Bombay and environs, Delhi and northern India

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SAMUEL BOURNE, BOURNE & SHEPHERD and possibly others
Bombay and environs, Delhi and northern India
Album of 54 albumen prints. 1860s-1890s circa 1890s. Varying in size from approximately 5¼ x 8¾ in. (13.3 x 22.2 cm.) to 9¼ x 11½ in. (23.5 x 29.2 cm.) or the reverse. 17 signed Bourne and numbered in the negatives, 10 signed Bourne & Shepherd or initialled B & S and numbered in the negatives, a few only titled in the negatives, the majority titled in ink on mounts, half green leather, gilt, titled India, China & Japan, Vol. 1 in gilt on spine, g.e.
Album size: 16½ x 14½ in. (41.9 x 36.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Architectural and other views at Chamba, Delhi, Dhurmsala (Dharamshala), Bombay (Mumbai), Ahmedabad, Mount Abu, Jaipur, Amber, Lahore, Amritsar, Agra, Benares (Varanasi) and Calcutta. Also including studies of a Bengali village, the Viceroy's state elephants, Darjeeling including the cane bridge, tea estates and one view in the Himalayas.

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