[Rarebooks] FS: UNSINKABLE SHIPS plus 73 period photos

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

J. Stone & Company. UNSINKABLE SHIPS. ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIBED. THE 
STONE-LLOYD  SYSTEM OF HYDRAULICALLY-CONTROLLED MARINE SAFETY 
BULKHEAD DOORS RENDERING  SHIPS PRACTICALLY UNSINKABLE. J. Stone & 
Company, limited, and Norddeutscher Lloyd's combined patents. 
Patented throughout the world. Sole licensees and manufacturers for 
Great Britain and Ireland  and the British Dominions beyond the seas. 
London: J. Stone & Co. / Adams Bros., 1906. 80 pp. + Plates. Illus. 
with 32 plates (24 photos and 2 drawings of ships, 6 photos of 
bulkheads), 2 drawings, and 3 large folding plans. Quarter cloth over 
vellum covered boards, stamped in silver, beveled edges. First 
edition.

A unique copy of this publicity book to promote the Stone-Lloyd 
system of bulkhead doors. Explanation of the doors and illustrations 
of the ships using the system including the Lusitania and Mauretania, 
Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Deutschland, each with folding plans (16x32 
inches each). This copy is further enlarged by use as a scrap book 
with 73 photographs added (most 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 3 color 
illustrations, 2 newspaper ads, one plan, and 24 leaves of lists. All 
items are laid in on the endpapers or around the margins so as to 
avoid affecting printed text or illustrations. Ship photographs and 
snapshots range from 1892 to 1964 but nearly all are from the years 
1912 and 1913; the name of the ship and additional data is supplied; 
the two newspapers ads feature images of ships. Half of the tipped-in 
leaves are lists of 1913 merchant ships and half are silhouettes of 
1913 Russian, French, British, and American war ships. A doubly 
valuable item. OCLC shows two copies of the original: Mariners Museum 
and  Univ. MIch.

Spine ends worn, taped label added to spine, edges worn with minor 
loss at corners, boards soiled, bookplate (with ship image) of A. 
Eterman on front pastedown, front hinge just starting but binding 
still solid, images bright, one folding plan with a tear to one panel 
at the fold, others about fine. A special copy. Images available upon 
request.   [31081] $400.00

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
Email: books at kaaterskillbooks.com
Member of I. O. B. A.


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