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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. THE STORY OF THE WRECKING OF THE 17TH CENTURY VESSEL,THE BATAVIA, OFF THE COAST OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, ITS REDISCOVERY AND RECLAIMATION. AN ALL ROUND HARROWING INCIDENT.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Size 290mmX220mm. This book is the fruit of four years' intensive research in European, South African and Australian archives. It is also the first to relate the Batavia tragedy in text and image. Scientific exactitude, a breath of adventure, wealth and beauty of illustration : every reader will find this book a source of satisfaction and all those who are who are thrilled by the great dramas of the sea and who are interested in our nation's contribution to the written history of the world will want to have this book in their library.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Size 290mmX220mm. This book is the fruit of four years' intensive research in European, South African and Australian archives. It is also the first to relate the Batavia tragedy in text and image. Scientific exactitude, a breath of adventure, wealth and beauty of illustrations: every reader will find this book a source of satisfaction and all those who are thrilled by the great dramas of the sea and who are interested in our nation's contribution to the written history of the world will want to have this book in their library.…

4to, pp. 332; blue heavy card board, spine & front board lettered in white; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; prev bookseller's sticker to front flap).…

hardcover. Etat : Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Abrolhos Publishing, Perth, 1993. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. As new. First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. blue cloth, dust jacket, 332 pages : color illustrations, coats of arms, maps, portraits ; 29 cm., Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company. She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of small islands off Western Australia. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.…

1st Ed. 332 PP with over 400 b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, title engraved on spine & front cover, dj. A fine copy. 28.7 x 22. Construction, V.O.C. specifications, the voyage, shipwreck, mutiny, to modern discovery of the wreck.

Hardcover. Etat : Gut. Etat de la jaquette : Schutzumschlag: Gut. Hard Cover Einband guter Zustand - Schutzumschlag guter Zustand - Erscheinungsjahr: 1993 - Bildband mit 332 Seiten. Index: 160.