£70
Photography, The Royal Navy, HMS Warrior - From this...To this..., Vol II: Red Sea, a sailor's photograph album (?Cyril Worsley, later of Yeovil, Somerset), 69 b/w photographs, tipped-in and annotated in ink MS, depicting the aircraft carrier's voyage from Malta to Massawa, Eritrea, and back, via The Suez Canal and Port Said, depicting life onboard for the crew, including meetings on deck, Coptic churches, vintage (then contemporary) sports cars racing at the Italian-built Corso d'Italia motor race track at Massawa, further named-view topographical sights and depictions of real life, larks, further warships, etc., illustrated further with ephemera, comprising racing tags, Colonial/Commonwealth banknotes (2), loosely-inserted later ephemera, including art printed Christmas cards and correspondence with the V&A, contemporaneous Italian armorial calf album, oblong, 4to, (1); Binding, a red morocco photograph album, the cover indistinctly tool-inscribed and dated 1939 in gilt, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, oblong 4to (25cm x 31cm), (1), [2]
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