Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints - Wooden Boat Festival

Voyager Rare Books
Maps & Prints
Wooden Boat Festival Catalogue
February 2025
Every two years Hobart celebrates with the Wooden Boat Festival—
if you are not there this year—7th to 10th February then start
making plans for the next one — you will not be disappointed. This
catalogue has a few boats in it or people that came in wooden boats
and a few that lost them and the odd yarn about someone in a boat.
• 19th Century watercolour of HMS Opal in the Pacific –1888
• David Collins — First Fleet Journal — 1804
• Thinker Bookends by Armor Bronze, New York—1920’s
• Tek Sing Treasure — 1822
• Map of the County of Cumberland — Freycinet — 1811
• James Cook’s Chart of New South Wales — 1770
• Bowhead Whale engraving—Lesson — 1838
• Mozambique Island — Petrus Bertius — 1603
• Clarie Coast Antarctica — Lithograph — Dumont d’Urvile — 1840
• La Belle Viscontesse Pochoir— Guy Arnoux — Bon Ton -1913
• Nou Hollande and La Grand Mer du Sud — Bellin — 1847
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Voyagers love Boats

Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints
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Tall ships on the Derwent — Hobart Wooden Boat Festival 2023
Photo credit — Voyager Bill

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Australian Squadron, HMS Opal off the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] 1886
19thC Marine Artist — D. F. Gillett
D.F. Gillett was an active British naïve marine artist in the late 19 th Century. This original
watercolour is of an event in 1888, and we take that to be the year of the painting.
A nice size 38cm by 22cm in frame 65cm by 88cm. the wooden frame of unusual and
pleasing design. The painting in very good condition, strong colours no fading or foxing.
HMS Opal was an Emerald Class Corvette. Despite having steam power, she was fully
rigged Barque. Built in Sunderland, England in 1875 she made her way to the Australian
fleet and served between 1885-1890, mainly in the Pacific.
Price $890.00
A rare subject HMS Opal in the Pacific off the New Hebrides [Vanuatu].
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First Fleet Journal - David Collins — Published 1804
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, with Remarks on the Dispositions,
Customs, Manners etc of the Native Inhabitants of That Country, to which is Added some
Particulars of New Zealand from the MSS of Lieutenant Governor King: and an Account of a
Voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr Bass; by which the Existence of a Strait
separating Van Diemen’s Land from the Continent of New Holland was ascertained.
Abstracted from the Journal of Mr Bass.
Published London 1804 by Cadell and Davies, The Strand. Second edition edited and
abridged by Maria Collins from the original work, augmented with new information.
Quarto, xx, 562 pages with 8 engraved in-text illustrations [2 coloured]; plus 24 engraved
plates [three coloured] and 2 maps. Bound in full speckled calf in period style by Perry. Gilt
title on red leather label, alternating maritime gilt decorations to compartments. Some
minor signs of cropping but nothing disturbing, the magnificent black and white full-page
plates are bright and clean. Coloured plates show a little age are super.
The last of the First Fleet Journals. It represents the earliest history of Australia … the
others being more personal narratives. The fine engravings taken from water colours by
Edward Dayes who in turn took them from drawings by convict artist Thomas Watling.
David Collins was Secretary to First Governor Arthur Phillip. He had joined the Marines and
had seen action in the American War of Independence. In 1786 he volunteered for the First
Fleet as Deputy Judge Advocate in the Marines. After two years the Marines returned to
England. Collins remained at some personal cost. On Phillip’s departure in 1792 Collins held
the fort until Hunter arrived in 1795. Collins left the next year. From his central role he
was in the perfect position to chronicle the events at the Colony.
The Chart of the Colony comprises the Three Harbours of Botany Bay, Port Jackson and
Broken Bay and the cultivated grounds in and around the different settlements, with the
Course of the Rivers Hawkesbury and Nepean. Frontispiece of David Collins.
Full page views include … Governor’s House at Rose Hill; by Water to Paramatta with a
distant view of the Western Mountains; Eastern view of Sydney; Western View of Sydney
Cove; Direct South View of Sydney; South East View of Sydney; North View of Sydney Cove;
The Brick Field, or High Road to Parramatta; View of Sydney in Norfolk Island;
There is also an unusual folding chart of New Zealand drawn by Too-gee.
Collins makes sympathetic comments regarding the aboriginal people and his Appendix is a
special work in itself … he covers their Government and Religion; Stature and Appearance;
Habitations; Mode of Living; Courtship and Marriage; Customs and Manners; Superstitions
etc The nine full size engraved plates are extra special and represent the very first
accurate portrayal of the Aboriginal inhabitants of the Sydney region.
Price $1,790.00
Collins First Fleet Journal with a Fine Set of Engravings
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Voyager = Thoughtful Gift

The Discovery of the Clarie Coast Antarctic
Dumont d’Urville – 26 th January 1840
Original lithograph by Louis Le Breton (1818-1866) published in “Atlas Pittoresque” to
accompany “Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’Oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee …
sous commandement de M.J. Dumont d’Urville”.
After discovering and naming Adelie Land (After d’Urville’s wife) on the 22 nd of January 1840
the Astrolabe and Zelee continued west in search of further land. A violent gale separated
the two ships and Dumont d’Urville feared that he might have lost the Zelee. The sea calmed
and the Zelee appeared and the vessels were re-united.
Shortly afterwards the Astrolabe encountered the US Exploring Expedition under Wilkes.
Dumont d’Urville heard of Wilkes’ intentions at Hobart and made haste to make his the first
discoveries. The encounter with Wilkes was strange. Through a misunderstanding Wilkes
thought his approach to the French vessel was rebuffed .. the French simply manoeuvred to
avoid any chance of a physical encounter in these difficult waters.
A couple of days later the French discovered further coastline which d’Urville named Cote
de Clarie after the wife of Charles Jaquinot Captain of the Zelee. This was on 26 th January
1840 and the event is recognised in this delightful lithograph. The US expedition also found
the Clarie Coast, but not until February.
Lithographed by P Blanchard on sturdy paper – 37 x 22cm to the edge of the image with very
wide margins. Overall in excellent condition.
Price $290.00 unframed – rare
Antarctic discovery of the Clarie Coast 26 th January 1840
Voyage of Dumont d’Urville.
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Let me
think about
that
What do we
have to do
with Wooden
Boats ?
The Thinker 1920’s — Bookends by Armor Bronze, New York.
Solid thoughtful pair of bookends by Armor Bronze who had a showroom on Fourth and then
Fifth Avenue, New York during the 1920’s. The company’s origins are not clear with some
sources saying 1890’s – for sure they existed in 1910 changing their name to Armor Bronze
circa 1920. They packed up circa 1930 and sold their gear to Marion Bronze.
Collectors and Bibliophiles bookends based on “Le Penseur” by Rodin. Very condition.
Stand 20cm high, weighing a hefty, book securing 3.0 kg the pair.
Price $360.00
Period Thinker Bookends – Don’t think too long
The Old Man and The Sea — Ernest Hemingway — 1956
Should be everyone’s favourite short read. Nobel citation – “his
powerful style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration,
as most lately revealed in his novel The Old Man and the Sea”
Published by Jonathan Cape, London an early edition 1956,
noting the Nobel Prize inside jacket. Octavo, 127 wonderful
pages. Very good copy bar signature back of front-end paper.
Dust jacket by Adriana Ivancich, an Italian poet of noble
Croatian background. She had a relationship with Hemingway
when she was 18 - he was 50 at the time. She was the
inspiration for Renata in Across the River and Into the Trees.
Price $60.00
Nobel Classic – Ernest Hemingway
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Easter Island Monuments — Published 1785
Original copper engraving from 1785 of the monuments at Easter Island. By Benard and
published in Paris as part of the French version of Cook’s Second Voyage.
“Moumens dans l’isle de Paques” a deep and dramatic depiction. Classical
overtones and, if you can see it, possibly “Daliesque” ...
36cm by 21cm with a near invisible central fold as issued. Strong thick paper and a
strong dark ink image. Very good condition ... will frame nicely
Price $90.00 unframed
Striking Image for the Easter island Curious
The Kon-Tiki Expedition — Thor Heyerdahl
One of the biggest selling modern maritime adventure
book. A very good copy. 1959 edition. Octavo, 235
pages with eighty odd photographic images.
Thor Heyerdahl set off on the most amazing raft
voyage with five companions determined to prove his
migration theories. This account, praised by Somerset
Maugham as “an incredible adventure which happens
to be true. It would be a very dull reader who did not
admire and envy the courage of the six men who took
part in it”. Very good copy.
We also have what appears to be an original
photograph of the raft on its way … the camera work is
rather shaky so clearly taken from another vessel.
Leaving Callao in Peru for Tahiti, they almost made it
running aground on the Raroia Reef were the raft was
smashed to smithereens.
Price $30.00
Kon-Tiki nice copy with photograph.

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H.M. Bark Endeavour
Her place in Australian History. With and Account of
her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a
Narrative of her Voyage on the East Coast of New
Holland in the Year 1770
The superior version of this important publication in
great condition. Issued by the Meiegunyah Press,
Melbourne in 1997. Ray Parkin produced this highly
researched work painstakingly illustrated with
charts and plans. The narrative draws on the
Journals and records of Cook, Banks and Parkinson.
There are 15 very large folding plans dealing with
the ship and its construction. A must for any
wooden boat historian.
Price $190.00
H.M. Bark Endeavour – every detail
Sent Forth a Dove - James Henderson
In 1606 the Dutch India Co. Duyfken found Cape York Peninsula.
The author reconstructs the adventure of this little ship and tells
of the building of the replica. Duyfken appeared at the Hobart
Wooden Boat Festival in 2023 and may be back this year. Voyager
photograph of the vessel in the Derwent shown here.
Softcover, large octavo, 218 pages, nicely illustrated.
Published by the University of Western Australia in 1999.
Price $30.00
The Duyfken made discoveries and looked so good doing it!
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Nou. Hollande and Pacific Ocean
Jaques Nicolas Bellin — 1747
A nice early map of the Pacific (“La Grande Mer du
Sud”) engraved in copper by French Cartographer
Bellin after a map by Moll for Dampier. Tropical trade
winds are shown. Interesting features such as the pre-
Cook form of New Holland, California shown as an
island and in the bottom right the Isles of Juan Fernando
where Dampier was to maroon Alexander Selkirk
of Robinson Crusoe fame.
Price $340.00 framed in charcoal coloured frame
1747 Century Pre-Cook Map of the Pacific
The Cruise of the “Cachalot”
Round the World after Sperm Whales
Frank Bullen - 1901
Published by Smith and Elder, London 1901 a second
edition in the more upmarket binding with the gilt
whale to the front board. Gilt titles to spine original
chocolate end papers.
Bullen, a homeless waif, went so sea at twelve years
old. After six years he landed at New Bedford,
Massachusetts were he secured a berth on the
“Cachalot” a whaler that would be his home for the
next three years. A ripping yarn of fact and fiction
based on the authors experiences on the “Splendid” of
New Bedford in whaling grounds off
“the Solanders, Vau Vau and the Australian Gulf”.
Price $140.00
Best Whaling Story according to Kipling

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First Edition Map of County of Cumberland in New South Wales
And Islands off Terra Napoleon.
Louis de Freycinet - 1811
Original copper engravingby Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779-1842). From
the second atlas of his maps from the Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes
(Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands) published by Langlois in Paris, in 1811.
The French intended to colonise Australia. The first volume was published in 1807.
The second volume containing the maps was in 1811 three years before Flinders.
Thick sturdy paper, strong plate mark, good definition. Dimensions 35cm by 26cm.
Authority Tolley reference Map, 618
Price $240.00 unframed
Freycinet accompanied Baudin on his voyage to complete the mapping of Australia.
Baudin leader aboard Le Geographie and Freycinet on Le Naturaliste. Whilst in Sydney
Baudin sent the Naturalist home with the records of their effort so far and purchased
a vessel from Philip Gidley King, the Casuarina, which he placed under Freycinet’s
command. Baudin died on the voyage home and the task of writing up the voyage fell
to naturalist Francois Peron. He in turn died before completing the work and the task
passed to Louis Freycinet who produced the magnificent accompanying atlas.
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Theirs is the Glory
Great Britain II and the Round the World Race.
A first edition 1974 of Chay Blyth’s brilliant book about
the Whitbread Round the World Race which he and his
crew won convincingly in Great Britain II.
It took them only 144 days to do the 27,870 miles in
four stages. Three competitors lost their lives during
this race , one from Blyth’s yacht. It was tough going at
times … they lost their spinnaker in the Roaring Forties
and snapped the mizzen which was fixed in Sydney.
Blyth an ex paratrooper crewed the boat with his own
selection of ex-paratroopers … they learned as they
went and they learned well.
Price $30.00
Chay Blyth confirmed his reputation on Great Britain II.
Two Against Cape Horn - Roth
A remarkable book by the adventurous Hal Roth. With his
wife Margaret they he had already completed a Pacific
voyage that won them the Blue water medal of the
Cruising Club of America.
Having purchased the “Whisper” they decided to Round
the Horn but not before an interesting sailing experience
through the archipelago of islands to the north of the
Cape. Enhanced by references to historic voyages
through these channels, including Darwin on Beagle and
before that Anson, his fleet and the loss of the Wager.
Within striking distance of the Cape the Whisper is
forced aground and damaged. Help was nearby and the
boat repaired and they finally made the Horn.
Price $30.00
A special book about the Horn and much more
plus historical perspective
Saved – Tony Bullimore
First edition of incredible tale of survival
and rescue in the Southern Ocean.
Bullimore was an entrant in the, only for
the daring, Vendee Globe round the
world challenge .. just look at the route
to see why daring!
Bullimore got into severe trouble
capsized and was trapped inside his
upside down hull. He was a bit out the
way … his resulting rescue produced one
of the happiest faces ever photographed.
Price $25.00
Bullimore survived the worst …

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The Cruise of the Dream Ship
Classic sailing adventure.
First published 1921, this is the 1950 edition same
publisher, Heinemann, London. Octavo, 265 pages,
numerous from period photographs. Super dust
jacket for seventy years old, a little aged in the ends,
internally very clean bright, a very good copy.
The Dream Ship was originally designed as a lifeboat for
the North Sea fishing fleet. Forty-seven feet with a
fifteen foot beam and eight foot draught … to start
there was no money to buy here … but these obstacles
are often overcome. Purchased, converted and fitted
out we are off to the Pacific … first down to Vigo, the
Canaries and over to the West Indies and Barbados.
Through the Panama and to the Galapagos and then the
Marquesas and the Paumoto Islands, Tahiti (its pleasures
and problems). Moorea, Palmertson (almost a
Hurricane), Savage, Friendly and on to Thursday Island
… Finally some advice to “Dreamers of Dream Ships”
Price $30.00
Sailing fantasy fulfilled on the Dream Ship
Two Yachts, Two Voyages — Hiscock
Few wrote better voyaging accounts than Hiscock. At
over 70 years Hiscock and his wife Susan crossed the
Pacific from their home in New Zealand to the West
Coast of Canada in the steel ketch Wanderer IV. They
changed their boat for the return a smaller slooprigged
yacht, transformed into Wanderer V. It was not
plain sailing on the return and repairs were required
along the way and she still had snags as she reached
her final destination Pittwater, Sydney.
Price $30.00
Across the Pacific and back with a change of boats –
always adventurous Hiscocks
Travellers on a Trade Wind — Marcia Pirie
Published by Frontier a first edition in near fine
condition, 1992. Octavo, 296 pages, well illustrated
with photographs by the author, charts, sketches etc.
Marcia and David Pirie gave it all up to sail their
home-built ketch “Moongazer” round the world. An not
the usual way … the total voyage took in some 70,000
miles of sailing. Not happy with the usual route after
the Panama they sail north from the Marquesas through
Hawaii up to the icy waters of Queen Charlotte Sound.
And then much more.
Price $30.00
Take nine years off
and follow the rout of Marcia and David!
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The Sextant Simplified — Oswald white
A Practical Explanation of the Use of the Sextant at Sea.
The “go to” book on the sextant published by Thomas Reed,
Sunderland, this edition in 1969.
From the simple “take an angle” understanding to the more
complex use and corrections required to get a solid and sure
position, quite useful really ...
Price $35.00
Sextant explained – enough to make you a mariner
– fill up the bathtub and go for it!
The Marine Chronometers — King
of the Baudin Expedition to Australia – 1800-1840
Offprint of the Journal of Antiquarian Horology, published in
1977. Softcover, large format, illustrations, charts, images of
the chronometers which look so advanced for the They were
fundamental in calculating true longitude.
A special digested account of the voyage, the
expedition timekeepers, records of performance etc.
Price $25.00
Baudin Expedition the use of the Chronometers.
La Belle Viscontesse –
Costume pour la Mer
Guy Arnoux for
La Gazette du Bon Ton – 1913.
A beautiful hand coloured
“Pochoir” by Pierre Guy Arnoux
(1886-1951) for the Paris Gazette
du Bon Ton, and an early one
published in July 1913.
The beautiful Viscountess dressed
for the Sea. Her outfit made from
printed muslin caught by taffeta
ribbons and a stylish short sailor’s
jacket – trendy for the period.
Price $90.00 unframed.
An early Bon Ton
and a rare nautical theme

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George Bass Discovery of the Bass Strait
Commemorative Medal - 1968
George Bass, Surgeon an Explorer carried out
two voyages to confirm the Bass Strait and the
separation of Tasmania (then Van Diemen’s
Land) from mainland Australia – known
affectionately here as “The Other Island”.
In 1797 he set off in an open whaleboat with a
crew of six. They sailed to Cape Howe at the
farthest point of South-east Australia and,
from there sailed west along the Gippsland
coast to Western Point, at the entrance to Port
Phillip. Observations of the rapid tide and long
south-western swell supported his view that a
large Strait lay in front of him.
In 1798 he set out again, with Flinders in the
sloop Norfolk circumnavigating Van Diemen’s
Land. They visited the Derwent River which
had previously been named by Captain John
Hayes. On return to Sydney, Flinders promoted
the naming of the Strait after Bass … the then
Governor, John Hunter agreed.
Bass’s later life was adventurous and … likely
…tragic, making the date of his death on the
medal questionable.
Struck in 1968 by K.G. Luke & Sons, Melbourne
for the Numismatic Association of Victoria. 160
example were produced in this bronze form
and a similar number in silver. 50mm diameter
with a high relief bust of Bass facing right,
carrying his spyglass. On the reverse an image
of the whaleboat, the sloop Norfolk an the
chart of the route; appropriately dated.
Price $140.00
Unusual medal celebrates George Bass
Signed as a gift by
the Author
The Life of George Bass – Surgeon and Sailor
of the Enlightenment – Miriam Estensen
Published by Allen & Unwin in 2005. Octavo, 259
pages, nicely illustrated and in fine condition.
A thorough account by the meticulous researcher
Miriam Estensen .. the endnotes and references
take up the last 35 pages.
Bass the surgeon, and a good one seemingly,
more at home on the waves as an explorer
adventurer. Later after much accomplished his
adventures turned to money making and off he
set for South America only to disappear. And
throughout all this his beloved Bess … who he left
following his primary passion. Estensen explores
all of this and provides insight regarding his
whereabouts at the end.
Price $30.00
George Bass a truly adventures medic.
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Joseph Conrad and the Barque Otago — Sir William Crowther - 1975
Bound notes by Sir William Crowther for the handing over of the restored companionway
superstructure to the officers’ cuddy from the Otago [Joseph Conrad’s ship].
Few produced so as scarce as it is brief. Quarto in size, bound in blue cloth covered
boards with gilt titles. Photograph of the glorious companionway affixed to front paste
down. Title, Preface and five pages typescript one side only. March 1975, fine condition.
The State Library received the structure through Crowther bibliophile and collector, a
number of years earlier at Risden, Hobart when the boat was broken up. It lay in
Crowther’s back garden for many years before being restored by Philip Fowler.
Nice potted history of Conrad’s early days when came to be Captain of the Otago. His
novel The Shadow Line, was about his voyage to Singapore to pick up the Otago.
Sir William Crowther not to be confused with his Grandfather of the same name who committed
some rather nasty acts. This Crowther gave up the collection of indigenous relics
to the Museum and these have since been given some overdue respect.
Price $50.00
Scarce almost unique work associated with writer Joseph Conrad.
Relic from the Otago
Skuttled in the Derwent, Tasmania
Past Captain being author Joseph Conrad.
Solid piece of wood with remnant from the
Otago which was sunk in the Derwent
before bits were reclaimed – in particular
scrap metal which went to Japan much to
the chagrin of the locals. And the lovely
companionway—subject above.
Inscription reads — Otago 367 ton Barque –
1869 Built Glasgow – 1900 used as a coal
hulk, Hobart – 1931. Stranded, Otago Bay
Derwent River, Tasmania. She was the only
command of the author Joseph Conrad.
Price $40.00
Conrad’s Otago – A remnant – and unusual
artefact with a literary connection.

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Gerard Mercator Trade Cards
A group of six brightly coloured trade cards by Liebig advertising their tasty products.
Produced c1910 and in very good condition. Comprehensive text in French on reverse.
Delightful chromolithographs depicting various phases in Gerard Mercator’s life.
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) a German-Flemish geographer studied at the University
of Leuven. He appears in the matriculation records of 1530 … they still exist! In 1569
he created the principles that we now call the Mercator projection, fundamental to
voyagers from that day forward. He produced a magnificent Atlas based on his
projection technique and made many fine globes sold to Royalty and gentry all over
Europe. Unfortunately, as were the time even though a devout Catholic he was
accused of heresy and spent six months in prison. Each of these elements of his life
is nicely displayed in this scarce card set.
Price $60.00
Mercator … his projection is everlasting
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The Men That God Forgot — R Butler
Published by Hutchinson’s London in 1975. Octavo,
254 pages, bibliography, maps. Very good condition.
The most remote penal colony in the world was
Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen’s
Land. In 1833 after eleven years of misery it was
decided to close it down and move the convicts to
Port Arthur. Ten convicts were chosen to construct
a Brig to make the voyage round the coast. They saw
their chance and seized the vessel and made their
escape … but as always there is more to the story.
Well researched fact backed novelisation.
Price $30.00
The story of the final escape form Sarah’s Island
through the Gates of Hell
Penguin Island — Anatole France
Translated from the French a most unusual fantasy
book by Anatole France, who was awarded the
Nobel Prize. A wayward Christian lands on an island
and mistakes some auks for noble pagans and proceeds
to baptise them. As this should only happens to
humans, when he finds out he transform the auks to
human form and from there the history of
Penguinia unfolds .. a satire emulating the history of
Europe and some strange affairs.
Price $30.00
Maybe underneath we are really all
penguins or auks?
Steve Young or
the Voyage of the “Hvalross” to the Icy Sea
The author George Manville Fenn was a prolific writer of
adventure stories for the young in the Victorian era.
A rare book and we cannot find the title on his “official’ list
of publications This edition circa WWI era .. we cannot find
any other contemporary copies available.
Hvalross is Norwegian for Walrus. Steve Young is an orphan
whose uncle, Captain Young has disappeared on a voyage in
and around Spitzbergen in the Arctic Ocean. The Captain’s
friends charter a boat the Norwegian “Hvalross” to search
for him. Sixteen year old Steve goes along much to the
disgust of the ships Doctor who thinks young fellows are just
a nuisance. Gales, storms, intense cold and Polar Bears …
strong currents complete darkness all add to the adventure.
Price $60.00
Scarce adventure on the “Walrus” up around Spitzbergen …

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Ocean Passages for the World
Superb set of Charts
A fine copy of the third edition prepared by
Commander H.L. Jenkins of the Royal Navy and
published by The Hydrographic Department,
Taunton, England. A Preface by Rear Admiral Hall.
This essential reference was first published in
1895, then 1923, 1950 and then this edition
1973. Revised and modernised each time.
Slipcase with folio volume plus wallet containing
numerous large folding charts. Folio bound in
blue cloth covered boards, gilt titles 258 pages
with 25 charts and diagrams some coloured and
folding. The work is divided into two principal
sections … Part I – Power Vessel Routes; Part II –
Sailing Vessel Routes. Also, the 1977 Supplement
of 11 pages, with additions, corrections and
other changes. Very good if not fine condition.
The wallet contains seven large (a metre or so
wide) charts and a viz … World Climatic Charts
(January and July); World Main Ocean Routes for
Power Vessels; World Sailing Ships Routes; Tracks
Followed by Sailing and Auxiliary Powered Vessels
and World Surface Currents .. and D6083
Loan Line Rules etc. Also, a ready reckoner …
Logarithmic speed, time and distance scale.
Price $80.00
Never be lost when the web goes down
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James Mario Matra — Voyager with Cook
His precarious life magnificently presented by Alan Frost
and The Miegunyah Press. A fine edition 1995 first.
Matra sailed with Cook on the Endeavour voyage and
published the account of that voyage anonymously before
the official account. He lost his inheritance in the American
war of Independence but was helped out by Joseph Banks.
He had grand plans of his own for NSW which did not come
to fruition .. he saw out his later years as Consul at Tangier.
Price $60.00
Matra the first to report Cook’s Voyage
Mon Voyage Aux Terres Australes
Journal Personnel du Commandant Baudin
illustre par Lesueur et Petit
Special French language book. Large octavo,
467 pages original illustrated softcover.
Very high standard of colour illustration.
Illustrations include 2 sketch plans, 2 maps,
4 charts and 10 facsimiles of manuscripts,
plus 96 colour plates with 195 illustrations –
including 5 insects, 5 animals, 96 fish and
marine animals. Also views and many coastal
views and 10 striking portraits of aboriginal
people. Very good near fine condition.
Voyage commences March 1800 at Le Harve;
to map the South coast of Australia with the
Geographie and Naturaliste. Nine naturalists
on the voyage. Reaching New Holland in May
1801, sailing the south coast meet Flinders
at Encounter Bay. Then Sydney and south to
Van Diemen’s Land reaching d’Entrecasteaux
Channel and Maria Island November 1801.
Over 2,500 new species were discovered.
Naturalist Francois Peron wrote to Napoleon
on ways to invade and capture Sydney Cove.
Price $80.00
Baudin his Journal in French as it should be
Francois Peron’s Natural History
of Maria Island Tasmania. – Brian Plomley et al
Another Plomley rarity we don’t expect to see again for
a long time. Published as part of the Records of the
Queen Victoria Museum in 1990.
Soft cover, 50 pages, with charts etc all fine.
Baudin spent three days circumnavigation Maria Island
in February 1802. Francois Peron was zoologist but also
made meteorological, geomorphic, botanical
observation – a multi faceted scientist was Peron.
Price $40.00
Peron knew his stuff when it came to Maria.

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Ice With Everything — Bill Tilman — Voyager Hero
Record of three related voyages by hero and adventurer Bill
Tilman. His ambition to make it into Scoresby Sound the
world largest fjord on the east coast of Greenland. The fjord
is bounded by Greenland’s highest mountain. Didn’t quite
make it … what was achieved was remarkable.
Bill Tilman (1898-1977) war hero, mountaineer and sailor
extraordinaire. Major Tilman served in the Artillery on the
Western Front gaining the Military Cross. Between wars he
grew coffee in East Africa and road bicycle 3,000 miles
across Africa, climbed Kilimanjaro and the Mountains of the
Moon. More than once teamed up with Eric Shipton. In 1936
he conquered Nanda Devi which at that time was the highest
mountain climbed. In WWII he re-joined the Artillery in
North Africa and the Middle East. He parachuted into Albania
worked with the resistance. Afterwards a diplomatic position
in Burma where he returned to climbing. On return to the
UK with age coming on he took to sailing as a means of
reaching unclimbed mountains. At the age of 80 he went to
climb in the Antarctic and died at sea in the South Atlantic.
Price $30.00
Tilman what an adventure what a life!
Sea Wanderers to Australia
Norman Martin’s UK hire business got into difficulty. This was
the stimulus for him and wife Sheila to give it all up and
spend five years at sea in their 42 foot ketch “Shebessa”.
Circumnavigating west to the Caribbean through Panama to
the Galapagos, on to Marquesas, Tuamato Group, Tahiti, Cook
Islands, Tonga, Fiji then down to Australia landing at Byron.
Down to Sydney and Melbourne before sailing for Lord Howe
Island and up to New Caledonia, Santa Cruz, Cheery Islands.
Through the Solomons to Rabaul and Madang before turning
back to Cairns and on through the Torres Straits and the long
sail to the Maldives. A voyage of some intensity.
Price $25.00
Martins in the Shebessa every beauty spot visited.
Come Aboard — Eric Hiscock
In 1976, New Zealander Eric Hiscock and his wife set off
on their third circumnavigation of the world. They
voyaged west from New Zealand in the jib-headed ketch
Wanderer IV via Durban to England, the Canaries and a
stop off in the West Indies before the Panama and across
the Pacific taking in the Marquesas, Tahiti and Fiji.
Nicely illustrated and with good technical dialogue.
Price $30.00
Fine sailing third time all the way
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Tasmanian Period Photograph
by J.C. Breaden
Boating on the River Leven
Good image of a boating trip on the
River Leve, North West Tasmania
c1930. Size 21cm x 15cm in good
condition with tiny crimping from a
previous mounting in the top corner.
J.C. Breaden was a gifted Hobart
photographer who was active from
1920. He died in 1947. The rear of
the photograph carries his stamp,
that of the Agent General Tasmania
and various notes.
Price $30.00
Boating in the River Leven, Tasmania.
Duodenal Ulcer - Moynihan — Ship’s Surgeon
Classics of Medicine Series. Large octavo, 379 pages
bound in full deep blue leather with lavish gilt work
to boards and spine. Page edges richly gilt, marbled
endpapers, silk marker ribbon intact.
A faithful facsimile of Moynihan’s key book on
duodenal ulcers published by Saunders in 1910.
Berkeley Moynihan, (1865-1936) joined the Navy —
studied medicine and rose to be surgeon. He went on
to do great things in medicine becoming President of
the Royal College of Surgeons in 1926.
Quoted … “to be a perfect surgeon one must have the
heart of a lion and the hands of a lady … and even
more poetically “Infinite gentleness, scrupulous care,
light handling and purposeful, effective, quiet
movements which are no more than a caress, are all
necessary if an operation is to be the work of an artist
and not merely of a hewer of flesh”.
Price $60.00
You could trust Moynihan with your duodenum
The Discovery of Tasmania
Another Duyker and Duyker piece with the assistance of
Edward Herman translating and examining extracts from
Abel Janszoon Tasman’s and Marion Dufresne’s journals.
Published in Hobart, never had a dust jacket, pictorial
boards. A very worthy contribution.
Price $50.00
Great content Dutch/French Tasmania

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The Dalton Journal — Whaling
Published National Library of Australia, 1990.
First Edition, 140 pages, illustrations and
bibliography. Original maroon cloth with title
lettered in gilt on spine and front board,
inlay of scrimshaw on front board, a fine
copy. No dust jacket as issued.
An account of whaling activities in the South
Seas. Provides an eyewitness account of the
death of James Cook recalled by a group of
elderly Hawaiians. Records the discoveries of
Phoenix Island and Canton Island.
Price $40.00
More than Whaling in this fine journal
Bowhead Whale (Balaena Borealis) -1838
Original copper engraving of the Bowhead Whale produced for Rene Primevere Lesson
(1794-1849) for his extension of the great natural history work originally produced by
Count Buffon. They were published in Paris in 1838. Lesson was a doctor and naturalist
in the Duperry voyage round the world on La Coquille (1822-1825).
The Bowhead inhabit northerly waters and is also known as the Greenland Whale or
Russian Whale. Much of our early understanding of this magnificent animal came from
the voyages of William Scoresby. The classification Balaena Borealis was given by
Lesson. The Bowhead has the biggest mouth of any animal hence Bowhead.
Price $180.00 framed.
Special early image of the large Bowhead Whale blowing
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A Young Pitcairn Girl - 1845
A beautiful hand coloured engraving from Die Volker des
Erdballs “The Peoples of the Globe According to their
Descent and Kindship” by German geographer Heinrich
Karl Wilhelm Berghaus (1797-1884).
Junges Madchen von Pitcairn … Young Pitcairn Girl.
Finely engraved in steel with vivid colouring and gum
Arabic applied to create highlights and depth.
Good condition the paper 25cm x 16cm. Would frame as
a nice library item for a Bounty/Pitcairn collector.
Price $80.00 unframed
Delightful engraving beautifully coloured
Cook’s Chart of New South Wales or the East Coast of New Holland,
discovered by Lieutenant James Cook,
Commander of H.M. Bark, Endeavour -1770
Carte de la Nle. Galles Meridle. ou de la cote orientale de la Nle. Hollande, decouverte et
visitee par le Lieutenant J. Cook, Commandant de L’Endeavour, vassieu de sa Majeste en 1770
Original copperplate engraving by distinguished cartographer Robert Benard of Cook’s chart,
published in Paris circa 1774. Large format 77cm by 36cm, original folds, coloured in outline.
On his first of three voyages James Cook discovered and charted the East Coast of Australia for
the first time and this chart resulted from that work. There are many interesting features
including Mt Warning, the Glass House Mountains (named as such because they reminded Cook
of the view of the coastal Glass Kilns the English south coast) and the record of the grounding
at Cape Tribulation before recovering the vessel in the Endeavour River in the Far North.
Price $690.00 unframed
James Cook’s Chart of New South Wales

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Voyages and Discoveries
William Dampier – the Argonaut Edition 1931
By Argonaut Press London this is the upmarket
edition spine vellum bound.
Published 1931, printed by Morrison of Edinburgh,
quarto, xxxvii, 376 pages. Printed on fine Japon
vellum paper. Wine-red cloth bound with gilt device
to front, true vellum spine with gilt titling. Limited
to 975 copies. Woodcut title by William Monk. Maps
all present. Very good copy of a desirable Dampier.
Good introduction by expert Clennell Wilkinson.
This introduction is what sets this book apart from
the numerous facsimiles.
Wilkinson explains the odd order of Dampier’s
recollections … not chronological, driven by the
need to get paid between various adventures. Early
Dampier in Central America where he had to roll his
sleeves up – and also his diaries. In desperation
whilst lost in Central American rainforests Dampier
swam several raging creeks. To protect his diaries
he used a sealed bamboo tube. Piracy was soon his
trade and then on to fame. He mixed with the rich
and was sought for upper crust social gatherings.
Jonathan Swift knew him, not quite as the cousin
he suggests of Gulliver Travels.
Part I Voyage to Achin, Malacca and Tonquin;
to Tenan and a journey inland to Cachoa; Tonquin –
Cambodia and Bencouli then Achin in detail. Part II –
Campeachy, Jucatan, Alcranes and the Island of
Pines. Part II The Discourse of Winds, Storms,
Seasons, Tides and Currents etc. Maps of the
Streights of Malacca; Bay of Campechy; View of the
General and Coasting Trade-Winds in the Atlantik
and Indian Oceans; View of the General and
Coasting Trade-Winds in the great South Ocean.
Price $130.00
William Dampier if only he was alive today.
Marine Paintings and Drawings in
the Peabody Museum – Brewington
First edition of a monumental
piece work. One of 750 numbered
copies this being numbered 383.
Large thick octavo, 530 pages
with close to 2,000 plates, many
in colour. Weighs 3.2 kgs.
The Peabody Museum at Salem
houses one of the world’s largest
collections of marine art … many
Chinese artists as well as leading
western names. Includes views
from the great era of discovery as
well as naval encounters, whaling
etc. Very good condition. A neat
addition in the end paper a simple
charming stitched Chinese junk.
Price $80.00
Super marine art reference –
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Tek Sing Shipwreck Treasure – 1822
Qing Dynasty decorated dish recovered by Mike Hatcher from the Tek Sing
shipwreck. Very nice condition. Beautifully decorated with bands of lotus
flower around a central spiral and alternate designs of lingzhi fungus and
fruiting peach. Bright and clean. 15cm in diameter 6cm high, weighs 220gm.
Retains Nagel [see notes below] auction sticker.
Price $240.00
Bright well decorated treasure from the Tek Sing
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The Tek Sing Shipwreck – Background
The Tek Sing (Chinese for “Bright Star”’) was a large Chinese Junk which sank
in 1822 in the South China Sea at the Belvidere Shoals. She was 50 meters long,
10 metres wide and a thousand tons. Manned by a crew of 200. The great loss
of life has led to the Tek Sing being referred to as the “Titanic of the East”.
Sailing from Amoy (now Xiamen), the Tek Sing was bound for Jakarta, with a
cargo of goods and 1,600 Chinese immigrants. After a month of sailing, Captain
Lo Tauko took a shortcut through the Gaspar Straits and ran aground on a reef
and sank in 100 feet of water.
The next morning and East Indiaman Captained by James Pearl sailing from
Indonesia to Borneo passed through the Gaspar Straits. He found debris from
the sunken Chinese vessel and survivors. They managed to rescue 190 people.
In 1999, marine salvor Mike Hatcher discovered the wreck. His crew raised
what has been described as the largest cache of Chinese porcelain ever
recovered. It was auctioned by Nagle in Stuttgart, Germany the following year

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Unique Historical Microscope Slide
HMS Dart Survey – Australian Waters 1897
HMS Dart was actively involved in Hydrographic and
Scientific Surveys in the Australian waters in the late 19 th
century. This unique slide of Foraminifera [single-celled
shelled organisms] collected at 38 degrees South 149
degrees East (South of Tamboon) in Eastern Victoria, to
the East end of the Bass Strait.
Comprising a numbered grid of 24 positions with forams
glued down (some have come loose over the years).
Price $120.00
Unique scientific record from Australia 1897
The Voyage of the “Scotia”
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration
in the Antarctic Seas
Rudmose Brown, Pirie and Mossman
A facsimile of the rare first edition published
Edinburgh in 1906. This edition by ANU, Canberra in
1978. Thick octavo, 375 pages illustrated and with a
chart of the track of the Scotia; a map of Laurie Island
South Orkneys and a large folding chart at the rear …
Bathymetrical Survey of the South Atlantic Ocean and
the Weddell Sea. A fine copy. The piper on the front is
naturalist Burn Murdoch … the first person to play the
bagpipes on the Antarctic … and also in the Arctic …
quiet an achievement.
Forward by Sir George Deacon which adds greatly to our understanding of the expedition
leader William Spiers Bruce and his colleagues who were joint authors of this account
William Spiers Bruce (1867-1921) was born in Edinburgh and was Scotland’s greatest polar
scientist and oceanographer. His greatest accomplishment is recorded in this account,
leading the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) to the South Orkney Islands
and Weddell Sea, where they conducted oceanographic explorations and discovered the
Caird Coast. They established the first permanent weather station in the Antarctic.
Bruce had been on the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892) having given up medical studies
to participate. In between he participated in Arctic Voyages to Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen
and Franz Josef Land. He wanted to joined Scott’s Discovery Expedition but it is said
that he fell out with Markham and therefore organised his own Scottish expedition. He was
a good friend of Mawson and provided gear towards Mawson’s later expedition.
Price $140.00
The Scottish expedition, an early one with significant achievements often overlooked.
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Captain Henry Byam Martin R.N.
Polynesian Journal
Captain Martin’s first command, H.M.S. Grampus
with orders to sail for Hawaii to await further
orders which were to sail for Tahiti the French
planning to subjugate the island, which they did.
The actual journal was in the bowels of the
British Museum … and is characterised by in the
moment observations and a sense of humour
regarding the struggle between the French and
the British and the oft hopeless position the
islanders found themselves in.
Price $40.00
Important lost journal — now found .
The Happy Isles of Oceania
(Paddling the Pacific) – Paul Theroux
Value for money, the best modern book by far on the
western Pacific – Oceania by the talented Theroux.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London in 1992 a
first edition. Thick octavo, 541 pages with maps at
the end for those that are unfamiliar.
Theroux was encouraged to visit the Trobriand
Islands by Malinowski’s “the Sexual Life of Savages”.
All of this is after the Land of the Long White Cloud
and before the paddle to Fifi and Vanuatu, Tonga,
Samoa, Marquesas. Then straying east to Easter
Island and up and back a bit to Hawaii and
“Paradise” … and some others in-between.
Price $30.00
Theroux throws his lot into the Pacific.
Polynesian Navigation — Golson
Andrew Sharpe stirred up the debate as to how the
Pacific Islands may have been settled. A symposium in
the 1960’s brought together some pretty good minds
on the subject. This third issue of 1972 contains extra
bibliography and a new forward by Jack Golson.
Includes ... The Accidental Voyage Theory by Parsonson;
Primitive Navigation by Hayen and Hilder; Sailing
Characteristics of Oceanic Canoes by Bechton; The
Geographical Knowledge of the Polynesians and the
Nature of Inter-Island Contact by Dening; Geographical
Knowledge of Tahitian etc etc
Useful map endpapers and charts within the text.
Price $35.00
The Pacific Solved – Maybe

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The Voyage of Jacob Le Maire and William Schouten 1615-1616:
Mirror of Australian Navigation. Originally translated by Alexander Dalrymple
Special production by Hordern House, 1999. Folio, quarter alum-tawed goat skin over
marbled paper. Printed on Raleigh Oxford cream paper .. a fine copy as if new.
One of 950 copies thus, 96 page of the original Dutch printing followed by 65 page
Dalrymple translation. 5 black and white and 7 colour illustrations and 3 colour maps
on double pages. Frontispiece world map as published in Amsterdam in 1618..
The objective of the voyage was further the lucrative trade in nutmeg and pepper by
forging a new route to the East Indies via South America and the Pacific, influenced by
the account of the voyage of de Quiros, the Portuguese navigator. In doing so it was
hoped that the Great South Land would be encountered.
Price $130.00
Adventurous Le maire – super production … quality book.
Encountering Terra Australia
The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew
Flinders – Fornasiero, Monteath and West-Sooby
First edition published by Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2004.
Quarto, 411 pages, illustrated with colour reproductions of
the artwork from the voyages. A very good copy.
Part I deals with the “Journey Out” and Charting the West
Coast of Australia … Baudin from Cape Leeuwin to the
Boneparte Archipelago. South-West from Leeuwin to Nuyts
Archipelago. Prospecting of Van Diemen’s Land and the
French in Tasmania. The race to chart the extended South
Coast. Meeting at Encounter Bay. Flinders and Baudin from
Encounter Bay to Port Jackson. Baudin on King Island and the
exploration of Kangaroo Island.
Part II — author’s views on “Reputations” arising and “Artistic
and Scientific Records” and inevitable “Clash of Cultures” ..
Price $50.00
Nicely Illustrated book on Baudin and Flinders down under.
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Ships Figureheads — 1931
Complete set of 25 vibrantly coloured
cigarette cards to promote John
Player’s cigarettes – issued in 1931.
The first time we have had this set and
already our favourite. A maritime delight.
Each card has an interesting
narrative on the back … awee bit better
and more informative than other sets.
Naval vessels include … Princess Royal,
Queen Charlotte, Colossus, Seahorse,
Bellerophon (We prefer “Billy Riffian”),
Royal Sovereign, Black Prince, Victory
(hurray), Terra Nova, Formidable etc
We have seen this set mounted for
display. One of the few that can still get
away with that treatment in the
“modern home”!
Price $80.00
Complete set and a nautical delight
Hornblower & the Crisis – C.S. Forester
Unfinished novel by C. S. Forester with two short stories ..
Hornblower and the Widow McCool; The Last Encounter.
Published by Michael Joseph, London a first edition 1967.
Octavo, 175 pages, a very good copy.
C.S. died before finishing he had written 130 pages — but
from the notes that he left behind it is possible to see how
the story would have ended … Hornblower’s conscience
about becoming a spy … Nelson’s wants …. And, the Victory
at Trafalgar. The short stories … good bedtime reading.
Price $40.00
A very good first of the very last of Hornblower.
The Young Hornblower – CS Forester
A super trilogy of Hornblower in his energetic years. Includes
Mr Midshipman Hornblower; Lieutenant
Hornblower and … Hornblower and the Hotspur.
Published by Michael Joseph, London, second
impression 1969. Thick octavo, 633 pages in very good
condition. Wrap around dust jacket art by Gorham.
Price $60.00

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The Struggle For Sea Power — Sam Wills
A Naval History of American Independence
A quality work by Wills on this important naval
period for all involved.
Published by Atlantic Books, London in 2015.
Thick Royal octavo, 573 pages, heavily illustrated
including important charts. Fine condition, and
hard to find in Australia.
The American Revolution was a naval war of
immense scope and variety – engagements took
place on five ocean – involving as the Americans,
British, French, Spanish, Dutch and the Russians.
Price $50.00
All about the War of Independence at sea.
In Search of Franklin — 2 Volumes
Journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854. Two
Years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS
Plover in the Search of Sir John Franklin –
Edited by John Bockstoce
Sir John Franklin’s expedition left in 1845 in
search of the northwest passage. Three
years later HMS Plover was the first to mount
what would be many expeditions in search of
the lost crew of the Erebus and Terror.
Hakluyt Society publication in two octavo
volumes published in 1988. 584 pages in total
illustrated and in fine as if new condition.
Of further interest is that this expedition
approached from the west whereas analysis
of the search for Franklin has tended to focus
on eastern approaches. The heart of this
book is based on the journals of Captain
Rochfort Maguire and it represents the
earliest account of sustained contact with the
Eskimos of northern Alaska. A detailed
introduction regarding the history, strategy
and logistics of the search and the conclusion
supplemented by other accounts of Dr John
Simpson who participated in a five boat expedition
from Point Barrow.
Price $60.00
Search for Franklin – First from the West
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Pilot Pete — Alan Villiers
Published by Angus and Robertson a 1963 edition of
Villier’s delightful book with a “save the whales message”
and he saved some ships as well .
Drawing on maritime adventurer Villiers experience
whaling in the Antarctic and the knowledge and superstitions
that surround encounters with a porpoise.
Porpoise Pete lived around Perseverance Harbour,
Campbell Island .. which is south-east of Enderby.
Nicely illustrated by H.T. Cauldwell. Octavo, 64 pages.
A very good gift worthy copy.
Price $25.00
Villiers wrote for all ages about the coldest of seas.
Vanished Fleets — Alan Villiers
Published by Cat & Fiddle Press Hobart in 1974.
Superb Maritime History of Van Diemen’s Land. Villiers
crewed with the whale-ship Sir James Clark Ross into the
Ross Sea in 1923-24. Covers Captain James Kelly; The
voyage of the “Woodman”; the loss of the “George III”; the
adventure of the whaler “Essex” and Captain Tregurtha’s
Log; Hobart Clippers and “Graveyard Island”.
The illustrations include – The Royal William; James Craig;
the Hobart Regatta; the “Fram” (Amundsen) in the
Derwent; “Tasmanian Cape Horn Trader in Hard Weather”.
Price $50.00
A smorgasbord of Tasmanian Sail
Whalers of the Midnight Sun — Alan Villiers
Maritime hero Alan Villiers brings his undoubted
experience to this adventure book for boys.
A new edition and first of its type, Angus and
Robertson 1964. Octavo, 248 pages with ten full
pages illustration from woodcuts by Charles Pont. A
little edge foxing and gift inscription back of half
title, nice jacket, all up a pretty good copy.
Endpaper maps of the voyage from Hobart to
Macquarie Island; Balleny Islands; Ross Sea;
Grahams Island before north to Montevideo.
A Norwegian expedition picks up some extra crew
at Hobart, a motley band of youths and a stow
away, little Alfie, who makes and appearance at
Macquarie Island. Adventure ensues.
Price $30.00
A yarn about Whaling, from personal experience.

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Rough Water
Stories of Survival from the Seas – Clint Willis
Worthy soft cover published by the aptly named
Adrenaline Books, New York in 1999. Octavo, 356
pages, fancy wrap card covers add to sturdiness.
Very good to better copy.
Mix of fact and fiction from Shackleton, Knox-
Johnstone, Trumbull on the raft with Patrick O’Brian
and Wauk (Caine Mutiny – let’s not forget Bogie!) then
on to cold water and David Lewis etc. Glossary and
bibliography at the end all help those new to the water.
Price $25.00
Survival at sea all from your armchair
Charles Robbins RN (1782-1805) – Olijnyk
First edition, self published, classy book. The author
a descendant of Charles Robbins.
Octavo, pictorial covers, 91 pages, end paper charts,
illustrated, unusual layout, quality production, fine copy.
Robbins joined the navy at twelve. By the early 1800’s he
had worked his way up to exploratory service around the
Australian waters. In the Cutter Integrity he discovered the
Hunter Group of islands in the Bass Strait off the North-
West of Tasmania – Robbins Island is named after him. All
done before Flinders who likely upscaled Robbins’ charts.
More could be said of his achievements – in 1805 still in
command of the Integrity he got involved in war with the
Spanish – captured a couple of Galleons – went to South
America and was never seen again.
Price $35.00
Robbins made a contribution — a great story.
Raroia – happy Island of the South seas.
A scarce book. The author was part of the Kon-Tiki
expedition. They were shipwrecked at Raroia a coral
atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, east of Tahiti.
Danielsson and his wife returned there and spent a
year and a half enjoying the relaxed lifestyle. A very
funny account but there is tragedy in the death of a
key character and the inevitable cyclone.
Perspective .. in 2012 the population of Raroia was
233, there is nowhere to stay so visitors are always
invited to stay in the homes of maybe the
friendliest people on earth!
Price $30.00 Unusual Pacific account
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Admiral of the Ocean-Sea (Columbus)
Mary Johnston - 1927
Very good copy of the 1927 edition published by
Butterworth, London. Rare with the dust jacket.
Novelisation of the adventures and achievements
of Columbus. Octavo, 319 pages, protected by a
pretty good dust jacket – as we say a scarcity.
Double page chart of the voyages near the front.
Some age to page edges otherwise super.
The discovery of America funded by Isabella of
Spain. Through the eyes of Jayme de Marchena a
common seaman who rises to be ships physician
and Columbus’s trusted friend and adviser.
Price $40.00
Columbus and his adventures and discoveries.
The Atlantic Ocean — George Kay
First edition 1954 and not at all dated history of the
Atlantic. From early Viking days … then Columbus,
Cabot, Drake, Raleigh etc. The great islands and
Voyager’s favourite St Helena. And in the air … the
Alcock and Brown non-stop 1919 from Newfoundland.
Slavery. Whaling. The fierce battles of WWII.
Quite a subject list for one book.
Price $25.00
The Atlantic – a very good reference
Captain Caution – Kenneth Roberts
First UK edition published by Collins, London 1949.
American historical adventure writer Roberts highly
regarded at the time compared, by some, with
Dumas and Victor Hugo … high praise indeed.
Octavo, 255 pages with the super period dust jacket.
A fine copy the condition surprising considering age.
In the main concerning the American War of
Independence. Our hero Captain Marvin sticks it up
the British but not without a period of imprisonment
in the hulks … escapes and takes a prize in true
Hornblower fashion. He escapes to France and is
victorious in a thrilling naval battle off Madeira.
Price $25.00
Captain Caution is not so Cautious.

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Batavia
The first and last voyage – Phillipe Godard.
Published by Abrolhos, Perth in 1993. Quarto, 332
pages, a high quality production. Fine condition.
Well researched and stunningly illustrated our
favourite Batavia book. All about the V.O.C.,
Francisco Pelsaert, the voyage and the Houtman
Abrolhos and the wreck, Cornelisz’ Webb of
treachery, Cat’s Island … and then much later the
discovery of the wreck the treasures and the
building of the replica and rebirth.
Price $60.00
Become a true Batavia Expert –
a photographic delight
I Thought it
was a wooden
boots festival
Ventriloquism For Beginners
A Complete Set of Lessons in the Art
of Voice Magic – Douglas Houlden
Published by Kaye & Ward, London
revised in 1967. Large octavo, 63
pages with numerous sketches and
photographs. A nice copy.
A super guide … a bit like playing the
didge … practice makes perfect and
we have the techniques carefully
explained. Advanced ventriloquism
includes … the muffled voice, the
distant voice, drinking (whilst talking)
etc. After learning how to do the
basic letters and covering up the B’s
with G’s we have the labial sounds.
$30.00
Could be a lot of fun?
Batavia’s Graveyard
True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s
Bloodiest Mutiny.
Mike Dash’s book on the bloody Batavia story.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2002.
Octavo, 398 pages including bibliography. A good copy bar
with the usual light even browning. Maps and charts.
The Dutch East India vessel Batavia struck a reef off the
West Coast of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629. A
total of 332 men, women and children were on board. A
few headed off in a life boat to seek help. The remainder
ended up on a small coral island less than a kilometre long.
A band of mutineers began a cold – blooded killing spree …
eight remained alive when help arrived three months later.
The ringleader Cornelisz a failed apothecary and heretic.
Price $30.00
Gruesome true story of the strangest atrocities.
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Mozambique Island – Bertius -1603
One of the most striking and coveted miniature island maps from
the early 17 th Century – Insulae & Ars Mozambique. Engraved by
Pieter van den Keere for the great geographer Petrus Bertius and
published by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam in 1603 for the
“Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri”
Price $260.00 framed in Voyager miniature style
Charming sought after 400 years old
Website: www.voyagerhobart.com
Contact: Voyager Bill at info@voyagerhobart.com
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