Travel. A family archive of photograph albums, travel journa...

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Travel. A family archive of photograph albums, travel journals and manuscript notebooks, early-mid 20th c, comprising a photograph album of a 1928 African cruise, 48 b/w annotated snapshots of Tunisia, contemporary blue half-cloth over faux alligator vinyl, 8vo; another contemporary album Algeria & Tunisia, 1928, 94 photographs, including Carthage and Roman ruins, cloth, oblong 4to; a photograph album of a 1934 American and Caribbean cruise, approx. 35 images of San Francisco - including the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Honolulu, Panama and Trinidad, original faux alligator effect cloth, oblong 4to; Peru, 1937, 33 b/w images, including the vessel, original pictorial wrappers, oblong 4to; Devon: Widecombe & Dartmoor, an Edwardian album of 51 photographs, c. 1960, roan over cloth, some wear, 8vo; France: Snapshots of Menton & Neighbourhood, 1920-21-23-25, 92 images, cloth, oblong 4to; Italy: Snapshots of Sicily [...] & Palermo, 1923-24, an album of approx. 35 images, cloth, 8vo; France, Spain and Portugal holiday, an album of approx. 100 images, c. 1930, oblong 4to;an Edwardian and later album, "Marina", dated 1901 and later, approx. 80 mixed format b/w images of a country house and its rock garden, quarter-cloth, 4to; an album of approx. 40 b/w snapshots of a Guernsey holiday, c. 1925, annotated with manuscript named-views, oblong 4to; an album of approx. 125 British topography and snapshots, c. 1920, roan over cloth, some losses, oblong 4to; a large format album of 180 b/w and colour postcards of European topography, cloth, oblong folio; miscellaneous mounted albumen prints; the whole supplemented by six manuscript travel journals, 1914 Rome, an unknown 1915 destination - presumably domestic GB, 1920 Italy, 1921 Rome, North Africa 1928, Cruise round South America 1939, the notebooks only partially-inscribed, mixed bindings and sizes; loose printed ephemera, including numerous "Arandora Star" Cruises passenger lists, postcards, etc

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Auction Date: 20th Sep 2024 at 10am

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