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GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Maritime History GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Established 1945 Postal Address: (A.C.N. 005 928 503) Electronic communications: P.O. Box 1030, ABN: 68 893 979 543 Telephone: +61 (0)3 9459 5040 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, FAX: +61 (0)3 9459 6787 Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 108 - 2014. Maritime History. Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 1 Abranson, Erik. SHIPS OF THE HIGH SEAS. With 20 paintings by Edward Mortelmans. 4to, First Australian Edition; pp. 128(including pastedowns); endpaper plans, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, glossary, index; original slick illustrated papered boards; a fine copy. (Stanmore); Cassell Australia; (1976). ***An historical survey. #21651 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 2 Admiralty: MANUAL OF SEAMANSHIP. Volume I [and II, of three]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo, First Edition (in this form); Vol. I, pp. viii, 290, [2](blank); 10 coloured plates (1 folding), 1 b/w. plate, 235 text figures, index; Vol. II, pp. xiv, 854; 21 coloured plates, nearly 400 figures, several tables, glossary & 3 other appendices, index; original cloth (spine to Vol. II, faded); very good copies. London; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office; 1951-52.***A further volume was issued in 1954. #9381 A$120.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 3 Admiralty Charts: SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED ON ADMIRALTY CHARTS. 4to, First Edition, Second Impression; pp. 76(last blank); numerous coloured illustrations, index; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy. [Taunton, Somerset; Hydrographic Office; 1992]. #30604 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 4 Alexander, Caroline. THE ENDURANCE. Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. In association with the American Museum of Natural History. [With the astonishing unpublished photographs of Frank Hurley]. Square 4to, First Edition, Fifteenth Impression; pp. [x], 214; numerous illustrations from photos by Hurley; original quarter cloth; a fine copy in dustwrapper. New York; Alfred A. Knopf; 2006. ***Printed and bound in the U.K. #64840 A$85.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 5 Antarctica: THE ANTARCTIC PILOT. Comprising the Coasts of Antarctica and all Islands Southward of the usual Route of Vessels. Fourth Edition, 1974. [Prepared by Captain G. A. French]. Med. 4to, 4th Edn.; pp. xviii, 336, [2]; 4 col. & numerous b/w. full-page charts, 1 col. plate, 63 b/w. plates, numerous full-page & other text illusts., index; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine & front board (very slightly marked; some very faint foxing); a very good copy; scarce. [with] SUPPLEMENT No. 1-1976 TO THE ANTARCTIC PILOT, Fourth Edition, 1974, corrected to 20th February 1976. Med. 4to, pp. [iv], 6; coloured chart, 4 illustrations; stapled as issued. London; Hydrographer of the [Royal] Navy, 1974-76. ***Not in Spence; Renard 41. #18204 A$320.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 6 Arrowsmith, John. THE MARITIME PORTION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA from the Surveys of Captn. Flinders & of Col. Light, Survr. Genl. Facsimile Edition; folding coloured map, 520 by 425 mm approx.; original textured papered boards, gilt; a fine copy. Hampstead Gardens; Austaprint; 1978. ***First published in 1838. #46185 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 7 Ashley, Clifford W. THE YANKEE WHALER. With an Introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy and a Preface to the pictures by Zephaniah W. Pease. 4to, First Edition; pp. xxvi, 158; coloured frontispiece, 15 coloured & 111 b/w. plates, 12 text illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index; original quarter buckram (spine faded & a little stained; some occasional minor foxing; portion of inscription on half-title blacked out); top edge gilt, others uncut; a very good copy; very scarce. Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge; 1926. ***Edition of 1625 copies. #9003 A$450.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 8 Aylward, W. J. SHIPS. And How to Draw Them. Oblong 8vo; pp. [48]; numerous illustrations; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a nice copy. New York; Grosset & Dunlap, A Filmways Company; (1957). #30481 A$18.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 9 Baker, William F. RUNNING HER EASTING DOWN. A documentary of the development and history of the British tea clippers culminating with the building of the Cutty Sark. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. xiv, 170, [6](blank); endpaper & 2 other maps, coloured frontispiece & 4 coloured plates, 66 b/w. illustrations, 10 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a fine copy in very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Caldwell, Idaho; The Caxton Printers, Ltd.; 1974. ***The Story of the Cutty Sark and other Great China Clippers. #21242 A$125.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 10 Ballard, Robert. EXPLORING THE TITANIC. Edited by Patrick Crean. Illustrations of the Titanic by Ken Marschall. 4to, First U.K. Edition; pp. 64; map, numerous coloured & b/w. illustrations, chronology, glossary, references; original pictorial papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper (with “wall poster” on inner side). [London]; A Madison Press Book Produced for Pyramid Books; [1988]. ***A nicely produced and informative book for younger readers. #23521 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 11 Beken, Kenneth. J. BEKEN OF COWES. A Century of Tall Ships. With a Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. With photographs by Frank William Beken, Alfred Keith Beken, Kenneth John Beken. Roy. 4to, First Edition; pp. 224; frontispiece, 97 full-page coloured & 3 double-page coloured plates, 4 full-page b/w. plates, numerous other b/w. illustrations; original papered boards (a little marked; new endpapers, with “cancelled” stamp on front endpaper, but no other markings); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Harrap; (1985). #17869 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 12 Bourne, William; of Gravesend, a Gunner (c. 1535-1582). A REGIMENT FOR THE SEA and other Writings on Navigation. Edited by E. R. G. Taylor. First Modern Edition; pp. xxxvi, 464; 16 plates (including 1 folding & several full-page charts), several text illustrations, reproductions of early title-pages, tables, etc., 3 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; a very good copy in worn & slightly defective dustwrapper. Cambridge; Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press; 1963. ***Originally published in 1574. The work was perhaps “the earliest technical manual written by an Englishman”. Hakluyt Society Second Series, No. 121. #41124 A$75.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 13 Braynard, Frank O. STORY OF THE “TITANIC”. Postcards. 24 Ready-to-Mail Cards. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. [12]; 24 fine b/w. photographic illustrations, perforated for separation into postcards, notes; original stiff wrappers; a fine copy, as issued. (New York; Dover Publications, Inc.; 1988). #23527 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 14 Brown, Son & Ferguson: NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. Two issues of this long-running journal. 8vo; pp. x, 71-140; [and] x, 211-280; original wrappers; fine copies. Glasgow; Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd.; 1997. ***Vol. 257, No. 4 and Vol. 258, No. 2, April and August, 1997. #32886 A$10.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 15 Browne, J. Ross. ETCHINGS OF A WHALING CRUISE, with notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To which is appended a brief History of the Whale Fishery, its past and present condition. By J. Ross Browne. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood. New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. 1846. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xvi, 580, 8(adv.); 8 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece), numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text (including 5 full-page plates), appendix on the European and American whale fisheries and characteristics of various whales; original cloth (spine faded & a little worn; waterstain throughout, mostly in lower & upper inner margins; occasional foxing); a very good copy; very scarce. New York; Harper & Brothers, Publishers; 1846. ***Spence 197; Jenkins, page 84 (listing only a London edition of 1846 & a New York one of 1850); not in Forster or Forbes, although the appendix refers to whaling in the Pacific and mentions Honolulu; Hill, 2nd Edn., 197 (London edition of 1846): “The narrative provides one of the few accounts we have of what life was like in the whaling fleet of the 1840s written by an intelligent and sensitive observer.” #64880 A$1250.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 16 Bryce, Graham. THE SKETCHBOOK OF HMS ENDEAVOUR. 4to, First Edition; pp. 80; 33 full-page illustrations, glossary, bibliography; original slick pictorial papered boards; portions of dustwrapper loosely inserted (reproducing the boards, but including biographical information from the flaps); a fine copy; scarce. Sydney; Collins; (1983). ***With Geoffrey Ingleton’s bookplate. An attractive, intelligent book for children, comprising extracts from Cook’s journals with commentary by the author illustrated by his fine sketches. #19212 A$65.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 108 2014. 17 [Callander, John]. TERRA AUSTRALIS COGNITA: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Containing an Account of the Manners of the People, and the Productions of the Countries, hitherto found in the Southern Latitudes; the Advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great Continent, and the Methods of establishing Colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a Preface by the Editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial Questions are discussed.
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