[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. [FLOYD, William Pryor (1834-ca 1900), photographer]. Album containing 22 photographs documenting the effects of the 1874 typhoon in Hong Kong.

Quarto album (8 x 13 in.) 200 x 330 mm. 22 albumen photographs ranging in size from 4 x 5 1/2 in. to 4 1/4 x 10 3/8 in., mounted recto/verso to 7 3/4 x 12 in. album pages, with original tissue guards (prints overall very good, even toning, few with light creases; corner and edge wear to album pages, last album page with small hole in lower margin below the print, wear to tissue guards). One quarter calf gilt with brown watered silk covered boards (stains, scuffing to extremities, minor losses to spine). Although uncredited, the photographs were likely taken by British photographer William Pryor Floyd who operated a studio in Hong Kong during the 1860s-1870s.

Each photograph with a separately printed numbered title and description.

Titles include: 1. Destruction of the H.M.S. "Flamer." -- 2. Destruction Amongst the Shipping. -- 3. A Wrecked Junk. -- 4. Wreck of the Steamers "Albay" and "Leonor." -- 5. Destruction of the Canton Wharf. -- 6. Destruction of the Praya. -- 7. Stonecutters' Island - Looking South West. -- 8. Stonecutter's Island - Looking North. -- 9. The "Alaska" Aground. -- 10. Another View of the "Alaska." -- 11. Ruins of the Stanley - Looking North-East. -- 12. Stanley - Continuation of the Preceding View. -- 13. Effects of the Typhoon at Sowkewan. -- 14. Further Destruction at Sowkewan. -- 15. Kowloon City - Looking North-East. -- 16. Yowmatee - Looking North-East. -- 17. Yowmatee - Looking North. -- 18. A General View of Yowmatee. -- 19. Yowmatee - Showing General Wreck. -- 20. Yowmatee - Another View. -- 21. The Dockyard. -- 22. Damage to the Sugar Refinery.

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