VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Explorers and travellers, 1860s-80s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Explorers and travellers, 1860s-80s
Two albums containing a total of fifty-six cartes-de-visite and eight cabinet portrait photographs, sitters occasionally identified in pencil by Mr. Sommer in a later hand on mounts, one album with pre-cut heavy card leaves, chromolithographic floral border designs, brown morocco, ruled gilt, the front cover embossed in relief, g.e., gilt clasp, 4to.; the other with pre-cut thick card mounts, ruled gilt, padded tan leather, the front cover gilt-stamped, climbing pansies highlighted in blue, g.e., gilt clasp. (2)

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Subjects are as follows:

DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-1873), Scottish missionary and explorer of Eastern and Central Africa; JACOB WAINRIGHT the African boy converted to Christianity by Livingstone and befriended by him; JEAN BAPTISTE MARCHAND (1863-1934), French explorer of Africa, who in 1888-99 set out to cross Africa from west to east; SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY(1840-1904), Journalist turned explorer who was instructed by the proprietor of the New York Herald to find Livingstone who was lost in Tanganyika in 1869; VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON (1844-1894), African explorer, leader of the Royal Geographic Society's expedition in 1873 to aid Livingstone, which learned of his death; SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER (1821-1892), traveller and big game hunter who accompanied the Prince of Wales on a tour of Egypt and the Nile in 1869; LADY BAKER; CAPT. JOHN HANNING SPEKE (1827-1864), African explorer who discovered the source of the Nile; ARTHUR LEARED (1822-1879), traveller to India, Smyrna and the Holy Land, Iceland, Morocco and America; CAPT. JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT(1827-1892), African explorer; SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890), explorer and scholar, who travelled extensively in India & Africa; JULES GERARD (1817-1864), lion hunter; WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON (1821-1879), traveller and historian; CAPTAIN SIR GEORGE S. NARES (1831-1915), Commander of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76; SIR FRANCIS LEOPOLD MCCLINTOCK (1819-1907),explorer; SIR JOHN GARDNER WILKINSON (1797-1875), explorer and Egyptologist; FREIDRICH HUMBOLDT (1769-1859) traveller and naturalist and SIR JOHN FRANK (1786-1847) Arctic explorer (the last two copied from paintings).

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