(Code No. 4813)

Bowen. C. Frank.

Ships, The Flags of the Southern Cross, 1939-1945, Wooden Walls in Action and Ships we see.

4 Volumes.

Dates. 1951 & No dates.

London.Sampson, Shaw Savill, Halton and Ward & Lock. 8vo, Wooden Walls in Action, pp. 144. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt. + Ships we see, pp. 311. Illustrated throughout Original cloth. + The Flags of the Southern Cross, 1939-1945, (for private circulation), Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt + Ships, pp. 384. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth, rubbed. No dust jackets. £45.00

(Code No. 4698)

Taffrail. Taprell Dorling, Captain.

Cunard White Star Launch of the Queen Elizabeth in the Presence of Their Majesties, the King & Queen, at the Yard of John Brown & Co. Ltd,, Clydebank, Tuesday, September 17, 1938.

Date. 1938.

Clydebank: John Brown & Cunard White Star. Folio [13 x 11] . Not paginated. Double page coloured prints + photographs of the various stages of construction by Stewart Bale, slight nicks to some outer edges. Original decorated covers, slight nicks to outer edges. £50.00

Stewart Bale Ltd, 1911-1980(?) then one of the country's leading commercial photographic companies, earned a reputation for the excellent quality.The National Museum of Liverpool acquired the entire photographic archive in 1986 and held an exhibition of his work at the Museum of Liverpool Life, 2002.

(Code No. 4699)

R.M.S. "Queen Mary" " A Noble Tribute to the Imagination of Man"

Date. [c.1935.]

London, Cunard White Star, Folio [13 x 11] . Tipped in colour illustrations of the fitting of the Queen Mary in art deco styles. Illustration of wood sculpture by James Woodford, sketches by Vanessa Bell, friezes by Maurice Lambert . Original decorated wrappers, slight rubbing. £80.00.

RMS Queen Mary sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

(Code No. 4796)

Talbot-Booth, E.C.

The British Merchant Navy 1937-38.

Date. [c.1936.]

London. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. 4to, 13 x 9ins. Showing 844 named ship examples with their details, (tonnage, dimensions, machinery, builders, capacity, ) + 425 examples of the shiping company coloured house flags + Pp {18} index. Original cloth gilt, split hinges. £80.00

(Code No. 4787)

Duckworth. C. L. D & Langmure. G. E.

West Coast Steamers & West Highland Steamers.

2 Volumes.

Date. 1953 & 1967.

Preston, Lancs. Stephenson & Sons Ltd, 8vo, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2ins & 6 x 9ins. Pp ix, 195, very good. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt, no Dust Jacket. Pp. xiii, 204, very good. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt, Dust jacket nicks to outer edges. £25.00

(Code No. 4786)

Rinman, Thorsten.

The Johnson Line 1890-1990.

Date. 1990.

Gothenburg, Rinman & Linden . 4to, 9 x 11ins.1990. Pp 296, very good. Illustrated throughout with black and white & coloured plates, very good.Original decorated cloth gilt, corners slightly bumped. £35.00

This book deals with the Johnson family's involvement with shipping, it mirrors the history of Swedish ocean transport over the past century or so.

(Code No. 4739)White Star Line Olympic, Homeric, Majestic.Date. [c.1930].London.White Star Line. 4to, 8 1/2 x 10 1/2ins. Pp 16. Coloured illustrations throughout, very good. Original coloured card covers, slight marks. + 10 Diagrams of the Titanic & Olympic + A 1940s White Star Line holiday broacher, "Holiday Cruises".The HMS Caledonia began her life at Blohm and Voss, Hamburg in 1913; named the Bismark, she was designed to be the largest liner ever built but was transferred to Britain in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles as reparation for the sinking of the Lusitanian. Completed by late March 1922, she operated as the White Star liner Majestic until she was bought by the Admiralty and converted to a training ship.The Magnificent Trio, carrying out the schedule of weekly sailings of the New York-Cherbourg-Southampton service of the White Star Line. The two other members of this splendid group are the world-famous Olympic and the beautiful Homeric. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

(Code No. 4738)Wm Harvie & Co. Ltd. 1856 to 1947.(Trade prospectus for Harvie's ship's navigation lanterns).Date. [c.1947.]Birmingham. 4to, [9 x 10 1/2ins.] Pp. 67. Illustrated throughout. Original printed trade prospectus for copper ship's navigation lanterns by Wm Harvie & Co ltd, 121, Bishop Street Birmingham 5. Late of Glasgow.

(Code No. 4734)Lloyd’s Book of House Flags and Funnels of the Principal Steamship Lines of the World and the house flags of various lines of sailing vessels.Date. Oct 1904.London. Committee of Lloyd's, 4to, 6 x 10ins. Pp. xviii. ff. 74. pp. iii. [28.adverts], including Principal House Flags & Funnels of Steamships & Sailing Vessels of the World and the Various Shipping Lines, (1374 coloured examples) + International coloured code flags + National colours worn by Men-of War, etc. Printed soft covers, with some loss. Rare Copy.

(Code No. 4730)

Jordan, Humfrey - Bisset. Sir James - Diggle, E.G & Edgar T. Britten.

Mauretania, Tramps & Ladies, The Romance of a Modern Liner & A Million Ocean Miles.

(Library of Ocean Travel.)

4 Volumes.

Date. 1988-89.

Northamptonshire, Wellingborough. Patrick Stephens. 8vo, [5 3/4 x 9ins.] Pp. 314,242, 274, 332, as New. Uniform Volumes. Original cloth. Dust jackets, all volumes as new. £50.00

(Code No. 4701)

Great Western Railway.

Locomotives of the Great Western Railway 12 Photogravure Plates.

Date. 1929.

Great Western Railway, Oblong 8vo, [9 x 11 1/4ins]. 12 Photogravure plates of trains with their description, nicks to outer edges,well away from images, Original decorated covers, chipping to edges and 3inch split to lower cover. £40.00

(Code No. 4530)

The Railway Times for 1841.

Date. Saturday, 6th Nov 1841.

London. Railway Times Office. 4to, [8 3/4 x 11ins.] Pp 24. No covers. £35.00.

The RailwayTimes was a weekly paper dealing with the history, telegraph, principal improvements in railway construction, civil engineering, business & economics + adverts, etc.

(Code No. 4446)

9 Loose Prints of Steam Engines.

Date. ca1900.

The Railway Magazine.

Page sizes, (approx), 20 x 9 1/2 ins. Image size, (approx),18 1/2ins x 8 1/4 ins. 9 Large folding colour printed plates of British steam engines, by Alf Cooke of Leeds, some splits to folds and edges. Listing engine's details below images. £75.00

(Code No. 4272)

SCRAP BOOK,

(Motor Car & Motor Cycles.)

Date 1911.

8vo [160 x 200 mm]. 94 pages giving descriptions on the different aspects of approximately 80 world motor cars and a few motor cycles, showing photographs, taken from magazines of the period and listing the cars & motor cycles, engines, sectional drawings and prices etc. Original cloth. Spine, part missing. £80.00

(Code No. 4122)24 Loose Prints of Steam Engines.Date ca1900.

British. Page size 10 x 8 ins. Image size 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 ins. 24 Tipped in colour printed plates of British steam engines, very good condition.

(Code No.3069).

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print ):

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 111/2 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, slight surface marks to page edges. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £35.00

(Code No.3070.)J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print ).Coach Builder's Trade Journal.London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, slight surface marks. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old.

(Code No.3071).

J. & C. Cooper.

( Antique Print ): Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of horse drawn carriages, Surface and slight crease marks. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £25.00

(Code No.3072).

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print ):

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, slight surface marks. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £35.00

(Code No.3073).

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print ):

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, slight surface marks and creasing. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £30.00

(Code No.3074.)

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print )

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, slight surface marks and creasing. Nick to blank margin. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £25.00

(Code No.3075).

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print )

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, surface marks and creasing to blank margins. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £25.00

(Code No.3076).

J. & C. Cooper.

( Antique Print ): Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 10 x 8 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, surface marks and creasing to blank margins. Nick to blank margin. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £25.00

Code No.3078.

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print )

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, surface marks and creasing to blank margins. Nick to blank margin. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £25.00

Code No.3079.

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print )

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 11 x 9 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, surface marks and creasing. Slight nick to blank margin. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £25.00

Code No.3080.

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print )

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 17 1/2 x 11 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, center fold. Wide margins, not shown on large image. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £35.00

Code No.3081.

J. & C. Cooper. ( Antique Print )

Coach Builder's Trade Journal.

London. ca1880. Page size 17 1/2 x 11 ins. Coloured lithograph of a horse drawn carriage, center fold with slight creasing. Nick to blank margin. Wide margins, not shown on large image. Guaranteed to be over 100 years old. £35.00