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Lot Essay
Portraits of water-carriers, shopkeepers, Bedouins, family groups, water-sellers, workers, street scenes, architectural studies, river views and landscapes including Himalayan views.
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Egypt and India, 1870s-80s
Various photographers including Zangaki, G. Lekegian & Co., A. Beato, Bonfils, H. Arnoux, Samuel Bourne and Fiori; two albums containing a total of 110 albumen prints, the majority approx. 8¾ x 11 in., the majority signed, numbered and/or titled in the negatives, the former titled on typescript labels, the latter titled in pencil on mounts, this with tissue guards, inscribed Places I've been to in India, Egypt & Elsewhere! and signed (indistinct) in ink on front blank, inscribed 11th Devonshire Regt....India 1882-85. Egypt 1887-1890 on front free end, maroon cloth and half black morocco (spine damaged and part disbound), titled Photographs and Reminiscences in gilt on front covers respectively, oblong 4to.; with eighteen albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., mounted back-to-back on card (2)
Various photographers including Zangaki, G. Lekegian & Co., A. Beato, Bonfils, H. Arnoux, Samuel Bourne and Fiori; two albums containing a total of 110 albumen prints, the majority approx. 8¾ x 11 in., the majority signed, numbered and/or titled in the negatives, the former titled on typescript labels, the latter titled in pencil on mounts, this with tissue guards, inscribed Places I've been to in India, Egypt & Elsewhere! and signed (indistinct) in ink on front blank, inscribed 11th Devonshire Regt....India 1882-85. Egypt 1887-1890 on front free end, maroon cloth and half black morocco (spine damaged and part disbound), titled Photographs and Reminiscences in gilt on front covers respectively, oblong 4to.; with eighteen albumen prints, each approx. 8 x 10 in., mounted back-to-back on card (2)
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