(India.) Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), a 19th Century photograp...

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£1,500 - £2,500

(India.) Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), a 19th Century photograph album containing 74 mounted albumen print photographs circa 1863-1870, vast majority of India, including Calcutta, Benares, Agra, Delhi, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Allahabad etc, small number at end Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 49 of the images signed in the negative by Samuel Bourne, 2 signed in the negative "Bourne & Shepherd" (Samuel Bourne & Charles Shepherd), all images in album with either four digit numbers incised in the negative, or four digit numbers and captions in manuscript to card leaves of album below photographs, all images in album probably by Samuel Bourne (or Bourne & Shepherd), images signed by Samuel Bourne in negative comprise: 1706 Government House, Calcutta; 1715 view Calcutta Ochterlony Monument; 1748 Banyan tree, Barrackpore Park, Calcutta; 1169 Burning Ghat, Benares; 1171 Rajah Jey Singh's Observatory & Medh Ghat; 1172 Golden temple, Benares; 1175 Sumeree temple, Benares; 1080 Taj Mahal, Agra; 1217 fort, Agra; 1219 fort Agra, Delhi Gate; 1231 Screen interior Taj Mahal, Agra; 1232 Mausoleum, Agra; 1250 Mausoleum of Akbar, Agra; Sarcophagus of Akbar, Agra; 1260 View ruins Fatehpur Sikri, Agra; 1264 Fatehpur Sikri great gate, Agra; 1049 Tomb Zenab Aliya, Lucknow; 1075 Taj Mahal, Agra; 1221 Palace of Akbar, Agra; 1227 Pearl mosque, Agra; 1345 Jama Masjid, Delhi; 1349 Palace of Lahore Gate, Delhi; 1350 Palace interior, Delhi; 1354 Jama Masjid, Delhi; 1357 Kashmir gate, Delhi, 1364 Tomb of Nizam, Delhi; 1370 Qutub Minar, Delhi; 1372 Pillars at Qutub Minar, Delhi; 1375 Interior view at Qutub Minar, Delhi; 1356 Chandni Chowk, Delhi; 1012 Oudh exhibition, Lucknow; 1019 Chattar Manzil, Lucknow; 1027 Bailey gate, Lucknow; 1028 Ruins, Lucknow; 1041 Mermaid gate, Kaiserbagh, Lucknow; 1052 Bara Imambara & mosque, Lucknow; 1064 Graves, Lucknow; 1147 Hoosemabad Emambara, Lucknow; 1037 View in Kaiserbagh, Lucknow; 1203 Memorial bell, church in background, Cawnpore; 1208 Suttee Chowra Ghat, Cawnpore (scene of massacre); 1206 Statue in memorial bell, Cawnpore; 1199 Railway bridge across the Jumma, Allahabad; 1047 Garden, Lucknow; 1730 Village scene, Bengal; 2113 Galle Harbour. Photographs signed in negative Bourne & Shepherd comprising: 2481 view of the Maidan Calcutta, pond in foreground, Ochterlony Monument in centre, buildings in background; 2483 Government central telegraph office, Calcutta. Other images not signed in negative but with numbers and captions beneath including: "1717 3" [panorama view of Government House and the Maidan parade ground etc]; "1718 4" [panorama view Calcutta, buildings in background, part of the Maidan with tents in foreground]; "1719 5" [similar panorama Calcutta to previous]; "1720 7" [panoramic view of Calcutta, small part of Maidan in foreground; "1721 8" [similar previous, more of Maidan visible with three ponds]; "1074 Gate of the Taj Mahal. Agra."; "Memorial Church - Cawnpore"; "1132 a group of H.E. The Viceroys elephants with their state trappings"; "2176 Oriental Bank, Watsons Hotel &c., Bombay"; "2178 View fr. the Town Hall, Bombay"; "2179 Borah Bazaar Street, Bombay"; "2190 Great cave of Elephanta fr. entrance, Bombay"; "2177 View of the Ghats [mountainous scenery]"; "2208 Reversing station, Bhore Ghat railway..."; "2212 Figures in the caves"; "2185 The Flora fountain Bombay"; "Colossal figures on the Linga Chapel 2193" [Elephanta Caves]; "2222 The Queens Statue, Bombay"; "2227 The Ghat of Sangam Bridge"; "2502 Government buildings, Bombay"; "2113 Galle harbour"; "2118 Cingalese [i.e. Sinhalese] merchants"; "Bungalow at bak-wallah, Galle"; Catamaran", images mainly approx. size 20 x 30cm, some slightly larger, mainly landscape, 55 of the images being one single photograph mounted to a page, the remining 19 images being two photographs mounted to a page, oblong folio, contemporary leather backed inlaid wooden boards, album approx. 33 x 54cm, leather gilt spine worn and rubbed, front joint partially split.