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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970. 252 pp., last blank, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, index. Within the text there are 16 pages of black and white photographs. Bottle green boards with gilt writing on spine. Light age toning of the page edges. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a sailing ship, with green background and white black writer front panel and spine. The top edge of the dustwrapper is rubbed and chipped, rubbing to the corners of the foldovers. A good copy notwithstanding. Since 1622 when the ship "Tryal" was shipwrecked on the West Australian coast, the first recorded European shipwreck, there has been a succession of disasters, shipwrecks and dramatic events in the southern seas. This book tells of these events.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good/Reasonable -- Price Clipped. 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Maritime.