JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ, SAMUEL BOURNE, JOHN BURKE, MOLTENO, FRITH SERIES and others

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JOHN EDWARD SACHÉ, SAMUEL BOURNE, JOHN BURKE, MOLTENO, FRITH SERIES and others

Indian views, portraits and architectural studies, 1860s-circa 1915

Four albums containing approx. 320 albumen prints, 2¼ x 3½ in. to 10¾ x 15 in. or the reverse, several signed and numbered in the negatives, variously mounted, the majority titled in ink/pencil on mounts, one inscribed Photographs only of places we have been to commencing July 1866 in ink on front blank, various bindings including one embossed morocco with B.C From R.W. on front cover, (this lacking spine) 4to., oblong 4to. and folio; album containing over 250 gelatin silver prints and a quantity of photographic postcards, various sizes, variously mounted, the majority inscribed and several dated in ink on mounts, disbound, oblong 4to.; and a small album of photographs by Nukundram Radhakrishna of Ujjain. (6)

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Views around Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Madras, Agra, Lucknow, and Cawnpore; several portrait studies including one of two hunters surrounded by trophies of rams' heads, deer and leopard skins. One album contains views mainly in and around Darjeeling including a view of the Testa Valley and several river views. The album dating to the turn of the century relates mainly to General Wilson and his family.

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