orient steam navigation ltd (3 Ergebnisse)

[Sydney] : Orient Steam Navigation Company, [1935]. Octavo (186 x 127 mm), original red wrappers with embossed gold lettering to front (a few light marks), staple bound, [16] pp, text printed in black and red with decorative borders in red at top and bottom margins; internally pristine, a very good copy. The 20,000 ton Royal Mail Steamer Oramaoperated passenger, cargo and mail services between England and Australia from 1924 until 1940.

London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. 'The Orient Steam Navigation Company was established in 1878 and jointly managed by the London shipowning firms of Anderson, Anderson and Company and F. Green and Company until 1919, when the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired a controlling interest in its shareholding capital; at approximately the same time the dual management of the undertaking by the Anderson and Green companies came to an end and the two businesses were merged into a private limited company formed for the purpose, Anderson, Green and Company Limited. The Orient company was a small enterprise operating a handful of very large ships in virtually one trade, the mail and passenger service to Australia and New Zealand. In due course it provided a co-ordinated service in this region with ships of the P&O fleet; in later years, similarly in collaboration with P&O, a passenger service between North American ports and Australia and New Zealand was instituted, and in attempts to promote passenger traffic in the Pacific, a series of voyages between North America, the Far East and Australia were inaugurated. The company's ships were also extensively employed in ocean cruising.' (Royal Museums Greenwich) Internal references date this very early Company prospectus to 1880. Trove locates no copies.

Printed. One page, 33 x 25cm, small chip off one corner, fold marks, discreet repair to edges and fold, just noticeable shadow (caused by exposure to sun(?)), good condition. See Image. On otherwise blank version there is the small stamp of the Webster Collection (no. '1569'). Note: In "Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land" (W.J. Loftie, pubd 1890 i.e. a later edition) the relevant plate only shows the outward journey, not the homeward. I have found no other copy of the White/Hull edition (1882) on viaLibri.