Maritime

Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters – Harry O’May

Self published printed by the Tasmanian Government printer. Not date but first edition 1950′s. Very good condition, Marjorie Morgan OAM’s copy with her ownership label on the free end paper.

Octavo, 209 pages plus … Index; List of King island wrecks; List of Macquarie Island Wrecks and List of Vessels Hulked at Hobart. Many great illustrations from early photographs at the rear.

Harry O’May’s comprehensive book on Tasmanian shipwrecks. Folding map at rear showing each known wreck location. All the wrecks (many of them) listed chronologically from the early days of the East India Co up to the Alvena in 1951

Tasmanian Wrecks in Full

$60.00

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Cook the Discoverer – George Forster

Small quarto, number six in the prestigious Maritime series published by Hordern House in 2007. Limited to 1050 copies, 276 pages, bound in quarter tan kangaroo with speckled papered sides. Fine condition as new.

The book includes a facsimile of the original book published in the German language with a new English translation to follow. Copious notes and a good bibliography the whole supported by an excellent introduction by Nigel Erskine, Curator of Explorations at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

It was eight years after the death of Cook that Forster completed his essay on the great man Cook der Entdecker (Discoverer). Partly written as an introduction to Forster’s own translation of Cook’s Third Voyage. Foster had participated in Cook’s second Voyage along with his father who had taken over as naturalist with Joseph Banks dropping out. Forster displays a true understanding of the character of Cook and that alone makes his viewpoint worthy of this sumptuous presentation by Hordern House.

Forster required reading for all Cook followers

$190.00

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Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen’s Land – Harry O’May

Published by the author a fine copy of the second impression 1978.

Octavo, 137 pages plus 101 pages indices not paginated. Very clean superb dust jacket.

This is a first edition of Harry O’May’s compilation of two books packed with historic detail about the Tasmanian early whalers – superb photographic record nowhere else seen.

One of the best Tasmanian Maritime

$40.00

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An Imperial Disaster – The Wreck of George the Third (off Bruny Island) – Michael Roe

Published in Hobart by Blubber Press in 2006. Large octavo, 293 pages, well illustrated and in very good near fine condition.

This limited edition (750) book by Michael Roe is packed with research.

On 12 April 1835 the George the Third hit a rock entering the D’Entrecasteaux Channel with the loss of 133 lives all but six convicts. Essential Tasmanian reading.

More than a shipwreck book

$55.00

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The HMS Challenger Expedition 1872-1876 Centenary Celebration of Visit Tristan da Cunha – Mint Stamp Set

The British protectorate of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic is the most remotely populated place in the world. There is no airstrip or internet and the population is circa 300. They rarely get visitors. The main island is Volcanic and an eruption in the 1960’s saw the whole population leave for a couple of years and live temporarily in the UK. The main island is 38 square miles and the main endeavour unsurprisingly is fishing.

The mint stamp set issued in 1973 comprising 4,5, 7 1/2 and 12 1/2 pence and show the Challenger, the Pinnace off Nightingale Island, World map of the Voyage and the Onboard laboratory as well as schematics of deep sea sounding apparatus.

Postage will be reduced appropriately to cost on charging.

A nice commemorative set aligned to the Challenger Expedition

SO SORRY SNAPPED UP!

$12.00

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Australian Shipwrecks – Volume 4 – (1901-1987) – Jack Loney (Signed by the Author)

Volume 4 of this cornerstone Australian wreck series. Loney’s update and extension to the period 1901- 1986 and the standard is maintained.

Small quarto, 284 pages, heavily illustrated from period photographs.

Published in 1987 and signed by the author on the Title Page. A bit foxed on the page edges, other than that it is a bright copy in a complete and unmarked dust jacket.

Essential Australian Shipwreck

$50.00

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Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters – Harry O’May

Cook the Discoverer – George Forster

Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen’s Land – Harry O’May

An Imperial Disaster – The Wreck of George the Third (off Bruny Island) – Michael Roe

The HMS Challenger Expedition 1872-1876 Centenary Celebration of Visit Tristan da Cunha – Mint Stamp Set

Australian Shipwrecks – Volume 4 – (1901-1987) – Jack Loney (Signed by the Author)

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