A Hundred Year History of the P. & O. Peninsular and Oriently Steam Navigation Company 1837-1937
by Cable, Boyd
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1937. ix, 289 pages, cold frontis: The Armorial Bearings of the Company with tissue-guard, colour and b/w plates, index, end-paper maps: routes past and present of the company. Decorative blue cloth boards, gilt, in jacket.Prelims, endpages and edges lightly foxed. Pages by plates foxed, some heavily. SIGNED by Captain FE French of the P&) SS Strathmore in 1937. A note with the book states that it was purchased on boards that ship at the time.. Signed by P&O Captain.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040463
- Title
- A Hundred Year History of the P. & O. Peninsular and Oriently Steam Navigation Company 1837-1937
- Author
- Cable, Boyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ivor Nicholson and Watson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Shipping Company History Peninsula Willcox & Anderson Packet ship Service India Steam Lieutenant Waghorn Oerland Route Cruising Indian Far East Services ocean Steam Travel First Australian Mails Suez Railway Canal Thomas Sutherland War Services His Ma
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime/ Sailing/ Shipping;
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
I carry a general stock of approx 70000 titles of which only a small percentage is online. Viewing at my Ashmore bookrooms is welcome by appointment. While not specializing I have a good selection of art, natural history, military and surfing in stock. I also have many other non-fiction subjects, as well as approx 10000 paperback fiction titles on hand.
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