A 19th Century photograph album containing approx. 100 mount...

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£500 - £700

A 19th Century photograph album containing approx. 100 mounted albumen print etc photographs mainly of New Zealand, some of Hawaii, mainly landscape and topographical views, some portraits and figure studies Māori and Hawaiian indigenous inhabitants, including Māori group outside Tamatekapua Meeting House, Tamatekapua Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, by Herbert Deveril (Australian, b.1840, d.1911), circa 1870, image approx. 24 x 29.5cm, Te Rangi Tahau, lying in the porch of a Whare Puni, by Herbert Deveril, cicra 1875, approx. size 24.5 x 29cm), three images Tauranga town wharf including J. Menzies Hotel/General Store, another with buildings visible including General Store, bakeries, Commercial Hotel, each approx. 15 x 19.5cm, other images similar NZ including views of towns and cities, waterfall, limestone formations and hot springs possibly Rotorua area, architectural/street scene, Lambton Quay, Wellington, view of Christchurch, NZ, looking towards Sydenham, river scene Gisborne, Lyttelton General View, Maori carving museum at Wellington, view of the Avon, Christchurch, Manawatū Gorge, two other images Maori meeting houses, one of which with indigenous people posing in front, Momona Bay showing Greys residence, Port Ahuriri, Napier, Port Chalmers, Cook's Bay, one page with 12 smaller format portrait photographs of Maori tribesmen and tribeswomen, including with weaponry, children etc, each approx. 9 x 5.5cm, approx. 18 images of the terraces that formerly stood on the shores of old Lake Rotomahana, considered one of the natural wonders of the world, pre-1886 - the majority of both terraces were destroyed during the 1886 Tarawera Rift eruption, some images caption in pencil beneath, including "The boiling cauldron. Top of white terraces Rotomohana. A Maori on the rock", etc; a few images of Hawaii, including unpaved road, Pali, Honolulu, several indegenous people including children on horseback posing, views of Honolulu, sevral views Hilo incl. bay, Cook's Monument, Honolulu from Punch Bowl, Diamond Head, volcano, government buildings, Rainbow Falls, tree lined Palace avenues, view on Maui, view of the Pali, series of seven portrait photographs, including King [Kalākaua] (1836-1891), Queen [Kapiʻolani] (1834-1899), "Princess Lydia" [Liliʻuokalani] (1838-1917), Queen Emma of Hawaii (1836-1885), "Honolulu Dandy", etc, each approx. 16 x 10.5cm; plus approx. 10 further 19th Century photographs of Ireland, mainly Glengarriff, 110 photographs in album in total, oblong folio, contemporary leather backed inlaid wooden boards, album approx. 29.5 x 49cm, leather gilt spine worn and rubbed, approx. 2cm square loss of wood lower corner of upper board