20th Feb, 2024 10:00
TWO DAY: Military & Collector’s Auction
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Victorian Travel Photograph Album Middle and Far East 1886
Sold for £320
Estimated at £200 - £300
Victorian Travel Photograph Album Middle and Far East 1886, an extensive album, dated in pencil 1886, includes, P&0 Paramatta in harbour, views of Port Said (2), Suez Canal with SS Parramatta (2), Suez, groups of native Arabs (2), travellers on board SS Parramatta and views of Red Sea (7), Agra Taj Mahal, (4), Ahmedabad (4), Himalayas From Darjeeling, view of Darjeeling Railway with train (3), Darjeeling Woodlands Hotel, native scenes, Fort of Jamrud Khyber Pass (by Shepherd), Rangoon (Bourne & Shepherd), Mandalay various views (6) one by Bourne & Shepherd), Ceylon water buffalo plough team with natives, Colombo Harbour with moored ships, Sinhalese fishing boats (Scowen), Colombo street scene, Nuwara Eliya Sri Lanka (6), Tamil and Sinhalese native portraits (11), Sinhalese bullocks (3), Buddhist Priests Ceylon, botanical views (4), Penang (2), Singapore (2), Island of Macao (2), Canton City & River, Chinese Merchants House Canton with group of natives, Macau Passage Canton River, on the Canton River, three views in Canton one a street scene, album measures 27cm x 37 cm, together with three unrelated panoramic views of Rio each 33 cm by 12cm, F-VG, album P-F
the book itself needs some attention, the front cover has come away from the spine, the pages are bent out of shape, the images are in good condition, please see additional images
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