A 19th Century photograph album containing approx. 70 mounte...

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£80 - £120

A 19th Century photograph album containing approx. 70 mounted albumen print photographs of Madeira and Canary Islands c.1890's, images including several of Reid's Hotel Funchal, 1891, "Pontinha & Loo Rock 1891", "Camara de Lobos", ship on rocks, boy posing in traditional dress, mountainous scenes, man posing playing stringed instrument, woman posing with basket and pole, woman posing in unwheeled ox cart, various images of coastline, gardens, woman posing in traditional sedan chair, woman posing in toboggan, etc; images Canary Islands including Las Palmas from the mole, Cathedral Las Palmas, Santa Brigida, Atalaya, Guia Road Gran Canaria, Santa Catalina Hotel, springs, Mount Teide, "In the Caldera, La Palma" etc etc, several of the Canary Islands images with captions and signed in negative "J.H.T.E.", images various sizes approx. 15 x 20cm to 27 x 30cm, contemporary oblong folio album, inlaid wooden boards (30 x 36cm) with pictorial traditional Madeiran ox drawn cart scene to upper board, traditional sedan chair scene to lower board, boards rubbed, album lacks spine, boards loose, all edges gilt