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The Inman Line. The Magnificent New Steamships City of New York and City of Paris, [New York: Gillis Brothers and Turnure, 1889], 4°, chromolithographed frontispiece, 2 folding plates, illustrations, contemporary red morocco gilt (rubbed). With 6 other works, all with American imprints, including the Scott copies of the following titles: B. H. Bartol A Treatise on the Marine boilers of the United States (Philadelphia, 1851), Report of the U. S. Naval Commission on Thompson's process for constructing boats by machinery ... invented by Nathan Thompson (New York, 1860, 4°), A Treatise on Parabolic Construction of Ships and other Marine Engineering Subjects (Philadelphia, 1863), and Theodor W. Wilson An Outline of Shipbuilding (New York, 1873). (7)