Printed Books, Maps & Prints, Photographs, Natural History and Fossils (MAR17) Wed, 1st Mar 2017 Lot 503

Estimate: £200 - £300 + Fees The Shipbuilder, The Shipbuilder, Volume 2, November, 1907, Special Number, The Cunard Express Liner Mauretania, compiled by A.G. Hood and H. Bocler, colour frontispiece and three other colour plates, numerous black & white illustrations and diagrams, five folding diagrams of the ship, Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richardson advertisement leaf at rear, frontispiece and foloowing two leaves reattached with adhesive tape at gutter margin, original cloth gilt in bright condition, inset black & white round picture to upper board, 4to, together with The Shipbuilder. The Journal of the Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering, and Allied Industries, June, 1914, pictorial title in red & black, numerous illustrated advertisements at front and rear, black & white illustrations and diagrams throughout relating to the Aquitania, and five folding diagrams of the ship, original brown wrappers with mounted colour illustration of the Aquitania to upper cover, 4to, contained in original slipcase The RMS Mauretania was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the British , and launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. It was the most famous ship ever built on Tyneside. The Cunard Line ocean liner RMS Aquitania was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in , Scotland. She was launched on 21 April 1913[4] and sailed her maiden voyage to New York on 30 May 1914. Aquitania was the third in Cunard Line's "grand trio" of express liners, preceded by RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania, and the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner. Qty: 2