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* Béchard (Henri, active 1870-1880). An album of approximately 70 mounted albumen print photographs, circa 1880, comprising 12 large views of Cairo by Henri Béchard mounted on rectos and versos of six card leaves, each signed, numbered and captioned in the negative, 37 x 26.5 cm, plus 12 smaller portraits of unidentified Middle Eastern and Turkish people by unidentified photographers, 13.5 x 10 cm, mounted on two leaves, the remainder of the album comprising approximately 47 uncaptioned albumen print photographs of various sizes, with scenes in Italy, Turkey, Australia, USA and Europe, mounted singularly and as multiples on 17 card leaves, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, oblong folio (34 x 42.5 cm)Qty: (1)

* Burma & India. An album containing approximately 55 photographs of Burma and India, circa 1880s, including 32 albumen print photographs of Burma, views, temples, portraits and elephants, images approximately 22 x 27 cm and similar, plus a further 21 photographs of India including officers, group portraits, horses posing with servants, Lucknow Residency, etc., many 22 x 27 cm and similar, mostly uncaptioned and mounted singly to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, contemporary diced calf gilt, rubbed, oblong folio (27 x 38 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Family of Thomas John Rashleigh Lucas CB(1900) MB Col AMS (1858-1929). Lucas, of Bandon, Cork, served in the Army Medical Service and the Indian Medical Service in India, Egypt, Soudan and South Africa. He was mentioned in dispatches twice in both the Egyptian War 1882-84 and the Second Boer War, Relief of Ladysmith, 1900.

* Ceylon & India. An album containing approximately 70 mounted platinum and gelatin silver prints of Ceylon interest, early 20th century, all uncaptioned, including 23 large platinum prints of rural scenes, tea picking, golf courses and horses, 23 x 28 cm, the remaining smaller photographs of views and colonial scenes, etc., mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, the second album containing approximately 64 mounted platinum and gelatin silver prints of India interest, the larger images of horses, polo and racing, approximately 22 x 28 cm and smaller, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, contemporary half morocco/full cloth, both with monogram TJRL to upper covers, some soiling and wear, oblong folio (33 x 41 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance: Family of Thomas John Rashleigh Lucas CB(1900) MB Col AMS (1858-1929). Lucas, of Bandon, Cork, served in the Army Medical Service and the Indian Medical Service in India, Egypt, Soudan and South Africa. He was mentioned in dispatches twice in both the Egyptian War 1882-84 and the Second Boer War, Relief of Ladysmith, 1900.

* Ceylon. A photograph album compiled by C. O'Brien, mostly relating to his time in Ceylon, 1860s, containing a total of approximately 80 views and portraits, 8 panoramas (including two of Guernsey and one of Mauritius), plus approximately 90 smaller format cartes de visite size images including 12 views of Egypt, subjects of larger images including Devonport, 1861, Views of Galle, Government Peons or Messengers, Colombo, 1864, group of Native Chiefs, Kandy, group of Ceylon riflemen, group taken at Government House, Colombo, December 1864, plus various sized views of antiquities, temples, etc., and including 12 views of Mauritius and 5 of Malta, the panoramas including 2 views of Kandy (16 x 58 cm & 12.5 x 39 cm) and two views of Trincomalie (16 x 46 cm), all with some yellowing on folds, inner hinges slightly cracked, contemporary morocco, O'Brien's gilt monogram to upper cover, heavily rubbed, folio (36 x 26 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Family of Colonel Edmund Donough Collins O'Brien, Royal Engineers, (1841-1916).

* Cyprus & Middle East. A personal souvenir photograph album compiled by a British army officer serving in Cyprus, North Africa and the Middle East, 1930s, containing approximately 150 corner-mounted gelatin silver print snapshot of army life and civilian scenes in Cyprus, Cairo, Suez, Alexandria, etc., images mostly approximately 5.5 x 8.5 cm and mounted as multiples and back-to-back on thick paper leaves, mostly with white china ink captions to mounts, plus 16 larger photographs, corner-mounted singly, one showing the Graf Zeppelin over Cairo, 1931, and C Squadron in the desert, smaller snapshots include the Governor of Cyprus, Sir Ronald Storrs beside vehicles and a camp, a few photographs now detached, contemporary leather with spine tie, rubbed, oblong folio (22 x 33 cm)Qty: (1)

* Davies (G. Christopher). The Scenery of the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk & Suffolk, [First Series], London & Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, [1883], 19 (of 24) photogravure plates printed by T. & R. Annan of Glasgow, images 10.5 x 14.5 cm, printed caption slips to lower left corners of mounts on all but four sheets (38 x 28 cm), loosely contained in original half-cloth portfolio with printed title to upper cover, soiled and worn, folioQty: (19)NOTESA Second Series was published in 1883/4. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

* Egypt. A portfolio of 20 collotype photographs, produced by Schroeder and Photoglob, Zurich, circa 1890, all depicting monuments and ruins in Karnak, Thebes, Luxor, etc., images 21 x 27 cm, pasted on individual original card mounts, loosely contained in a pictorial cloth portfolio, rubbed and soiled, folio (39 x 48 cm)Qty: (1)

* Faisal II (1935-1958). King of Iraq 1939-1958. A presentation album of the Iraq Command Boat Club, presented to the Commodore Air Vice Marshal S.C. Strafford, 2 March 1947, comprising 23 mounted gelatin silver prints, mostly of the Boat Club at RAF Habbaniya and sailing regattas, and including 3 photographs of the visit of H.M. King Faisal II of Iraq in February 1947, one showing the King with the Commodore, 16.5 x 13 cm, and two with Flight Sergeant McCabe, 14 x 11 cm & 7.5 x 10 cm, images mounted singly and as pairs on rectos of stiff card leaves with neat ink captions to lower mounts, title page with watercolour of a pennant and calligraphic dedication page at front, contemporary boards with spine tie, slightly rubbed, oblong folio (20 x 29 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESAfter serving as the Air Officer Administration at Middle East Command, Strafford was appointed Air Officer Commanding Air HQ Iraq and Persia in July 1945. King Faisal II was the last King of Iraq, ascending the throne shortly before his 4th birthday in 1939 and reigning until he was killed during the 14 July Revolution in 1958.

Frith (Francis, 1822-1898). Egypt & Palestine Photographed and Described, volume 1 (of 2), 1st edition, James S. Virtue, [1858], with oval albumen print portrait of Frith in Turkish dress and 36 (complete) other mounted albumen prints, images 15.5 x 22.5 cm or the reverse, each with guards and printed descriptions, some scattered spotting, contents shaken and a few leaves detached, contemporary green half morocco gilt, some edge wear and a little wear to spine, folio (43.5 x 31.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESFirst edition of Frith’s earliest work. Blackmer 1942; Gernsheim Incunabula 88; Goldschmidt & Naef 61.

* Great Britain & Europe. An assorted collection of 12 photograph albums, mostly late 19th century, including views in Great Britain and Europe, mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various bindings, some wear, folio/large folioQty: (12)

* Hong Kong. Souvenir of the Hongkong Regiment, circa 1900, a presentation album with printed title and 10 mounted gelatin silver print photographs including two of parades, one of a group of British officers and the rest of native soldiers in various groupings, 22 x 29 cm and 3 smaller, contemporary red morocco gilt, slightly rubbed, oblong folio (31 x 41 cm)Qty: (1)

* India & Ceylon. A photograph album mostly relating to Major J.T.N. O'Brien's time in India and Ceylon, late 1850s and early 1960s, containing approximately 100 cabinet card size and larger albumen print views, portraits and panoramas of India and Ceylon, plus approximately 240 cartes de visite size and smaller views and portraits, pasted singly and as multiples on to rectos and versos of 56 paper leaves with neat ink captions throughout, including views of Kootub Minar, Delhi, 1855, 16.5 x 20.5 cm; Prinsep's Ghaut, Calcutta, 1860, 15 x 22.5 cm; Ruins near the Kootub, Delhi, 1855, 17.5 x 21.5 cm; Marble Palace in the Fort, Agra, 1857, 15.5 x 20.5 cm; The Bank after the Siege, Delhi, [1857], 20 x 26 cm; Jemma Musjid, Delhi, 1859, 16.5 x 21 cm; Mosque in Dhurrumbullah, Calcutta, 1860, 13.5 x 21.5 cm; The Sallyport & Ditch of the Fort, Colombo, The Temple of the Tooth, Kandy; Panoramic view from Mount Airy, Kandy, 4-part linen-backed panorama, circa 1862, 15 x 74 cm; plus 4 smaller and narrower panoramas of Kandy, portraits include various British military, Chiefs of the Temples, Kandian Province, Ceylon, Officers of the 50th Regiment, Columbo, Madras tailors, Galle, 1862, raquet players, Simla, 1860, Officers at Hythe, February 1860, 52nd Light Infantry, Calcutta, April 1864, plus a few views in Lancashire, a study of shipping, Guernsey and 4 larger views by Bourne of Simla, circa 1864, etc., contents partly shaken and one leaf detached, contemporary morocco with O'Brien's gilt monogram initials to upper cover, some corner wear and loss at head and foot of spine, oblong folio (24 x 33 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Family of Colonel Edmund Donough Collins O'Brien, Royal Engineers, (1841-1916).

* India & Middle East. An assorted collection of approximately 60 photographs of India and Middle East interest, late 19th and early 20th century, mostly albumen and gelatin silver prints, images approx. 22 x 27 cm and smaller, loose and individually mounted, together with a photograph album containing late 19th and early 20th century views in Europe and India, plus some sculptures and artworks, contemporary gilt-decorated vellum in a red cloth dust jacket, rubbed, oblong folioQty: (approx. 60)

* India & Middle East. An album compiled by adjutant Captain O'Brien of the 1st East Lancashire Regiment, circa 1880s, containing a total of approximately 170 pasted in albumen prints (and some other processes) of military interest, views, etc., pasted on to rectos and versos of 65 paper leaves with many ink captions, larger photographs include group of Officers, Moulmein Volunteer Rifles, 1888, Garrison Class, Ranikhet, June 1889, Officers XXX, Ferozepore, Punjab, 1885 and 1888, 2nd Bengal Cavalry, 1881, Fynabad and Benares Group, 1881, Lucknow Residency, 1881, South West view of Fort Asirgura, Sukhim Tank, Fort Asirgurh (and 2 similar), Taj Mahal, interior of Fort Ulwar, Rajpootana Agency Camp, Delhi, The Delhi Assemblage, 1 January 1877, Alexandria after the Siege, Bedouins, 1888, Piazza di Consoli, Alexandria after the Siege, 4 views of Deccau and 2 of Kashmir, 2 views of Penang by W. Jones, plus other portraits and views in Egypt, Burma, Newfoundland, Malta, etc., contemporary half morocco, worn, covers detached and backstrip deficient, folio (37 x 28 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Family of Colonel Edmund Donough Collins O'Brien, Royal Engineers, (1841-1916).

* India. 2 albums of views of northern India, 1920s/30s, gelatin silver prints, including views and scenes in Darjeeling, Srinagar and the Himalayas, the first album containing 85 photographs (9 larger photographs 15 x 20cm and similar sizes plus 76 small photographs 5.5 x 8cm), all corner mounted to rectos and 4 versos of album leaves with typed captions pasted to mounts beneath, contemporary boards, small oblong folio, the second small format album containing 21 small photographs, each 6.5 x 9cm, pasted to album relief rectos with brief captions to mounts, contemporary boards, oblong, 16mo, plus a disbound album, circa 1914, with approximately 170 snapshots including some India interest, oblong folio, plus a group of 6 gelatin silver print views, circa 1890, each approx. 21.5 x 29 cm, mounted on 7 album mounts with 13 smaller photos of India interestQty: (10)

* Indian Railways. An archive of material relating to the career of W.S. Benton in India, 1920s-1940s, comprising 4 snapshot photograph albums, including one showing the rail disaster at Chiviot Bridge in Punjab, small oblong folio/8vo, plus a quantity of loose photographs, letters and ephemeraQty: (a small carton)NOTESW.S. Benton was a railway engineer in the coal fields of Bihar and Orissa.

* Italy & France. An assorted group of 8 photograph albums, late 19th century, containing mostly albumen print views of Italy and France, various bindings, some wear, folio/large folioQty: (8)

* Italy. A group of 7 assorted photograph albums, late 19th century, containing mostly albumen print views of Italy, various bindings, some wear, 4to/folioQty: (7)

* Japan. An album of 26 mounted views of Japan, 1920s, gelatin silver prints, including scenes in Kobe, Kyoto, Yokahama including scenes from the earthquake of 1 September 1923, showing victims and building damage plus one of a Korean shot for looting, images 8 x 13cm and mostly mounted as pairs on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with neat ink captions beneath, one additional photograph of Yokahama loosely inserted, plain card covers with linen back strip, oblong, small folioQty: (1)

* Kleingrothe (Charles J.). Sumatra's O.K., c. 1915, title-page and 65 plates of photogravures (numbered 1-65 , including 40b), original cloth gilt portfolio with mounted photogravure to upper cover, some damp staining, oblong folioQty: (1)

* Malta & Greece. A good album of views of Malta, Athens, Turkey, Portugal, France, etc., 1860s/1870s, including 9 large views of Athens by D. Constantine, 1864, images each approximately 26 x 37 cm, plus a photograph of the fountain, Constantinople by Robertson & Beato, 30 x 26 cm, 8 views of Corfu, 21 x 28 cm and smaller, a good series of 16 views of Malta, mostly 20 x 24.5 cm but some 29.5 x 24.5 cm and similar, plus other views in Athens, Gibraltar, Constantinople, Smirne, Ephesus, Lisbon, France, Scotland, and 6 fine linen-backed panoramas, a total of approximately 125 albumen print photographs on 54 leaves, mounted singly and as multiples back-to-back on paper leaves throughout, many with neat ink captions and occasional dates to mounts, contemporary diced calf, worn and covers detached, oblong folio (34 x 50 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Family of Colonel Edmund Donough Collins O'Brien, Royal Engineers, (1841-1916). The panoramas are of: 1) Pembroke Camp, Malta, 2-part panorama, 13 x 51 cm; 2) Grand Harbour, Malta, from St. Angelo, 6-part panorama, 19 x 140 cm; 3) Quarantine Harbour, Malta, from Fort Manoel, 4-part panorama, 20 x 97 cm; 4) General view of Floriana, Malta, from Valetta, 3-part panorama, 18 x 84 cm; 5) Tuilleries & Louvre, Paris, 1870, 21 x 56 cm; 6) Versailles, 1871, 19.5 x 56 cm.

* Middle East & South Africa. An album of 113 mounted photographs, circa 1890/1900s, including a 2-part panorama and six views of Alexandria by Andreas Reiser, gelatin silver prints, images approximately 22 x 27 cm, together with 47 similar sized gelatin silver print views of Egypt including Cairo and the Pyramids by G. Lekegian, mounted singly and back-to-back on stiff card leaves, with a further 58 personal gelatin silver print photographs relating to camp life in South Africa, various sizes, uncaptioned, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, covers and spine detached, oblong folio (26/5 x 37 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Family of Thomas John Rashleigh Lucas CB(1900) MB Col AMS (1858-1929). Lucas, of Bandon, Cork, served in the Army Medical Service and the Indian Medical Service in India, Egypt, Soudan and South Africa. He was mentioned in dispatches twice in both the Egyptian War 1882-84 and the Second Boer War, Relief of Ladysmith, 1900.

* Middle East. An album of 50 views and scenes, circa 1890, albumen print photographs of local types, scenes and buildings in Egypt, including Cairo, photographers include Lekegian, Zangaki, Bonfils, Sebah, etc., some with captions in the negative, images mostly 22 x 27 cm and similar sizes, mounted back to back on stiff card leaves, generally faded, contemporary pictorial cloth, soiled and frayed, oblong folio (32 x 43 cm)Qty: (1)

* South Africa - Zulu War. An album of 62 albumen print views of South Africa, mostly sites relating to the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, including Rorke's Drift and Isandewana, circa 1879-81, plus images of 'Zulu Border Guard, Natal', 'Zulu Women', and two views of Durban Harbour, images mostly 13 x 19cm and similar sizes, mounted as pairs on rectos and versos of album leaves with pencil captions beneath, disbound, folio, together with two carte-de-visite size albumen print photographs of Zulus, c. 1860sQty: (3)

* South Africa. An album containing 24 mounted gelatin silver prints of the Second Boer War, circa 1900, mostly captioned in the negative with the credit of the photographer B.W. Caney (1842-1918), images 14.5 x 19.5 cm and similar, mounted back-to-back on stiff card leaves with a further 12 related snapshots mounted or loose on other leaves, plus three photographs of St. Helena (Jamestown harbour scene, Cronje's Prison and Napoleon's grave), several leaves blank, inner hinges cracked, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and damp stained, oblong small folio (25 x 30 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Family of Thomas John Rashleigh Lucas CB(1900) MB Col AMS (1858-1929). Lucas, of Bandon, Cork, served in the Army Medical Service and the Indian Medical Service in India, Egypt, Soudan and South Africa. He was mentioned in dispatches twice in both the Egyptian War 1882-84 and the Second Boer War, Relief of Ladysmith, 1900.

* South Seas. A pair of photograph albums of New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, c. 1880, comprising a total of 52 albumen prints on contemporary paper mounts, some with brief ink captions, mostly 20 x 14.5 cm and similar, the mounts corner mounted on to rectos and versos of paper album leaves (6 smaller photographs loosely inserted), 20th-century limp canvas over card with stitched spines, oblong folioQty: (2)

* Spain. An album of 55 photographs of Cordoba, Seville and Grenada, 1880s, albumen prints, mostly of Moorish architecture and antiquities, plus some views and people, mostly captioned in the negative to lower margins with credit of J. Laurent, images 33 x 25 cm, mounted back-to-back on stiff card leaves, contemporary half morocco, covers detached and backstrip deficient, folio (50 x 40 cm), together with an album of 28 mounted albumen print photographs of Roman sculptures, circa 1880s, many 26 x 38 cm and similar sizes, plus some 25 x 20 cm, mounted singly and as pairs to album leaf rectos with brief ink captions to mounts, contemporary padded calf with gilt clasp, rubbed, folio (46 x 38 cm)Qty: (2)

* Spirit Photography. A family photograph album, compiled by H.S. Eyre of St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex, c. 1897, containing 170 window-mounted snapshots of family life and holidays, including 3 spirit photographs produced from the same negative(s), featuring a seated man holding his hands up in surprised shock on seeing a standing ghost-like figure in front of him, all images 9.5 x 7 cm, ownership pencil inscription of H.S. Eyre with address and date August 1897 inscribed in pencil at front, 8 larger photographs loosely inserted including 2 with labels of the Light and Truth Photo Club pasted to mount versos with details and descriptions completed by the photographer H.S.W. Eyre (member no. 4), contemporary cloth boards, inner hinges cracked, crude tape reback, oblong folio (24 x 31 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESWhile spirit photography (or ghost photography) can be dated back to the American Civil War, it only started appearing in England from around 1872 from the studio of the photographer Frederick Hudson. The photographer here would seem to have been the album's owner, Henry Samuel Walpole Eyre (1872-1937). Earlier in the 1890s the Eyre family had lived at Crowborough where the author Arthur Conan Doyle was to move to in 1907 after his marriage. There is no known connection between the Eyre and Conan Doyle families, and Conan Doyle's interest in spirit photography dates from after these photographs were taken.

Thompson (Charles Thurston, 1816-1868). The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella in Spain, showing especially the Sculpture of the Portico de la Gloria, by Mestre Mateo, published by the Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, 1868, title, 5 pp. and 20 mounted albumen print photographs on individual mounts with numbered printed captions pasted beneath, images 38 x 31 cm and smaller, some scattered soiling and marginal fraying, most photographs with some spotting and/or fading, circulating library label of the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, the front pastedown with manuscript shelf number A/6c to upper board and pastedown, contents loose in original printed boards with plain morocco backstrip, heavily rubbed and soiled, folio (47 x 37 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESCharles Thurston Thompson was the first Official Photographer of the South Kensington Museum, later to become the Victoria & Albert Museum.

* World Tour. A pair of personal photograph albums relating to a world trip by W.B.S., 1895-6, including 24 larger mounted albumen prints (19.5 x 24.5 cm and similar), mostly Japanese views but also including 4 of Niagara Falls and one Hong Kong, plus over 100 smaller Kodak snapshots, mostly of India scenes and people, mounted on rectos of stiff card leaves with ink captions, album leaves partly loose and evidence of some leaves removed, contemporary padded morocco gilt, rubbed, oblong folioQty: (2)

* China. An album of approximately 175 window-mounted gelatin silver print snapshots, circa 1937, including some copy prints, showing scenes in Kowloon, Shanghai, Chinese market scenes, death and funeral scenes, river boat scenes, wedding scenes, torture scenes and public executions, street scenes, Japanese destruction and casualties (August to November 1937), Chinese artillery in action, aircraft and naval scenes, images 5 x 7.5 cm, ink captions to mounts throughout including some with good detail, contemporary boards, lacking spine, small oblong folio (20 x 24 cm), together with an album of Singapore and Malaysia interest, circa 1934/35, a personal album, mostly depicting European groups and gatherings, plus some views, aviation and boating scenes, mostly approximately 5.5 x 8 cm and similar, mounted on album leaf rectos and versos with white ink captions to most mounts, contemporary decorative cloth over boards with spine tie, oblong folio (26 x 34 cm)Qty: (2)

* Europe. A group of 13 photograph albums, mostly late 19th century, albumen prints and other processes, including topographical and architectural views, family scenes and genre subjects, etc., various bindings, generally worn, mostly folio and similar large-format sizes, plus 2 small-format albums of albumen print views of RomeQty: (15)

* Europe. A group of 25 photograph albums, late 19th and early 20th century, albumen prints and other processes, including topographical and architectural views, family scenes and genre subjects, etc., various bindings, mostly 4to/small folioQty: (25)

* Great Britain. A group of 13 photograph albums, mostly early 20th century, containing over 1000 photographs, various sizes and subjects including topographical and architectural views, family portraits and scenes, pasted in and window-mounted, various bindings, mostly folioQty: (13)

[Baker, Thomas]. Memorials of Oldham's Tenement at Crumpsall in the Parish of Manchester, the birthplace of Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, and founder of the Manchester Free Grammar School, 1st edition, Manchester: Sidney Smith, 1864, 5 pp. plus 3 leaves with albumen print photographs, the first a mammoth print of the cottage at Crumpsall in which Hugh Oldham was born, 25.5 x 37 cm, the second of a fresco on a wall in the cottage, 20.5 x 32 cm, the third leaf with two vignette photographs of coats-of-arms in the cottage, 7 x 5.5 cm, some spotting, stitched as issued and now loose in original cloth boards with covers detached, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, slim folio (51 x 35 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe photographer of this rare work is unidentified. Copies located at Manchester Public Libraries and Chetham's Library only.

* Hong Kong. An album containing 50 photographs of Hong Kong and Japan, late 19th and early 20th century, including 15 photographs of the Shanghai Riots, 1905, 7 photographs of the Hong Kong Typhoon of 1906 and 12 photographs of the Shanghai Floods of 1905, many 10 x 13.5 cm, mounted on rectos of 12 leaves with ink captions to mounts, plus two larger full-plate photographs of the Naval Brigade, Shanghai Riots, HMS Astraea's Companies and Officers' Group, HMS Astraea, plus 6 late 19th century albumen prints of Japanese people and views, all but two colour tinted, 21.5 x 27 cm and similar, contemporary half morocco gilt, slightly rubbed, folio (36 x 26 cm), together with a group of 11 full-plate albumen prints on rectos and versos of 6 loose card album leaves including views of Shanghai, Chinese temple, Chinese execution, a Chinese weaver, Chinese musicians, and a Chinese law court, plus 4 groups of European picnic and cricket watching groups in Hong Kong, images 21 x 26.5 cm and similarQty: (12)

* India. An album containing approximately 76 albumen print photographs, mostly late 1890s, including views of Simla (7), Delhi (15), Agra (17), and the Golden Temple, mostly 22 x 28 cm and similar sizes, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card album leaves with pen or pencil captions to mounts, plus one leaf with six cartes-de-visite portraits of Indian people, plus miscellaneous photographs of Gibraltar, etc., and 9 loose gelatin silver prints including views of Aden (some by H. Hands), contemporary cloth gilt, some corner wear, together with three further albums with Indian photography interest, 1890s, including 16 photographs of the Welsh Regiment in India, Ceylon views (6), Peshawar/Khyber (12), Suez (6), etc., including Italy and other countries, many photographs 22 x 27 cm and similar sizes, mounted singly and as multiples on stiff card album leaves with some annotations to mounts, some leaves loose, contemporary half morocco, covers detached and spines deficient, all oblong folioQty: (4)

* India. An album of 190 mounted platinum prints, circa 1910, showing views, residencies, Western and indigenous people, tiger hunting, etc., images mostly 8.5 x 11 cm and mounted in groups of 4s on rectos and versos of stiff card album leaves with scattered indistinct pencil captions, plus a further 49 gelatin silver print and platinum print snapshots of Cairo and the Middle East on 5 leaves at rear, contemporary canvas boards, oblong folio (26 x 32 cm), together with a slightly earlier album containing window-mounted platinum prints of views and scenes in India (94), Ceylon (47), West Indies including Martinique, Havana and Jamaica (28) including the Wreck of USS Maine, scattered brief ink captions to some mounts, images 9 x 11.5 cm, contemporary cloth, rubbed, small folio (28 x 18 cm)Qty: (2)

* India. An album of approximately 52 mounted albumen print photographs, circa 1890s, images include a group of Kol girls, Chota Nagpore, mess bungalow, 9th Bengal Infantry, Dorunda, various European groups, two more portraits of a Kol girl, two views of Kandy, images of a Ghurka group and 9th Ghurka Rifles with native soldiers, native recruits for Ghurkas, images of Lucknow, Hooghli, Calcutta, Lundi Kotal Camp, Khyber, etc., plus 7 views of the Andaman Islands, plus a few miscellaneous images of the Pyramids, Switzerland, etc., many images 20 x 25 cm and similar larger format sizes, mounted on rectos and versos singly and as multiples on stiff card leaves with ink captions throughout, partly broken, contemporary half morocco, covers detached and backstrip deficient, oblong folio (26 x 35 cm)Qty: (1)

* Bermuda. An album of 24 mounted photographs of Bermuda, circa 1890, albumen prints with numbered captions in the negative, scenes include Fort Street, Bermuda Cottage, Quarry, view near Norwood, bay grape trees, Hamilton Harbour by moonlight, Mangroves, St. David's Lighthouse, packing onions, etc., images somewhat faded, 17.5 x 23.5 cm, pasted to rectos of stiff card leaves, contemporary cloth, spine and corners perished, covers detached, oblong folioQty: (1)

* Middle East & North Africa. A group of 4 photograph albums, circa 1870s/1890s, all with mounted full-plate albumen print photographs, one album including 22 photographs of Suez Canal and environs, by Zangaki, a second album containing 39 views and portraits of Algeria and its people by N.D., a third album including 18 full-plate views of Egypt by Lekegian and 70 amateur snapshots, the fourth disbound album containing 15 albumen print views of Cairo, various sizes, plus other miscellaneous European views, various bindings, 4to/oblong folioQty: (4)

* Middle East. A small complete album of 24 window-mounted photographs taken by the Turkish official photographer G.R. Hughes before the capture of Jerusalem, 1914-1917, all titled by the photographer on the mounts, showing Turkish Infantry, British prisoners of war taken at Katya, Izzat Pasha at the Mosque of Omar, Turkish Camel Corps at Beersheba, Turkish A-A Gun at Sheria, Turkish trenches at Harreira, Turkish Cavalry MG in action at beginning of 3rd Battle of Gaza, Turkish field ambulance, Enver Pasha & Djemal Pasha at Beersheba, Hun Plain at Ramleh, Colonel Coventry's arrival at Jerusalem Station after the Katya engagement, Turkish Cavalry at Beersheba, Red Sea Crescent tea tent, Auja, Turks unloading grain on the Dead Sea, etc., images 11 x 16 cm, signed by photographer at front and rear, contemporary cloth, soiling and wear, spine frayed, oblong 8vo (17 x 21 cm), together with a contemporary personal photograph album compiled by a British soldier serving in the Holy Land, snapshots of British military personnel, street scenes in Jerusalem, Jericho, Jordan, etc., a total of approximately 170 gelatin silver prints, 7.5 x 9.5 cm and smaller, contemporary cloth, soiling and wear, small 4to, plus an unrelated complete album of 24 window-mounted photographs of Waziristan and environs, circa 1910, many captioned and/or signed by the photographer Baljee in the negative, images 6 x 10.5 cm, contemporary cloth, a little frayed, oblong 16mo, plus a large album containing approximately 260 snapshots of Iran/Afghanistan, circa 1920, including scenes in Tehrain, but mostly rural, largely uncaptioned, 7.5 x 10.5 cm and similar sizes, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, contemporary rexine, oblong folioQty: (4)

* Middle East. An album containing 52 mounted photographic views by Bonfils, circa 1880s, including views of Damascus, Baalbek, Jerusalem, etc., signed and captioned in the negatives, generally faded, 22 x 27 cm and similar sizes, mounted back-to-back on stiff card leaves, contemporary half morocco, covers detached and spine deficient, oblong folio, together with a second album containing a further 20 full-plate albumen prints of the Middle East and Turkey, many by Bonfils, generally signed and captioned in the negatives, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, along with 40 other full-plate albumen print views of the Riviera including two of the earthquake at Diana Marina, 1887Qty: (2)

* Naval Album. A British naval photograph album, 1870s, 48 mounted albumen prints including ships and crews of HMS Ariadne, Signet, Agincourt, Devastation, plus views in Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Malta, Italy, Maderia, Pompeii and Palermo, images 15 x 20 cm and similar sizes, plus 12 cartes-de-visite sizes, mostly mounted singly to rectos and occasionally back-to-back, calligraphic title with vignette portrait photograph of A.W. Ainsley, contemporary cloth, rubbed and frayed on spine, oblong small folioQty: (1)

* New Zealand. An album containing 38 mounted albumen print views of New Zealand by Frank Arnold Coxhead (1851-1908), circa 1880s, many titled and initialled in the negatives, 14 x 19 cm and similar sizes, mounted back-to-back on stiff card leaves, contemporary half roan with title label to upper cover, covers detached and spine damaged, small oblong folio (19.5 x 27 cm)Qty: (1)

* South Africa. An assorted group of 4 large photograph albums, late 19th and early 20th century, all containing views and scenes in South Africa, plus other scenes in East Africa, Great Britain and Europe, etc., a variety of photographic processes including professional and amateur snapshots of various sizes, contemporary half morocco (one modern quarter morocco library binding), some wear and one with covers detached and spine deficient, folio/oblong folioQty: (4)

* South Africa. An album of 36 mounted albumen print photographs, circa 1890s, showing people, views and street scenes, a few with photographer's identified as Caney, Lloyd or Burg, images mostly 13.5 x 19.5 cm and similar sizes, mounted as multiples to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with ink captions to many mounts, some photos loose, contemporary cloth, covers detached and backstrip deficient, together with a family photograph album of South Africa, circa 1900, containing approximately 140 mostly gelatin silver print photographs and snapshots on rectos and versos of 28 stiff card leaves, showing civilian life and settings, various sizes, contemporary half morocco, worn, oblong folioQty: (2)

* South Africa. South African Souvenir, by J.E. Middlebrook, photographer, Durban & Kimberley, circa 1899, an album of 50 mounted collotype scenes, images 14.5 x 19.5 cm, mounted on stiff card leaves and back-to-back with printed captions beneath, original padded morocco gilt, covers detached and backstrip deficient, small oblong folio, together with an album of 60 mounted gelatin silver print views of South Africa, circa 1900, all captioned in the negative with initials J.E.M[iddlebrook], some chemical staining and fading, images 13.5 x 19 cm, mounted back-to-back on stiff card leaves, contemporary cloth, rubbed and damp stained, small oblong folio, plus an album of approximately 50 mounted small format gelatin silver prints of people and scenes around the Gold Coast colony, pencil captions to mounts, contemporary morocco with gilt title and date to upper cover, 'Dodo, June 20th 1899', slightly rubbed, small oblong folio, plus a small album containing 20 views of Barberton, South Africa, circa 1890, gelatin silver prints, images 10 x 6.5 cm, mounted to rectos with neat ink captions, contemporary half roan, rubbed, oblong, 16moQty: (4)

* St. Helena. A group of three unrelated albums with photographs of St. Helena, 1890s/1900s, the earliest album compiled by H.W. Simms of HMS Sparrow, circa 1892, containing a total of approximately 70 albumen and gelatin silver print photographs and snapshots, including colleagues and scenes on St. Helena, plus views of Venice and postcard-size photographs of Bermuda and earthquake destruction at Kingston, Jamaica, images generally faded and poor, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 4to, the second a midshipman's album relating to HMS Niobe, circa 1900, containing photographs of ship and crew, Walfish Bay, Cuddy Kop, plus images of Boer officers landing at St. Helena, English and Boer, St. Helena (x 2), wigwams made by Boer at St. Helena and Longwood, Napoleon's house at St. Helena (each 15 x 20 cm), plus two views of Corfu, etc., plus two ink and watercolour plans, mostly mounted to stiff card leaf rectos only with neat ink caption and occasional lengthy notes, contemporary cloth, oblong folio, the third album containing snapshots and views in Aden, St. Helena, Mobassa, images 15 x 20 cm and smaller, mounted on rectos and versos of 15 stiff card leaves, contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, small oblong folioQty: (3)

Quantity of books, including the following titles; Gibbons Roman Empire; Just William; William and the Gangster; Folio Society including The Grand Tour, Travels of Marco Polo, Mission to Tashkent, House in the Hills, Black Arrow amongst others. 

* Victorian & Edwardian Photography. A group of 12 photograph albums, late 19th and some early 20th century, mostly family albums including portraiture, amateur dramatics, pictorialism, and genre subjects, albumen prints and other processes, mostly mounted and captioned, various bindings, some wear, folio/4toQty: (12)

A Folio edition and a tea set etc.

Bible in English.- Clarke (Adam) THE HOLY BIBLE...OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, contemporary calf, tooled, lightly rubbed, folio, [1851]

Two Original Documents relating to the Battle of Albuhera. A fair copy letter from Alexander Baxter, Surgeon, 48th Regiment of Foot, to the Hon. Major-General William Stewart, Commanding 2nd Division, 1p, folio, dated Albuhera, 20 May 1811: ‘Sir, I have the honour and satisfaction to Report to you that the last of the wounded left this place at half past 5 o’clock in the evening. Three men of the 23rd Fusiliers were carried in blankets by part of the Detachment of the 11th Battn. of Portuguese. I put three reliefs to each blanket that the journey might be performed with the least possible delay. The remainder of the Portuguese Regiment I ordered back to Camp. I have the honour to be Sir, Your most obedient servant, Alexr. Baxter, Surgeon 48th Regt. In charge of the wounded in the Field.’ Together with a Surgeon’s Order dated 18 May 1811, in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Albuhera, sent by Surgeon Baxter in his capacity as in charge of the wounded to the Surgeons of the other Regiments in the Field, folds and some minor tears, evidence of tape in parts, generally fair condition

ORME'S COLLECTION OF BRITISH FIELD SPORTS, Illustrated In Twenty Beautifully Coloured Engravings From Designs By S. Howitt, facsimile edition, large folio, 3/4 leather, green cloth boards, Charles W. Traylen, Guildford, with Aldin (C), A SPORTING GARLAND, Picture In Colour By Cecil Aldin, first edition, illustrated card boards, Sands & Co, London 1902 (at fault), BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN - SHOOTING AND DEERSTALKING, limited edition numbered 446/1000, Sports & Sportsmen Ltd, London, and Somerville (E), SLIPPER'S ABC OF FOX HUNTING, first edition, illustrated card boards, colour lithographic plates throughout, Longmans, Green And Co, London 1903 (4)

Sitwell (S), Buchanan (H) and Fisher (J), FINE BIRD BOOKS 1700-1900, limited edition numbered 290 of 295 signed by the authors, large folio in marbled slip case, 3/4 red leather, marbled boards, illustrated endpapers, colour lithographic frontispiece, fifteen colour plates and twenty two monochrome plates throughout, Collins & Van Nostrand, London 1953, with Dixon (C), GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL OF THE BRITISH ISLES, second edition, illustrated by Charles Whymper, illustrated cloth boards, colour lithographic frontispiece, 40 colour lithographic plates throughout, Pawson & Brailsford, Sheffield 1900, Arnold (E.C.), BRITISH WADERS ILLUSTRATED IN WATER-COLOUR WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTES, first edition, red cloth boards, DJ, ?Rugby School? stamp to half title page, 51 colour plates, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1924, and Kirkman (F.B.) and Jourdain (F.C.R.), BRITISH BIRDS, gilt illustrated blue cloth boards, DJ, 200 colour plates, Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd, London 1948 (4) Provenance: Ruyton Hall, Shropshire CONDITION REPORT:Sitwell et al:  The book shows minor wear and slight fading to the leather consistent with insertion into and removal from the slip case.  The pages show some foxing to the front edges, most noticeable on the early pages.  The slip case is somewhat faded and shows heavy wear to the front edges consistent with regular removal and reinsertion of the book. 

John White Abbott (1763-1851),A mixed folio of classical landscapes and drawings various sizes, together with a mixed collection of watercolours by different hands to include works attributed to John Sell Cotman and Henry Bright, All unframed (42) Provenance: Albany Gallery Collection CONDITION REPORT:We are unable to provide detailed condition reports on bulk lots.  Please see the lot photos which give a good indication of condition.

THE BIBLE, THAT IS THE HOLY SCRIPTURES CONTAINED IN THE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT London: Robert Barker, 1607. Folio, 328 x 215mm., engraved title by William Hole, ruled in red throughout, woodcuts including full-page woodcut on *4; [bound with] The Whole Book of Psalmes. London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1609, contemporary panelled black morocco, metal corners, metal clasps inscribed with name of Sir John Campbell, metal shield on covers, rubbed and scuffed, armorial bookplate of the Earl of Breadalbane, [Herbert 289]Footnote: Note: The property of Sir John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1635-1717). The endpaper records the birth in 1659 London of Duncan Campbell, whose godfathers were the Earl of Norfolk and the Earl of Newport, and the births of Colme [Colline] Campbell at Edinburgh in 1660, John Campbell at Balloch in 1662 and Archibald Campbell at Balloch in 1666.

Bindings: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 35 vols. lg. 4to London c. 1880, Ninth Edn., illus. thro.-out, cont. hf. crimson morocco bindings, gilt tooled spines; Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence, 10 volumes, small folio L. 1914, illus., green morocco backed, gilt decorated bindings. As a lot, w.a.f. (45)* S.N.S.R. - to be collected by the Purchaser.

Limited Edition: Taylor (Alister) "The Life & Art of William Strutt, 1825 - 1915," profusely illustrated, oblong folio, New Zealand 1980, leather back cloth board with labels, in original presentation box. (1)