COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves (1910-1997). A group of 15 works by and about Cousteau, including:

The Silent World. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. --The Living Sea. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. 8vo. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. SIGNED BY JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU. --Diving for Sunken Treasure. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. Provenance: The Cousteau Society (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. -- The Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. FIRST EDITION. -- The Ocean World. New York: Abradale Press, 1993. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket.

And 10 others. Various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally very fine.

[With]: A large archive of supplementary materials including approximately 45 DVDs and 75 issues of the Cousteau Society's official publication, Calypso Log, ca. 1988-2001.

Jacques Yves-Cousteau was an undersea explorer, filmmaker, and author whose most notable accomplishments include the invention of the first successful open-circuit self-contained undersea breathing apparatus (SCUBA) set, the discovery of the wreck of HMHS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, and his conception and subsequent promotion of the Calypso 35-mm camera, one of the first to create high-definition color images of the undersea world.