TRAVEL. THE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF COMMANDER DAVID VICTOR FAIRFAX ERSKINE

TRAVEL. THE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF COMMANDER DAVID VICTOR FAIRFAX ERSKINE, RN (1886-1959), 1898-1907 including his schools, Cordwalles and Harrow, home (Venlaw) many of his contemporaries at Britannia Royal Naval College and ships of the Royal Navy including HMS Ariadne and HMS Implacable, the ships' companies, port scenes including torpedo flotilla at Portsmouth, members of his family, mounted press cuttings reporting his coming of age as the young Laird of Venlaw and the appointment of his father as Principal Naval ADC to the King, 1901, life on board, coast views of Trinidad, Bermuda, camp and other scenes in Nova Scotia and Canada, 220 mainly mounted albumen and silver prints up to whole plate on linen hinged leaves, somewhat soiled, half calf, worn