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Lot 353
After Henry William Brewer (1836-1903) 'Bird's-Eye View of Portsmouth Harbour', monochrome print, framed, 34 x 112cm, together with 'The Mynarski Memorial Lancaster', print, signed in pencil by the artist and multiple RAF personnel etc. A pencil signed, limited edition print 'At Readiness - Summer of '40', after David Shepherd and a harbour side oil study with ships, signed J. Hanby
Lot 426
H.W. Brewer (1836-1903) 'Bird's-Eye View of Portsmouth Harbour', hand-coloured print depicting Portsmouth Dockyard across the harbour to Southsea, Gosport and the Isle of Wight, glazed and framed, 28 x 92cm, together with a 1977 Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Battle of Trafalgar, signed, oil on canvas by J. Harvey, in ornate gilt frame. 60 x 90cm
Lot 488
SCOTTISH REGENCY GILTWOOD CONVEX GIRANDOLE MIRROR EARLY 19TH CENTURY the circular mirror plate within an ebonised reeded slip and frame with a pair of intertwined serpents and bullrushes, issuing a pair of scrolling candle arms with raised star motifs, bearing a maker's label verso, JOHN STEELL, CARVER, GILDER, EDINBURGH(96cm high 88cm wide)Provenance: Property from Tornaveen House, AberdeenshireFootnote: Note: John Steell (1779-1849) was born in Aberdeen but settled in Edinburgh in 1806 and worked as a carver, gilder, and print-seller, having premises at 2 Low Calton and later 34 Princes Street. A carver of considerable skill, he completed numerous commissions throughout the capital, but proved to be a poor businessman with proceedings to declare him bankrupt taking place in 1819. Notably, his son John Steell, who started as an apprentice in his father's workshop, went on to become one of Scotland's highest regarded 19th century sculptors.
Lot 137
After Keith Woodcock'Night Mission Ahead'limited edition printsigned and numbered 303/850 in pencil, blind stamp40 x 60 cmAnother after J.W. Petrie, Lancaster Bomber of RAF Battle of Britain Memorial flight dropping poppies over Buckingham Palace, signed by Sqn Ldr Paul Day and Flt Lt M.J. Chatterton, 224/1000, 37 x 55cm and another print of a bomber (3)
Lot 10
* Burma. An album of photographs of Burmese people and scenes, circa 1880s, a total of 23 albumen prints including views, portraits and river scenes, various sizes, together with a group of 12 full-plate gelatin silver print views of Burma, circa 1900, 21.5 x 29 cm, mounted on rectos and versos of 7 stiff card album leaves, plus an assortment of 14 other late 19th century photographs of Burma, mostly small-format images from Round about Burma series mounted on individual leavesQty: (22)
Lot 100
* Weegee (a.k.a. Arthur Fellig, 1899-1968). Drag Queen in a Paddy Wagon, circa 1940s, printed circa 1960s, gelatin silver print, 33 x 26.5 cm, inscribed 'Weegee' in blue ballpoint pen to lower light margin but possibly in another hand, 2 ink wet stamps to verso, 'credit photo by the famous Weegee' and 'please credit Weegee from photo-representatives', additional numerical mark, a little creasing and wear to corners not affecting imageQty: (1)
Lot 104
* Wortley (Colonel Henry Stuart, 1832-1890). 'Like the Moon, When Nights are Brightest', circa 1863, albumen print on original card mount with printed caption and imprint details beneath, image somewhat faded, 20.5 x 28 cm, together with an albumen print photograph of a tree line and sky study by an unidentified photographer, circa 1870, image size 13.5 x 20 cm, modern aperture mountQty: (2)
Lot 105
* Zanzibar & Mozambique. An album of approximately 120 photographs of Zanzibar and Mozambique, early 20th century, gelatin silver prints, mostly street scenes, rural views including local people, 10 images 15 x 20.5 cm but the majority 8 x 10 cm and smaller, mounted as singles and multiples to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with sparse ink captions, inner hinges broken, contemporary cloth, covers and spine detached, oblong folio, together with a photographically illustrated journal of an East African hunting trip by Morgan S. Williams and friends, April 1900, with a 45-page manuscript diary at front and 34 gelatin silver print photographs of native people, antelope and rhino hunting, etc., images 16.5 x 12 cm, uncaptioned and mounted to rectos only, contemporary parchment boards with watercolour pictorial upper cover and red lettering to margins, small 4toQty: (2)
Lot 107
* Andaman Islands. A group of 7 albumen print views circa 1870, the largest image of the convict settlement in the Bay of Bengal, slightly frayed at edges, 16 x 21.5cm, the remaining 6 mounted as pairs on 3 contemporary card mounts with ink captions beneath, showing 'The Pier, Port Blair', 'The Bazaar Ross', 'Mount Harriet', 'Scene of Lord Mayo's Murder', 'Our bungalow, Palaveram', and 'Bungalow, Mount Harriet', the first 4 10.5 x 9.5cm and similar the last 2 images each 10.5 x 13cmQty: (7)
Lot 11
* Cameron (Julia Margaret, 1815-1879). A Study of The Cenci, circa 1870, albumen print portrait of May Prinsep posing as Beatrice Cenci, wearing a patterned headscarf wrapped around her head and shoulders, 32 x 26 cm, pasted on board, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESNo other copies of this portrait have been located. Photographs of May Prinsep posing in a plain headscarf for the same study of The Cenci are found in Cox and Ford Catalogue Raisonné, nos. 409-412. These were photographed in 1870, two years after studies of the same subject by Kate Keown, nos. 988-989, seen wearing the same patterned headscarf. Beatrice Cenci was a 16th-century Roman woman who plotted the death of her tyrannical, abusive father, Count Francesco Cenci. The subsequent, lurid murder trial in Rome gave rise to an enduring legend about her. She was condemned and beheaded for the crime in 1599. A symbol to the people of Rome of resistance against the arrogant aristocracy, and the subject of a number of literary and musical works, notably Percy Bysshe Shelley's first drama The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1819).
Lot 112
ARR * Beaton (Cecil, 1904-1980). Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent at Kensington Palace, 1956, gelatin silver print, showing the Duchess full length with tiara and sash over a pleated evening dress, 23 x 17.5 cm, black studio stamp 'Cecil Beaton Photograph' to verso, with a later pencil note that this was given by Beaton to Ian Watson, dressmaker to the Queen, framed and double glazedQty: (1)
Lot 113
* 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)
Lot 115
* Birmingham. A group of 24 albumen print photographs by Harold Baker, circa 1880s, mostly rural views with country people, all loose except one cabinet card on original support with printed details to mount verso, some pen or pencil inscriptions to versos of other photographs, largely 11.5 x 17.5 and similar sizesQty: (24)NOTESHarold Baker (1860-1942) opened his first photographic studio at 17 Canon Street, Birmingham, in 1866, moving to new premises in New Street the following year. He was a regular contributor to photographic magazines including Practical Photographer, and in about 1897 he became the official photographer for the Birmingham Magazine of Arts and Industries. A collection of his work is held in the library of Birmingham.
Lot 118
* 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.
Lot 125
* Chinese Cartes de Visite. A collection of 15 albumen prints cartes-de-visite of Hong Kong and treat ports, 1860s, all but one not from life and depicting watercolours and drawings, three with stamps of 'Hing-Qua John & Co, Photographic Artists, 84 Praya, Hong Kong' and one with stamp of 'A P Johnson's Photograph Gallery, 649 Clay Street, San Francisco' to versos, plus one other contemporary albumen print carte de visite of a Chinese barber with seated clientQty: (16)
Lot 126
* Cody (William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill', 1846-1917). A full-length portrait of Cody in buckskins seated on a chair, circa late 1870s, oval albumen print, pasted on card, 12.5 x 9.5 cm, framed and glazed, together with two gelatin silver print snapshots of Native American Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West passing on horseback in front of the Jennison Hardware Store, Bay City, Michigan, 22 August 1899, each 7.5 x 7.5 cm, inscribed in Czech in pencil to versosQty: (3)
Lot 127
* Copland (Aaron, 1900-1990). Portrait of the composer Aaron Copland, photographed by Gordon Parks (1912-2006), c. 1955, printed c. 1980, gelatin silver print, Copland seated and smiling with photographs on the wall behind him, image 24 x 16 cm, red ink stamp of the Toni Parks Collection to versoQty: (1)
Lot 129
* 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)
Lot 13
* Cameron (Julia Margaret, 1815-1879). Summer Days, c. 1866, the top right corner portion only featuring the face of Mary Ryan in a bonnet, albumen print, two light vertical creases to left margin and small triangular crease and pin hole to upper right corner, 13.0 x 13.2 cmQty: (1)NOTESThe full photograph which usually measures approximately 35 x 27 cm features four sitters, May Prinsep and Mary Ryan with bonnets seated behind the children Freddy Gould and Elizabeth Keown. The photograph is accompanied by a typed letter signed from Philippe Garner of Sotheby's Belgravia, 13 April 1976, to David Lee, explaining that: 'This print, a detail from "Summer Days" was being sold by order of the descendants of Louisa Pattle (1821-73), sister of Julia Margaret Cameron and mother of Mia Bayley. This Mia was the recipient of the celebrated Mia album which we sold in the summer of 1974 for £40,000'. Cox & Ford, cat. no. 1096, p. 450.
Lot 134
Edgar (John Ware). Report on a Visit to Sikhim and the Thibetan Frontier, in October, November, and December, 1873, 1st edition, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1874, [vi], 103 pp., 18 mounted albumen print photographs (2 full page, 10 x 16 cm; 16 in the text, 8 x 8 cm and similar), ruled in red throughout, original pebble-grained brown cloth with bevelled edges and orange end papers, covers soiled and partly faded with some wear to extremities, 8vo (24 x 16 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESOnly one copy of this rare photographically-illustrated book has been noted at auction previously: Sotheby's, London, (The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 2, D-J), 30 September 2014, lot 431 (£8,750).
Lot 142
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.
Lot 151
* 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)
Lot 153
* Howlett (Robert, 1830-1858). Isambard Kingdom Brunel, seated by the launching chains of the SS Great Eastern, 1857, stereoscopic albumen prints mounted on buff card, left image slightly faded, together with four other albumen print stereoviews, the deck of the SS Great Eastern showing funnels and rigging, Clifton Suspension Bridge (John Beatty, Clifton), Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash (W. Spreat) and an unidentified scene showing pipe laying (right image signed in the negative by W.R. Sedgfield)Qty: (5)
Lot 154
* 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).
Lot 157
* 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)
Lot 166
* Kernot (Peter, 1937-1995). Bill Brandt and Model, 1980, large gelatin silver print, 50 x 40 cm, together with a portrait of Bill Brandt in polo neck and jacket, circa 1980, gelatin silver print, 38 x 26 cm, indistinct stamps of the unidentified photographer (? Patrick Booth) to verso, both contained in a distressed Ilford photographic paper box with remains of Marlborough Gallery label and inscription for Barbara Lloyd from KernotQty: (2)
Lot 168
* Krull (Germaine, 1897-1985). Nude with teddy bear, Paris, c. 1928, vintage gelatin silver print, 23 x 17.3 cm, tipped onto original cream paper mount, 37 x 27 cmQty: (1)NOTESThe model is the photographer's sister Berthe, and part of a series of nude studies of her by Germaine in Paris in 1928. For another in the same series, see Kim Sichel, Germaine Krull, Photographer of Modernity, MIT Press, 2000, plate 24.
Lot 169
* Lamp Standard and Ventilating Shaft. A mounted albumen print photograph, circa 1870s, 30 x 19 cm, original mount with printed caption beneath indicating that this was 'Erected over the subway, Southwark Street, London. Executed in cast iron for the Metropolitan Board of Works, by Walter MacFarlane & Co, Saracen Foundry, Glasgow and London. J.W. Bazalgette, Engineer to the Board', with the foundry company's presentation inscription to James Lumsden at foot of mount, framed and glazed, overall 53 x 43 cmQty: (1)
![* Lindt (John William, 1845-1926). A young chief of Florida Islands [now Nggela Island, part of Solomon Islands], circa 1880s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d1caae13-8ef2-4e3e-b0cf-ad1800d548c7/4e220386-f2e3-45d9-bde1-ad1a00bf33e2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 170
* Lindt (John William, 1845-1926). A young chief of Florida Islands [now Nggela Island, part of Solomon Islands], circa 1880s, albumen print carte de visite, trimmed with loss in lower blank margin, plain yellow mount with ink inscription to verso, 'Ito Fin (?), a young chief of Florida Islands'Qty: (1)
Lot 172
* Lord Snowdon (1930-2017). Portrait of Oliver Messel, 1956, giant vintage bromide print, 75 x 100 cm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Oliver Messel. Lord Snowdon's portrait of his uncle, Oliver Messel, was taken in Venice in 1956. The photographer has written that Oliver Messel taught him 'to use my eyes'. C.T. Messel, Oliver Messel in the Theatre of Design, New York, 2011, illustrated opposite foreword by Lord Snowdon.
Lot 175
* 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.
Lot 177
* 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.
Lot 179
* 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)
Lot 183
* Music & Ballet. A collection of 10 vintage photographs of musicians and ballet dancers, circa 1940-1960s, musicians include Andres Segovia, Gyorgy Cziffra (both with Richard Levin credit stamps to versos), Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grappelli, John Williams and Nathan Milstein, dancers depicted are Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann (Richard Levin credit stamp to verso) and Margot Fonteyn (one by Vivienne and one contact print), all but the contact print 25 x 20 cm and similar larger sizesQty: (10)
Lot 184
* Maori Portraits. A group of six portraits of Maori subjects, including three collotype portraits from photographs by Charles Spencer (1854-1933), early twentieth century, head and shoulders portraits of Taurau Kukupa of Whangarei (?1882), 28.5 x 13cm, Kewhe Taukau of Whatiwhatihoe, 20.5 x 11.5cm and Paora Tuhaere (?1892), 18.5 x 11cm, printed details in the lower part of images, plus three copy print photographs, largest by Elizabeth Pulman (1836-1900), of King Tawhiao (c.1822-1894), tear with loss to upper left corner and some creasing to lower left margin with short split, 30 x 22cm, the second by Frederick Pulman (1864-1943) of Paora to Tuhaere, some creases and tears to left side of image and horizontal split to lower part of image, 19.5 x 13.5cm, the third of Hori Ngatai of Tauranga (c.1832-1912), by an unknown photographer, 18 x 13.5cm, all but the forth and sixth images on old paper mounts with inscriptions about the tattooing and dress supplied in pencil, plus a seventh gelatin silver print photograph of a drawing (initialled A.S.) of a Maori with facial tattoos, some pin holes to upper area of image, 17.5 x 15cmQty: (7)
Lot 188
* Paris Commune, 1871. A collection of 35 mounted albumen print photographs on rectos and versos of three large album leaves, featuring 28 mostly carte-de-visite size, portrait of the major pickers in France at the time of the commune including Rossel, Manteuffer, Olivier, Emperor Napoleon, McMahon, Bazaine, Favre, Trochu, Joinville, Chambord, Courbet, Grousset, Thiers, Rochefort, Gambetta, Blanc, Dombroski, et al, also a similar size photograph of the Vendome Column in ruins and six architectural photographs mostly showing damage, neatly pasted onto stiff card mounts with extensive manuscript captions in English, each leaf 39 x 30cmQty: (3)
Lot 19
* Cartes de Visite. A group of approximately 180 mostly albumen print topographical cartes de visite and related, circa 1860s/1880s, some loose or tipped onto self-adhesive boards, the majority window-mounted in a broken album, plus a concertina-album of 12 hand-coloured albumen prints of costumes of the Low CountriesQty: (approx. 200)
Lot 190
* Poll (Willem van de, 1895-1970). A group of 14 gelatin silver print photographs, circa 1950s, including 10 portrait studies of the heads of two young women including two duplicates, together with two photographs of a family picnic and two still life studies, all with ink credit stamps to versos, 20 x 25 cm (the last two 28 x 23 cm), together with two studio portraits of women by the Belgian photographer Edmond Moulu (1894-1962), including one Gevalux print, 29 x 23 cm & 21.5 x 16 cm, both with signature in red to lower marginsQty: (16)
Lot 193
* Puyi (1906-1967). The Last Emperor of China. Two vintage photographs of the young Puyi, c. 1907, vintage gelatin silver print, the first of the young Puyi on his own in front of a Chinese screen, annotated in ink to verso, 'His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China who ruled 350 Millions of Chinamen', short vertical split to top right corner, the second from the same occasion and now accompanied by his seated father Prince Chun with his younger brother Pu Chieh on his lap, inscribed to verso in the same hand, 'The Regent and his family the present Emperor is standing by his side', each 14 x 9 cmQty: (2)NOTESThese famous photographs were probably printed circa 1910, and are sometimes attributed to the French photo journalist and press agency owner Charles Chusseau-Flaviens (active 1890-1920). Puyi famously became the Xuantong Emperor at age 2 but was forced to abdicate on 12 February 1912 due to the Xinhai Revolution, later serving as the nominal ruler of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II.
Lot 199
* Snapshots. A large quantity of assorted snapshots and album print images, late 19th and 20th century, mostly loose small-format images including some real photo postcards, and including three albums with corner mounted images, plus five 8mm home movie film reels, a box of 1953 slides world travel, and a small quantity of glass negatives and lantern slidesQty: (a carton)
Lot 200
* 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)
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Lot 202
[South Africa]. The Progress of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred... through the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria, the Orange Free State, and Port Natal, in the Year 1860, 1st edition, Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co., 1861, half-title, title and dedication printed on glazed paper with decorative border in gold, half-title with mounted albumen print vignette, 16 albumen print photographs by Kirkman, Green and York mounted on leaves with captions and borders in red, includes 10 of paintings or drawings by Bowler and Baines, images 13 x 19.5cm and smaller, general fading to images, illustrations to text, some spotting and soiling throughout (worst at front and rear) with a few scattered closed marginal tears, original gilt-decorated pimpled cloth, worn and loss to spine, covers and some leaves detached, 4toQty: (1)NOTESGernsheim 150. The first book illustrated with photographs to be published in Africa and including some of the earliest photographs of South Africa. Images include the Prince at official ceremonies, scenes of Graham's Town, the Prince meeting the Tambookies, his travelling equipage, and 'Mohesh' or Moshoeshoe, King of Basutoland, in top hat and cane with his counsellors.
Lot 205
* 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)
Lot 207
* Spooner’s Optical Transpositions. A group of four hand-coloured lithographic stereocards, published by William Spooner, 1860s, nos. 1 Shake hands again, old friend! 3 Bird’s nest – feeding time, [8] A troublesome family, and 14 Strange doings in the cellar, each with printed caption label to left margin (third one chipped with loss and publisher’s labels to card mount versos, two labels torn with loss), mounts generally rubbed and dust soiled, 8 x 17.5 cm together with an assorted group of approximately 65 mostly topographical albumen print stereoviews, late 19th century, including Italy, Egypt, USA, Switzerland and three Albanian scenes, some with publisher’s details and/or ink inscriptions to mountsQty: (approx. 70)
Lot 208
* Stereoviews - The Great Eastern. A group of three albumen print stereoviews onboard the SS Great Eastern, circa 1859-60, arched top images on pale yellow mounts with embossed stamp of the London stereoscopic company to left edge, printed details to versos identifying the subject as 'The Marquess of Stafford, the Chairman and Lord Alfred Patchit', 'The funnel after the accident' and 'The paddle engine room', the third stereoview with vertical split along centre of support with remains of crude tape repair to versoQty: (3)
Lot 212
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.
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* Tom Thumb. A group of 8 cartes de visite of general Tom Thumb and his family, 1860, albumen prints, plus a contemporary carte des visite of General Mite, together with 24 further albumen print cartes de visite of actors and opera stars including Adelina Patti, Grisi, Ellen Terry, Clara Novello, Christina Nilsson, Lydia Thompson, Terese Titiens, Madge Robertson, etc.Qty: (32)
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* Native Americans. A group of 5 large albumen print stereoviews by John Karl Hillers (1843-1925), taken during the Second Powell expedition, circa 1871, from the Department of the Interior Indians of Colorado Valley series, no.2 Group of Men in Full Dress, no.3 Chu-ai-um-peak and his friends, (a little damage with surface loss to left image), no.17 Ka-ni-ga - The Camp Ground and no.27 Won-Si-Vu or Young Antelope, the fifth stereoview from the Views of Rio Virgen series, no.27 Head of the Narrows, all images 11 x 7.5cm, mounted on oversized yellow cabinet card mounts with printed paper labels to versos, together with Han & Underwood stereoview of an Esquimau mother and infant and pet wolf on the deck of a steamer, 1902, plus 2 diapositive lantern slides of Native Americans in traditional dress, early twentieth century, the first with printed label of James Buncle of Edinburgh, showing 2 full length figures, the second showing a seated chief with white china ink lettering to lower edge, each 8 x 8cmQty: (8)
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