LIEUTENANT FRANCIS HENRY BOYER (1854-1926) AN ALBUM OF PRINCIPALLY MARINE SUBJECTS AND SCENES OFTEN

LIEUTENANT FRANCIS HENRY BOYER (1854-1926) AN ALBUM OF PRINCIPALLY MARINE SUBJECTS AND SCENES OFTEN TAKEN FROM NAVY VESSELS, MANY OF CHINA, 1874-1880 including Off Pantellaria, Alexandria, Menorca, Gozo Boats Malta, Gibraltar from the Sky Battery [and several other views], the P&O Liner "Zambezi", Valley of St Ann and River Melas near Smyrna, The Man at the Wheel HMS "Himalaya", HM Ships "Alert" and "Discovery" leaving Portsmouth for the Arctic Expedition 1875, Icebergs in the Arctic and HMS "Clio", scene in the Bay of a Thousand Isles, Hoachin China [HMS "Lily" in the Gulf of Tong-King], the "Hildegaard" owned by HRH The Prince of Wales, HM Brig "Spaniel", HMS "Modeste" at Yokahama, Mount Sinai from the Red Sea, Macao, HMS "Harriet" at Amoy, HMS "Mosquito" in the Chusan Archipelago, a war junk, HMS "Egeria", a scene at Hainan, the "Vesso" off Foochow, scene in Tauchin, Nagasaki Harbour, St Helena, Siagon, Ascension, HMS "Newcastle" off St Vincent, The Cape of Good Hope, stalactite caves Bermuda, Table Mountain, Embarking the 99th Regiment Durban, view in the Suez Canal, Cyprus - a friendly islander, Aden including a funeral cortege going ashore, collision between HMS "Himalaya" and the Danish Brig "Annie Catherine", the Sierra Nevada and coast of Spain, the Grand Harbour Malta, Quarantine Harbour & Valletta and others, 131, none laid down, mostly watercolour with captions, 22 x 35cm approx and smaller, folio, half calf, the upper board lettered in gilt WATER COLOURS & SCRAPS F.H.B.