[ANCHOR LINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY] A Souvenir of the Anchor Line Agents Excursion on the Steamer California, August 14, 1872.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., no date (1872). First edition. Publisher's full dark green pictorial cloth with elaborate gilt front cover design reproducing the title-page elements; rear cover blind-stamped. 12 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (31.5 x 24.5 cm); 114 pp.; engraved frontispiece of the Anchor Line offices in New York, pictorial title page, 9 further engravings, 5 engraved vignettes, folding map of the Anchor Line's steamship routes. Minor rubbing to spine ends, corners just showing, some light spotting to rear cover, else a very fine copy, clean throughout, the gilt device on the cloth brilliant.
This work is the Company souvenir of a day excursion that the company gave to its agents to celebrate the 1872 launch of their new steamer, California. The company treated "six hundred of the active, indomitable, enterprising, and argus-eyed agents of the Anchor Line to take a day's coasting in one of the yachts of their own squadron." Includes many statements by various newspapers about the excursion, a history of the Anchor Line, a condensed history of steam, the application of steam to navigation, a history of Atlantic steam navigation, and a short history of locomotion beginning with the railroads. This interesting work ends with a listing of the Anchor Line Atlantic Fleet and the dimensions of each ship. The half and full-page engravings include numerous steamships of the Line as well as the buildings of the Line in New York and Chicago. This is a near-fine copy of a scarce book, of which the only copies in the auction records are quite worn.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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