MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMSHIPS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY : The Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes by Parker, Captain H. and Bowen, Frank C - 1928-01-01

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 324 pages 16 color plates, 170 halftone plates, top edge gilt. This is not an ex-library copy. Introduction by A. G. H. Macpherson. Page edges lightly foxed. Lower corner of front cover bumped. Dust jacket has light smudges, chips at corners and spine ends. Several small tears in edges plus a 1/2" tear in one corner and a 1 1/2" tear/chip in a spine corner. Spine slightly darkened and has some of the type toward the bottom scuffed off. Dust jacket in mylar protector. Shipping may be extra for this oversize book; please inquire.; 9 1/4 x 11 1/2

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 x 12 in. Tan cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners dented, minor shelf wear, covers very clean. Binding tight and text bright and unmarked. Naut. RGR.

Parker, Captain H. and F.C. Bowen: 1928 London, hardcover 324 pages, with photo's and illustrations. World Wide. Index of ships and information about the ships

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 and often an accompanying illustration from prints in the MacPherson collection, with additions "in order to make this primary work of reference as complete as possible."

London:: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co.,, 1928.. original cloth.. Light rubbing to the cloth at extremities; tight and sound.. Folio,. Illustrated (some color).

Phildelphia. J.B. Lippincott. n.d. (1928). Bound in gilt titled rough-hewn brown cloth. t.e.g. Tall 4to. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with superb tissue guarded full page colour plates and further monochrome plates. A Fine crisp copy.

PARKER, Captain H. & BOWEN, Frank C. Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century. The Macpherson Collection, with Iconographical and Historical notes. Phila.: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.d. 4to. Illustrated in color & black & white. xxvii, 1st ed. 324pp. Orig. cloth. Fine copy. Very scarce.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1928. 1st edition. Nice Copy. lge. octavo. 3/4 leather xxvii + 324 + (96)pp., col. & b/w pls., index, Illustrated with 16 full-colour plates and 170 black and white illustrations. A history of the evolution and development of the steamship passenger liner in the 19th. century; Remarkable record of an era of ship building, shipping lines, and the ships constructed. Data and career-histories are given for each ship, plus information on the old print, lithograph or aquatint that shows the vessel in question. Steamers include those owned by Cunard, Collins, General S.N., P&O, PSNC, Royal Mail S. P., Castle Line, Inman, Galway Line, Burns, Bibby, Great Western, Hamburg-America, Allan Line, Pacific Mail, White Star. Beautifully bound in brown tooled leather with six raised bands at spine & coloured title labels. Occasional light foxing to prelims o/w a nice copy