Shipwrecks
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BYRON, John.
The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron...
London, S. Baker, 1768.
Octavo, with a frontispiece; contemporary dark calf, rubbed; old rebacking, spine worn at top; various owners'...
First edition. 'Admiral Byron's narrative of the loss of the Wager is one of the most thrilling accounts in the...
Hill, 232; James Ford Bell, B642.
Australian: $3200 (Approx. US $3339, Euro €2320) Quote ref.
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CRAMP, W.B.
Narrative of a Voyage to India...
London, Sir Richard Phillips, 1823.
Octavo; title-page lightly foxed, else a very good uncut copy in neat old binder's cloth, joints repaired.
The only edition of this description of a visit to New South Wales in 1818 and one of surprisingly few accounts of a...
Australian: $985 (Approx. US $1028, Euro €714) Quote ref.
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[FLINDERS] TEGG, Thomas, Publisher.
Interesting Narrative of the Loss His Majesty's Armed Vessels the Porpoise and Cato...
London, Thomas Tegg, circa, 1808.
Octavo, [ii], 7-28 pp. (as issued), paper water-marked "1807", with a folding engraved frontispiece of the wreck of the...
Very scarce chapbook account of the wreck of the Porpoise and Cato off the Great Barrier Reef in 1803....
Ferguson, 474; Wantrup, 69.
Australian: $4650 (Approx. US $4852, Euro €3371) Quote ref.
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[FLINDERS, MATTHEW.] BRUNTON, Paul (editor).
Personal Letters from an extraordinary life.
Sydney, Hordern House for the State Library of New South Wales, 2002.
Octavo, 272 pp., 19 colour illustrations; bound in burgundy cloth with colour illustrated boards and a silk book ribbon.
The life of Matthew Flinders was indeed an extraordinary one. In just twenty-three years, from 1791 to his death at the...
Australian: $138 (Approx. US $144, Euro €100) Quote ref.
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JEWITT, John R.
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt...+.
New York, circa, 1815.
Octavo, stained and worn; original cloth-backed boards.
'With the exception of Dana's book, the best known and most popular of the early narratives of adventure and experience...
Hill, p. 156.
Australian: $985 (Approx. US $1028, Euro €714) Quote ref.
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KEATE, George.
An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean...
London, Printed for G. Nicol, 1788.
Quarto, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding maps and views; a good copy in contemporary marbled calf, sides a...
Keate's Pelew Islands was one of the most popular eighteenth-century books on the Pacific, and remains the main...
Hill, p. 160.
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LEE, Mrs R., formerly Sarah BOWDICH.
Adventures in Australia...
London, Grant and Griffith, 1851.
Small octavo, with four steel-engraved plates; modest preliminary foxing, some wear to front joint, good in original...
First edition of an imaginary travelogue for children featuring detailed yet entirely concocted descriptions of...
Ferguson, 11534.
Australian: $785 (Approx. US $819, Euro €569) Quote ref.
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McLEOD, John, Surgeon.
Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste...
London, 1818.
Octavo, frontispiece and coloured aquatint plates; a good copy in original boards.
The second and best edition, with numerous additions and alterations, of this famous account of the voyage of the...
Borba de Moraes, p. 507; Hill, pp. 188-9.
Australian: $1500 (Approx. US $1565, Euro €1088) Quote ref.
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MOSSMAN, Samuel.
Narrative of Shipwreck of the "Admella"….
Melbourne, J.H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November, 1859.
Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; scattered foxing, yet a good sound copy in original blind blocked plum cloth with...
Only edition: the harrowing tale of the wreck of the steamship Admella, lost on the South Australian...
Ferguson, 12896; Loney, 'Australian Shipwrecks 1851 to 1871', pp. 104-106.
Australian: $3000 (Approx. US $3130, Euro €2175) Quote ref.
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PERILS OF THE OCEAN.
Perils of the Ocean, or Disasters of the Sea.
New York, Murphy, n.d., circa, 1840.
Duodecimo, with woodcuts, ownership inscription dated 1881; worn and rubbed, but a very good unsophisticated copy in...
An early collection of maritime disasters in the original pictorial boards, including the story of the loss of the...
Huntress, 309.
Australian: $385 (Approx. US $402, Euro €279) Quote ref.
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