Lot 57
Asia, Hawaii, Canada
Photograph album, c.1880-1900
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Oblong folio (31 x 41cm), contemporary black half morocco, 74 albumen print photographs mounted rectos and versos of gilt-edged stiff card leaves, depicting: Sri Lanka (7 photographs, including Colombo, Kandy, Newera Eliya, 21 x 26cm); Singapore (3, 21 x 26cm, captioned in negative); Malaysia (1, 21 x 26cm, captioned in negative); Java (7, 19.5 x 23.5cm); Hong Kong (2, harbour view and street scene, 21.5 x 27cm); Japan (27, nearly all with colour tint, various dimensions, approx. 21.5 x 28cm or slightly smaller); Hawaii (13, including views of Honolulu, ‘Native with Surf Board, Honolulu’, ‘Surf Boat of the Native’, the lying-in-state of Queen Kapiolani, most captioned and signed by the photographer (Davey) in the negative, most approx. 18 x 24cm); Canada (20, including views along the Canadian Pacific Railway, e.g. Kicking Horse Valley, Mount Stephen, towns including Nelson BC, many signed and captioned in the negative, photographers including R. H. Trueman of Vancouver, Notman & Son of Montreal, various dimensions, mainly approx. 19.5 x 24cm, a few smaller), cloth sides marked and faded