Unidentified photographer
1891
Athens
[Die Mittelmeerfahrt der "Augusta Victoria"]

Collotype, book plate
Sotheby's - London
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 15 May 2018, Lot: 309
 
1891, Die Mittelmeerfahrt der "Augusta Victoria". Hundert Bilder in zwei eleganten Mappen, (Hamburg: Strumper u. Co), 2 volumes, 100 mounted collotypes
 
A rare photographic record of the Mediterranean cruise of the Augusta-Victoria, by way of Gibraltar, Genoa, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beirut, Constantinople and the Bosphorus, Athens, Malta, Palermo and Naples.
 
As the first of a new generation of luxury liners for the Hamburg America Line the Augusta-Victoria had in 1889 broken the record for the passage to New York and later in that year took part in a race around the world. This off-season pleasure trip in the Mediterranean from 22 January to 22 March 1891, with 241 passengers on board, is considered by many to have been the first ever commercial cruise.
 
LL/82726