Lot 214
India - Himalayas, Ahmedabad, Gujerat
Auction: 26 January 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Album of 60 albumen prints, comprising Agra fort, Agra: Tomb of It-mad-ud Dowlah, Agra: the Taj from the River Jumna, Agra: Skiandra Bagh, Agra: the Taj from the gardens; Delhi: the Cashmere gate, Delhi: Kootub Minar; Delhi: Humaiyan's tomb, Fatterpore Sikri (Panch Mahalk), Fatterpore Sikri (Selaim's tomb); Bombay: the port; Bombay: Malabar Hill, Bombay: Elphinstone Circle; Bombay: native bullock cart; Lahore: the fort; Lahore: Jehangir's tomb; Jaipur: Hawa Mahal; Umber: the palace from the lake; Peshawar: parade ground; Rawal Pindee: encamping ground; Peshawar Valley: Cheerat; Cheerat from my bungalow; Attock: Fort & river Indus, Cherat River: Punbab; Dugshai (Himalayas): Hospital & officers's mess; Himalayas: Dugshai; Subathoo from the hospital; Kasauli (Himalayas): the mall; Kasauli (Himalayas): parade ground & depot; Simla from Gorton Castle [by Bourne]; Ahmedabad Gujerat: the Konkria tank; Simla, ride near Jakho [by Bourne]; Ahmedabad: Minarets of Mahafiz Khan's morgue; Simla: snowy range as seen from top of Jakho; Ahmedabad Gujerat: Konkrai tank; Simla: view of Jakho [by Bourne]; Ahmedabad Gujerat: Konkria tank; Himalays: Fagoi Dak bungalow near Simla [by Bourne & Shepherd]; Ahmedabad Gujerat: engtrance to jail & Bhuder; Ahmedabad Gujerat: entrance to Shah Alum's mosque; Himalayas: road between Theog & Mariana [by Bourne & Shepherd], Jamrood Fort near Khyber Pass; Himalayas: Matiana dak & village near Simla [by Bourne & Shepherd], Entrance to Khyber Pass; Himalayas: road betwwen Matiana & Markanda [by Bourne & Shepherd], View looking toward Khyber pass; Markanda dak bungalow 40 miles from Simla [by Bourne]; Fort Ali Murfid: Afghanistan; Himalayas: village of Markanda; all captioned and dated 1880-1882, all inserted into page slits at corners, none stuck down, from 23 by 30cm - 16 by 20cm.; and 11 albumen prints of Himalayan scenery & inhabitants [possibly Kafiristan], 15 by 21cm.; collection of Lt. H. Borradaile; together with vellum bound scrapbook of Lt. H. Borradaile, lettered "A Victorian scrap-book. Borradaile, 1870-1887", folio, articles, clippings & ephemera relating to military career & successful completion of military courses by Lt. H.B. Borrowdaile in Persian, Hindustani, Signalling &c. at Simla, Kasauli, Borrowdaile's distinguished command of the Battery of Horse Artillery at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, press articles on Kafirstan, & construction by 32nd Punjaub Pioneers of the Kandahar & Hurnai Railway, vellum binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; India, Album 43 photographs of landscape, military maneouvres & British military life in India including photographs of the Coronation Durbar in India by Hands of Jubbalpore, 8.5 by 7.5cm - 21.5 by 29cm (3)