Lot 363
Hong Kong, Khyber Pass, India, Himalayas, Europe
Auction: 16 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
An album of lossely inserted albumen prints, c. 1870's-80's, 123 prints all with ink captions, including two prints of Norway [20cm by 16cm high], five prints of Agra, 1881 [27cm by 20cm high at largest], two prints of Nice, 1879 [23cm by 18cm high], five prints of Monte Carlo, 1879 [27.5cm by 20cm at largest], five prints of Delhi, 1881 [18cm by 23cm high at largest], four prints of Bombay, 1880 [20cm by 16cm high], two prints of Lahore, 1881 [20cm by 16cm high], three prints of Paris after earthquake, 1872 [15cm by 9cm], two prints of Jaipur, 1881 [30cm by 18cm high], five prints of miltary activity at Peshawur, 1880-81 [21cm by 14cm high], seventeen prints in the Himalayas [including tribal groups], 1882 [20cm by 16cm high], six prints of Ahmedabad, 1880 [ 24.5cm by 19cm wide], five prints of the Khyber Pass & Afganistan, 1881 [28cm by 20cm high], two panoramic prints of Hong Kong harbour, 1882 [106cm by 20cm high; contemporary red cloth gilt ablum, rubbed; Russia, China An album of albumen prints, c.1880's - 90's, pasted onto leaves, including seven prints of Russia [22cm by 27cm high], 12 prints from a series "In and around Peking" with printed captions pasted alongside or over prints [23cm by 17cm high], four prints of groups in Chinese dress, captioned Fusan, dated 11th March 1893 [14cm by 10cm high], two panoramic Russian harbour views [no caption], [60cm by 16cm high], all pasted onto leaves in contemporary red morocco album, rubbed, some fading to edges of prints; Scrap Book Borradaile family scrap book, 1870-87, newspaper clippings, vellum (3)
Footnote
Provenance: Albums inscribed on the endpapers by various members of the Borradaile family; the first by H. Borradaile and the second by Alfred Alexander Borradaile, dated July 1884, with a portrait of A.A. Borradaile pasted to fixed endpaper.