THE ROYAL TOUR 1901 OR THE CRUISE OF THE OPHIR

AUTHOR - Petty Officer Harry Price

PUBLICATION - Webb & Bower Exeter 1980

CONDITION - Very good condition, sepia coloured pages are clean and bright, illustrations beautiful, binding tight. Dustwrapper has a removeable plastic cover which is splitting, but the cover underneath is very fine.

PRICE - $15

DESCRIPTION - A facsimile of Petty Officer Harry Price's handwritten and illustrated account of the cruise of HMS Ophir in 1901, when the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary) toured almost the whole of the British Empire with the exception of India. The whole trip took nearly nine months and was enormously popular with the countries visited. Apart from Price's journal, the book includes a biographical note by Harry's son Jack, his naval papers, and a portrait of himself in the tropical kit of the period.

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