Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History

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India—Orr and Barton, and others | Collection of sixty-seven photographs, circa. 1880s

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November 17, 02:16 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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India—Orr and Barton, and others

Collection of sixty-seven photographs, circa. 1880s


67 albumen prints (63: 240 x 295mm., 4: 100 x 135mm., or the reverse), mounted recto only on 65 card mounts (328 x 460mm.), 24 with the small faint blindstamp of the photographers Orr and Barton of Bangalore, nearly all captioned by hand in German in ink on the reverse, housed in a contemporary fitted buckram box with red label on the spine titled 'Indien: Ahmedabad, Mont-Abu, Ajmere, Jeypore, Amber', some fading, spotting and stains to mounts and occasionally to images, box stained and slightly worn


A good collection of views and portraits, including 24 photographs of Madura, Trichinopoly, Tanjore and Ootacamund by Orr and Barton of Bangalore, and 43 of Jeypore, Bombay (including Elephant Island), Poona, Darjeeling, Mount Abu and Madras.


PROVENANCE:

One of a series of portfolios of travel photographs assembled by a collector/traveller in the 1890s, see also lots 1, 4, 5, 12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 52 and 159.