Name: Auction: India and Burma Photograph album, c.1870
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1071 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 773&nbsp;February 2024's auction features a fine range of modern literature (lots 275-298) including first editions of <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/297" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings</a>' and <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/279" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm</a>', important manuscripts (lots 179-195), atlases &amp; maps (lots 112-151), photographs (lots 196-208) and The Collection of the Stevenson Lighthouse Engineers (lots 61-111), including <a href="/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photographs-773/lot/85" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI'</a>, and much more. The sale also features The Library of Dr Andrew Fraser MD FSA Scot (1937 - 2020) (lots 152 - 178).

Diego

Cathy Tait | Head of Books & Manuscripts | Lyon & Turnbull Auctioneers

Stevenson_Collection_03.jpg

Rare Books & Manuscripts | UK Auction Specialist

Ian Fleming | British 1908 - 1964

large_The-Stevenson-Collection-Mobile-Banner.jpg

medium_The-Stevenson-Collection-Mobile-Banner.jpg

small_The-Stevenson-Collection-Mobile-Banner.jpg

thumbnail_The-Stevenson-Collection-Mobile-Banner.jpg

xlarge_The-Stevenson-Collection-Mobile-Banner.jpg

The-Stevenson-Collection-Mobile-Banner.jpg

small_MicrosoftTeams-image-removebg-preview.png

thumbnail_MicrosoftTeams-image-removebg-preview.png

Logo with add text

Lyon & Turnbull | Online Auction Specialists  

large_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

medium_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

small_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

thumbnail_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

xlarge_Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

Placeholder-for-Blog.jpg

Oblong folio album, black diced calf binding gilt-lettered 'The Orient' on front cover, containing 53 albumen print photographs, most 18 x 23.5cm or 21 x 25.5cm (a few smaller, one in oval form), mounted to rectos only of linen-hinged stiff card leaves (dimensions 26 x 34.5cm), and including views of Valletta (Malta), the Taj Mahal, the tomb of I'timad-ud-Daulah (Agra), Qutub Minar (Delhi), a ghat (signed in the negative Bourne 1208), the Ganges at Benares, Calcutta maidan, several pagodas (probably in Burma), various river scenes and townscapes, a railway, an elephant rider, textile workers, a dance (probably in Burma, with Europeans visible in background), possible views of Aden and the Ajanta caves, one photograph (interior of mosque) signed in the negative 'Bourne 1350', binding worn, joints secured with cloth tape, first leaf mount (containing two photographs) spotted, occasional light spotting elsewhere, chiefly to mounts

India and Burma

Photograph album, c.1870

Description