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  • The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages [Complete and Fine Set] – Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith

    The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages [Complete and Fine Set] – Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith

    The number one resource for the art associated with Cook’s three voyages all in fine condition

    Complete and in fine condition. Three volumes in four parts published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1985-1987.

    Each volume contains a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage

    Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771 with the art of the chief mourner (Joseph Banks), Alexander Buchan, Giovanni Cipriani, John Miller and Sydney Parkinson – 248 pages;

    Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775 with the art of John Cleverley, Peter Fannin, George Forster, Johann Reinhold Forster, Moses Griffith, Henry Roberts, Isaac Smith and the incredibly talented William Hodges  – 278 pages;

    Volume III: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 with the art of John Webber William Ellis and John Cleverley. In two parts of 234 pages and 235-670 pages;

    The entire work profusely illustrated in colour and black & white with appropriate appendices, bibliographies and indices. Folio with very good dust wrappers.

    Many of the illustrations were previously unpublished, and the text includes an account of each voyage and notes on the artists

    The Art of Cook’s Voyage never to be surpassed

    ON HOLD

    $680.00

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  • Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen’s Land [Two Works] – Harry O’May

    Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen’s Land [Two Works] – 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.

    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

    $30.00

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  • Francois Peron’s Natural History of Maria Island Tasmania. – Brian Plomley and Others

    Francois Peron’s Natural History of Maria Island Tasmania. – Brian Plomley and Others

    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 in fine condition.

    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.

    Peron knew his stuff when it came to Maria.

    $30.00

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  • Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

    Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

    Published by the Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart in 1974.

    A special maritime history of Van Diemen’s Land by the knowledgeable Alan Villiers. Superbly illustrated.

    Villiers himself crewed on the whale-ship Sir James Clark Ross into the Southern Ross Sea in 1923-24.

    Covers Captain Kelly (see Voyager book on 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”; the “James Craig”; the “Hobart Regatta”; the “Fram” (Amundsen) in the Derwent; the “velocity” and the “Tasmanian Cape Horn Trader in Hard Weather”.

    A smorgasbord of Tasmanian and cold water Sail

    $50.00

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  • Batavia’s Graveyard – The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny – M Dash

    Batavia’s Graveyard – The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny – M Dash

    First edition of Mike Dash’s book on the bloody Batavia story. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2002.

    Thick octavo, 398 pages including extensive bibliography. A very good. Illustrated with maps and charts.

    The Dutch East India vessel Batavia struck an uncharted 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 … only eight remained alive when help arrived three months later. The ringleader Jeronimus Cornelisz a failed apothecary and heretic.

    Gruesome true story of the strangest atrocities following a shipwreck off Australia in 1629.

    $35.00

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  • Flinders Chase [Kangaroo Island, South Australia] – Mervinia Masterman.

    Flinders Chase [Kangaroo Island, South Australia] – Mervinia Masterman.

    The first edition and much preferred edition published by Georgian House, Melbourne in 1950.

    Written and truly beautifully illustrated by Mervinia Masterman.

    Flinders Chase is a protected area of natural beauty on Kangaroo Island.

    Octavo, 62 pages, end paper maps, and numerous illustrations of flora and fauna. Dust jacket a bit roughed at its fold – forgive it – overall still and excellent copy.

    Kangaroo Island – now a classic reference.

    $30.00

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