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F J Thwaites, Sydney 1934. 25.0 x 18.0cms, 890pp, b/w illusts, 2 very good- hardback volumes (no dustwrappers). Volume II has a tear at the top of the spine. This mariitme history covers the adventure, romance and tragdies of Australia's maritime history: shipwrecks, piracy, murders, mutinies, heroism, cannibalism, whaling, pearling , (convict and kanaka) transportation etc.

Sydney, Australia: F J Thwaites, 1934. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 185mm x 250mm. Light wear to cloth. Rough cut fore and bottom edges are evenly tanned. Foxing to endpapers and pastedown, otherwise internally clean. Bindings tight. 411pp and 478pp HEAVY SET. ADDITIONAL POSTAGE TO REGIONAL AREAS AND NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING..

F.J. Thwaites Ltd, 1936. Good++/No Dust Jacket. Hardcovers: Each of two volumes signed by author. Previous owners stamp, date and name on first endpapers. Light green 'novelty' cloth bindings with title on spine in gold. Corners are worn and rubbed. Back paste-down in volume one is partially torn away. Endpapers and deckle-edge pages are foxed. Migration to California and to Australia for gold. Sail, Steam, shipping are all discussed in the migrations. Nice tight bindings. .

Sydney: Thwaites, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Sydney, Thwaites, (1934 and 1936). Quarto, two volumes, 411 and 478 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Cloth; tiny light waterstain to the inner margins (deep in the gutter) of the first ten leaves; essentially an unused set.