrecks, Storms & Seamen of the New South Wales Coast

 

Gleeson, Max

Author Pub

1996

168

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the shipwrecks off the New South Wales coast, from the Keilawarra in the north to the Bega in the south

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Vanished Fleet of the Sydney Coastline

 

Gleeson, Max

Author Pub

1993

168

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a recreation of the events that led to the loss of fifteen ships in the Sydney and Illawarra region

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Ranger  the making of a New Zealand yachting legend

 

Gorter, Sandra ; Tercel, Aroha

New Holland

2006

227

8vo

Soft card covers with flaps  Fading spine  VG

25

With maps and illustrations, the life of Lou Tercel, his 'Ranger' and the legacy in Auckland racing

5.500000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

40.000000

Ranger  the making of a New Zealand legend

 

Gorter, Sandra ; Tercel, Aroha

New Holland

2006

227

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the life of Lou Tercel and the legendary Ranger yachts that he created

5.500000

19.000000

33.000000

37.000000

40.000000

The Perano Whalers of Cook Strait 1911-1964

 

Grady, Don

Reed

1982

xv (1p) 238p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight foxing top FE VG - Near Fine

65

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, the whaling life of the Perano family (and company) in the Cook Strait area over a period of 50-odd years

6.500000

34.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Perano Whalers of Cook Strait 1911-1964

 

Grady, Don

Reed

1982

xv (1p) 238p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight foxing top FE VG - Near Fine

60

With maps and illustrations, the whaling life of the Perano family (and company) in the Cook Strait area over a period of 50-odd years

6.500000

34.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A West Coast History of Racing with the Wind

 

Graham, Frank

Author Pub

1998

180

8vo

P-B Fine

30

Inscribed and signed by the author, with illustrations, the years of the Greymouth Yachting Club and sailing on the West Coast

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Die legendare Flucht des Dampfers Erlangen ein mythos

 

Grams, Helmut ; Muller, Frank

Druckerei Schiemenz

2017

112

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

50

With illustrations and maps, the 'flight' of this German steamer which found itself in New Zealand waters at the outbreak of WW2, its time in the Auckland Islands and its eventual sinking in 1941. Includes a letter from the authors.

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Fiordland and Beyond

a circumnavigation of the South Island of New Zealand by kayak

Grant, Max

Author Pub

2013

143

4to

Laminated boards  Near Fine

70

Signed by the author and his daughter, his co-kayaker, starting in Fiordland, an anti-clockwise circumnavigation, with illustrations and maps

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Fiordland and Beyond

a circumnavigation of the South Island of New Zealand by kayak

Grant, Max

Author Pub

2013

143

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

40

Signed by the author and his daughter, his co-kayaker, starting in Fiordland, an anti-clockwise circumnavigation, with illustrations and maps

8.000000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Grain Races  the Baltic background

 

Greenhill, Basil ; Hackmann John

Conway Maritime Press

1986

190

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, a study of Europe's last fleet of deepwater square-rigged vessels which carried grain from Australia back to Britain between 1928 and 1939, based out of the Aland Islands in the Baltic

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Comecon Merchant Ships

 

Greenway, Ambrose

Kenneth Mason

1989

190

4to

D-J (slight chip fore-corner) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the fourth edition of this study of the Comecon, Russian Federation merchant ships

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Australian Steamships Past and Present

 

Gregory, Dickson

The Richards Press

1928

(frontis) 260p

4to

D-J (internally strengthened, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding  Gilt titles and decoration Gilt top FE VG

120

With illustrations, a history till 1928 of Australian and overseas-owned streamships operating in Australian waters

7.000000

34.000000

89.000000

75.000000

80.000000

A History of the Inchcape Group

 

Griffiths, Sir Percival

Inchcape & Co

1977

(frontis) ix 211p

8vo

Plastic wrapper (tear front) Cloth binding Near Fine

35

A history of this British shipping line beginning in Asia and spread around the world, growing into a group

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

CSR Shipping 1880-2003

 

Hansen, HJ

Author Pub

2004

212

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a history of the ships owned and chartered by the Colonal Sugar Refining Company in Australia and New Zealand

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Motorships of the World and Motorshipping Register

 

Hardy, AC (ed)

Sampson Low, Marston & Co

1932 3rd edition

(8p ads) ix 183p

4to

Cloth binding Wear spine, fore-corners Signature (v)  VG

45

With illustrations, the third issue of this annual reference work of motor and motor-electric ships

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Wilson Line  the history and fleet of Thos Wilson, Sons & Co, and Ellerman's Wilson Line Ltd

 

Harrower, John

The World Ship Society

1998

216

4to

D-J Plasticed boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of this British Shipping Line, begun in 1841

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Stena 1939-1989

 

Harvey, WJ

Stena AB, The World Ship Society

1989

151p (1p)

4to

D-J Decorated covers Near Fine

28

With illustrations, a 50-year history of this Swedish shipping group, its founders and its ships, with ship histories

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Hadley

 

Harvey, WJ

World Ship Society

1996

viii p9-124

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the the Hadley Shipping Company Ltd, incorporated in 1926

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Out of Auckland

 

Hawkins, Clifford

Author Pub, The Pelorus Press

1960

xvi 199p

8vo

D-J (chips, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

32

With illustrations, a survey of the commercial sailing craft built in the Auckland province, especially those sailing out of Auckland

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Log of the Huia

 

Hawkins, Clifford W

Collins

1973 Revised, extended edition (1947)

147

4to

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

40

With plans, maps and illustrations, the life of this New Zealand topsail schooner which plied the waters of Australasia and the South Pacific for over 50 years from her launch in 1894

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Merchant Fleets  Pacific Steam Navigation Company

 

Haws, Duncan

TCL Publications

1985

96

8vo

P-B Fading spine Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this company that plied the South American ports

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Merchant Fleets China Navigation Company

 

Haws, Duncan

Author Pub

2001

96

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of John Swire & Sons shipping in China and the Far East

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Merchant Fleets Italia 1881-2001

 

Haws, Duncan

Author Pub

2001

iii 205p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the companies that formed 'Italia' and the ups and downs of the united company

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Merchant Fleets Shaw, Savill & Albion

 

Haws, Duncan

TCL Publications

1987

85

8vo

P-B Owner's small label inside front cover Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this once important shipping company and its fleet to New Zealand

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Merchant Fleets  Union Steamship Company of New Zealand

 

Haws, Duncan

Author Pub

1997

iv 163p (9p for notes)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed and inscribed by the author, with illustrations, a history of the USC fleet from 1875

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Booth Line

 

Heaton, PM

The Starling Press

1987

84

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Liverpool Liner shipping company

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Welsh Shipping Forgotten Fleets

 

Heaton, PM

The Starling Press

1989

90

8vo

D-J (price-clipped) Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, five Cardiff shipping companies, Duncan sisters, Seagers, Pardoe-Thomas, Claymore, Lovering's

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The South American Saint Line  History of a Welsh Shipping Venture

 

Heaton, PM

The Starling Press

1985

125p (folding plan at rear)

8vo

D-J (price-clipped flap) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a history of two Welsh shipping companies who joined forces to become the Saint Line

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Lamport and Holt

 

Heaton, PM

The Starling Press

1986

(frontis) 142p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Liverpool-based shipping company

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Reardon Smith Line the history of a South Wales Shipping Venture

 

Heaton, PM

The Starling Press

1984

133

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a history of this Welsh shipping company, from coal tramps to bulk carrier operations

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The 'Usk' Ships  history of a Newport Shipping Venture

 

Heaton, PM

The Starling Press

1982

88

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a history of a Welsh family shipping line, and its home town, Newport

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Wreck of HMS Orpheus

New Zealand's worst sea disaster

Hetherington, Roy M

Cassell

1975

xvi 157p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, the record of this shipwreck off the Manukau Heads in 1863

6.500000

23.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam 1824-1962 2 vols

 

Hocking, Charles

Lloyd's Register of Shipping

1969

(4p) 438p ; (2p) 439-779p

4to

Blue boards, gilt titles Slight rubbing spines VG - Near Fine

120

A comprehensive listing of shipwrecks, including sailing ships and ships of war lost in action, with short entries on the vessels chosen

10.000000

45.000000

100.000000

95.000000

100.000000

In the Wake of Endeavour

 

Holman, Gordon

Charles Knight & Co

1973

ix (1p) 241p

8vo

D-J (slight rubbing) Plastcised boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the history of the New Zealand Shipping Company and Federal Steam Navigation Company, drawn in to be part of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987

 

Hooke, Norman

Lloyd's of London Press Ltd

1989

ix 539p

4to

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, an A-Z of those merchant and naval losses over 500 tons around the world in the twenty-five years from 1963-1987

6.500000

32.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Land from the Masthead

 

Houghton, Philip

H&S

1968

223p (1p)

8vo

D-J (price-clipped top, bottom front flap)  VG

30

With illustrations, following Cook in the circumnavigation of New Zealand

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

40.000000

The Glory of Zeebrugge and the 'Vindictive'

 

Howard, Kebble

Chatto and Windus

1918

(frontis) 63p (1p)

8vo

Bound in green boards, gilt titles Short inscription and signature HTP VG

30

With illustrations, an account of the blocking of the Bruges Canal at Zeebrugge in 1918, stopping its use as a launching platform for German submarines and destroyers

5.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Blue Funnel a history of Alfred Holt & Company of Liverpool 1865-1914

 

Hyde, Francis E

Liverpool University Press

1957

(frontis) xvii (plate) 201p

8vo

D-J Plasticised boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first 50 years of this British Shipping company

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Cunard and the North Atlantic 1840-1973

 

Hyde, Francis E

MacMillan

1975

xx 382p

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this shipping line and how it developed over the 133 years

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Shipping Enterprise and Management 1830-1939  Harrisons of Liverpool

 

Hyde, Francis E (et al)

Liverpool University Press

1967

(frontis) xx 208p

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of the business operations of this British Shipping Company, starting from humble beginnings and developing world-wide interests

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Shipwrecks  New Zealand Disasters 1795-1960

 

Ingram, Charles WN ; Wheatley, P Owen

Reed

1961

(frontis) 408p (additions sheet)

4to

D-J (chips, fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the third edition of this record of the shipwrecks around New Zealand to bring it up to 1960

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Shipwrecks  New Zealand Disasters 1795-1950

 

Ingram, Charles WN ; Wheatley, P Owen

Reed

1951

(frontis) 520p

8vo

D-J (chips, fading spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the revised edition of this record of the shipwrecks around New Zealand to bring it up to 1950

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Shipwrecks  New Zealand Disasters 1795-1936

 

Ingram, Charles WN ; Wheatley, P Owen

Dunedin Book Publishing Assoc

1936

(frontis) 502p

8vo

Purple-blue leather binding, gilt titles spine  Fading covers Signature TP  VG

45

With illustrations, the first edition of this record of the shipwrecks around New Zealand

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Shipwrecks  New Zealand Disasters 1795-1975

 

Ingram, CWN

Reed

1977

(frontis) 464p

4to

D-J (slight fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the fifth edition of this record of the shipwrecks around New Zealand to bring it up to 1975

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Shipwrecks  New Zealand Disasters 1795-1970

 

Ingram, CWN

Reed

1972

(frontis) 448p

4to

D-J (slight chip) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the fourth edition of this record of the shipwrecks around New Zealand to bring it up to 1970

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Shipwrecks  New Zealand Disasters 1795-1982

 

Ingram, CWN

Reed

1984

(frontis) (4p) 491p (1p)

4to

D-J (slight fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the sixth edition of this record of the shipwrecks around New Zealand to bring it up to 1982

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Holme Shipping Line Maryport 1873-1913

 

Jackson, Herbert and Mary

Hirst-Jackson

1991

120

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Limited edition (#455), with illustrations, a history of this Welsh Shipping Company and its birthplace, Maryport

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

175 Years Reederei Oltmann

 

Jager, Karen ; Oltmann, Lukas (trans)

Schiffahrtsgesellscha ft Oltmann

2011

104

4to

Paper over boards Inscription to owner, with card of Oltmann ship's officer  Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of this German shipping company from 1836-2011, in German and English

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Jenkin's Brothers of Cardiff  a Ceredigion family's shipping ventures

 

Jenkins, David

National Museum of Wales

1985

112

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a history of a Welsh shipping company, from 1898-1927

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Evan Thomas Radcliffe a Cardiff Shipowning Company

 

Jenkins, J Geraint

National Museum of Wales

1982

92

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a history of this Welsh shipping company, based upon coal transport

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The Era of Coastal Shipping in New Zealand

the small motor ships

Jennings, Murray

Transpress

2003

193

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

55

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a social and maritime 'history' of New Zealand shipping before the roll-on, roll-off ferries, and the small ports closure

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Era of Coastal Shipping in New Zealand

the small motor ships

Jennings, Murray

Transpress

2003

193

4to

Laminated boards Slight bump base  Near Fine

45

With illustrations, a social and maritime 'history' of New Zealand shipping before the roll-on, roll-off ferries, and the small ports closure

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

A Liverpool Merchant House being the history of Alfred Booth and Company 1863-1958

 

John, AH

George Allen & Unwin

1959

197p (3p)

8vo

D-J (browning spine) Paper over boards Fore-corner torn off rear EP VG

25

With illustrations, a history of this Liverpool merchant family and its shipping line

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Wellington Harbour

 

Johnson, David

Wellington Maritime Museum Trust

1996

xii 556p

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

70

With many illustrations, a detailed account of  the development of this harbour from Maori beginnings to Wellington Harbour Board, with much social history

8.000000

47.000000

110.000000

100.000000

110.000000

Summer Cruise  being the Grand Pleasure Trip of the ss. Ngapuhi along the northern coast of New Zealand

 

Johnson, David

David Bateman

1983

112

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Fading spine  VG - Near Fine

22

With plans and illustrations, a New Zealand version of the Grand Tour, but by boat, with many snaps of the passengers

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Triumph  the ship that hit the lighthouse

 

Johnson, David

The Dunmore Press

1981

ix 142p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of a ship that ended up on the reef below the Tiritiri light, then escaped

6.500000

21.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

New Zealand's Maritime Heritage

 

Johnson, David

Collins, David Bateman

1987

196

4to

D-J (slight fading spine)  VG - Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with many illustrations in colour and B-W, the history of NZ based on its people's arrival by sea, and the continuing use of the sea

5.000000

22.000000

36.000000

42.000000

46.000000

Half a World Away

 

Johnson, David ; Dennerly, Peter (eds)

Royal New Zealand Naval Museum

1998

iii 213p

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, seventeen papers presented to a maritime conference in 1997, covering the New Zealand Navy, external and internal trade, sailors and sailing, and yachting

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Ferries on the Yarra

 

Jones, Colin

Greenhouse Publications

1981

108

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of those ships, from plain to lavish, which have plied Melbourne's Yarra River

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Two Centuries of Overseas Trading  the origins and Growth of the Inchcape Group

 

Jones, Stephanie

Macmillan, Business History Unit, University of London

1986

(erratum slip) xxii 328p

8vo

D-J (slight chip) Paper over boards Browning FEs

22

With illustrations, a history of the Inchcape Group

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Sea in my Blood

 

Julian, Harry

Author Pub

1999

336

8vo

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a life relating to the sea, as a ship's master, hauling, salvaging, rescuing, and as Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Australia's Early Whalemen

 

Kerr, Margaret and Colin

Rigby

1980

64

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the leaders and the disasters of this early Australian industry

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Port Chalmers Yacht Club one hundred years

 

Kestila, DA

Port Chalmers Yacht Club Centennial Cttee

1992

68

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations and lists, the activities and personalities of this Dunedin yacht club's first 100 years

5.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Pilots of Otago Harbour

 

Keyse, Capt Geoffrey J (comp)

Author Pub

1989

(117p) (folding chart)

4to

Soft card covers with spine clip  VG - Near Fine

30

With map and illustration, the various pilots of Otago Harbour, with accompanying biographies, diaries and lists. Scarce

8.000000

25.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

The Aberdeen Line  George Thompson Jnr's incomparable shipping enterprise

 

King, Peter H

The History Press

2017

256

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With maps and illustrations, a history of this shipping line, founded in 1825

6.500000

33.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Fair Winds and Rough Seas  the story of the Holm Shipping Company

 

Kirk, Allan

Reed

1975

xv 260p

8vo

D-J (fading spine, rubbing extremities, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards Slight name blacked out and covered VG

25

With illustrations, the story of a New Zealand shipping company which was involved in both coastal shipping in New Zealand and out into the Pacific since 1880

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Anchor Ships and Anchor Men

 

Kirk, Allan A

Reed

1967

186

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Owner's small stamp HTP VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the historyof the Anchor Shipping & Foundry Company, begun in Nelson in 1862

5.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Express Steamers of Cook Strait

 

Kirk, Allan A

Reed

1968

207

8vo

D-J (slight chip) VG - Near Fine

30

Inscribed by the author, the full story of the Wellington-South Island passenger steamer services from 1873 to the roll-on roll-off of the 1960s, including the Wahine sinking, with historical and contemporary photographs

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Ships and Sailormen

 

Kirk, Allan A

Reed

1964

xii 196p

8vo

D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a collection of short biographies of Australasian shipmasters and other ranks, including engineer and purser

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Wilh. Wilhelmsen  History and Fleet List 1861-1994

 

Kolltveit, Bard ; Crowdy, Michael

World Ship Society

1994

320

8vo

D-J (slight closed hole spine, in protective wrapper)  Plasticised boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the development of the 1978 World Ship Society publication, with further fleet listings

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Ships that shaped Australia

 

Koskie, Jack L

Angus & Robertson

1987

132

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

Illustrated by the author, a collection of the many ships that sailed to and in Australia, from Cook's 'Endeavour' to the BHP container ship 'Mt Newman', from naval ships and merchantmen to passenger boats and pleasure craft

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Merchant Ships a pictorial study

 

LaDage, John H (et al)

Cornell Maritime Press

1955

xxv (1p) 481p (1p)

4to

Pictorial boards Light fading Owner's card glued to front paste-down VG

30

With many illustrations, living and working aboard ship, types of merchant ship, ship structure, the handling and stowage of cargo, deck and engineering perations, building and repairing a ship

6.500000

38.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

New Zealand Shipwrecks 195 Years of Disasters at Sea

 

Lambert, Max

Beckett Sterling

1990 7th edition revised and enlarged (1936)

(frontis) (4p) 514p (2p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards, short inscription FEP  VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the 1990 update of this monumental work, with revisions and additional information from the previous edition

6.500000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Steam in the Southern Pacific

 

Lawson, Will

Gordon & Gotch

1909

150p (2p)

Small 8vo

D-J (small piece missing base, top spine, in archival wrapper) Cloth binding VG

75

With illustrations, a history of the early shipping lines in the Southern Pacific, and the merchantmen, both coastal and inter-colonial

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Pacific Steamers

 

Lawson, Will

Brown, Son & Ferguson

1927

(frontis) xx 244p

8vo

Blue Cloth binding Slight bumping top, bottom spine VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the early Pacific passenger and mail ships, and their companies

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Steam in the Southern Pacific

 

Lawson, Will

Gordon & Gotch

1909

(frontis) 150p (2p)

8vo

Cloth over boards, leather spine, spine hinges split  Slight inscription verso frontis VG

40

With illustrations, the story till 1909 of merchant shipping around Australasia

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Davey and the Awatea

 

Laxon, WA

The Dunmore Press

1997

220

8vo

P-B Owner's small stamp HTP Near Fine

30

The Union Steam Ship Company in the 1930s, the Awatea being the fastest and most luxurious merchant ship in the Southern Hemisphere, with illustrations

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

The Currie Line of Melbourne

 

Laxon, WA

JB Labrum

2002

61p (2p)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, the story of this Australian shipping line before it was taken over by BI in 1913

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Huddart Parker  a famous Australasian Shipping Company 1876-1961

 

Laxon, WA (et al)

Nautical Association of Australia

2008

xii 236p

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp HTP Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a detailed history of this shipping company, running inter-state and cross-Tasman shipping services

6.500000

28.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Story of a Port  Portland, Victoria

 

Learmouth, Noel F

The Portland Harbor Trust

1960

(8p) 173p

8vo

D-J (fading spine, light rubbing extremities) Plasticised boards VG

30

With maps and illustrations, what began with sealers and whalers and developed into an important Victorian port

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Tow-Line

 

Lewis, Capt John

Author Pub

2000

iv 144p (errata slip p iv)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, operating tugs around Western Australia from the 1960s to the 1980s

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

A history of the Ports of Queensland  a study in economic nationalism

 

Lewis, Glen

University of Queensland Press

1973

xvii 341p

8vo

D-J (slight chips) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the port development, shipping services and economic growth in Queensland since 1859

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

SD 14 The full story

 

Lingwood, John

Ships in Focus Publications

2004

(frontis) 256p

4to

Laminated boards Slight fading spine Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a history of the 'standard design' vessels built for the bulk carrier shipping businesses, totalling 211 vessels by 1988

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Trades Increase  a centenary history of Norex Plc

 

Lingwood, John ; O'Donoghue, Kevin

World Ship Society

1990

200

8vo

P-B Fading spine  VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a history of this British Shipping Company, begun as the 'Hindustan' Steam Shipping Company, and managed by Common Brothers

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The British Merchant Navy  images and experiences

 

Lloyd, Robert ; Fenton, Roy

Ships in Focus Publications

2002

(frontis) 110p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

Illustrated by Robert Lloyd, ships from the 'Golden Age of British Shipping', the 1950s and 60s, with descriptions of the ships, their operations and their operators

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The World's Merchant Ships images and impressions

 

Lloyd, Robert ; Fenton, Roy

Ships in Focus Publications

2005

(frontis) 110p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

Signed and illustrated by Robert Lloyd, a sequel to the 'British Merchant Navy', with the scope widened to include merchantmen from beyond the UK

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Eight Minutes to Midnight the wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa

 

Locker-Lampson, Steve ; Francis, Ian

Rowfant Books

1981

160

4to

D-J  Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, the shipwreck of the Union Steamship Co's Wairarapa off Great Barrier Island in 1894

6.500000

29.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Wreck Book

Rediscovered New Zealand Shipwrecks

Locker-Lampson, Steve ; Francis, Ian

Millwood Press

1979

(frontis) 117p

4to

D-J Cloth binding Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, an A-Z of some of New Zealand's shipwrecks, for divers and historians alike

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Wrecks along the Great Ocean Road

 

Loney, Jack

Author Pub

1983

138

8vo

P-B VG

20

With illustrations, Australian shipwrecks on the West Coast from Point Lonsdale to Portland

8.000000

22.000000

45.000000

45.000000

45.000000

Maritime Incidents on the Gippsland Lakes and adjacent Coast

 

Love, Don

Author Pub

2015

108

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

Signed by the author, with illustrations, the many incidents and shipwrecks in this area of Victoria, starting in 1797

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Shipwrecks on the East Gippsland Coast

 

Love, Don

Author Pub

2007 2nd edition (2003)

viii 199p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, exploring the fates of 140 vessels from Corner Inlet to Cape Howe, 1797-1945

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Shipwrecks on the South Gippsland Coast

 

Love, Don

Author Pub

2005

viii 127p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With maps and illustrations, exploring the fates of 80 ships lost between Wilson's Promontory and Cape Schanck from 1839 to 1945

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Colonial Clippers

 

Lubbock, Basil

Brown, Son & Ferguson

1948 New edition

(frontis) xvi 384p

4to

D-J (chips, internally strengthened, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding  Strip browning EPs  VG

40

With illustrations, beginning wih the immigrant ships to Australia, the wool clippers in Australia, the trading clippers to Australia and back to England, and the New Zealand trade

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Western Ocean Packets

 

Lubbock, Basil

James Brown & Son

1925

(frontis) xiii (1p) 155p

8vo

Cloth binding  Slight wear top, bottom spine Fading spine Lightly foxed VG

25

With illustrations, a history of the American ships which crossed the Atlantic bearing their immigrants and passengers during the first half of the nineteenth century

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Log of the 'Cutty Sark'

 

Lubbock, Basil

James Brown & Son

1924

(frontis) xii (1p) 422p

8vo

Red cloth binding Fading spine Short closed pull top spine Bumping base spine  VG

28

With illustrations, the lifetime of this tea and wool clipper up until the year of publication

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Last of the Windjammers 2 vols

 

Lubbock, Basil

Brown, Son & Ferguson

1963 Reprint edition (1927)

(frontis) xiv (1p) 518p ; (frontis) xv 448p

4to

D-J (chips, small piece missing top spine vol 1, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding Slight foxing top FE vol2  VG - Near Fine

80

With illustrations, wind-driven trading vessels of all sorts, and sizes, up till 1928, and the last boom in sailing vessels

12.000000

52.000000

125.000000

120.000000

125.000000

North Star to Southern Cross  the story of the Australasian seaways

 

Maber, John M

T Stephenson & Sons

1967

xv 335p

8vo

D-J (chips, closed tear across bottom, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding VG

25

With illustrations, a history of the more than sixty different fleet lines that plied the Europe-Australasia- America routes

8.500000

33.000000

70.000000

70.000000

70.000000

His Majesty's Bark Endeavour  The story of the ship and her people

 

Macarthur, Antonia

HarperCollins

1997

ix 86p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

An illustrated description of the Endeavour and the Cook voyage, with special attention to the replica of 1994

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

28.000000

The Wreck of the Tararua

 

MacIntosh, Joan

Reed

1970

160

8vo

D-J (fading spine, in archival wrapper) Paper over boards  VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of this New Zealand shipwreck in the Catlins, with the loss of 131 people

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Lady of the Lake  the TSS Earnslaw Story 1912-

 

Mackay, Malcolm

Author Pub

1999

48

8vo

P-B Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a tribute to the working steamer on Lake Wakatipu, launched there in 1912

3.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

The Atlantic Ferry  its ships, men and working

 

Maginnis, Arthur J

Whittaker and Co

1900 3rd edition revised, enlarged

(frontis) xxii (2p) 288p (8p catalogue)

8vo

Blue cloth binding  Bumping top, bottom spine VG

40

With illustrations, the third, enlarged edition of this history of the Transatlantic steam trade, the various lines, both British and American, that ran them, and the people involved

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

A Lucky Ship  the nine lives of the Australian Coaster 'Tambar' 1912-1960

 

Mair, Craig

Nautical Association of Australia

2013

xiv 226p

4to

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the varied life of this Australian coastal trader over forty years serving from New South Wales to Papua New Guinea, during peace and war

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Nets, Lines and Pots  Three volumes a history of New Zealand fishing vessels

 

Makarios, Emmanuel

IPL Books, Wellington Maritime Museum

1996-9

112, 120, 104

4to

P-B Near Fine

70

With illustrations, the three volumes about the New Zealand fishing industry, the characters, the events and their impact on New Zealand

6.500000

30.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

New Zealand Maritime Images  the Golden Years

 

Makarios, Emmanuel (comp)

Transpress NZ

2007

253p (4p)

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

40

With many illustrations, a collection of images from the 1950s to the 1970s of maritime scenes before containerisation compartmentalised everything, and people travelled over seas, rather than in the air

6.000000

28.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Pirrie-Kylsant Motorships 1915-1932

 

Mallett, Alan S ; Bell, Andrew MB

Mallett and Bell Publications

1984

120p (folding chart)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the story of the 111 motorships built for the RMSP Groupbetween 1915 and 1932

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

'Interned' and other sea stories

 

Manning, Captain Walter

Whitcombe and Tombs

1915

156p (1p)

8vo

P-B Lacks spine paper Gd - VG

20

Inscribed and signed by the author, six stories spun around the sound of the sea

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Below and Above the Water Line

 

Manning, Captain Walter

Whitcombe and Tombs

1909

(3p) 139p (1p)

8vo

Cloth binding First illustration clipped at corner  VG - Near Fine

25

Inscribed and signed by the author, the lives and work of those engaged in the merchant service, from the lowliest of firemen to the ranks in the wheelhouse

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Taking the Adventure

 

Marshall, AB

Michael Russell

1999

(frontis) 319p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's 'adventures' in shipping, with P&O, and the struggles in the take-over

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Oregon Shipwrecks

 

Marshall, Don B

Binford & Mort Publishing

1984

ix (1p) 235p

4to

D-J (fading spine, small piece missing top, bottom spine, in protective wrapper) Plasticised boards VG

30

Signed by the author, with illustrations, over two hundred years of shipping disasters along the over 400 miles of Oregon coastline

6.500000

32.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

California Shipwrecks  footsteps in the sea

 

Marshall, Don B

Superior Publishing Co

1978

176

4to

D-J (chips) Paper over boards VG

25

With illustrations and lists, shipwrecks along the thousand-plus miles of Californian coast, starting in 1579 with a Spanish ship

6.500000

31.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Southern Sails  one hundred years of the Otago Yacht Club

 

Maxwell, Val

Otago Yacht Club

1992

(frontis) 197p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

22

With illustrations, a history of one of the world's most southerly Yacht Clubs, including the personalities and the feats

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Coastmaster  the story of Captain James B Greig

 

McCraw, John

Silverdale Publications

1999

196

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, a biography of the one-time harbourmaster at Invercargill

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Australian Salvors of World War 2

 

McDonell, Capt RJF

'Polly Woodside' Publishers

1995

(4p) xi 181p

8vo

P-B Short inscription TP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations and lists, the history, and work, of the Marine Salvage Board 1942-1946

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

From Derby round to Burketown  The A.U.S.N. story

 

McKellar, NL

University of Queensland Press

1977

x 682p

4to

D-J (laminate lifting, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards VG

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the history of the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, and its work around the South Pacific

6.500000

38.000000

91.000000

75.000000

85.000000

The Last of the Sail Whalers   whaling off Southern New Zealand and Tasmania

 

McKillop, Captain Bill ; Richards, Rhys (et al, eds)

Paremata Press

2019

xviii 280p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

65

Signed by the editor, with maps and illustrations, the memoirs of Bill McKillop, the last decades of whaling and trading voyages under sail in New Zealand and Australian waters

6.000000

24.000000

45.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Line That Dared  a history of the Union Steam Ship Company

 

McLaughlan, Gordon (ed)

Four Star Books

1987

205

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

With many illustrations of USSC ships, a detailed study of the first hundred years of this shipping company begun in New Zealand

8.000000

28.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

Full Astern!  an illustrated history of New Zealand's shipwrecks

 

McLean, Gavin

Grantham House

2007

240

4to

Soft card covers with flaps  Near Fine

28

With many illustrations, a selection of some of the many shipwrecks around New Zealand and off-shore islands, including the Rainbow Warrior, SS Wairarapa, Wahine, and casualties of war

6.500000

32.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Southern Octopus  the rise of a shipping empire

 

McLean, Gavin

New Zealand Ship & Marine Society, Wellington Harbour Board Matirime Museum

1990

239

4to

D-J Paper over boards Owner's small stamp HTP VG - Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the rise and development of the Union Steam Ship Company, formed in Dunedin in 1875

5.000000

19.000000

43.000000

47.000000

51.000000

We Were Different  the Tasman Express Line Story

 

McLean, Gavin

Ventures Two Ltd

2004

168

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the trans-Tasman shipping contest and the appearance of the Tasman Express Line

6.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

A Century of Shipping in New Zealand

 

McLean, Gavin

Grantham House

2000

48

4to

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

22

With illustrations, historical photographs of shipping in New Zealand in the twentieth century, including World Wars

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

New Zealand Tragedies Shipwrecks and Maritime Disasters

 

McLean, Gavin

Grantham House

1995 reprint edition (1991)

x 218p

4to

P-B VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, New Zealand shipwrecks, from the small to the large, including the Wahine

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Rocking the Boat? a history of Scales Corporation Limited

 

McLean, Gavin

Hazard Press, Scales Corporation Ltd

2002

324

4to

D-J (slight fading spine) Paper over boards  Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, with illustrations, what began as Geo. H Scales Ltd, and grew into a Corporation, from a farmers' protest movement to a major shipping agent, cool store operator, pet food processor and apple grower

6.500000

36.000000

80.000000

75.000000

80.000000

Ships of the Union Company

 

McLean, Gavin

GP Books

1989

48

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With photographs from the Wellington Harbour Board Maritime Museum Collections

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Canterbury Coasters

 

McLean, Gavin

NZ Ship & Marine Society

1988 Reprint edition (1987)

96

4to

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

25

The reprint edition of this heavily illustrated history of the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

New Zealand Coastal Passenger Ships

 

McLean, Gavin

GP Books

1989

48

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With photographs from the Wellington Harbour Board Maritime Museum Collections

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Richardsons of Napier

 

McLean, Gavin

NZSM Society

1989

141 (2p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, a heavily illustrated history of a shipping company founded in 1859 and now deceased, but with a fascinating story

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company

 

McLean, Gavin

GP Books

1989

48

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

20

With photographs from the Wellington Harbour Board Maritime Museum Collections

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Anchor Line

 

McLellan, RS

Anchor Line Ltd

1956

(frontis) 184p

8vo

D-J (browning spine) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this British Shipping Company, including a detailed listing of their shipping vessels

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

TSS Earnslaw  celebrating 100 Years 1912-2012

 

McLeod, Jenny

Real Journeys

2012

103p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a celebration of the 'Lady of the Lake' and her times

8.000000

30.000000

65.000000

65.000000

65.000000

Port Line Story 1914-1964 a short history of the company

 

McMillan, A Stewart (comp)

Port Line Ltd

1964

(2p) 75p

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first fifty years of this British shipping company, including its connections with Australia and New Zealand

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Old Whaling Days

 

McNab, Robert

Golden Press

1976

xiii (1p) 508p

8vo

D-J (slight fading spine) Browning FEs VG

25

The reprint of this detailed record of the Southern Whale Fishery from 1830-1840

8.000000

29.000000

60.000000

60.000000

60.000000

Clyde River-Steamers of the last fifty years

 

McQueen, Andrew

Gowans & Gray

1923

(frontis) xii 135p

8vo

Blue cloth binding Browning EPs VG - Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of the passenger steamers which maintained the passenger traffic on the river Clyde

6.500000

21.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The British Tankers

 

Middlemiss, NL

Shield Publications

1989

128

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a 75-year history of BP, beginning as the British Tanker Co Ltd in 1915

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Anglo-Saxon/Shell Tankers

 

Middlemiss, NL

Shield Publications

1990

(frontis) 192p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a 100-year history of tanker operations by Shell

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Pride of the Princes  history of the Prince Line

 

Middlemiss, NL

Shield Publications

1988

122p (1p)

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this British Shipping company, carrying the white Prince of Wales feathers on their funnels

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Furness-Houlder Lines

 

Middlemiss, NL

Shield Publications

1991

(frontis) 224p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a centennial celebration of the Furness Withy Group

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Travels of the Tramps Twenty Tramp Fleets vol V Merchant Fleets

 

Middlemiss, Norman L

Shield Publications Ltd

2003 new edition

160

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, volume 5 of this collection, 20 further British tramp fleets, from Cairn Line to Crest Shipping Co

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Travels of the Tramps Twenty Tramp Fleets vol III

 

Middlemiss, Norman L

Shield Publications Ltd

1992

160

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, volume 3 of this collection, 20 further British tramp fleets, from Ropner Shipping Co Ltd to Silver Line

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Travels of the Tramps Twenty Tramp Fleets vol II

 

Middlemiss, Norman L

Shield Publications Ltd

1991

160

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, volume 2 of this collection, 20 further British tramp fleets, from Common Brothers to Turner, Brightman

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Travels of the Tramps Twenty Tramp Fleets vol IV

 

Middlemiss, Norman L

Shield Publications Ltd

1993

160

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, volume 4 of this collection, 20 further British tramp fleets, from Strick Line Ltd to Metcalfe Shipping Co Ltd

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Beyond the Harbour Lights

 

Mills, Chris

Whittles Publishing

2003

vii 158p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a collection of tales of British ships come to grief around the world

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Search for the 'Kobenhaven' and other true sea stories of the Depression years

 

Minto, Thomas ; Stevens, Eric

Graeme K Andrews Productions

1984

52

8vo

P-B VG

20

Limited edition (#197/1000), with illustrations, three Australian sea stories

8.000000

22.000000

40.000000

40.000000

40.000000

The Cape Run

 

Mitchell, WH ; Sawyer, LA

Terence Dalton Ltd

1984

ix (1p) 214p

4to

D-J (price-clipped, tape-strengthened on FEs) Paper over boards VG

20

With illustrations, the Union-Castle service to South Africa and of the ships employed

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Spurling Sail and Steam

 

Moore, Warren (ed)

Patrick Stephens Ltd

1980

xii (2p) 175p

Folio

D-J Cloth binding  Gilt titles and illustration Owner's details front paste-down and TP VG

35

Nautical paintings by Jack Spurling of sailing vessels and steamships

9.000000

42.000000

105.000000

100.000000

105.000000

Sail Change

Tall Ships in New Zealand Waters

Morris, Roger

David Bateman

1981

48

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper oover boards VG - Near Fine

30

Illustrated with the author's water colours, a short study of some of the 'tall ships'  that traded in NZ waters during the 19th and 20th century

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Pacific Sail  four centuries of Western Ships in the Pacific

 

Morris, Roger

David Bateman

1987

192

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Slight foxing EPs  Near Fine

30

With maps and the author's illustrations, from the little carricks of Magellan to the clippers of the shipping companies, including the later immigrant ships

5.000000

20.000000

40.000000

42.000000

44.000000

The Whale's Wake

 

Morton, Harry

University of Otago Press

1982

396

4to

D-J (light fading spine) Paper over boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the spread of whaling to New Zealand, both British and American, and the effects on the native society, a nice copy

6.000000

25.000000

48.000000

52.000000

56.000000

Lonely Ships the sailing ships of J Hardie & Co and the 'Archibald Russell'

 

Mowat, HG

New Cherwell Press

1995

(8p) (frontis) 215p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Scottish shipping company till 1923, and the 'Archibald Russell' which went on under Finnish colours

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Cruise of the Acheron

Her Majesty's Steam Vessel on survey in New Zealand waters 1848-1851

Natusch, Sheila

Whitcoulls

1978

190

8vo

D-J Paper over boards  Near Fine

30

With maps and illustrations, the Acheron's four-year survey of the coastline of much of NZ, especially the Southern islands

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

37.000000

41.000000

Sailors of 41 South  stories from the Nelson Yacht Club 1857-2007

 

Neal, Tracy

The Nelson Yacht Club

2007

236

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

40

With illustrations, 150 years of sailing in the Nelson area, the people, the personalities, the determination to sail

5.000000

22.000000

44.000000

48.000000

52.000000

Mauretania  Triumph and Resurrection

 

Newall, Peter

Ships in Focus Publications

2006

136

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, 'Mauretania's' illustrious career, and the distribution of 'Mauretania's' parts

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Log of Logs Vol 3

 

Nicholson, Ian

Author Pub

1998

xvi 500p

4to

Plasticised boards over original card covers Near Fine

40

Signed by the author, with illustrations, volume three of this catalogue of 'all forms of voyage narratives' covering ships to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Log of Logs Vol 1

 

Nicholson, Ian

Author Pub, The Australian Association for Maritime History

1988

x 630p

4to

Cloth binding over original card covers  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, volume one of this catalogue of 'all forms of voyage narratives' covering ships to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific

6.500000

32.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The Pacific Forum Line

 

Nightingale, Tony

Clerestory Press

1998

xviii 142p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the development of this Pacific Islands shipping company

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Port Phillip Panorama

 

Noble, Captain J

The Hawthorn Press

1975

(3p) 169p

8vo

D-J (chips, rubbing, small piece missing rear, price-clipped)  Paper over boards  VG

20

With illustrations, the discovery and maritime history of the ports of Melbourne and Geelong

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Port Phillip Pilots and Defences

 

Noble, Captain J

The Hawthorn Press

1979 2nd edition (1973)

(4p) 125p

8vo

D-J (slight rubbing) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the history of the Port Phillip Pilot Service

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Hazards of the Sea  three centuries of challenge in Southern Waters

 

Noble, Captain John

Angus & Robertson

1970

(3p) 251p

8vo

D-J (slight chips, price-clipped) Paper over boards VG

20

With illustrations, a history of shipwrecks and strandings around the coasts of Australia and New Zealand

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

 A New and Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation

 

Norie, JW

Author Pub

1828 Ninth (stereotype) edition

xii 348p lx 274p tables

8vo

Rebound in plasticised boards, label spine with new end-papers  Frontis Hadley's Quadrant (some silverfish damage, pieces missing edges) Some browning on illustrations, top FE and FE blackened  Gd - VG

85

With illustrations, the ninth edition of this practical guide to the navigation of sea vessels

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Pioneer Shipping of Tasmania

 

Norman, L

Shearwater Press

1989 reprint edition (1938)

220

4to

D-J Plasticised boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the reprint edition of this Tasmanian maritime history, along with the settlement history

6.500000

30.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Hain of St Ives

 

O'Donoghue, KJ ; Appleyard, HS

World Ship Society

1986

(frontis) 132p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a history of The Hain Steamship Company, its takeover by P&O in 1917, then further development, with the standardisation of the names, beginning with 'Tre'

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters

 

O'May, Harry

Author Pub

1951

209p (v Index) (24p illustrations) (folding map)

8vo

Red cloth binding Fading spine VG

22

With map and illustrations, the hundreds of wrecks that littered the Tasmania shore and off-shore islands till 1951

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Bibby Line 175 years of achievement

 

Paget-Tomlinson, EW

Bibby Line Limited

1982

(4p) 69p

Oblong 8vo

Decorated paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Liverpool Shipping Line

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Those Magnificent Men in their Rob-Roy Canoes

 

Parnell, Jim (comp)

Taniwha Kohatu Press

2012

xiv 113p

8vo

P-B  Near Fine

35

Signed by the compiler, with maps and illustrations, a tribute, amidst re-enactments, of the Park family and their Rob-Roy canoes

4.000000

12.000000

24.000000

26.000000

28.000000

Port Nelson - Gateway to the Sea

a history of the Nelson Harbour Board to 1978

Parr, William H

Nelson Harbour Board

1979

viii 304p

8vo

D-J (slight fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

Signed by the author, with maps and illustrations, a history of the Nelson, Mapua and Motueka ports and their organisation

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

39.000000

43.000000

Steamers in the South  the great days of steam around Australia and New Zealand

 

Parsons, Ronald

Rigby

1979

128

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the development of steamers from the 1840s to the 1970s in Australasia

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Ships of the Inland Rivers

 

Parsons, Ronald

Gould Books

1996 3rd Revised Edition (1987)

176

4to

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the paddle ships, barges and other vessels trading on the Murray-Darling River System

6.500000

26.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Sail in the South

the great days of sail around Australia and New Zealand

Parsons, Ronald

Reed

1975

209

4to

D-J Paper over boards Slight foxing EPs  VG - Near Fine

35

With many illustrations from the Edwardes Collection, a memoir of the sailing days to and from Australasia, including the many shipwrecks

5.000000

20.000000

32.000000

36.000000

37.000000

Shipping Losses and Casualties concerning Australia and New Zealand 2 vols

 

Parsons, Ronald (comp)

Author Pub

2003

(2p) 200p (corrections, addendum sheet) ; 201-398p

4to

Paper covers, spine tape Near Fine

80

Extensive lists, with short biographies, of shipping casualties involving wrecks or serious damage in ships owned in Australia or New Zealand, together with accidents happening to vessels travelling to or from these countries

6.500000

34.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Norwegian American Line 1910-1995

 

Pedersen, Bjorn ; Hawks, FW

World Ship Society

1995

80

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of 'Den Norske Amerikalinje A/S', and its ships

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Bore 1897-1997

 

Pietikainen, Matti

Bore Shipowners

1997

119

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

80

With card signed by author, the centenary fleet list of the ships owned by Bore and Rettig companies, with illustrations

6.500000

28.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Emigrant Ships to Luxury Liners

Passenger ships to Australia and New Zealand 1945-1990

Plowman, Peter

NSW University Press

1998

296

4to

D-J Near Fine

80

With colour and B-W illustrations, the ships that brought immigrants to the South Pacific after WW2 and the liners which bring tourists

6.500000

35.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

Across the Pacific

Liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America

Plowman, Peter

Rosenberg Publishing

2010

272

4to

P-B  Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a history of the passenger service that connected New Zealand and Australia with the West Coast of North America before the advent of the jumbo-jet

9.000000

23.000000

48.000000

53.000000

58.000000

Migrant Ships to Australia and new Zealand 1900-1939

 

Plowman, Peter

Rosenberg Publishing, Tranzpress NZ

2009

192

4to

P-B Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of the immigration into Australasia before WW2 and the vessels the immigrants came on

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Wanganella and the Australian Trans-Tasman Liners

 

Plowman, Peter

Rosenberg, tranzpress NZ

2009

188

4to

P-B Near Fine

35

With maps, plans and illustrations, a detailed history of this ship, including its time as a housing unit at Deep Cove, Doubtful Sound

6.500000

29.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Escort Carrier  HMS Vindex at War

 

Poolman, Kenneth

Leo Cooper, Secker and Warburg

1983

xx 216p

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the wartime exploits of this merchantman converted into an Escort Carrier in WW2

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Norddeutscher Lloyd Handbook to the Company's Services

 

Rhodes, Thomas (ed)

Keller, Wallis & Co, NDL

1888

93p (1p)

8vo

Card covers Small piece of spine paper missing top, bottom spine VG

40

With maps, illustrations and contemporary advertisements, includes a history of the Line, the services, the destinations, and a fleet list

5.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Workhorses in Australian Waters

 

Richards, Mike

Turton & Armstrong Pty Ltd

1987

xiv 269p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of marine engineering in Australia

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Captain Charles Bayley  whaling master 1813-1875

 

Richards, Rhys

Navarine Publishing, Roebuck Series No 65

2014

vi 54p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

28

With maps, illustrations and tables, this whaling master's career, the 'Runnymede', and working the South Tasman Sea and New Zealand

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

The Johnston Line 1890-1990

 

Rinman, Thorsten

Rinman and Linden, Johnson Line AB

1990

(errata slip) 296p

4to

Glasene wrapper Plasticised boards, plait laid in on front board Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the history of this Swedish shipping firm through its first century

6.500000

35.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The Cruise Ship  a very British institution

 

Robins, Nick

The History Press

2008

160

4to

P-B Owner's small label HTP VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the history of the cruise ship from the small beginnings of the nineteenth century to the swelling industry of the twenty-first

6.500000

25.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two  German, Italian and Japanese Submarine successes 1939-1945

 

Rohwer, Jurgen

Greenhill Books, Naval Institute Press

1999

xvi 366p (1p)

Oblong 8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

The revised edition of this comprehensive book gives extensive data on sinkings by Axis submarines in WW2

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Akarana The Ports of Auckland

 

Rose, John

Auckland Harbour Board

1971

239

4to

D-J (chips) Paper over boards VG

25

With illustrations, the first 100 years of this New Zealand Harbour Board

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

This stern Coast

 

Ross, J O'C

Reed

1969

277

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With charts and illustrations, the story of New Zealand's coastal surveying, and the surveyos

6.500000

27.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Captain FG Moore

Mariner and Pioneer

Ross, John O

Wanganui Newspapers Ltd

1982

178

4to

D-J (fading spine) VG - Near Fine

45

With illustrations and drawings, the life of an early European mariner in NZ waters, especially around Nelson

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Pride in their Ports

the story of the minor ports

Ross, John O'C

The Dunmore Press

1977

213p (1p catalogue)

8vo

D-J (small piece missing top spine, spine, spine fading, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards  Owner's small stamp FEP VG

30

With illustrations, New Zealand's smaller ports, both historical and existing

6.500000

20.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

The Lighthouses of New Zealand

 

Ross, John O'C

Dunmore Press

1975

152 (4p)

8vo

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first comprehensive history of lighthouses and their keepers

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Rascal of the South Pacific

 

Rusden, Athol

Author Pub

2005

408

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's adventurous sailing times in the South Pacific after World War Two, from the 1950s to 1970s

6.500000

33.000000

70.000000

65.000000

70.000000

The Changing Seaway

 

Sagon-King, Alfred F (et al)

Stonehouse Publications

1985

(4p) 63p

4to

P-B Short inscription inside front cover  VG

25

With illustrations, using the lives of 30 ships to show how the Saint Lawrence Seaway has changed over its first 25 years

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

'Salt in my Blood'

 

'Salt in my Blood'

Author Pub

1996

(ii) 167p (1p)

4to

P-B Near Fine

38

With illustrations, the life of this merchant navy man, his war experiences and life in New Zealand

5.000000

17.000000

29.000000

33.000000

34.000000

Sail to New Zealand  the story of Shaw Savill & Co 1858-82

 

Savill, David

Robert Hale

1986

185

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the 24 years that Shaw Savill carried immigrants to New Zealand, up till the merging with the Albion Line

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Merchant Fleets Aberdeen and Aberdeen & Commonwealth Lines of George Thompson

 

Savill, David ; Haws, Duncan

The Starling Press, TCL Publications

1989

72

8vo

P-B Owner's small label inside front cover Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of the sailing fleet begun by George Thompson, from sailing ships to steamships

6.500000

20.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Rugged Coast, Rough Seas  Wairarapa's Maritime History

 

Scadden, Ken

Fraser Books, Wairarapa Archive

2016

viii 182p

Oblong 8vo

Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a history of the shipping - and shipwrecks - along this coast north of Wellington, the whaling, sealing and flax industries, and the early Maori maritime history

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Inside Story of KZ-7

 

Sefton, Alan

Hodder & Stoughton

1987

292

4to

Boxed Dark blue cloth binding GAE Near Fine

70

Numbered/limited edition (185/365), signed by Michael Fay, the story of New Zealand's first America's Cup challenge

5.000000

22.000000

49.000000

54.000000

59.000000

Stranded in the Six-Day War

 

Senker, Cath

Author Pub

2017

192

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the eight-year stay in the Suez Canal for 14 merchant ships after the Six-Day War, June 1967

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Adventurous Armada

The Story of Legazpi's Expedition

Sharp, Andrew

W&T

1961

(frontis) 214p

8vo

D-J (slight rubbing extremities, in archival plastic)  VG - Near Fine

40

With map and illustrations, the story of the Spanish expedition sent by King Philip to win the Philippines, and the various adventures associated with early European exploration of the Pacific

5.000000

14.000000

26.000000

29.000000

29.000000

Journeying With Seafarers in New Zealand

 

Sinclair, Roy

Random House

1999

269

4to

P-B Owner's small stamp HTP Near Fine

22

Full of the stories of those NZers who have experienced the thrills, joys and dangers of seagoing and sea-journeys, from the merchant marine in WW2 to cruising on Lake Wakatipu

5.000000

14.000000

28.000000

32.000000

35.000000

Voices from the Bridge

 

Smith, David ; Johnson-Allen, John

Seafarer Books

2010

244

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Signed by the co-editor, recollections of rising through the ranks by members of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, with illustrations

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Rebecca  The restoration of an old yacht

 

Smith, Peter

Heinemann

1978

(frontis) 84p

Folio

D-J Near Fine

50

With drawings and illustrations, more than just a step-by-step guide to boat building or restoration, a nice creation

5.000000

20.000000

34.000000

38.000000

40.000000

From 70 North to 70 South  a history of the Christian Salvesen Fleet

 

Somner, Graeme

Christian Salvesen Ltd

1984

142 (errata sheet)

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the history of this shipping company and the ships that have served it

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

In Coral Seas  the history of the New Guinea Australia Line

 

Speyer, Martin ; Dick, Howard (ed)

The Nautical Assn of Australia, John Swire & Sons

2004

(9p) 121p

4to

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a history of two Pacific arms of John Swire & Sons Ltd of London, the China  Navigation Company and the New Guinea Australia Line

6.500000

23.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Oceania under Steam  sea transport and the cultures of colonialism 1870 - 1914

 

Steel, Francis

Manchester University Press

2011

xxi 246p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

35

With illustrations, studying, through the use of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol'

 

Stevenson, Mrs Robert Louis

Chatto & Windus

1915

(frontis) x (1p map) 189p

8vo

Cloth boards, gilt titles  Top, bottom spine bumped Gilt top FE EPs browned VG - Near Fine

40

With map and illustrations, a very tidy copy of this South Pacific cruise, April to July 1890

6.500000

29.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

The Ships That Serve New Zealand

 Vol 1 British and European Lines

Stewart, IG

Reed

1964

255

4to

D-J (slight rubbing extremities)  VG - Near Fine

32

Signed by the author, with many illustrations in colour and B-W, the author describes those ships by which NZ made contact with the world, when this was the main method of contact

6.500000

31.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

British Tramps and their peacetime contribution to world shipping history

 

Stewart, IG

Ian Stewart Marine Publications

1997

(frontis) vi 514p

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

80

With many illustrations, the evolution of the British tramp from dogsbody to bulk carrier, and their owners

6.500000

43.000000

100.000000

90.000000

100.000000

Liberty Ships in Peacetime

 

Stewart, IG

Ian Stewart Marine Publications

1992

(frontis) (3p) 322p

4to

Laminated boards Near Fine

58

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, the story of ships which were designed to have a limited life during war, but lasted much longer, in many guises and under many flags

6.500000

33.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Steam on the Waitemata

 

Stewart, WW

Reed

1972

(frontis)  64p

Oblong 8vo

D-J (slight chips)  Blue plasticised boards  VG

25

A celebration of earlier days on the Auckland waterfront, beautifully illustrated by the author

6.500000

28.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Ben Line 1825-1982 an anecdotal history

 

Strachan, Michael

Michael Russell Publishing

1992

viii 248p

8vo

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, a history of this British Shipping Company, and Wm Thomson & Co

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

The Whaling Journal of Captain WB Rhodes 1836-1838

 

Straubel, CR (ed)

Whitcombe and Tombs

1954

xxxviii (1p) 122p (1p)

8vo

D-J (small pieces missing, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, whaling in the South Pacific and New Zealand waters before the Treaty of Waitangi

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Subritzky Shipping  a heritage of sail 1843-1993  commemorative edition

 

Subritzky, MRG

Subritzky Legend Trust

1993

xvi 176p

4to

P-B  Near Fine

45

Signed and inscribed by the author, the limited Commemorative Edition (#385/500) record of 150 years maritime history of New Zealand's oldest privately owned shipping company, with illustrations

6.500000

29.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Wilh. Wilhelmsen 1861-1977

 

Syse, JP (et al)

World Ship Society

1978

144

8vo

P-B Near Fine

20

With illustrations, a brief history of this Norwegian Shipping Company, with Fleet List

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

Merchant Ships 1949-50

 

Talbot-Booth, Lieut Comdr EC (ed)

Sampson Low, Marston & Co

1950

(21p) (4p addenda) 260p

4to

D-J (pieces missing, in protective wrapper) Cloth binding Signature FEP VG

30

With illustrations, details of the current merchant shipping stock, and includes a section on war losses

9.000000

34.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

Merchant Ships 1959 Edition

 

Talbot-Booth, Lieut Comdr EC (ed)

The Journal of Commerce and Shipping telegraph

1959

xxiv 475p (5p advertising)

Oblong 4to

D-J (pieces missing, in protective wrapper) Plasticised boards VG

30

With illustrations, details of over 4000 merchant ships and shipping companies worldwide

9.000000

36.000000

92.000000

85.000000

90.000000

Merchant Ships 1963

 

Talbot-Booth, Lieut-Comdr EC

The Journal of Commerce

1963

459p (4p)

Oblong 8vo
Oblong 8vo

D-J (chips, price-clipped, in protective wrapper) Plasticised boards VG

30

With illustrations, a recognition book of the world's actual merchant ships operating till 1963

6.500000

38.000000

90.000000

85.000000

90.000000

The Australian and New Zealand List of Vessels lost, missing or taken from Active Service 1874-1949

 

Taylor, Peter

Scuttlebutt Press

2007

183

8vo

P-B Near Fine

32

An A-Z of vessels, with particulars and dates of being lost

5.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Discoveries  the voyages of Captain Cook

 

Thomas, Nicholas

Allen Lane, Penguin

2003

xxxvii (1p) 467p (1p)

8vo

D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, Cook's voyages from a cultural and ethnohistorical standpoint, fascinating

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Photographic Album of South Australian Passenger Vessels

 

Thomson, W John

Author Pub

2003

80

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Inscribed by the author, with illustrations, passenger vessels from as early as the 1840s

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

J Lauritzen 1884-1984

 

Thorsoe, Soren

World Ship Society

1984

(frontis) 239p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of this Danish Shipping Company

6.500000

24.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Tales from Above and Below Deck  memories of my career as a Marine Engineer

 

Tiernan, Frank

Author Pub

2005

ix 201p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the author's working life on board eight ships, from the 'Monowai' to the'Karepo'

6.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Marlborough Whalers at Campbell Island 1909-1916

 

Timms, J ; Judd, N (ed)

Author Pub

2000 2nd edition (1978

76

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With illustrations, whaling in New Zealand's Sub-Antarctic islands 1909-1916

6.500000

18.000000

35.000000

30.000000

35.000000

The Story of Sanford Ltd  the first one hundred years

 

Titchener, Paul

Sanford Ltd

1981

(6p) 133p

4to

D-J (slight chip) Paper over boards Slight foxing top FE VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the first century in the life of New Zealand's biggest fishing company

5.500000

18.000000

36.000000

38.000000

40.000000

Little Ships of New Zealand

 

Titchener, Paul

Reed

1978

ix 159p (1p catalogue)

4to

D-J  Fine

25

With illustrations, the author brings Ron Carter's 'Little Ships' up-to-date, giving a history of NZ yachting up to 1978

5.000000

20.000000

37.000000

42.000000

45.000000

Sea Classics of New Zealand

 

Titchener, Paul

Paul Titchener Publications

1981

48

4to

P-B VG

20

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a collection of articles by the author about current and past New Zealand yachtsman, designers, and their yachts

8.000000

22.000000

35.000000

35.000000

35.000000

Whaling in Southern Waters

 

Tod, Frank

Author Pub

1982

158

4to

P-B VG

35

With maps and illustrations,  a study of the people and places involved in the hunting of whales in Southern New Zealand, from Banks Peninsula to Tautuku

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

Spirit of the Coast

 

Tolerton, Nick

Pacifica Shipping (1985) Ltd

2010

135p (1p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

45

With illustrations, the story of the first 25 years of Pacifica Shipping and its development as New Zealand's leading coastal operator

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Salvesen of Leith

 

Vamplew, Wray

Scottish Academic Press

1975

xii 311p

8vo

D-J (chips, in protective wrapper) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

40

With illustrations, the development  of the firm Christian Salvesen Ltd, of Leith, founded in 1872

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Last of a Salty Breed

 

Vaughan, Roy

Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co

2015

471

8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

40

With illustrations, a New Zealander takes us on a thousand years of travel by sea, as general and family history

6.500000

31.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

By Way of Cape Horn

 

Villiers, AJ

Geoffrey Bles

1930 reprint edition (1930)

(frontis) xii 227p

4to

Blue cloth binding, browning spine  Browning BEP Light foxing FEs VG

30

With illustrations, the voyage of the 'Grace Harwar', a steel full-rigged ship, built in 1899

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Falmouth for Orders

 

Villiers, AJ

Geoffrey Bles

1930 reprint edition (1929)

(frontis) xxiv 232p (1p)

4to

Blue cloth binding, browning spine  Browning EPs Light foxing FEs VG

30

With illustrations, the reprint edition of this story of the last Clipper Ship Race around Cape Horn

6.500000

32.000000

65.000000

60.000000

65.000000

Song of the Clyde  a history of Clyde shipbuilding

 

Walker, Fred M

Patrick Stephens

1984

233

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, tracing the growth of the shipbuilding industry on the Clyde since the 17th century

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Circling the Globe by sea and land  the record of a personal experience

 

Walker, James

Henry J Drane

1907

(frontis) (3p) 296p (4 coloured charts)

8vo

Green cloth binding, gilt and black titles, black and gilt decorations Bevelled boards   Top, bottom spine bumped  Tiny hole spine cloth edge  TEG VG

100

Author's presentation copy, the record of his travels through Africa, Asia, Australasia, Hawaii, the United States and home again, told in journal form with many illustrations, scarce

6.500000

31.000000

75.000000

70.000000

75.000000

The White Swan Incident

 

Warman, Mike

The Wairarapa Archive

2002

vi 73p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, an ill-fated voyage in 1862 which could have killed off a number of the leading New Zealand politicians of the time

6.500000

21.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

Shaw Savill Line one hundred years of trading

 

Waters, Sydney D

W&T

1961

157p (1p)

8vo

D-J (slight chip) Cloth binding Owner's small stamp FEP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a century of development of merchant shipping in New Zealand and out to the world

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Ordeal by Sea The NZ Shipping Co's history in the Second World War 1939-1945

 

Waters, Sydney D

The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd

1949

(frontis) xii 263p

8vo

D-J Cloth binding Light foxing FEs Owner's small stamp FEP VG

25

With illustrations, the war history of a New Zealand shipping company, its vessels and its crews

5.000000

13.000000

27.000000

29.000000

31.000000

Union Line  a short history of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd 1875-1951

 

Waters, Sydney D

USSC (NZ) Ltd

1951

148

4to

Plasticised boards VG

25

With illustrations, the first jubilee of the USS Co in New Zealand and out into the world

6.500000

26.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

Pamir  the story of a sailing ship

 

Waters, Sydney D

Reed

1949

48

8vo

Paper over boards  Browning spine, Slight foxing, fading boards Signature front paste-down  VG

32

With illustrations, the story of this sailing ship and its sailing in New Zealand waters, written at a time as it was being restored to Finland, scarce

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Clipper Ship to Motor Liner  the story of the New Zealand Shipping Company 1873-1939

 

Waters, Sydney D

The New Zealand Shipping Company

1939

(frontis) xviii (1p) 110p

8vo

D-J (browning spine) Cloth binding Browning EPs Slight owner's details TP VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the founding of the New Zealand Shipping Company, the development of the fleet, the changes through steam, including WW1

6.500000

22.000000

45.000000

40.000000

45.000000

Richardsons of Napier

A Century of Local Shipping 1859-1959

Waters, Sydney David

Richardson and Co

1959

108

8vo

D-J (light browning spine, in protective plastic) Signature front paste-down  Near Fine

45

With maps and illustrations, the centennial history of this New Zealand-owned shipping company and sea transport on the East Coast, a nice copy

6.500000

22.000000

40.000000

35.000000

40.000000

The East Asiatic Company Ltd

 

Westphall, Povl

EAC

1972

215 (folding fleet chart at rear)

4to

Paper over boards Near Fine

30

With illustrations, the development of this Danish shipping company encircling the world

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

History of the Sanders Cup 1921-1946

 

Wheatley, P Owen ; Reid, Bryan G

Author Pub

1946

268

8vo

D-J (slight chips top spine, fore-corners)  VG

30

With illustrations, a tidy copy of the jubilee history of this NZ yachting cup

5.000000

13.000000

21.000000

25.000000

25.000000

Shipwreck  New Zealand Maritime Accidents

 

Wilkinson, Doug

Southern Press

1974

16 leaves

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

18

With illustrations, a record of some of the mutitude of New Zealand shipwrecks, finishing with the 'Wahine'

3.000000

10.000000

20.000000

22.000000

24.000000

Early New Zealand Steamers  Vol 1 The Pioneering Years 1840-1861

 

Wilkinson, JD

Maritime Historical Productions

1966

x 230p

8vo

D-J (chips, fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

60

With maps and illustrations, the pioneer steamers that traded around the New Zealand coast from 1840-1861

6.500000

24.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

So ends this Day  an autobiography

 

Williams, Capt Sir John

Globe Press

1981

(6p) 226p (5p index)

4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, the life of this English Australian, from his years before the mast, developing a stevedoring business in Australia, then into marine salvage and the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission

6.500000

27.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Seventy Years in Shipping

 

Williams, Desmond I

The Graig Shipping Group of Companies, Stewart Williams Publishers

1989

119

Oblong 8vo

Cloth binding Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of Graig Shipping PLC

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The New Zealand Journal 1842-1844 of John B Williams

 

Williams, John B ; Kenny, Robert W (ed)

Peabody Museum of Salem, Brown University Press

1956

xii 120p (folding map)

4to

Maroon cloth binding, slight fading spine Near Fine

45

With map and illustrations, the 1842-4 journal of this observant 'yankee whaler' in New Zealand waters, in original glassine wrapper

5.000000

16.000000

30.000000

34.000000

34.000000

RMS St Helena and the South Atlantic Islands

 

Wilson, Robert A

Whittles Publishing

2006

vii 136p

8vo

P-B Near Fine

35

With illustrations, the author's years aboard this boat bringing the outside world to St Helena, including its service in the Falklands War

6.500000

25.000000

50.000000

45.000000

50.000000

The Anchor Foundry a history

 

Win, Pat W

Author Pub

2010

x 177p

4to

P-B Ex-library VG

25

Signed by the author, with illustrations, a history of the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company of Nelson, a very tidy ex-library copy

7.500000

25.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Cargoes  Matson's first century in the Pacific

 

Worden, William L

The Unversity Press of Hawaii

1981

xi 192p (1p)

4to

D-J (slight chips) Cloth binding VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a history of Matson's and the Hawaian shipping trade

6.500000

28.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Blue Water  stories from a life afloat

 

Wright, Lindsay

HarperCollins

2010

336

8vo

P-B VG - Near Fine

20

With illustrations, the author's experiences and reflections upon his many sea voyages

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Blue Water Kiwis

New Zealand's Naval Story

Wright, Matthew

Reed

2001

237p (1p)

Oblong 4to

D-J  Near Fine

45

A heavily-illustrated study of the wide-ranging contribution the RNZN has made to the defence of NZ and the expression of the national identity

5.000000

20.000000

33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Torpedo!  Kiwis at sea in World War II

 

Wright, Matthew (ed)

Random House

2007

272

8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

Editor signed, a collection of memoirs and tales by New Zealand naval servicemen in WW2, including being torpedoed

8.000000

25.000000

50.000000

50.000000

50.000000

Ships of Wellington the past 50 years

 

Young, Victor

Nivic Maritime Books

1999

104

Oblong 8vo

Laminated boards Near Fine

34

With illustrations, a compilation of some of the ships that have served Wellington and its harbour, from the sailing ship Pamir to harbour ferries, tugs, Interisland ferries, coastal freighters and container ships

5.000000

12.000000

25.000000

29.000000

32.000000

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