Lot 151
India - Bengal - Kashmir - Bourne, S.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
A album of 92 albumen prints of Calcutta and Kashmir, circa. 1860's, each approx 23 by 28cm, pasted to both sides of card leaves, to include 48 views of Calcutta [Mosque at Dharmatala, Chowringhee & Maidan, Government House, Tank Square, Chowringhee & Ochterlony monument, River scenes, SS Orissa after cyclone, Old Mission church & Begg Dunlop offices, St John's Church, Madrissa College, Circular Road, La Martiniere, Medical College, Panorama of Calcutta [7 views], Cathedral]; 14 views by Bourne (signed in negative) of Bridge of the Chenab (776), Meribul Pass (777), Achabul (780), Ruins of Martand (782), Bridge of Shops in Srinagar (788), Commissioner's boat (790), The Shelum (792), Dhul Canal (798), Popular Ave Srinagar (801), View from Nanteh Bungalow (805), Srinagar (818), Margual Canal (814), Bridge on Margual Canal (815), Bridge near Srinagar built by Akbar (822); 21 views of earthquake damage by Pearson (signed in negative), each approx 18 by 23cm; 11 further views of Kashmir by Bourne (signed in negative) of Resident's bungalow on river (820), View of canal (825), View of Dhul canal (831), Monus Bul [?] from Hill (973), Encampment ground (974), Scinde Valley (979), Cascades on Scinde River (980), Glacier in Scinde Valley (984 & 986), Cascade on Scinde River (988), Sunset on Monus Bul (993), bound in contemporary green morocco gilt, rubbed at edges, some leaves loose, some slight fading to edges of some images