SAMUEL BOURNE, A.PIETRALTA, H. AGIUS, ATMORE, DEEN DAYAL, BOURNE & SHEPHERD and others

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SAMUEL BOURNE, A.PIETRALTA, H. AGIUS, ATMORE, DEEN DAYAL, BOURNE & SHEPHERD and others

India, Burma and Malta, 1870s

Two albums containing a total of approx. 288 albumen prints, twelve carte-de-visite-size, other sizes approx. 4 x 6½ in. to 11½ x 9½ in. or the reverse, the majority signed and numbered and several titled in the negatives, variously mounted, stamped The Convent School Exmouth in ink with pencil reference number on front blank, one green cloth and one red cloth (partially lacking spines), titled Album and with stylised floral border stamped in gilt on front covers, large 4to. (2)

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Approx. fifty images of Burma including architectural studies and portrait studies. Other images are mainly architectural studies around India, street scenes, portraits of shopkeepers, craftsmen, acrobats, several images of wildlife, and portraits of natives from a mountainous tribe in tradional costume including decorative beaded jewellery.

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