Lot 160
World photographs
Quantity
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
including 3 of Africa, including 2 of Boer War, war dead at Spion's Kop, Natal, 1900, 14 x 19cm, mounted on card; 1 of 2 Company A.C.T. on Waimate Plain, New Zealand, 1880, on 2 sheets mounted on paper, split at centre; Spain & Gibraltar, 13, unmounted; Tangiers, 2, unmounted, 21.5 x 28cm; Egypt, 3, Sphinx and Pyramid by Beato and Dumas, 16 x 21cm and 26 x 36cm, mounted on card; Japan, 2 stereoscopic cards, one of Japanese Ambassadors by Caldesi & Co, one of musicians inscribed "Koomikichi & Koomanaski"; China, 2, unmounted, 21 x 28cm; Malta, 2, including large panorama, 93 x 19cm, unmounted; San Francisco, 5 by Taber Photo, unmounted; Japan, 16 albumen prints of landscape and people, all but 2 18 x 23cm; Rabindranath Tagore, 2 silver prints by Photo Arshar Baghdad, 16 x 21cm, unmounted; Canada including Illicillewact River & railway bridges, 18 x 24cm, unmounted; Scotland, 51 loose albumen prints, many by J.V. or G.W. Wilson; and several others, including some, ornithological