New York, Anchor Line, 1872.
4to [32x26cm]. 114 pages. folding map and illustrations from engravings.
good clean condition hardback in the original decorative binding. part fading and a little edge and spine wear to the binding. one preliminary blank page removed.
as a thank you for their services, the Anchor Line Directors laid on a lavish day trip from New York on their new steamer 'California', for some four hundred agents and their families and friends.
This scarce souvenir comprises a short account of the trip, newspaper reviews of the occasion, a history of the line with fleet list, a concise history of steam and steam navigation, etc.
