Lot 325
Sri Lanka - Craighead Tea Estate
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
An album, c.1910, containing 43 views showing the plantations, workers, processing areas and machines on the Craighead tea estate, average size of print 15 by 20cm, 5 other views including the Taj Mahal, each approx. 21 by 28cm, contemporary half calf gilt, worn, upper board lacking; Tea Plantations An album, c. 1900, containing 13 albumen views of an tea plantation and the colonial family owners, each view approx. 13 x 21cm or 22 x 28cm, mounted onto card leaves, contemporary morocco gilt, worn, fading to prints, some cut from album; India, Lucknow An album containing 26 views of India, c. 1880's, pasted to leaves, foxing, contemporary diced calf, mongram of Unthank family on upper board, worn, backstrip loose; Bonfils A group of 8 mounted albumen prints of Balbek and Jerusalem, each approx. 22 x 28cm; and an albumen print of the Taj Agra by Bourne (12)