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Deep Water Ancient Ships—Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean; NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; 1976 1st ed.; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 226 pp.; illus.; B&W; This is an introduction to, and summary of, the idea of searching in deep water for treasure that might have survived for thousands of years.

Shipwreck on Middleton Reef; Auckland: William Collins Publishers Ltd.; 1979 1st ed.; Hardcover; VG/VG DJ; 190 pp.; illus.; B&W; This book tells the story of a Tasmanian man’s survival after being lost on the Middleton Reef due to shipwreck.

Tasmanian Shipwrecks Volume 2 1900-1999; Victoria: Navarine Publishing; 2000 1st ed.; Hardcover; 8vo; Fn/Fn DJ; 402 pp.; illus.; B&W; A comprehensive account of the circumstances of shipwrecks in Tasmanian waters from 1900 to 1999, in complement with Volume 1.

The Bells of Sunda Strait; Hong Kong: Dai Nippon Printing Co.; 1971 1st ed.; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 135 pp; illus.; B&W/C; This book tells the story of the author's recovery of a ship’s bell and other relics from the cruiser Perth that sank in the Sunda Strait, west of Java, on March 1, 1942.

Lost Treasures in Australia and New Zealand; Sydney: Ure Smith Pty Ltd; 1964 1st Australian ed.; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 232 pp.; illus.; B&W; dust jacket has some wear and chipping along edges; Classic book about treasure ships lost in Australia and New Zealand, including the Batavia, Gilt Dragon, Zuytdorp, General Grant, Elingamite, and Niagara. Many more lesser-known wrecks are also described. From the Bruce Prior Library of Treasure Books.

The Treasure of the Great Reef; New York and Evanston; Harper & Row, Publishers; 1964 1st ed.; Softcover; 24mo; VG/No DJ; 209 pp.; illus; B&W; includes maps in back; this book tells of the 1963 expedition to bring up the treasures of a ship sunk in the Great Basses Reef off Ceylon. Using the small boat, the Ran Muthu, a number of artifacts and treasures including several brass canon, pistols, and silver coins from 1702 are recovered. Arthur Clarke recounts the whole exciting adventure in this book that includes 60 photographs that are an important addition to this story.

The Black Ship—The Quest to Recover an English Pirate Ship and its Lost Treasure; London: Headline Book Publishing; 1999 1st ed.; Hardcover; 8vo; Fn/Fn DJ; 311 pp.; illus.; B&W; This is the story of the excavation by the author of the Whydah, which sank off of Cape Cod in 1717.

Diving for Sunken Treasure; New York: Doubleday & Co.; 1971; Softcover; 4to; VG-/No DJ; 302 pp.; illus; B&W/C; over 120 illustrations and photos; Jacques-Yves Cousteau describes his own expedition to the famous Silver Bank, a coral reef in the Caribbean, where the crew of the Calypso searched a centuries-old shipwreck for the secrets of its past and the fortune in silver and gold it might still contain. Persistence and the latest technologies in marine archaeology enabled them t unearth the ship's remnants, almost completely concealed by the myriad life forms of tropical waters.

Fourteen Minutes—The Last Voyage of the Empress of Ireland; London: Michael Joseph; 1978 1st ed.; Hardcover; Pedigreed to the New Zealand Shipwreck Museum of the late Kelly Tarlton. From the Bruce Prior Library of Treasure Books; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 240 pp.; illus.; This book discusses the account of the wreck of the Empress of Ireland, with other articles on the same shipwreck laid in.

Treasure—The Story of the Most Successful and Most Tragic Treasure Hunt of Modern Times; New York: Random House; 1977; Hardcover; 8vo; VG+/VG+ DJ; 341 pp.; illus.; B&W; includes maps and photos; The author of this book tells the story of Mel Fisher’s search to find and recover the treasures of the Atocha, lost somewhere off the Florida Keys in 1622. In the process four people were dead, including his oldest son along with the loss of three of his vessels. This entire quest cost over two and a half million dollars. The book tells of the scholar, Dr. Eugene Lyon’s search for information to help find the ship. “With brilliant portraits of gold-obsessed Fisher, scholarly Lyon and hippie diver John Lewis, Treasure is breathless story of physical and intellectual adventure and of man’s lust for gold, which endures through the centuries.”

On the Bottom; NY: Dodd, Mead & Co.; 1966 22nd printing; Hardcover; XL; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 324 pp.; exlibris with the usual markings; The author’s account of the raising of the US Navy’s S-51 submarine.

Shipwrecks: Diving the Graveyard of the Atlantic; Hillsborough, NC: Menasha Ridge Press; 1985; 1st edition; Softcover; VG/No DJ; 8vo; 264pp.; illus.; B&W; includes illustrations, photos, and maps; covers show some wear around the edges and corners but otherwise excellent; "this newest and most comprehensive book about North Carolina shipwreck diving includes history, photographs, up-to-date maps, and diving information on more than 70 shipwrecks dating from the 1800s to contemporary times. The author has explored these wrecks extensively to present the history buff and diver with indispensable information on each ship and its artifacts. Diagrams and photographs illustrate the wreck descriptions - these include historic photographs (some never before published) of the ships before they met their fate in the treacherous currents off the North Carolina shore."

Andrea Doria: Dive to an Era; Philadelphia, PA: Gary Gentile Productions; 1989 1st ed.; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 160 pp.; illus.; B&W/C; The complete story of the Andrea Doria from its sinking through the author’s twenty-two expeditions to the wreck.

The First and Last Voyage of the Batavia; Perth: Abrolhos Publishing Pty. Ltd; 1993 1st ed.; Hardcover; 4to; Fn/Fn DJ; 331 pp.; illus.; B&W/C; This large book tells the story from beginning to excavation of the V.O.C. ship Batavia, which was wrecked on the Western Australian reefs in 1629.

Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras; London, England: Caxton Publishing Group; 2002; 1st edition; Hardcover; Fn/Fn DJ; 8vo; 430pp.; "this work, written in its entirety from contemporaneous publications, is essentially a chronicle of maritime tragedies, which for the greater part have been forgotten, yet at the time of occurrence cost the lives of countless seamen. Every important shipwreck which appeared in a British newspaper or other publication of the period will be found in this volume, together with many other lesser accidents; yet every shipwreck, great or small, represented a major tragedy for all concerned. For Great Britain alone, Sir G J Dalyell, a contemporary authority, claimed in 1812 that 'perhaps not less than five thousand natives of these islands yearly perish at sea'. Listed are some 1500 ships, vessels of many nations, naval and mercantile, the result of many years of research, yet they make up a very small proportion of the disasters of the 1793-1815 period."

Deep Blue—Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival; NY: Thunder's Mouth Press and Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc.; 2001 1st ed.; Softcover; 321 pp.; This book offers thirteen of literature’s greatest stories about the ocean and the people who have risked its wrath from pirates to scuba divers.

Directory of Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes; Boston: Bruce Humphries Publishers; 1966 1st ed.; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG- DJ; 116 pp.; dust jacket has some chipping along the top and bottom edges; This guide pinpoints the locations of approximately 1,500 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes region of North America.

Treasure Hunting Around the World; New York: Dodd, Mead & Company; 1960 reprint of 1959 original; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG- DJ; illus.; B&W; dust jacket has some scuffing and chipping along the edges and corners, pages have some foxing on the edges; includes drawings and photos; the author’s personal sagas are related in this book and are told “against the background of the tales of great treasures and their hunters, from Caribbean buccaneers to twentieth century warriors, as close to home as New York’s East River and as far a field as Philippine’s Manila Bay.” This book is a wonderful addition to the treasure hunter’s library.

The Treasure Galleons; New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company; 1971; 1st edition; Hardcover; Pedigreed to the New Zealand Shipwreck Museum of the late Kelly Tarlton; VG/VG DJ; 8vo; 259pp.; illus.; B&W; includes many illustrations, photos and maps; dust jacket shows slight chips on the corners but otherwise, excellent; "based upon mostly unpublished records dating from the days of Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru, this book tells the fascinating story of the staggering fortunes that were left on the bottom of the ocean by hundreds of Spanish galleons, the wealthiest ships for their size and time ever to sail the seas."

Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest; Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, Publishers; 1964; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 257 pp; illus.; B&W; For the first time, long-accepted stories about the lost mines and treasures of the Pacific Northwest are thoroughly investigated.

New Zealand Shipwrecks 1795-1970; Sydney: A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd.; 1951 revised and enlarged 4th ed. (orig. pub. in 1936); Hardcover; XL; 4to; VG/VG DJ; 448 pp.; illus.; B&W; ex libris with the usual markings and card sleeve; A record of about 1900 shipping casualties over a period of 175 years in New Zealand waters.

Sunken Treasure; London: Rupert Hart-Davis; 1962 1st English ed., English translation; Hardcover; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 276 pp.; illus; B&W; includes maps, illustrations and photos; "The search for treasure in sunken ships has fired the imagination since the first cargo vessel was lost. Through painstaking research, the authors have been able to tell in words, maps, and photographs the complete and fascinating stories of the many ships and their lost wealth which have lured adventurers from the sixteenth century to the present time." This French classic (translated into English) tells the story of 11 treasure ship recoveries, including: Nuestra Señora de la Concepción; Grosvenor; Lutine; Egypt; the Vigo Bay galleons; Laurentic; Elisabethville; Niagara; the Spanish Armada ship Florencia; and Telemaque.

Sunken Treasure; NY: Hill and Wang; 1962 1st American ed., English translation; Hardcover; XL; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 276 pp.; illus; B&W; includes maps, illustrations and photos; ex libris with the usual markings; "The search for treasure in sunken ships has fired the imagination since the first cargo vessel was lost. Through painstaking research, the authors have been able to tell in words, maps, and photographs the complete and fascinating stories of the many ships and their lost wealth which have lured adventurers from the sixteenth century to the present time." This French classic (translated into English) tells the story of 11 treasure ship recoveries, including: Nuestra Señora de la Concepción; Grosvenor; Lutine; Egypt; the Vigo Bay galleons; Laurentic; Elisabethville; Niagara; the Spanish Armada ship Florencia; and Telemaque.

Submerged Cultural Resources Study: USS Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark; Santa Fe, NM: Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers; 1990 2nd ed.; Softcover; 4to; VG/No DJ; 192 pp.; illus.; B&W; A study done on the USS Arizona by the National Park Service’s Submerged Cultural Resources Unit and the Navy’s Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit, showing how undersea explorations ought to be done so as to leave their historic subjects intact.

Admella; Victoria: Marine History Publications; 4th in a series; Softcover; 12mo; VG/No DJ; 20 pp.; illus.; B&W; Pamphlet about the tragic wreck of the Admella off the southern coast of Australia.

Australian Shipwrecks 1871-1900 Volume 3; Victoria: List Publishing; 1982; Hardcover; Autographed, Limited edition #1324 of 1500; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 296 pp.; illus.; B&W; A concise account of more than 1800 wrecks around the Australian coast, nearby waters, and her territories between 1871 and 1900.

Australian Shipwrecks 1901-1986 Volume 4; Victoria: Marine History Publications; 1987; Hardcover; Autographed; 8vo; VG/VG DJ; 283 pp.; illus.; B&W; Concise reports of over 3000 vessels lost during this period.