Mail and passenger steamships of the nineteenth century. The MacPherson Collection, with iconographical and historical notes

by Frank C. Bowen, Capt. H. Parker

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1928. 4to, pp. 2 , xxvii, 1 , 324; 16 color plates and 170 illustrations on rectos and versos of 43 plates at the back; a fine copy in original ochre buckram, dust jacket partially renewed, preserving the front panel laid down over patterned glassine; with a chip out at the top of the spine and with manuscript titling on spine. Alphabetical list of what seems to be a couple hundred ships, with histories of each

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