Travel. A late Victorian album, c. 1890, with approx. 120 mi...

Travel. A late Victorian album, c. 1890, with approx. 120 mixed format photographs, Madeira - locals and scenes of domestic plantation life, landscapes and topography, posed portraits, a mass grave of skeletons; most of the album given to colonial life in the sub-Saharan African bush, possibly South America, including tribal figures and scenes, occasionally showing Western influence, snakes, baboons, further animals and wild life, caravans and wagons; some later British scenes, formal and informal, country houses, horse carriages and London traffic, amateur dramatics - including feigned hangings and executions, topography, etc., contemporary roan gilt over cloth boards, upper-cover off, lacking spine, further wear, oblong folio; Royal Navy: a late Victorian album, probably belonging to a seaman of HMS Seaflower, c. 1889, comprising approx. 50 albumen prints and snapshots of officer's and ratings, formal and informal, other ships and topography, two portrait studies of a man in Greek costume, etc., contemporary roan over cloth, worn with some losses, but holding, 4to, (2)

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