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281 HB964/2 European photographs, c. 1890 photos of Greece (25), Turkey (7), Italy (11), France (15), Germany (3), Holland (5), mostly albumen prints, various sizes, most rather faded, some with caption in the photograph, black morocco

287 HD571/2 Kuba tribe, Belgian Congo 7 glass negatives, 8 x 10.5cm., [c.1890], depicting prisoners chained by the neck, village scenes, villager with pots, warriors with bows, villagers outside huts

£300-400

£200-300

282 HB774/1 Good, Frank Mason 14 albumen prints of Egypt, 21 x 16cm, 9 signed F.M. Good in the negative, c. 1869-70, mounted on card, loose in contemporary card folder

288 HB728/1 Lagos, Nigeria - Photographs 68 photographic postcards, some coloured, 85 x 140mm.; 74 Silver (?) prints of ? Lagos and Nigeria, 145 x 209mm., of local people, landscape, houses, British military, river scenes, agriculture, markets, village life, the Lagos Club, indigenous rituals, several captioned, two dated 1914, some faded, endpaper inscribed “Lagos, W. Africa”, Edwardian cloth album

£300-400 283 HC12/2 Hill, David Octavius & Robert Adamson Dr Robert Knox, (1791-1862) , surgeon and anatomist, calotype, 157 x 113mm., mounted on card, somewhat faded £150-200 284 HD559/54 Hill, David Octavius and Robert Adamson A Newhaven Pilot. 18.6 x 14.0cm., later? carbon print, c.1890-1920 £200-300

£300-400 289 HB778/1 Leesthorpe Hall, Leicestershire & Sandside, Caithness Photograph albums, of Leesthorpe and Sandside, and other Scottish locations, mounted with wedding and social invitations, newspaper cuttings, watercolour sketches, photographs of outings to seaside, theatricals, races, hunts, fishing, golf; 5 albums, c. 1900-1930; and several scrapbooks & manuscript compilations of holidays, entitled The Sandside Journal, 1916-26 £300-400

285 HD559/55 Hill, David Octavius and Robert Adamson Edinburgh Castle: group probably including George Meikle Kemp, 190 x 142mm., calotype backed onto card, [NPG P6(234)] £200-300 286 HD540/4 India - Kashmir - Bourne, Samuel 26 albumen prints by Bourne, most with Bourne’s name and a number in the negative, including views On the Jhelum, Fort Lahore, Srinigar, Burnuroluh, Poplar Avenue, Shalimar Gardens, Scinde Valley, Glacier, Wooden bridge on the Jhelum, Scene on canals Srinigar, Soonamurgh, Lahore, Masjid at Srinigar, Officers’ bungalows Srinigar, Golden temple Amritsar 23 x 29cm., [captions dated1864-65], some faded; and smaller photographs of St. Helena (3), Canterbury Cathedral (2), Hythe, dated 1861, (4), brown morocco album, rubbed, joints splitting £800-1,200

290 HD572/1 Matania, Fortunio - photogravures With the British Army on the Western Front, a series of artists’ proofs from “Sphere” Pictures by F. Matania reproduced in photogravure. [London]: The Sphere & Tatler, [1916]. Folio containing 12 photogravures, each signed, tissue guards printed with titles, in original grey printed portfolio case with ties, some foxing, a little creasing and offsetting to title leaf £250-350 291 HB964/1 South Africa 25 ? silver prints of South Africa, some by G.W. Wilson, of George in Cape Colony, Prince Albert, Zwart River, Knysna (one by E. Jones, one by Goch Photo), 22 photo-mechanical views of S. Africa, late 19th century cloth album, [c.1890]; and 4 loose silver prints, 3 photo-mechanical images; and 7 photographic postcards £250-350 292 HD564/1 Stereographs - North America 42 stereographs including Graves, C.H. The honeymoon’s new ‘wench’ cook; Carter’s celebrated Indian stereos Ute Indians; Watkins’ Pacific Coast 10 cards, including an image of a Native American family; Jarvis, J.F. 5 cards including an image of the White House; and a collection of others, in a velvet-lined box; and a viewer £150-180 293 HD559/59 Whaling - Baffin Island, S.S. Eclipse (Dundee) Album of 98 photographs of whaling ship S.S. Eclipse, Captain Milne, ships Diana, Nova Zembla, Albert, and Eclipse, around Baffin Island, off Kingituk, Dalrymple Rock, off Dick’s Rock, Greenland, Hooper Harbour, Cape York, Pondo Bay, Inuit people, cutting up blubber, kayaks, Omiaks, salmon, local women, &c., [c.1910], loosely inserted into album, and 14 loose silver prints of whaling, some fading £300-400

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