Sketches made on a trip Round the World, 1887
62 pencil drawings of scenery en route, including varous locations in the Mediterranean and Turkey; four of Alexandria and the Suez canal; six of Ceylon and Singapore; nineteen of Saigon, Hongkong, Canton, Shanghai, the Taku Forts, the City Walls and the city of Pekin, the Ming Tombs, the Great Wall and other Chinese views; five of Mount Fujihama and other scenes in Japan; the Golden Gates, San Francisco; four of the Yosemite Valley; the Niagara Falls; and the Houses of Parliament, Ottowa, inserted in an album, half roan, worn, oblong 4to ; and a second album containing a loosely inserted watercolour of a Venetian canal, a pencil sketch of sailing ships, and 123 postcard views of the South of France, the Italian Lakes, and Switzerland, decorated with four small watercolours, half morcocco, joints split, 4to , [c.1910].
Sketches made on a trip Round the World, 1887
62 pencil drawings of scenery en route, including varous locations in the Mediterranean and Turkey; four of Alexandria and the Suez canal; six of Ceylon and Singapore; nineteen of Saigon, Hongkong, Canton, Shanghai, the Taku Forts, the City Walls and the city of Pekin, the Ming Tombs, the Great Wall and other Chinese views; five of Mount Fujihama and other scenes in Japan; the Golden Gates, San Francisco; four of the Yosemite Valley; the Niagara Falls; and the Houses of Parliament, Ottowa, inserted in an album, half roan, worn, oblong 4to ; and a second album containing a loosely inserted watercolour of a Venetian canal, a pencil sketch of sailing ships, and 123 postcard views of the South of France, the Italian Lakes, and Switzerland, decorated with four small watercolours, half morcocco, joints split, 4to , [c.1910].
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