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96174 'STEAM CONQUERS THE WORLD, AN OVERVIEW OF STEAM COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY'.
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£30.00
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Description
'STEAM CONQUERS THE WORLD, AN OVERVIEW OF STEAM COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY'. A very fine copy of this excellent ring bound publication, 189 pages, illustrating the Presidential Display by Colin Tabeart at the Society of Postal Historians Conference in Huntingdon April 1999. Contents: Introduction: Domestic Packets; North Sea packets: The Iberian Peninsula: India via the Mediterranean: Africa: Australia: South america: Transatlantic mails: Early Steam Ships; Cunard Line pre 1849 Treaty; Cunard Line 1849-GPU; Special Rates: Caribbean and Central S America: US packet Lines to UK: USA-France mails: USA-German mails and Canadian transatlantic mails. (Ref 96174).