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Voyages of the HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Hawkins, 1921-22

Album containing a large quantity of variously sized photographs, the majority gelatin silver prints and including two four-part panoramas, each approx. 8½ x 44 in., two single image panoramas each approx. 7½ x 40 in. and hand-coloured, one of these signed in the negative Ah Fong Wei Hai Wei, many titled and dated in ink on mounts, bare boards only, oblong folio.

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Record of the voyage mainly of the HMS Hawkins, Flagship of Sir Alexander Duff, including views of Italy, the Bosphorus, Port Said, Ceylon, China, Japan, panoramas of Hong Kong and of Kowloon from Hong Kong, coloured panoramas of Liu Kung Tau and of the Fleet at Anchor in the harbour at Wei Hai Wei, hand-coloured views of Kilauea Volcano and Halemaumau, Hawaii, panoramic and large format carbro prints of Yosemite, hand-coloured views at the Grand Canyon, celebrations aboard ship at Christmas and of the Prince of Wales's visit to Hong Kong in 1922.

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