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  • Special Graf Zeppelin Stamp Set – Greece 1933

    Special Graf Zeppelin Stamp Set – Greece 1933

    In 1933 Greece issued a set of stamps 30, 100 and 120 Drachma to commemorate the first flight of the Graf Zeppelin from Germany to Italy. The image is of the airship over the Acropolis. Here we have an example of each in unused condition with very light evidence of the use of hinges (LH) see scans.

    25,000 sets were issued on 2nd May 1933.

    Zeppelin stamp collecting is popular worldwide. Specialised catalogues exits on the subject.

    Price $120.00 the set … postage cost likely reduced dependent on your location. Safely packed.

    We have a collection of Zeppelin stamps and would be happy to do a deal on multiple items.

    Special Zeppelin flight commemorated and collectable.

    $70.00

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  • Red Mains’l – E.A. Pye – First edition 1952

    Red Mains’l – E.A. Pye – First edition 1952

    Published by Herbert Jenkins, London a first edition 1952. Octavo, 199 pages well illustrated and with endpaper maps. Very good condition albeit some age given its age.

    The Pye’s purchased Moonraker for twenty five pounds. She had been built at the end of the 19th Century and the builder had been paid an additional fifteen pounds then to make her “Extra strong”. She had been used as a fishing vessel so the Pye’s had to fit out the cabin and make quite a few improvements before they set off on an adventure of a lifetime.

    They head out from Fowey south to the Canary Islands and across to Barbados and skirt the northern West Indies to the Bahma’s and Florida before a return voyage through huge seas via Bermuda and the Azores.

    North Atlantic in a converted fishing boat – The Royal Cruising Club’s … outstanding Cruise of the Year.

    $25.00

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  • The Last Voyage of the Schooner Rosamond – Haakon Chevalier

    The Last Voyage of the Schooner Rosamond – Haakon Chevalier

    A first edition published by Andre Deutsch, London in 1970. Octavo, 248 pages including “Glossary of Nautical Terms” Illustrations limited to the endpaper maps and the schematic of the vessel. Reflects the lengthy delay to the publication of the account.

    It is 1920 and Haakon Chevalier and Donald Snedden decide to skip University to experience the last voyage of the four-masted schooner Rosamond. And what an experience. Just check out the chart of the voyage and imagine the sailing conditions in more than one or two spots. Great narrative.

    Hard to beat a four-master on its final mammoth voyage.

    $25.00

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  • Sea Wanderers to Australia – Martin

    Sea Wanderers to Australia – Martin

    Published by Macmillan, Sydney a first edition 1977. Octavo, 192 pages with endpaper maps and nicely illustrated. A very good if not fine copy.

    Norman Martin’s car hire business got into difficulty as UK Governments changed the rules. This was partly the stimulus that drove him and wife Sheila to give it all up in 1970 and spend five years at sea in their 42 foot ketch “Shebessa”.

    And what an adventure. Circumnavigating west to the Caribbean through Panama to the Galapagos, on to the Marquesas, the 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 on up to New Caledonia, Santa Cruz, Cheery Islands. Through the Solomon Islands to Rabaul and on to Madang before turning back to Cairns and on through the Torres Straits and the long sail to the Maldives. The voyage continues with equal intensity.

    Martins in the Shebessa a full voyage every beauty spot visited.

    $25.00

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  • Sails Full and By – Dom Degnon

    Sails Full and By – Dom Degnon

    Published by Sheridan House, Dobbs Ferry a first edition 1995. Octavo, 244 pages illustrated. Very good near fine condition.

    A seven-year circumnavigation in the 41 foot ketch “Taku”. With so much time they need a full crew of friends and family who come and go during the “voyage”. With more time than some they have more time for the exotic .. and in the Pacific Ahe, Tahiti, Samoa, Sunwarrow, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. Then off to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea and then difficulties with the boat and they just made it to Australia’s Lizard island. And then more ….

    A long time around the world an unusual narrative

    $25.00

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  • Of Ships and Men – Alan Villiers

    Of Ships and Men – Alan Villiers

    Published by Newnes, London in 1964 after the 1962 first. Tall octavo, 206 pages heavily illustrated. Very good condition and the best printing of a book published in a number of forms.

    A personal anthology by the Master Mariner. In chronological order with “The Build-up” … the opening sentence is “There were sailing ships at the bottom of our street – real sailing-ships, I mean – Cape Horners, four-masted barques, fully-rigged” …. love it!

    Then we are off with … “The Real Thing” and then “Steamships” and “Little Ships” and “War”.

    Villiers unique knowledgeable writing style

    $25.00

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