Beschreibung:

India, Ceylon, Burma. Photograph album of a journey from England to India, circa 1905-06, containing 96 gelatin silver print views beginning at Gibraltar, and including Stromboli, Port Said, Suez Canal, Aden, Bombay Harbour, Ahmedabad (the Jama Masjid, Ahmed Shah's mosque, Hathi Singh's temple, cattle market), Mount Abu (including women coolies and rickshaw men), the Adhi-din-ka-jhompra, Ajmere street scenes, Udaipur (temple, street scenes, etc.), Jaipur, Delhi, the Kubal-Minar, Lahore, Peshawar (including street scenes), and the Khyber Pass, each mounted on album leaves and with captions in English, some spotting to outer margins of leaves, all edges gilt, original half maroon morocco, somewhat worn with backstrip deficient, covers heavily marked, small folio, together with another similar-size album in similar binding (presumably composed by the same owner) containing views in Burma and Ceylon, including Chinese street scenes in Bhamo, Upper Burma, Burmese huts, bazaar, elephants at work, views of the harbour at Colombo, Newera Eliya, Rozelle, Kandy etc., similarly worn with backstrip deficient, plus a smaller photographic album of views in India taken by the wife of Colonel Harry Watson Third King's Royal Rifles in 1912, containing 160 small photographs showing military life, parades, visits and hunting, Colonel Hallaran's pet Leopard, views in Cawnpore, Lucknow, Secundra, rickshaws, bearers, and ending with a group portrait photograph of the cast of the Third King's Royal Rifles production of The Modern Aladdin, small oblong 4to, another photograph album of India relating to the 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry circa 1929-1932, including views of camps on the North West Frontier including Razmak, Kuldana and Mahsud in Waziristan, a copy of India through the Stereoscope, A Journey through Hindustan conducted by James Ricalton New York & London, Underwood & Underwood, 1907, plus two small carte-de-viste albums of cabinet photograph portraits, all edges gilt, original binding of tortoiseshell and mother of pearl with dark green leather spine and gilt metal clasp, another similar small carte-de-viste album bound in brown leather with decorative upper cover and gilt metal clasp, both 8vo, and a late 19th century photography album and musical box, with mechanism in working order and original key, containing over 50 carte-de-visite photograph portraits, bound in original decorated brown leather gilt, with clasp in working order, 4to (Qty: 8)