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1931réf. 60944Syracuse NY: Empire New England Company Inc. 1931. One large 6-panel dissected colour linen-backed map featuring one hemisphere map of Pacific Ocean 34 inches in diameter within larger 40 x 52 in. colour-printed wall map with scale at Equator of 1:23300000 folding down to 19.5 x 17.25 brass grommets mounted for hanging at upper fore-edge minor edgewear rubbing at crease folds minor age toning light fraying to the linen still VG copy. Second printing of this scarce linen-backed dissected wall map reflecting the extent of Imperialist Colonial spheres of influence in the Pacific just 10 years before the outbreak of World War II. These educational maps served as key instructional tools for detailing Japanese British Dutch French Portuguese and U.S. colonies dependencies and mandated territories demarcated here in respective colours spanning from Asia to the Americas and include British holdings in Antarctica. Worldcat locates 1 copy Boston Public. Empire New England Company, Inc., unknown
1932réf. 60328Montreal Canada & Liverpool UK: Canadian Pacific 1932. 4to. which opens into Double Atlas Folio. 42 x 50 in. colour-illustrated on recto and verso with large colour deck plans delineating decks amenities cabins for 1st class and Tourist Class folding map at lower portion indicating the route large colour plate of Empress of Britain on verso numerous photo illustrations. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers striking cover art of Southeast Asian woman with neck elongated by gold rings front & back by Frederick J. Hoertz minor edgewear light creasing to folds very slight closed tears at a couple folds still VG bright copy. First edition of this very uncommon and large deck plan for the famed Empress of Empress of Britain a 42000 ton ocean liner specifically built and constructed with double-hull construction for the Northern Trans-Atlantic Route between Quebec and the UK who entered service in 1931. She was the first cruise ship designed for Winter routes when the St. Lawrence River was frozen and when converted for her Round the World cruises she was converted with more luxury cabins. At the height of the Great Depression and following a price increase only 283 passengers sailed in the 1932-1933 Round the World Cruise with 100 leaving the ship in India. Notables included Baron F. De Marwicz 1907-1990 hockey player who led England’s National Team in the 1930 & 1934 World Championships Sir Walter Preston 1875-1946 inventor & engineer Cornelius Vanderbilt IV and famed British author George Bernard Shaw with his wife Charlotte who spent most of the cruise writing rather than taking the port excursions. No copies located in Worldcat of this giant version 2 copies located of smaller piece at Wolfsonian measuring 10 x 11.5 in. Canadian Pacific, paperback
1933réf. 60330Montreal Canada & Liverpool UK: Canadian Pacific June 22 1933. Tall 8vo. 7.25 x 11 in. which opens into oblong atlas folio 35.5 x 11 in. w/ itinerary & fares on recto large black & white elevation plate of Empress of Britain on verso. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers striking Art Deco cover art ocean liner cutting through the water minor edgewear light creasing to folds minor creasing at lower right corner still VG bright copy. First edition of this very uncommon prospectus & fare schedule for the famed Empress of Empress of Britain a 42000 ton ocean liner specifically built and constructed with double-hull construction for the Northern Trans-Atlantic Route between Quebec and the UK who entered service in 1931. She was the first cruise ship designed for Winter routes when the St. Lawrence River was frozen and when converted for her Round the World cruises she was converted with more luxury cabins. The 1934 cruise was more successful than the 1932-33 with 452 passengers and featured stops in Monaco Palestine Egypt India Ceylon Siam Java Bali Philippines China Japan Hawaii and eventually Cuba before returning to New York. No copies located in Worldcat. Canadian Pacific, paperback
1933réf. 59929London & New York: Cunard Line April 1933. 4to. 8 x 9 in. which folds out into 24 x 32 deck plan complete with photographs diagrams inset plans. Self-printed softcovers minor age toning shelfwear still a VG copy from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon deck plan for the Cunard Line’s longest serving ocean liner until surpassed in September 2005 by the Queen Elizabeth 2. The RMS Scythia was launched by Cunard in 1921 sailed regularly between New York Boston Liverpool and Queenstown and was specifically designed to appeal to American tourists. She expanded her 3rd Class passenger cabins during the Great Depression added “Sports Events” which could be bet on by 1st and 2nd Class passengers and also featured a movie theatre. Worldcat locates 1 copy Stanford. Cunard Line, paperback
1519réf. 59930New York: Cunard Steam Ship Company Ltd. May 15 1934. 4to. 8 x 9 in. which folds out into 24 x 37 deck plan complete with photographs diagrams inset colour plate of the RMS Scythia. Self-printed softcovers in pink & black minor age toning shelfwear still a VG copy from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition of this scarce deck plan for the Cunard Line’s longest serving ocean liner until surpassed in September 2005 by the Queen Elizabeth 2. The RMS Scythia was launched by Cunard in 1921 sailed regularly between New York Boston Liverpool and Queenstown and was specifically designed to appeal to American tourists. She expanded her 3rd Class passenger cabins during the Great Depression added “Sports Events” which could be bet on by 1st and 2nd Class passengers and also featured a movie theatre. This deck plan reflects the consolidation in 1934 of ownership for the RMS Scythia to SS Scythia after the consolidation of the Cunard - White Star Line in 1934. Worldcat locates 1 copy Stanford. Cunard Steam Ship Company, Ltd., paperback
1928réf. 59682San Francisco Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles Steamship Co. Matson Navigation Co. ca. 1928. Oblong elephant folio. 37.25 x 23 in. deck plans printed on recto w/ illustration of SS City of Los Angeles in profile at upper left corner deck plans & descriptive text to right corner faint age toning minor wear a couple minor closed tears at fold creases still VG copy from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original deck plan for the S.S. City of Los Angeles which featured here a Boat Deck and A - D Decks with cabins staterooms and facilities all clearly demarcated. The S.S. City of Los Angeles was originally launched in 1899 as the SS Grosser Kurfurst for North German Lloyd and after being seized during World War I as a transport was renamed the USS Aeolus and then entirely refurbished for the Los Angeles Steamship Co. in 1922 as a very popular luxury liner until sold for scrap in 1937. No copies in Worldcat. Los Angeles Steamship Co., [Matson Navigation Co.], unknown
1907réf. 59689Berlin: Hamburg-American Line J. Hermann Herz 1907. 12mo. 887 1 pp. Approx. 920 pp. including inserts duplicate numbering inserts. With 22 colour inserts plates chromolithograph folding panoramas chromolith pictorial maps colour-printed inserted ads numerous photo plates plates illustrated ads street maps maps. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth gilt black & white lettering front cover black advertising lettering spine & back cover minor shelfwear chipping & faint reinforcement to ffep. uniform interior toning as usual slight offsetting to a couple of the chromolith inserts ex-lib marking foot of spine title still G copy. Eighth edition of this detailed and nicely illustrated brochure for Hamburg-American Line ocean liner passengers detailing hotels restaurants museums and sights throughout Europe. Of particular interest are the beautifully printed chromolithograph inserts including steamships down the Rhine on the Coln-Dusseldorfer steamships; colour insert & map for the Rhaetian Railway Grisons Switzerland colour views traveling through Switzerland on the Montreux-Oberland Bernois railroad and the Bucher-Durrer’s Hotels folding panorama of seven lakes and peaks in the Swiss Alps. Hamburg-American Line, J. Hermann Herz, hardcover
1928réf. 59683San Francisco Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles Steamship Co. 730 South Broadway Matson Navigation Co. ca. 1928. Oblong elephant folio. 37.25 x 23 in. deck plans printed on recto w/ illustration of SS City of Los Angeles in profile at upper right corner deck plans & descriptive text to right corner faint age toning minor wear a couple minor closed tears at fold creases still VG copy from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original deck plan for the S.S. City of Honolulu which featured here a Boat Deck and A - D Decks with cabins staterooms and facilities all clearly demarcated. The S.S. City of Honolulu originally launched in 1900 for the German Far East Mail Routes as the SS Kiautschou later as the S.S. Princess Alice for the North German Lloyd Line until seized by the U.S. in the Philippines in World War I. Renamed the USS Princess Matoika she carried over 50000 US Troops of the AEF to and from France and following the War carried much of the American US Olympic team to Antwerp in 1920. She resumed passenger service in 1922 as the SS President Arthur sailed for the American Palestine Line becoming the first ocean liner to fly the Zionist flag as she sailed to Palestine from New York and also featured the first women ship’s officers. She sailed for the Los Angeles Steamship Co. for about 3 years after refurbishment until a fire in Honolulu Harbor in 1930 and scrapping in Japan in 1933. No copies in Worldcat Huntington Library does have similar deck plan supposedly for the 1922 S.S. City of Honolulu but theirs is mostly likely a later deck plan as their displacement is listed at 20000 tons and the original City of Honolulu was launched as the 10500 ton SS Friedrich der Grosse North German Lloyd liner August 1896 scrapped after fire in her Oct. 12 1922 LASS Co. maiden voyage. Los Angeles Steamship Co., 730 South Broadway, [Matson Navigation Co.], unknown
1937réf. 59659Tokyo: Nippon Yusen Kaisha Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry Ltd. 1937. 8vo. 5.4 x 7.5 in. 4 pp. unpaginated. Track chart for the 1937 voyage on back cover. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers Ukiyo-e woodblock print of one of “restful scene on the ancient Tokaido Highway” by Hiroshige minor rubbing slight creasing at lower corner from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition thus of this nicely illustrated souvenir menu for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ocean Liner M.S. Asama Maru during her voyage to Japan & China April 1937. The Asama Maru was one of the three premier N.Y.K. line sister ships completed originally in Sept. 1929 and the menu dishes range from Supremem Chicken Halibut Sarah to the Japanese dish Makunouchi & Osuimono bento box. Worldcat locates 1 copy UCSD. Nippon Yusen Kaisha, [Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, Ltd.], paperback
1937réf. 59658Tokyo: Nippon Yusen Kaisha Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry Ltd. May 1937. 8vo. 6 x 9 in. 4 pp. unpaginated. printed in yellow & black. Track chart for the May-June 1937 voyage No. 45. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers stylized Art Deco cover art of Mt. Fuji in gilt on blue field w/ seagulls above minor shelfwear still VG copy from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition thus of this nicely illustrated travel brochure for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ocean Liner M.S. Asama Maru sailing from Yokahama May 20 1937 and reaching San Francisco June 2 1937. The Asama Maru was one of the three premier N.Y.K. line sister ships completed originally in Sept. 1929 and following this voyage in 1937 would run aground near Hong Kong during a Typhoon. Nippon Yusen Kaisha, [Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, Ltd.], paperback
1955réf. 57750Paris France: Imprimerie Transatlantique 170 bis rue de charonne 1955. 4to. 9.5 x 12.75 in. 20 pp unpaginated. colour-printed throughout which folds out into 46.5 x 25 in. colour poster w/ photo illustrations text and double-page pictorial map on recto. Colour-illustrated softcovers w/ porthole image of the SS Antilles minor creasing to one corner still NF copy. First edition of this marvelously illustrated cutaway deck plan for the SS Antilles which had been completed in 1953 and eventually was placed on the West Indies Cruise service. The SS Antilles or her sister ship the SS Flandre appeared in the stock footge in the 1964 Perry Mason television episode “Nautical Knot” set near Acapulco Mexico. The double-page pictorial map showing her stops in the West Indies was executed by R. Bonnard. The ship hit rocks and caught fire in Lansecoy Bay in 1971 and all were evacuated to the island of Mustique and later rescued by the Queen Elizabeth 2. Imprimerie Transatlantique, 170 bis rue de charonne, paperback
1925réf. 57372Bremen: Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen North German Lloyd Hofbuchdruckerei H.M. Hauschild 1925. Oblong 4to. 48 pp unpaginated. With colour frontisp. numerous photo plates decorative borders in green ink. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of the Brandenburg Gate in gilt blue blue & gilt borders globe logo at upper fore-edge dustsoiling shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this scarce ocean liner promotional brochure for the SS Berlin built by Bremer Vulkan and commissioned in Sept. 1925 making the North German Lloyd Run from Bremen - Southampton - Cherbourg - New York. She would make runs until chartered by the Nazi Party in 1939 as a Party Cruise Ship and converted to Hospital Ship during World War II. These photographs show such amenities for first class passengers as spacious promenades salons writing room library nicely appointed staterooms and exercise gym. The accommodations for 2nd & 3rd Class passengers were decidedly poorer. The ship was salvaged by the Soviet Union in 1949 and served as the Admiral Nakhimov a cruise ship transported soldiers to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crises was later rammed and sunk by the Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasev and 423 of the 1234 on board perished. Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, North German Lloyd, [Hofbuchdruckerei H.M. Hauschild], paperback
1930réf. 56514London UK & Hamilton Bermuda: The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company; The Herrington Co.; Trimingham Brothers 1930. Three pieces. 1st - 8vo. 16 4 pp. Colour-illustrated covers cover art of the RMSP Arcadian yapp edges NF; 2nd - 12mo. 2.75 x 3.5 in. 24 pp unpaginated. w/ photo illustrations double-page centerfold map colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound cover art of the Road around Harrington Sound; 3rd - 16mo. 3.75 x 5.25 in. which folds out to 21 x 7.5 in. pictorial map printed in black & light blue decorative borders lettering text on verso minor shelfwear still all VG from the library of noted opera singer Marion Talley 1906-1983 whose name along with her sister & mother appear in the list of passengers. First editions thus of these travel items to Bermuda in January of 1930 including the passenger list for the RMSP Arcadian which would be taken out of service later that year in October as well as two souvenir travel guides and maps. The RMSP Arcadian was originally built as the HMHS Asurias turned Hospital Ship and torpedoed during World War I and later as ammunition hulk before Royal Mail purchased her back and converted her into the Arcadian in 1923. Trimingham Brothers was a venerable Bermuda department store in Hamilton which sold everything from china to perfume golf shoes to rugs which sadly closed in 2005 due to severely falling sales. Herrington Co. was a very successful publisher of postcards travel guides maps and souvenirs in Bermuda. No copies in Worldcat. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company; The Herrington Co.; Trimingham Brothers, paperback
1909réf. 55870n.p.: Mr. & Mrs. Rutherford 1909-1910. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 7.5 in. 46 pp unpaginated. on thick gray card stock mounted on green linen hinges at gutter margin. With 56 silver gelatin & albumen photographs 3 hand-coloured 1 RPPC sized from 2.5 x 4.25 in. up to 6.75 x 9.75 in. several of the photos have descriptive text w/in the negative at lower margin some w/ lettering in manuscript below the images; seating chart for dinner with the Viceroy two ALS invitations on letterhead dance card menu and clipping touting the attendees. Recent leather post-binder lettering stamped on front cover occasional fading to a few images some albumen photos w/ wrinkling from being applied to boards occasional edgewear couple minor tears still a VG exemplar; Nine albumen photos sized from 7 x 9.25 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in. uniformly mounted on 11 x 14 in. gray studio board and 8 of the 9 w/ manuscript notes in bold hand on versos minor edgewear a few corners w/ minor wear still a VG set of images. This intriguing souvenir album for a voyage on the SS Prinzess Irene through the Mediterranean and onto India and Singapore opens with photos on shipboard of the Rutherfords and Miss Weir with their small dog companion. They have incorporated three albumen photos of Naples including a panoramic view of Naples St. Martin’s Charterhouse the Neapolitan Monastery and Santa Lucia street. Additional views on shipboard as they sail to India including a view of camels and desert dunes along the Suez Canal. Upon their arrival in Calcutta India they are invited and attend a state diner with Sir Syed Hussain Ali Bahadur b. 1875 the Nawab of Murshidabad two Maharaja’s British officers and Baron Charles Hardinge Viceroy of India with menus and invitation included and a mounted hand-coloured view of the Nawab. The menu featured Filets de Canetons au Foie Gras Mousses de Volaille Petits Rolls Mayonnaise Plum Cake Bavarois Chocolat Pistache and Macedonian Champaign while the musical accompaniment featured old favorites of Teddy Bear’s Picnic Die Meistersinger by Wagner ballet music from Faust and compositions by Rosse. Street scenes of markets native dress elephants owning the road as well as several different wagons pulled by horses camels and oxen. Also included are albumen views of pilgrims washing in the Ganges at Benares Varanasi Hawa Mahal or Palace of the Winds at Jeypore street scene in Jeypore depicts oxen market buildings by Bourne & Shepard whose images were marketed throughout India by agents and wholesale distributors. From there the trio voyage onto Singapore shown in images of Kampong Bugis along the Kallang River with a native in their boat with thatched homes built on stilts; a bustling port views along palm tree lined streets a bustling market scene elephants washing as well as a particularly striking scene of oxen pulling a large loaded woven cart. The nine separate views include albumen photos of the entrance gate to the Taj Mahal a detail shot the inner courtyard and screen around the the tombs of Shah Jehan and Mumtaz Mahal three striking and large albumen photos of the Thanjavur temple site including the Brihadishavara Temple and the monumental Gopuras gateways and finally the Pearl Mosque. The SS Prinzess Irene was an 18000 ton lier launched in 1900 for North German Lloyd was seized in 1917 in the United States renamed the USS Pocahontas and eventually sold back to North German Lloyd in 1922 first renamed the Bremen and then the Karlsruhe and sailing until 1932. Mr. & Mrs. Rutherford, hardcover
réf. 0938711679.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1991réf. H-493-382John Wiley & Sons Inc 1991. Hardcover. Good. Former library book. Different cover. Edition 1991. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover
2003réf. H-493-560National Academies Press 2003. Hardcover. Good. Former library book. Edition 2003. Volume 3. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. National Academies Press hardcover
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réf. 1300447834.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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