| 24006 | Villiers, Alan John. Captain James Cook Classics of Biography Series. London: Hodder & Stoughton; New York: Scribner; London: Penguin, 1967, 1969, 1978, 2001, 307 pp. Illus: Adrian Small; alt. title: Captain Cook: The Seaman's Seaman: A Study of the Great Discoverer; Villiers sailed replica of Endeavour around world. |
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| 24007 | Villiers, Alan John. Convict Ships and Sailors. Nautical Library Series, # 32. London: Philip Allan, 1931, 1936, 192 pp. Alt. title: Vanished Fleets. |
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| 24008 | Villiers, Alan John. The Cutty Sark: Last of a Glorious Era. London: Hodder & Stoughton; London: Transworld, 1953, 1955, 96 pp. Intro: Duke of Edinburgh. |
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| 24009 | Villiers, Alan John. Falmouth for Orders: The Story of the Last Clipper Ship Race around Cape Horn, 1929. London: Bles; New York: Scribner, 1929, 1953, 1972, xxiv, 343 pp. Folio, profusely illustrated. |
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| 24010 | Villiers, Alan John. "In the Wake of Darwin's Beagle." National Geographic, 136, pp. 449-95. |
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| 24011 | Villiers, Alan John. The Last of the Wind Ships. London: Routledge; New York: Norton; London: Harvill, 1934, 1939, 2000, xviii, 208 pp. Large folio, profusely illustrated; to support documentary, Grace Harwar, last full-rigger; in Australian trade. |
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| 24012 | Villiers, Alan John. The Making of a Sailor: The Photographic Story of School-Ships under Sail. London: Routledge, 1938, 238 pp. 190 pp. of plates; famous circumnavigation, 1934-1936. |
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| 24013 | Villiers, Alan John, ed. Men, Ships, and the Sea. The Story of Man Library Series. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1962, 436 pp. Foreword: Melville Bell Grosvenor; essays; competition: Atlantic 4-stack liners: Servia, Kaiser Wilhelm, Lusitania, Mauretania, Olympic, Titanic; then, reforms. |
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| 24014 | Villiers, Alan John. The New Mayflower. Leicester: Leicester UP, 1958, 48 pp. |
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| 24015 | Villiers, Alan John. Posted Missing: The Story of Ships Lost without a Trace in Recent Years. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1956, 256 pp. |
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| 24016 | Villiers, Alan John. The Sea in Ships: The Story of Sailing Ship's Voyage Round Cape Horn. London: Routledge, 1932, 123 pp. Folio, 111 illustrations; 1928 & 1929, voyages via Cape Horn. |
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| 24017 | Villiers, Alan John. The Sons of Sinbad: An Account of Sailing with the Arabs in Their Dhows in the Red Sea Round the Coasts of Arabia. . . . London: Hodder & Stoughton; London: Scribner; Bath: Chivers, 1940, 1966, 2006, xiv, 346 pp. Late 1930s, personal experiences. |
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| 24018 | Villiers, Alan John, et al. The Sons of Sinbad: The Photographs. London: Chatham; London: Scibner; London: Arabian, 1940, 1969, 2006, xl, 403 pp. For NMM; folio, 90 illustrations. |
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| 24019 | Villiers, Alan John. The War with Cape Horn. London: Hodder & Stoughton; London: Pan, 1971, 1973, xxiv, 338 pp. 80 illustrations; illus: Adrian Small; formidable challenge, sailing of 19th century. |
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| 24020 | Villiers, Alan John. The Way of a Ship: The Story of the Square-Rigged Cape Horner: Being Some Account of the Ultimate Development of the Ocean-Going Square-Rigged Sailing Vessel, and the Manner of Her Handling, Her Voyage-Making, Her Personnel, Her Economics, Her Performance and Her End. London: Hodder & Stoughton; London: White Lion, 1954, 1974, 287 pp. Illus: Harold Underhill; 100 illustrations. |
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| 24021 | Villiers, Alan John. The Western Ocean; The Story of the North Atlantic. London: Museum, 1957, 288 pp. Before Columbus, early pioneers; described highlights subsequently. |
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| 24022 | Villiers, Alan John. Wbalers of the Midnight Sun. London: Bles; New York: Scribner, 1934, 1964, 248 pp. Illus: Charles Pont. |
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| 24023 | Villiers, Correia John. "Ships, Seafaring and the Iconography of Voyages in the Age of Vasco da Gama." See A. Disney, Vasco da Gama and Linking of Europe and Asia, 2000. |
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| 24024 | Villiers, J.A.J. de., ed. The East and West Indian Mirror: Being an Account of Joris van Speilbergen's Voyage Round the World, (1614-1617), and the Australian Navigation of Jacob le Maire. Publications of the Hakluyt Society, 2 ser, vol. 18. London: HS, 1619, 1906, lxx, 302 pp. For Hakluyt Society. |
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| 24025 | Villiers, Marq de & Hirtle, Sheila. Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic. New York: Walker, 2004, 288 pp. Failed colonial efforts; 100 miles east of Nova Scotia. |
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