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;) | LUBBOCK B. The Western Ocean Packets. Brown, Son & Ferguson,Glasgow (1977) xiii + 146 large pp + plates. Reprint, very fine in fine D/W. | £20 |
;) | LIU Kwang-Ching Anglo - American Steamship Rivalry in China : 1862-1874. Harvard Uni Press (1962) xiv + 218pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in worn and slightly torn D/W. | £16 |
;) | HOLT John Merchant Adventure. John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd (1950 (circa)) 80pp + colour plates. 1st ed., clean in worn original pictorial boards. Company history of a well-known Liverpool shipping line and merchant in the West African trade. John Holt & Company established links with the West Coast during the 1860's and set up trading stations in Gold Coast, Nigeria and Togoland. | £8 |
;) | FRANZ JOSEPH VON HOHENZOLLERN-SIGMARINGEN Emden: Last Cruise of the Chivalrous Raider, 1914. Lyon Books (1989) 128 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £6 |
;) | STEUART Bradley W. Passenger Ships Arriving in New York Harbor. - Vol. 1 (1820-1850) Heritage Quest (1991) xxvi + 352 large pp. | £100 |
;) ;) | ANON 24 Views of H.M. Indian Troop Ship to India & Back. R. Wilkins & Co., Portsea (1880 (Circa)) Folding chromo litho views in original worn red boards. 4.5 x 5.5" Rare view book produced during the second Afghan War with views showing troops embarking at Portsmouth, passing Gibraltar, at anchor in Malta, passing through the Suez canal and finally arriving in Bombay. | £185 |
;) | DYDE Brian The Glorious Profession. - Vanished times in naval hydrography. Noddfani Publishing (2012) vii + 267pp. 1st ed., new in card covers. Adventures of a hydrographic surveyor working for the Royal Navy in the 1950's and 1960's. | £10 |
;) | ELLIS Aytoun Vitesse. The story of "Continental Express" Burrup, Mathieson & Co (1949) 46pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Celebrating the centenary of the company of forwarding and Shipping Agents. | £20 |
;) ;) | ALBION Robert Greenhalgh Square Riggers on Schedule The New York Sailing Packets to England France and the Cotton Ports. Princeton University Press (1938) xii + 371pp + plates. 1st ed., ex school library with label on f.e.p. and mark on spine otherwise clean without any h/s's. Minor toning on title page. Original blue cloth. | £16 |
;) | GIBBS C.R. Vernon Western Ocean Passenger Lines and Liners, 1934-1969. Brown Son & Ferguson (1970) 185pp. 1st ed., clean in dust wrapper. Gives a history of the North Atlantic service of each shipping company, before giving a description of each of the passenger liners that plied the Western Ocean between 1934 - 1969. | £8 |
;) | SAWTELL Clement C. Captain Nah DeCost and the Liverpool Packets. Marine Historical Assoc. (1955) 98pp. 1st ed., clean in original green card covers. Illustrated history of ship's captain. | £7 |
;) ;) | MAGINNIS Arthur J. The Atlantic Ferry: Its Ships, Men, and Working. London: Whittaker & Co (1892) xviii + 278pp + tables and folding frontispiece. 1st ed., clean in modern blue cloth. | £40 |
;) | WALLBRIDGE Capt. John Channel Islands merchant shipping, 1940-1945 (Archives book) Channel Islands Occupation Society (1986) 79pp. Clean in card covers. | £5 |
;) | ANON National Maritime Museum Catalogue of Warship Photographs. Richard Perkins Collection. HMSO (1969 (circa)) 257 + 46pp. Clean in card covers. Catalogue of the collection of photos of warships mostly from the 1920's and 1930's. Note there are no actual images reproduced. | £10 |
;) | RAINEY Thomas Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post. Eastern Press (1977) 224pp. Facsimile reprint of 1858 ed. Clean in card covers. | £12 |
;) | MURRAY Marischal Union-Castle Chronicle 1853-1953. Longmans, Green & Co (1953) xvii + 392pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. | £25 |
;) ;) | BURTT Frank Cross Channel and Coastal Paddle Steamers. London: Richard Tilling (1934) 440pp + plates and coloured frontispiece. 1st ed., clean in original red cloth. 4pp loose. Very scarce. | £75 |
;) | RUDBECK Johannes Svenska Postverkets Fartyg och Sjopost-Forbindelser under tre hundra ar. Stockholm (1933) xii + 437pp + plates. 1st ltd. ed. of 800. Fine in card covers. History of Swedish packet boats. | £40 |
;) | GIBBS C.R. Vernon British Passenger Liners of the Five Oceans. Putnam (1963) 559pp + 11pp addendum. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. | £12 |
;) | CUTLER Carl C. Queens of the Western Ocean: The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines. United States Naval Institute (1961) xxi + 672pp. Clean in worn D/W. | £12 |
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