Maritime

Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

Published by Unwin, London 1988. 262 pages with illustrations and end paper charts. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Galantin perhaps the most courageous submarine Captain in the US Pacific Fleet. His true story is full of the tension of the depth charge attack – Beats “The Hunt for Red October” hands down

Torpedoes away

$50.00

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The Cruise of the Marchesa – Guillemard (engravings by Whymper) -1889

Published by John Murray, London 1889.

The magnificent account of the voyage of the schooner yacht Marchesa from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1881 first to Ceylon, then via Singapore to Formosa and the Liu-Kiu islands to Japan. She left Yokohama for Kamschatka returning three months later, thence to China and Hong Kong at the end of March 1883 from where the Sulu islands were explored and then the Celebes and on to New Guinea.

Many maps and special Whymper illustrations. One of the most interesting Victorian travel accounts. Very good condition.

Superb voyage and natural history account

$180.00

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The Retospect: Or, Review of Providential Mercies: With Anecdotes of Various Characters, and an Address to Naval Officers – Aliquis (Richard Marks)

The author was formerly a Lieutenant in the Rpyal Navy, and now a Minister in the Established Church

Published in London by James Nisbet of Oxford Street, 1816, a first edition.

A contemporary half leather binding. 12mo. 239 pages. Green leather spine and corners over marbled boards. Corners lightly rubbed and scuffed but nicely presented and tightly bound. Spine with 5 raised bands with blind-stamp decorated compartments and original red leather title label. Clean text throughout. A very good copy of this scarce book especially the 1816 edition.

Marks, Richard (1778–1847) was born in 1778 at North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Marks. Enlisting in the wartime navy in 1797, he found a ready outlet for a self-described partiality for water, gunpowder, and ‘deeds of dangerous enterprise. Here he recalls how he immediately immersed himself in the opportunities for ‘unabated licentiousness’ of contemporary shipboard life, ‘the broad road of destruction, loud in blasphemy, and ever ready to burlesque the Holy Scriptures’. Two narrow escapes from shipwreck in successive ships seemed only to confirm him in a life he openly describes as deliberate rebellion against God. After returning to England in 1810, following thirteen years of unrelenting sea service, Marks relinquished prospects of further advancement in the navy in order to follow an inner call to the ministry. He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge and in 1813 he was ordained as a priest. He gave up his naval half pay, and served an initial seven-year curacy in a remote village parish. From 1820, following these ‘wilderness years’, as he later called them, he ministered for the remaining quarter century of his active life among ‘the humble cottagers’ of Buckinghamshire, as vicar of Great Missenden

Aliquis had experience

$120.00

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Antarctica Observed – A.G.E. Jones

Published by Caedmon of Whitby in 1982 a very fine copy.

The author Jones published this book in Whitby – he was an Antarctic expert of note. His mission here was to draw a proper conclusion as to who saw the Antarctic first – through thorough research of original logs and diaries and carefully re-plotting the tracks of Cook, Bellingshausen, Smith and Bransfield, Palmer etc all likely candidates. His conclusions are … in the book.

Special Antarctica by an expert

$30.00

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Captain James Cook and His Times – Fisher and Johnston

Published by ANU Press canberta in 1979 a very good near fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Cook from a different perspective and well researched and worthwhile. Interplay with Dalrymple, the geography of Northwest America, the Spanish reaction to his endeavours and his reputation in Russia .. and much more.

Another view of Cook and a good one

$35.00

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Poor Souls They Perished – Lemon & Morgan

Published by Hargreenin 1986 a well researched and thoughtfully illustrated account in very good condition.

In 1845 the Cataraqui went down in the Bass Strait with the loss of 400 souls – only 9 survived (saved by an ex-convict) despite the wreck being stranded just 150 yards from King Island.

Worst Australian Wreck

$50.00

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Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

The Cruise of the Marchesa – Guillemard (engravings by Whymper) -1889

The Retospect: Or, Review of Providential Mercies: With Anecdotes of Various Characters, and an Address to Naval Officers – Aliquis (Richard Marks)

Antarctica Observed – A.G.E. Jones

Captain James Cook and His Times – Fisher and Johnston

Poor Souls They Perished – Lemon & Morgan

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