India including Lucknow and Kashmir

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BAILY, FRITH'S SERIES and possibly others
India including Lucknow and Kashmir
Album of 36 albumen prints. Circa 1880s. Each approx. 9½ x 11½ in. (24 x 29 cm.). 30 numbered in a similar style in the negatives, one of these also signed in the negative Baily, 3 with Frith's Series blindstamps, mounted one side only, titles in pencil in margin within ruled border, half blue leather, ruled and titled in gilt on front cover, g.e.
Album size: 12 5/8 x 17 1/8 in. (32 x 43.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Subjects are titled as follows:
Delhi: 'Lahore Gate', 'Cashmere Gate', 'Mausoleum Emperor Humaison', 'The Memorial', 'Purana Killa'
Lucknow: 'Residency Ruins', 'La Martiniere', 'Western Lake Gate' (two different views), 'Kaiser Bagh', 'Kaiser Pasund', 'Chutta (Chutter) Munzil Palace', 'Hooseinabad Gardens'
Benares (Varanasi) : 'Hindoo Shrine', 'Sumaree Temple', (signed Baily in the negative)
Agra: 'Gateway of Taj', 'Taj Mahal Gardens', 'The Temple', 'Tomb Prince Etmad Dowlah', 'The Secundra Marble Sarcophagus'
Lahore: 'Runzett Singh Tomb' (two different views),
Kashmir: Srinagar (seven views) including 'Shah Humadan Mosque', 'Maharaja's Palace', 'Takhet Soliman Temple' (illus.), 'On the Jhelum', 'Pandretta Temple', 'On the Kut i Kal' (three views), 'On the Dhul Canal' and 'Rajaure'.

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