Samuel Bourne, Penn, Skeen & Co. and others

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Samuel Bourne, Penn, Skeen & Co. and others

India, Ceylon, Burma, Java, Singapore, China and Hong Kong, 1870s-90s

Album containing seventy-eight albumen prints and one collotype, including four mounted as two two-part panoramas, 8½ x 22¾ in. and 9¾ x 26 in., other sizes approx. 6 x 7¾ in. to 9¾ x 13¼ in., several signed and numbered and with occasional titles in the negatives, titled and several with manuscript text in ink on mounts, half morocco, blue cloth, ruled in gilt, oblong 4to.
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Including architectural studies around Tanjore, Trichinopoly, Madura, a two-part panorama of a railway bridge over the Indus, views around Karachi, Bijapur, Madras, Bijanagar; several views of around Ceylon; a portrait of a Burmese girl smoking a cigar, views in Rangoon and Mandalay; river views in Singapore, three views around Java; a two-part panorama of Hong Kong harbour and a portrait of Chinese actors.
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