Clyde pleasure steamers: thirty-two illustrations of the best-known Clyde steamers, with descriptive matter on separate tissue.

Glasgow: printed and published by James Hedderick & Sons Limited, [1932?] Oblong 8vo. 34 leaves, 32 tinted plates. Original illustrated embossed-card wraps, yapp edges, cord binding. Wraps rubbed and chipped. Illustrations by A. McFarlane.

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BOURNE, John.

Practical treatise on steam navigation and the screw propeller : with an explanation of the marine steam engine, adapted to the wants of officers of steam vessels intending to undergo an examination in steam. Illustrated by sixteen wood engravings

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856 17cm. vi, 359-446, [4], 547-558, [2] pages, text illustrations and figures. Original printed embossed limp cloth, uncut/unopened. Spon ticket to rear wrap. Closed tear to front wrap o/w in excellent condition. From title page: Reprinted from The catechism of the steam engine. Includes index. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. DISCOVER: BL, NLS.

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Book number: 46285

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HYDE, Francis E.; J. R. HARRIS.

Blue Funnel: a history of Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool from 1865 to 1914.

Liverpool: Liverpool University press, 1956. 8vo. xvii[i], 201pp, portrait frontis, 8 plates (2 double-sided), text tables and pedigree. Original decorated blue cloth gilt, te coloured, colour ep maps. Spine very lightly sun-faded. Mersey Docks & harbour Board General manager's Library sticker to fpdep.

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Book number: 33579

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LITTLE, George Herbert.

The marine transport of petroleum. A book for ... shipowners, etc.

London: E & FN Spon, 1890. 8vo. 251pp, 17[7]pp publisher's catalogue, folding frontis, text figures. Original navy cloth gilt. Near fine copy.

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MacARTHUR, Iain Charles.

The Caledonian Steam Packet Co. Limited: an illustrated history.

Glasgow: Clyde River Steamer Club, 1971. 24cm. xxiv, 290pp, colour frontis, double-sided plates (some colour), text maps, illustrations and tables. Original green cloth gilt, endpaper maps on coloured paper. Scattered small light stains to cloth; title-page very lightly soiled.

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WOODCROFT, B[ennett].

Steam Navigation. [Contained within] Transactions of the Society of Arts for 1847-8. Part II.

London: Society of Arts, May, 1849. 4to Comprising pp[301]-440, 16 plates at rear, text figures and tables within pp [145]-[496], litho and engraved plates (one coloured) at rear, head and tail-pieces, decorated capitals, notice re Part III tipped-in.. Original decorated printed brown card wraps, printed paper spine label, uncut/unopened. Wraps lightly soiled and chipped.. * Contains the full text + 16 plates as published by Taylor, Walton & Maberley in 1848. This version does not contain the prelims or the lithographic title-page. The volume contains other pieces including Claudet on photography and Findlay on lighthouses and beacons.

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