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BOURNE (SAMUEL)
Album of views in India and Ceylon, [1860s]

3 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BOURNE (SAMUEL)

Album of views in India and Ceylon, 69 albumen prints of which 33 signed and numbered in the negative by Bourne, 51 larger (c. 210 x 270mm.) mounted one per page recto only, others mounted between 2 and 5 per page, a few leaves loose at end, contemporary diced morocco, metal clasp, monogram on upper cover, g.e., oblong folio, [1860s]

Footnotes

The Bourne images include: Calcutta (5, nos. 1716, 1740, 1704, 1738, 1733); Allahabad (no. 1200), Lucknow (3, nos. 1047, 1149, one unnumbered of the Mosque); Agra (7, nos. 1217, 1218, 1221, 1074, 1075, 1231, 1078), Delhi (8, nos. 1352, 1355, 1356, 1357, 1345, 1348, 1349, 1371), Nainital (7, nos. 1624, 1625, 1630, 1638, 1640, 1643, 1646), and Dhul Canal, Kashmir (2, nos. 825, 798A). Other good unsigned images include Madras (5), and Bangalore (5, ?by Nicholas & Co.). Ceylon images include views of Kandy, Galle and the railway.

Provenance: "Downe, 2d. Life Guards - India & Ceylon, 1867-8", inscription on front free endpaper.

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